93% No

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"No" is a picture that perches precariously on the cusp of a paradox.

A cunning and richly enjoyable combination of high-stakes drama and media satire from Chilean director Pablo Larrain.

A mesmerizing, realistic and often hilarious look at the politics of power and the power of ideas ...

A political drama, a personal drama, a sharp-eyed study of how the media manipulate us from all sides, No reels and ricochets with emotional force.

It's a funny look at the way the media warp public opinion, and a curiously hopeful one.

On every level, "No" leaves one with bittersweet feelings about democracy, love and the cost of compromise.

A bitingly funny, fascinating and moving portrait of Pinochet's fall that's smartly shot and superbly performed.

"NO" is an inspirational political drama in which the people are roused by the visual to overcome the vicious.

... features a fine performance by Gael Garc?a Bernal as young ad exec Ren? Saavedra, who didn't, at first, quite realise what he was in for when he decided to assist in the bringing down of military dictator Augusto Pinochet.

No is a great historical document as to how one very important revolution started with a commercial.

The understated performance by Bernal was inspiring, as was the pic.

It's not easy material but it's truly fascinating, and expertly done.

An extremely perceptive and intriguing examination of the effect that media hype and spin have on the political process.

...a bitter and knowing meditation on media manipulation and political subversion.

Larrain deftly mixes social satire and historical drama.

All historical and little drama.

Larrain does a fine job of making No look and sound authentic to its time period, although the VHS-quality photography, all washed-out with colors bleeding together as camcorders did in the '80s, is an occasional irritant.

Silliness is on the side of the angels in a brilliant and highly entertaining film that's part political thriller, part media satire.

It's clear that the language of advertising has become universal, and that political commodities can be sold like soap. But toppling a dictatorship? Now there's a story.

A reflection of a moment in time, made in the image of that moment.

Bernal deftly explores the layers of the character's complexity, including his political apathy.

"No" is filmmaking of the first order.

Old technology plus the packaging of a revolution add up to a Yes

Freshens up a decades-old story with vibrant humor and a good sense of storytelling.

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Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/no_2012/

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Hospitals see surge of superbug-fighting products

NEW YORK (AP) ? They sweep. They swab. They sterilize. And still the germs persist.

In U.S. hospitals, an estimated 1 in 20 patients pick up infections they didn't have when they arrived, some caused by dangerous 'superbugs' that are hard to treat.

The rise of these superbugs, along with increased pressure from the government and insurers, is driving hospitals to try all sorts of new approaches to stop their spread:

Machines that resemble "Star Wars" robots and emit ultraviolet light or hydrogen peroxide vapors. Germ-resistant copper bed rails, call buttons and IV poles. Antimicrobial linens, curtains and wall paint.

While these products can help get a room clean, their true impact is still debatable. There is no widely-accepted evidence that these inventions have prevented infections or deaths.

Meanwhile, insurers are pushing hospitals to do a better job and the government's Medicare program has moved to stop paying bills for certain infections caught in the hospital.

"We're seeing a culture change" in hospitals, said Jennie Mayfield, who tracks infections at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

Those hospital infections are tied to an estimated 100,000 deaths each year and add as much as $30 billion a year in medical costs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency last month sounded an alarm about a "nightmare bacteria" resistant to one class of antibiotics. That kind is still rare but it showed up last year in at least 200 hospitals.

Hospitals started paying attention to infection control in the late 1880s, when mounting evidence showed unsanitary conditions were hurting patients. Hospital hygiene has been a concern in cycles ever since, with the latest spike triggered by the emergence a decade ago of a nasty strain of intestinal bug called Clostridium difficile, or C-diff.

The diarrhea-causing C-diff is now linked to 14,000 U.S. deaths annually. That's been the catalyst for the growing focus on infection control, said Mayfield, who is also president-elect of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

C-diff is easier to treat than some other hospital superbugs, like methicillin-resistant staph, or MRSA, but it's particularly difficult to clean away. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers don't work and C-diff can persist on hospital room surfaces for days. The CDC recommends hospital staff clean their hands rigorously with soap and water ? or better yet, wear gloves. And rooms should be cleaned intensively with bleach, the CDC says.

