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    3 Fantasy Football Apps You're Gonna Need This Season - AppJudgment

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    Football season is upon us and that means Fantasy Football season is upon us as well. Check out these three great apps to manage all your stats, news, and trading needs!
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    Doug Martin is Gaining Attention

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    The Bucs rookie running back is second on the most viewed list. See what the Fantasy Football Today crew think about Martin this season.
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    Chris Johnson has to deal with some of his disgruntled fantasy football owners.
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Future City competition gets students building | Kentucky Teacher

The Future City Competition is a national, project-based learning experience where students in 6th, 7th and 8th grades imagine, design and build cities of the future.

Students work as a team with an educator and engineer mentor to plan cities using SimCity 4 Deluxe software; research and write solutions to an engineering problem; build tabletop scale models with recycled materials; and present their ideas before judges at regional competitions in January. Regional winners represent their region at the National Finals in Washington, D.C. in February.

This flexible, cross-curricular educational program gives students an opportunity to do the things that engineers do ? identify problems; brainstorm ideas; design solutions; test, retest and build; and share their results. This process is called the engineering design process. Future City is an engaging way to build students? 21st-century skills. Students participating in Future City:

  • apply mathematics and science concepts to real-world issues
  • develop writing, public speaking, problem-solving and time management skills
  • research and propose solutions to engineering challenges
  • discover different types of engineering and explore careers options
  • learn how their communities work and become better citizens
  • develop strong teamwork skills

For more information on the program in Kentucky, contact Joe Percefull.

Source: http://www.kentuckyteacher.org/bulletin-board/2012/09/future-city-competition-gets-students-building/

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Mayor Rob Ford goes to court

Mayor Rob Ford and brother Councillor Doug Ford makes their way back to City Hall through a swarm of media after the mayor testified at 361 University Ave. courts in Toronto Sept. 5, 2012. (Dave Abel/Toronto Sun)

Mayor Rob Ford and brother Councillor Doug Ford make their way back to City Hall through a swarm of media after the mayor testified at 361 University Ave. courts in Toronto Sept. 5, 2012. With them is press secretary George Christopoulos. (Dave Abel/Toronto Sun)

Mayor Rob Ford and brother Councillor Doug Ford make their way back to City Hall through a swarm of media after the mayor testified at 361 University Ave. courts in Toronto Sept. 5, 2012. With them is press secretary George Christopoulos. (Dave Abel/Toronto Sun)

Rob Ford makes his way back to City Hall through a swarm of media after the mayor testified at 361 University Ave. courts in Toronto Sept. 5, 2012. (Dave Abel/Toronto Sun)

Rob Ford makes his way back to City Hall through a swarm of media after the mayor testified at 361 University Ave. courts in Toronto Sept. 5, 2012. (Dave Abel/Toronto Sun)

Mayor Rob Ford and brother Councillor Doug Ford make their way back to City Hall through a swarm of media after the mayor testified at 361 University Ave. courts in Toronto Sept. 5, 2012. With them is press secretary George Christopoulos. (Dave Abel/Toronto Sun)

Press Secretary George Christopoulos aids Mayor Rob Ford as he makes his way back to City Hall through a swarm of media following his testimony at 361 University Ave. courts in Toronto Sept. 5, 2012. (Dave Abel/Toronto Sun)

Mayor Rob Ford arrives at 361 University Ave. court in Toronto Sept. 5, 2012, for his testimony in his conflict of interest case. (Dave Abel/Toronto Sun)

Mayor Rob Ford arrives at 361 University Ave. court in Toronto Sept. 5, 2012, for his testimony in his conflict of interest case. (Dave Abel/Toronto Sun)

Mayor Rob Ford arrives at 361 University Ave. court in Toronto Sept. 5, 2012, for his testimony in his conflict of interest case. (Dave Abel/Toronto Sun)

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Mayor Rob Ford took the stand Wednesday in the conflict-of-interest case against him.

Ford is testifying in a University Ave. courtroom on the first day of what is expected to be a three-day hearing of the lawsuit that could lead to the mayor being booted from office.

The lawsuit against Ford was launched by lawyer Clayton Ruby in March on behalf of Paul Magder. Ford is alleged to have violated the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act during a February city council meeting.

During that meeting, councillors ? Ford included ? voted 22-12 to rescind a 2010 council decision ordering the mayor to repay $3,150 in donations from lobbyists and their clients his children?s football foundation.

