Reconciliation needed after Ivory Coast clashes: UN

The clashes in west Ivory Coast show a vital need to pursue reconciliation efforts and restore the rule of law in the west African country, a United Nations official said Friday.

At least 11 people were killed and dozens of others injured in the July 20 attacks in Duekoue in an area long beset by ethnic tensions.

A large crowd from the town raided a camp for 5,000 displaced people on its outskirts, killing six, in reprisals for the death of five individuals allegedly killed by people from the camp.

The events "highlight the need for a solid reconciliation process, as well as a restoration of the rule of law and State authority across the country," Bert Koenders, the UN secretary-general's special representative in the Ivory Coast, said at a Friday press conference.

Western Ivory Coast has long been beset by ethnic tensions fueled by land disputes.

Most camp residents in the latest attack come from the Guere ethnic group, which has tense relations with the Malinke people, who made up most of the attackers, according to witnesses.

The northern Malinke are considered to be supporters of President Alassane Ouattara, while the Guere were held to back former president Laurent Gbagbo, who clung to power for about four months after losing an election in late 2010.

Koenders said 11 people had died and 56 were injured in the attacks, though the UN's peacekeeping force in the country -- known by its acronym UNOCI -- had earlier reported 12 deaths.

On Thursday, the UN Security Council renewed UNOCI's mandate but reduced its size in response to recommendations by the UN secretariat, which has been cutting spending on peacekeeping missions around the world.

But the council also said the operation should reinforce their field presence in parts of the country where civilians are at a greater risk, notably in the west.

Koenders said the identity of the attackers from the group of between 500 to 1,000 people raiding the camp was still under investigation.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/reconciliation-needed-ivory-coast-clashes-un-190159849.html

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Business Begging for Life

Even in this seemingly permanent recession, government is intensifying its regulation, taxation and harassment of regular business people. Business pages are filling up with pleas to government from real-life entrepreneurs. All these people are saying is give freedom a chance.

An example is Seth Gordon, the co-founder and ?TeaEO? of Honest Tea, which makes fabulous drinks that come in 16.9 ounce bottles. The tea sells very well but runs headlong into the latest absurdity of regulatory control from the New York mayor?s office.

Supposedly waging war on obesity, Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to ban for sale in eating establishments all drinks with more than 25 calories per 8 ounces. Honest Tea, founded to be a healthy alternative to soft drinks, misses this mark by 10 calories per serving.

This means that this low-calorie drink is a direct target of the police power of the state. It?s the new prohibition?against tea! Amazing.

This puts the company in a terrible position. They already had purchased several hundred thousand dollars worth of 16.9 ounce bottles, and it seems crazy to throw that away completely a adopt a smaller size, especially given that the regulation could be arbitrarily changed yet again.

In any case, as I read Gordon?s plea for the life of his company, the obvious occurred to me. Let?s say you reduce the bottle size. Thirsty people might end up buying two, thereby defeating the whole point of the regulation, and creating another supposed problem of trash proliferation. Given prevailing environmental consciousness, don?t large bottles make sense?

Now, to be sure, Godon is not sure what the right size of the bottle ought to be. But he is pretty sure that politicians don?t know the answer to that either. ?As a beverage marketer, we willingly submit to the unforgiving judgment of the market,? he writes in the Wall Street Journal. ?What we did not anticipate was an arbitrary decision to constrain consumer choice.?

There are about a million problems with this approach to controlling obesity. The notion that drinks are the problem is absurd, and, very strangely, the legislation itself seems to exempt milkshakes and liquor. Regardless, the problem of being too fat is as unique to individuals as are the solutions. You can?t force people to be thin, not in a developed economy where leisure is a default, the majority work at desk jobs, and high-calorie food is plentiful.

At the same time we have a nation-wide war against fat, there is another ongoing culture war against too thin as well. Anti-anorexia activists are busy harassing magazines that feature too many thin models, and denounce super-model agencies and beauty pageants for driving girls to absurd lengths to shave off the pounds.

How close are we to have an official nation-wide mandatory pound-per-height ideal that everyone but politicians must adhere to? I tell you, there are people out there who would push the button to make this happen if they could get away with it.

What makes me absolutely nuts is how elected officials today imagine that government should have any power over these matters at all. What does the idea of freedom mean if not the freedom to eat and drink and determine one?s own resulting physique? I would say that same about the pills we take, the plants we smoke, the books we read, and every other aspect of life that is not injurious to others.

