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Kim Kardashian relieved dad never knew about sex tape

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Kim Kardashian relieved dad never knew about sex tape

Kim Kardashian, who recently admitted that her sex tape played a huge role in catapulting her into limelight, has confessed that she is glad she didn”t have to explain the scandal to her late father. The reality TV star revealed that she would not have known what to say to him. Speaking
candidly about the racy footage of her tryst with ex-boyfriend Ray J, which leaked online several years ago and introduced many people to the Armenian beauty, Kardashian admitted that she felt humiliated and often wishes that she had made a better decision, when she agreed to film a sex session with the singer.

Appearing on Oprah’s Next Chapter, she claimed that her first introduction to the world of glamour was quite negative in nature. “I’d like to think that I’m aware… that that”s pretty much how I was introduced to the world. It was a negative way, so I felt like I really had to work 10 times harder to get people to see the real me… I felt humiliated,” the Daily Express quote her as saying.

“I’m definitely not grateful for that experience… If I was to live my life again, obviously I wouldn”t do that again… If I had the information, if I had known better I would have done better, but I didn”t.” The 31-year-old also insisted that she had nothing to do with the release of the sex tape.

“Why would anyone put that humiliation on their family. That’s what I did. And that’s something that I’m gonna have to live with for the rest of my life and have to explain to my children one day. Imagine the conversation I had to have with my grandmother,” she said.

However, she admitted that she’d forever be relieved, as she didn’t have to explain her actions to her lawyer father Robert Kardashian. “I don”t know what I would have done… what I would have said,” she added.

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Evening Degree programs In response to our students’ diverse needs, Grand Canyon University is now offering selected degree programs in an evening format.These programs are designed to meet the needs of todays working adults as they balance their work and personal lives with the desire to earn a degree. With programs that meet just one evening per week, students can conveniently integrate advancing their education with maintaining their career.

Many programs will be offered on the main GCU campus, located in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona. Some specialized programs may be offered at strategic off-site or satellite locations through the greater Phoenix metro area as well as other areas.Developed specifically for working professionals, these evening programs are designed for a specific number of students. By keeping classes small, students will receive individual attention and progress through the program with the same classmates, providing an opportunity to forge relationships that go beyond the classroom.


Evening Program Benefits


Convenience. Courses conveniently meet one evening per week.
Various Phoenix locations. Evening programs are primarily offered in Phoenix. Some programs will be offered on GCU main campus and others will be available in strategic locations.
Small class size. With just 15-20 students, class sizes are kept intentionally small so each student can receive the individual attention he/she needs.
Face-to-face instruction. For students who are more comfortable working with instructors and peers face-to-face rather than online, GCU evening programs allows them this opportunity.
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Good practice guidelines for fishing!

Don't miss your chance to have your say: Please respond to the EA's consultation about hydropower good practice guidelines by 2nd of April

As you will be aware, the Angling Trust and Fish Legal have been campaigning and taking legal action over the past few years to stop damaging hydropower on our rivers.  We have been jointly working with the Salmon & Trout Association on a group set up by the Environment Agency to review the Good Practice Guidelines for hydropower developers to follow.

The Agency's own experts have confirmed that the current version is not fit for purpose.  At last, after years of delay, there is a consultation about tightening up the standards to protect the water environment from the gold rush by hydropower developers who want to benefit from the generous feed in tarriffs from the government.  

This is our opportunity to change the guidelines for the better, which will protect our coarse and game fish stocks for generations to come.  We need your support for this - the more responses they receive, the more likely it is that we will get better protection of our fish.  

Please take a few minutes to respond to the consultation, following the advice set out below, prepared in partnership with the Salmon & Trout Association. 

Please select "Consultation on river flow and water abstraction standards for hydropower" from the list of consultations and then follow the instructions about how to respond.