Wednesday started with media camped out in front of the University Ave. courthouse waiting for Ford?s arrival. Ford ended up entering the courthouse through a side door.

In an opening speech to the court, Ruby stressed the case wasn?t about Ford?s football foundation.

?Mayor Ford wants this hearing to be about kids and the good work he does by directing donations to the high school football teams,? Ruby told the court. ?That is not what this hearing is about. Nor did anything in the integrity commissioner?s report interfere with those kids.?

Ruby stressed the issue is ?the integrity of what Mayor Ford did.?

?The only person hurt in all of this was Rob Ford, he had to pay back the money to publicly correct this breach of city integrity and he just did not want to do that,? he said.

Ford?s lawyer Alan Lenczner argued council had no jurisdiction to impose the original fine on Ford and that the issue was not a conflict in its proper term.

?There is no lack of transparency,? Lenczner told the court.

Ford spent almost two hours on the stand Wednesday morning. Lenczner questioned Ford for almost an hour, including time to play video from the Feb. 7 council meeting where the alleged conflict occurred. Ruby questioned Ford for just over an hour before the lunch break.

During Lenczner?s questioning, Ford outlined his particular definition of what he believed a conflict of interest was.

?There is no interest in the city,? Ford said. ?This is just my personal issue. This does not benefit the city in any way. So this is, to me, not a conflict of interest. Usually if there is, the solicitor or the clerk will advise you.?

Ruby?s cross-examination of Ford started by focusing on whether Ford ever received a council handbook outlining the conflict of interest act or attended an orientation session for new councillors. Ford denied he ever received a handbook and confirmed he didn?t go to the orientation session.

?I didn?t think I needed to attend,? Ford testified.

Ford repeated his definition of a conflict several times to Ruby. He added he believed it took two parties to have a conflict and admitted if city staff had advised him he had a conflict on Feb. 7, he wouldn?t have taken part in the debate and the vote.

The questioning included some clashes between Ford and Ruby. At one point, Ruby asked Ford if he had ever read the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act.

?I?ve never read that before,? Ford said.

?You have to have read it,? Ruby said, adding they read it at Ford?s deposition in June.

?You read it to me, but I haven?t read it,? Ford said.

Ruby asked Ford if he would agree he had a special responsibility to lead in the area of conflict of interest legislation.

Ford disagreed.

?I just get one vote, I?m just one member of council,? he said. ?I don?t consider myself special.?

Ford said he can?t be responsible for 44 members of council.

?We deal with millions of dollars and I watch the money,? Ford stressed.

?I?m sure you watch the money,? Ruby said.

The cross-examination of Ford is expected to continue throughout the day.

Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/05/mayor-rob-ford-goes-to-court

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Kinship & Culture: A Mainstreamed Strip Club and an Extended ...

Two links today. First, ?At Stadium Club, young, professional women party while others strip,? from my hometown daily:

It?s Friday evening in D.C., and three women arrive at the Stadium Club, a converted warehouse in Northeast. It is flanked by rundown brick buildings and a gritty car repair station. Rough gravel replaces sidewalks, and the street is largely deserted. Other than the club, the only sign of life is a gas station a quarter of a mile away. Stadium is like a diamond in the rough, but in the way tarnished silverware shines when placed next to plastic spoons.

The women go inside.

?I wasn?t expecting it to be this nice,? says Rashanda Robertson, 33, an Atlanta native who?s in the city for graduate school.

Tonight is her first visit to a strip club. To her left and right are clusters of women, outnumbering the men. Women in heels. Women who teach. Women who advocate as social workers. Professional women. Heterosexual women. Women just like her.

Unlike many strip clubs ? which are narrow, dark and dominated by men ? Stadium, with color-changing chandeliers lighting up 14,000 square feet, has become a chic hot spot for young African American women. They host bachelorette and birthday parties here, buy rounds of drinks and chitchat while other women work the pole. The club is a bucket-list item for black yuppies. It falls somewhere between Dupont Circle day parties and concerts at The Park at 14th club. ?

?Sixty percent of the club on any night is women,? Redding says.

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and here?s the New York Times, ??The Waltons? Meets ?Modern Family??:

I AM now a statistic. Earlier this summer, the United States Census Bureau reported that the number of adult children living in their parents? households had increased by 1.2 million between 2007 and 2010. Shared households accounted for 18.7 percent of all American households in 2010, up from 17 percent in 2007. Most of those children were between age 25 and 34, but I had suddenly joined their ranks at a considerably older age.

