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BEIJING , China — The death rate in China rose to 90 today due to flood, and 1.4 million people were send away as the flooded region prepared for more serious storms.

Fifty people were furthermore missing in nine states and district across China’s south, the state flood control administrative center said. Water levels have gush passed safe levels in many of rivers, counting the Pearl River in the center of China’s industrialized region.

As of 8 a.m. Saturday, 5.5 million public had been hit by flooding, the organization reported.
Its deputy director said further 1.4 million people had been evacuated from low-lying areas from the time when Thursday, the Chinese Daily reported.

The National Meteorological Center alerted of heavy rains till Sunday afternoon.
Strong rainstorms have distorted reservoirs, overflowed rivers, affected landslides and power outages, and broken highways, the disaster relief group website informed.

Chinese Daily reported that nine local officials in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region had been punished for negligence of duty in flood work, counting a reservoir monitor who was trapped playing poker.

China’s monsoon rain, which starts in May, follows the most horrible drought in a century for the southern Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. Drought hit 61 million public, leaving millions lacking drinking water and 12 million acres (5 million hectares) infertile from the time of last year.

Just nine months after harvesting a historic victory at the polls and end half a century of political hegemony of the right, Prime Minister of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama Social Democrat, has resigned today yet another crisis intensifying government gets their country.

With tears in his eyes, Hatoyama has justified his resignation saying that “to revitalize our group, we must return to a Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) totally clean.” Thus, the still prime minister, who will remain in office until his successor choose a political party on Friday, the DPJ is trying to trace the flight before the elections in the Upper House of the Diet (parliament) convened for the next July 11.
With his popularity rating plummeting from 70 to 17 percent in less than a yearTo Hatoyama has not been forced to resign for not fulfilling its promise to close the Futenma U.S. base on the island of Okinawa. Although Prime Minister had campaigned against such facilities in the Marines last week was forced to “Compromise” with the continuidad de la base, To be transferred to Henok, a less populated area to the north of the island.

But even this plan has failed to meet the people of Okinawa, which protest against U.S. base by noise and pollution caused their planes and helicopters, as well as violent incidents and violations that have staged some Marines over the past years.
“He caused problems for the residents of Okinawa,” he acknowledged Hatoyama, who justified the continuation of the base because “the collaboration between Japan and the U.S. is inevitable for peace and security in Asia, so I had to ask the people of Okinawa, with resignation, to accept that burden. ”

Such a decision last week eroded his coalition government, which was dismissed Minister of Equality, Social Mizuho Fukushima, For opposing the American military base.

“The work the Government has not reflected the needs of the people,” intoned the “mea culpa” Hatoyama, who does not go alone, but accompanied by the secretary general of his party, the influential Ichiro Ozawa. Beset by a financing scandal DPJ has also splashed Hatoyama, whose powerful family spent millions in donations to his campaign, Ozawa is regarded as a “shogun” in the shadow government pulling the strings, but their power has not prevented the prosecutors questioned what the police search his office.

Four prime ministers in four years:
Hatoyama’s resignation plunges into a new political crisis in Japan, Who has had four prime ministers over the past four years. On this occasion, moreover, the resignation comes at a critical time as the Executive is developing a plan for a massive cut in public spending to curb Japan’s huge debt, which amounts to 200 percent of gross domestic product ( GDP).
From such a gigantic task will Hatoyama’s successor. In the pools and is postulated as a favorite Finance Minister, Naoto Kan, Who has pushed the Bank of Japan to fight deflation experienced by the economy and is in favor of raising taxes by five percent to ensure social guarantees in the future.

With the departure of Hatoyama, 63, ends abruptly optimism in the economic and social recovery in Japan that resulted in his landslide election victory last August. But still prime minister, whose family owns multi-million dollar company and Bridgestone tires are known as the “Kennedy” in Japan, has been doomed to resign for failing to keep his campaign promise to close the U.S. base in Okinawa.

