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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – John Danks threw 7 1-3 shutout innings and got a big lift from reliever Scott Linebrink as the Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 5-0 on Friday night for their seventh straight victory.
A. J. Pierzynski homered and he and Scott Podsednik both had three hits for the White Sox (42-38), who won for the 11th time in 13 games and went a season-high four games over .500.
Chicago has won five straight over the Royals, who have lost seven of nine and scored just three runs in their last four games.
Zack Greinke (10-4) lost to the White Sox for the first time in three decisions this season and hardly looked like the overpowering right-hander who began the year 6-0.
Danks (7-6) gave up five hits while striking out seven and not allowing a walk. He left with one out in the seventh after the Royals loaded the bases on two singles and shortstop Jayson Nix's error. Linebrink came in and got a double play grounder from Alberto Callaspo, whose error at second base led to two unearned runs in the third. Linebrink got his second save.
Greinke gave up four runs and nine hits in six innings and his major league-leading ERA went from 1.95 to 2.00. He walked one and struck out six.
Callaspo, for the second time in three days, let a two-out routine grounder scoot under his glove that resulted in unearned runs. Jim Thome hit what should have been an easy out right at the second baseman, who has 10 errors, but the ball rolled into center field as Podsednik scored from second. Paul Konerko followed with an RBI double that put the White Sox up 3-0.
When Callaspo made a play on Chris Getz's hot grounder the next inning, the sellout crowd gave him a loud, derisive cheer.
Pierzynski's solo homer came in the second and Thome had an RBI single in the seventh. The Royals had runners at first and second and no outs in the ninth but Miguel Olivo grounded into a double play and Mike Jacobs flied out.
NOTES: Kansas City INF Willie Bloomquist was a late scratch when he had to leave the park for an undisclosed family emergency. ... Chicago OF Carlos Quentin, on the DL for more than a month with a painful foot condition, left the team for a rehab assignment at Triple-A Charlotte. The White Sox are not sure when he'll return. ... The game was the eighth sellout of the season and the crowd of 39,026 was the largest in Kauffman Stadium since opening day 2007 against the Red Sox. ... The Royals are hoping to get 3B Alex Gordon back shortly after the All-Star break. He played only seven games before going on the DL with a hip injury.

GAFFNEY, S.C. – Terrified residents canceled Fourth of July plans and holed up in their homes Friday as investigators hunted a serial killer believed to have shot four people to death.
Tanya Phillips had been looking forward to a backyard barbecue at her brother's house but instead planned to stay home with her doors locked.
"I'm not taking any chances," said Phillips, 32, a mother of two who works in a day-care center. "I'll go out during the day, but not at night. I just don't feel safe."
Plenty of evidence links the killings, though officials have not yet determined how the victims are connected or if they knew whoever shot them, said Cherokee County Sheriff Bill Blanton.
"Yes, we have a serial killer," he said at a news conference in this rural community 50 miles south of Charlotte, N.C.
So far, all investigators have to go on is a sketch of a suspect and a description of a possible getaway vehicle, though police would not say who provided that information.
The latest victims were found in their family's small furniture and appliance shop near downtown Gaffney around closing time Thursday. Stephen Tyler, 45, was killed, and his 15-year-old daughter was shot and seriously injured. Tyler's wife, his older daughter and an employee found them in Tyler Home Center, County Coroner Dennis Fowler said.
A day earlier and about seven miles away, family members found the bodies of 83-year-old Hazel Linder and her 50-year-old daughter, Gena Linder Parker, bound and shot in Linder's home. Blanton would not say if Tyler and his daughter were also bound.
The killing spree began last Saturday about 10 miles from Tyler Home Center, where peach farmer Kline Cash, 63, was found shot in his living room. Blanton said the killer may have first spoken with Cash's wife about buying hay. She left and came home a few hours later to find her husband's body. Investigators said it appears he was robbed, but they have not determined if anything was taken in the other killings.
Cherokee County, home to about 54,000 people, had just six homicides in all of 2008, and half that the year before.
Residents have "their guard up and their gun handy," said state Sen. Harvey Peeler, R-Gaffney, who recalled the area being terrorized once before, in the 1960s, by a serial killer dubbed the Gaffney Strangler. Otherwise, Gaffney is most famous for a giant water tank shaped like a peach that can be seen from Interstate 85.
"There is no greater fear than the fear of the unknown and nobody knows. You can cut the tension with a knife," Peeler said. "People are locking their doors, even in broad daylight."
The Fourth of July is a busy weekend, with thousands of people expected to attend fireworks displays in several communities.
"You want to live a normal life," Phillips said as she stood outside a grocery store. "But you just can't."
Every available police officer will work the weekend, Blanton said, acknowledging that there is "real fear in the county." He urged people to take precautions such as going out in groups and calling 911 if their cars break down and they are stuck on the side of the road.
"If someone breaks into my house, I'm armed and ready," said Mike Daniels, 53, a retired Army sergeant. "And I won't hesitate to shoot first and ask questions later."
Hazel Smith, 47, said neighbors feel vulnerable.
"If he killed once, he'll kill again," she said sitting on the front porch with her friends. "Tonight, I'm going to stay inside and pray, pray a little harder that he gets caught."

