Monday, September 17, 2007

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PARIS (AFP) - Need an excuse "to get rid of certain obligations, justify an appointment or sit on an adventure without jeopardizing your marriage?: Search for it on several websites, which is the coin carefully drawn the corresponding fees.
already present in the U.S. market (Alibi network), British and Belgian years, the business now stands out in Europe, especially in Switzerland and France. Thus, the alibi-beton.com Swiss site, launched in May and has already had a hundred customers, available in three languages, English, French and German, "a solid alibi as concrete (beton, in French) personal and believable. "Alibi-beton
gives its users' evidence and accounts of restaurants, invitations, hotel bills, invitations for the conference, proof of attendance at conferences, train or plane reservations and phone calls with male or female voice ".
" I'm pretty imaginative, "he told AFP its founder, Christine Barnicol. That creativity comes his own company, as a force to serve as an alibi for a friend who used to cover her affairs, the nursing assistant quit his job and launched as a business of lies. "But I do not accept any assignment. A young man asked me for an alibi for failing to appear for their exams and I refused, " Barnicol adds, working from the Swiss city of Basel.
recently launched in France by a former detective, Régine Mourizard, Ibil agency works with the same concepts. His site, alibila.com, received by mail or telephone requests from its customers. In the company's answering machine, a pleasant voice full of understanding, encouraging the consumer to make their request, offering a promise of proposed alibi and budget. Ibil
rates vary from 19 euros for a phone call and 50 euro for a simple document. The account goes up in case things are more complicated or elaborate alibi. Also, if the latter does not work Ibil states that the customer is not entitled to any refund.
On its website, Ibil also recalls the French law on counterfeiting and use of counterfeit material, while cautioning customers that have provided alibis use only. The company also "disclaims any liability for fraudulent use by the client of the documents supplied."
also created a few months ago, the French site prestige.alibi.com claimed "300 requests since March." Its founder has put on sale in early September in the online auction site e-bay at a base price of 500 euros and as "an alibi website for wholesale infidelities." "It's a profitable business," says the vendor to explain, protected by a pseudonym, "not only confined to the French market but also attack the French market in general, ie, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada and other countries." Claudine
biland social psychologist looks at the development pages alibis "sign that has been Americanized." "The weight of guilt in relation to lies is very strong in the U.S., far more than in Latin countries," says the researcher, also author of a book entitled 'Psychology of the liar. " "Using an alibi agency, one's own culpability download a third party" adds. "This is a bit perverse," notes psychologist stating that in his opinion, this type of service "have a rather limited scope in France.

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NEW YORK (AFP) - The once prominent internet provider AOL announced Monday a global advertising network, announced a new step in the restructuring of the U.S. company, which has lost ground in recent years. AOL
today for the Internet subsidiary of the giant Time Warner, announced a series of changes aimed at positioning itself as "the most important and efficient online ad network in the world", including moving its headquarters from its current location, Dulles (Virginia, east), New York.
The company stated that the realignment of its business, build your network Advertising.com and other recent acquisitions, marked the final stage of its transition to an Internet company based on advertising.
Last year, AOL was forced to change their model, since consumers began to orient themselves and access services in other places on the web, and tried to reorganize as a portal like Yahoo. AOL
reported Monday that the new company, to be called Platform A, will offer advertisers "access to the most sophisticated tools of target and assessment tools on the market." Platform To offer its customers, among other things, advertising known as objective, which is to track the habits of Internet users who visit the pages looking to use online advertising, according to each person.
Despite moving the headquarters to New York, considered the world capital of advertising, AOL kept its activities in Dulles, as well as Mountain View (California, West), according to a statement. When installed in New York, AOL follows the footsteps of other great groups that have chosen this technology to the conclave financial capital of Silicon Valley in California, such as Google and Yahoo.

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beat Google with new technology

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Dozens of entrepreneurs gathered on Monday to participate in an exclusive high-tech conference, but executives of one of them, Powerset, try to realize a very difficult challenge: to beat Google with new technology.

After nearly two years of development, Powerset has begun to disseminate their research to the communication between internet browsers through a technology of "natural language".

Powerset's algorithms are programmed to understand search requests whole, a system change "keyword" used by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and the owners of other search engines.

The difference will allow more consistent results by typing more specific questions. For example, "What did Steve Jobs about Apple?" instead of asking questions that resemble the language of Tarzan, as Steve Jobs said Apple. "

Barney Pell, Powerset co-founder and its president, linking the process of trial and error search with keywords with the dialogue of a child under 2 years.

"To some extent you feel good for the mere fact that the child can talk. But really want it (the child) to grow in order to speak of truth," he said.

is not the first time that a search engine has tried to understand the common language, but Powerset has drawn attention because its technology is licensed from the Research Center Palo Alto.

Better known as PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), a subsidiary of Xerox has created important devices, such as the "mouse" computer and the graphical interface for personal computers.

Ronald Kaplan, chief specialist at PARC's natural language, is now Powerset's chief technology officer.

"We have the best natural language technology" in search engines, Pell boasted in an interview last week.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

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Nearly 11,000 children were abused by priests in the U.S.

U.S. children were victims of alleged sexual abuse by more than 4,000 priests over 52 years, said the largest study on a past "tragic" and "shameful" by the Catholic Church in country.