Michael Claes developed a bad case of C-diff while he was a kidney patient last fall at New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital. He and his doctor believe he caught it at the hospital. Claes praised his overall care, but felt the hospital's room cleaning and infection control was less than perfect.

"I would use the word 'perfunctory,'" he said.

Lenox Hill spokeswoman Ann Silverman disputed that characterization, noting hospital workers are making efforts that patients often can't see, like using hand cleansers dispensers in hallways. She ticked off a list of measure used to prevent the spread of germs, ranging from educating patients' family members to isolation and other protective steps with each C-diff patient.

The hospital's C-diff infection rate is lower than the state average, she said.

Westchester Medical Center, a 643-bed hospital in the suburbs of New York City has also been hit by cases of C-diff and the other superbugs.

Complicating matters is the fact that larger proportions of hospital patients today are sicker and more susceptible to the ravages of infections, said Dr. Marisa Montecalvo, a contagious diseases specialist at Westchester.

There's a growing recognition that it's not only surgical knives and operating rooms that need a thorough cleaning but also spots like bed rails and even television remote controls, she said. Now there's more attention to making sure "that all the nooks and crannies are clean, and that it's done in perfect a manner as can be done," Montecalvo said.

Enter companies like Xenex Healthcare Services, a Texas company that makes a portable, $125,000 machine that's rolled into rooms to zap C-diff and other bacteria and viruses dead with ultraviolet light. Xenex has sold or leased devices to more than 100 U.S. hospitals, including Westchester Medical Center.

The market niche is expected to grow from $30 million to $80 million in the next three years, according to Frost & Sullivan, a market research firm.

Mark Stibich, Xenex's chief scientific officer, said client hospitals sometimes call them robots and report improved satisfaction scores from patients who seem impressed that the medical center is trotting out that kind of technology.

At Westchester, they still clean rooms, but the staff appreciates the high-tech backup, said housekeeping manager Carolyn Bevans.

"We all like it," she said of the Xenex.

At Cooley Dickinson Hospital, a 140-bed facility in Northampton, Mass., the staff calls their machines Thing One, Thing Two, Thing Three and Thing Four, borrowing from the children's book "The Cat in the Hat."

But while the things in the Dr. Seuss tale were house-wrecking imps, Cooley Dickinson officials said the ultraviolet has done a terrific job at cleaning their hospital of the difficult C-diff.

"We did all the recommended things. We used bleach. We monitored the quality of cleaning," but C-diff rates wouldn't budge, said nurse Linda Riley, who's in charge of infection prevention at Cooley Dickinson.

A small observational study at the hospital showed C-diff infection rates fell by half and C-diff deaths fell from 14 to 2 during the last two years, compared to the two years before the machines.

Some experts say there's not enough evidence to show the machines are worth it. No national study has shown that these products have led to reduced deaths or infection rates, noted Dr. L. Clifford McDonald of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

His point: It only takes a minute for a nurse or visitor with dirty hands to walk into a room, touch a vulnerable patient with germy hands, and undo the benefits of a recent space-age cleaning.

"Environments get dirty again," McDonald said, and thorough cleaning with conventional disinfectants ought to do the job.

Beyond products to disinfect a room, there are tools to make sure doctors, nurses and other hospital staff are properly cleaning their hands when they come into a patient's room. Among them are scanners that monitor how many times a health care worker uses a sink or hand sanitizer dispenser.

Still, "technology only takes us so far," said Christian Lillis, who runs a small foundation named after his mother who died from a C-diff infection.

Lillis said the hospitals he is most impressed with include Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, where thorough cleanings are confirmed with spot checks. Fluorescent powder is dabbed around a room before it's cleaned and a special light shows if the powder was removed. That strategy was followed by a 28 percent decline in C-diff, he said.

