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James Miles, the China correspondent for The Economist, joins Sir David to discuss the tensions.
Miles was one of the few journalists in Tibet when the violence began.
He says the scale of the violence was unprecedented in China and adds that despite the justified grievances of ethnic Tibetans, without the Chinese, economic growth in the region would be seriously hindered.
The British novelist Louis de Bernières shot to fame with the publication of his phenomenally successful book, Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
It was a worldwide best-seller and has been translated into 11 languages.
A film adaptation of the novel was released in 2001, and it has also been adapted for the stage.
Bernières' latest book, A Partisan's Daughter, tells the tale of a young Serbian woman and her plutonic love affair with an older man.
Bernières joins Sir David to discuss his new book, Serbia and history.
There are growing fears that global food supplies cannot keep up with demand.
Food prices have risen by 75 per cent over the last three years and there have been food riots in some countries, including India and Mexico.
High oil prices have pushed up transportation and processing costs, demand from India and China, and the United State's dash for ethanol are among many factors that have contributed to the price rises.
Sir David is joined by Simon Maxwell of the Overseas Development Institute, and by Francis Moore-Lappe of the Small Planet Institute.
Maxwell says governments have to respond by providing more social security, safety nets and famine relief.
Moore-Lappe says that hunger is not a result of a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.
The race for the Democratic presidential nomination in the US was always going to be fiercely contested.
However, few predicted it would last this long. What started in the January snows of Iowa looks set to run through to the final contests in Montana and South Dakota in June.
It could even go beyond that all the way to the August convention in Denver.
Barack Obama currently leads his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the delegate count but not by an insurmountable margin.
Meanwhile John McCain, the confirmed Republican nominee, has already set about establishing his presidential credentials for the big election in November.
Sir David is joined by American pollster Frank Luntz to discuss the presidential race.
Luntz says that despite Clinton's strong established support, Obama is the likely winner of the Democratic nomination; adding that if this happens a segment of Democratic voters are likely to vote for McCain.
A McCain and Obama election, Luntz says, is too close to call.
The mother of murdered child killer David Gaut has said she had to have his ashes scattered in an unknown secret location after no-one would bury his body.
Phyllis Gaut, 76, also told Newport Crown Court in a statement at the sentencing of Ieuan Harley that her "vulnerable" son had been "robbed" of the chance to prove he had changed.
Mrs Gaut said: "My son was brutally murdered by a vigilante because he thought he had the right to sentence him to death.
"Some people thought David was a monster but he was my son and I loved him.
"He has been taken in the cruellest of ways. He died by being tortured.
"I spoke to (David) Osborne who assured me he would look after David.
"Harley is no better than David. He is a killer.
"David was vulnerable and defenceless and was not a threat to him.
"His death has left me with a huge void in my heart.
"He spent over 30 years in prison for killing Marky (Chi Ming Shek) and had paid for what he did.
"His time in prison left him vulnerable and questioning where his place was in society. He struggled to understand how much the world had moved on since he had been in prison.
"He led a simple life after his release and relied on family and friends he met.
"His crime was unbelievable. We spent some time coming to terms with what he did and I believe his release from prison was a chance for him to do some good.
"Harley has taken that away from me and the opportunity to prove he had changed.
"We as a family have been hounded by the press not because of what happened to David as a victim of a brutal crime but because of what he had done to Marky. I feel like David is being convicted all over again.
"I feel like I have no right to mourn for his death. No-one would bury him. I had to borrow money from family members to have him buried, which we had done in private. I don't even know where his ashes have been scattered."
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The Texas Rangers and Killeen Police are investigating the capital murder that occurred at an apartment complex on Tuesday.
According to Killeen PD, detectives found information that led them to three suspects and one juvenile suspect.
Shamar Lewis, 17, was already in Killeen City Jail following his arrest Thursday. Lewis is being held on a $1,000,000 bond.
James Pinkard, 21, was arrested at a home on the 2000 block of Shoemaker Drive. Pinkard is being held at the Killeen City Jail on a $1,000,000 bond.