In August 2010, as my husband, Daniel Rivkin, and I approached our 50th birthdays, we were suddenly forced to move into my parents? home in Michigan with our three teenage children and dog. Never mind that my older brother, who had lost his job the previous year, was already in residence in one of their basement bedrooms ? my parents? three-story rambling colonial home quickly accommodated us all. ?

Without the emotional support of my extended family (I also have more than a dozen cousins who live in town), I don?t know how we would have readjusted. But I also found it extremely awkward initially when new friends learned of our living arrangement.

more (and I found this link at Rod Dreher?s blog, where there are more such stories?and more discontented ones!?in the comments)

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Biodiversity Found to Increase During Warm Periods in Earth's History

A new approach contradicts previous research that reported an inverse correlation between high temperatures and biodiversity


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From Nature magazine

Rather than kicking off the expected cycles of extinction, periods of warming in Earth's history were accompanied by increased biodiversity, according to a report published this week. But this does not mean that the mass extinctions that are taking place today, with Earth warming at an unprecedented rate, will be reversed in future.

Researchers examined the number of known families of marine invertebrates, as well as sea-surface temperatures, over the course of 540 million years of Earth's history1. They found that when temperatures were high, so was biodiversity. When temperatures fell, biodiversity also declined.

The results contradict previous work, including findings from lead author Peter Mayhew's group2, that reported an inverse correlation between high temperatures and biodiversity.

The reason for the about-face, says Mayhew, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of York, UK, is that the earlier work measured fossil diversity by tallying the first and last appearances of each group of species, then assuming that the creatures existed only during the intervening years. This might sound logical, but overlooks the fact that some geological periods are better studied than others.

To correct this, the new study looked only at the well-sampled periods. And, instead of interpolating organisms' presence from origination and extinction dates, it merely tallied species groups present during each period.

Even so, given that climate change is generally viewed as disruptive, Mayhew admits it was a "big surprise" to find that eras of warming were accompanied by increases in biodiversity. The work also provided a solution to another puzzle, Mayhew says. Tropical ecosystems are known to be Earth's most diverse, and the tropics would be expected to expand during warm eras. Yet in the past these eras were thought to be species-poor compared with cooler ones. The new results resolve that contradiction.

Speed kills
Warming produces both extinctions and originations, and in the past the originations of new species have outstripped the loss of old ones, says Mayhew. But this does not mean that today's climate change will be beneficial.

"The rate of change is very important," Mayhew says. For diversity to rise, he explains, new species need to evolve. And that takes between thousands and millions of years ? much slower than the rate at which extinctions are likely to occur with today's rapid change.

Scott Wing, a palaeobiologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, agrees. "This article has nothing to say about the effects of global warming at any timescale of interest to most humans," he says. But he adds, "this is definitely of interest to evolutionary biologists, palaeontologists and ecologists seeking to understand very broad patterns of diversity".

However, Shanan Peters, a palaeobiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, isn't so sure the paper is noteworthy. Its primary result, he points out, is to overturn Mayhew's own prior finding and bring the long-term diversity results into line with ecological common sense. "Palaeobiologists and climatologists have long referred to warm intervals as 'climate optima'," he notes, "precisely because it is during such times that palm trees and alligators inhabit the Arctic and life appears to be diverse and flourishing."

More interesting, he says, will be the next generation of results, when palaeobiologists turn their attention to major climate transitions, such as that which may be occurring now.

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Across America, tributes to Neil Armstrong ( video)

As a blue moon rose Friday, people across the country celebrated the life of Neil Armstrong, who in 1969 became the first human to set foot on the moon.

By Robert Z. Pearlman,?SPACE.com / August 31, 2012

Apollo 11 Astronauts Michael Collins, left, and Buzz Aldrin talk Friday at a private memorial service celebrating the life of Neil Armstrong, at the Camargo Club in Cincinnati.

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The late astronaut Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, was memorialized in ceremonies around the country on Friday (Aug. 31).

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Armstrong, 82, passed away Aug. 25 due to complications resulting from cardiovascular surgery, which he underwent earlier this month.

In July 1969, Armstrong commanded Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission. His first words upon setting foot on the moon were, "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."

Armstrong's family, together with invited guests including the first moonwalker's fellow astronauts and the leadership of NASA, gathered at the Camargo Club in Cincinnati for a private memorial service on Friday morning.