He also cites Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill., where the focus is on elbow grease and bleach wipes. What's different, he said, is the merger of the housekeeping and infection prevention staff. That emphasizes that cleaning is less about being a maid's service than about saving patients from superbugs.

"If your hospital's not clean, you're creating more problems than you're solving," Lillis said.

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Online:

CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/hai/

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hospitals-see-surge-superbug-fighting-products-063323422.html

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How Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map Tessellated The World

Buckminster Fuller applied his patented Dymaxion brand to all sorts of objects over the course of his career, from cars to buildings to entire cities. But one of the most useful and enduring applications? The Dymaxion World map, which unfolds the earth into a long string of shapes, like a carefully peeled orange.

2013 marks the map?s 70th birthday, and to celebrate, the Brooklyn-based Buckminster Fuller Institute launched Dymax Redux, competition to redesign updated versions of the map. The winners will be unveiled sometime this fall, but in the meantime, it's worth taking a look back at some of the awesomely tessellated Dymaxion spinoffs that already exist.

First, a bit of background. What makes the Dymaxion World map so enduring? It?s a brilliant mathematical object. Fuller?s projection bears far less distortion than other flat maps, like the Mercator projection or the Peters projection, and it divides up the globe into a contiguous surface without dividing any of its land masses. Because it isn?t a traditional ?shadow? projection it?s not distorted on one axis or another, so you can read it from any orientation and rearrange its contents in any number of ways.

But it?s the Dymaxion?s distinctly optimistic point of view that makes it so unique. Patented at the end of World War II, it shows us all five continents as a single archipelago, or "one island in one ocean.? It took him decades of tinkering to figure out the right projection, but it was important to him that we see the earth as a single, interconnected network. ?For the layman, engrossed in belated, war-taught lessons in geography, the Dymaxion World map is a means by which he can see the whole world fairly and all at once,? explained LIFE magazine when it published the map in 1943. The writers at LIFE also found a way to rearrange the map to articulate a bit of wartime racism against Japan: "The ruthless logic of Jap imperialism is exposed by this layout,? the editors continued. ?Their thinking strikes an obvious contrast to the landlubber geopolitics of their German allies.? Well then!

Fuller probably disapproved of the way LIFE twisted his map into something aggressive, but that?s a perfect example of how maps can become socio-political weapons?and why he thought we needed to retool them. Fuller intended the Dymaxion World map to serve as a tool for communication and collaboration between nations. ?If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them,? he famously said. ?Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.?

Did the map lead to a new world order? Not exactly?but did lead to a revolution in mapping. More about Dymax Redux is here, but in the meantime, check out eight other interesting applications of Fuller's projection below.

A printable version of Fuller's "Airocean" World map that includes assembly instructions.

The Cryosphere, or a map of the world map arranged based on ice, snow, glaciers, permafrost and ice sheets, by Nordphil.

A map showing the distribution of 259 "critical infrastructures" in energy, agriculture, banking and finance, drinking water and other systems, via Domus.

Flight routes of the Dubai-based airline, Emarites, mapped using Fuller's projection. Via Axismaps.

Rehabstudio's Googlespiel, an interactive Dymaxion map built at Google Developer Day 2011.

A page from Nicholas Felton's Feltron Annual Report, showing the designer's travels over the course of 2008.

Lead image: Buckminster Fuller and Chuck Byrne, Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map, 1981, courtesy of the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/how-buckminster-fullers-dymaxion-map-tessellated-the-w-484584437

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North Korea seen readying for fourth nuclear test: report

SEOUL (Reuters) - Activity in North Korea appears to show it is preparing for a fourth nuclear test, with movement at its atomic test site similar to events preceding earlier blasts, a newspaper reported on Monday, quoting a senior South Korean government official.

North Korea has intensified warnings in recent weeks, declaring it had entered a state of war with Seoul, threatening to strike U.S. targets and blocking access to a border factory complex jointly run with the South.