The latest shootings happened less than a half-mile from the sheriff's office, where at least 30 investigators were already working on the case. Blanton said a profiler has suggested Tyler and his daughter might have been shot to taunt investigators, but he said his only concern is solving the case.

"We had a 15-year-old girl shot; he killed an 83-year-old woman," Blanton said. "The good people of this community don't deserve that."

The sheriff reminded people they have a right to protect themselves and advised salesmen and others to avoid knocking on strangers' doors with so many on heightened alert.

"People are going to start shooting at shadows," Blanton said.

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Associated Press Writers Jim Davenport and Jeffrey Collins contributed to this report from Columbia.

LOS ANGELES -- There is a story Rep. Henry Waxman during hearings on steroid use in baseball that some say is apocryphal. But I believe it -- and we have been friends for more than 25 years. It is said that after the sensational hearing where Mark McGwire said he did not want to talk about the past, the congressman came into his office the next morning and said he was surprised there was so little coverage in the newspapers.

"It's all over the sports pages," a staffer told him.

"Oh," said Waxman. He has never read the sports pages.

You could say he is some kind of pushy grind. Or you could say he has been the most effective Democratic congressman of his generation.

Last week there were a couple of reasons to assert the latter.

After years of effort, he led the House to finally pass climate change legislation, the 1,400-page "cap and trade" bill. I won't explain it to you because I can't. Only Waxman of California, and maybe his co-sponsor, Edward Markey of Massachusetts, know everything that's in there. If it passes the Senate, it will change the way we live and what we burn to keep on living.

He also wrote a book, which comes out this week: "The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works." His co-author, Joshua Green, a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine, must be a baseball fan, because they got the sports parts right.

The book is not for everyone, but if you wonder what those folks actually do, the book lives up to its subtitle. That is not to say the Congress is diligent, responsible or effective. Waxman is; most of his colleagues are not. By design or not, the congressman from Beverly Hills shows only that, generally, the Congress is responsive -- to the news of the day.

Waxman, who was first elected in 1974, divides his book into recollections of his long series of legislative triumphs. If timing is everything and determined patience is the secret of success, the book does indeed show how Congress and Waxman work.

Most of the examples he gives of the Congress really rousing itself to discover what he already knows are dependent on chance events that do make the front pages, television, blogs and all the rest. And when those events happen, Waxman is there with years of study and data -- and formidable deal-making skills -- to persuade his colleagues that the time is right.

Example: The Congress, with the approval of President Reagan, does nothing about AIDS legislation until Rock Hudson collapses in the lobby of the Ritz Hotel in Paris, where he had gone to seek medical help not available in the United States. Stating the obvious in the way he talks, Waxman writes: "The shifting nature of the public's interest is an underappreciated force in public policy."

And when that was not quite enough to get the Congress to pass AIDS legislation, the balance was tipped only when they discovered Ryan White, a 13-year-old AIDS victim from Kokomo, Ind. The name of the bill was changed to The Ryan White CARE Act, which became law in 1990.

Example: The Orphan Drug Act, providing research funding for the treatment or cure of diseases suffered by small numbers of Americans. On that one, Waxman enlisted a constituent, Jack Klugman, then the star of "Quincy, M.E.," to do two shows on such "little diseases" and the reluctance of politicians and pharmaceutical companies to pay attention to them.

Example: The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, and other legislation going nowhere until the deadly release of poisons by a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, the Alaskan oil spill by the Exxon Valdez, and medical waste and needles washing up on New Jersey beaches. Each time Waxman was waiting -- and more importantly, ready.

He is an extraordinary legislator is Henry Waxman, a man not only ready, but willing and able. He knows what he's doing, and his patience is a walking argument against term limits in legislative bodies.

Working capital requirements of a business should be monitored at all times to ensure that there are sufficient funds available to meet short-term expenses. The cash budget is basically a detailed plan that shows all expected sources and uses of cash. The cash budget has the following six main sections.

Capital, in the financial sense, is the money which gives the business the power to buy goods to be used in the production of other goods or the offering of a service.

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DETROIT – The Detroit Pistons don't plan to wait long to name a replacement for fired coach Michael Curry.
Joe Dumars, the Pistons' president for basketball operations, doesn't have a "complete list" of candidates but wants to act in less than a week, before next Tuesday's opening practice for the NBA developmental league.
"My goal is to have a head coach in place by the time we go out to Las Vegas," Dumars said in a video posted on the team's Web site. The NBA Summer League runs July 10-19.
The Pistons are in a good position to improve their lineup for the coming season with about $20 million under the salary cap to work with, to say nothing about four of the first 44 picks in the NBA draft.
"We're definitely in the mode of reshaping our roster," Dumars said last week. "We need to add about three or four talented players by drafting them, signing them or trading for them."
Dumars announced Curry's dismissal Tuesday. The first-year coach led the Pistons to a 39-43 regular-season record and a four-straight-game loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the opening round of the NBA playoffs.
In the video, Dumars said Detroit needs a more experienced coach as it moves to integrate new players with remaining veterans.
"We think it's best to move forward with a more experienced coach to get us through these times right now," Dumars said. "We're going through a transition now where we're bringing back some of the veterans, we're implementing some of the younger guys.
"That's probably a little bit too much for a first-time head coach. ... It's a little bit unfair of me to put him in that situation."
Dumars and Curry played together at Detroit, but that wasn't enough to save Curry's job after he led the team to a losing regular-season record and four lopsided playoff losses to the Cavaliers after six straight Eastern Conference finals appearances.

