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The process was strongly advocated by Lord Mackay in last Thursday’s White Paper on divorce. The paper set out the Lord Chancellor’s intention to provide funds for the training of many more mediators and to avoid the bitter battles of the divorce courts as far as possible. If a couple comes to an agreement through mediation, divorce lawyers will be used only to fine-tune the agreement and to bring it before the judge.
So far, much of the debate about mediation has revolved around the question of whether it will make divorce easier or more difficult to obtain, and whether that is a good or bad thing. But in the moral maze, a more practical question is being lost. Is the mediation process going to be appropriate for most – or even many – of the thousands of couples who face the break- up of their marriages every year? Has Lord Mackay considered the possibility that sitting in a room with a person to whom you once said “I do”, and discussing in a civilised manner who’s going to keep the marital bed, might not be everyone’s cup of tea?”Let’s talk about it” may be the fashionable and correct approach, but many people find it hard enough to discuss the details of their broken marriage with one divorce lawyer, let alone in front of a lawyer, a therapist and a soon-to-be-ex-spouse. This is quite aside from cases of physical violence: the wife with the black eye or the broken ribs, where even the mediators themselves say their service is totally unsuitable.Jacky Klarfeld and Mary Kane work together as a team of qualified independent mediators with the Family Mediators Association. They are quick to point out that mediation is not the easy option and is often a very painful process, even for troubled marriages in which there has been no abusive behaviour “We are prepared for the pain,” says Jacky “We always have a box of Kleenex ready.

If someone gets really upset, I’ll say something like, ‘Look, I know this hurts It’s quite natural for you to feel like this. Would you like to have a break?’ We do ask the couple how they got to the point of deciding to split up But we don’t delve into the emotional side too deeply At the end of the day mediation is a practical process. It is not therapy.”Some may be able to shed a few tears and soldier on, but for others it can be potentially damaging to open wounds and leave them gaping without stitches.James Thom, a barrister, and his wife, Terry, a librarian, have just finished mediation with Jacky and Mary after the break-up of their 18- year marriage. They did reach an agreement both on their three small children and their finances by the end of it, but James says there were times when the emotion aroused during a session got in the way of his everyday life.”We sat there, me in one armchair, Terry in another, with Jacky and Mary on the sofa opposite us. When things got really tough I would switch off and count the number of science-fiction books on the shelves that I’d read.

There were times when I thought Terry would have been happy for me to go and live like a monkey in a tree, and she felt I was saying ‘I want, I want, I want’. After sessions like that I felt so wretched I couldn’t do a thing for the rest of the day.”Judith and Chris Howell’s mediation took place at the mediation centre in Bristol. Although their own experience was fairly amicable, Judith overheard a good deal of angst coming through the walls. “I could hear couples screaming and yelling at each other in adjacent rooms.

I remember thinking, ‘This might work for us, but it’s clearly not for everyone’.”Jacky Klarfeld and Mary Kane say that if one or both individuals become too distressed, they will always suggest counselling or therapy, quite apart from the mediation process – as will mediators who belong to the National Association of Family Mediation. But couples may have no spare time or spare cash for counselling, in which case they are completely dependent on the skills of the mediators.What of the children involved in mediation? “Part of the whole process is to bring the child’s voice into it,” says Jacky Klarfeld. “We want the parents to focus on the welfare of their children first and foremost. Sometimes, if a child is old enough, we will have a session or two with him and ask how he feels about things.”It cannot be a bad thing to listen to children’s needs, but here again the child is asked to reveal emotions and then often left to deal with them alone. “We asked one little girl how she felt walking down her front path after she had said goodbye to her Mummy, and before she got into the car with her Daddy,” says Thelma Fisher, Director of the National Association of Family Mediation. “She said she felt like a great nasty bird was going to come down and snatch her away, because during those few moments between Mummy and Daddy no one was with her.” The mediators came up with a solution.