The family's service was strictly invitation-only and closed to the press. The guest list was not released, but among those in attendance were Armstrong's two Apollo 11 crew mates Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, as well as Apollo astronauts Bill Anders, Dick Gordon, Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan. Mercury astronaut and former Ohio Senator John Glenn also attended with his wife Annie.

Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) eulogized Armstrong, as did the astronaut's two sons Eric ("Rick") and Mark, and Piper Van Wagenen, one of Armstrong's 10 grandchildren.

"Today, we pay tribute to a pioneering American; an explorer, a patriot and an individual who, with 'one small step,' achieved an impossible dream. Family, friends and colleagues of Neil's gathered to reflect on his extraordinary life and career, and offer thanks for the many blessings he shared with us along the way," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in a statement. "A grateful nation offers praise and salutes a humble servant who answered the call and dared to dream." [Neil Armstrong Memorial Service (Photos)]

U.S. Navy F/A-18 jets flew overhead in a "Missing Man" formation at the end of the service in honor of Armstrong's service as a naval aviator.

National remembrances

According to NASA, planning is underway for a national service to be held Sept. 12 in Washington, D.C., although no other details have been released.

In the meantime, two NASA centers held public tributes on Friday.

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the visitor center for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., hosted a ceremony around its 363-foot tall Saturn V rocket display, launching red, white and blue balloons in memory of Armstrong. Present were astronauts Owen Garriott, Jan Davis and Fred Leslie.

The Kennedy Space Center in Florida also met around its moon rocket exhibit at the Apollo/Saturn V Center, where center director Robert Cabana led the remembrance.

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That giant tarantula is terrifying, but I'll touch it: Expressing your emotions can reduce fear

ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2012) ? "Give sorrow words." -- Malcolm in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

Can simply describing your feelings at stressful times make you less afraid and less anxious?

A new UCLA psychology study suggests that labeling your emotions at the precise moment you are confronting what you fear can indeed have that effect.

The psychologists asked 88 people with a fear of spiders to approach a large, live tarantula in an open container outdoors. The participants were told to walk closer and closer to the spider and eventually touch it if they could.

The subjects were then divided into four groups and sat in front of another tarantula in a container in an indoor setting. In the first group, the subjects were asked to describe the emotions they were experiencing and to label their reactions to the tarantula -- saying, for example, "I'm anxious and frightened by the ugly, terrifying spider."

"This is unique because it differs from typical procedures in which the goal is to have people think differently about the experience -- to change their emotional experience or change the way they think about it so that it doesn't make them anxious," said Michelle Craske, a professor of psychology at UCLA and the senior author of the study. "Here, there was no attempt to change their experience, just to state what they were experiencing."

In a second group, the subjects used more neutral terms that did not convey their fear or disgust and were aimed at making the experience seem less threatening. They might say, for example, "That little spider can't hurt me; I'm not afraid of it."

"This is the usual approach for helping individuals to confront the things they fear," Craske said.

In a third group, the subjects said something irrelevant to the experience, and in a fourth group, the subjects did not say anything -- they were simply exposed to the spider.

All the participants were re-tested in the outdoor setting one week later and were again asked to get closer and closer to the tarantula and potentially touch it with a finger. The researchers measured how close subjects could get to the spider, how distressed they were and what their physiological responses were, focusing in particular on how much the subjects' hands sweated, which is a good measure of fear, Craske said.

The researchers found that the first group did far better than the other three. These people were able to get closer to the tarantula -- much closer than those in the third group and somewhat closer than those in the other two groups -- and their hands were sweating significantly less than the participants in all of the other groups.

The results are published in the online edition of the journal Psychological Science and will appear in an upcoming print edition.

"They got closer and they were less emotionally aroused," Craske said. "The differences were significant. The results are even more significant given the limited amount of time involved. With a fuller treatment, the effects may be even larger.

"Exposure is potent," she added. "It's surprising that this minimal intervention action had a significant effect over exposure alone."

So why were the people in the first group -- those who performed what the life scientists call "affect labeling" -- able to get closer to the tarantula?

"If you're having less of a threat response, which is indicated by less sweat, that would allow you to get closer; you have less of a fear response," said study co-author Matthew Lieberman, a UCLA professor of psychology and of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences. "When spider-phobics say, 'I'm terrified of that nasty spider,' they're not learning something new; that's exactly what they were feeling -- but now instead of just feeling it, they're saying it. For some reason that we don't fully understand, that transition is enough to make a difference."

