Critics discuss the film's enormity, monsters and ambition in this MTV News review roundup.
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BAKU, July 8 (Itar-Tass) - The next meeting on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs with foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia will take place in July, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov told a news conference after the talks with OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, on Monday. He said the date and format of ...
KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 (Bernama) -- Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Asia, Monday announced the launch of Comedy Central Asia, MTV Live and Nick jr. on ABNxcess, the latest entrant to the Pay-Tv industry in Malaysia and the flagship offering of Asian Broadcasting Network (M) Sdn Bhd (ABN). All three VIMN channels will be officially launched tomorrow as part of ABNxcess' ...
OSCE chairman calls issue of status of organization bureau in Azerbaijan 'a sovereign right'. Ukraine's position as chairman of the OSCE lies in the fact that the status of the organization bureau in each member-country is a sovereign right of the country. The statement came from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Leonid Kozhara speaking in Baku on Monday. ...
Azerbaijan is going to invite international observers including those from the OSCE to monitor the upcoming presidential elections. "Azerbaijan will invite observes from all international organizations. According to norms, the invitation will be sent two months before the elections," Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said. He made the statement on Monday at a joint ...
Central Asia-focused Max Petroleum reported Monday that it has begun drilling the UTS-11 appraisal well in the Uytas field on Block A, Kazakhstan, using the Zhanros ZJ-20 rig. Max said that the well is the second in a 13-well appraisal program at Uytas. It will be drilled to a depth of 1,475 feet and will target Cretaceous and Jurassic reservoirs in the central portion of the field, the firm ...
Mon Jul 8, 2013 7:03am EDT LONDON, July 8 (Reuters) - Credit Suisse is facing a $700 million court battle in London next October with a Georgian businessman who says it sold his rights to Azerbaijan's largest onshore oil and gas projects too cheaply, according to sources close to the case. Zaur Leshkasheli, says the bank did not properly consider potential bids for one of his companies with ...
Complexities and injustice facing Moldovan ombudsman Aurelia Grigoriu in Yerevan prove that any fair attitude to people that say the truth is out of the question in Armenia. According to 1news.az, the statement came from chief of the department for political analysis and information support of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Elnur Aslanov speaking at the international ...
By Dmitry Shlapentokh Russia's relations with the Asian people, as projected in recent movies, provides important insight not just about Russian domestic but also foreign policy, including Moscow's view of the current conflicts in the Middle East. Since the end of Vladimir Putin's first term as president, the Russian movie industry has produced several historical movies on ...
By Saule Mukhametrakhimova Faced with mounting public opposition to a pension reform plan, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has sent the bill back to parliament and sacked the minister responsible for it. The bill envisages that the retirement age for women will be raised from 58 to 63, the same as for men. The change is to be phased in over 10 years, starting in 2014. In a televised ...
Khorog, Tajikistan, is hosting The Roof of the World V International Music Festival. The event involves khanandas, singers and dancers from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and other countries, AzerTAj reports. Our country is represented at the festival by music group Karabakh. People's Artist Mansum Ibrahimov and khananda Aytan Maharramova will perform ...
TPL.TO )( ) ("Tethys"), the oil and gas exploration and production company focused on Central Asia/Caspian Region, today announced the conditional acquisition of interests in a number of production sharing contracts ("PSCs") in Georgia. Tethys, through its subsidiary companies, will acquire a 56% interest in PSC's covering Blocks ...
On 6 July, the Palais des Festivals, which hosts the annual International Film Festival, hosted another ceremony as part of the Days of Azerbaijani Culture. The ceremony was attended by the first lady of Azerbaijan, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva and the Mayor of Cannes, Bernard Brochand. Speaking at the ceremony, Mehriban Aliyeva said: "Dear Mr. ...
Mon Jul 8, 2013 12:15am EDT * First shipment key for Rio to get further funding for mine expansion * Not clear if Rio can repatriate sales revenue from Oyu Tolgoi * Rio Australia shares fall 2.1 pct vs 0.5 pct drop in broad market ULAN BATOR, July 8 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto will start exporting copper from the $6.2 billion Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia on Tuesday, the Mongolian government said, but ...
By Vladimir Socor On April 3, in Moscow, President Vladimir Putin and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller announced a colossal series of gas projects. These involve an expansion of existing big projects or a reactivation of earlier, unimplemented proposals. Ukraine's start of gas imports from Europe, reducing dependence on Gazprom, triggered this Putin-Miller move. In a set-piece dialogue, they ...
