A good question.Norway's tragedy

A good question,Norway's tragedy

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Told the BBC. "You can never use terror tactics like he has used. But do we want to learn from it?"

That is a good question, no matter its source, and the answer may seem counterintuitive. The depiction of Breivik as unhinged and unaligned has been widely coupled with another idea: of Norway as a violated Eden, its innocence shattered by bomb and bullet.

Human reflex, like breathing or sobbing. As dust from the bombed buildings. Clogged the air and paramedics searched for survivors. The twin massacres in Oslo and the nearby island of Utoya. Norwegians and the wider world began trying to make sense of the senseless. An early template’s discarded after the arrest of Anders Behring Breivik. The horror couldn't be pinned on the familiar of Islamic jihadism. So another narrative began to emerge, of a rarer form of madness. These had been the actions of a psychopath, a lone wolf.

The freedom-loving, anti-Islamization ideals, no matter how much some people would like that."

Breivik did not act in a vacuum. In the propaganda of the slick political parties, ragtag mobs and paramilitary organizations that make up Europe's far right — and the response of the establishment to this diverse movement — lie at least a few of the seeds of Norway's tragedy.

Ryu wins the US Women’s Open

Ryu wins the US Women’s Open

South Koreans special day turned out for So Yeon Ryu. 72 holes fighting way a tie at the end of and then shutting the door on her rival, Ryu won the US Women’s Open defeating Hee Kyung Seo by three shots in a three-hole playoff Ryu became the fifth South Korean to win the Open. Yes, they take their golf seriously there and Se Ri Pak. The queen of the sport in that country. Watching the 21-year-old Ryu makes history.

“I’m proud of it,” Ryu said. “To see my hero, Se Ri Pak, out there fighting for me. It’s pretty powerful, yeah.”

Ryu played the three-hole playoff in 2-under par. Ryu hit three perfect shots to the green on the par-5 17^th. Seo drove into a bunker and had to scramble for bogey.

Ryu hit good measure, her approach on 18 to four feet for another birdie.

Darkness stopped play round the previous night; Ryu hit a 6-iron uphill, over the lake on No. 18 to six feet. She slammed the putt home to pull into a tie and ended up with two birdies.

Nobody will ever say Ryu backed into this victory, won on a 7,000-yard Broadmoor course.

A marathon for some players and a sporadic series of starts and stops for others.

It left her at 3 under instead of 4 under and gave Ryu a glimmer of hope.

“I think one mistake yesterday on the 17th green, that’s the one,” Seo said.

 “I just trusted myself and just let it go, and I made lots of birdies,” Seo said. “Supermodel of the Fairways.”

The credit card

Credit card debt can easily get out control and financial health.

       The credit card is perhaps one of the best innovations in the sphere of commercial transactions. It is instant currency in a card. It is efficient, practical, and uncomplicated. These cards are perfect for people that basically applies to almost every single person in this century.

 

     The facility of credit that credit cards provide make it too easy for you to lose track of your spending habits. Credit card debt can easily get out of control and prove deadly to your financial health.

     Credit card is you have the power to buy. The issue of whether or not you can actually afford to make a purchase becomes easy to ignore when you can just use your card right there and then, and just worry about the problem. This is usually the cause of credit card debt trouble.

     Unlike loans, credit cards are usually easy to get. You can have as many credit cards as you want. Your capacity to pay will not be made an issue. In fact, you can even get a credit card without actually applying for it. If you use it once, you are bound to use it again.

     The minimum payment scheme employed by credit card companies is another credit card debt trap. Although you can get away with paying only the monthly minimum, it does not take away the fact that you are still badly in debt and these debts continue to escalate every single month. Before you know it, you’ll be so seriously buried in debt that you can barely afford the monthly minimum.

     If you have a hard time keeping up with your credit card debt, it will do you good to use that pair of scissors and snip some of your credit cards in half. It won’t be easy, but you need to curb your credit card spending habits to save yourself.

Happy Days lawsuit

CBS fires back at Happy Days lawsuit

The hit TV show "Happy Days," who are suing the company for unpaid merchandising revenue, don't have a case.

        The company owns the iconic show, said in a 15-page response to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court that the case is "a garden-variety breach of contract action, nothing more."

        "However, rather than simply seek what they are purportedly owed under their contracts, plaintiffs are attempting to generate a lucrative litigation windfall by riddling their complaint with action" for fraud and breach of good faith.