There are four questions and our suggested bullet points for incorporation into your response are given below. It is important that you add any relevant comments based on your own knowledge or experience and that you provide details of yourself/your organisation in the box after Question 4, including where possible the numbers of members/anglers you represent and the value of any fishing rights you own.

Q1 WHICH OPTION?
Our recommendation: OPTION 3
Reasons:
• The fisheries representatives on the National Working Group believe this to be the preferred option on the basis of the available evidence of the impact of flows on fish and ecology – none of the others comes close to meeting the required level of fisheries and ecological protection
• Of the four options it provides the greatest protection of river flows and flow variability, including within depleted reaches. It ensures that the river downstream of a hydropower scheme more closely mimics the natural flows required to enable fish migration, natural fish recruitment, good angling and good river ecology.
• It is consistent with the approach taken by the Environment Agency on all other forms of abstraction. Any other option gives hydropower schemes an unacceptably lower level of environmental protection
• This approach starts from a more precautionary position and puts the onus on the developer to provide evidence to deviate from the standards, rather than the Agency

Q2 SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING OR AMENDING OPTIONS
• Option 3 is the only acceptable option but the proposal to allow a 30% increase in the amount abstracted from the present Guidelines (up from Q Mean (average flow) to 1.3X Q Mean) is unacceptable.
• On many rivers, especially those with many weirs, weirpools are exceptionally valuable habitats. The statement ‘if a weirpool is of high importance...a more protective allocation or flow distribution would be required’ will tend to be ignored and the default of 1.3X Q Mean applied in every case. The standards outlined for Option 3, but with a maximum abstraction of Q Mean should be the default and any deviation only licensed if supported by evidence that no damage to fisheries, fishing or the ecological status will occur.

Q3  ENGLAND, WALES OR BOTH
• Tick appropriate box

Q4  PUBLICATION OF REVISED STANDARDS 12 WEEKS BEFORE THEY  COME INTO EFFECT
• The Agency has already spent two years on this revision and the hydropower industry is well aware of the probability of changes. At the least they should have immediate effect as did the Supplementary Advice issued in December 2012 on Screening, Fish Passage, Weirs and Competing Schemes. However, in view of the long delay, our preference is that no more licence applications should be determined until publication of the revised Good Practice Guidelines.

Many thanks for your help - it really will make a difference!

Dr Alan Butterworth
Roger Furniss   
Janina Gray

Wild fauna in the forests Shebenik-Jabllanicë (recorded with the camera)

Exciting results from camera traps!

The IUCN wildlife monitoring team has placed 20 hidden cameras all over the Shebenik-Jabllanicë National Park during the first week of June and the first spectacular results are here presented. Purchased in the framework of the project “Institutional support for Protected Areas in Albania”, they are helping the team to assess the presence and distribution of the wildlife species in the protected area. The findings will be included in the protected area database being currently developed, used for the management plan preparation, for raising public awareness as well as the long term monitoring of wildlife in Shebenik-Jabllanicë National Park.

Camera trapping is a technique used in the last years worldwide for the research and recording of the wildlife presence. Main advantages of this technique are minimal disturbance to wildlife and possibility to confirm and prove the presence of particular species in the area. At the same time, camera trapping enables the determination of some behaviour and activity patterns of animals. In some cases this technique can also provide quantitative information on population of different species.

The Animal Ecology Team Experts Bledi Hoxha, PPNEA, and Francesca Pella, IUCN, held several days long training on this technique for the project local collaborators and the Shebenik-Jabllanicë National Park staff. At the end of the training a week was dedicated to setting the cameras in different sectors of the park, in order to cover as homogeneously as possible the area.

The process of camera trapping is now in its most exciting phase as the first pictures are being downloaded! The photo selection is accessible.

The process of camera’s checking will continue every two weeks. This will be done by the collaborators and the Park staff, namely Enver Koci, Mitat Biçaku, Lavdim Qoshi, Erjola Katiaj, Lulieta Koçi and Bledar Pepa until August. We hope to share more thrilling results in the next “Advance Albania newsletter”. Stay tuned!