By Karlos Zurutuza PENJWIN, Iraqi Kurdistan - When 37-year-old Igor Urizar first happened upon the isolated mountain village of Penjwin, 300 kilometers northeast of Baghdad, he had a vision of this border-town - nestled in the pristine, snow-capped mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan - transformed into a haven for skiers. Today, after four years of hard work, Urizar is the proud founder of the ...
By Shavkat Kasymov Despite the optimism with which Tajik government officials hailed their country's accession to the World Trade Organization in January, there is a need for a more realistic assessment of the potential economic prospects in regards to membership of the world trading community. Tajikistan is a remittance-dependent country with strong political affinity to Russia, ...
A Turkish company delivered two mobile hospitals to Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense ANKARA - A Turkish manufacturer delivered two mobile hospital units to Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense. Hospitals are to serve during disasters and other emergency situations with intense care, trauma and surgery units. Speaking to the Anadolu Agency, an official from the manufacturer company said ...
By Shahin Abbasov BAKU - Azerbaijan in late April crossed a self-imposed "red line" in its relations with southern neighbor Iran by dispatching Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov to Israel, Tehran's arch-foe. Reasons for the timing of the move are not clear, but, so far, Tehran appears to be biding its time with a response. While Israel and Azerbaijan - like Iran, a majority ...
By Dmitry Shlapentokh The Boston bombing is still in the process of investigation and could have a variety of repercussions in both the short and the long run. Many of these repercussions cannot be predicted, but some can be seen. One is connected with the North Caucasus jihadis' involvement in the Syrian conflict, and their relationship with the US. While several months ago the North ...
By Tom Balmforth MOSCOW - Russia's biggest company turned 20 this year. But at Gazprom, there appears to be little cause for celebration. The state-controlled natural gas monopoly, which was established as a publicly traded corporation in 1993, recently announced that its net profits fell by 11% last year and its valuation dipped below US$100 billion for the first time since 2009. ...
Source: http://www.tajikistannews.net/index.php/sid/215693858/scat/929bcf2071e81801
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By Patrick Temple-West and Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Internal Revenue Service agents used more than just "Tea Party" and other conservative terms to screen tax exempt applications, the newly-appointed IRS chief said on Monday after a month-long review ordered by President Barack Obama.
The IRS has scrapped use of the "be on the lookout" (BOLO) lists, newly appointed IRS chief Daniel Werfel said in a conference call with reporters. His disclosure about the breadth of the lists added a new twist to a six-week-old controversy that has embarrassed the Obama administration, forced the exit of several IRS officials and triggered probes by the FBI and Congress.
"We did determine and discover there are other BOLO lists in place," Werfel said on the call. "There was a wide ranging set of categories and cases that spanned a broad spectrum."
A top Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, Sander Levin, said the word "progressive" was on one of the lists, which agency officials have said they used to flag applications for potential scrutiny.
The IRS has been blasted for the lists since May 10 when a senior official apologized for scrutiny of conservative groups. On May 14, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a report on the lists.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Obama met with Werfel on Monday, and called the report a good first step.
"As the President has made clear, the misconduct identified in last month's Inspector General report is unacceptable," Carney said in a statement.
In response to the controversy, Obama last month fired then-acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller and ordered a 30-day review. At least three other IRS officials have been replaced or are on administrative leave.
Werfel said the IRS review found no intentional wrongdoing by employees inside or outside the agency.
Republican lawmakers, who have been suspicious that the White House played a role in the added scrutiny, said that many questions remained unanswered.
"The IRS still needs to provide clear answers ... who started this practice, why was it allowed to continue for so long, and how widespread was it?" said Dave Camp, the Republican chief of the Ways and Means Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Werfel is set to testify before the committee on Thursday.
LISTS ALSO FLAGGED "PROGRESSIVE" GROUPS
The IRS has provided hundreds of pages of documents to congressional investigators. Levin released some of the lists later on Monday, including one that included "progressive."
Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, said the May 14 TIGTA report is flawed because it ignored this fact.
"The audit served as the basis and impetus for a wide range of Congressional investigations and this new information shows that the foundation of those investigations is flawed in a fundamental way," Levin said.
According to documents released by Levin, the lists also included applications from groups interested in "disputed territories in the Middle East" and Obama's controversial health care law, among other hot-button topics.
