"I saw four regiments of the middle guard, conducted by the Emperor, arriving. With these troops, he wished to renew the attack, and penetrate the centre of the enemy. He ordered me to lead them on; generals, officers and soldiers all displayed the greatest intrepidity; but this body of troops was too weak to resist, for a long time, the forces opposed to it by the enemy, and it was soon necessary to renounce the hope which this attack had, for a few moments, inspired."
Marshall Ney
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Appropriate that Ney is quoted. Ney is whom many say cost Napoleon that battle. The mishandling of Grouchy is more likely.
WASHINGTON Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton fractured her right elbow during a fall Wednesday, her chief of staff said.
Clinton was on her way to the White House when she fell and injured her elbow, chief of staff Cheryl Mills said in a statement released late Wednesday. Clinton was treated at The George Washington University Hospital, just a few blocks from State Department headquarters, before going home. She will undergo surgery to repair her elbow in the coming week, Mills said.
"Secretary Clinton appreciates the professionalism and kindness she received from the medical team who treated her this evening and looks forward to resuming her full schedule soon," Mills said.
Clinton had been scheduled to join actress Angelina Jolie on Thursday morning at a Washington event marking World Refugee Day. That event has been removed from Clinton's public schedule.
We wish Ms. Clinton well as she recovers from her injury.
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same pantsuit as in the "Hug from Hillary" yesterday
ugh
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Hope she wasn't.....confused, disoriented and unable to answer questions and exhibited behavior that led the board the President to question his her capacity to serve."
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"Clinton had been scheduled to join actress Angelina Jolie on Thursday morning at a Washington event marking World Refugee Day. That event has been removed from Clinton's public schedule."
As the proud owner of an impacted radial head fracture I can state that you are perfectly fine with just a sling, no cast necessary. Plus you get advanced weather warnings for the rest of your life.
British summers could soon be akin to those in the drought-ridden Mediterranean and our winters characterised by severe flooding, according to a new report on climate change.
UK Climate Impacts Report predicts extremes of temperature will hit the UK if global temperatures continue to rise.
The report is the Met Office's most comprehensive assessment yet of what might happen by the middle to end of the century.
The head of climate predictions at the Met Office, James Murphy, told Sky News Online: "Certainly we would expect much warmer wetter winters to be part of the story and also a risk of drier summers.
"The report will confirm some of the broad storylines that have emerged before. However, what it does for the time is to quantify the risks associated with different levels of change."
The Met Office climate experts used their software to run 400 different computer models. They wanted to understand the range of future climate changes the UK might have to deal with over the next 100 years.
The Met Office came up with three scenarios - low, medium and high - depending on how much carbon we emit over the next century. Even the medium climate predictions are gloomy - for example, in 2003, more than 30,000 people, and perhaps as many as 70,000, died in a Europe-wide heatwave.
The report warns that even if we can constrain global temperature rise to 2C, such record temperatures could occur every other year. Under the worst possible scenario, temperatures could rise by up to 8C by 2080.
The consequences of that would be catastrophic.
With 75% of the UK's land given over to agriculture, farmers will be among those most affected by changes.
At Otter Farm in Devon, Mark Diacono has already started to grow peaches and apricots and even has a small olive grove. He told Sky News Online: "It's not often you get to look into the future and we're absolutely committed to certain levels of climate change, so you've got to adapt to survive.
"Otherwise, the changes are going to be forced on you.
"You've got to try to make your farming and growing more resilient."
While some of today's predictions may look alarming, the experts say there is still time to stop the worst from happening if we are prepared to make the necessary changes.
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In 2003, more than 30,000 people, and perhaps as many as 70,000, died in a Europe-wide heatwave.
I thought that had more to do with families going on vacation and leaving the grandparents at home unattended and without air conditioning. On the plus side, it saved a bundle on the national health care budget.
With 75% of the UK's land given over to agriculture, farmers will be among those most affected by changes.
My God. British wine again?!
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How many people died last winter due to cold/storms?