A few days before this article on tea appeared, there was another sad article along the same lines, by Henry Juszkiewicz, the CEO of Gibson Guitar. Last year, his office was raided by the G men. The federal agents took 100 guitars, many boxes of raw materials, traumatized workers, and cost the company several millions in profits. They had no clue what was going on.

Why? The reason has to do with some environmental regulation on the use of woods that go into making quality fingerboards. The wood is from India, a regulation that says that the wood must be finished before being imported, whereas Gibson Guitar finishes the wood in the U.S. It further turns out that two different regulatory agencies disagree on precisely how to implement this legislation.

How can any company possibly keep with all the arbitrary laws and arbitrary enforcement? The Gibson company has been fighting hard for its reputation and trying its best to avoid the label of being a bad citizen. But at least it has been fighting!

Juszkiewicz wrote in the Wall Street Journal as follows:

In America alone, there are over 4,000 federal criminal offenses. Under the Lacey Act, for instance, citizens and business owners also need to know?and predict how the U.S. federal government will interpret?the laws of nearly 200 other countries on the globe as well. Many business owners have inadvertently broken obscure and highly technical foreign laws, landing them in prison for things like importing lobster tails in plastic rather than cardboard packaging (the violation of that Honduran law earned one man an eight-year prison sentence).

Plenty of other business face regulatory harassment on a daily basis but never go public with complaints, for fear of being targetted. It is impossible to find any physical product on the shelves that is not subject to thousands of regulatory mandates. There isn?t a service in the above-ground economy that is not similarly regulated.

In some ways, the adaptations that business undertakes ends up discrediting business itself. The new and improved refrigerator, oven, or lawnmower ends up being a degraded project that doesn?t work as well as the old one, but the business fears pointing out it out because it doesn?t want to face the consumer backlash. So they all continue to act as if life is normal.

But life is not normal in the one-time land of the freed. You can investigate this for yourself and observe that reality is exactly the opposite of what President Obama says. Far from making enterprise possible in the first place, the major result of the regulatory state is to establish barriers, introduce restrictions, add an element of fear, and move the rules around in a way that makes enterprise increasingly difficult.

U.S. business today faces a comprehensive and devastating central plan that is systematically driving economic dynamism to a grinding halt. One only needs to compare the innovation that takes place in the relatively less regulated digital world with that imposed upon the physical world that tea makers and guitar manufacturers inhabit.

If there is to be a new tea party, it shouldn?t be dumping tea but dumping the regulators who are trying to restrict our rights to drink it however we want it.

Regards,

Jeffrey Tucker

Executive editor, Laissez Faire Books

Source: http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/business-begging-for-life/

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Ed Schultz' Wife Wendy Diagnosed With Ovarian Cancer (VIDEO)

Ed Schultz made a devastating announcement on his radio show on Thursday.

The MSNBC host, who has been absent from his radio and TV show for the past week, announced that his wife Wendy was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Speaking to his guest radio host Mike Papantonio, Schultz said that he and his wife had been "through the wringer."

"It's been a real jolt to say the least," Schultz said. "It shakes you to your bones. But she's a tough girl, and she went through surgery yesterday. The doctors feel like they got all of it...but we've got a long way to go."

Schultz added that he's going to be gone from the air for some time. "Doing a radio and a TV show isn't exactly what I'm thinking about right now. I'm going to be with my wife thorugh all of this," Schultz said. He expressed his gratitude to his radio show team and everyone at MSNBC for their support.

"You lose track of time, you lose track of what you're doing, and everything changes," Schultz said while choking up.

"Ed Show" guest host Michael Eric Dyson repeated the announcement during Thursday's MSNBC show.

Click here to listen to Schultz's announcement.

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Listing Fails: The Best of the Worst in Real Estate This Week | AOL ...

As #houseporn fiends and real estate junkies, there's nothing we love more than poring through fabulous home listings -- except maybe sorting through the tragically un-fabulous ones. They'll definitely make you laugh, and some of them could make you cry. Every week, AOL Real Estate brings you the sorriest listings we could find on the Internet to show you what you should never do when posting your home online. We very appropriately call it #listingfail.

Tip No. 1: We love "CSI" -- on TV. But we don't want to actually live at a crime scene. And if a crime did happen in your home, this is a really bad way to make light of it. The "Caution: Do Not Cross" tape on this home in Dover, Del., might as well read, "Caution: Do Not Buy!"