Naoto Kan, has announced his candidacy following the resignation of prime minister Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, after eight months in office. Japanese media consider Khan, 63, one of the founders of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the hot favorite ahead of other ministers and Seiji Maehara, Transportation, and Katsuya Okada, foreign.

The decision not to relocate the U.S. base at Futenma off the island of Okinawa has finally cost him his place to Hatoyama. His cabinet has been weakened after Sunday’s minority Social Democratic Party (PSD) left the coalition government. Two days earlier, Hatoyama expelled from office consumption Minister Mizuho Fukushima, the PSD, after refusing to give his approval to the decision to keep the base on the island.

The resignation of prime minister until now, 63 years, mainly due to pressure from members of his own party, Hatoyama have considered a burden in order to obtain good results in elections for the upper house of the next 11 July, a crucial election for the political future of the DPJ, which must push forward a complicated package of reforms to the revival of Japan’s economy shabby.

After sweeping the 2009 legislative elections and overcome the right- Liberal Democrats, who had cornered power almost continuously for half a century in Japan, Hatoyama began his term last September with a handful of ambitious election promises reforms and under the arm and a near 90% approval, a popularity that so far only had surpassed the former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

But Hatoyama has seen the popularity of his cabinet have fallen sharply every month, until an apobación index below 20%, according to recent polls conducted by Kyodo news agency and the newspaper Asahi Shimbun.

In this disaster have influenced both the financial scandals that have punctuated Hatoyama himself and another party heavyweight, the secretary general Ichiro Ozawa, the large number of campaign promises unfulfilled, to the extent that you continue to corrections of the now former Prime Minister have come to carve out a political image of naive and unprepared for the job.

The unfulfilled promise to withdraw Futenma in Okinawa has been the one that has eroded his image, revealing to the public inability to negotiate an agreement that all parties contented. Hatoyama decided only at the end to reach an agreement with Washington, which wanted to keep the base on the island, leaving aside the demands of the authorities in Okinawa and the SPD, which required the relocation of Futenma outside the prefecture. An error has ended up costing him his job.

The right-hander Julio Aparicio has left the ICU of the hospital in Madrid October 12 and has been transferred to a conventional ward, says the latest medical report signed by the medical director of the center. Aparicio “progressing well, is stable, conscious, spontaneous ventilation and has been the tracheostomy tube removed,” the note. The bullfighter suffered a serious goring in the past 21 Sales when he lost his footing during the slaughter of crutch to first bull of the afternoon. The bull went after him when he was on the floor and pushed the plunger up to the neck and pulled him out through the mouth.

Two weeks later, after a relapse that brought him back to ICU , Who had already left the state of the matador has improved sufficiently to allow it to be transferred to plant. Aparicio, 40, has already begun to eat solid food and even to speak, although with great difficulty, EFE reported close to the bullfighter. Reported that last night gave him a yogurt to see how assimilated the breath sound and that has already begun to pronounce “loose words,” although “the family will not let him.”

All good news about the health of the bullfighter, which remains stable and conscious, and even uneasy about the course of the fairs of San Isidro and Anniversary of Sales, on which never stops to ask colleagues and members of his gang you can visit. The way to communicate with his family and doctors is through a book, which continues to point and ask about your health, how are his own and other personal concerns. Dr. Montalvo, who has been tracking Aparicio, is still cautious about recovery times of the bullfighter.

Slow recovery

All that is envisaged is that the recovery will be long and slow Aparicio. “First and most important is rest, and pray that never again will appear as complications and shot. We believe that the fat has already passed, and that’s what more does not matter now,” the sources added. His family is not separated for even a second of it, despite the brevity of the visits, 20 minutes in the morning and as many for the evening and their swords boy, Francisco José García “El Niño de las Ventas “is almost twenty-four hours in the hospital. Your support as a boy of swords, gang members, friends, colleagues, journalists and also stand guard outside the hospital.

