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- Despite a few elbows to the face, Tsering pushed through the broil of Tibetan worshippers and lifted her bawling two-year-old over the mad crush, briefly pressing the girl's forehead to a passing sacred scroll. |
Bejing - Chinese authorities have ruled out arson as the cause of a recent fire at Tibetan Buddhism's holiest temple, state media reported Thursday, adding an important Buddha statue had emerged "intact" from the blaze. |
Bejing - Streets around Lhasa's fire-hit Jokhang temple, one of the most sacred sites for Tibetan Buddhism, were reopened to pilgrims Sunday after a blaze broke out the night before, Chinese state media said, but the extent of damage remained unclear. |
Bejing - A fire broke out Saturday at one of the most sacred sites for Tibetan Buddhism, Lhasa's revered Jokhang temple, state media said, but no casualties were reported and the extent of the damage remained unclear. |
Bejing - Chinese authorities are staging a "takeover" of the world's largest institution for Tibetan Buddhist learning, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday, the latest move to bring religion under strict Communist control. |
New Delhi - A Tibetan student who self-immolated in an act of protest against Chinese rule in the Himalayan region has died in an Indian hospital, a doctor said Sunday. |
New Delhi - A Tibetan student has self-immolated in India after shouting "freedom", police said Saturday, injuring himself critically.The student set himself on fire on Friday at the Central University for Tibetan Studies in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh state. |
Tawang - The Dalai Lama on Saturday accused China of spreading false information about his trip to a monastery near India's border that drew protests from Beijing which claims the Himalayan area as its territory. |
Geneva - Swiss police on Sunday detained 32 people protesting conditions in Tibet as Chinese President Xi Jinping began a state visit in the wealthy Alpine nation. |
Bodhgaya - Thousands of mostly Tibetan pilgrims who travelled to India for a rare Buddhist ceremony held by the Dalai Lama have returned to China under pressure from Beijing, organisers said Wednesday. |
Kathmandu - The last king of the isolated Himalayan region of Upper Mustang died Friday in Kathmandu, eight years after he lost his royal title when the centuries-old Buddhist monarchy was abolished. |
Sydney Tibetan Youth Congress 'Stand for Tibet' flag. |
Martin Place, Sydney, view looking down towards the back of the candle lit Tibetan vigil. |
A wall painting showing yaks being herded by Tibetan family members. |
Mr Nigan Gotsang, President, NSW Tibetan Community Inc (far-left of picture), with demonstrators. |
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe says winning promotion "means the world to him" after seeing the Cherries seal their place in the Championship. |
And Howe, who returned to the club as manager in October, has now urged his side to win the League One title. |
The Cherries secured promotion to the second tier for only the second time, following their 1987 success. |
"No one is more pleased than me as a Bournemouth fan as a kid," Howe told BBC Radio Solent. "It means the world." |
Howe's side achieved promotion courtesy of a 3-1 victory over Carlisle and both Brentford and Sheffield United failing to win. It means they return to the second tier of English football for only the second time in their history - after they were champions of the old Third Division in 1987. |
Victory for Bournemouth on Saturday was also a club-record eighth successive victory. |
"I'm delighted for the Bournemouth people and the supporters who have stuck with this club through thick and thin," added Howe. |
"They have had a rough ride with financial problems and the club looking like it was on its knees." |
Bournemouth were in League One's relegation zone when Howe took over and the former Burnley boss admits he never believed he would achieve promotion so quickly. |
"It's gone better than I could have ever imagined," he said. |
"From the first training session I was very impressed. We set about trying to integrate the group, improve the team spirit and mentality and they deserve all the credit. It's been an unbelievable run. |
"I have to thank the fans because they have been patient and that really makes a difference. They have more then played their part and to achieve it at home and to see the supporters so happy means the world to me." |
The club can now win the title at Tranmere next weekend and Howe has urged his side to end a memorable season with some silverware. |
"We want to win the league and that has got to be our aim," he said. "We have to keep the lads on an even keel, they have been the most professional group I have worked with and I don't think that will change." |
The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) is set to start investigations into a suspected trend among some construction companies to claim undeserved transitional credits on building materials used in under-construction structures. |
