Carew keeps Villa on march but Wolves see up for fight

A Champions" League place stays inside of Aston Villas learn but Martin O"Neills group will have to do improved than this if they are to take it. Only an 82nd-minute equaliser discovered a point opposite a volatile Wolverhampton Wanderers side who are display they have what it takes to secure Premier League survival.

O"Neill had warned prior to the compare that there are no easy games in the tip moody and Wolves valid his point. Having been comprehensively outplayed as Villa done a drifting start, Mick McCarthys group were well value their point in the end.

Villa contingency idea that Gabriel Agbonlahor, who has a feet injury, will lapse soon. Without their heading scorers pace, as well most of the home sides aggressive fool around was one-dimensional. Ashley Young, who contingency have tender the examination Fabio Capello with his cunning and perspicacious crosses, was regularly a threat, but when he was not concerned Villa as well mostly resorted to suppositional high balls directed at the heads of John Carew and Emile Heskey.

The home crowds disappointment was evident, but O"Neill stressed that his group sojourn dominant in the League this year. "Not each side have played in the Carling Cup final, are in the semi-finals of the FA Cup and are still battling for fourth place in the League with 9 games to go," he said. For the initial twenty minutes, Villa in jeopardy to run riot. Exploiting gaps as far-reaching as the Aston Expressway in between Wolves" counterclaim and midfield, they mounted a period of unconditional attacks. Stephen Warnock usually unsuccessful to get on the finish of Carews shot opposite the face of idea and usually a well timed plunge in to by Jody Craddock denied James Milner.

A idea was inevitable, though there was an component of great happening about it. Young danced past Ronald Zubar and crossed to Carew, who was marginally offside but incited the round in to the net from 6 yards. Villa were in sum command, but it was their opponents who appeared galvanised by the goal. Wolves tightened up in midfield and David Jones, personification usually at the behind of Kevin Doyle, the sole striker, proposed opening up the home defence.

After twenty-two minutes, Zubar got his feet to Jones" beautifully flighted free-kick and knocked it in to the trail of Craddock, who scored from close range. Fifteen mins later, Jones combined space for himself on the corner of the chastisement area, expelled Stephen Ward on the left and raced in to the chastisement area to encounter his cross. Milner kick him to it but could usually gash the round in to his own net.

Stewart Downing neglected an event to equalize prior to the break, his downward header from Youngs cranky bouncing in to the territory and over the bar. Carew and Heskey both went close as the home sides vigour mounted in the second half and for the last twenty mins Villa played with usually 3 men at the behind as Richard Dunne, who was struggling with an Achilles problem, was taken off.

O"Neills substitutions undone a little of the Villa faithful, who called in vain for Nathan Delfouneso to speak up a little gait in to the attack, but when the equaliser came after 81 mins it was the dual big strikers who played consequential roles. Carew headed Brad Friedels upfield punt in to the trail of Heskey, who in spin fed Steve Sidwell. When the midfielder played the round forward, Carew, who appeared usually onside, deflected it in to the net.

McCarthy described it as "a fanciful point and a superb performance" by Wolves, whilst O"Neill was similarly gratified with his teams effort. "The opening twenty-five mins was a happiness to watch," he said. "Ashley Young was mesmerising, as I thought he was for the total game. We got a idea in front but we didnt hold the lead for prolonged sufficient and let Wolves behind in the game, nonetheless I was gay with the approach we fought behind at the end."

Attendance: 37,562

Referee: Mark Clattenburg

Man of the match: Young

Match rating: 8/10

Campaign to finish sale of electronic butterfly repellents

Dr. Bart Knols, editor of the advocacy website MalariaWorld, detected that electronic repellents were being sole by KLM on a new moody he made. The broadside claimed that the "device emits a low magnitude receptive to advice that is intolerable to mosquitoes" and Knols, meaningful that there is justification that these receptive to advice emitting inclination don"t work and could give travellers the fake sense that they were stable opposite mosquitoes and in spin malaria, took action.

Armed with the Cochrane Systematic Review, constructed by the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group and initial published in 2007, that obviously demonstrates that electronic repellents do not work, Knols approached KLM with the successive certain outcome that the airline will repel these electronic repellents from sale from Mar 2010 onwards. Knols has given approached British Airways and Singapore Airlines who additionally sell the electronic repellents and is watchful for a response.

The Cochrane examination rigorously examines all relevant, arguable research, and these reviews are recognized as being authoritative, state-of-the-art summaries.

These electronic repellents should not be manufactured, advertised or used to forestall butterfly bites and malaria, pronounced co-author of the examination Professor Paul Garner. Along with Dr. Ali Enayati from the Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences and Professor Hemingway Director of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, they delicately analysed 10 studies and found there was positively no interpretation to await their use. Professor Garner went on to contend These inclination interest to business but they simply don"t work. They don"t repel mosquitoes and they don"t forestall people removing bitten.