Do they really want cold, cold winters with massive snowfall?
Or is the climate right now (or a few years ago) perfect, and it must never change?
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One of those news stories that you don't know whether to file under "the economy," "lurid crime tales," or "seedy politicians," or all of the above. Shopping Becomes a Challenge as Auto-Industry Collapse Adds to City's Woes
DETROIT — They call this the Motor City, but you have to leave town to buy a Chrysler or a Jeep.
Borders Inc. was founded 40 miles away, but the only one of the chain's bookstores here closed this month. And Starbucks Corp., famous for saturating U.S. cities with its storefronts, has only four left in this city of 900,000 after closures last summer.
There was a time early in the decade when downtown Detroit was sprouting new cafes and shops, and residents began to nurture hopes of a rebound. But lately, they are finding it increasingly tough to buy groceries or get a cup of fresh-roast coffee as the 11th largest U.S. city struggles with the recession and the auto-industry crisis.
No national grocery chain operates a store here. A lack of outlets that sell fresh produce and meat has led the United Food and Commercial Workers union and a community group to think about building a grocery store of its own.
One of the few remaining bookstores is the massive used-book outlet John K. King has operated out of an abandoned glove factory since 1983. But Mr. King is considering moving his operations to the suburbs.
Last week, Lochmoor Chrysler Jeep on Detroit's East Side stopped selling Chrysler products, one of the 789 franchises Chrysler Group LLC is dropping from its retail network. It was Detroit's last Chrysler Jeep store.
"The lack of retail is one of the biggest challenges the city faces," said James Bieri, president of Bieri Co., a Detroit-based real-estate brokerage. "Trying to understand how to get it to come back will be one of the most important keys to its resurgence — if it ever has one."
Detroit's woes are largely rooted in the collapse of the auto industry. General Motors Corp., one of downtown's largest employers and the last of the Big Three auto makers with its headquarters here, has drastically cut white-collar workers and been offered incentives to move to the suburbs. Other local businesses that serviced the auto maker, from ad agencies and accounting firms to newsstands and shoe-shine outlets, also have been hurt.
The city's 22.8% unemployment rate is among the highest in the U.S.; 30% of residents are on food stamps.
"As the city loses so much, the tax base shrinks and the city has to cut back services," said Margaret Dewar, a professor of urban planning at the University of Michigan. That causes such hassles for retailers as longer police-response times, as well as less-frequent snow plowing and trash pickup.
While all of southeast Michigan is hurting because of the auto-industry's troubles, Detroit's problems are compounded by decades of flight to the suburbs. Hundreds of buildings were left vacant by the nearly one million residents who have left. Thousands of businesses have closed since the city's population peaked six decades ago.
Navigating zoning rules and other red tape to develop land for big-box stores that might cater to a low-income clientele is daunting.
The lack of grocery stores is especially problematic. The last two mainstream chain groceries closed in 2007, when The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. sold most of the southeast Michigan stores in its Farmer Jack chain to Kroger Corp., which declined to purchase the chain's two Detroit locations, causing them to close.
A 2007 study found that more than half of Detroit residents had to travel twice as far to reach a grocery store than a fast-food outlet or convenience store.
Michelle Robinson, 42 years old, does most of her shopping at big-box stores in the suburbs. When visitors staying at the hotel near her downtown office ask where to shop, she sends them to a mall in Dearborn, 12 miles away.
A few retailers are thriving. Family Dollar Stores Inc. has opened 25 outlets since 2003. A handful of independent coffee shops and a newly opened Tim Horton's franchise cater to workers downtown.
Discount grocer Aldi Inc. opened stores in the city in 2001 and 2005. A spokeswoman said the chain is "very bullish" on Detroit. Farmer's markets draw crowds looking for fresh produce.
Olga Stella, an official at the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, works to persuade businesses to move to the city. She says companies have underestimated Detroit's economic potential and that Aldi and Family Dollar are proof there's money to be made here.