The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) is set to start investigations into a suspected trend among some construction companies to claim undeserved transitional credits on building materials used in under-construction structures, prior to the roll-out of the goods and services tax (GST). Such illegal use of tran... |
During one such verification process, a commissionerate in Delhi found that a construction company had not only taken the transitional credit of inputs (bricks, TMT bars and rods, cement, etc.) held in stock on June 30 last year, but had also taken the credit of nearly Rs 60 lakh on inputs which had been consumed in it... |
Three people are in custody a day after police released a surveillance video showing a woman pull a gun from her underwear and open fire on a driver at a gas station in Detroit over the weekend. |
The video shows a woman and a man standing outside a Dodge Charger when a Pontiac Grand Prix pulls into the Mobil gas station around 4 a.m. Sunday. Words are exchanged with the driver and then the woman goes back to the Dodge Charger, appears to grab a gun and tuck it into her underwear. |
She then runs to the Grand Prix, appears to shout at the driver and then begins shooting at the open window. Police say the driver was hit several times. During the shooting, the Grand Prix jolts forward, hitting another man who was standing with the woman. |
The driver of the Grand Prix was rushed to the hospital where he suffered non-life threatening injuries, according to Click on Detroit. |
Three people, including the woman, were taken into custody thanks to the surveillance video, part of the city’s “Project Green Light Detroit” partnership with local gas stations, which led cops to the woman. |
Optus has revealed a limited consumer pilot project of femtocell devices made by Alcatel-Lucent, pipping rival Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) to market. |
The devices will be available from 13 retail Optus stores across Sydney, Wollongong, Brisbane, and the Gold and Sunshine Coasts. |
A spokesman told iTnews that although the availability of the devices was limited to the pilot areas, they would work anywhere within Optus’ coverage zones. |
Optus also said that “select” business customers would be invited to join a separate pilot; however, the spokesman was unable to shed further light on that aspect of the pilot program. |
Vodafone Australia said in October last year that its trials of femtocell technology were already underway. |
The company planned to roll out femtocells under the ‘Expand’ brand name to consumers at some time in 2011. |
“Vodafone has already commenced discussions with existing medium enterprise and large corporate customers for the deployment of femtocell technology,” a spokesman said. |
Alcatel-Lucent last week announced it was supplying femtocell devices to Vodafone New Zealand. Those devices were being rebranded ‘Sure Signal’. |
An international team of researchers has discovered a way that may make it possible to slow the progression of HIV virus in women who also suffer from genital herpes. The investigators found that treating such women with an inexpensive drug for genital herpes reduced the amount of AIDS virus in their blood. VOA's Jessi... |
Experts say that between 50 and 90 percent of people who are HIV-positive in Africa are also infected with a virus that causes genital herpes. According to the experts, genital herpes, which causes blister-like sores, acts as a gateway for the AIDS virus to enter the body. |
Researchers have also known for a while that when the two viruses interact, they cause people to get sick and die of AIDS sooner than if they were infected with HIV alone. |
Lawrence Corey is a leading AIDS researcher at the University of Washington Virology Division in Seattle. |
"Genital herpes increases the replication rate of HIV in the body," said Lawrence Corey. "And if you treat genital herpes with an antiviral that's directed just against the herpes simplex virus, and not against HIV, you actually can decrease the viral load or the amount of viral load that's circulating in the blood [pl... |
Corey, who did not participate in this study, says the drug valacylovir, usually used to treat gential herpes, was as effective in suppressing the levels of HIV in the blood as the old AIDS drug AZT. |
The study was conducted in Burkina Faso by a team of French, British and African researchers. It involved 140 women infected with both HIV and genital herpes who were not being treated for either disease. Half of the group received valacyclovir, the other half were given dummy pills for three months. |
At the end of the trial, there was a dramatic reduction in the amount of HIV in the blood and vaginal secretions of the women who took the valacyclovir, which is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline. |
The results of the study were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. |
In a commentary in the Journal, Corey says more research is needed to confirm the benefits of treating genital herpes in people with HIV. |
In the meantime, he says, clinicians ought to waste no time diagnosing and treating their HIV patients for this and other venereal diseases. |