"There are recent active movements of manpower and vehicles at the southern tunnel at Punggye-ri," South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper quoted an unidentified government official as saying. The official was referring to North Korea's nuclear test site.

"We are monitoring because the situation is similar to behavior seen prior to the third nuclear test," the official was quoted as saying. It was unclear, the official told the newspaper, whether the activities were intended to mislead U.S. surveillance.

The North's February 12 nuclear test prompted tougher U.N. sanctions and triggered a hostile response from Pyongyang.

South Korea's defense minister told lawmakers in February, after the third nuclear test, that an additional test was possible.

Pyongyang moved what appeared to be a mid-range Musudan missile to its east coast, according to media reports last week.

(Reporting by Ju-min Park and Jack Kim; Editing by Ron Popeski and Dean Yates)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-seen-readying-fourth-nuclear-test-report-005435693.html

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Doing something positive: Global Asbestos Awareness Week 1 - 7 ...

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Global Asbestos Awareness Week 1 - 7 April: 7 facts for 7 days

As part of its Global Asbestos Awareness Week campaign, the ADAO (link on the right under "Find Out More...") has published a series of facts about asbestos, one per day for the whole week, as well daily articles by experts in the field and people with diseases caused by exposure to asbestos. ?

Below is the complete set of facts. ?You can read the articles by clicking HERE?

Fact 1: ?Asbestos is a known carginogen i.e it causes cancer. There is NO safe level of asbestos exposure.

Fact 2: 55 countries have banned asbestos including the UK, but the US and Canada have not. ?In 2012 alone, the US imported over 1,000 tons of asbestos.

Fact 3: ?Asbestos fibres can cause asbestos, lung and gastrointestinal cancers, and an aggressive cancer called mesothelioma. ?The average life expectancy of a mesothelioma patient is 6-12 months.

Fact 4: ?Asbestos-caused diseases have a 10-50 year latency period from initial exposure to development of disease.

Fact 5: ?The World Health Organisation estimates that 107,000 workers die annually from exposure to asbestos.

Fact 6: ?Chrysotile asbestos accounts for nearly 95% of all asbestos mined and exported today. ?In 2012, the top four asbestos producing countries were Russia, China, Brazil and Kazakhstan.

Fact 7: ?Asbestos fibres can be nearly 700 times smaller than human hair and are odourless, tasteless indestructible fibres that can remain in the air for seconds


Thank you Linda Reinstein and the ADAO for your stirling and effective efforts to raise awareness about the risks of asbestos exposure and to secure a worldwide ban on this lethal material. Although this is the last day of Asbestos Awareness Week 2013, by spreading the word you have helped save countless lives in the future and spared many families and friends the agony of watching helplessly as a loved one fights the diseases caused by exposure to asbestos.

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Source: http://doingsomethingpositive.blogspot.com/2013/04/global-asbestos-awareness-week-1-7.html

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Financial hub Luxembourg under increased scrutiny

BRUSSELS (AP) ? As the European Union's wealthiest country, Luxembourg could have been forgiven for thinking that it would never find itself on the bloc's financial risk list.

With just half a million people living on a tiny patch of lush land nestled between Belgium, France and Germany, Luxembourg is as tranquil as a buzzing financial center gets. Still, some of Europe's regulators and politicians have started wondering aloud whether its banks might be holding the 17-nation eurozone's next ticking bomb.

Following the chaotic bailout for Cyprus last week, European officials have been drawing worrying comparisons between the two countries' oversized financial industries.

Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, cautioned on Thursday that "the recent experience shows that countries where the banking sector is several times bigger than the economy are countries that, on average, have more vulnerabilities."

"Financial shocks hit these countries stronger, simply because of the size of their banking sector."

The increased scrutiny has taken Luxembourg's government by surprise and put it on the defensive. It has rejected calls to shrink its country's main source of wealth to a more manageable size, claiming that its banking industry is much more secure than Cyprus's and any crackdown would not only harm its own economy but that of the wider eurozone.

