Flood threat prompt evacuation of First Nation

A flood threat prompted the evacuation of the First Nation of Roseau River, 100 kilometres south of Winnipeg.

Considering to move approximately 850 people. Approximately 170 had left Saturday afternoon, while the rest were to leave Sunday and Monday.

Coordinator of flood Howard Nelson said the band Council has determined the reserve can be cut at any time. It is concerned in that its permanent dike could violate the community of the floods in as little as 15 minutes.

"According to the levels of the water we were do, us will probably lose our remaining access on the side is, so we called a complete evacuation," he said.

Throughout the province, more than 1,600 people left their homes due to flooding or the threat of flooding. Many evacuees are residents of First Nations.

The Red River and Assiniboine mouse took their banks in some places. Provincial officials say more than 600 roads are closed and States of emergency in 33 municipalities.

The intensification of the fight against flooding along the Souris River downstream of Melita, who is currently in crest.

Flood provincial officials say the city mouse, Souris River and intersecting Plum Creek are likely to peak at the same time, which could be tomorrow. That would lead to water levels similar to the record breaking flooding of 1976.

On Saturday, three houses along Plum Creek have been sandbagged, and more tube dikes and Hesco barriers have been implemented.

Near the PAS, ice jams on the Carrot River, threatening homes. about 30 were sandbagged the dam of Bracken.

South of Winnipeg, officials have said, there are a handful of precautionary evacuations in the rural municipality of Morris. Some residents of Morris stay in hotels or with relatives this weekend because the 75 Highway, the main road in the city, is completely faded, leaving some inaccessible houses.

Houses in the town are protected by an Earth Bank, but the surrounding fields are now massive pools of water.

The dam is also causing headaches for truckers in this region of southern Manitoba who are striving to achieve the United States. They have to take 100 km of twists to reach the border.

The flooding also means that the churches across the Prairies will likely have less faithful Easter Sunday.

The Reverend Mary Gavin of the Anglican Church of St. John Fort said that water rising in the Valley of the river called means parishioners Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, may not provide services on Sunday.

Ron Cox, Mayor of the nearby resort village of B-Say-Tah on the shores of Lake echo, said he missed the Friday service, because it was simply too worn uplift of sand bags every day and it provides may thus Miss Sunday services.

On the Echo Lake water levels have increased during the week, and Saskatchewan Watershed Authority, said levels on the river called are still dating.

Regina, workers of the city continued to deal with the flood of Wascana Creek where a body was drawn from a strong current Friday afternoon. Police have released few details coincide with the discovery, only say that the body was male and that the coroner was investigating.

The River Basin Authority said that it considers that the Creek could be almost peaked Saturday or Sunday.

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Pope speaks Q & A - New York Times of Iraq and tsunami in the first TV

Rome - in his first question-and response TV appearance, shown by national broadcaster Italy on Friday, Pope Benedict XVI calls the Christian minority not to give up Iraq and offered his thoughts on euthanasia and the tsunami in Japan.

Included in a segment last week and one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar the Pope, dressed in white and sit out behind a desk in his library, responded to questions from seven persons selected among thousands of entries aired.

As the book-length interview published in November last year, which seemed TV appearance talk the Pope him directly to his followers, helps to the exactly one year after a sexual abuse crisis in Europe plunged the Roman Catholic world into a tailspin and revealed a profound problems of communication in the Vatican.

There were no curve ball questions among those of Italy's RAI State broadcaster selected - and nothing about the sexual abuse crisis. On Thursday, Benedict the crisis in a liturgy, "the shame we feel about our shortcomings" addressed to speak, but add that "it bright examples of faith," including his predecessor John Paul II., which is expected to be closer to Holiness to a beatification on 1 May to move one step mass.

In the TV question and answer session on Friday, which urged Pope, Christians in the war-torn Iraq "against the temptation to emigrate the very understandable in the circumstances, the it in life."

The program revealed a rich tension between the mysteries of faith and the limitations of the TV interview format.

Asked by an Italian man, "what is Jesus doing in the time between his death and resurrection?" replied the Pope: "This descent of Jesus soul should be presented to the other as a geographical or a spatial travel from one continent." "It is the journey of the soul."

Elena, a seven year old tsunami survivors from Japan, asked: "why children need to be sad?" "Please the Pope, I with God, speaks to me to explain?"

The Pope replied, "this suffering was not empty, it was not free, but behind it was a good plan."

