28/05 Tibet's first five-star hotel opens in Lhasa

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A tourist is silhouetted in Lhasa St. Regis Hotel in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 28, 2011. (Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi)

LHASA, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region opened its first five-star hotel on Saturday, a move targeting the region's tourism industry.

Lhasa St. Regis Hotel, opening in the region's capital Lhasa, is a high-end property in the tourism market, said Guo Yan, chairman of Yungao International Hotel, the hotel's investor.

Wang Songping, deputy chief of the tourism bureau of Tibet, said construction of the Shangri-La Hotel and InterContinental Hotel would start this year.

According to the region's five-year plan, there will be five five-star hotels in the region by 2015, Wang said.

Wang said Tibet has abundant tourism resources but is short of elite tourism facilities, but the international hotels coming to Tibet will help promote tourism in the region.

Tibet envisions 15 million tourists arriving per year by 2015, generating a total tourism income of up to 18 billion yuan, according to the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) of the region.

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School graduates attend a celebration of the "Last Bell Call" at a school in Kiev, Ukraine, May 27, 2011. Some 190,000 school graduates celebrated "last bell call"on Friday in Ukraine, a celebration of their last day of school. (Xinhua/Valeriia Lashkul)

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26/05 Strauss-Kahn’s Lawyers Claim to Have Evidence Undermining Accuser

By JOHN ELIGON

Published: May 26, 2011

Lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn have contended that they possess information that they believe will undermine the credibility of the hotel housekeeper who has accused their client of sexual assault.

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The suggestion, contained in a three-page letter from the lawyers to Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, was almost entirely devoted to the lawyers’ complaints about unauthorized disclosures of the case to the press. But it included a reference to unspecified information that they said would hurt the prosecution’s case.

In the letter, sent Wednesday and made public Thursday, the lawyers, William W. Taylor III and Benjamin Brafman, said “our client’s right to a fair trial is being compromised by the public disclosure of prejudicial material even before these materials have been disclosed to his counsel.”

“Indeed,” they added, “were we intent on improperly feeding the media frenzy, we could now release substantial information that in our view would seriously undermine the quality of this prosecution and also gravely undermine the credibility of the complainant in this case.”

The letter seemed to serve as a form of legal gamesmanship — allowing Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers to hint at damaging information about the housekeeper without revealing it. Mr. Brafman declined to elaborate on that information.

Mr. Vance’s office responded with its own letter, noting it was dismayed that Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers “chose to inject in the public record your claim that you possess information that might negatively impact the case and ‘gravely’ undermine” the woman’s credibility.

The letter, by Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, the chief of the hate crimes unit, who was just appointed to the case, indicated that prosecutors knew of no such information. “If you really do possess the kind of information you suggest that you do, we trust you will forward it immediately to the district attorney’s office,” Ms. Illuzzi-Orbon wrote.

Lawyers for the accuser did not return calls seeking comment.

Attacking her credibility may be a crucial part of Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s legal strategy. Although there have been leaks that DNA evidence ties him to a sex act, it would not indicate whether that act was forced or consensual — putting greater weight on the credibility of the woman and of Mr. Strauss-Kahn, who stepped down last week as head of the International Monetary Fund.

Both sides have begun the process of gathering background evidence on Mr. Strauss-Kahn and the housekeeper, who said Mr. Strauss-Kahn attacked her May 14 after she entered his room at the Sofitel New York to clean it.

Prosecutors, for example, have said they have been in contact with “more than one” woman who said she had been sexually assaulted by Mr. Strauss-Kahn; at one court appearance, a prosecutor said, without elaboration, Mr. Strauss-Kahn had “a propensity for impulsive criminal conduct.”

The defense has hired the firm Guidepost Solutions to investigate the housekeeper’s background and examine any weaknesses in her account.

Mr. Taylor and Mr. Brafman also appeared to be using the letter as a way to try to speed up the discovery process, in which the prosecution turns over evidence to the defense.

In addition to asking Mr. Vance to try to stop the leaks, the lawyers asked that his office “promptly provide us with copies of all of the scientific reports that have been completed and have already been leaked to various media outlets.”

The defense was referring to reports that Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s DNA was found on the uniform of the hotel housekeeper.

The letter also asked the prosecution to turn over all police reports and formal statements made by the accuser because her statements already had been reported by the news media.

The letter said the leaked information had been attributed to sources in the New York Police Department. Asked about the lawyers’ contention that the police were leaking information, Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said, “I certainly hope that’s not the case.”

The lawyers also cited a “wide array of prejudicial information about Mr. Strauss-Kahn, including information which, even if true, would never be admissible in any court.”

William K. Rashbaum contributed reporting.

