Organizers display SKorea flag instead of NKorea

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) ? London Olympic organizers mistakenly displayed the South Korean flag on a jumbo screen instead of North Korea's before a women's soccer match Wednesday, prompting the North Koreans to refuse to take the field for nearly an hour.

The flag flap began during player introductions when a North Korean player was introduced along with a shot of the South Korean flag.

The match against Colombia was delayed for more than an hour, and organizers apologized for the error.

"If this matter couldn't have been resolved, then I thought going on is nonsense," coach Sin Ui Gun said through an interpreter after North Korea won 2-0. "We were angry because our players were introduced as if they were from South Korea, which may affect us very greatly as you might know."

The coach said the organizers corrected the mix-up, although it took some time. Large images of the North Korea flag were put up on both stadium jumbo screens during the delay and the players finally came out.

The team manager refused to have the coach respond to a question of what North Korea leader Kim Jong Un's reaction would have been to the incident.

The London organizers took the blame.

"Today ahead of the women's football match at Hampden Park, the South Korean flag was shown on a big screen video package instead of the North Korean flag. Clearly that is a mistake," organizers said. "We will apologize to the team and the National Olympic Committee and steps will be taken to ensure this does not happen again."

The statement, however, included another gaffe: It failed to refer to the countries by their official Olympic names, causing organizers to reissue the statement using "Republic of Korea" and "Democratic People's Republic of Korea."

Commenting on the flap, the International Olympic Committee pointed to London officials.

"It's a matter for the organizers," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said.

The players walked past reporters after the match still in uniform without stopping. Two were carrying flags ? the correct North Korean one.

North Korea and South Korea are bitter rivals. The flag mix-up comes amid high tension on the Korean Peninsula following a North Korean long-range rocket launch in April and repeated threats by Pyongyang to attack the South. Seoul and the U.S. have called the launch a cover for a test of banned long-range missile technology. North Korea says the rocket, which broke apart shortly after liftoff, was meant to put a satellite into orbit.

Wednesday's match started 1 hour, 5 minutes late. Fans were confused at first, then turned to doing the wave and finally started booing as they became increasingly restless.

An announcement was eventually made over the public address system about 20 minutes after the scheduled 7:45 p.m. (1845 GMT; 2:45 p.m. EDT) kick off, apologizing for the delay and saying it "was due to an issue behind the scenes. We're trying to resolve it and we'll keep you updated."

To pass more time, music was pumped from the speakers. Players from both teams finally emerged onto the field about 40 minutes after the match was supposed to begin. The players warmed up again for 10 minutes before they returned inside the tunnel to be led out again for the national anthems.

"It was very difficult after the incident," Colombia coach Ricardo Rozo said. "We had to wait and warm up again. It affected the mood because we were ready for the match.

"I've never had anything happen like this before, where a country can delay a match for an hour."

Flag controversies aren't new at the Olympics. At the 1992 Barcelona Games, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley from the Dream Team draped U.S. flags over their shoulders to hide a rival sponsor's logo on their jackets when they received their gold medals.

At the 2010 Vancouver Games, the Australians displayed a flag with a boxing kangaroo ? the mascot for the country's team ? in the athletes village, despite an International Olympic Committee rule that usually only permits official national flags to be displayed. The IOC eventually relented.

In 2000, sprinter Cathy Freeman caused a stir when she took a victory lap after winning the 400-meter final at the Sydney Games draped in the Aboriginal flag, which was not recognized as an official national flag by the IOC.

Also in 2000, North and South Korean athletes marched together at the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics under the unified Korea flag, sparking a standing ovation. But with relations deteriorating in the years since, each country insists on a separate flag.

Last month, there was another mix-up in Britain. British field hockey officials apologized to the South African women's team for playing the apartheid-era national anthem before one of its matches at the London Cup, a warm-up event for the Olympics.

The event's organizer, Great Britain Hockey, said it was an administrative mistake and offered a "full and unreserved apology."

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AP Sports Writer Joseph White contributed to this report.