We didn't think we had to say this, but if you have a body-shaped stain on your floor like this home in Raleigh, N.C., we strongly suggest you (a) scrub, sand and bleach that stain into oblivion before you even think about putting the home on the market, or (b) just skip pictures of that room altogether. Though we appreciate the "full disclosure" thing ... we guess. (Hat tip to our buddies at Curbed for this oldie-but-goodie listing).

Everyone wants to leave their mark on their home -- but, please, not like this. You might think this is funny, but potential buyers will more likely think it's terrifying. (Hat tip to Hooked on Houses for this nightmare).

Tip No. 2: Thanks to cinematic masterpieces like "Paranormal Activity 3" and "The Others," most of America harbors an irrational phobia of little children and old people lurking about in empty houses. So, please, tell Grandpa to steer clear of the camera when you're taking listing photos -- because he looks like he's haunting this Prattvile, Ala., home.

Five-year-old girls can be precious -- unless they look vaguely possessed. This little girl standing limply in the middle of a doorway, staring blankly into open space, reminds us of Cole Sear in "The Sixth Sense." We suggest that she save her creepy movie poses for when you're not taking pictures to sell your house. Little girls should be the stuff of sweet dreams, not nightmares. (Courtesy of Hooked on Houses).

OK, does this not look like a still shot from "Paranormal Activity"? Not everyone thinks a toddler standing transfixed in front of an eerie, darkened window is adorable. (Although the owners of this home in Rochester Hills, Mich., apparently do. "He's such a curious boy!" they'll tell you.)

That's nice. But we think he sees dead people.

Love photo-bomb listingfails? So do we. Check out our gallery below. Some pictures are creepy, and some are just ... awkward.


Tip No. 3: Fear of snakes is common and universal. It's a fact. So don't -- like the owners of this otherwise-pretty home in Kansas City, Mo. -- alienate potential buyers by posting pictures of poisonous reptiles in your home, much less lounging on your bed.

And, by the way, don't try to hide those scary animals behind your couch. Needless to say, alligators (taxidermied or not) simply aren't the friendliest-looking creatures. You know what? Let's just make an over-arching rule that disallows any pets from being in listing photos -- unless they come with the house! (Thanks to our friends at Nichols & Associates Real Estate for this listing photo of a home in Conroe, Texas.)

Well, OK, there may be some cases where pets in listing photos are cool (if they're the types of animals that won't maul people).

See the gallery below to discover why -- in many cases -- your pets, their litter boxes and taxidermied animals just shouldn't star in your listing.

Tip No. 4: Talk about #houseporn! Homeowners: there are some things potential buyers shouldn't see -- and don't want to see. Take extra care when shooting in a room with mirrors! (Thanks to our friends at Curbed for this titillating listing).

We simply have no words for the above picture, taken at a home in Houston. (Thanks again to Nichols & Associates Real Estate for sharing this, er, winner).

We politely suggest that you do what this homeowner in Dunkirk, N.Y., did not: Tell six-pack Jack to get off the couch while you take listing photos. Actually, maybe it's best to just get him off the couch forever.


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New study associates excess maternal iodine supplementation with congenital hypothyroidism

New study associates excess maternal iodine supplementation with congenital hypothyroidism

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Congenital hypothyroidism is thyroid hormone deficiency at birth that, if left untreated, can lead to neurocognitive impairments in infants and children. Although the World Health Organization recommends 200-300 ?g of iodine daily during pregnancy for normal fetal thyroid hormone production and neurocognitive development, the US Institute of Medicine considers 1,100 ?g to be the safe upper limit for daily ingestion. A case series scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics describes three infants who developed congenital hypothyroidism as a result of excess maternal iodine supplementation.

Kara Connelly, MD, and colleagues from Oregon Health & Science University, Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Boston University School of Medicine, State of Oregon Public Health Laboratory, and Randall Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel describe three infants with congenital hypothyroidism whose mothers had taken 12.5 mg of iodine daily, 11 times more than the safe upper limit, while pregnant and/or breastfeeding. Iodine is transferred from the mother to the infant through the placenta or breast milk. The three infants had blood iodine levels 10 times higher than healthy control infants (measured from newborn screening filter paper).