"One of those clinical benefits might be to prolong the time that you are asymptomatic and prolong the time that you need antiretroviral therapy," he said. "Or for those people that are not doing that well on antiretroviral therapy, prolong the time that antiretroviral therapy is effective." |
The experts hope that simple strategies like treating genital herpes will help reduce the transmission of HIV in developing countries, where costly anti-AIDS drugs are out of reach for many people. |
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign bus from the Iowa caucuses went on sale last year for $15,000. I didn’t know who bought it, but it turns out a couple of Republican policy-criticizing artists called t.Rutt did. And they’ve turned it into an anti-Trump installation piece called T.RUMP. |
Trumpian lair. Why does that sound like a place where smiles and reason go to die? |
As it turns out, before the bus had anything to do with Trump, it was used primarily for bachelor parties. There’s a stripper pole inside and the tables in the front have been reinforced for table dancing, according to this interview with t.Rutt on VICE. |
And you know what? That’s an oddly fitting previous life for this bus. |
Trump Was Very Twitchy and Fidgety During the Debate! |
Let's Play What Car Is Trump Tweeting About? |
After five seasons spent surprising audiences with Breaking Bad, creator Vince Gilligan was charged with doing it one last time. Gilligan had to script an ending for the show, batting back the flood of emotions that surely comes when one severs long-lasting relationships that are both creative and personal, while also ... |
Did Vince Gilligan succeed? The words "satisfied" and "fitting" have been popping up all over the web and more than 70% of respondents in our poll say that they "Loved" the finale, so the consensus seems to say that he did. But the long road to the end of Breaking Bad surely included a few detours, and in the aftermath... |
Here's Gilligan in an interview with EW on some of those alternatives and why the Breaking Bad creative team ultimately decided on something somewhat redemptive and very final for Walter White. |
“We didn’t feel an absolute need for Walt to expire at the end of the show. Our gut told us it was right. As the writers and I worked through all these different possibilities, it felt right, but I don’t think it was a necessity for us. |
"There was a version we kicked around where Walt is the only one who survives, and he’s standing among the wreckage and his whole family is destroyed. That would be a very powerful ending, but very much a kick-in-the-teeth kind of ending for the viewers. We talked about a version where Jesse kills Walt. We talked about... |
"There’s no right or wrong way to do this job - it’s just a matter of: You get as many smart people around you as possible in the writers room, and I was very lucky to have that. And when our gut told us we had it, we wrote it, and I guess our gut told us that it would feel satisfying for Walt to at least begin to make... |
When discussing why the writers ultimately decided to free Jesse from murdering his former partner, Gilligan seemed as if he felt genuinely bad for what Aaron Paul's character had been subjected to over the show's run. |
“We talked about Jesse taking Walt up on his offer to kill him or Walt turning around to find Jesse had a gun on him. We talked about every permutation we could conceive of, and we went the way we went ultimately because the bloodlust had been satiated prior to that moment by seeing Jesse throttle Todd (Jesse Plemons) ... |
It's interesting to hear Gilligan speak about Jesse Pinkman's character with detachment, as if he wasn't the one who ran Jesse through the ringer for all these years, but it's more interesting to hear Gilligan reference viewer concerns while discussing the finale and its construction. |
Not to kick up dust, but there are several high profile dramas that closed with decidedly less fan-friendly episodes than Breaking Bad (most notably, Lost and The Sopranos), but while those episodes are often regarded as less than satisfying, they were surprising and did manage to push audiences to passionately debate ... |
Those finales took a risk that Breaking Bad avoided as Gilligan snipped and tied off every loose thread, but it's not clear whether that is a good thing or a bad thing. What it is, though, is surprising, considering the kind of risks and shocks that defined Breaking Bad throughout a run that seemed to answer to no one ... |
Did Walter White - who got to give money to his family, attain a small amount of closure, and rub out his enemies - get an unearned happy ending? Perhaps, but it would be hard to argue that what the fans got was unearned. It's just unclear if it was the best ending that they could have gotten. |
Within GoPro's third-quarter earnings, which sent investors running for the exits, the action camera company also reported a staggering 147% year-over-year rise in inventory -- more than triple its revenue growth for the quarter. Considering its fourth-quarter guidance, which captures the crucial holiday season, c... |
GPRO Inventories (Quarterly) data by YCharts. |