Meanwhile, the former Lochmoor Chrysler Jeep is now Lochmoor Automotive Group, a used-car dealership and repair shop. Gina Russo, daughter of the dealer's longtime owner, is being groomed to take over the family business. She has agreed to start selling small pickup trucks made by India's Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
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What's that old story about somebody in Detroit wanted to apply for a building permit for a house and noone in city hall had a clue how to issue one.
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perhaps a Youtube Vid of the typical Detroit (Democratic-run) City Council mtg would provide a good explanation. Might I suggest the one where John Conyer's lovely wife calls the Mayor "Shrek"?
Your town is f*cked because your industry was run into the ground and the income-producers fled your welfare-city taxation and ethnic Beirut
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Detroiters continue to vote in the same scum for the past 35 yrs - it's insanity writ large. The place is a pig sty. I'll never move back.
Deputy Director of the Middle-East and Central Asia Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Amor Tahari attributed on Wednesday the slow of economic growth in the oil-rich countries to the retreat of oil and gas exports.
Briefing reporters here on the IMF report on the outlook of the Middle East region, Tahari said it is difficult to predict the future economic tendencies especially those relating to the economies that depend heavily on oil exports.
The main indications of the IMF show that the world economy is likely to resume growth in early 2010, he said.
The cash flows from the oil-rich countries of the Middle East to overseas investment are pivotal to the world economic recovery as they helped prod demand in the developed economies in 2009, Tahari pointed out. He expected the unemployment and poverty rates in the oil-importing countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to keep going up, thus adding to economic and social strains in these countries. The average economic growth rate in countries of the region dropped from 5.7 to 2.6 percent in 2008.
These countries need to maintain growth rates ranging between 6 and 7 percent for several successive years in order to alleviate their social and economic strains, he said, noting that a 2 - 2.5 percent growth rate is insufficient.
The IMF report, of which KUNA received a copy, predicts that the oil-exporting countries of the Middle East would achieve growth rates ranging between 2.3 and 3.8 in 2010.
The IMF officials recommended adoption of good-governance in the financial and economic institutions in the region in order to overcome the current challenges.
A dreaded dacoit, who had held a strong posse of 400 Uttar Pradesh policemen on tenterhooks for over 52 hours, was today shot dead here but not before police lost four of its men.
Ghanshyam Kewat, carrying a reward of Rs 50,000 on his head and had been a terror in the area dotted by forests on the Uttar Pradesh-Madhya Pradesh border, had fled from a house in Jamuali village from where he was firing indiscriminately at the police, but was surrounded by the force and gunned down.
There were reports earlier that the dacoit had managed to give cops the slip.
On Wednesday three policemen were killed and six others injured in a fierce encounter with the dacoit and his gang.
"The encounter which started yesterday morning at Jamauli village is still on till late this evening," Director General of Police Vikram Singh had said on Wednesday, adding that additional forces had been sent to the spot, around 120 km from Allahabad.
"Company commander PAC Beni Madhav Singh and constables Shamim and Iqbal were killed in the encounter while IG, PAC VK Gupta, DIG Chitrakoot SK Singh and four others -- Navendra Singh and Akram of STF, Dileep Kumar Tiwari and Rajendra Singh -- were injured," the officer said on Wednesday.
Both Gupta and Singh received bullet injuries on their lower abdomen and were admitted to SGPGI after being air lifted to Lucknow.
When asked why the police was taking so much time in winding up the operation, Singh said: "Such encounters cannot be tailor made. We have all type of weapons that can be used in such situations. But we are conducting the operation in such a way that no harm could be made to villagers, their property and livestock."
"They are using .303 rifles, double and single barrel of .312 bore and hand grenades," Singh had said.
When asked about the gang, the DGP said it was "residual gang" of dacoit Baccha Kewat, who was killed earlier by the police. He said that teams of Special Task Force (STF), Special Operation Group (SOG), PAC and force and officers of nearby districts like Allahabad, Banda and Kaushambi have surrounded the area.