FAST TRACK
Werfel's full report also outlines a new fast-track process for tax-exempt, 501(c)(4) applications stalled for more than 120 days, allowing them to "self-certify" by pledging to not spend more than 40 percent of their activities and expenditures on political activity.
"If they are less than 40, we think they are in a good place to self-certify and move forward," Werfel said, adding that those with 40 percent to 50 percent would likely require IRS review.
Political activity must not be the primary purpose of groups earning 501(c)(4) status, according to IRS interpretation of the law.
But the murky definition of "primary" led to some of the short-cuts used by IRS agents that got them into trouble, IRS officials have said.
(Reporting by Patrick Temple-West and Kim Dixon; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz and David Gregorio)
(This story was refiled to fix typo in the second paragraph)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/irs-scraps-lookout-lists-heart-tea-party-fracas-191903151.html
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GAUCHAR, India (AP) ? Bad weather hampered efforts Sunday to evacuate thousands of people stranded in the northern India state of Uttarakhand, where at least 1,000 people have died in monsoon flooding and landslides, army officials said.
The army resumed helicopter flights to rescue stranded people late Sunday after rain stopped and dense fog lifted in the Himalayan region, Brig. Uma Maheshwar said.
Thousands of people were still stranded in high mountain passes in the temple town of Badrinath and rescue efforts were concentrated on getting them to safety.
Troops built makeshift bridges at several places, Maheshwar said.
Despite poor visibility, more than 2,000 people were transported by helicopter to relief camps in the state capital, Dehradun, said Priya Joshi, an air force spokeswoman.
India's national disaster response force used drone aircraft to locate survivors in remote areas that remained inaccessible.
The crisis in Uttarakhand began after torrential rains washed away homes and roads and triggered landslides that cut off communication links with large parts of the state nearly a week ago.
State Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna told reporters late Saturday that the death toll had reached 1,000. The exact number of people who have died in the heavy downpours and flooding of the Ganges River and its tributaries won't be known until rescue efforts end, he said.
About 10,000 army and paramilitary troops, members of India's disaster management agency and volunteers have taken part in six days of rescue and relief efforts. The army has rescued more than 80,000 people by road and air, said Amit Chandola, a state government spokesman.
More rain was expected in the worst-hit Chamoli and Uttarkashi districts over the next few days, said Anand Sharma of the state's meteorological office.
Sharma said the rains in Uttarakhand were the heaviest in nearly 80 years.
In the small town of Gauchar, where the army has set up a camp for those rescued from the temple town of Kedarnath, anxious pilgrims waited for word about relatives yet to be rescued by army helicopters.
"I'm waiting to hear from my daughter and her husband," sobbed Indu Bal Singh, 65, who became separated from her daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren. Singh was among a group of pilgrims who were rescued first because of her age.
Singh, who has waited two days, refused to return to her home in the eastern Jharkhand state until she is reunited with her family. "I won't move from here until I hear they are safe," she said.
Across India, volunteer groups and ordinary citizens were contributing clothes, food, blankets and money for residents of Uttarakhand whose homes have been washed away by the floods.
Hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus make a pilgrimage to Uttarakhand, visiting four of Hinduism's holiest shrines in the state during the summer months. The tourists usually head down to the plains before the monsoon breaks in July. But this year, early rains caught hundreds of thousands of tourists, pilgrims and local residents.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bad-weather-hampering-indian-flood-rescue-efforts-100657869.html
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CINCINNATI (AP) ? Risking death every time they go to work, wing walkers need courage, poise, a healthy craving for adrenaline and, most importantly, they need to be meticulously exacting with every step they take on the small planes that carry them past dazzled crowds at speeds up to 130 mph.
Jane Wicker fit that bill, her friends and colleagues in the air show industry said Sunday.
Wicker, 44, and pilot Charlie Schwenker, 64, were killed Saturday in a horrific, fiery plane crash captured on video at a southwestern Ohio air show and witnessed by thousands. The cause of the crash isn't yet known.
Wicker, a mother of two teenage boys and recently engaged, sat helplessly as the aircraft she was on suddenly rolled and slammed into the ground, exploding on impact and stunning the crowd at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton. The show closed shortly afterward but reopened Sunday with a moment of silence for the victims.
The crash drew attention to the rarefied profession of wing walking, which began in the 1920s in the barnstorming era of air shows following World War II.
The practice fell off the middle of the 20th century but picked back up again in the 1970s. Still, there are only about a dozen wing walkers in the U.S., said John Cudahy, president of the Leesburg, Va.-based International Council of Air Shows.