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Congress candidate wins India presidential vote

Relatives throw flower petals as India's president elect Pranab Mukherjee addresses media outside his residence after wining in New Delhi, India, Sunday, July 22, 2012. The candidate from India?s governing Congress party, former Finance Minister Mukherjee, was declared winner Sunday in the election for the country?s next president, a largely ceremonial position. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)

Relatives throw flower petals as India's president elect Pranab Mukherjee addresses media outside his residence after wining in New Delhi, India, Sunday, July 22, 2012. The candidate from India?s governing Congress party, former Finance Minister Mukherjee, was declared winner Sunday in the election for the country?s next president, a largely ceremonial position. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)

India's President elect Pranab Mukherjee, right, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, greet the media outside Mukherjee's residence in New Delhi, India, Sunday, July 22, 2012. The candidate from India?s governing Congress party, former Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, was declared winner Sunday in the election for the country?s next president, a largely ceremonial position. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)

India's president elect Pranab Mukherjee greets media outside his residence after wining in New Delhi, India, Sunday, July 22, 2012. The candidate from India?s governing Congress party, former Finance Minister Mukherjee, was declared winner Sunday in the election for the country?s next president, a largely ceremonial position. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)

Activists of India's ruling Congress party apply colored powder on portrait of Pranab Mukherjee, as they celebrate his victory in India's presidential election in Kolkata, India, Sunday, July 22, 2012. Former Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the candidate from India's governing Congress party, has claimed victory in the election for the country?s next president, a largely ceremonial position. His rival, Purno Agitok Sangma, conceded defeat. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

India's President-elect Pranab Mukherjee greets journalists outside his residence after wining the presidential election in New Delhi, India, Sunday, July 22, 2012. Former Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the candidate from India's governing Congress party, has claimed victory in the election for the country's next president, a largely ceremonial position. (AP Photo/Pankaj Nangia)

NEW DELHI (AP) ? The candidate from India's governing Congress party, former Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, was declared winner Sunday in voting for the country's president, a largely ceremonial position.

Election official P.K. Agnihotri said Mukherjee, 76, had received more than twice as many votes as his rival in last Thursday's balloting by national and state legislators.

"I express deep gratitude to the people for electing me to this high office," Mukherjee said. He said he would try to justify the people's trust.

His rival, Purno Agitok Sangma, conceded defeat before the counting was complete Sunday. "I congratulate Mukherjee on his victory and I wish him success," he told reporters.

Mukherjee's elated supporters danced to the beat of drums and set off firecrackers outside his residence as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, the Congress party chief, arrived to congratulate him. Several opposition groups also backed Mukherjee.

Mukherjee and Sangma, a former speaker of Parliament, were competing to succeed India's first female president, Pratibha Devisingh Patil. Mukherjee is to be sworn in on Wednesday.

In India, the prime minister is the head of government and the president is mainly a figurehead.

Mukherjee has served previously as foreign minister, defense minister and finance minister. His latest term as finance minister from 2009 until earlier this year was marred by declining growth, a tumbling currency, rising inflation and a failure to push through proposed reforms. India's economic growth in the last quarter was 5.3 percent, the slowest rate in years.

Mukherjee's emphatic win is a morale booster for the beleaguered ruling party, which faces parliamentary elections in 2014. Its image has been tarnished by corruption allegations against several ministers and demands that it take more action against graft.

In a reflection of Mukherjee's personal ties with politicians of all hues, lawmakers belonging to some key allies of the main opposition group, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, voted for him.

The Congress party will need their continued support to overcome a major challenge from the BJP and its allies in the 2014 elections.

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Dienekes' Anthropology Blog: Children of lesbians fare worse than ...

From a related article in Slate by the author:

The rapid pace at which the overall academic discourse surrounding gay and lesbian parents? comparative competence has swung?from the wide acknowledgement of challenges to ?no differences? to more capable than mom and pop families?is notable, and frankly a bit suspect. Scientific truths are seldom reversed in a decade. By comparison, studies of adoption?a common method by which many same-sex couples (but even more heterosexual ones) become parents?have repeatedly and consistently revealed important and wide-ranging differences, on average, between adopted children and biological ones. The differences have been so pervasive and consistent that adoption experts now emphasize that ?acknowledgement of difference? is critical for both parents and clinicians when working with adopted children and teens. This ought to give social scientists studying gay-parenting outcomes pause?rather than lockstep unanimity. After all, many children of gay and lesbian couples are adopted.?