Cyprus was forced to seek a bailout from its eurozone partners after its once-thriving banking industry collapsed. The country couldn't afford to bail out its financial sector which, thanks to massive deposits of foreigners, had grown to eight times the size of its economy. The 10 billion euro ($13 billion) rescue loan package comes with tough austerity measures attached, as well as a brutal shrinking of the banking industry and significant losses for savers with deposits larger than 100,000 euros.

In comparison, the balance sheets of the banks in Luxembourg have swollen to about 22 times the country's annual economic output of 44 billion euros ? making it Europe's richest country per capita. The country is also the world's second-largest center for investment funds, with about 3,800 funds holding assets worth ?2.5 trillion ($3.2 trillion) ? about 55 times the country's gross domestic product. It has 141 banks based there, with five of them domestic institutions and the remainder being mainly divisions of foreign banks.

"There are no parallels between Cyprus and Luxembourg, and we don't allow any parallels to be forced on us," Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said last week. "Cyprus is a special case; other financial hubs in Europe don't have these problems."

Luxembourg also has relatively little debt, so it could afford to borrow to bail out the odd bank. But if it faced a widespread problem, it might not be able to cope.

"One does not want to imagine what would happen if the whole banking sector were to derail," said lawmaker Joachim Poss, the deputy caucus leader of Germany's Social Democrats, the country's main opposition party.

If things in Luxembourg's financial sector were to go wrong, the country might not get help from its eurozone partners so easily. For one thing, it won't be able to say it wasn't warned.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the plain-spoken chairman of the bloc's 17 finance ministers, warned other countries with outsized banking sectors to "deal with it before you get in trouble."

"Strengthen your banks, fix your balance sheets, and realize that if a bank gets in trouble the response will no longer automatically be we'll come and take away your problems."

Stung by the comparison with Cyprus and concerned for the future of its banking industry, Luxembourg's leaders have begun to fight back. They have accused EU officials, and Germany in particular, of bullying smaller countries and seeking to "strangulate" its financial industry ? which represents 27 percent of the country's annual economic output, a third of the tax revenues and employs 20 percent of the workforce.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, representing Europe's biggest economy, openly wondered last month whether a business model relying too heavily on banks can still be seen as viable after the Cyprus debacle. That immediately prompted an outcry in Luxembourg.

"Germany does not have the right to define the business models for other countries in the EU," said Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn.

Luxembourg's government says its financial sector "acts as an important gateway for the euro area by attracting investments, thus enhancing the eurozone's competitiveness as a whole while being effectively supervised".

The government rejects the idea of looking at the size of its financial sector only in relation to its GDP.

"What matters are primarily two aspects: while the first aspect touches on the quality and solidity of the financial sector, the second element relates the size of the financial sector not to a national economy but to the euro area or single market as a whole," it said.

Until January, Luxembourg was mostly shielded from criticism and wielded much greater influence in the EU as its tiny size would normally allow, because long-time Prime Minister Juncker chaired the Eurogroup of finance ministers.

Overall, the International Monetary Fund reported last year that Luxembourg's banks were healthy and well-capitalized. The banks registered in the country are mostly subsidiaries of foreign banks. This means that the danger associated with domestic banks making risky bets abroad ? which caused havoc in Cyprus ? is avoided.

Still, the IMF urged Luxembourg to strengthen financial sector oversight and develop bank resolution plans.

"The banking sector's main risk is its exposure to foreign parent banks," according to the IMF's most recent country report, which added that "further efforts are needed to clarify the roles of its supervisory authority and central bank".

But Luxembourg's Finance Minister Luc Frieden said its financial sector is not in danger, because it would be up to the foreign banks or their governments to bail out their subsidiaries in the country.

"In a case of emergency, it is first of all up to the parent companies and their governments to help, that reduces the burden for Luxembourg," he was quoted as telling German Sunday paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

The success of Luxembourg's financial sector was initially fueled by lax regulation, secrecy and low taxes. This made it a popular tax haven and money-laundering spot. The country later changed many of its laws following pressure by its European partners. But critics say the financial industry still lacks the necessary transparency.