To review Bart Knols" blog on MalariaWorld and follow this story, see: http://www.malariaworld.org/blog/klm-airline-acts-responsibly

Heaviest Element Officially Named Copernicium LiveScience

The heaviest component nonetheless well known is right away strictly named"Copernicium," after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.

Copernicum has the atomic series 112 this series denotesthe series of protons in the iota of an atom.It is 277 times heavier than hydrogen, creation it the heaviest elementofficially important by general kinship for chemistry IUPAC.

The namefor the component was referred to by the group that detected it, led by SigurdHofmann at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum f�r Schwerionenforschung in Germany.

The referred to name "Copernicium" in respect of NicolausCopernicus (1473-1543) follows the convention of fixing containing alkali elementsafter deserved scientists. IUPAC strictly voiced the publicity of the newelements name on Feb. 19, Nicolaus Copernicus birthday. Copernicus work inthe margin of astronomy is the basement for the modern, heliocentric universe view,which states that the Sun is the core of the solar complement with the Earth andall the alternative planets (in the solar system) encircling around it.

On the continual list of elements, Copernicium will have thesymbol "Cn." The group had creatively referred to "Cp" as theelements symbol, but since this shortening has alternative uses in scholarship (suchas a materials specific heat), the group concluded to "Cn."

Other elements declared for important scientists include:Einsteinium (for Albert Einstein), Fermium (for chief physicist Enrico Fermi),and Curium (after Marie Curie and her father Pierre).

Hofmann and his group were means to furnish the component Coperniciumat GSI for the initial time on Feb. 9, 1996. Using the 100-meter prolonged GSIaccelerator (an atom smasher), they dismissed zinc ions onto a lead foil. Thefusion of the atomic nuclei of the dual elements constructed an atom of the newelement 112. But the atom was usually fast for a fragment of a second.

Further eccentric experiments reliable the find ofthe element. Last year, IUPAC strictly important the life of element112, concurred the GSI teams find and invited them to introduce a name.

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Signed Wind in the Willows duplicate sole for $48800

March 23, 2010, 1:00 PM EST

LONDON (AP) -- A sealed duplicate of the classical children"s book "The Wind In The Willows" has been sole at auction in London for 32,400 pounds ($48,794) — around 10 times the estimated value.

The book contains a loyalty from writer Kenneth Grahame to the daughter of English writer Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who is pronounced to have desirous the impression of Ratty.

The marker inside reads: "To Foy Felicia Quiller Couch from her sexual crony Kenneth Grahame, Oct. 1908."

Grahame mostly stayed at Sir Arthur"s home, where he found the impulse for the children"s tale.

Auction residence Bonhams pronounced Tuesday the book captivated extreme bidding. Bonhams had approaching it to fetch in between 3,000 pounds to 5,000 pounds.

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Specialty might disposition doctors prostate cancer recommendation

Anne Harding Mon Mar 8, 2010 4:42pm EST

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research suggests that the type of specialist a prostate cancer patient sees -- rather than the patient"s own preference -- may determine the treatment he receives.

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This is problematic, the study"s authors say, because none of the options now available for treating localized prostate cancer have been shown to be any better than the others.

"The different treatments for prostate cancer...entail different side effects, different recovery profiles, and they require different time commitments," Dr. Thomas L. Jang of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey in New Brunswick, one of the study"s authors, told Reuters Health. For this reason, he and his colleagues say, it should be the patient"s preferences -- rather than the physician"s specialty -- that guides treatment decisions.

Current options available for treating prostate cancer that has not spread include watchful waiting, in which a patient receives no treatment but is monitored closely; hormone therapy; radiation therapy; or surgery to remove the prostate. Radiation and surgery both carry the risk of urinary incontinence and impotence; hormone therapy can cause hot flashes, breast tenderness, and loss of sex drive; while watchful waiting may lead to anxiety in men who fear their cancer will spread.

Surveys have suggested that specialists are more likely to recommend the type of treatment they provide; for example, radiation oncologists prefer radiation therapy, while urologists choose surgery.

To investigate whether the type of physician a prostate cancer saw would actually influence the type of treatment he got, Jang and his team looked at Medicare data on more than 85,000 men 65 and older diagnosed between 1994 and 2002 with localized prostate cancer. Within nine months of diagnosis, 21 percent had undergone prostate removal; 42 percent had radiation; 17 percent had hormone therapy; and 20 percent watchful waiting. Jang conducted the study, which is published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, while at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Half of the men had only seen a urologist, while 44 percent had seen a radiation oncologist and a urologist, 3 percent had seen a urologist and a medical oncologist, and 3 percent had seen all three specialists.

