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BBC Live Golf feed 2114: The England football team visited an orphanage in Soweto today. "It was great to be able to put a smile on the faces of people without hope," said Mbutto, aged six.

Well done NZ. Show the Aussies's how to deal with European teams : ) What I liked was the NZers sent on a full-time banker who plays semi-professionally. Now there's a story for his grandchildren.

I have to admit that I am very impressed by the 100% increase shown in this experiment. This item may not be suitable for home viewing : ) Love ballad leaves women more open to a date June 18, 2010 If you're having trouble getting a date, French researchers suggest that picking the right soundtrack could improve the odds. Women were more prepared to give their number to an 'average' young man after listening to romantic background music, according to research that appears today in the journal Psychology of Music. There's plenty of research indicating that the media affects our behaviour. Violent video games or music with aggressive lyrics increase the likelihood of aggressive behaviour, thoughts and feelings - but do romantic songs have any effect? This question prompted researchers Nicolas Guéguen and Céline Jacob from the Université de Bretagne-Sud along with Lubomir Lamy from Université de Paris-Sud to test the power of romantic lyrics on 18-20 year old single females. And it turns out that at least one romantic love song did make a difference. Guéguen and Jacob were part of a research team that had already shown how romantic music played in a flower shop led to male customers spending more money. This time the researchers used questionnaires to pinpoint agreed-upon neutral and romantic songs. They chose 'Je l'aime à mourir', a well-known love song by French songwriter Francis Cabrel, and the neutral song 'L'heure du thé', by Vincent Delerm. A group of young women separate from the main study rated 12 young male volunteers for attractiveness, and the researchers picked the one rated closest to 'average' to help with the experiment. The researchers then set up a scenario where the 87 females each spent time in a waiting room with background music playing, before moving to a different room where the experimenter instructed her to discuss the difference between two food products with the young man. Once the experimenter returned, she asked them to wait for a few moments alone, and this gave the 'average' male a chance to use his standard chat up line: "My name is Antoine, as you know, I think you are very nice and I was wondering if you would give me your phone number. I'll phone you later and we can have a drink together somewhere next week.' The love song in the waiting room almost doubled Antoine's chances of getting a woman's number - 52% of participants responded to his advances under the influence of Francis Cabrel, whereas only 28% of those who had heard the 'neutral' song by Vincent Delerm offered their details. "Our results confirm that the effect of exposure to media content is not limited to violence and could have the potential to influence a high spectrum of behaviour," says Guéguen. "The results are interesting for scientists who work on the effect of background music on individuals' behaviour." The results also add weight to a general learning model proposed by Buckley and Anderson in 2006 to explain the effect of media exposure. Their model states that media exposure in general, and not only aggressive or violent media, affects individuals' internal states, which explains why prosocial media fosters prosocial outcomes. Why did the music have this effect? It may be that, as shown in earlier research, the music induced positive affect (in psychological terms, affect is the experience of feeling or emotion). Positive affect is associated with being more receptive to courtship requests. Alternatively, the romantic content of the song may have acted as a prime that then led to displays of behaviour associated with that prime. In either case, further research is needed before the researchers will commit to wider generalisations on the targeted use of love songs. But if you're a hopeful single, awareness of the background music certainly won't do any harm. More information: Nicolas Guéguen, Céline Jacob and Lubomir Lamy, 'Love is in the air': Effects of songs with romantic lyrics on compliance with a courtship request, Psychology of Music 38 (3). The article will be available free for a limited period: http://pom.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/38/3/303 the song

Nice video : ) At least the tournamanet is coming alive now with much better games. And in the US http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/soc/wc/7062269.html

First off stop allowing people to flit between industry and regulatory bodies. That is such an incestuous system its not true. I suppose you could say the closest analogy is being trained by the police force to detect crooks and then becoming a consultant to pass on your advice to the crminals. Secondly politicians also should be restricted as to what they can do out of office. Same thing no jobs in any industry where they had oversight for 5 years. And just to show whats going on:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235764/Convicted-killer-die-bars-murder-mother-died-days-alerting-police.html Bear in mind that in Germany you are not allowed to say someone is a murderer once they finish their sentence. See Wiki being sued by two German murderers.