"Can you be sure that God will help them," he added.

The Pope said a woman whose son had been in a vegetative coma since April 2009 that "certainly his soul in his body still exists."

The television interview was part of a talk show where a group of three experts discussed the crucifixion. A slogan at the bottom of the screen read "Answers, the Pope to questions about Jesus."

Later Friday, was to attend a good Friday ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica and then run the annual planned stations of the cross procession in close to the Colosseum Benedict.

The texts for the procession this year were of several nuns, who posted the first time, the Pope prepared by women will read texts.

On Friday, the Vatican also announced that Benedict would be the first Pope call space. On 4 may, he is expected at the contact binds with two Italian astronauts of space shuttle endeavour with the station in the satellite be board the international space station.

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Japan ear first 50 billion dollars for post-quake rebuild - Reuters

Tsunami victims rest was devastated after observing a minute of silence at 14: 46 local time at a shelter in Watari, Miyagi Prefecture, 22 April 2011. area by the massive earthquake of 9.0, which on 11 March 14:46 local time and tsunami hit. Victims in this shelter observe a minute of silence every day.

Credit: Reuters/Toru HanaiBy Tetsushi Kajimoto and Linda victory

TOKYO | Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:41 pm EDT

Tokyo (Reuters) - Japan's Cabinet approved nearly $50 billion of expenditure for post earthquake reconstruction, a down payment on the country's largest public works on Friday effort in six decades.

Emergency of budget 4 trillion yen ($48.5 billion), which probably followed expenditures are packages, by further reconstruction is the shadow still provided by the total cost of the 11 March earthquake caused damage and tsunami, estimated at $300 billion.

"With this budget, we take a step forward in the direction of reconstruction... and in the direction of the economy, restart" Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda told reporters after a cabinet meeting.

Financing the next packages are much more difficult that they should control a mix to include and borrowing Japanese debt load could weigh on economy.

Control when Prime Minister Naoto Kan, weakened by poor polls and in the close constant not can critique, the laws by the Parliament, he can be forced to step down, analysts say.

The earthquake of magnitude 9.0 and 15 m (50-ft) tsunami that followed caused Japan's worst crisis since World War two, to kill up to 28,000 people and destroying thousands of houses.

It smashed also a nuclear power plant that radiation leaking started a situation that says the plant operators could take to bring under control throughout the year.

The budget is presented to Parliament next week and is expected to be adopted in May.

"Caused great problems"

Prime Minister Kan, who was accused, of his own party of opposition politicians and Quake response of triple disaster, no need to take survivors, command of the country, is to create an opportunity for national "rebirth." said

A Jiji news agency poll showed kan's support rate amounted to 20.5 percent, plus a little 1.6 points over the previous month, with more than three out of four voters say that he had exercised little or even no leadership on the nuclear crisis. About 57 percent said they were a tax rise for the financing of reconstruction 38.6%, are not supported.

Released in a Reuters poll of private investors Friday 83 percent of those polled said they rejected or strongly disapproved of the administration handling of the crisis.

Northeast of the country as well as the attempt, which destroyed rebuild, Japan has also with the world's worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, to fight the destruction of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, 240 km (150 miles) from Tokyo.

Radiation spilled out of the facility after a hydrogen explosion, and in their fight to cool the fuel melting engineers pumped radioactive water in the Pacific, a move that worried Japan's neighbors about the spread of contamination.

Masataka Shimizu, the much-criticized President of the operator Tokyo electric power (TEPCO), visited an evacuation Center for the first time since the disaster struck, kneeling and bowing deeply in the evacuated.

"I want to work hard, so that you can go home," he said. Mostly muted evacuated pleaded with him, to the crisis to end Express, so that she could return to their homes. "I want to do, as if it had happened to your own family," said a man.

Earlier, excused Shimizu in person's dressed in blue clothes, Fukushima local Governor Yuhei Sato.

"I apologize from my heart for the great effort that many people in society arise," he said.

Shimizu's company has the dangers to downplay and ignore warnings about the risk one Quake and tsunami striking the plant, accused been as also react bad to the damage.

Japan said this week it someone in a 20 km (12 miles) evacuation zone to Fukushima Daiichi would ban.

Kan has to leave residents in some areas outside this zone to prevent radiation instructed, Japan's top Government spokesman Yukio Edano said on Friday, but it is unclear how many people affected.