Erica Brownlee, 18, was in the Killeen City Jail on an unrelated charge. She is being held on a $1,000,000 bond.
The fourth suspect is a juvenile and is being held at the Bell County Juvenile Detention Center.
There’s a new social network on the block, and this one isn’t designed just for college students or to improve the perceived privacy deficit on Facebook. Instead, Togetherville is aimed at children, 10 years or younger. Now, some people might balk at the thought of encouraging young, impressionable children to venture into the open, unregulated, and potentially dangerous world of online social networks – and they wouldn’t be wrong. However, Togetherville overcomes many of the concerns that parents have about their children socializing online through its innovative definition of chat, community, and safety.
Togetherville has all of the features that makes Facebook great: games, videos, gifts, status updates, messages, and even a “Like” function. However, these things are implemented with safety as the number one priority. Status updates and messages, for instance, are available only as pre-screened text “quips” – phrases that children scroll through and select. In this way, contact between children on the network is limited to only positive sentiments and avoids any potential privacy breaches. The quips also prevent cyber-bullying, as well as the unregulated sharing of any personal information.
Parents are encouraged to sign up for the social network as well, and “friend” their children. They can monitor who is friends with their children, and create a virtual neighborhood that consists of the children and adults that their child knows in the real world. Also important is the fact that parents must approve all friend requests sent to their child, and they have access to all of their child’s information at all times. Togetherville aims to involve parents in the online world of their children in a positive way, rather than keeping them at a distance.
Togetherville teaches young children the basics of internet navigation and social networking in a safe, secure environment. Its features are designed to foster a community between children, their parents and other relatives. Some people might still have reservations about introducing social networking to children at such a young age, but if trends hold, social networking is going to become an increasingly important part of the lives of all demographics, young and old. And teaching children the basics early might just be the best way to prepare them for the adult social networks in the future.
Nowadays, choosing a budget Android tablet isn’t an easy task, as there’s so many models to choose from, with Tesco’s Hudl and Google’s Nexus 7 two great examples at either end of the spectrum. And looking to make the whole process easier is Advent, with its Nvidia Tegra Note seven inch screen tablet, priced at just £129 from PC World.
The Nvidia Tegra Note certainly isn’t going to be winning any style awards, however it’s not exactly ugly, either. Constructed from solid plastic, sporting a soft-touch rear, the tablet feels great to hold, with dimensions coming in at 200 x 120 x 9.4 mm, weighing a healthy 320g.
At the front, you’ll find a 7- inch display, with front-facing audio speakers, with the top housing a micro-SD card slot and the volume rocker, as well as a slot for the stylus. The right side is where you’ll find the power button, along with the 3.5mm headphone jack and micro-usb port, with another speaker on the left.
When it came to testing the Tegra Note’s 1280×800 display, I was slightly disappointed – mainly because it’s just not as good as its competitors. In terms of pure resolution the Google’s Nexus 7, which features a 1920×200 resolution, has it licked, but then again you are paying a lot more for that model. The downside for me was that colours in videos often look washed out, and whites in particular have a sort of yellowish tang. On a more positive note, the touchscreen, I thought, was nice to use.
The Nvidia Tegra Note runs on the stock version of Android 4.2.2, with no interface from Nvidia’s end – a nice thing to see, in my opinion. What’s also great is the fact that an update to 4.3 has been promised, and shouldn’t take too long to become reality!
If you’ve used an Android tablet in the past, then you can expect a fairly similar experience in terms of how Android works and operates, with the ability to customise the Tegra Note’s multiple homescreens with folders and widgets. You also get full access to the Google Play Store for apps.
As well as countless Google apps already pre-installed, there’s also a few from Nvidia, including the TegraZone and DirectStylus which, just like Samsung’s S Pen app, gives you the ability to use the Note stylus to take down memos and doodle to your heart’s content – a great feature!
The tablet’s headline feature has to be its Tegra 4 CPU clocked at 1.8GHz, which is very fast and capable of handling both ordinary and demanding apps – which includes 1GB of RAM. There’s also a fifth core in the form of an ARM Cortex A15 processor, aimed at conserving overall battery life.