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We are proud of our television programming – but the viewer will create his or her own schedules. Vast, cheap computer-memories will make this possible.l Copyright will prove as unenforceable as water is divisible.l Governments will no longer have a handle on much of this.All of us who sell information in ways we presume to master will quake at this vision Suddenly the customer is to be a nightmare king. Instead of one Bush House or newspaper editor sending selected information to many individuals, each individual will pick what he/she wants from cables full of digital information.l There will be no need for “transmission standards”: the receiving computer will make sense of anything.l Users will devise their own programmes, newspaper articles, briefings and so on, rather than have the form and content of these dictated by a presumptuous supplier.l The computer will allow the user to interact immediately with the supplier.l The time of transmission and the time of watching will be able to become completely unrelated. Third, they can be sifted through and unscrambled discriminatingly by a clever device – the computer – rather than followed slavishly by a dumb television or telex machine. Fourth, the number-carrying capacity of today’s telephony is so prodigious that there is no constraint on the volume of information thus processed.Taking those four points, Negroponte’s lateral-thinking mind roves over the possibilities:l We will move from “broadcasting” to “broadcatching”.

They can thus be mixed as never before.Second, each revealing stream of numbers can be digitally labelled with more of the same numbers (“the stream of numbers that follows is Wagner’s Parsifal”). First, all forms of information, whether sounds, written words or pictures, can now be transmitted as a stream of numbers – rather than via differing “analogues” or tricks of technical mimicry, such as wavy grooves on a record. His book does for the digital age what Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time did for black holes – it leaves the reader bewildered, but at a far higher level.Mr Negroponte must not mind if I resort to a bit of “data compression” to convey the gist of what he says: that trick is very much part of his world Four things make up the essence of the digital revolution. A good, concise explanation is a recently published book called Being Digital, written by a well-known American guru of the information revolution, Nicholas Negroponte. What should we do? And if not, why not?
Here are some reassuring answers. But before giving them, I cannot assume that every reader understands what has created this tyranny of the possible. Do we surf the Internet? Where is the on-ramp on to the information superhighway? Has our business got to grips with multimedia? Are we going interactive?

John Henry, the ballad-hero who cut America’s railway tunnels by hammering steel through rock, knew the same feeling when his foreman announced that he was “gonna get me a steam-drill roun’, gonna get that steam-drill out on the job, gonna whop that steel on down” But at least the death of his job was a certainty We information people peer into a fog of possibilities So much is suddenly feasible.

Those who sell information for a living – and there are a surprising number and variety of us these days – gaze in wonder and fear at the “digital revolution” that is set to change our lives. They looked like they could think and act, where before they could just move. I put in attitudes, gave them believability.”Denis GiffordIsadore “Friz” Freleng, film animator: born Kansas City, Missouri 21 August 1905; married (two daughters); died Los Angeles 28 May 1995.. A television series was made starring the Pink Panther, and another was created around Hugh Lofting’s children’s hero Dr Dolittle.A modest and amusing man in his later years (the fat little fellow who always loses out to the panther is said to be a self- caricature), Friz Freleng told me: “I seemed to have the knack of giving cartoon characters human qualities. Many television specials followed, including Goldilocks and the Three Bears, starring Bing Crosby and his entire family as the voices. United Artists not only approved this, they loved it so much that they commissioned a full-blown series of cinema cartoons starring Freleng’s super-cool but silent hero. It began well; the first, Pink Phink, won Freleng his fifth Oscar.With De Patie as his moneyman Freleng was his own boss at last.

Blake Edwards then suggested they might like to design the opening titles of his new comedy film starring David Niven and Peter Sellers, The Pink Panther (1964). Together they formed De Patie-Freleng Enterprises and produced a new series of cartoons for Warner Distribution, 60 shorts in five years. Using his influence he leased the studio as it stood, from superb film-making equipment down to half-used pencils, for a token $500 a month. David De Patie, son of one of the companies’ vice-presidents, came to the rescue. However, three years later Warners suddenly closed down their studio. “I tried to combine the smallest character I could possibly draw with the loudest voice I could get,” he said. The result was Yosemite Sam, the Horm-Swoggliest Dang-My-Britches, Cowpoke- Cum-Pirate west of the Pecos, whose volcanic eruptions contrasted so delightfully with the ultra-cool Bugs Bunny.