The scientists also analyzed the words the subjects used. Those who used a larger number of negative words did better, in terms of both how close they were willing to get to the tarantula and their skin-sweat response. In other words, describing the tarantula as terrifying actually proved beneficial in ultimately reducing the fear of it.

"Doing more affect labeling seemed to be better," Lieberman said.

"That is so different from how we normally think about exposure therapy, where you try to get the person to think differently, to think it's not so bad," Craske said. "What we did here was to simply encourage individuals to state the negative."

"We've published a series of studies where we asked people, 'Which do you think would make you feel worse: looking at a disturbing image or looking at that disturbing image and choosing a negative emotional word to describe it,'" Lieberman said. "Almost everyone said it would be worse to have to look at that image and focus on the negative by picking a negative word. People think that makes our negative emotions more intense. Well, that is exactly what we asked people to do here. In fact, it's a little better to have people label their emotions -- multiple studies now show this. Our intuitions here are wrong."

This is the first study to demonstrate benefits for affect labeling of fear and anxiety in a real-world setting, Craske and Lieberman said.

"The implication," Craske said, "is to encourage patients, as they do their exposure to whatever they are fearful of, to label the emotional responses they are experiencing and label the characteristics of the stimuli -- to verbalize their feelings. That lets people experience the very things they are afraid and say, 'I feel scared and I'm here.' They're not trying to push it away and say it's not so bad. Be in the moment and allow yourself to experience whatever you're experiencing."

Craske and Lieberman are studying how this approach can help people who have been traumatized, such as rape victims and victims of domestic violence. The approach potentially could benefit soldiers returning from war as well.

"I'm far more optimistic than I was before this study," Lieberman said. "I'm a believer that this approach can have real benefits for people.

"There is a region in the brain, the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, that seems to be involved in labeling our feelings and our emotional reactions, and it is also associated with regulating our emotional responses," he said. "Why those two go together is still a bit of a mystery. This brain region that is involved in simply stating how we are feeling seems to mute our emotional responses, at least under certain circumstances."

"There's a trend in psychology of acceptance-based approaches -- honestly label your feelings. This study has that flavor to it," Craske said.

Katharina Kircanski, a former UCLA graduate student and current postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, is lead author of the study; she conducted this research as a graduate student in Craske's laboratory.

The research was federally funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health, and by the American Psychological Association.

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Antique restoration - Home Improvement Investments



Antique furniture is very popular because of the variety of unique designs and wide availability. It can be found in second hand stores, specialty shops and antique stores. Antique furniture and its pieces can even be found online. In addition, refinishing antique furniture Phoenix help increase the value.

Wear and tear of antique furniture

While antique furniture is attractive, it has a small downside. As the years pass, the furniture is used and excessive wear and tear on a piece can often decrease the beauty and appeal of furniture. All properties can change, as furniture is used through the years. A finish can be scratched due to long use and spare parts can often get lost in the drawers and doors are opened and closed for years and years. That?s why antique restoration Phoenix is great way to return fine furniture to its former glory.

Natural beauty

As usual, an antique piece is not refurbished in full as authenticity should be preserved as it was. It is better to use a non-abrasive cleaner to remove the grime and dirt and the natural age marks will stay as they are. For instance, if a cupboard has rubbed a spot on the front because it has been used through the years, most renovators will simply appreciate the nature and leave it. However, if the piece of furniture is damaged and deeply unattractive, a matching color can be used to mix the mark in the shadow of the wood. Furniture oil and a soft cloth can often be used to restore a natural glow to an antique piece. Complete refurbishment is not normally considered to be the best choice. On the other side, durable fabrics used for urniture upholstery Phoenix will help to keep antiques for decades.

If some parts are missing, you can find them at stores that specialize in replicas of original material. Of course, replacements should match the original size as much as possible to fit in the original holes for handles and knobs.

How to keep antique furniture

If you want to preserve and respect the old furniture you should maintain a climate-controlled environment to avoid swelling and shrinking. When this happens, the joints can tighten or loosen. An environment that avoids such problems is much better for the old furniture.

By cleaning pieces of antique furniture with soft cotton cloth you prevent the natural grain of wood from being damaged because dust and dirt is removed. Gentle restoration is an excellent way to keep antiques for future generations to come.