The word "wallet" has been in use since the first century A.D. to refer to a bag or a knapsack for carrying articles. The word may derive from Proto-Germanic. The ancient Greek word kibisis, used to describe the sack carried by the god Hermes and the sack in which the mythical hero Perseus carried the decapitated head of the monster Medusa, has been typically translated as "wallet". Usage of the term "wallet" in its modern meaning of "billfold" in American English dates to 1834.

Billfolds were developed after the introduction of paper currency to the West in the 1600s. (The first paper currency was introduced in the New World by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1690.) Prior to the introduction of paper currency, purses (usually simple drawstring leather pouches) were used for storing coins. Early wallets were made primarily of cow or horse leather and included a small pouch for printed calling cards.

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MONTREAL – The Montreal Canadiens are busy again, signing center Mike Cammaleri and defensemen Jaroslav Spacek and Hal Gill on the first day of free-agent shopping in the NHL.
One day after acquiring star center Scott Gomez from the New York Rangers in a six-player trade, the Canadiens signed Cammaleri to a five-year, $30-million contract, Spacek to a three-year deal worth $11.5-million, and Gill — fresh off a Stanley Cup title with the Pittsburgh Penguins — for two years and $4.5 million.
The moves put a new face on the Canadiens, who had 10 unrestricted free agents of their own on the market. The signings, including the five years remaining to pay Gomez at a $7.35-million cap hit per year, are collectively worth $82.75 million.

The purpose of a diaper is to absorb moisture and contain mess so that the wearer can remain dry and comfortable after wetting or soiling themselves. When diapers become full and can no longer hold any more waste, they require changing; this process is often performed by a secondary person such as a parent or caregiver. Failure to change a diaper on a regular enough basis can result in diaper rash.

The problem of clothing infants not yet potty trained is as old as human history. In some countries with warmer climates, babies were kept naked and mothers tried to anticipate their bowel movements so as to avoid mess near their living areas. This method is known as elimination communication and is still used today in some cultures.

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The modern guitar is descended from the Roman cithara brought by the Romans to Hispania around 40 AD, and further adapted and developed with the arrival of the four-string oud, brought by the Moors after their conquest of the Iberian peninsula in the 8th century. Elsewhere in Europe, the indigenous six-string Scandinavian lut (lute), had gained in popularity in areas of Viking incursions across the continent.

The headstock is located at the end of the guitar neck furthest from the body. It is fitted with machine heads that adjust the tension of the strings, which in turn affects the pitch. Traditional tuner layout is "3+3" in which each side of the headstock has three tuners (such as on Gibson Les Pauls). In this layout, the headstocks are commonly symmetrical. Many guitars feature other layouts as well, including six-in-line (featured on Fender Stratocasters) tuners or even "4+2" (Ernie Ball Music Man). However, some guitars (such as Steinbergers) do not have headstocks at all, in which case the tuning machines are located elsewhere, either on the body or the bridge.

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An alternative to rolling up each diaper is to use the diapers as they come, placing them side by side and forming a rolling circle. Place a large rubber band or ribbon or both around each "tier". Most packages have a see through side panel or a picture of the diaper on which you can see the design on the diapers. If the design colors are really busy it might detract from the overall look. Larger size diapers allow the mom to enjoy the diaper cake longer before needing to take it apart. Be sure to let them know if any of the gifts are perishable. On the other hand, using size 1 diapers will allow the mom to have some on hand to use right away. You could also make the top 2 layers out of one size and the bottom layer out of a larger size, depending on the number of diapers in the bag you buy.

The number of diapers in each layer are just an indication and will change depending on the brand of diaper and how tight you wrap them. You could do this project with cloth diapers if the parents are environmentally conscious. The cake would be smaller because you don't need as many diapers and they're more expensive.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) –
U.S. health officials on Wednesday ordered Pfizer Inc and GlaxoSmithKline PLC to add strong "black box" warnings on their anti-smoking drugs to highlight the risk of serious mental health problems, including suicidal thoughts.

The warnings, which must be added to Pfizer's Chantix and Glaxo's Zyban, follow thousands of reports of depression, hostility and other behavioral changes, the Food and Drug Administration said.

The agency is also requiring the companies to conduct additional clinical trials to help determine how serious a problem the mood disorders are in patients taking the smoking cessation drugs, including among patients who already have depression or other similar conditions.

While the drugs are effective, "the possible risk of serious adverse events occurring while using these drugs should always be weighed against the significant health benefits of quitting smoking," said Dr. Curt Rosebraugh, who oversees the FDA office that reviews smoking-cessation drugs.

Additionally, the agency strengthened its caution about possible accidents and serious injuries with Chantix but stopped short of adding it to the boxed warning as some advocates have urged.

The warnings will hamper Pfizer's ability to advertise Chantix, which the world's largest drugmaker had been counting on to revive profits. Instead, it has seen the drug's sales plunge over the last year amid safety concerns. Global first-quarter sales of Chantix fell 36 percent to $177 million.