Prepared by Andrea Ghiurghi, IUCN and Mirjan Topi, PPNEA

From ; iucn.org 

Traditional Festival of "Dorez”

Since the proclamation of the Shebenik-Jabllanicë area as a National Park is recent, at the level of local population and authorities there is still a lack of information and awareness on the status, conservation demands and zoning of the Shebenik-Jabllanicë National Park. The area is still perceived as a forest which can be normally exploited for timber and non timber products, therefore in such context it becomes crucial to firstly inform locals about the latest status that has been given to the area and explain the implications and new opportunities of leaving inside or around a National Park.

On behalf of the above mentioned objectives, the IUCN/PPNEA project "Institutional Support for Protected Areas in Albania” decided to participate and support the annual Traditional Festival of "Dorez” which takes place each mid June inside the National Park territory. "Dorez” Festival has been initiated in year 2006, when a group of motivated local people in order to revitalize an ancient tradition of the area, and moreover to promote the local traditional culture and history, and organized the celebration, which since then has been officially certified from the regional authorities as the Traditional Festival of "Dorez”. The PPNEA local partner NGO "DOREZ” in collaboration with "Qender” Commune, local education institutions and other institutions and different donors made possible the organization of this festival every year.

The 2012 session of Dorez Traditional Festival took place during the sunny day of June 24^th, with the participation of around 600 people; mainly local inhabitants, ex-inhabitants of the area, representatives of local authorities, Regional Deputy in the Parliament of Albania, Local cultural and education institutions, Forest District Service representatives, NGO representatives, amateur local football teams, local and national media journalists.

The festival got open at around 10 am, by few speeches being held from the organizers ( Fatmir Brazhda), local and central authorities’ representatives and the IUCN project - local coordinator. In their joint speech; the chairman of "Qender” commune Mr. Enver Shkurti  and the regional deputy at the Parliament of Albania Mr. Taulant Balla, congratulated and encouraged the participants to preserve the culture and traditions of the area and the amazing natural beauty of the National Park. In addition in his speech the PPNEA project coordinator Mr. Mirjan Topi after been emphasizing and explaining the new status that the area holds made a brief presentation of the project "Institutional Support for Protected Areas in Albania”, including the general objectives and the approach followed. Further to that, participants were invited in the project’s tent to receive more information about the National Park through leaflets and posters that has been prepared by the project for that event. "We are here to work with you and to work for you, to share our knowledge and experience for a sustainable management of this magnificent nature” said during his speech for the journalists Mr. Andrea Ghiurghi - the IUCN project manager in Tirana.

Traditional music, dancing, and exhibition of traditional costumes being performed by the talented young artists of the Cultural Center of Librazhd entertained the participants for more than one hour and elevated the atmosphere till the level that enthused almost all the participants to flow into the dancing chain.

Great panic from a large snail

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Florida residents do not just have to worry about sink holes and pythons, but they are also currently being invaded by a growing population giant African land snails. And the critters are multiplying by the day.

The monstrous mollusk can grow to be as large as a rat, and has the ability to damage buildings by eating through thick plaster walls. They specifically like stucco because the material gives them calcium to build up their shells.

They also flourish in the area because they do not have any natural enemies to fend off, can easily attack many species of local plants and have been able to reproduce in huge quantities. One of these slimy giants can lay 1,200 eggs a year.

There have been 117,000 of these snails picked up in Miami-Dade County since they first noticed the infestation in September 2011. 

Denise Fiber, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services told Return .

Here elephants with the world's biggest [Photos]

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their larger ears that look somewhat like the continent of Africa. (Asian elephants have smaller, rounded ears.)

Elephant ears radiate heat to help keep these large animals cool, but sometimes the African heat is too much. Elephants are fond of water and enjoy showering by sucking water into their trunks and spraying it all over themselves. Afterwards, they often spray their skin with a protective coating of dust.