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The basic results call into question simplistic notions of ?no differences,? at least with the generation that is out of the house. On 25 of 40 different outcomes evaluated, the children of women who?ve had same-sex relationships fare quite differently than those in stable, biologically-intact mom-and-pop families, displaying numbers more comparable to those from heterosexual stepfamilies and single parents. Even after including controls for age, race, gender, and things like being bullied as a youth, or the gay-friendliness of the state in which they live, such respondents were more apt to report being unemployed, less healthy, more depressed, more likely to have cheated on a spouse or partner, smoke more pot, had trouble with the law, report more male and female sex partners, more sexual victimization, and were more likely to reflect negatively on their childhood family life, among other things. Why such dramatic differences? I can only speculate, since the data are not poised to pinpoint causes. One notable theme among the adult children of same-sex parents, however, is household instability, and plenty of it. The children of fathers who have had same-sex relationships fare a bit better, but they seldom reported living with their father for very long, and never with his partner for more than three years.

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So why did this study come up with such different results than previous work in the field? And why should one study alter so much previous sentiment? Basically, better methods. When it comes to assessing how children of gay parents are faring, the careful methods and random sampling approach found in demography has not often been employed by scholars studying this issue, due in part?to be sure?to the challenges in locating and surveying small minorities randomly. In its place, the scholarly community has often been treated to small, nonrandom ?convenience? studies of mostly white, well-educated lesbian parents, including plenty of data-collection efforts in which participants knew that they were contributing to important studies with potentially substantial political consequences, elevating the probability of something akin to the ?Hawthorne Effect.? This is hardly an optimal environment for collecting unbiased data (and to their credit, many of the researchers admitted these challenges). I?m not claiming that all the previous research on this subject is bunk. But small or nonrandom studies shouldn?t be the gold standard for research, all the more so when we?re dealing with a topic so weighted with public interest and significance.

Social Science Research Volume 41, Issue 4, July 2012, Pages 752?770

How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study

Mark Regnerus

The New Family Structures Study (NFSS) is a social-science data-collection project that fielded a survey to a large, random sample of American young adults (ages 18?39) who were raised in different types of family arrangements. In this debut article of the NFSS, I compare how the young-adult children of a parent who has had a same-sex romantic relationship fare on 40 different social, emotional, and relational outcome variables when compared with six other family-of-origin types. The results reveal numerous, consistent differences, especially between the children of women who have had a lesbian relationship and those with still-married (heterosexual) biological parents. The results are typically robust in multivariate contexts as well, suggesting far greater diversity in lesbian-parent household experiences than convenience-sample studies of lesbian families have revealed. The NFSS proves to be an illuminating, versatile dataset that can assist family scholars in understanding the long reach of family structure and transitions.

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A Basic History Of Snow Skiing Styles

Skiing first appeared to be a way of getting from one place to another across powder, packed or even crusty snow. For a lot of people, skiing means Recreational Alpine Skiing which entails choosing a resort, extensive skiwear shopping, securing a lift pass, renting or buying skis, ski boots, ski poles and heading for the nearest chairlift. This sport has nevertheless come a considerable way in the last century, and whereas it used to be regarded as elitist sport, the upsurge of package holidays and the emergence of indoor snow centres, skiing and snowboarding have been brought out in the open.

 

Skiing is generally each stimulating and common wintertime pursuits. It is usually most apparent to the public throughout the Winter Olympic Games. As an example, conventional competitive skiing is actually made of 4 activities; downhill (a extreme descent in a contest versus time), slalom (raced over a dramatically rotating course marked off by means of flags), the ski jump (in which contestants jump via specifically prepared jump inclines and they are evaluated at both long distance as well as form) and cross-country (in which skiers battle over a lengthy course- which range from TEN km/6 mi to FIFTY km/31 mi) on which this landscape and obstacles test strength and maneuverability. Generally speaking, competitive skiing is usually separated into 2 disciplines: racing and freestyle.

 

One particular type of skiing is freestyle skiing, that is a mix of skiing methods, acrobatics and aerial skiing. Freestyle skiing started in the 1930s, while Norwegian skiers started doing acrobatics in the course of alpine and cross-country exercising. This particular form first started to get taken seriously in the early 1970s, while it had been referred to as hot-dogging. Freestyle skiing ended up being a demo occurrence at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

 

Next you can find vintage x-country skiing. To the rookie this is really a little just like walking or jogging. X-country skiing, otherwise known as Nordic skiing, is simple to understand and with one's body weight dispersed over the surface of lengthy, straight skis, you are able to skim around over deep snowfall. It's a good kind of exercising and an opportune method to investigate the out-of-doors in the winter season. Cross-country skiing really evolved into an Olympic discipline during the games which occurred in 1924. This specific type of skiing takes it's identify from a kind of ski competition that's 1 / 3 upward, 1 / 3 down and one third flat.