A version of this article appeared in print on May 27, 2011, on page A20 of the New York edition with the headline: Strauss-Kahn’s Lawyers Claim Evidence Undermines Accuser.

26/05 Despite Its ‘Great Case,’ Jurors Say, Prosecution Couldn’t Prove Claim of Sexual Assault

By JOHN ELIGON

Published: May 26, 2011

To spectators in the Manhattan courtroom, it was a mundane moment: a court stenographer reading in a monotone voice the testimony of a woman who said she was raped by a police officer.

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But to Richard Schimenti, a juror in the trial, it was a crucial moment.

“When her testimony was read back without her in the mix, it was much easier for us to see what she said,” Mr. Schimenti said. “And it sounded like a construct from the prosecution, which did not prove beyond any kind of reasonable doubt that there was a rape.”

After just over a day of further deliberations, on their seventh day considering the case, the jurors returned on Thursday with a not-guilty verdict on the rape charge against the two police officers, Franklin Mata and Kenneth Moreno.

While the officers were acquitted of most charges, including burglary and falsifying business records, the jurors did convict them on three misdemeanor counts of official misconduct. That was enough for the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, to strip them of their jobs.

The verdict was a victory for the former officers, but they still walk away from the trial having left less-than-stellar impressions.

Mr. Schimenti, 56, said he did not believe Mr. Moreno’s testimony alleging that the woman made advances at him in her bedroom while wearing nothing but a bra.

“I’m no big fan of Officer Moreno, believe me,” Mr. Schimenti said, adding that he was glad the jury found him guilty of official misconduct.

Over all, Mr. Schimenti said, it was hard to believe a lot of the testimony.

“None of us believed anything that anyone said,” he said. “We have no proof. We’re talking about the letter of the law.”

At one point it seemed the case would result in a hung jury, when three jurors said they believed the former officers were guilty of the rape, and nine did not.

But Mr. Schimenti said the jury’s efforts to resolve that deadlock were “magnificently civilized.”

“This jury was brilliant,” he said. “There was not one dud or bum person on the jury, even though we disagreed.”

Another juror, Eric Casiano, 33, said a tape of Officer Moreno and the woman recorded a few days after the alleged rape played a big role in the jury’s deliberations. At a meeting between the two outside a police precinct house, known as a “control meet” in police parlance, the officer told the woman, who was wearing a recording device, that he had used a condom.

“To me the ‘control meet’ played a main factor,” Mr. Casiano said. “You need to hear the ‘control meet.’ You need to read it. He wasn’t trying to confess anything. He was trying to get away from her outside his precinct. She was trying to attack him.”

Mr. Casiano said that before Officer Moreno had said he had worn a condom, he had made statements that exonerated him.

Still, Mr. Casiano said, neither Officer Moreno nor the woman were completely convincing:

“Both his and her stories were full of holes. And the law says, our good government says, innocent until proven guilty.”

Another juror, John Finck, 57, said in an e-mail: “This jury heard seven weeks of testimony and deliberated for seven days. We found that the evidence presented to us in the courtroom did not satisfy the standard of reasonable doubt required to convict the defendants in the major charges of rape and burglary.”

One of the major stumbling blocks of the prosecution’s case may have been the accuser’s drunkenness the night she said the rape took place.

“There’s no way in the world under the sun and the moon and the stars that you can come down guilty on a charge so heinous without proof,” Mr. Schimenti said. “The prosecution, they did an amazing job. They built a great case. But they never really crossed that line that would prove or help us to say guilty.”

An alternate juror who saw most of the trial said by phone that he agreed with the rape acquittal, citing the lack of DNA evidence as a crucial point. He said that although the woman seemed sincere, he had questions about her spotty memory. He also said that the prosecutors, through no fault of their own, just did not have enough evidence to prove their case.

“I definitely thought some funny business went on,” said the alternate juror, who insisted on anonymity. “Is it possible they raped her? Sure.”

Anemona Hartocollis and Mick Meenan contributed reporting.

A version of this article appeared in print on May 27, 2011, on page A22 of the New York edition with the headline: Despite Its ‘Great Case,’ Jurors Say, Prosecution Couldn’t Prove Claim of Sexual Assault

26/05 The Case for Laugh Lines

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By DOMINIQUE BROWNING

Published: May 26, 2011

THANK goodness it was drilled into me to greet people with the words, “How do you do?” Because these days, the question that springs more frequently to mind is, “Who are you?” Not because my memory is going, but because many of my acquaintances are erasing the traces of identity, if not life, from their faces.