Excess iodine causes the thyroid to temporarily decrease function to protect against hyperthyroidism (Wolff-Chaikoff effect). Adults and older children are able to "escape" from this effect after several days of excess iodine to avoid hypothyroidism. However, the immature thyroid glands of fetuses and newborns have not developed this protective effect and are more susceptible to iodine-induced hypothyroidism. Although infants recover normal thyroid function after acute iodine exposure (e.g., a few days of topical iodine application), continuous excessive iodine exposure to the fetal and neonatal thyroid gland may cause long-term harmful effects on thyroid function.

Sources of iodine include nutritional supplements, prenatal vitamins, and seaweed (kelp). According to Dr. Connelly, "The use of iodine-containing supplements in pregnancy and while breastfeeding is recommended in the United States. However, these cases demonstrate the potential hazard of exceeding the safe upper limit for daily ingestion." Excess iodine ingestion from supplementation is often unrecognized because it is not routine practice to ask mothers of infants with congenital hypothyroidism about nutritional supplements taken during pregnancy. Pregnant or breastfeeding women should discuss the safe dosages of nutritional supplements with their doctors prior to including them in their daily regimen.

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PART FOURTEEN***************(FINAL)**************INTERNET

Overview

Some see mobile advertising as closely related to online or internet advertising, though its reach is far greater ? currently, most mobile advertising is targeted at mobile phones, that came estimably to a global total of 4.6 billion as of 2009. Notably computers, including desktops and laptops, are currently estimated at 1.1 billion globally.

It is probable that advertisers and media industry will increasingly take account of a bigger and fast-growing mobile market, though it remains at around 1% of global advertising spent. Mobile media is evolving rapidly and while mobile phones will continue to be the mainstay, it is not clear whether mobile phones based on cellular backhaul or smartphones based on WiFi hot spot or WiMAX hot zone will also strengthen. However, such is the emergence of this form of advertising, that there is now a dedicated global awards ceremony organised every year by Visiongain.

As mobile phones outnumber TV sets by over 3 to 1,?and PC based internet users by over 4 to 1, and the total laptop and desktop PC population by nearly 5 to 1,[citation needed] advertisers in many markets have recently rushed to this media.?In Spain 75% of mobile phone owners receive ads,[citation needed] in France 62%[citation needed] and in Japan 54%.[citation needed] More remarkably as mobile advertising matures, like in the most advanced markets, the user involvement also matures. In Japan today, already 44% of mobile phone owners click on ads they receive on their phones. Mobile advertising was worth 900 million dollars in Japan alone.?According to the research firm Berg Insight the global mobile advertising market that was estimated to ? 1 billion in 2008.Furthermore, Berg Insight forecasts the global mobile advertising market to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 43 percent to ? 8.7 billion in 2014[1].

Types of mobile ads

In some markets, this type of advertising is most commonly seen as a Mobile Web Banner (top of page) or Mobile Web Poster (bottom of page banner), while in others, it is dominated by SMS advertising (which has been estimated at over 90% of mobile marketing revenue worldwide). Other forms include MMS advertising, advertising within mobile games and mobile videos, during mobile TV receipt, full-screen interstitials, which appear while a requested item of mobile content or mobile web page is loading up, and audio advertisements that can take the form of a jingle before a voicemail recording, or an audio recording played while interacting with a telephone-based service such as movie ticketing or directory assistance.

The Mobile Marketing Association and the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) has published mobile advertising guidelines,[2][3] but it is difficult to keep such guidelines current in such a fast-developing area.

The effectiveness of a mobile media ad campaign can be measured in a variety of ways. The main measurements are impressions (views) and click-through rates. They are also sold to advertisers by views (Cost Per Impression) or by click-through (Cost Per Click). Additional measurements include conversion rates, such as click-to-call rates and other degrees of interactive measurement.

Mobile media can run on a mobile web page or within a mobile application, often referred to as in-App.[4].

Mobile Rich Media

In addition to standard mobile display banners, a growing trend is to include rich media execution within the banner ads. This includes banners that would expand to a larger size, offering advertisers a larger display to communicate their message. Games within the banner to make the experience more interactive or a video within the banner space.

There are limitations rich media on mobile because all of the coding must be done in HTML5, since the iOS does not support flash.