FDA first alerted patients and doctors about possible mood changes in November 2007 and since then has continued to receive a growing number of reported problems, though it said it could not directly link them to use of the drugs.

Overall, the agency received 4,762 reports of serious psychiatric events since Chantix's approval in 2006. For Zyban and its generic rivals, it received a total 527 reports, it said.

Specifically, the FDA said it received 98 reports of suicide and 188 reports of attempted suicide with Chantix and 14 reports of suicide and 17 attempts with Zyban and related generics.

Chantix, also known as varenicline, is designed to stimulate a type of nicotine receptor in the brain while preventing nicotine from binding to another receptor.

Zyban includes the same active ingredient, bupropion, as Glaxo's antidepressant Wellbutrin, which already carries a boxed warning about suicide and other behavioral risks.

Both Pfizer and Glaxo said they would add the warning to their products.

Pfizer said it has already begun studying Chantix in hundreds of schizophrenia patients and was planning another trial that would include people with and without psychiatric disorders.

"The benefits of Chantix outweigh the risks for many patients when used as directed," said Dr. Briggs Morrison, a Pfizer senior vice president.

Pfizer shares finished down less than 1 percent at $14.90 on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Glaxo shares gained 2 percent to close at $36.04, also on the NYSE.

(Reporting by Susan Heavey, Additional reporting by Lisa Richwine in Washington and Ransdell Pierson in New York; editing by Maureen Bavdek, Richard Chang and Tim Dobbyn)

Los Angeles (E! Online) –
Debbie Rowe and Dr. Arnold Klein are officially mum.

Rowe, Michael Jackson's ex-wife and mother to at least two of his children, has kept rather quiet given all the rumors and theories regarding both the paternity and maternity of the kids. She didn't even comment yesterday when Jackson matriach Katherine received temporary custody over Prince Michael, Paris and Prince Michael II (aka Blanket) and sought to make it permanent.

Apparently, she won't be speaking up anytime soon.

"It would be inappropriate at the present time for Debbie or her counsel to make any comment or to grant any interview requests," Rowe's team of lawyers from Browne Woods George LLP tells E! News. "Debbie remains grief stricken. Her thoughts are with the children and all of the Jackson family. To the extent she must respond to court proceedings that were started by others, she will of course do so at the appropriate time."

By saying Rowe will respond to "proceedings that were started by others," the lawyers may be suggesting that she herself will not be filing a custodial motion.

Klein, the King of Pop's longtime dermatologist, also has remained reclusive since Us Weekly reported he may be the true father of the Jackson children.
"Dr. Klein is aware of media reports connecting him to Michael Jackson," his lawyer, Richard L. Charnley, tells E! News.

"Because of patient confidentiality Dr. Klein will make no statement on any reports or allegations. Out of respect for his patients and adherence to federal HIPAA regulations, Dr. Klein asks that the media not contact his patients nor interfere with their medical treatments. Like millions of Michael's fans around the world, Dr. Klein is saddened by Michael's death and extends his condolences to Michael's family."

Additionally, Charnley claims his client has not spoken with the LAPD regarding Jackson's death.

"Dr. Klein has not been contacted by any governmental agency with request for an interview," he tells E! News.

Klein's staff told reporters camped outside his Los Angeles mansion that he was not home and did not wish to talk to anyone.

"You're wasting your time," one said, despite one news crew claiming that they saw the doctor arrive at the house and believing him to be holed up inside.

"He's very elusive," a neighbor tells E! News. "He's nice but he likes his privacy."

The neighbor also claims Jackson and the children have visited several times, but not in the past year. Ditto for Rowe, who was once the doctor's nurse.

That surrounding resident did make one very curious point, claiming that the skin man was also Jackson's plastic surgeon.

"Yeah, he did his nose," she tells E! News.

According to another adjacent home owner, the doctor, who has never been married and does not have any children, has an entire suite of his house dedicated to the icon.

"It's where Jackson stays when he visits him," the neighbor tells E! News. "It's a huge suite with a bunch of Jackson's clothes, a white glove and an Andy Warhol painting of Jackson."

This neighbor also claims the doc has a large staff of at least nine people and that multiple black Rolls-Royces use the driveway daily.

"He's a very powerful man," the nabe blabs. "He has a ton of celebrity clients."

—Reporting by Whitney English and Jessica Gysin

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There are various conventions for indicating degrees and diplomas after one's name. In some cultures it is usual to give only the highest degree. In others, it is usual to give the full sequence, in some cases giving abbreviations also for the discipline, the institution, and (where it applies) the level of honours. In another variation, a 'rule of subsumption' often shortens the list and may obscure the chronology evident from a full listing. Thus 'MSc BA' means that the degrees conferred were - in chronological order - BSc, BA, MSc. The subsumption rule reflects the principle that a person of a given high status does not separately belong to the lower status.

Some schools—mostly junior colleges and community colleges, but some four-year schools as well—offer an associate's degree for two full years of study, often in pre-professional areas. This may stand alone, or sometimes be used as credit toward completion of the four-year bachelor's degree.