"We have not the number." We will work with local authorities in drawing up this data, "Said an official with Japan's nuclear and industrial Agency."

(Additional reporting by Kazunori Takada;) Letter from Daniel Magnowski; (Editing by Alex Richardson)

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To develop, a country must first shrink?

By David Lynch J.

The idea that cutting government spending can trigger an immediate economic recovery lies in the heart of the new proposal of the Chairman of the Committee on House budget, Paul Ryan. Credit conservatives the phenomenon called "expansionist fiscal contraction" with the revitalization of the economy of the Sweden and Canada, among others. Here is how the evidence stacks.

NEW ZEALAND, 1984
Pro: Conservative U.S. point downward without compromise of New Zealand compensation, down nearly 60% from 1984 to 1996 and the support of the cross-party for an ambitious program of reforms. Those included slashing rates of tax for individuals and companies, selling of State monopolies and get rid of agricultural subsidies. The reward: public debt is reduced and the accelerated growth of 4.7% in 1993.

Con: Reforms were less successful for workers: unemployment averaging more than 8% in the 1990s and was raised at the end of the decade when the transformation began in 1984.

IRELAND, 1987
Pro: Hampered by levels of third world debt, 18% unemployment and debilitating brain drain leakage, Ireland in 1987 began a new course. It significantly reduced its budget deficit and implement the foreign direct investment in the Centre of its economic strategy. The thrust of growth as a result earned the country the moniker "Celtic Tiger". In 1997, the Irish contentedly per capita income more than their former colonial masters in the United Kingdom.

Con: The Ireland recovery was assisted by two devaluations of the currencies which stimulated exports. Improving tax also decreased the interest rates of two figures, providing boost impossible to replicate today, when short-term rates are effectively zero. Ireland, before veering in a bubble of expensive, like credit something to the United States can count on: demand strong for its exports.

CANADA, 1993
Pro: A new Government reduced federal spending as a percentage of GDP from 22.3% to 17.9% in four years. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien reduced unemployment payments, abandoned the expensive EH-101 helicopter program as part of a wider withdrawal in defence spending and reformed national pension plan. Economic growth has elapsed and the federal budget moved from deficit to surplus.

Con: As the Ireland, the Canadian economy has obtained an important coup de pouce of devaluation of the currency strong. Caused lower loons of annual exports to more than double in 2000. It is unlikely that trading partners of the U.S. tolerate a similar dip in the greenback, path given that every major economy attempts to export its to prosperity. The reorganization of his pension, Canada covered taxes on employers and employees, the anathema to conservative U.S..

SWEDEN, 1994
Pro: The classic European State welfare seemed to have reached an impasse in the 1990s. A bust of housing and the banking crisis had it riddled with debt and 11% unemployment. In 1994, the Sweden began shrinking of the Government of the economy of 71% to less than 60 per cent six years later. Growth average of 3.5% per year from 1994 to 2000.

Con: Success of some of these changes is difficult to assess since the beginning of the 1990s were a period of epic financial crisis. Sweden was one of the few countries in Europe to partially privatize its pension system. But the pioneering move seems less attractive after a decade of walk on water stocks.

Lynch is a reporter for Bloomberg News.

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"Evil" Dino relating to first carnivores

A new carnivorous dinosaur closes the evolutionary gap between the world's oldest dinosaur and later Jurassic dinosaur theropod species. With the name "evil spirit buck-toothed reptiles", the dinosaur had a unusual snout and teeth. The dinosaurs lived in the present-day ghost Ranch 205 million years ago, national monument, which inspired the animal spooky name.

A new "evil spirit" buck-toothed dinosaur recently excavated in New Mexico represents an evolutionary link between the world's oldest known carnivorous dinosaurs and later meat-loving Dino species from the Jurassic, according to new research.

The dinosaur, with the name of Daemonosaurus Chauliodus (evil spirit buck-toothed reptile), is described in the latest edition of the proceedings of the Royal Society b.

The dinosaurs lived in the present-day ghost Ranch 205 million years ago, national monument, which inspired the animal spooky name. During the late Triassic, this place was a dinosaur paradise, with warm weather and seasonal rainfall. The other animals there could at the time as dinosaurs, not Daemonosaurus distinctive "grin." missed such as the predatory Coelophysis Bauri

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"Daemonosaurus has an unusually short muzzle with few teeth in the maxilla and the design front large teeth in the upper jaw," head said author Hans-Dieter sues discovery messages, added, that the dinosaurs probably about four to five metres in length measured.