John Mayer will not be Rock in Rio Madrid 2010 . A two-day festival, the singer and guitarist has alleged health problems for not attending the event you meet in Arganda del Rey (Madrid) to some 300,000 people. The macro-meets stars like Shakira, Metallica and David Guetta.

The organization explained that Macaco Mayer take over as the main stage. Macaco turn will be replaced by an artist to be confirmed “shortly.” On Friday 4 also will play Sloth, Bon Jovi and Paul Van Dyck.

“After a concert in Copenhagen which had exhausted all tickets, John Mayer was forced to cancel the second. Unfortunately, the disease has set aside the rest of his performances in Europe,” explains their website. This implies that cancel concerts in Manchester, Madrid and Amsterdam. According to the text, Mayer traveled to the U.S., where he expects “a full recovery under the supervision of a doctor.”

Your participation in the macrofestival would mean his first concert in Spain. The singer / guitarist can be assumed, among other things, the seven Grammys and have shared the stage with artists like Eric Clapton. His face is common in the media but not always for his music: some unfortunate statements about the black community, which is referred to as niggers (Something like nigger) Forced him to apologize.

Al and Tipper Gore’s separation after 40 years of marriage wasn’t a surprise to some counselors and divorce lawyers, who said it isn’t rare for long-term marriages to fail.

“There are a lot of reasons why that can happen,” said Barbara Feinberg, a psychologist in Carrollwood who has been practicing for 24 years. She said couples who marry young have a special hurdle to jump if they want to be a part of a life-long marriage.

“Oftentimes, the first time we marry, we marry someone opposite of us; the idea being that opposites attract,” she said. “But sometimes, those characteristics become a problem and people start to assert their differences over time.”

Some can find ways to continue celebrating the differences, she said, “to use opposite characteristics in a positive way.”

But apparently not the Gores, she said, although the former vice president and his wife had a good run.

“The Gores,” she said, “are pretty opposite from what I understand. They were in the political limelight for quite a while, and often people stay together for appearances. They just kind of limp along. They stay together for the children.

“And, in some instances,” she said, “people have relationships on the side.”

For most celebrity watchers, the Gore marriage was picture perfect. Al Gore even once said his romance with his wife inspired the 1970 novel “Love Story,” although author Erich Segal said that was only partially true.

The Gores made out on stage in front of millions of people at the Democratic National Convention in 2000. But in recent years, the couple “grew apart,” friends and close associates have said.

In Catherine W. Real’s line of work, divorces involving couples married for decades is not unusual.

“Indeed,” said the Tampa lawyer, who has an office in Hyde Park and has practiced law for more than two decades, “the number of divorces of long-married couples has not been increasing exponentially, but we are experiencing a significant number; more now than before.”

She said that in the Gores’ case, economics probably wasn’t a factor, whereas it is in the demise of most long-term marriages. Many well-to-do people lost a lot of money in the recession, and those pressures have resulted in splits after decades together.

Another major factor is relationships outside the marriage.

“If one of parties doesn’t have a significant other in the wings,” she said, “it’s a rare occurrence. Usually, the male is the one with a significant other, but women also are guilty.”

Another reason long-term marriages go kaput is that the children have grown and moved out.

They are no longer the bind that ties a couple together, Real said, although the children are emotionally impacted by divorce whether they are adults or not.

“If we don’t think adult offspring of divorcing couples are tremendously and adversely affected,” she said, “we’re mistaken.”

In the Gore case, unrealized aspirations may also have played a part, she said.

Gore lost the 2000 presidential campaign when a controversial Florida Supreme Court decision gave the state’s electoral votes to George W. Bush. Gore had won the national popular vote.

“Obviously, their lifelong goals were not achieved,” Real said. “He should have been president of the United States. What a shock to a lifelong dream.”

Such circumstances can result in depression and mental health issues that put pressures on a marriage, she said.

“In my opinion, mental health issues probably are the second biggest reason long-term marriages find themselves in divorce court,” she said.

Real said her line of work is flourishing.