One-third of the men who had only seen a urologist underwent prostate surgery, and surgery was the most common treatment for the men who were 65 to 74 years old and only saw a urologist. However, among men of any age who saw a radiation oncologist as well as a urologist, radiation therapy was the most common treatment; 83 percent of these men received radiation therapy.

And men who had been seen by a urologist and a medical oncologist, or a urologist only, were more likely to receive watchful waiting or hormone therapy than men who had seen both urologists and radiation oncologists.

Only about one in five men saw their primary care physician after their diagnosis of prostate cancer and before they received treatment (or within nine months of diagnosis). Nearly 60 percent of these men received watchful waiting, compared to 7 percent of men who hadn"t seen their primary care doctor.

When the researchers looked at individual urologists who had cared for at least 10 of the study participants, they found sharp doctor-to-doctor differences in whether a patient was referred to a radiation oncologists; some urologists frequently made these referrals, while others did so much less often.

Men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer face "a lot of confusion," Jang noted, because there are so many treatment options available. "The physician who is providing the counseling for these patients should go to great lengths to provide a balanced perspective, an unbiased perspective, on these treatment options."

And if patients don"t feel they are getting unbiased advice, Jang added, they should get a second opinion. "It"s really our responsibility to provide these men with every single available treatment option."

SOURCE: Archives of Internal Medicine, March 8, 2010.

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Greece mandates banks for 10-year down payment

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LONDON, March 4 (Reuters) - Greece has mandated banks tosell a syndicated 10-year euro benchmark bond, a bank involvedin the deal said on Thursday.

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Price guidance was in the area of mid-swaps plus 310 basispoints. The bond was mandated to Barcap, HSBC, Nomura, NBG andPiraeus Bank.

The market has been expecting a sale of around 5 billioneuros. The sale will be a test of market confidence in Greeceafter the government on Wednesday announced 4.8 billion euros($6.5 billion) of austerity measures to cut its budget deficit.[ID:nLDE6220NA]

Greece needs to refinance about 20 billion euros of debtmaturing in April and May, and officials previously said itsfunding needs were met until mid-March.

It is Greece"s second bond issue in the euro zone debtmarket this year. In late January it raised 8 billion euros withthe sale of new, 5-year benchmark bonds.

It paid a hefty premium for that deal of 350 basis pointsover mid-swaps, or 381 basis points over German bunds, with a6.1 percent coupon. Greece received investor orders of about 25billion euros for that bond. (Reporting by Alex Chambers; Writing by Andrew Torchia; Editingby Toby Chopra) (andrew.torchia@thomsonreuters.com; +44 (0) 207 542 9782))

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How can the conform industry contend my 6ft distance 8 daughter is as well fat to be a model?

Rejected: Willowy 17-year-old Madeline Jones

Last weekend it looked as though London Fashion Week might finally be waking up to what real women want when designer Mark Fast sent plus-size models down the runway.

Had the fashion world learnt its lesson - that most of us cannot identify with hollow-cheeked, twiglet-legged, coat hanger models? Had it hell.

How do I know? Because our family has first-hand experience of the fashion world"s dogged obsession with "thin" - not slim, not healthy but the sort of bone protruding skinniness that makes people turn around and do a second take.

It should have been a highlight of our 17-year-old daughter Madeline"s young life.

Amid choruses of car horns and wolf whistles from passers-by, this stunning 6ft tall schoolgirl, a whisker under 9st, went bouncing into her modelling agency, Profile in Covent Garden, buzzing at the prospect of the string of castings she was due to attend for her first London Fashion Week, with several of the agency"s other teenage new faces.

The girls, all tall, leggy and faun-like, slipped on their high platform shoes and body-hugging mini-dresses (regulation wear for castings) and began a catwalk training session, coached by two experienced Profile models and Madeline"s cheerful, motherly model booker Sam Cookson.

Madeline was on a high after a shoot at the weekend in London with a cuttingedge Welsh photographer, Grant Thomas, and influential stylist Debbie Lerner. The eye-popping images had been posted on his website and brought more offers of work, boosting our once painfully shy teenager"s confidence.

So, as she strutted down the Profile catwalk, hips forward, shoulders back, listening intently as she was taught to hold the pose on the turn, Madeline looked to my untutored eye to be a natural.

She was rangy and graceful after years of netball training, with endless legs and a hint of haughtiness (which was actually a slight frown of concentration).

Next moment, however, an anxious-looking Sam beckoned her into a side room. Out of sight of the other girls, she talked quietly, a consoling arm round Madeline"s slight shoulders. Her face fell. I could tell she was trying desperately not to cry and I knew something was wrong.

Sally Jones with her daughter Madeline. Sally is incredulous that London Fashion Week deemed Madeline too overweight to model for them

"It"s no good," Sam was saying. "There"s absolutely no point in you doing London Fashion Week. You"re gorgeous, you"ve got the "wow" factor and photographers love you, but you"ve put on weight since the summer.

