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South Africans resigned over 'critical' Mandela
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans appeared resigned on Monday to the inevitability of one day saying goodbye to former president Nelson Mandela after the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader's condition in hospital deteriorated to critical.
Madiba, as he is affectionately known, is revered among most of South Africa's 53 million people as the architect of the peaceful 1994 transition to multi-racial democracy after three centuries of white domination.
However, with his latest hospitalization - his fourth in six months - a realization has set in that he will not be around for ever.
His deterioration this weekend, two weeks after being admitted in a serious but stable condition with a lung infection, has caused a perceptible switch in mood from prayers for recovery to preparations for a fond farewell.
"If it's his time to go, he can go. I wish God can look after him," said nurse Petunia Mafuyeka, as she headed to work in Johannesburg.
"We will miss him very much. He fought for us to give us freedom. We will remember him every day. When he goes I will cry."
In a statement, President Jacob Zuma's office urged South Africa and the world to pray for Mandela "during this difficult time". But there was some concern among the public about doctors trying to prolong the life of one of the 20th century's most influential figures.
"I'm worried that they're keeping him alive. I feel they should let him go," said Doris Lekalakala, a claims manager. "The man is old. Let nature take its course. He must just rest."
Since stepping down in 1999 after one term as president, Mandela has stayed out of active politics in the continent's biggest and most important economy and his passing is expected to have little political impact.
His last public appearance was waving to fans from the back of a golf cart before the final of the soccer World Cup in Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium in July 2010.
During his retirement, he has divided his time between his home in the wealthy Johannesburg suburb of Houghton, and Qunu, the village in the impoverished Eastern Cape province where he was born.
The public's last glimpse of him was a brief clip aired by state television in April during a visit to his home by Zuma and other senior officials of the ruling African National Congress.
At the time, the 101-year-old liberation movement, which led the fight against white-minority rule, assured the public Mandela was "in good shape", although the footage showed a thin and frail old man sitting expressionless in an armchair.
(Reporting by Ed Cropley and Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Pascal Fletcher)
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
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Kardashian baby name: the science of how names shape us
Kardashian baby name: some studies have linked unusual names to numerous disadvantages later in life. As for the Kardashian baby name, it remains to be seen.
Kardashian baby name: This 2012 photo shows singer Kanye West, left, talking to his girlfriend Kim Kardashian before an NBA basketball game between the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks in Miami. A birth certificate released by the Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health shows that the couple's daughter North West, was born last Saturday in Los Angeles.
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It's an odd choice that's unlikely to much affect Kanye West's and Kardashian's little girl ? but, for a child born to non-famous parents, is a name that might critically shape who she grows up to be. Without the gilded Kardashian name to guarantee her success, that non-celebrity girl might struggle to fend off bullies, get hired, and overall surmount other people?s ? and eventually her own ? low expectations for her future.
Studies have increasingly shown that names are a highly relevant factor is how others perceive us and we perceive ourselves. In 2010, David Figlio of Northwestern University in Illinois analyzed names from millions of birth certificates for the probability that the name belonged to someone of low socioeconomic status ? children whose names met those criteria would go to be discriminated against throughout life, he found. Similarly, a 2003 study from The National Bureau of Economic Research found that resumes with White-sounding names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews than resumes with African-American-sounding names.
The significance of that research has grown in recent years, as baby names have become increasingly more unusual. In 2010, a British study of some 3,000 parents found that one-in-five of them regretted the name they had selected for their children, in that case often an unusual name or one with a strange spelling. That finding wasn?t surprising to scientists, since a growing crop of studies have linked unusual names to numerous disadvantages in life.
Much of how we perceive the world is unconscious, and our latent biases against particular names are often influential in how we treat people. A 2011 informal survey that combed baby name conversations on online message boards found that the names perceived to be highly trendy are the biggest culprits in jolting those biases and that those names often end up capping our lists of the most hated names.
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Swiss tax windfall boosts UK public finances in May
By David Milliken and William Schomberg
LONDON (Reuters) - A windfall payment of tax by Swiss banks caused Britain's public finances to post a smaller-than-expected deficit in May, and underlying figures suggested the government was on track to meet its budget target this year.