06/sep/2007.- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in an act of contrition and insight, today released statistical and other complementary, as part of its efforts to restore the faith of the 65.3 million Catholics in the institution.

The results of both reports covering the period between 1955 and 2007, revealed that the problem is bigger than thought: 4.392 priests 4 percent-a total of 109.694 - were accused of sexual abuse of minors 10.667.

Of that total, approximately 6,700 cases had sufficient evidence, other 3.300 were not investigated because the priests had died, and another 1,000 had no reliable evidence to warrant an investigation.

The study of John Jay College for Criminal Justice, which was based on 97 percent of the 195 dioceses that responded to its questionnaires, added that just over half of the reported abuses were committed against children between 11 and 14 years, with 81 percent of victims were male and 19 percent women.

The 40.9 percent of the abuses occurred in the priest's residence, 16.3 percent in the church itself and 42.8 percent elsewhere, he said.

In total, the Catholic Church spent a little over 572 million dollars in legal costs, compensation, counseling for victims and treatment for priests.
That figure does not include costs incurred after completion of the national study and the 85 million who recently agreed to pay the Archdiocese of Boston to settle some of the claims.

Part of the blame for this epidemic were, in many cases, the bishops who, knowing the situation, not corrected and were more concerned with protecting the reputation of the Church, as the supplementary analysis of the National Board of Review ("National Review Board").
"This lack of leadership (by some bishops) has been an embarrassment to the Church," summed up the Board.

"I assure you that well-known authors are no longer members of the ministry," said Bishop Wilton Gregory, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB, in English).
Gregory added: "I can say with absolute certainty that the bishops have put in place mechanisms to respond immediately to these accusations, help victims and expel those responsible." According

USCCB, about 700 priests and deacons have been removed from ministry since January 2002.

During a press conference in Washington, however, both Gregory and the other bishops assembled there will be insisted that the bishops of each diocese will have to decide whether or not to disclose the names of pedophile priests.
added that the Vatican has shown great openness and willingness to continue with remedial measures to tackle the problem.

As the archbishop of Santa Fe (New Mexico), Michael Sheehan, this has been a sobering experience, which has forced major changes in training of seminarians, to avoid repetition.

"The numbers are impressive, terrible ... sexual abuse is a serious issue in society and as Catholics, we must do everything possible to eliminate this problem," Sheehan told reporters.

Both studies show that the number of abuse and priests involved could be higher, as figures released today were handed over voluntarily by the diocese.
addition, many victims have chosen to remain silent on the alleged abuse because of fear or shame.

For Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), the report is as only a first step, because "the diagnosis is not a cure," he told EFE the organization's director, David Clohessy.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

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Colombian peso closed weaker at U.S. renew fears

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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's currency, the peso, closed on Wednesday depreciated in line with other currencies in the region, renewed fears about slower growth in the economy United States.


The weight ended the session at 2,172 per dollar, falling 0.71 percent (15.5 units) versus Tuesday's close of 2156.5.


The intention of investors away from risky assets such as emerging were renewed after they met the real estate industry figures show that pending sales of existing homes fell 12.2 percent in July to its lowest level since September 2001.


addition, ADP Employers Services showed private employers likely added 38,000 jobs in August, the lowest figure for the sector in four years.


"This movement has been driven by increased risk aversion by investors due to the significant drop in American stock markets caused by the negative data published in the morning," said a note from Banco Santander.


Weight opened in 2171 and fluctuated between 2,169.94 and 2,181, averaging 2175.1 units.


traded was 778.9 million dollars at 1,280 operations.


Nervousness led the referenced TES maturing in July 2020 devalued closed at a yield of 10.558 percent, compared with 10.494 percent ended Tuesday.


Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance reported on Wednesday TES repurchased due in November this year to 885,000 million pesos (U.S. $ 409.4 million) as part of its strategy to improve its debt profile.


The Government acquired the papers to an interest rate of 9.3 percent, after receiving bids for 1.7 billion pesos (786.4 million dollars).

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(Reuters) - Smokers of handmade cigarettes tend to consume less snuff, but face a greater risk of developing lung cancer than those who opt for manufactured cigarettes, according to a study in Norwegian lung cancer patients.


Norway is one of the last Western countries that still use a significant amount of cigarettes made by hand, representing one third of the sales of snuff, according to a study released Wednesday.


While snuff smoking cigarettes "consumed (fewer) cigarettes, and statistically had fewer years of smoking, hand-rolled cigarettes were more carcinogenic, resulting in an increased incidence of lung cancer development," the study said Heidi Rolke, Sorlandet Hospital, Norway.


The research was presented at the World Conference on Lung Cancer in Seoul.


Lung cancer is one of the most common in the world. In Asia, every year more than 570,000 people by this disease, which is equivalent to one death per minute. Globally, lung tumors cause the deaths of 1.3 million people.


More than 80 percent of patients with lung cancer in the study of 333 people primarily smoked hand-rolled cigarettes.


The homemade snuff usually contain more nicotine and tar because it has no filter, Rolke said on a conference call.


Jonathan Samet, School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, said similar findings had been documented higher rates of cancer among Hispanic women in the southern United States that used handmade cigarettes.


"This, perhaps, an indication that we should be concerned if rising prices of manufactured cigarettes would lead to substitutions" for home, Samet concluded.