Greek opinion polls show conservatives leading

ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? Three opinion polls, to be published in Greek Sunday papers, show conservative New Democracy, the main coalition government partner, slightly ahead of the opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA).

The polls in Sunday papers To Vima, Proto Thema and Real News show New Democracy with between 21.5-23.1 percent, compared to 20.2-22 percent for SYRIZA. New Democracy's leads are below 2 percent but confirm a recent trend in favor of the party.

The government recently backed more spending cuts and tax rises to get more bailout funds from international creditors. SYRIZA opposes the austerity but says it supports Greece's membership of the euro.

Extreme right Golden Dawn is third in the polls with between 8.4-10.5 percent.

All three surveys had a sample of around 1,000 and error margins of around 3 percent.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/greek-opinion-polls-show-conservatives-leading-220643957--finance.html

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Woman sues Match.com for $10M after attack

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A Las Vegas woman who was severely beaten by a man she met through Match.com is suing the online dating site for $10 million?two years and multiple surgeries after the attack that left her hospitalized for months.

The woman, Mary Kay Beckman, was stabbed multiple times with a butcher knife on Jan. 21, 2011?by?Wade Mitchell Ridley, and when?the knife broke, he stomped on her head. Ridley, who was sentenced to?28 to 70 years,?died in prison last year. He was also facing a murder charge in Arizona for the stabbing death of a former girlfriend a few weeks after the attack on Beckman.

Beckman filed suit in Clark County, Nevada,?accusing Match.com of negligence, negligent misrepresentation, deceptive trade, failure to warn and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

The site, she said, failed to warn her about the dangers of meeting "an individual whose intentions are not to find a mate, but to find victims to kill or rape."

The real estate agent said she joined Match.com about a month before her first in-person meeting with Ridley on Sept. 26, 2010. They dated for 10 days, but she called it off. That's when Ridley started sending her threatening and harassing messages.?

On Jan. 21, 2011, Ridley attacked Beckman in her garage, and left her for dead, she says, when she stopped making a "gurgling noise."?

Beckman, now 50, continues to recover and to speak out against online dating?"I do not believe that online dating is a safe venue for men or women,"?she?recently?told?a?local?FOX?TV?reporter.

Match.com, in a statement to NBC News Friday, said that what happened to Beckman "is horrible, but this lawsuit is absurd.?The many millions of people who have found love on Match.com and other online dating sites know how fulfilling it is. And while that doesn't make what happened in this case any less awful, this is about a sick, twisted individual with no prior criminal record, not an entire community of men and women looking to meet each other."

Safety, the site said, "is very important to Match," which, like many other online dating sites, includes online and offline tips for staying safe.

In California, Match.com and two other dating sites, eHarmony and Spark Networks, signed a joint statement of business principles, agreeing to screen for sex offenders and take other safety steps after a woman was assaulted on a date, the state attorney general's office said last March.?

The joint statement ?was prompted by the 2010 sexual assault of a Los Angeles-area woman by a man she met through Match.com, a spokeswoman for the state attorney general's office said. The woman sued Match.com, seeking a court order requiring the site to check applicants' backgrounds to weed out convicted sex offenders. She dropped the suit after the site provided proof of such screening.

Meanwhile, in the last two years, friends and work associates of Beckman have held fundraisers for her, including one last year, with information shared about it on YouTube (see video below).

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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/woman-sues-match-com-10-million-after-brutal-attack-1C8119714

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Strange Exoplanet's 'Backwards' Orbit Explained by Extra Star, Planet

A perplexing alien planet locked in a "backwards" orbit around its parent star may finally be explained by the discovery of an extra planet and star near the oddball planetary system, scientists say.

The discovery is centered on the so-called "backwards" planet HAT-P-7b, which orbits a star 1,040 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. The planet, first spotted in 2008, has long defied explanation because of its orbit, which carries the world around its parent star in the opposite (or retrograde) direction of the star's spin.

Now, a Japan-led team of astronomers has found a second star and alien planet near the planet HAT-P-7b and its stellar parent. They used the Subaru Telescope Facility in Hilo, Hawaii, to make the discovery. Long-term gravitational interference from the newfound star and alien planet, which is a Jupiter-size world called HAT-P-7c, may be responsible for the strange retrograde orbit of HAT-P-7b, researchers said.

While the planets of Earth's solar system all orbit the sun in the same direction as the sun's spin, astronomers have observed retrograde planets circling distant stars. How these exoplanets got on such unusual paths has remained a mystery. The newfound planet and star near the HAT-P-7b planetary system could change that. [The Strangest Alien Planets (Gallery)]

"The current team thinks that the existence of the companion star (HAT-P-7B) and the newly confirmed outer planet (HAT-P-7c) are likely to play an important role in forming and maintaining the retrograde orbit of the inner planet (HAT-P-7b)," officials with the Subaru Telescope Facility explained in a statement today (Jan. 24). ?