3rd September 1665: Up, and put on my coloured silk suit, very fine, and my new periwig, bought a good while since, but darst not wear it because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it. And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plague is done as to periwigs, for nobody will dare to buy any haire for fear of the infection? that it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

In the 18th century, both men and women's wigs were powdered in order to give them their distinctive white or off-white color. Wig powder was made from finely ground starch that was scented with orange flower, lavender, or orris root. Wig powder was occasionally colored violet, blue, pink or yellow, but was most often used as white. Powdered wigs became an essential for full dress occasions and continued in use until almost the end of the 18th century.

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MORONI, Comoros – A Yemeni jetliner carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday as it attempted to land amid severe turbulence and howling winds. Officials said a teenage girl was plucked from the sea, the only known survivor.
The crash in waters off this island nation came two years after aviation officials reported equipment faults with the plane, an aging Airbus 310 flying the last leg of a Yemenia airlines flight from Paris and Marseille to Comoros, with a stop in Yemen to change planes.
Most of the passengers were from Comoros, a former French colony. Sixty-six on board were French nationals.
Khaled el-Kaei, the head of Yemenia's public relations office, said a 14-year-old girl survived the crash, and Yemen's embassy in Washington issued a statement saying a young girl was taken to a hospital. It also said five bodies were recovered.
Sgt. Said Abdilai told Europe 1 radio that he rescued the girl after she was found bobbing in the water. She couldn't grasp the life ring rescuers threw to her, so he jumped into the sea, Abdilai said. He said rescuers gave the trembling girl warm water with sugar.
There were earlier statements from officials that a 5-year-old boy survived. El-Kaei said that was not known and the airline had lost contact with its office in Comoros because of bad weather.
Yemeni civil aviation deputy chief Mohammed Abdul Qader said the flight data recorder had not been found and it was too early to speculate on the cause of the crash. But he said winds in excess of 40 miles per hour were pummeling the plane as it was landing in darkness in the early morning hours Tuesday.
Turbulence was believed to be a factor in the crash, Yemen's embassy in Washington said.
"The weather was very bad," Qader said, adding the windy conditions were hampering rescue efforts.
The Yemenia plane was the second Airbus to crash into the sea this month. An Air France Airbus A330-200 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, killing all 228 people on board, as it flew from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
Mohammed Moqbel, a Yemeni pilot who has flown to the Comoros, said the route can be difficult because of the geography and weather.
"The airport is also very poor in terms of equipment," said Moqbel. "They don't have advanced radars to guide planes."
The tragedy — and dwindling hopes that anyone else made it out alive — prompted an outcry in the Comoros, where residents complained of a lack of seat belts on Yemenia flights and planes so overcrowded that passengers had to stand in the aisles.
The Comoros, a former French colony of 700,000 people, is an archipelago of three main islands situated 1,800 miles south of Yemen, between Africa's southeastern coast and the island of Madagascar.
Gen. Bruno de Bourdoncle de Saint-Salvy, the senior commander for French forces in the southern Indian Ocean, said the Airbus 310 crashed in deep waters about nine miles north of the Comoran coast and 21 miles from the Moroni airport. Searchers encountered an oil slick at the site, the Yemeni Embassy statement said.
French aviation inspectors found a "number of faults" in the plane's equipment during a 2007 inspection, French Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau said on France's i-Tele television Tuesday. He did not elaborate
In Brussels, European Union Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani said the airline had previously met EU safety checks and was not on their blacklist. But he said a full investigation was being launched amid questions about why the passengers — who originated in Paris — were transferred on another jet in the Yemeni capital of San'a.
An Airbus statement said the plane that crashed went into service 19 years ago, and had accumulated 51,900 flight hours. It has been operated by Yemenia since 1999. Airbus said it was sending a team of specialists to the Comoros.

The A310-300 is a twin-engine widebody jet that can seat up to 220 passengers. There are 214 A310s in service worldwide, with 41 operators.

A crisis center was set up at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. Many passengers were from the French city of Marseille, home to around 80,000 immigrant Comorans, more even than Comoros' capital of Moroni.

Yemenia has long been a target of criticism for the poor condition of its passenger cabins, with recent passenger complaints about missing or faulty seat belts.

Still, analysts have cautioned against equating the condition of the passenger cabin on any airline with the aircraft's maintenance records.

Yemenia airways has a solid safety record. In 2008 it passed the International Airline Transport Association's operational safety audit, a rigorous set of inspections considered an indication of high quality for any airline.

One problem that does crop up with older aircraft, particularly when a certain model has been discontinued, is the issue of fake replacement parts, experts said.

Airline companies sometimes unwittingly purchase fake parts, which are then put into aircraft by their maintenance crews. Despite rigorous international efforts to root out counterfeit spares in the past decade, they are still believed to be in circulation.

"Pirate spare parts remain a big maintenance problem in aviation," said Capt. Harry Eggerschwiler, chief of operations for the African Civil Aviation Authority. "This is true everywhere in the world and not just in (developing) countries."

Some French Comorans insisted their complaints about the airline's safety weren't heeded by authorities.

Zalifa Youssouf, a member of SOS Voyages, which seeks to improve passenger conditions and safety, told France's i-Tele television that the Comoran community had complained about the flight from San'a to Comoros.

She said the planes were dirty, frequently did not have safety belts and that flight attendants often did not speak French, just Arabic which passengers did not understand. "We felt we were in danger," Youssouf said.