 

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Venezuela's Chavez says "totally free" of cancer, again

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RNC Chair: 'This President Can't Fulfill a Promise'

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New method knocks out stubborn electron problem

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

A newly published article in Physical Review Letters eliminates one of the top unsolved theoretical problems in chemical physics as ranked by the National Research Council in 1995. Scientists now can more accurately predict the dynamic behavior of electrons in atoms and molecules in chemical reactions that govern a wide range of phenomena, including the fuel efficiency of combustion engines and the depletion of the atmospheric ozone.

The paper by David Mazziotti, professor in chemistry at the University of Chicago, solves what specialists call the "N-representability problem." Robert Erdahl, a mathematician at Queens University in Canada and a leading authority on the N-representability problem, described Mazziotti's paper as "a striking advance," "an elegant theory," and "a remarkable achievement."

Research on the theoretical foundations of the problem has advanced significantly along two important but separate lines of research for more than 60 years, Erdahl noted. "Work in both directions has proceeded independently even though it was widely understood that a unified approach was required to achieve a clear understanding. However, no one has been able to construct a theory where both paths enter in partnership. In his recent work Mazziotti has achieved precisely that."

Molecules have anywhere from tens to thousands of electrons, and the computational complexity of simulating their behavior grows exponentially with the number of strongly correlated electrons, those whose motions are statistically linked to the motions of other electrons. Mazziotti's goal was to find a way to calculate the properties of many-electron systems via a two-electron technique, where the two electrons represent the other electrons in the system.

"The two-electron models provide a platform for exploring a whole range of chemistry and physics," Mazziotti said.

"If you are calculating, let's say, the water molecule, which has 10 electrons, your two-electron model has only two of the 10 electrons," Mazziotti said. "But the probability for finding those two electrons must be consistent with the other eight electrons in the real system."

The need for these consistencies, "What we call 'representability conditions,' are the necessary conditions that you really need to do two-electron calculations of many-electron molecules," he said.

Like minds

Three scientists independently proposed the idea of a two-electron model in the 1950s. One was A. John Coleman, a mathematician at Queens University in Canada, who presented the idea at a 1951 conference at Chalk River, Canada.

Two papers appeared in the journal Physical Review in 1955 making the same point. University of Chicago physicist Joseph Mayer authored one of the papers, while University of Florida chemist Per Olov L?wdin authored the other.

The search for these conditions later became known as the N-representability problem, following the terminology that Coleman had suggested in a 1963 paper published in Reviews of Modern Physics.

"Then there was a series of international conferences that were organized to search for these conditions," Mazziotti said.

An early confidence that researchers would work out the necessary conditions within a year or two gave way to despair in the late 1960s. By then it appeared that the previously unsuspected difficulty of the representability problem presented a potentially impossible barrier.

By the time the problem had come to Mazziotti's attention as a Harvard graduate student in 1995, the field had reached its nadir. In the early 2000s he began reviving interest in the problem with his formulation of mathematical procedures for some of the known conditions, and applying them for the first time to atoms and molecules.

Over the last 10 years, Mazziotti's steadily improving, two-electron models advanced chemistry research in ways not possible with the traditional equations of quantum mechanics.

"The thing is that we used partial N-representability conditions because we didn't know all of them," Mazziotti said. "We would never use all of them anyway, but it's one thing not to use all of the constraints. It's another thing not to know what they are."

Gap plugged

Mazziotti's Physical Review Letters paper plugs that gap, making the two-electron model a powerfully complete theory for mapping many-electron systems. "We can achieve much greater accuracy in our calculations by adding some of these new conditions that we've discovered," he said. "It's exciting because it's something I've been looking for since I started thinking about this in 1995."

Coleman, who died in 2010, said years ago that what inspired him to work on the N-representability problem was not the goal of computational efficiency or additional speed. It was instead the potential for tremendous new insight into how many-electron systems really work. "Ultimately, that is the driving force in my research, too," Mazziotti said.

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