Handsets display and corresponding ad images

There are hundreds of handsets in the market and they differ by screen size and supported technologies (e.g. MMS, WAP 2.0). For color images, formats such as PNG, JPEG, GIF and BMP are typically supported, along with the monochrome WBMP format. The following gives an overview of various handset screen sizes and a recommended image size for each type.[5]

Handset

Approx Handset Screen Size (px W x H)

Example Handsets

Ad Unit

Ad Size (pixels)

X-Large 320 x 320 Palm Treo 700P, Nokia E70 X-Large 300 x 50
Large 240 x 320 Samsung MM-A900, LG VX-8500 Chocolate, Sony Ericsson W910i Large 216 x 36
Medium 176 x 208 Motorola RAZR, LG VX-8000, Motorola ROKR E1 Medium 168 x 28
Small 128 x 160 Motorola V195 Small 120 x 20

Source: Mobile Marketing Association[6]

History

Martin Cooper invented a portable handset in 1973, when he was a project manager at Motorola. It was almost three decades after the idea of cellular communications was introduced by Bell Laboratories. Two decades later, cellular phones made a commercial debut in the mass market in the early 1990s. In the early days of cellular handsets, phone functionality was limited to dialing, and voice input/output.

When the second generation of mobile telecoms (so-called 2G) was introduced in Finland by Radiolinja (now Elisa) on the GSM standard (now the world?s most common mobile technology with over 2 billion users) in 1991, the digital technology introduced data services. SMS text messaging was the first such service. The first person-to-person SMS text message was sent in Finland in December 1994. SMS (Short Message Service) gradually began to grow, becoming the largest data service by number of users in the world, currently with 74% of all mobile subscribers or 2.4 billion people active users of SMS in 2007.

One advantage of SMS is that while even in conference, users are able to send and receive brief messages unobtrusively, while enjoying privacy. Even in such environments as in a restaurant, caf?, bank, travel agency office, and so on, the users can enjoy some privacy by sending/receiving brief text messages in an unobtrusive way.

It would take six years from the launch of SMS until the first case of advertising would appear on this new data media channel, when a Finnish news provider offered free news headlines via SMS, sponsored by advertising. This led to rapid experimentation in mobile advertising and mobile marketing, and the world?s first conference to discuss mobile advertising was held in London in 2000, sponsored by the Wireless Marketing Association (which later merged into the Mobile Marketing Association). The first books to discuss mobile advertising were Ahonen?s M-Profits and Haig?s Mobile Marketing in 2002. Several major mobile operators around the world launched their own mobile advertising arms, like Aircross in South Korea, owned by the parents of SK Telecoms the biggest mobile operator, or like D2 Communications in Japan, the joint venture of Japan?s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo and Dentsu, Japan?s largest ad agency.

Mobile as media

This unobtrusive two-way communications caught the attention of media industry and advertisers as well as cellphone makers and telecom operators. Eventually, SMS became a new media ? called the ?seventh mass media channel? by several media and mobile experts ? and even more, it is a two-way mobile media, as opposed to one-way immobile media like radios, newspapers and TV. Besides, the immediacy of responsiveness in this two-way media is a new territory found for media industry and advertisers, who are eager to measure up market response immediately. Additionally, the possibility of fast delivery of the messages and the ubiquity of the technology (it does not require any additional functionality from the mobile phone, all devices available today are capable of receiving SMS), make it ideal for time- and location-sensitive advertising, such as customer loyalty offers (ex. shopping centres, large brand stores), SMS promotions of events, etc. To leverage this strength of SMS advertising, timely and reliable delivery of messages is paramount, which is guaranteed by some SMS gateway providers.

Mobile media has begun to draw more significant attention from media giants and advertising industry since the mid-2000s, based on a view that mobile media was to change the way advertisements were made, and that mobile devices can form a new media sector. Despite this, revenues are still a small fraction of the advertising industry as a whole but are most certainly on the rise. Informa reported that mobile advertising in 2007 was worth $2.2 billion. This is less than 0.5% of the approximately $450 billion global advertising industry.

Types of mobile advertising are expected to change rapidly. In other words, mobile technology will come up with a strong push for identifying newer and unheard-of mobile multimedia, with the result that subsequent media migration will greatly stimulate a consumer behavioral shift and establish a paradigm shift in mobile advertising. A major media migration is on, as desktop Internet evolves into mobile Internet. One typical case in point is Nielsen?s recent buyout of Telephia.