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Now, before anyone starts turning defensive, let me turn defensive. This is not an essay about why I am categorically against cosmetic surgeries. I am as supportive as the next gal if a certain someone feels so bad about her neck that she won’t leave home, or if another is so heavy-lidded that every time he blinks he misses half the picture. Plastic surgeons have done wondrous things.

As for the proliferation of smaller cosmetic procedures? The ones your dentist offers to do while he’s in the vicinity of your mouth anyway? The injections of fillers to plump up lips, smooth wrinkles, pad out laugh lines? At this point, it’s a wonder that the salesclerk at Barneys isn’t offering to shoot up your face while you’re trying on hats.

Again, I’m not against it. Well, maybe Botox. I’m the one to call for a rant when my friends are teetering at the brink of succumbing to the needle. I mean, who wants to inject a poison so lethal that it paralyzes nerves, sending tiny muscles to atrophy?

I’m not categorically against a helping hand, so long as it has finesse. My current rule of thumb, when confronted with an enhanced face, is that if I find myself vaguely wondering whether there was work, the alteration was well done. But these days, I’m wondering why — why did you do it?

We’ve gone too far. I’m becoming very, very scared.

We’ve reached a stage where cosmetic surgery is so readily available that in certain circles it is expected of women and men to avail themselves of these age-deniers. (You cannot call them youth-enhancers when you are no longer young.) If you choose not to partake of the benefits of needle and knife, you are judged to be making a statement. You are taking a position against the current standards of beauty.

We have triggered a weird, collective, late-onset body dysmorphia. What’s worse is that our anxieties about aging have trickled into our children’s generation, so that the mantra about cosmetic procedures even among some 30-year-olds is “intervention early and often.”

I began to worry about all this a year ago, when I was on a book tour. I love to read aloud and watch people’s faces as they listen. Within weeks, I was profoundly in touch with my inner ham. Sometimes, I found myself straining for a response. I would look out at the audience, hearing laughter and murmurs, but seeing only stern masks. Yet afterward, those same faces would be telling me how much they had loved my presentation. It took awhile to realize that people were having trouble expressing emotion in their features.

This is also when I began to develop the “who are you?” problem.

Too many people have had procedures that have gone awry. They look strange, and tragic. Is this inevitable? You do one thing, the effects begin to fade, you do another, and so on. You get puffy. You get rigid. Or you slide. And I wonder. Has no one said “stop”? Has no one, particularly the one wielding the needle, gently advised against further work? It used to be an unusual sight to spot cosmetic surgery addicts, but it has become astonishingly common.

We are now in the position of watching politicians and newscasters talk about disturbing issues — like, say, the state of our education system, or environmental degradation — yet they cannot muster signals of concern, much less dismay.

One evening, I catch a segment on television about nuclear disarmament. A celebrity spokesperson makes a case for the laying down of arms, and part of my brain clicks into gear: she’s smart and passionate. But another part of me is distracted, because the visuals don’t match the message. Her forehead isn’t wrinkling with concern; her cheeks aren’t crinkling with smiles; her eyes aren’t narrowing in suspicion at trick questions. In fact, no matter what she says, her face is frozen in place. It is grotesquely fascinating — and undermining. Before I know it, the interview is over. The medium overtook the message

This is counterproductive. Humans are hard-wired to read facial expressions. Those smiles, frowns, grimaces and gazes are as important as words in touching hearts and minds. Politicians and newscasters cannot look wide-eyed and startled about everything; soon, they just look comical.

Photographers (and the editors who publish them) have created an entirely new class of gotcha! moments, capitalizing on our collective shock at surgical distortions. Entire Web sites are devoted to knife-spotting. Actresses, once beautiful or adorable, have so ruined their faces that I wince when I see them onscreen. Celebrities are a small part of the problem, except that they have a pesky way of influencing regular people.

Extreme, but commonplace, alterations now raise a welter of tricky issues around personal interaction, not the least of which is that one cannot go around asking “who are you?” to people one has spent hours with at dinner parties, or colleagues one has bumped into for years in company hallways.

Bigger problems are surfacing. How do you say to a friend, who secretly disappeared to have her face lifted, that she has made a mistake? You don’t, of course. It is too late. And what about the friend who started with a discreet tuck, or a few lines of filler, and then crossed over into the danger zone? You are watching a slow-motion wreck, but how do you warn her without offense? If her friends don’t, who will?

The best I’ve come up with is something along the lines of gently, pointedly, telling her she is beautiful, beloved and needs no further improvement.

Funny how this is a tougher subject to broach than almost any other. We find ourselves recalibrating the intimacy of friendships. While once we may have been close enough to share personal tales of broken hearts or fears of going broke, we are unable to visit the issue of the broken self-image.