Mohamed Ali, a Comoran who went to Yemenia's headquarters in Paris to try to get more information about the doomed flight, said complaints about safety went unheeded. "Some people stand the whole way to Moroni," he said.

In France, school vacations began this week and many on the plane were heading home to visit.

Christophe Prazuck, French military spokesman, said a patrol boat and reconnaissance ship were sent to the crash site as well as a military transport plane. The French were sending divers as well as medical personnel, he said.

Yemenia airline officials said the 11-member crew was made up of six Yemenis, including the pilot, two Moroccans, an Indonesian, an Ethiopian and a Filipino.

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Al-Haj contributed to this report from San'a, Yemen. Associated Press writers Deborah Seward, Angela Charlton and Greg Keller in Paris, Sarah El Deeb in Cairo and Yoann Guilloux in Saint-Denis de la Reunion, Reunion Island, contributed to this report.

The manufacture of cosmetics is currently dominated by a small number of multinational corporations that originated in the early 20th century, but the distribution and sale of cosmetics is spread among a wide range of different businesses. The U.S. FDA which regulates cosmetics in the United States defines cosmetics as: "intended to be applied to the human body for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness, or altering the appearance without affecting the body's structure or functions." This broad definition includes, as well, any material intended for use as a component of a cosmetic product. The FDA specifically excludes soap from this category.

In addition to over-the-counter cosmetic products, recent years have seen an increasing market for prescription or surgical cosmetic procedures. These range from temporary enhancements, such as cosmetic colored contact lenses, to major cosmetic surgery. To temporary fashionable enhancement belongs application of false eyelashes or eyelash extensions, in order to enhance the natural eyelashes and make eye appearance more attractive.

Mineral Make Up

The word perfume used today derives from the Latin "per fumum", meaning through smoke. Perfumery, or the art of making perfumes, began in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt but was developed and further refined by the Romans and Persians. Although perfume and perfumery also existed in East Asia, much of its fragrances are incense based.

The Arabian chemist, Al-Kindi (Alkindus), wrote in the 9th century a book on perfumes which he named ‘Book of the Chemistry of Perfume and Distillations’. It contained more than hundred recipes for fragrant oils, salves, aromatic waters and substitutes or imitations of costly drugs. The book also described one hundred and seven methods and recipes for perfume-making, and even the perfume making equipment, like the alembic, still bears its Arabic name.

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WASHINGTON – A judge asked federal prosecutors in a major drug-dealing case Tuesday if they have a pattern of mishandling evidence after a second high-profile prosecution fell apart in his courtroom because of witness problems.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said he saw similar prosecutorial mishandling in the dismissed corruption conviction against former Republican Sen. Ted Stevens this spring and now in the Justice Department's move to drop drug charges against Chinese-Mexican businessman Zhenli Ye Gon.
Ye Gon has been jailed for two years on charges of importing methamphetamine from Mexico into the United States. Authorities said they seized more than $205 million from his Mexico City mansion, which they called the largest drug-related cash seizure in history.
But since his arrest, prosecutors said one witness has recanted and another has refused to testify, and they have asked Sullivan to dismiss the case. Sullivan said he will throw out the indictment during a final hearing on July 30, when he'll also decide whether to allow prosecutors the option of charging Ye Gon again.
At the hearing, Ye Gon, wearing an orange-and-white striped jail jumpsuit, listened to a simultaneous translation as Sullivan criticized prosecutors for only revealing the witness problems last week even though they've known about them for at least six months.
He said the prosecution only belatedly revealed the witness problems, despite being required to do by Justice Department policy and the Constitution. Meanwhile, he said that without knowing of the problems he repeatedly delayed the trial at the prosecutors' request while Ye Gon was "essentially in solitary confinement" at a Washington jail.
"All of this raises legitimate questions about whether the government ever intended to abide by its constitutional obligations to provide that information to the defendant," Sullivan said.
Ye Gon has since been transferred to a federal lockup in Virginia. Mexico has requested that he be extradited to face organized crime, drug trafficking and weapons charges there.
Mexican officials say Ye Gon was involved in one of the Western hemisphere's largest networks for trafficking pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient in methamphetamines. Ye Gon said the chemicals imported by his company, Unimed Pharm Chem de Mexico SA, were legitimate and intended for use in prescription drugs.
Sullivan has ordered a criminal investigation into handling of evidence in the Stevens case. Prosecutors admitted after a jury returned a guilty verdict that they did not turn over important witness statements that could have aided the former senator's defense.
Sullivan gave prosecutors 10 days to file a written response answering his concerns about their handling of the Ye Gon case. Among his concerns was how their conduct fit with Attorney General Eric Holder's statement after dismissing the charges against Stevens that prosecutors should be more concerned with justice than winning cases.
He also asked whether the Justice Department's approach is to withhold information from defendants in criminal prosecutions and then dismiss the cases if they get caught.
"That would be shocking," Sullivan said.
Paul O'Brien, chief of the Justice Department's narcotics section, disputed Sullivan's characterizations of the prosecution and said he hoped a written response will help "educate the court."
"I believe some of the characterizations may not be accurate," O'Brien said. Sullivan responded that he wasn't making any legal findings yet, but raising points for the prosecutors to address.