Unfortunately, the Tegra Note is only available in a 16GB version, although it’ll be ample for most people, especially if you only intend using it for browsing and downloading a few apps and games.
The battery life is also pretty impressive, lasting up to 10 hours for basic usage – such as browsing the web, accessing Facebook and playing a few games – which I mostly used the tablet for.
Tablets aren’t really made for replacing the ordinary digital camera, but the Tegra Note’s 5- megapixel snapper is actually great to use, with photos looking excellent. There’s also 1080p video recording which too deserves some merit.
As I’ve already said, there’s plenty of other good tablets out there to choose from, but given its very competitive price the Nvidia Tegra Note is definitely something worth considering if you’re looking for something a little faster, which retains a competitive price tag at the same time. Its only real weakness is a screen that lags behind those offered by pricier rivals. Everything else – processor, camera and build – makes it great value for money.
The plastic surgery app for kids is bad… but who put Apple and Google in charge of deciding what we can access?
The New Yorker published sexual harassment allegations against Les Moonves, chairman and CEO of CBS Corp., from several women Friday, July 27, 2018.
Of all the head-scratchers to emerge during #MeToo (“He did what? Into the what?”), one of the most bewildering, to me, is the “but he didn’t harass me” statement of support.
CBS Chairman and CEO Les Moonves is the latest subject of such statements, after a New Yorker story by Ronan Farrow last week spelled out allegations of harassment and intimidation against Moonves from six different women. The accusers describe forcible kissing and touching during meetings and threats of career retaliation.
On Monday, CBS announced Moonves will remain in his position while an outside counsel investigates the charges against him.
That’s a statement I understand: Acknowledge that someone in your corner is accused of reprehensible behavior. Make clear that, while you don’t know everything that happened or what will happen next, reprehensible behavior shouldn’t be tolerated — in any setting.
In the context of a trial or investigation, character witnesses provide context about the accused, helping establish patterns of behavior, or the absence of such patterns. They can help establish guilt or innocence and, if necessary, an appropriate punishment.
Outside of a formal investigation or trial, though, such statements do little more than shame the accusers for coming forward. They cast doubt on women who made dangerous, difficult decisions to speak out and, in so doing, make such decisions even more dangerous and difficult for other survivors.
Attempting to introduce doubt about a person’s credibility, simply because that person experienced something you did not, is small-minded and, frankly, a misunderstanding of human behavior.
We know that people who make bad, actionable choices also, in other times and in other settings, make good, non-actionable choices.
If an employee embezzles funds from her company, she doesn’t get to prove her innocence by pointing out all the funds she left unembezzled.
If an employee is caught stealing laptops from the fourth floor, he doesn’t get to clear his good name by pointing to the laptops he didn’t steal from the fifth floor.
We have a nasty habit, though, of reflexively disbelieving people who have different life experiences than ours. We’re quite adept at tuning out people’s stories when they don’t line up nicely with the stories we’ve been telling ourselves.
We ought to examine that.
We ought to listen when people tell us what they’ve been through — even if we don’t want to hear it, even if we don’t want to imagine it, even if we never saw it coming.
Only then can we have an honest conversation about forging a better path ahead.
TALLAHASSEE � Caps and gowns could have replaced football jerseys and helmets on Saturday.
The Florida State football team honored its 25 seniors on Saturday, with eight of those players already earning undergraduate degrees. Several more are on track to accomplish the same by the end of the semester.
Seniors who earned degrees are quarterback EJ Manuel, running back Debrale Smiley, place-kicker Dustin Hopkins, linebacker Vince Williams, deep snapper Dax Dellenbach and defensive linemen Everett Dawkins, Amp McCloud and Toshmon Stevens. They combined with three underclassmen to rank third in the nation in number of graduates.
They also are among a group of 16 scholarship seniors. Of those, five are fifth-year seniors: Manuel, Dawkins, Stevens, Williams and Moses McCray.