“There’s no recession in divorce in state of Florida and I presume everywhere else,” she said. “It’s good for divorce lawyers but horrible for society and for children.”

Lady Gaga appeared on Larry King’s prime-time show on Tuesday to speak honestly and candidly about many topics and questions that Larry had.

Included was how she was preparing to tour with Michael Jackson on his This Is It tour. When King asked her, she seemed a little reluctant. “I don’t necessarily like to talk about those very personal things that happened but I guess I can speak about it now.” And what she had to say was magical.

“I was actually asked to open for Michael and his tour and we were going to open for him at the 02 and we were working on making it happen.”

Gaga also said that there was talk that the opening acts would perform with Michael during the main show. That meant that two of the biggest musical acts would join forces and create a duet that would be surely unforgettable.

Aside from show business talk, Larry asked Gaga about her health and how she was being tested for Lupus. While Gaga has the disease present in her family, she has shown to be only “borderline positive.” It is not currently having a severe impact on her life.

Here in this cradle secular Monastery, once again revives and strengthens our language suit with the International Seminar on Language and Journalism, which in this fifth edition, after being inaugurated yesterday by the Princess of Asturias, is by entitled “The teachers of Spanish journalists.” “It is very useful for journalists to reflect on language use, because its task with respect to the language is of immense responsibility,” said Letizia. Furthermore, it is difficult to assume that the journalist who cares so will the words with the quality, clarity and accountability of the information. ” Later, the Princess wanted to emphasize that “communicate well is what defines the journalists, who often become guides, because every society needs references and journalism is the place where the citizen comes to regard himself and look at your country, to secure their convictions and allay their fears. ”

Previously, the director of the Royal Academy, Victor Garcia , had opened the act referring to the responsibility that journalists “have contracted with the Spanish language” and recalled that “the media are sounding the standard of our language, Spanish is on the street, and on the street should also be made the newspapers. ”
Finally, De la Concha said that in some media such as gossip, is carrying out what he called “widespread popularization and foul-mouthed and unisex,” which involves a blunting of social sensitivity and a “poverty of values moral. ” The magic is clear to the director of the SAR: “What distinguishes a hack of a journalist is a good use of language. You have the floor. ”
And then Alex had it …, president of the Agencia Efe, who emphasized that in the genetic sequence of journalists have already registered values of defending the weak, the fight against corruption, honest research, but stressed that in these same chromosomes’ has been sent as well the force in defense of good use of our main tool, language. It is impossible to respect others if we have not met before the value and consequences of every word we utter. ”
Ángel Cano, BBVA’s CEO, noted “the positive role played by journalists in the protection of Spanish, since in many cases, effectively replacing the traditional role of schools in the transmission and innovation of this language alive,” before Pedro Sanz, president of the Government of .. …, confirmed the demand for accountability on the Press in the use of Spanish, because, as he said, “people who read newspapers, listen to the radio, watching TV or is reported Internet is much more than grammar and spelling reads. ”

For three days, the Spanish back to beat here in the .., because, as noted by Manuel Vicente in the inaugural lecture (”Journalism under the rule of the verb ‘),’ Spanish is a way of breathing. The verb is still the king, either analog or virtually. “

Microsoft has Window publicly defendeds in the face of different news published claiming that Google is rejecting your operating system, Windows, due to security concerns.

So far Google has not confirmed the information and has only been limited to say do not comment on its operational decisions. However, the news, originally published in the Financial Times, spread like wildfire on the Internet and Microsoft has said that this requires a quick and firm rebuttal.

Google unnamed sources told the Times that the new hires have had the option of using Apple computers or Linux machines.

The operating system Windows was the origin of an attack by Chinese hackers late last year that ended taking Google to close its search engine in China. On the other hand must take into account the interest of Google’s own operating system, Android, on which is working to challenge Windows.

Through a Brandon LeBlanc Blog, Microsoft, wrote that there has been some coverage “on the security of Windows and whether a particular company is reducing its use of Windows or not.”