Engagement Ring

Jewellery makers in Ancient Greece were largely anonymous. They worked the types of jewellery into two different styles of pieces; cast pieces and pieces hammered out of sheet metal. Fewer pieces of cast jewellery have been recovered; it was made by casting the metal onto two stone or clay moulds. Then the two halves were joined together and wax and then molten metal, was placed in the centre. This technique had been in practised since the late Bronze Age. The more common form of jewellery was the hammered sheet type. Sheets of metal would be hammered to the right thickness & then soldered together. The inside of the two sheets would be filled with wax or another liquid to preserve the metal work. Different techniques, such as using a stamp or engraving, were then used to create motifs on the jewellery. Jewels may then be added to hollows or glass poured into special cavities on the surface.

Although they used other gems prior, India was the first country to mine diamonds, with some mines dating back to 296 BC. However, axes dating to 4,000 BC found in China from previous factions of the country, contain traces of diamond dust used to sharpen the blades. While China used the diamonds they found mainly for carving jade, India traded the diamonds, realising their valuable qualities. This trade almost vanished 1,000 years after Christianity grew as a religion, as Christians rejected the diamonds which were used in Indian religious amulets. Along with Arabians from the Middle East restricting the trade, India’s diamond jewellery trade lulled.

PONCHATOULA, La. – Sleeping in church is bad during the sermon, but even worse when a burglar does it on the job. Police arrested an 18-year-old man after he was found sleeping in a building belonging to the French Corner Church.
Tangipahoa Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Dawn Panepinto said Tuesday that the man was booked Monday with simple burglary, resisting arrest by flight and simple criminal damage to property.
She said he allegedly broke into the church and tried to pry open the safe.
When he couldn't do that, Panepinto said, he allegedly broke into another church building and went to sleep in a guest apartment.
Panepinto said the suspect was on bond at the time. That bond was revoked and he remains in jail.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Republican Norm Coleman conceded to Democrat Al Franken in Minnesota's contested Senate race on Tuesday, ending a nearly eight-month recount and court fight over an election decided by only a few hundred votes.
Coleman announced his decision at a news conference in St. Paul hours after a unanimous Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that Franken, a former "Saturday Night Live" comedian and liberal commentator, should be certified the winner.
"The Supreme Court has made its decision and I will abide by the results," Coleman told reporters outside his St. Paul home.
Coleman, appearing relaxed and upbeat, said he had congratulated Franken, was at peace with the decision and had no regrets about the fight, which started almost immediately after the Nov. 4 election.
"Sure I wanted to win," said Coleman, who called the ruling a surprise. "I thought we had a better case. But the court has spoken."
He declined to talk about his future plans, brushing aside a question about whether he would run for governor in 2010.
Franken's presence in the Senate would give the Democrats control of 60 seats, enough to overcome any Republican filibuster if they stay united.
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the earliest Franken would be seated is next week, because the Senate is out of session for the July 4 holiday.
"I look forward to working with Senator-Elect Franken to build a new foundation for growth and prosperity by lowering health care costs and investing in the kind of clean energy jobs and industries that will help America lead in the 21st century," President Barack Obama said in a statement.

NEW YORK – "The Little Mermaid" is set for its final Broadway swim.
The lavish musical based on the Disney animated film will close Aug. 30 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York after a run of 685 performances.
Producer Thomas Schumacher (SHOE'-mah-kur) says a national tour is planned for fall 2010. It will be followed by overseas productions.
"The Little Mermaid" opened in January 2008.

It should be obvious that an attempt to use any numerical rule such as the 10/10 test will quickly run into problems. Implicit in the test is keeping the 10/10 that either are upper bonds for the comment made by the SEC official therefore, the rest of this paragraph doesn't apply. Suppose a contract has a 1 percent chance of a 10,000 percent loss? It should be reasonably self-evident that such a contract is insurance, but it fails one half of the 10/10 test.

Toward the end of the seventeenth century, London's growing importance as a centre for trade increased demand for marine insurance. In the late 1680s, Mr. Edward Lloyd opened a coffee house that became a popular haunt of ship owners, merchants, and ships’ captains, and thereby a reliable source of the latest shipping news. It became the meeting place for parties wishing to insure cargoes and ships, and those willing to underwrite such ventures. Today, Lloyd's of London remains the leading market (note that it is not an insurance company) for marine and other specialist types of insurance, but it works rather differently than the more familiar kinds of insurance.

Life Insurance

MANCHESTER (AFP) –
Manchester United said on Tuesday they have signed Wigan winger Antonio Valencia on a four-year contract for a fee believed to be in the region of 16 million pounds (22 million dollars).

"Joining Manchester United is a dream come true for me," the 23-year-old Ecuadoran told the club website www.manutd.com.

"I have enjoyed my time at Wigan, but I am thrilled to have the chance to challenge for the biggest honours in club football here," he added.

"Playing in front of 76,000 fans alongside players like Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand and Ryan Giggs will be an amazing experience. I can't wait to get started."

United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been a fan of Valencia, who spent two seasons with Wigan and helped turn the club into an established top flight side.

"Antonio is a player we have admired for some time now, having spent the last two years in the Premier League with Wigan," Ferguson said.

"I am sure his pace and ability will make a significant contribution to the team."

Valencia should fill the gap left by Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, who signed for Real Madrid for 80million pounds earlier this month.