The orbit of the newly discovered planet HAT-P-7c is located between the retrograde HAT-P-7b and the newfound star, the researchers explained. The newly discovered second star pulled the giant outer planet into a tilted orbit until its path started affecting the inner planet, HAT-P-7b, generating the latter's retrograde orbit, they added.

This sequence of gravitational dominos could account for the backward journeys of many retrograde extrasolar planets, Subaru observatory officials said. It also clears up a recent study that suggested the backwards planet and its parent star on their own could not explain the oddball orbit setup.

That 2012 study, by another researcher, determined that the gravitational push and pull between HAT-P-7b and its central star should prevent the?exoplanet?from maintaining its counterintuitive orbit.

The new study was led by astronomer Norio Narita, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Masayuki Kuzuhara, and Teruyuki Hirano of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the University of Tokyo.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/strange-exoplanets-backwards-orbit-explained-extra-star-planet-114556224.html

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Mediterranean Diet May Not Protect Aging Brain, Study Finds

Jan 25 (Reuters) - Hopes that a Mediterranean diet would be as good for the head as it is for the heart may have been dampened by a French study that found little benefit for aging brains from the diet rich in fruit, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, wine and olive oil.
The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, looked at the participants' dietary patterns in middle age and measured their cognitive performance at around age 65, but found no connection between Mediterranean eating and mental performance.
"Our study does not support the hypothesis of a significant neuroprotective effect of a (Mediterranean diet) on cognitive function," wrote study leader Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot at the nutritional epidemiology research center of the French national health research agency INSERM.
It's been suggested that the "good" fats in the Mediterranean diet might benefit the brain directly, or that low saturated fats and high fiber in the diet could help stave off cognitive decline indirectly by keeping blood vessels healthy.
Previous research has seemed to uphold that premise.
One large study in the U.S. Midwest, for example, found that people in their 60s and older who ate a mostly Mediterranean diet were less prone to mental decline as they aged. Another study of residents of Manhattan linked a Mediterranean-style diet to a 40 percent lower risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers in the French study used data on 3,083 people who were followed from the mid-1990s, when they were at least 45 years old.
At the beginning of the study, participants recorded what they ate over one 24-hour period every two months, for a total of six dietary record samples per year. Then, between 2007 and 2009 when the participants were about 65 years old, their memory and other mental abilities were measured.
Researchers then separated participants into three categories depending on how closely they adhered to a Mediterranean-style diet, and compared their mental ability test scores.
Overall, they found that people who ate a diet closest to the Mediterranean ideal performed about the same as those who ate a non-restricted diet.
Nikos Scarmeas, who was not involved with the study but has researched the effects of food on brain health, said it's important to note that the new study had some limitations.
For instance, researchers only tested the participants' mental abilities once, making it impossible to track whether they got better or worse over time, added Scarmeas, an associate professor at New York's Columbia University Medical Center.
"We don't have the strong evidence to go and tell people,'Listen, if you follow this diet, it will improve cognition,'" he said. SOURCE: http://bit.ly/UZyTWG (Reporting from New York by Andrew Seaman at Reuters Health; editing by Elaine Lies)

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High Style DIY Table Runner Ideas - Articles :: Networx

Creating a tablescape involves the art of layering. How many layers can you put on your table to create the perfect tablescape? Start with a tablecloth, then add place mats or chargers and a contrasting or matching table runner. Next, add the flatware, plates, and glasses. Ready for more? It's time for the centerpiece(s). Wait, did you remember to add candles?

You'd think that the table runner, just a strip of cloth, would not matter too much. It actually is a tablescape element that really ties the tablescape together. It adds color and dimension to the tablescape, and gives a look of fullness to the table.

For a custom look, make your own table runner. These DIY table runner ideas are easy to make, and are easy on the budget. Some of them don't even require sewing. Go on, make yourself a no-sew table runner! Then set your table like a designer.

Subway Art Table Runner: This hand-stenciled table runner looks funky and rustic, but keeps its symmetrical geometric appeal.

DIY Chevron Table Runner: This super-fashionable no-sew table runner requires only an iron and some Stitch Witchery.

Burlap Table Runner With Ruffle: Gussy up your table with this down-home burlap table runner.

Easy Muslin Table Runner: This DIY table runner is the ultimate in French countryside style.

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Former Atomic Kitten Star Jenny Frost Welcomes Twin Girls!

Former Atomic Kitten Star Jenny Frost Welcomes Twin Girls!

Jenny Frost, the former singer with the girl band Atomic Kitten, has given birth to twin girls. Frost and her husband Vincente “Vinnie Juan Spiteri welcomed their twin daughters on Sunday. The 34-year-old singer named her daughters Blake and Nico, who will join her five-year-old son, Casper, from her previous relationship. Jenny tweeted about the ...

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