An elephant's trunk is actually a long nose used for smelling, breathing, trumpeting, drinking, and also for grabbing things—especially a potential meal. The trunk alone contains about 100,000 different muscles. African elephants have two fingerlike features on the end of their trunk that they can use to grab small items. (Asian elephants have one.)

Both male and female African elephants have tusks they use to dig for food and water and strip bark from trees. Males use the tusks to battle one another, but the ivory has also attracted violence of a far more dangerous sort.

Because ivory is so valuable to some humans, many elephants have been killed for their tusks. This trade is illegal today, but it has not been completely eliminated, and some African elephant populations remain endangered.

Elephants eat roots, grasses, fruit, and bark, and they eat a lot of these things. An adult elephant can consume up to 300 pounds (136 kilograms) of food in a single day.

These hungry animals do not sleep much, and they roam over great distances while foraging for the large quantities of food that they require to sustain their massive bodies.

Female elephants (cows) live in family herds with their young, but adult males (bulls) tend to roam on their own.

Having a baby elephant is a serious commitment. Elephants have a longer pregnancy than any other mammal—almost 22 months. Cows usually give birth to one calf every two to four years. At birth, elephants already weigh some 200 pounds (91 kilograms) and stand about 3 feet (1 meter) tall.

African elephants, unlike their Asian relatives, are not easily domesticated. They range throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the rain forests of central and West Africa. The continent’s northernmost elephants are found in Mali’s Sahel desert. The small, nomadic herd of Mali elephants migrates in a circular route through the desert in search of water.

=> Rare Mutation Ignites Race for Cholesterol Drug, extra

Her cholesterol was astoundingly low. Her low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, the form that promotes heart disease, was 14, a level unheard-of in healthy adults, whose normal level is over 100.

The reason was a rare gene mutation she had inherited from both her mother and her father. Only one other person, a young, healthy Zimbabwean woman whose LDL cholesterol was 15, has ever been found with the same double dose of the mutation.

The discovery of the mutation and of the two women with their dazzlingly low LDL levels has set off one of the greatest medical chases ever. It is a fevered race among three pharmaceutical companies, Amgen, Pfizer and Sanofi, to test and win approval for a drug that mimics the effects of the mutation, drives LDL levels to new lows and prevents heart attacks. All three companies have drugs in clinical trials and report that their results, so far, are exciting.

“This is our top priority,” said Dr. Andrew Plump, the head of translational medicine at Sanofi. “Nothing else we are doing has the same public health impact.”

Dr. Gary H. Gibbons, the director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, estimates that even if the drugs were expensive and injected as many as two million Americans might be candidates. But if they could eventually be made affordable and in pill form — two very big ifs — they might be used by one in four adults, he said.

Despite major gains over the past half-century, heart disease remains the leading killer of Americans, causing nearly 600,000 deaths a year. Statins, the cholesterol-lowering drugs that went on the market in 1987, were a huge breakthrough, but far from a panacea.

The companies and many heart researchers hope they are closing in on a blockbuster, buoyed by success with preliminary studies. But Dr. Gibbons cautioned that critical large-scale studies that would tell whether the drugs actually prevent heart attacks and deaths are only starting.

“That will show if they are a game changer,” he said.

So far, people with stubbornly high cholesterol levels who are taking the drugs in preliminary studies have seen their LDL levels plunging from levels well over 100 to 50, 40, or even lower. Like insulin for diabetes, the drugs are injected, but they are taken once or twice a month.

Dr. Barry Gumbiner, who is directing Pfizer’s studies, said the company had to decide whether to set a floor for patients’ LDL levels. Pfizer is interrupting treatment when LDL levels reach 25 or lower. The people seemed fine, but the company got nervous.

“There is not a lot of experience treating people to LDL levels this low,” Dr. Gumbiner said.