"The name Luxembourg always comes up when companies try to move profits across borders, through the so-called aggressive tax planning, to avoid paying taxes," said the president of the German tax inspectors' association, Thomas Eigenthaler. "It lacks transparency and quite often there's nothing we can do about it."

Luxembourg rejects those charges and says it complies with all relevant laws. But on that front too, the pressure is increasing.

In the wake of the publication of details on wealthy people's offshore bank accounts by several international media this week, some of which included references to shell companies based in Luxembourg, Frieden is now signaling the country's willingness to agree for the first time to automated information exchanges with other countries' tax authorities.

"Unlike in the past, we no longer strictly reject that idea. We want a strengthened cooperation with the foreign tax authorities," he was quoted as telling Germany's FAS newspaper.

The heat could come off Luxembourg once the EU's banking union is up and running. Under that plan, the European Central Bank will have central oversight of all European banks, accompanied by a common bank resolution mechanism and a joint bailout fund. That would reduce the risk on a single country of propping up an outsized banking sector. But the plan won't take effect before next year at the earliest, with many details have yet to be hammered out.

Until then, Luxembourg will have to resign itself to increased scrutiny ? as made clear again in the warning issued by ECB chief Draghi.

"I think countries ought to learn from the present experience and should follow this advice, namely run both, the country and the banking system much more conservatively," he said.

"In fact, you realize that a country has a wrong business model only when a crisis arises," Draghi said.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/financial-hub-luxembourg-under-increased-scrutiny-062545564--finance.html

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The Idiocy Of The Social Animal

As we move closer to the launch of the (probably awful) Facebook phone, let's examine just what the social network and its ilk have created. Millions of us use these new tools to joke, flirt and share memories, but just as many of us use these tools much to our disadvantage. In some ways, however, that is making things better for all of us.

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Goat that walked into Mont. bar was taken from zoo

In this April 3, 2013 photo shows Butte-Silver Bow Animal Shelter supervisor Jacki Casagranda sits with "Shirley" a pygmy goat in Butte Mont. The goat was picked up at a local bar by the animal warden last weekend. Fairmont Hot Springs Resort general manager Steve Luebeck says staffers knew the goat was missing but didn't realize it had been stolen until they saw a story in The Montana Standard reporting that a goat had been taken into a Butte bar early Sunday. Shirley was returned to the resort's petting zoo. (AP Photo/The Montana Standard, Walter Hinick)

In this April 3, 2013 photo shows Butte-Silver Bow Animal Shelter supervisor Jacki Casagranda sits with "Shirley" a pygmy goat in Butte Mont. The goat was picked up at a local bar by the animal warden last weekend. Fairmont Hot Springs Resort general manager Steve Luebeck says staffers knew the goat was missing but didn't realize it had been stolen until they saw a story in The Montana Standard reporting that a goat had been taken into a Butte bar early Sunday. Shirley was returned to the resort's petting zoo. (AP Photo/The Montana Standard, Walter Hinick)

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) ? So the goat that walked into a Montana bar last weekend ... was stolen from a petting zoo.

Fairmont Hot Springs Resort general manager Steve Luebeck says staffers knew the goat was missing but didn't realize it had been stolen until they saw a story in The Montana Standard on Wednesday reporting that a goat had been taken into a Butte bar early Sunday.

The pygmy goat, named "Shirley, was returned to the resort's petting zoo.

Luebeck tells The Standard (http://bit.ly/11rcGB5 ) he has never had an animal stolen from the zoo, which has goats and miniature horses. He says zoo managers would like to know who took the animal so they can press charges.

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Information from: The Montana Standard, http://www.mtstandard.com

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Celebs Without Makeup: See Demi Lovato & More!

Demi Lovato is the latest celeb to go makeup-free! Take a look at more stars who have shared their au naturel looks.