"It"s quite natural - most 16 and 17-year-olds" weight fluctuates because of hormonal changes - but if you"re an inch over size 8, you"ll be torn to shreds. Those queeny designers and their scouts would make your life hell and it could destroy your confidence."

Seeing my crest-fallen daughter, another model stepped in to try to comfort her. "The fashion world is awful," she said. "They all demand size zero models - what they really want is surrogate boys. It"s not just the camp male designers. Some of the women are just as hard.

"However young a girl is, they don"t just say "Thanks but no thanks" if they don"t want to use you. They"re incredibly insulting and personal and can make even very promising models feel utterly worthless."

Madeline was devastated when she heard the verdict on her weight from the fashion industry

Madeline fat? This had to be a joke. But for her sake I smiled through clenched teeth and said brightly that it was probably for the best. I tried to be calm, hiding how shocked and incredulous I felt and how gutted that our bright, high-achieving girl had suffered this devastating blow to her confidence.

Only I knew just how much courage it took for Madeline to force a wonky smile and shout encouragingly "Good luck!" as her fellow-hopefuls trooped off to the first casting.

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We swiftly scooped up her carefully ironed outfits, portfolio and brand new eyeliner and I whisked her off to Zara for some expensive but effective retail therapy and a restorative Starbucks - skinny caramel coffee lite, of course.

"I"m watching my weight, Mum, remember," she smiled tremulously.

Once home, the tears came. She wept bitterly until I told her that to us she was the most beautiful girl in the world and, with her gang of giggly mates, sporting prowess and clutch of university offers, had far more going for her than most of the dead-eyed clothes horses stilting up and down the catwalks.

Waking up: Designer Mark Fast sent plus-size models down the runway during London Fashion Week

"I felt totally gutted when Sam told me I was too fat," she said later. "I"d been so excited at the thought of meeting all those big designers. Sam was really sweet about it - when she took me aside she must have known I"d be devastated - she knows the fashion world inside out.

"I know she was trying to protect me from some of the humiliating stuff that designers might say - but I couldn"t believe I was fat.

"I eat really carefully, I exercise a lot and, if anything, on a normal criterion, I"m probably underweight."

Madeline isn"t the only girl to fall foul of the fashion industry. Canadian super model and Vogue covergirl Coco Rocha made an impassioned rant against the fashion mafia who astoundingly, given her elegant 7st 7lb frame, told her to lose yet more weight to win prestigious catwalk work at New York Fashion Week.

It was a rare, brave and probably foolhardy stance. Most models would have kept their mouths shut for fear of never working again.

Victoria Beckham recently insisted designers should be allowed to use size zero models

The fashion world is incestuous, snippy and defensive, as demonstrated by Victoria Beckham"s vapid insistence designers should have the right to favour waif-like lollipop-head anorexics if they think their clothes look better on them.

Madeline recovered and made light of the bonkers fashion world, while her girlfriends joked they"d love to be as "fat" as her. But she couldn"t understand how a leading photographer could predict a great future for her one day, only to have her hopes dashed a few days later by people in the same business.

It was a far cry from the excitement of last year when, despite my warnings about drug addiction and eating disorders, she decided to try modelling and sent out blurry snaps to big-name London agencies.

"Not a chance," I thought. "Fashion is awash with gorgeous no-hopers - and could she handle rejection?"

With my media background at the BBC, I was amazed and anxious when, after several rejections, Profile took her on, as she prepared for AS levels at her academic school, King Edward"s High in Birmingham. "Keep revising, darling. Even top models need A-levels - Lily Cole"s got into Cambridge," I said.

She compiled a portfolio of different looks, after several test shoots, usually staged at dawn in the grottier parts of East London.

Then came the red-letter day in April when Sam rang with details of her first paid shoot, for upandcoming designer Star Hu"s debut solo collection - a riot of sculptural, show-stopping frocks.

During the ten-hour session, while the make-up artist slapped on dramatic smoky eye-shadow, I tested Madeline on her Russian history and handed round Danish pastries. I probably should have chosen carrot sticks!

To Madeline"s delight, the shots appeared on Star"s website and catalogue. More work followed and she was spotted by well-known agency Adage in Birmingham, which represents her in the Midlands.

Madeline"s experience seems to sum up what is wrong with events like Fashion Week and the size zero tyranny of the industry. The sense of euphoria after a good shoot is addictive but the pain of such public and personal rejection, even when delivered with compassion, is utterly crushing.

"Most girls my age have hang-ups about their bodies, however thin they are," Madeline says, "and for someone without the support and chances that I have, being told they were too fat could easily tip them into anorexia."

How bizarre and depressing that a young girl"s sense of self-worth should be based on whether or not she can achieve freakishly skinny 34in hips and the coveted pipe-cleaner thighs, regardless of how sparky, slender and beautiful she is.