He said Wicker had "quite a following around the country," known for her engaging, charming personality on the ground and creativity and professionalism while wing walking.
Teresa Stokes, of Houston, said she's been wing walking for the past 25 years and does a couple of dozen shows every year. The job mostly requires being in shape to climb around the plane while battling winds, she said.
"It's like running a marathon in a hurricane," said Stokes, who just did a show in Minnesota last week and will head out for another one in Montana next week. "When you're watching from the ground it looks pretty graceful, but up there, it's happening very fast and it's high energy and I'm really moving fast against hurricane-force winds."
Stokes, who had been an aerobatic pilot before becoming a wing walker, said she was attracted to performing stunts because she thought it'd be exciting.
"It is the craziest fun ride you've ever been on," she said. "You're like Superman flying around, going upside-down doing rolls and loops, and I'm just screaming and laughing."
John King, pilot and president of the Flying Circus Airshow, where Wicker trained, said the most important qualities of wing walkers are "strong nerves, a sense of adventure and a level head."
He said they tell people who are interested that it'll take a year of training before they'll be allowed to walk on the wing of an airplane in flight.
"We give them an opportunity to walk on a wing down on the ground without the engine running," he said. "Then we start up the engine. And if that doesn't spook them, OK, we taxi around the field and that's when it gets bumpy. If they do that successfully, the next time they do it is in the air."
He described Wicker, of Bristow, Va., and Schwenker, of Oakton, Va., as dedicated and "ultimate professionals.
"I don't know of anyone who could have done any better than what they were doing," he said.
In one post on Wicker's website, the stuntwoman explains what she loved most about her job.
"There is nothing that feels more exhilarating or freer to me than the wind and sky rushing by me as the earth rolls around my head," says the post. "I'm alive up there. To soar like a bird and touch the sky puts me in a place where I feel I totally belong. It's the only thing I've done that I've never questioned, never hesitated about and always felt was my destiny."
She also answered a question she said she got frequently: What about the risk?
"I feel safer on the wing of my airplane than I do driving to the airport," she wrote. "Why? Because I'm in control of those risks and not at the mercy of those other drivers."
An announcer at Saturday's event narrated as Wicker's plane glided through the air.
"Keep an eye on Jane. Keep an eye on Charlie. Watch this! Jane Wicker, sitting on top of the world," he said, right before the plane made a quick turn and nosedive.
Some witnesses said they knew something was wrong because the plane was flying too low and slow.
Thanh Tran, of Fairfield, said he could see a look of concern on Wicker's face just before the plane went down.
"She looked very scared," he said. "Then the airplane crashed on the ground. After that, it was terrible, man ... very terrible."
Wicker's death is not the first fatal accident for a wing walker.
In 2011, wing walker Todd Green fell 200 feet to his death at an air show in Michigan while performing a stunt in which he grabbed the skid of a helicopter. That same year, wing walker Amanda Franklin died about two months after she was badly burned in a plane crash during a performance in South Texas. The pilot, her husband, Kyle, survived.
FAA spokeswoman Lynn Lunsford said the agency is often asked why wing walking is allowed.
"The people who do these acts spend hours and hours and hours performing and practicing away from the crowd, and even though it may look inherently dangerous, they're practiced in such a way that they maintain as much safety as possible," he said. "The vast majority of these things occur without a hitch, so you know whenever one of them goes wrong and there's a crash, it's an unusual event."
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Associated Press writer Verena Dobnik in New York contributed to this report.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-air-crash-shows-risks-thrill-wing-walking-185742045.html
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We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from Diego, who wants to give his son the gateway drug into photography. If you're looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
"I'm an amateur photographer, and my 10-year-old son has started to show an interest in what I do on weekends. I've shown him a thing or two on my DSLR and he wants to learn the basics, but I'd prefer it if he didn't do it on my $1,500 rig. His birthday's coming up, and I'd like to get him something that he can use for himself, that lets him customize ISO, white balance, aperture etc. Naturally, I was thinking of just a regular compact camera, but if you can suggest something else that won't break the bank, I'll gladly listen. Thanks!"
So, we turned this question over to one of our photo experts, who suggested that really, if you've got the budget for it, you might as well pick up a very old, very cheap DSLR. For instance, you can pick up an old Canon Rebel XT for around $200, and while it won't be shiny and new, will let them play with features and settings beyond the average compact camera. But what do we know, eh? This is the part of the weekend where we poll our community for their sage wisdom, so have at it, chums.
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