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Elaine Stritch movingly says goodbye to New York

NEW YORK (AP) ? Broadway legend Elaine Stritch kicked off a final series of concerts to bid farewell to New York, but refused to be maudlin about it, instead displaying her typical brand of sass and feistiness.

The ailing 88-year-old Tony and Emmy award winner got a sustained burst of applause and wolf-whistles Tuesday night from a standing-room only crowd at the supper club Cafe Carlyle, but immediately tried to cut it off by pounding on the stage.

"You listen to me. This is the most frightening night of my life," she said, dressed in a white shirt, black leather boots, a long black vest and her trademark black leggings. "There's something that really frightens me ? and that's fear."

Stritch plans soon to retire to Birmingham, Mich. ? a suburb of Detroit ? after seven decades in New York City. She ends her five-show farewell on Saturday.

The singer and actress admitted to failing health. She suffers from diabetes ? sipping orange juice on Tuesday to keep her blood sugar in check ? and a broken hip.

"I'm going to kind of take it easy. Every time I leave the building, I fall on my ass," she joked. In Michigan, she said: "I am going to be able to go to sleep at 9 o'clock at night. I've been up all my life."

Stritch had difficulty remembering stories and sometimes found it hard to recall words, but her inner light shone. "I'm not going to be right on the ball here," she warned. "I'm going to be just a little bit shaky. So please stay with me."

She explained that she's been in and out of hospitals but feels great. "I've had a couple of bad falls," she said, and the audience moaned. "Don't you feel sorry for me!" she replied. "Don't you dare feel sorry for me!"

The 188-room Hotel Carlyle on Manhattan's Upper East Side has been a home for Stritch for years and her sold-out engagements there over the past seven years have been legendary. Tickets for her final concerts went for between $85-$175.

On Tuesday, for over an hour she told stories about Rock Hudson, Stephen Sondheim, Jane Fonda, John F. Kennedy, Gregory Peck, Judy Garland and Ethel Merman. She passed around a silver jug with preprinted story ideas, but waved away requests to talk about Marlon Brando, saying, "That takes half an hour. If I were you, I'd go home."

She read her favorite fan letter ? from a third grader from Memphis, Tenn. ? who wanted an autographed photo of Stritch for his sick mother even though he'd much prefer one from NFL star Brett Favre. She closed with a profane joke about Jesus and St. Peter playing golf.

In the audience were Martin Short, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli, Tony Bennett and Tom Hanks, with whom she took particular joy flirting. "Stay in touch, Tom," she said.

With assistance from Rob Bowman on a piano, she sang Eddie Cantor's "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree?)" a filthy version of Cole Porter's "You're the Top" and closed with "He Was Too Good to Me" by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

"There are an awful lot of attractive men in this room," she said wolfishly as the house lights went up. "It's making me crazy."

Stritch became a sort of shorthand for acting longevity since she made her Broadway debut in "Loco" in 1946. Since then, she performed in both musicals and dramas, from Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance" to Noel Coward's "Sail Away" to Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" and "Company," for which she sang a memorable "The Ladies Who Lunch."

She appeared in films such as "Monster-in-Law" and "Out to Sea," and on TV as the Emmy-winning mother of Alec Baldwin in "30 Rock." Her one-woman show "Elaine Stritch at Liberty" won her a second Tony in 2002.

At the cabaret show, she told the crowd, "It's going to be hard to turn my back on you guys, for a little while at least. But I have to. I've just got to take it easy." She added: "Wish me well and I'll do the same to you."

As she was being led away from the stage on the arm of a young, good-looking man, Stritch couldn't resist one last joke.

"Everybody pay their bill?" she asked. "It's a shocker."

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Online: http://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/carlyle

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Troy James Knapp, 'Mountain Man,' Finally Arrested After 6 Years Of Burglarizing Utah Hills: Police

MANTI, Utah ? Authorities captured an elusive survivalist on Tuesday who is suspected of burglarizing Utah cabins and leaving some covered with threats and bullet holes ? ending a saga that began six years ago and grabbed the attention of police and residents around the state.