        Four members of the cast -- Marion Ross, Don Most, Anson Williams and Erin Moran -- what they're owed in connection with the worldwide sale of "Happy Days" merchandise. "Happy Days" was originally on the air from 1974 to 1984. Bosley died in October.

Under their contracts, the actors were supposed to receive 5% of net proceeds, or 2 1/2% if their images were used in a group.

        "Happy Days" slot machines were popping up in casinos around the country in 2008.

        "When these slot machines came out, it was like Barnum and Bailey came to town," Williams told CNN. "We were bombarded with, oh look at these pictures, they'd be all over the country."

        The actors said when they couldn't resolve their differences with CBS during mediation earlier this year, they decided to file suit.

Kat Von D : That day can't come soon enough

That day can't come soon enough

   They've split, claiming their relationship is better than ever that reports on Kat Von D and Jesse James.

   "That is absolutely not true," James, told People denying reports that the couple has called off their wedding and split. "We're still going strong. Things are completely good with us."

    "That's the furthest thing from the truth,"

   "He says there's too much drama for him."

"Everything is on track. I am absolutely more in love today than I was a year ago. She's the one for me," James said.

"That day can't come soon enough!"

     Life & Style magazine reported that Von D and James had recently split on Thursday, noting the pair had not appeared in public together for a month.

    That's what he's telling pals," an insider told Life & Style

Sports News:Ronaldo says boss Jose Mourinho is the best there is.

 

I’m not going to join City: Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo has delivered a snub to Manchester City by promising he will not leave Real Madrid for Eastlands, reports Soccernet.

Ronaldo has delivered excellent performances for Real, but has been put in the shade in Spain and Europe by the Barcelona side of Lionel Messi, Xavi and co.

It has been claimed mega-rich City were readying a package to lure Ronaldo away from the Bernabeu but he has no intention of jumping ship.

‘I’m not going to City,’ Ronaldo told the Cadena COPE radio station. ‘I give you my word I’m not going. Money is not the most important thing.

‘If it was for money I could have double what I have. If it was for money I would leave.

‘The most important thing is the behaviour of the people and they treat me tremendously here and I am very happy in Madrid.’

     Ronaldo says boss Jose Mourinho is the best there is.
     ‘He knows what he has to do to make the team win and I am sure we will do better in his second year at Madrid, as happened with me,’ he added. ‘Mourinho is the best: he has shown that in all the leagues he has coached in. He knows better than anyone that we have to improve in all aspects and only those who work with him know what he is like.
     ‘Kun (Aguero) and Neymar are two great players and Coentrao may be the best Portuguese player still playing in Portugal,’ he said. ‘Fabio would be a great signing. He is a nice guy, he’s very ambitious, he runs a lot and he’s a very good player.’
     We want to beat them and difficult things bring a different pleasure.’

Hillary warns against 'new colonialism'

Hillary warns against 'new colonialism' in Africa

 

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledges dancers welcoming 

her on Friday in Lusaka, Zambia, at the start of a five-day Africa trip that 

will also take her to Tanzania and Ethiopia to highlight the Obama 

administration's drive to help African countries meet challenges ranging from 

HIV/AIDS to food security and accelerate often impressive economic growth. 

              US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, Africa must beware of “new colonialism” as China expands ties there and focus instead on partners able to help build productive capacity on the continent.

                 Clinton, asked in a television interview in Zambia on Saturday about China’s rising influence on the continent, said Africans should be wary of friends who only deal with elites.
                   “We don’t want to see a new colonialism in Africa,” Clinton said in a television interview in Lusaka, the first stop on a five-day Africa tour.
                 “When people come to Africa to make investments, we want them to do well but also want them to do good,” she said. “We don’t want them to undermine good governance in Africa.”
China pumped almost $10 billion in investment into Africa in 2009 and trade has taken off as Beijing buys oil and other raw materials to fuel its booming economy.
                      “We saw that during colonial times it is easy to come in, take out natural resources, pay off leaders and leave,” she said.
                      “The United States is investing in the people of Zambia, not just the elites, and we are investing for the long run.”
                       African states, she said, could learn much from Asia on how governments can help support economic growth but said she did not see Beijing as a political role model.
“We are beginning to see a lot of problems” in China that will intensify over the next 10 years, she said, pointing to friction over Chinese efforts to control the Internet as one example. “There are more lessons to learn from the United States and democracies,” Hillary Clinton said.