And that’s what this must be about. We gaze in the mirror, and we loathe the evidence of aging. It is, surely, a change. It is even frightening. Mortality heaves into view. So does unemployment — for women. There seems to be a double standard about aging and leadership.

Of course, vanity is an equal-opportunity predator; more and more men are turning to cosmetic surgery. Still, most men can let themselves go naturally into their mature years as wise elders. But women who don’t adjust their faces are letting themselves go, naturally.

Many people assume that in saying no to knife and needle, you are making a feminist statement; such is the lackluster aura that hangs over that label. Feminism has nothing to do with it. Feminists worry why women still make only 77 cents to every dollar a man makes, not whether women are going broke on Botox.

This is about the birth of yet another “ism” among boomers: ageism. We’ve crossed a line; we are angry that we’re growing old. We’re angry at people who remind us what aging looks like. We are colluding in an elaborate social compact to convince ourselves that we don’t have to go there. And no one wants to say that the Emperor and Empress look better with naked faces.

Several years ago, I stumbled on a book by Diana Vreeland. She was a terrible, hilarious snob, and a great believer in inauthenticity. Her memos to her staff at Vogue in the 1960s are legendary. She lamented the state of women with “broken hair, no hairdresser, no money, no vitality — and the will to live is gone.” In 1967, she wrote: “In my opinion in the year 2001 so many physical problems will have been surmounted that a woman’s beauty will be a dream that will be completely obtainable ... the various feminine rhythms ... will have been removed ... the future holds a golden world.”

The woman who did more to set in gear the feminine rhythms of the fashion industry did not live to see how far appearances could be manipulated: beyond her wildest dreams. But she would have been dismayed by the messy reality.

I get it: some people simply don’t want to go quietly into the years. It is too much to ask that we embrace our changing faces — that we celebrate our mother’s beauty in our own graying hair, that we remember the joy that created those laugh lines, that we recognize our father’s forehead in the way ours wrinkles when we are perplexed, or we catch a glimpse of our aunt’s eyes when our own crinkle with delight.

But could we just ignore the signs of aging? I’m a big believer in denial. It gets a bad rap, but it is often a healthy response. In this, as in so many matters, we could just keep calm and carry on. And if the will to live flags? Hey, make mine an old-fashioned with rye whiskey, please.

Dominique Browning, the author of “Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas and Found Happiness,” blogs at Moms Clean Air Force and Slow Love Life.

A version of this article appeared in print on May 29, 2011, on page ST1 of the New York edition with the headline: The Case For Laugh Lines.

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28/05 Disrupt NYC, In Tweets

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Erick Schonfeld

23 hours ago

I am still recovering from Disrupt NYC. It was our biggest event ever, and we’ll be posting more videos and highlights throughout the next few days. But here are a couple of charts that give a snapshot of the activity around the event as measured by Tweets with the event hashtag #TCDisrupt (thanks for the charts, Simply Measured).

In the chart above you can see the distribution of Tweets across the three days. That spike on Day three was related to an iPad giveaway linked to people Tweeting out the hashtag, which was Tweeted out 18,177 times (and that doesn’t include tweets that used other hashtags such as #disrupt or simply mentioned Disrupt without a hashtag).

But I particularly like the chart below, which shows the distribution of Tweets with the #TCDisrupt hashtag which also mentioned the names of the six Battlefield finalists. In terms of which companies generated the most buzz on Twitter, Disrupt NYC winner Getaround garnered the most mentions with a 38 percent share. Runner-up Sonar was second with 21 percent, with the other runner-up BillGuard getting 17 percent. Another finalist, Do@, edged out BillGuard with 18 percent of mentions.

You can find videos of the finalists and all of Disrupt NYC here.

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Getaround

Website:	getaround.com
Location:	San Francisco, California, United States
Founded:	September 10, 2009

Getaround provides a peer-to-peer carsharing marketplace that enables car owners to rent their cars - from Priuses to Teslas - to a community of trusted drivers by hour, day, or week using just their smartphones.

Car owners invest huge amounts of… Learn More

BillGuard

Website:	billguard.com
Location:	New York, New York, United States
Founded:	April 11, 2010
Funding:	$3M

BillGuard™ is people-powered antivirus for our bills.

BillGuard is a personal finance security startup combining the collective vigilance of consumers with advanced transaction mining algorithms to protect everyone from unwanted and… Learn More

Sonar.me

Website:	sonar.me
Location:	New York, New York, United States
Founded:	2010

Sonar is a a mobile application that shows you how you are connected to the other people in the room.

Sonar combines publicly available profile and location information to help you discover business contacts, colleagues, old friends and new ones… Learn More

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