However it should be kept in mind that the rapid change in the technology used by mobile advertisers can also have adverse effect to the number of consumers being reached by the mobile advertisements, due to technical limitations of their mobile devices. Because of that, campaigns that aim to achieve wide response or are targeting lower income groups might be better off relying on older, more widespread mobile advertising technologies, such as SMS.

Viral marketing

As mobile is an interactive mass media similar to the internet, advertisers are eager to utilize and make use of viral marketing methods, by which one recipient of an advertisement on mobile, will forward that to a friend. This allows users to become part of the advertising experience. At the bare minimum mobile ads with viral abilities can become powerful interactive campaigns. At the extreme, they can become engagement marketing experiences. A key element of mobile marketing campaigns is the most influential member of any target audience or community, which is called the alpha user

Privacy concern

Advocates have raised the issue of privacy. Targeted mobile marketing requires customization of ad content to reach interested and relevant customers. To customize such behavioral personal data, user profiling, data mining and other behavior watch tools are employed, and privacy advocates warn that this may cause privacy infringement.[7]

Some mobile carriers offer freebie or cheaper rate plans in exchange for SMS or other mobile ads. However, mobile TV and mobile search may override this privacy concern, as soon as they are implemented on a full-blown basis. In a naive way to override privacy concern, however, User?s prior consent needs to be obtained through membership to join or User account to set up. Both mobile TV and mobile search may supersede the way of getting Users? prior consent through membership or User account because users are free to choose mobile TV channels or mobile search services on a voluntary basis.

Interactivity

Mobile devices aim to outgrow the domain of voice-intensive cellphones and to enter a new world of multimedia mobile devices, like laptops, PDA phones and smartphones. Unlike the conventional one-way media like TV, radio and newspaper, web media has enabled two-way traffic, thereby introducing a new phase of interactive advertising, regardless of whether static or mobile. This user-centric approach was noted at the 96th annual conference of Association of National Advertisers in 2006, which described ?a need to replace decades worth of top-down marketing tactics with bottom-up, grass-roots approaches?. Many use 2d bar codes to make offline print material more interactive with their mobile device. This has been proven to be successful in Japan, UK, Philippines and has been catching on in Northern America.

Mobile device issues

Coincidentally, however, mobile devices are encountering technological bottlenecks in terms of battery life, formats, and safety issue

In a broad sense, mobile devices are categorically broken down into portable and stationary equipment. Technically, mobile devices are categorized as below:

  • Handheld [portable]
  • Laptop, including ultraportable [portable]
  • Dashtop, including GPS navigation, satellite radio, and WiMAX-enabled dashtop mobile payment platforms[fixed on dashboards]

The battery life and safety issues will perhaps combine to eventually push mobile equipment?s inroads into vehicle dashtops. However, satellite-based GPS navigation and satellite radio may already hit a snag because of their part-time usage and technological hierarchy. Put differently, people want more functions than GPS navigation and satellite radios. The trend indicates an ongoing convergence into all-in-one dashtop mobile devices incorporating GPS navigators, satellite radios, MP3 players, mobile TV, mobile Internet, MVDER (vehicle black box), driving safety monitors, smartphones and even video games.

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Scientists: Heat wave hurts London air quality

(AP) ? British scientists say a heat wave has caused London's air quality to deteriorate, which could affect athletes' performances at the Olympics.

Scientists from King's College in London say pollution in the British capital has reached the highest level in six years. Recent sunshine and low winds are "exactly the conditions that can bring summertime smog to London," the environmental experts said in a statement Thursday.

They also launched a website that offers hourly air quality updates on a venue-by-venue and street-by-street basis.

London has the largest and most advanced air quality surveillance systems in Europe. Funded by the government, they are run by the King's College center, whose researchers combine air pollution science, toxicology and epidemiology to determine the impact of air pollution on health.

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Jenna Jameson pleads not guilty to DUI charges

WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) ? Former adult film star Jenna Jameson has pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence when she struck a light pole in Southern California.

Jameson was arrested on May 25 after her Range Rover struck the pole in Westminster, resulting in minor injuries. Prosecutors in Orange County say tests showed her blood-alcohol level was .05 percent above the state legal limit.

Jameson was charged with three misdemeanor counts, including driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, driving with a blood-alcohol level over the state legal limit and driving on a suspended license.

She entered her plea on Tuesday.

Jameson's attorney, John Marshall Kremer, told City News Service that his client declined to comment.

Jameson crossed into the mainstream after publishing a popular autobiography in 2004.

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