“We think it is a good opportunity to clarify things,” says LeBlanc then added that security concerns also affect the software created by Google and Apple and that “when it comes to security, including Hackers admit that we are doing better job of making our products more secure than any other “.

“And it’s not just hackers, industry leaders like Cisco regularly tell us that our focus and investment in security remain higher than those of others,” LeBlanc also stated in his blog.

Steve Jobs has been involved in a long talk in the D8 conference held in California. The Apple boss has assured that we are in the era of the end of the traditional PC. An omen, as formulated, which detailed above. According Jobs, When the U.S. was an agrarian nation trucks because cars were needed on farms. As cities grew began arriving cars with power steering and automatic transmission. “The PC will be like the trucks, there will be but only a small proportion of the population in need.” Jobs argues that advances in processors and chips allow devices like the IPAD do the tasks normally assigned to the desktop. The beginning of the post-PC era is uncomfortable but inevitable. With tablets, for example, “you have a direct and intimate relationship with the Internet, media, applications and contended,” he said. Jobs explained that he conceived the IPAD before the iPhone, but stopped the project because it saw the opportunity to break the phone market, much larger, in number of units, that of computers.

About image filtering Gizmodo’s iPhone, Jobs has said it is not clear that a company engineer in a brewery let him and points out the hypothesis of a robbery. “It’sa great story,” which does not mean sex, which can become a movie. Jobs says that many people advised him not to conflict with Gizmodo and journalist, but has argued that can not afford to buy a property is stolen and that they try to extort money.

Google and Flash

In the dialogue, has treated the competition with Google. Jobs has been for Google who has decided to compete with Apple, referring to its entry into the mobile phone market because the operating system announced Chrome is not yet a reality. “It is they who decided to compete with us because Apple has not entered into the search market.” Jobs rejects talk of war but admits that even in his day looked at the competition from Microsoft as a platform war and perhaps thereby lost. “We are dedicated to building the best product.” Jobs prefers the particular to the corporate market because the consumer decides what he likes and business buying decisions are made by people in departments that at times, “are confusing.”

Jobs has returned to justify its opposition to Flash. Apple says, is successful because he knows choose to be riding horses and recalled that the company, iMac, was the first to leave discs floppy. “If you can choose you save an enormous amount of work.”

Labour exploitation

With respect to the string of suicides in the Chinese factory Foxconn, which assembles the IPAD and other products from Apple and other multinationals, Jobs has expressed concern, said they are investigating the situation but did not think it is a sweatshop . Following these suicides anunicado Foxconn has a 20% wage increase for all workers in their plants. The company maintains that behind the suicides are personal reasons, but several labor lawyers attribute it to pressure aisalmiento productive and social workers. The average monthly wage of an employee of the company is around 112 euros a month, but accumulated overtime can reach 236. Chinese activists have attempt, investigating the employment status of these plants. One of them, who got hired, has been arrested by police and had to sign a confidentiality agreement.

The dialogue has also appeared on the subject of App Store and Apple its control over the contents of the same where, for example, it excludes the erotic type. Jobs reiterated that Apple supports open platforms such as HTML5 and in the case of the Apple Store is a set of rules designed to ensure smooth operation.

Apart from this meeting in California, Jobs used other platforms to explain their positions. One of them, very popular recently by the boss of Apple, is e electronic blackboards. A recent controversy has been open about pornography and censorship of erotic content in Apple applications. In site which, coincidentally, is owned by the same company that Gizmodo, an enraged surfer refused a couple of weeks ago that Apple represent the revolution because the revolution is liberty. And Jobs will respondióque freedom consists in being freed from programs that steal personal Datran, released software that drain the battery “free from pornography. The message concludes with the same idea in California, “times change and some representatives of the traditional PC world feel that their world is in the process of disappearing and they are right.” The porn industry to the evidence that it is impossible enter the business applications Apple is adapting its website, without Flash, so they can be accessible from the browser of an iPhone or an IPAD.