It joined media giant Reed, which publishes books under the Secker & Warburg, Heineman and Methuen imprints, which broke ranks with other publishers in 1993.Pearson managing director, Frank Barlow, said: “It has been increasingly clear for many months that the NBA could not withstand market forces for much longer,”Even so, the Booksellers’ Association continued to defend the NBA last night, warning that the collapse would lead to higher prices for non best- selling books and threaten the specialist bookseller. “This will give the market a serious stimulus.”Hodder & Stoughton left the NBA last year, and has been campaigning for its abolition every since. It then complained to the Office of Fair Trading and the European Commission. The challenge to the EC is now considered to be moot by industry analysts.Hodder Headline, the publicly quoted publisher which issued a profits warning yesterday following a slow summer, welcomed the news Tim Hely Hutchinson, its chief executive, said. The company called it “the largest ever initiative to bring quality books to consumers at lower prices”.Asda, the supermarket chain that has led the battle against the NBA, responded by saying: “We guarantee that we will be the lowest-price seller of popular books in Britain.”Asda has been selling selected titles published outside the agreement since early this year, notably the latest John LeCarre thriller, Our Game, sold at half price.It was served an injunction earlier this year when it attempted to sell books published under the NBA at a discount. The Publishers Association, which administers the voluntary agreement, is to hold a meeting tomorrow to discuss the NBA’s future, but it conceded publicly last night that the departure of three more publishers was “the nail in the coffin”.Leading book retailers, including WH Smith’s, immediately announced they would begin to discount popular titles and a promotional programme will be unveiled next week at Waterstones, its high-street chain.

Popular titles may be available for as much as 50 per cent off established prices from the start of next month when the publishers “de-net” their books.
The announcement marks the death of the NBA, industry leaders agree. “When health authorities are having to restrict services, they tend to be marginal treatments,” he said.. A full-blown price war is set to erupt in the UK book trade following the decision yesterday by three large publishers, HarperCollins, Pearson and Random House, to abandon the Net Book Agreement, the country’s last remaining legal price-fixing scheme. Rather than rationing, that implied spending the money on treatments that worked, rather than on those that did not, or worked less well, he said.One piece of evidence alone about the treatment of women threatening to deliver prematurely could, if applied nationally, not only reduce both morbidity and mortality in babies, but also save about 5 per cent of money spent in neo-natal intensive care.Bob Abberley, head of health for the public sector union Unison, said the measures were a clear result of government underfunding, and that such rationing was leading to a two-tier NHS. But Philip Hunt, director of the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts, said the issue should be kept in perspective. But again, if a doctor argues that they are clinically necessary, they are provided.Alex Carlile, the Liberal Democrat health spokesman, called on the NHS Executive to take the health authority over and run it “until a proper NHS can be restored to the people of Berkshire” while Tessa Jowell, a Labour health spokesman, said the package was “proof that there is no longer a national health service” but rather one where treatment depended on postcodes.As the row erupted, however, Sir Michael Peckham, Director of Research and Development for the NHS, said hundreds of millions of pounds a year could be saved if existing evidence on which were the best and most cost- effective treatments were applied. Other procedures that the commission already lists as “low priority” are artificial insemination, reversal of sterilisation, various forms of cosmetic surgery, and residential psychotherapy for substance abuse.