Fourth-year players include running backs Lonnie Pryor and Chris Thompson, wide receiver Rodney Smith and defensive end Brandon Jenkins. Dellenbach, Smiley, McCloud and fellow defensive end Tank Carradine were junior-college transfers. There also were nine walk-ons honored prior to the game, including Blountstown linebacker Cory Cox and Liberty County quarterback Ridge Read.
The seniors had a 36-15 record over four seasons entering Saturday�s game, which was the best four-year stretch by a senior class since 2003 (38-14). The fifth-year group has witnessed a 45-19 record to go along with four consecutive bowl game wins.
-- This marked the first time in 12 years FSU and Florida played while both were ranked in the Top 10, with the Gators sixth and Seminoles 10th. FSU held a 5-0-1 record over Florida when both teams were ranked in the Top 10 in games played in Tallahassee. FSU also was 2-0-1 while being the lower-ranked team.
-- Neither team was ranked in last season�s 21-7 FSU win. It broke a streak of 26 matchups with at least one team in the national Top 25.
-- Florida drove 54 yards before being held to a field goal on the game�s opening drive. The Gators provided good protection for quarterback Jeff Driskel, who wasn�t hurried or sacked on the march. Driskel was sacked on the Gators� next drive, however, on a play that also drew a declined holding penalty.
-- FSU had 36 yards on its first possession. The Seminoles came away with nothing when Matt Elam intercepted Manuel at the Florida 12.
-- Florida controlled the line of scrimmage early with 116 yards on its first two possessions, the last ending on a dropped pass on fourth-and-1 at the FSU 27 late in the first quarter. The Gators led 3-0 at the end of the first quarter despite nearly tripling FSU in total yards and holding the ball for 11:21.
-- FSU had held opponents to 25 percent on third-down conversions entering Saturday�s game. Florida converted 3 of 5 third downs in the first quarter and 2 of 5 in the second. Florida held the ball for more than 21 minutes in the first half and led 13-3.
-- The Seminoles gained 73 yards on their final five possessions of the first half. They also had three turnovers, two interceptions and a lost fumble on a kickoff return. FSU was able to gain some momentum with Hopkins� 50-yard field goal as time expired in the first half.
-- The halftime deficit was FSU�s largest of the season and biggest against Florida since trailing 24-0 in the 2009 game.
-- Smith extended his streak of games with at least one reception to 37 later in the second quarter. He is one game from tying E.G Green for the school�s all-time mark.
-- Werner picked up two sacks in the first half to move ahead of Carradine for the team lead. Both were credited with half a sack on a Driskel intentional grounding penalty early in the third quarter. Werner had 12 sacks at the time and Carradine 11.
-- FSU took its first lead of the game on a 1-yard run by Manuel a possession after Florida fumbled. The Seminoles scored 20 unanswered points to take a 20-13 lead at the end of the third quarter.
-- Florida was held to 45 yards in the third quarter until a Trey Burton run for 28. Florida amassed 192 yards in the first half. FSU had 109 yards and three points in the first half and 73 yards and 17 points in the third.
-- The Gators ended the string of Seminoles� points with a 32-yard field goal by Caleb Sturgis 1:23 into the fourth quarter for a 20-16 tally in favor of FSU.
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Andrew Rios’s seizures began when he was 5 months old and only got worse. At 18 months, when an epilepsy medication resulted in violent behavior, he was prescribed the antipsychotic Risperdal, a drug typically used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in adults, and rarely used for children as young as 5 years.
When Andrew screamed in his sleep and seemed to interact with people and objects that were not there, his frightened mother researched Risperdal and discovered that the drug was not approved, and had never even been studied, in children anywhere near as young as Andrew.
Cases like that of Andrew Rios, in which children age 2 or younger are prescribed psychiatric medications to address alarmingly violent or withdrawn behavior, are rising rapidly, data shows. Many doctors worry that these drugs, designed for adults and only warily accepted for certain school-age youngsters, are being used to treat children still in cribs despite no published research into their effectiveness and potential health risks for children so young.

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