Deficit reduction is the central economic policy of Britain's Conservative-led coalition, which came to power in May 2010. At that point Britain's budget deficit was more than 11 percent of annual economic output - one of the highest rates for a major economy.
But public borrowing has remained stubbornly high over the past year, and data showed total public net debt climbed to record levels in May.
The budget deficit stood at 7.8 percent of gross domestic product on an underlying basis in the tax year that ended in March, down only a fraction from the previous year due to sluggish economic growth.
Friday's data from the Office for National Statistics showed that two months into the new tax year, the government is on track to meet this year's similarly modest deficit-cutting goal.
The government's preferred measure of Britain's public borrowing, which strips out some of the effects of its bank bailouts, showed a deficit of 8.8 billion pounds in May, almost half the shortfall in May 2012 and well below analyst forecasts of a deficit of 12.6 billion pounds in a Reuters poll.
Some of the fall had been expected because of a scheduled 3.9 billion-pound cash transfer from the Bank under a controversial deal last year to return interest payments on the BoE's massively increased gilt holdings to the government.
But most economists had not expected an upcoming payment of 3.2 billion pounds from a Swiss tax deal to be booked so soon.
Swiss banks agreed last year to settle the tax affairs of British citizens with undeclared bank accounts in the Alpine country, but the exact timing of the payments was not clear.
Analysts were confident the government would meet its 2013/14 goal of borrowing no more than 120 billion pounds, excluding the boost from Bank cash transfers.
"Overall the early signs for the new fiscal year are that the government can afford to be optimistic about meeting the full-year target for core borrowing excluding the QE cash flows," said Sam Hill, a fixed income strategist at RBC.
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There was also good news for the government as the ONS revised down its previous estimates for borrowing in the last three tax years by more than 4 billion pounds although government debt is still far higher than forecast in 2010.
Britain's total net public debt, even excluding the direct costs of bailing out the country's banks, now stands at 1.189 trillion pounds - equivalent to 75.2 percent of GDP.
When Chancellor George Osborne gave his first budget after his Conservative-led coalition came to power in May 2010, he aimed to have reduced the deficit to 5.5 percent of GDP by now and for debt to peak at just over 70 percent of GDP this year before falling.
While the opposition Labour party blames this failure on an excessively rapid initial pace of deficit reduction that it says stopped the economy from growing, the finance ministry says it is largely due to the crisis in the euro area, Britain's main export market.
Next week Osborne is due to set out plans for public spending restraint until April 2016 - a year after the 2015 national election. While he set out the total amount of spending in his March budget, individual government departments have yet to find out how much they will receive.
(Editing by Hugh Lawson)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/swiss-tax-windfall-boosts-public-finances-may-083900237.html
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Turkish street vendors turn on a dime to make a lira off Taksim protests
Swimming goggles and 'V for Vendetta' masks cropped up in street vendors' hands within days of the first demonstrations in Taksim Square.
Turkish police firing tear gas battle antigovernment protesters as they try to reestablish police control of Taksim Square after an absence of 10 days in the heart of Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday. Turkish street vendors were out selling swimming goggles and disposable face masks as protection against tear gas.
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After almost a decade in the Middle East and Central Asia, I?ve found local street vendors to be among the most responsive businessmen I?ve ever encountered. When I got off the plane in Istanbul today, it started to rain. By the time I took a cab into the city, street vendors were out selling Chinese umbrellas for about $3.20 a piece.
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While most people in Turkey will tell you that they were taken completely off guard by the protests, within days street vendors were out selling swimming goggles and disposable face masks for about $2.67 each as protection against tear gas. They also had masks popularized by the movie "V is for Vendetta" and the "Anonymous" hacker group, which have been adopted by many Turkish demonstrators.
The speed at which they were able to offer these items is astonishing when you think that before the protests, most of these people were probably selling toys and products that generally?had nothing to do with protection from tear gas or revolutionary symbolism. I wouldn?t be surprised to learn that they have boxes of pro-government paraphernalia ready in case the protests are permanently squashed.