Troy James Knapp, 45, dubbed the "Mountain Man" by cabin owners, was taken into custody in the snowy mountains outside of Ferron in central Utah after firing several shots at officers and a helicopter, authorities said.

No one was hit before Knapp was captured while trying to flee on snowshoes from dozens of officers who converged on snowmobiles and a snowcat, Sanpete County Sheriff Brian Nielson said. There was nearly 4 feet of snow at the 9,200 feet elevation.

Knapp was armed with several rifles and one handgun, authorities said, adding that he was wearing camouflage clothes and sporting a red beard with some gray.

"He was severely outgunned at the time," Nielson said. "He ran into a number of officers that were also well armed and he could see that he was out of his league."

After surrendering, Knapp was cooperative and talkative with police, showing them on a map everywhere he has been and telling them he was relieved to be out of the winter elements. He was captured in an area about 180 miles north of the site where detectives believed he was a year ago.

"He's done well at this for a number of years, obviously," Nielson said. "We're extremely happy and relieved. All of us are safer because he's in custody at this point."

Knapp was booked into Sanpete County jail Tuesday evening and does not yet have an attorney.

Authorities have said Knapp was armed and dangerous when he broke into dozens of mountain cabins across remote southern Utah. They said he had been photographed by a motion-triggered camera on snowshoes with a stolen rifle slung over his shoulder.

Knapp has been living off the comfort of those cabins in winter then retreating to makeshift summer camps deep in the forest with stolen guns and supplies, detectives have said.

"It is a relief to know that he has been caught," said Eugene Bartholomew, the owner of a cabin broken into recently. "If he slept in the beds that's fine with me as long as he didn't tear up the place."

Bartholomew was planning a trip to inspect his cabin.

After the six-year chase, detectives finally got a break on Good Friday when two hunters had a chance encounter with a man near a mountain lake. The man told the hunters that he was a "mountain man," and they reported the sighting, authorities said in a written statement.

That triggered a search in which detectives followed tracks and learned two burglaries in the area resembled break-ins in other parts of the state.

On Monday, several police agencies gathered to find and capture the survivalist.

About 40 officers wearing camouflage clothing and riding snowmobiles and a snowcat began the search about 1 a.m. Tuesday. Nine hours later, with the help of the helicopter, they flushed the suspect out of a cabin where he was barricaded, leading to the arrest.

Authorities say Knapp's motives have never been clear but speculated that he was fed up with civilization.

Sanpete County Attorney Brody Keisel said he's waiting to receive all law enforcement reports on the case but expects to file a number of felony charges.

Until last weekend, the last known sighting of Knapp was on Oct. 1 by a surveillance camera in Sanpete County. Iron, Kane and Garfield counties have all issued arrest warrants for him on burglary and weapons charges.

In the spring of 2012, the search for Knapp escalated as the summer tourist season approached. Detectives suspected Knapp was roaming the mountains around Zion National Park, following rivers, using pay phones, and even riding park shuttle buses to stock up on food in a nearby town.

Zion rangers were alerted and distributed posters warning cabin owners to be on the lookout.

There were no previous violent confrontations with Knapp, but authorities had feared he was a ticking time bomb.

He is suspected of leaving some cabins riddled with bullet holes, defacing religious icons and writing taunting notes.

"Hey Sheriff ... Gonna put you in the ground!" he wrote in one note, according to court records.

Records indicate Knapp fell off the radar in 2002 when he apparently left California in violation of his parole for a burglary conviction. He had been charged with theft in 2000 in California, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in prison, according to records.

In 2007, southern Utah authorities began investigating a string of cabin burglaries they believed were tied to one person. Over the years, detectives found unattended summer camps stocked with dozens of guns and stolen, high-end outdoor gear.

It wasn't until early 2012 that investigators identified Knapp as the suspect from cabin surveillance photos and videos.

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