After all, the combination of declining sales and expanding inventories raises a red flag that GoPro may get stuck with excessive inventory that it can't sell before its next product refresh. If this were to occur, it could result in inventory writedowns and negatively impact gross profits -- not an ideal situatio... |
However, after digging into the details, GoPro doesn't appear to be remotely close to having a serious inventory problem on its hands. |
With 95% of GoPro's inventory sitting in a warehouse ready to be shipped out, it certainly looks like GoPro could be at risk of having an inventory problem, because there's typically more risk associated with the value of finished goods inventory than its components. |
Before sounding the alarms, it's essential to put GoPro's inventory into context. The first thing to consider is how quickly GoPro could turn over its inventory on hand relative to its expected sales. For instance, in the upcoming fourth quarter, GoPro expects to generate between $500 million and $550 million... |
The second thing to consider is what management said about its inventory during the earnings call. CFO Jack Lazar highlighted that GoPro didn't have enough inventory in its distribution channel going into the holiday season last year and this year's level is more normalized. Lazar also noted that over $80 mil... |
Finally, GoPro's 2014 annual report discloses that GoPro's inventory is held at the lesser of cost or market value, meaning the company takes a conservative approach to how it values inventory on its books, which would likely lower the severity of an inventory writedown in the event that one occurred. |
Dig deeperAlthough GoPro's rapid inventory expansion raises a red flag, closer examination of how quickly its inventory is being turned over, the dynamics of its supply chain, and how inventory is being valued reveals the company doesn't likely have a looming inventory problem. |
Ultimately, a headline red flag isn't always a sign of trouble -- it's an invitation to dig deeper. |
The article GoPro Inc.'s Inventory Skyrockets 147% -- but That Shouldn't Scare You originally appeared on Fool.com. |
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There has been much debate recently regarding the interpretation of this amendment. Below are varying points of views from TexasGOPVote bloggers. |
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A Turkish man who developed amnesia after falling and hitting his head on a sidewalk in 2014 cannot remember anything about his past life. But his wife enjoys the new habits he developed, such as cooking and cleaning the house. |
Serdar Mete, a 38-year-old pharmaceutical representative, was hospitalized after falling twice in the district of Derince in Turkey’s northwestern province of Kocaeli. Bumping his head on the side of the pavement, he was unable to remember his family members, home address and job. |
“I could not recognize my wife of five years. She started shaking me, saying ‘How dare you don’t know me,’ but the doctors warned her that I could have been suffering a concussion. I stayed in hospital for about two-and-a-half months,” Mete said. |
“I lost 34 years in two seconds,” he added, saying that he started his new life by learning how to use a phone, computer and search engines on the internet. |
A valley is defined as an extensive lowland between uplands, often with a river or stream running through it. Mountains dominate the landscape of southern Germany, while hilly terrain covers much of the central portion of the country, meaning that these regions include numerous valleys. Because of its marine climate wi... |
The Rhine is Germany’s principal river and longest waterway, as well the most well-known river valley in the country. The portion of this valley between Mainz and Koblenz is particularly scenic, spurring UNESCO to designate it a World Heritage site. Imposing castles, lush vineyards and historic villages dot the otherwi... |
Perhaps the second most famous valley in the country, the Mosel Valley is also celebrated for its charming beauty. Beginning in France, where it is known as the Moselle, the river carves out a meandering path until it joins the Rhine at Koblenz. And like the Rhine Valley, the Mosel Valley is speckled with castles and v... |
Europe’s longest river, the Danube, begins in the uplands of southern Germany, where it creates a picturesque valley bordering limestone hills and the edge of the Bavarian Forest. This valley, known in German as the Donautal, attracts hikers, cyclers and climbers, and also features a large nature reservation. |
Near the border with Poland and Czech Republic, the Elbe River flows from southeast to northwest, creating a river valley that includes deep gorges. An especially scenic portion of this valley in the city of Dresden once held a spot on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, but was removed from the list because of the construct... |
Translated into English as the “Valley of Hell,” this 5.5-mile stretch in the Black Forest was named as such because of the 2,000-foot-high crags that enclose it, rendering the trip across it insufferable in centuries past. In modern times, a road and railway make journeying across the Hollental far more pleasant. Trav... |
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