And there is another concern: cost. Each company’s drug is a biologic, a so-called monoclonal antibody made in living cells at an enormous expense, like some new cancer drugs that are already straining the medical system. Amgen plans to make metric tons of its drug, much more, the company says, than any other biologic.

Polish fans do not leave Rihana beach (photo)

Rihanna complained saying he felt like an "animal cage" as fans not allowed to take sunbath on a quiet beach in Poland.

The singer was in Poland for a concert and when the beach was forced out along with her ​​friend raise large umbrellas to block curious appearance and a video posted on Instagram by complaining.

"Here is how a beach day in Poland. If we get sun like animals in a cage! "

Rihana's photo..

Messages of Galore, but No Time to Think long.

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I’M old enough to remember a simpler time in the office, when talking — whether in person or on the phone — was the main way to communicate. I once had a job where I filled out for employees who had stepped away from their desks.

Then, in the 1990s, came e-mail, and things were never the same. Besides delivering a serious blow to the sellers of those pieces of paper, e-mail made communicating with people incredibly — and, at first, delightfully — easy.

Now, a few decades later, people constantly complain that their e-mail in-boxes are unmanageable. And many more technologies have joined the workplace party. We can now use cellphones, texts, instant messaging, text messaging, social media, corporate intranets and cloud applications to communicate at work.

Something may have been lost as we adopted these new communication tools: the ability to concentrate.

“Nobody can think anymore because they’re constantly interrupted,” a Harvard Business School professor and author of “Sleeping With Your Smartphone.” “Technology has enabled this expectation that we always be on.” Workers fear the repercussions that could result if they are unavailable, she said.

The intermingling of work and personal life adds to the onslaught, as people communicate about personal topics during the workday, and about work topics when they are at home.

According to the Ergonomics Open Journal, electronic communication tools can demand constant switching, which contributes to a feeling of “discontinuity” in the workplace. On the other hand, people sometimes deliberately introduce interruptions into their day as a way to reduce boredom and to socialize, the article said.

We’re only beginning to understand the workplace impact of new communication tools. The use of such technology in the office is “less rational than we would like to think,” said a professor of human-computer interaction at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Sometimes, “it’s one person who’s an evangelist,” he said. “They will start using a particular thing, and they will bring other people along with them.”

More tech-oriented types might favor the latest new communication “toy,” while others, like me, are less enthusiastic. In the name of simplicity, I even try to avoid instant messaging. But I also can’t help worrying that I am missing out.

Plenty of workplace advice focuses on how we, as individuals, can manage our technology, but in many cases, this is a collective, team-level issue, Professor Perlow said.

As Professor Whittaker put it, “We haven’t stabilized our regular practices,” and these may need to be negotiated among workers.

It’s important to distinguish between collaborative and one-on-one communication, he said. Cloud-based systems are meant for sharing and editing documents, and they can enable people in different cities to work together in real time. Internal social media pages can be useful for seeking and sharing knowledge.

But when one person wants to communicate with another privately, e-mail remains the go-to method, Professor Whittaker said. That’s why it is nearly universal, despite a general yearning for something better.

To lessen the disruptive nature of e-mail and other messages, teams need to discuss how to alter their work process to allow blocks of time where they can disconnect entirely, Professor Perlow said. “I don’t think you can do it without leadership support,” she added.

MAYBE more managers, consulting with their teams, need to set up clear guidelines for communication. When is it best to use the cloud? When is it best to use e-mail, or instant messaging? And when is it acceptable, even preferable, to turn off all technology? Not that managers need to be dictators, but a little clarity can lead to much more productivity.

Making it a priority to learn how to use the latest tools more effectively is a good idea, too. For example, how do those filters that help prioritize messages really work?

And let’s never forget the value of face-to-face, or voice-to-voice, communication. An actual unrehearsed conversation — requiring sustained attention and spontaneous reactions — may be old-fashioned, but it just might turn up something new.