Researchers have found that "Use of a pacifier is associated with a substantial reduction in the risk of SIDS". (Sudden infant death syndrome) . A meta-analytic study published by American Pediatric Association in Pediatrics in October 2005 supports this benefit to 1 year of age.. However other experts while acknowledging the correlation between SIDS risk reduction and the pacifier use, questioned the causality of the findings.

A newborn's shoulders and hips are narrow, the abdomen protrudes slightly, and the arms and legs are relatively short. The average birth weight of a full-term newborn is approximately 7 ½ lbs.(3.2 kg), but is typically in the range of 5.5–10 pounds (2.7–4.6 kg). The average total body length is 14–20 inches (35.6–50.8 cm), although premature newborns may be much smaller. The Apgar score is a measure of a newborn's transition from the uterus during the first minutes of life.

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A passenger jet carrying 153 people en route to the island nation of Comoros crashed early Tuesday. Here is a closer look at the country:
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GEOGRAPHY:
The Comoros archipelago lies in the Indian Ocean between the southeast African coast and the island of Madagascar. The largest island of Grand Comore was formed by a still active volcano. The country comprises two other main islands and numerous coral reefs and islets.
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PEOPLE:
The 700,000 residents are a mix of African, Arab and Malay descent and are overwhelmingly Muslim. French and Arabic are official languages but most people speak a mixture of Arabic and Swahili.
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HISTORY:
France controlled the islands for 130 years before the Comoros declared independence in 1975.
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ECONOMY:
The vast majority of Comorans are subsistence farmers and annual per capita income is about $300, making it one of the world's poorest nations. Even the dietary staple, rice, has to be imported. There is virtually no manufacturing. The only exports are vanilla, cocoa and ylang-ylang flower extract, which is used in perfume.
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POLITICS:
Comoros' first president, Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahmane, was overthrown in 1975, restored to power in 1978 and weathered several coup attempts before his assassination in 1989. The archipelago has undergone numerous coups and attempted coups since then.
The late Bob Denard, a notorious French mercenary, controlled the Comoros behind a figurehead leader for most of the 1980s, following a coup he led.
In February 2001, a mediated agreement brought more political stability to Comoros by giving each island greater control over its own affairs. Each of the main islands now has a regional leader under President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, who won the May 2006 vote.

A clock is an instrument used for indicating and maintaining the time and passage thereof. The word clock is derived ultimately (via Dutch, Northern French, and Medieval Latin) from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning "bell". For horologists and other specialists the term clock continues to mean exclusively a device with a striking mechanism for announcing intervals of time acoustically, by ringing a bell, a set of chimes, or a gong.[citation needed] A silent instrument lacking such a mechanism has traditionally been known as a timepiece. In general usage today, however, a "clock" refers to any device for measuring and displaying the time which, unlike a watch, is not worn on the person.

During the 15th and 16th centuries, clockmaking flourished, particularly in the metalworking towns of Nuremberg and Augsburg, and in France, Blois. Some of the more basic table clocks have only one time-keeping hand, with the dial between the hour markers being divided into four equal parts making the clocks readable to the nearest 15 minutes. Other clocks were exhibitions of craftsmanship and skill, incorporating astronomical indicators and musical movements. The cross-beat escapement[citation needed] was developed in 1585 by Jost Burgi, who also developed the remontoire. Burgi's accurate clocks helped Tycho Brahe to observe astronomical events with much greater precision than before.

Refurbished Time Clocks

A house painter and decorator is a tradesman responsible for the painting and decorating of buildings, and is also known as a decorator or house painter. The purpose of painting is to make them look better or to protect them from damage by water, rust, corrosion, insects or mould. In England, little is known of the trade and its structures before the late 1200s, at which point guilds began to form, amongst them the Painters Company and the Stainers Company. These two guilds eventually merged with the consent of the Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1502, forming the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers. The guild standardised the craft and acted as a protector of the trade secrets. In 1599, the guild asked Parliament for protection, which was eventually granted in a bill of 1606, which granted the trade protection from outside competition such as plasterers.

The Act legislated for a seven year apprenticeship, and also barred plasterers from painting, unless apprenticed to a painter, with the penalty for such painting being a fine of £5. The Act also enshrined a maximum daily fee of 16 old pence for their labour.
A painter painting a room in a house

Toronto Painter

NEW YORK – Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are sharing the first photo of their twin daughters.
The baby girls — Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick and Tabitha Hodge Broderick — were born last Monday at an Ohio hospital to a surrogate mother.
The photo, taken Monday in New York, shows a happy family: Parker and Broderick are smiling, each holding a twin. Their 6-year-old son, James Wilkie Broderick, stands in between mom and dad, gazing down at one of his little sisters.

BAGHDAD (AFP) –
Chinese oil firms CNOOC and Sinopec and the US energy giant ConocoPhillips on Tuesday rejected the terms laid down by the Iraqi government to work in two separate oil fields, an AFP correspondent said.

CNOOC and Sinopec were asked to pay 25.4 dollars per barrel extracted from the Maysan oil field but the companies bid only 2.3 dpb.

ConocoPhillips, meanwhile, offered four dollars per barrel to work in the Bai Hassan oil field but the government wanted 26.7 dpb.

All three companies subsequently withdrew their offers.