From a fossilized skull and neck discovered remains of the dinosaur, sues, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian National Museum of natural history, and his colleagues.

The scientific analysis of the remains found that the dinosaurs part of Triassic old school with some advanced features, with the later Jurassic dinosaurs.

The triad-linked Daemonosaurus include the small hole in the nose between the nostril and the eye socket. It was also more primitive bone related to the air bags of a bird-like lung system. Later, more dinosaurs was developed.

Evil spirit specialized teeth, but show that it was an advanced dinosaur than its earlier relatives. As with the time developed carnivorous dinosaurs as were the famous Tyrannosaurus Rex, longer snouts with more teeth, complex openings in the snout and limbs, the more bird-like.

The oldest known dinosaurs walked or ran on its hind legs and early carnivorous fish such as Herrerasaurus. It existed in what today Argentina and Brazil are about 230 million years ago. Some paleontologists questions due to a gap in the fossil record these early dinosaurs were bipedal carnivores, but Daemonosaurus strengthens the argument that they theropods and helps to fill in the evolutionary gap.

Although the weather good for dinosaurs in late Triassic New Mexico was, recommend the new findings this place was a Dino-eating Dino world very much.

"Daemonosaurus probably preyed on and was preyed on by the advanced Coelophysis", Suez said. "There were in addition large non-dinosaurian predators, including a large early crocodile relative and a large Phytosaurs."

Randall of Irmis, curator of paleontology at the University of Utah, told Discovery News "This discovery is interesting for several reasons." First thought long paleontologists that the only dinosaur species has been preserved in the quarry of Coelophysis Coelophysis Bauri itself; "This is the first conclusive evidence of other dinosaurs of world-famous deposit."

"Secondly," he added, "it is important because as the authors, Daimonosaurus characters, the gap between the very basal and early theropods such as Herrerasaurus and Eoraptor, and later theropods such as Tawa and Coelophysis."

All of the paleontologists form and teeth, which they say under meat-loving dinosaurs are confused by the evil spirit "unusual" skull are unique. Future research can what ecological roll show these characteristic features Daimonosaurus may have played during his lifetime.

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'First orbit' shows which Yuri saw

"The feeling of weightlessness was something unusual conditions compared to Earth." Here, feeling you as if you were in a horizontal position in belt. "You feel like you are exposed to." - Yuri Gagarin on it, the first man in space

April 1961 a Russian cosmonaut with the name Yuri Gagarin space history, when he first man blast off known was in the space on board a bell-shaped capsule as Voystok 1 made 12.

In 108 minutes, he circled the Earth on the Pacific Ocean, the Strait of Magellan, the Atlantic and Africa passed, before Voystok 1 of the Earth's atmosphere ended up and landed near the town of Engels, Russia.

Gagarin was a national hero overnight, and his untimely death seven years later during the pilot phase a MiG-15 fighter jet during a routine flight training was a national tragedy in the Soviet Union. But Gagarin's status as hero transcends now mother Russia: "Yuri's night" is a global Webcast firmly in his honour which takes place every year on April 12.

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And this year it's a special twist to honor the 50th anniversary of that historic flight. "Yuri's night" 2011 will feature the Weltpremiere--on YouTube, not weniger-- an experimental documentary first orbit, Chris Riley, Co-Director of called in the shadow of the moon. Undertaken in cooperation with the European Space Agency, was first orbit aboard the international space station ISS Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, imposed an accomplished area photographer and is a NASA astronaut.

See, while we audio Gagarin's response, as it from orbit, the cosmonauts viewing Earth took no video recording. Riley and Nespoli wanted to correct: Nespoli new carefully created the same view, the Gagarin, at the same time of day-as far as possible, would have had in any case.

Even better, Riley made the film free of charge, so he doesnt have to recoup costs. So all we can for the first performance, tune in as he his film will be given away "for the entire humanity." tune on YouTube, if the clock midnight at the international date line schl?gt-- or you can catch one of the many Rebroadcasts as "Yuri's night" at events all over the world is celebrated.

"First orbit" is now live:

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Nigeria's first election results indicate losses for the ruling party - Christian Science Monitor

On Saturday Nigeria in about 85 percent of the country in elections to the legislative elected. These elections were postponed by a week after logistical problems on 2 April, and these problems take into account the delays, which affect about 15 percent of the country further have.