womble- in the case you state - the deranged false confession that would not be sufficient. Incontrovertible proof is not someone confessing. The specific examples I gave you seem not to refute - is that because they do not deserve to die? Pardon me. Logic says no such thing - you may array some facts that support your case. This case especially fails if you ignore my very specific instances where murders are 100% proved and try and extend me being in favour of capital punishment in specific circumstances to a blanket call for all murderers to be executed. On the more wafty subject of what society requires there are many experiments proving that people want a fair society. Even dogs are known to sulk where other dogs get preferential treatment. Is an eye for an eye actually what mammals expect to happen.? Logically as I get into my dotage it will be in my interest to murder someone so that I get food and secure lodgings, plenty of people to chat to and all amenities on site. No need to worry about taxation, cooking etc. Neat huh. And if enough of us do it we can have quite a nice prison to ourselves. ANyway the other strand to the argument is how many people have been killed by murderers after they have been convicted. In the UK about 31 people have died at the hand of already convicted murderers - but what the heck - society should be prepared to sacrifice 31 people in order that ....... er what http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/4940180/Trail-of-crime-by-65-killers-who-were-freed-early.html Let me apologise in advance for using anything from newspapers you dislike as they do not share your views.

I have a theory that we are intentionally playing poorly to lull our opposition in the next round : )

Granted that an innocent man should not be executed in error I have never said that all people convicted of killing should be executed. I can think of several extenuating circumstances and also where a murder is not categoric. For instance there is without a shadow of a doubt in this case. There was no doubt with the Moors Murderers. Some cases simply are too blatant to have any shadow of doubt. Interesting http://www.metro.co.uk/news/747748-half-of-us-back-death-penalty suggests that half the popullation supports the death penalty. And what do you think of a Parliament apparently voted for its abolition against the wishes of 75% of the population. Curious thing democracy. The split in the way the poll that seems to fit the profile that wisdom comes with age. : ) Also would tend to suggest a bias in the poll given that 16 year olds are included.

But corporations feel no pain. Shareholders may feel pain but the perpetrators are not directly responsible to the shareholders. There has to be personal liability for making dangerous decisions - and I do not mean only criminally negligent. After all the guys who made the Bhopal decisions may well have left the company before fan**** happened. In fact in a lot of businesses you skip from job to job being promoted on the basis of how much money you generated/successful you were in your previous jobs. Leaving off the fact in your CV you made a decision to short cut safety features which lead to a disaster would not seem difficult. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buncefield_fire

theengineer reports on the ball ! http://www.theengineer.co.uk/news/news-analysis/world-cup-ball-designers-respond-to-critics/1002930.article

I think the lesson to be drawn is that the punishment for failure for private managers are not draconian enough. A managers incentive - and to keep his job - is to make profit. We need to make a suitable counterweighing imperative which may be variously financial, custodial, or both. Even in extreme circumstances fatal. Look at Bhopal - the US twin plant made safe and the Indian one left unsafe. Funny a sort of more fatal 9/11 but done through deliberate negligence in pursuit of profit rather than for a political cause. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

I am just lamenting the fact that the anti-death penalty group have the meida sown up pretty tightly in the UK. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and_canada/10347166.stm I would love a graph to show - every time they show countries that use execution , a graph that shows the number of people killed by released killers, or further deaths organised from their cells. So he gets 25 years more life than his innocent victims. Nice. And how much cost in terms of food and appeals. Appeals! ?!!!

Hey just like the banks - the public carries the can if it goes bad

Archers are incredible value : )

Round these parts we take pussies seriously. Nobody laughs at Tigers and Panthers

Hot off the press from ...2007 By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Published: 9:11AM BST 08 Aug 2007

Agreed its not much HE but given the 2pdr was pretty much gone from tanks and as an ATG it does seem bizarre. Armoured cars would seem the likely answer though there was not a huge number of those armed with 2pdrs I suppose 2000rds per car is not too odd.

So does the US media cover this in detail ... I am making an assumption its too meaty for commercial radio and TV. ANd most newspapers will ignore it as it is not syndicated. The idea of bonuses seems to permeate all the cases of wrongdoing where everybody is paid to keep shtum so bigger profits can be made. I do like the FAA system plus more rigorous enforcement. This is sure going to help renewables. Incidentally the state of Kansas if seeded with wind farms could generate all the electricity used in the US in 2008. Just goes to show how much resource is available - because solar is pretty neat also. And electricity can be used to make hydrogen to fuel cars and .... and screw deep sea oilfields.

Impressed - though their singing .....

http://www.wwiiequipment.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73:2-pounder-anti-tank-gun&catid=40:anti-tank&Itemid=58 Is thorough about the matter. Bizarrely the production of HE rises late war. I am wondering if that is to do with pom-poms and/or MGB's. The answer for that is not on the site

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I am always curious how news - and more importantly the dpeth of analysis is on major events like the recent problem in the Mediterranean and the BP story. Has any country got something similar in depth to this article below. Is it covered fully in the States? It is pretty disgusting state of affairs.

And in other news - Germany have been practicing with the new ball for 6 months. Well done Uruguay.

Great result for the Swiss team. Has the support of all the neutrals. : )