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Dos Santos in unassailable lead in Angola elections

Angola's state media on Sunday declared the long-ruling Jose Eduardo dos Santos president-elect, even as vote tallying was unfinished and the opposition was building fraud evidence.

Foreign observers have given the vote a clean bill of health, saying it was credible and transparent.

The government-mouthpiece Jornal de Angola ran a front-page headline declaring "Large victory for MPLA" alongside a full-page picture of Dos Santos clapping.

"The MPLA is the big winner in the 2012 general elections, and everything points to a victory of more than 75 percent of the ballots cast," the paper said on its website.

"The head of the party list, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, is the president-elect of the republic."

The latest count, with 85 percent of the polling stations reporting, gave the ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) nearly three-quarters of the vote. This compares to the last election in 2008 when the party swept to victory with 81 percent of the ballots.

The National Electoral Commission has not given an indication of exactly when the official, final results would be released, but that announcement could still take days.

Many of the ballots yet to be counted were in the capital Luanda, home to nearly a third of the country's registered voters, where opposition parties were performing better.

Angolans voted Friday for 220 members of parliament, with the leader of the winning party awarded a five-year term as president.

That left Dos Santos all but certain to extend his nearly 33-year rule over Africa's second-largest oil producer, despite a series of urban protests demanding that more of the nation's wealth go towards helping the 55 percent of the population living in abject poverty.

Those frustrations appeared to have taken a toll on his party in Luanda, where the MPLA had 57 percent of the vote with about one-third of polling stations reporting.

The main opposition, the Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), had nearly 18 percent of the national vote, and 27 percent in Luanda.

The result so far shows Unita bettering its 2008 elections performance, the nation's first peacetime vote, when it took just 10 percent and the MPLA claimed 81 percent.

The breakaway Casa party, formed by dissenters from both the main parties, had around 4.6 percent of the national vote but more than 12 percent in the capital.

Unita leader Isaias Samakuva has long criticised the electoral process, saying the voters roll had not been authenticated while some 2,000 of his party's observers were denied accreditation to polling stations.

A statement on the party's website said both Unita and Casa "are preparing to present documents that prove the results presented by the National Electoral Commission are not the same as those tabulated inside the polling stations in different parts of the country".

But the few international foreign observers that monitored the vote said it was democratic and credible.

"The general elections in Angola were free, fair, transparent and credible," said Pedro Verona Pires, who headed the African Union team of observers.

Several other regional groupings shared similar findings.

The infamously gridlocked streets of Luanda have been unusually quiet since Friday, when the government declared a holiday for the election, giving the country a three-day weekend.

Walking along the city's newly renovated bayside boardwalk, Sergio Jose, 22, said he did not expect the results to cause any unrest, regardless of the outcome.

"Everyone should accept the result, for whoever wins," he said.

But officials from Unita and Casa could not say when they would deliver their official reactions to the results, and much will depend on the outcome of the vote in Luanda where both parties appeared to have made gains.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dos-santos-takes-big-lead-angola-opposition-cries-082131252.html

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Video of subway rider snuggling with stranger goes viral; but gets man in trouble with wife (VIDEO)

A viral video of a sleepy commuter snuggling up to a stranger on a London subway train has been making a lot of people laugh, but the wife of said stranger, who stumbled across the video and thought she'd caught her husband in an act of infidelity.

"I got into trouble with my wife who thought it must be something quite serious," Rakesh Nair told Croydon Today. ?"She didn't think it was funny to begin with. She thought it was a work colleague or someone I knew and started accusing me of these things."

Nair and Paula Jovel were seated next to each other aboard the London Underground's Jubilee line. Nair, head chef at London's Cinnamon Club, was headed home late at night after a long shift at work. Jovel was asleep next to him, when she inadvertently reached over to snuggle up next to Nair. And all of this was happening while a friend of Jovel's was filming with a camera phone across the aisle.

"Most people getting home at the time have been working and are obviously very tired, they don't quite know what's happening," Nair told the paper.

In the video, when Nair realizes what is happening he is startled but laughs and nudges Jovel to wake her up. Jovel jumps back, clearly embarrassed. The two laugh off the incident, which has already been viewed more than 500,000 times on YouTube.

And apparently, one of those half million viewers was Nair's wife. But after an explanation from Nair, she too has come around to seeing the humor in the video.

"I said 'I didn't know the woman,'" Nair said. "She was convinced, eventually, and saw the funny side. All is well."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/video-subway-rider-snuggling-stranger-goes-viral-gets-203337266.html

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