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Yesterday began to get results from the districts that have voted, and the new pattern confirms what some analysts losses for the ruling people's Democratic Party (PDP) predicted, namely. So far, the action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), which has much of Southwest seems a large beneficiary. The same analysts have predicted losses for the PDP in the parliamentary elections but tend to predict that acting President Goodluck Jonathan will win re-election. The PDP retains the Presidency, but the party and the President will face a different political landscape.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves - we see the results we have.

On the integrity of the voting, voting was not quite smooth on Saturday - bombs exploded in several areas, and leader of the opposition in the State of Bayelsa State observers are largely crying foul about the elections - but praised the conduct of the elections. The EU Chief Observer, said: "We have observed a generally encouraging conduct of the elections, in a generally peaceful atmosphere." The general consensus so far that seems 2011 an improvement compared to 2007.

With more confidence in the process, Nigerians and international observers show more faith in the results. It is on value paid attention as to tabular form shows the results. A Nigerian friend here has emphasised opposition parties, the Guide to the simple me in Chicago as curious, monitoring the physical tabulation of the vote. Groups from existence voters and party officials present in the polling stations, and you are to see and verify the official results, my friend says, will bring more transparency to the count. Reuters notes that this phenomenon also underlines also the logistical difficulties, which votes count in remote areas, where in some cases, results are collected by officials on the horse's back.

Now, the actual results. The best sources I've found are live updates and the choice of the coalition of Nigeria results page 234. I quote from the latter:

Senatorial elections

37 Results have 94 Senate districts would get. The analysis of the results obtained show that ACN has 13 seats (35.1 percent), APGA 1 seat (2.7 percent), CPC 3 seats (8.1 percent), LP 1 seat (2.7 percent), PDP 19 seats (51.4%)

Bundestag election House of representatives

76 Results have of 315 constituencies would get. The analysis of the results obtained show that ACCORD 3 seats (3.9 percent), ACN 21 seats (27.6%), APGA 2 seats (2.6 percent), CPC 5 seats (6.6 per cent), LP 1 seat (1.3%), PDP 43 seats (56.6 percent), PPN 1 seat (1.3%).

The coalition has also results by district.

Comment on the elections comes fast and furious. Useful analysis of the results can be found next to VOA, Bloomberg and 234. One thing that many emphasize these outlets is defeated not only the pattern of results and the strong showing of the opposition, but also the high-profile of some PDP members, such as the speaker of the House.

Do to the opposition gains for President Jonathan my trouble? The financial times writes, "the results are an indication of the public mood before the presidential polls next weekend". That could make Jonathan. On the other hand, praise for improvements in the electoral process to Jonathan is remuneration in some segments of the Nigerian press. So, the political signals are mixed well. Presidents destinies are bound in any case not always fully to the performance of their parties.

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First time sex helps male self-image, hurts woman

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Both male and female young people experience published adolescence shifts the overall satisfaction with their performances according to sex for the first time, according to a study in the journal.

Researchers found that in the short term, male subjects with their body image were satisfied after sex for the first time, while female subjects with their appearance in the same situation less were satisfied.

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This trend does not appear in the long run, though, claims a better body image in the course of time than their male counterparts as well as women.

Although promote campaigns to limit safe sex among teens, unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, the sexual intercourse for the first time with little research has examined the psychological effects. In addition, the authors point out, very few studies have focused on men and women in the late Adoleszenz--teens about 18 years old.

In the study, researchers surveyed 100 first-year students, who were abstinent at the beginning of the study but sexual intercourse for the first time during the study had one and a half years. Subjects were asked whether she had worked in the sex and questions answered their appearance with their overall satisfaction.

Similar to previous research on younger teenagers, reported male subjects a total higher satisfaction with their appearance after sex for the first time, while female subjects the contrary reported.

Approval of more research is necessary, still think the authors of the study, cultural influences these differences into account could.

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Because sex often to have as a way for young men prove their masculinity, they write seen is, it seems that "do it" for the first time a male young people image would boost of their own.

Also sexual partner can as a result of women tends to be selective when choosing, male subjects get validation of selected is from a member of the opposite sex, the researchers say.

With a sting on why female subjects happy were less with her looks after sex for the first time not either easy. The researchers speculate that women intensive focus on their Aussehen--fed unrealistic images of women in media news-probably is one of many factors.

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