Of course, the quality of their wares is always questionable. On my first day covering the protests, I didn?t have a gas mask so I purchased a pair of swimming goggles and a face mask, the sort of thing you?d wear to hang dry wall in your basement. When I hit a cloud of tear gas the goggles provided some protection for my eyes, but immediately fogged, blinding me more than the tear gas. As for the mask? I would have been better off trying to hold my breath.
Coming back to Istanbul after yesterday's fierce clashes, I decided that I needed a real gas mask, and sought out a vendor with a brick and mortar storefront. I found an industrial safety shop where the clerk told me that in the past 10 days he?d sold more gas masks than he normally sells in three months.
Normally, Turkish people couldn't care less about industrial safety and breathing toxic fumes, especially if it means spending money, he told me, but now he has people coming in to buy masks as gifts for their friends. Still, committed to selling quality products, he lacks a street merchant?s adaptability. He told me he worried he would burn through his inventory shortly if the demand continued.
If I?m ever in an end-of-days scenario, I hope there?s a Middle Eastern street vendor around. I?m sure he?ll have something to sell me for $5 or less that will protect me (at least psychologically) from anything ranging from a Biblical plague to a zombie apocalypse. In fact, whatever I?d need to weather either of those scenarios is probably already in a box wherever street vendors store their wares.
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Toyota showcases UK car production on Twitter - Automotive News
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The vehicle production process takes place every day within the "enclosed box" of auto plants, but most people rarely get to see it, said Scott Brownlee, head of social media at Toyota Great Britain.
So Toyota decided to crack the box open in front of the world Wednesday on Twitter.
Brownlee and his crew used their special "Factory to Forecourt" Twitter account to detail the birth of the Auris gasoline-electric hybrid from its beginnings as raw steel in Toyota's Burnaston, Derbyshire, plant to a finished product in showrooms.
For 14 hours, approximately 522 pre-written tweets bearing the #F2F hashtag -- some featuring onsite videos and photos -- were posted to document the 325 production processes that go into building the Auris. #F2F is short for "Factory to Forecourt."
The idea was to simulate the live production experience as if someone were at the plant tweeting on the spot.
Concise "Factory to Forecourt" tweets were sent out in rapid succession Wednesday, and Toyota's UK blog housed even more detailed descriptions on its vivid, interactive timeline. People could also tweet questions and interact with the Toyota team.
Last December, Brownlee said, they began working closely with the factory to ensure they had the process mapped out accurately and create the supporting YouTube video clips.
Last-minute preparations were still being made the day before the project went live, he said.
"It was all pre-written and the team copied and posted to a predetermined time schedule to match the process. We could not have done it live from the factory as we needed to have the material checked for accuracy and confidentiality, impossible in the 60-90 second gaps we were dealing with," Brownlee wrote in an e-mail Thursday. "So it was a simulation, but it faithfully represented the process we were describing."
Toyota's "Factory to Forecourt" Twitter account and the automaker's corresponding UK blog are the latest multimedia tour de force coming from the auto industry recently.
Toyota's Auris experiment is from the same bloodline as such outreach efforts as Ford's "Random Acts of Fusion" -- a cross-media storytelling campaign in which Ryan Seacrest led participants through an interactive tale that used social media, radio and TV -- and the Chevy Sonic's "Let's Do This" stunt-crazed digital marketing blitz.
Automakers, trying to leapfrog the creativity of their rivals, are doing their best to leverage the Internet to reach an audience spending increasingly more time on the Web ? or, as Lincoln marketing boss Matt VanDyke once said, adjusting to the "absolute reality of the times."
Brownlee said he drew inspiration for the Auris idea several years ago after spending a day in the plant with a BBC film crew. Twitter was still new at the time, but he said there was a buzz about the platform's instant-sharing capabilities even then.
"We could have done more outreach to build awareness ? couldn't you always? -- but we felt it went well," Brownlee added. "The important thing is the legacy of the material now on the various platforms."
Toyota has officially upped the multimedia ante for its competitors, and the ball is now in their court.
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