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A new type of nuclear reactor that is designed to be manufactured in a factory where standardization could eventually reduce the cost big time
rather than built at a power plant could cut construction times for nuclear power plants almost in half the time required to build the plant increases the financing costs in to the stratosphere
and make them cheaper to build. That, in turn, could make it possible for more utilities to build nuclear power plants, especially those in poor countries. The design comes from Babcock and Wilcox, a company based in Lynchburg, VA, that has made nuclear reactors for the United States Navy ships for about 50 years.
Two other features of the design could also cut down on operating costs. First, each reactor will be housed in a containment structure big enough to store all of the waste generated by the plant during its 60 year life span, eliminating the need for a separate storage facility. That could be especially important, as nuclear plant operators may have to store their own waste while they wait for the government to provide a permanent storage facility, which it is obliged to do by law. but which Congress has screwed up
Second, the reactors are also designed so that fuel has to be replaced only once every five years, instead of the usual two years. That will increase the amount of time that the plant can operate.
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A Seminole man received a threatening e-mail from an entity calling itself the Ishmael Ghost Islamic Group and then he received an apology from a university in North Cyprus where the e-mail was generated.
Philip von Rohr received the e-mail on June 10. The group described itself as "confirmed Islamic Hired killers and Suicide aids," and said members had been sent to assassinate the e-mail recipient and members of the email recipient's family. The e-mail is the generic sort in which the addressee isn't actually named. Von Rohr's name doesn't appear in the text.
The e-mail author said von Rohr had offended a member of "our gang," and that the member had ordered the assassination "after he made sure he acquired every information about you and your family," according to a copy of the e-mail provided by von Rohr. It was when the member was presenting the group with the information that another member of the gang claimed he knew someone in the e-mail recipient's extended family. That member asked that the e-mail recipient be pardoned, and the group agreed he could if von Rohr sent $800 to a receiver in London. The money would purportedly be used to help Islamic expatriates move out of the United States.
Von Rohr said he took the e-mail to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office where he said he was told by a receptionist that it was the latest scam out of Nigeria. He was then given a brochure on fraud recognition. He said he also filed a report with the FBI.
The e-mail address from which the message was sent was Amir.Hedayat@emu.edu.tr. Von Rohr did a little research and found the emu stood for Eastern Mediterranean University, which is located in Famagusta, North Cyprus. Von Rohr complained. Then he received an apology from Gurol Ozkaya, the general secretary of the university.
In e-mails sent to von Rohr, 50, and The Tampa Tribune, Ozkaya explained the problem. He said frequently the institution's 18,400 e-mail users receive spam requesting the user names and passwords of the e-mail users. In the most recent scheme, the e-mails asking for the user names and passwords had the extension, @emu.edu.tr, which is the same as the university's, Ozkaya wrote. Although the university warns the e-mail users about these frauds, four users thought the institution itself wanted the information and compromised their accounts by sending them along. Then, via the e-mail accounts of the four, the death threats were sent to other Internet users. The four had no idea this was going on, Ozkaya wrote.
The university has suspended the four e-mail accounts that were compromised, he wrote. A Web page that was reported to be the hosting site of the threats has been suspended as well, Ozkaya wrote. The university is also making sure that its server does not allow any e-mail from the four addresses from which the credentials were sought, he said. In addition to von Rohr's, the university received three other complaints, Ozkaya wrote. In his apology, he wrote that he would have the institution's computer center issue yet another warning.
"It was a scary thing," von Rohr said. "I pretty much 95 percent realized it was a hoax, but there was a little doubt and I felt I should talk to someone or report it."
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Be sure to include a good supply of paint in the cargo. After you off one attempt, I'm sure the former threat will have radio the mother ship of the intended target. Just slap another coat of paint and troll for the next miscreant. Good hunting.
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I'd think that to be more effective a transformers type of system that would help to change the silouette, and some of that paint which changes colors depending on the viewing angle.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
British summers could soon be akin to those in the drought-ridden Mediterranean and our winters characterised by severe flooding, according to a new report on climate change.