Its chairman, Richard Eassie, told his audience: “There is no point in moaning about it, we have got to get on with it.”A spokesman defended the package, arguing in the case of grommets, for example, that 95 per cent of cases clear up within a year without treatment, and the operation was of “dubious value”. The pounds 3.5m package of savings it constructed yesterday towards its pounds 7m deficit included cuts in GP fundholders’ budgets, reduced management costs and the redirection of savings made from new contracts for the treatment of Aids and HIV infection.The decisions produced a furious reaction at a meeting in Maidenhead Town Hall and calls for the Commission’s resignation. There is no absolute ban on their provision.”Last night the commission could not say how much the move would save, or how much it had spent on these procedures last year. In addition, the health authority is planning to reduce the number of operations for varicose veins, grommets and snoring while reducing the number of “D and Cs” – scraping of the lining of the womb – in women under 40.
The commission said all the procedures in the latter category were of “doubtful effectiveness” and there was a national drive to reduce the number performed.In every case – including tummy tucks, sex-change operations and wisdom teeth – the commission said: “These treatments will still be available where there is a clinical need. Berkshire Health Commission yesterday gave the debate about NHS rationing a further twist by agreeing to ban non-essential sex-change operations, tummy tucks and the removal of wisdom teeth that are not causing pain as part of a package aimed at halting a pounds 7m overspend. This is a serious business.”Some observers believe the removal of at least some awards at the end of their three-year run is necessary to ensure the scheme’s credibility.Mr Freeman also said he was considering rewarding winners with extra resources and creating a national league table of cities, counties and constituencies by bringing together information on schools, hospitals and other services.Mr Freeman said the Charter’s achievements included a reduction from 200,000 patients waiting more than a year for operations in 1990 to 32,000, and a cut from about 95 days in supplying a passport to a maximum 15-day wait..

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Dancers have put on a dazzling display atop extravagant floats at the legendary annual Rio Carnival. Thousands of revelers cheered as dancers shimmied and shook their colorful costumes through the streets of the Brazilian capital.

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The Armenian delegation had not left for the venue where the deal was due to be signed at 5 p.m (1500 GMT). BEIJING, Oct. Detailsare as follows.1.Revision to Fiscal 2009 Interim Forecast (April 1, 2009 – September 30, 2009)(Millions of yen) SalesOperating income Net income (loss) Net income (loss) (loss)before income taxesPrevious forecast (A)230,000(13,000) (14,500)(8,500) (Announced on July 30, 2009) Revised forecast (B) 230,000(8,000)(10,000)(7,000) Difference (B) – (A) 05,0004,500 1,500 Difference (%) 0.0% — – Reference: Fiscal 2008 interim 354,67018,603 19,29112,421actualNote: Net income (loss) is identical to net income (loss) attributable to shareholders.2.Reasons for the RevisionAs part of the emergency measures announced earlier this year, the OMRON Grouphas made a concerted effort to restrain expenditures and reduce fixed costs. Banks and insurers helped keep the main index pinned lowerafter quarterly results from a pair of big U.S banksdisheartened investors Manulife Financial (MFC.TO) lost 1.2percent to C$22.21. Eastern Time, to discuss thethird quarter results, as well as provide a general business and financialupdate. Service segment revenue forthe trailing twelve months that ended September 26, 2009 were $25.2 million, up7.6%, when compared with $23.4 million for the trailing twelve-month period thatended September 27, 2008.

Third-quarter 2009revenues included a realized gain on commodity derivatives of $17.2 million, ascompared to a realized gain of $22.5 million in second-quarter 2009 and arealized loss of $24.1 million in third-quarter 2008. Since then,it has consistently set new standards in visual computing withbreathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging fromportable media players to notebooks to workstations. However, the shares have been helped in recent weeks bybouts of speculation that its biggest investor, the QatarInvestment Authority, might make a renewed bid after dropping aprevious takeover attempt in 2007. His responsibilities include developing Westec`ssales and marketing strategies and leading the company`s go-to-market teams. If the criteria arenot met, the test must be repeated as outlined in the ISO standards.”We are pleased to provide our customers an efficient and cost-effectiveway to measure and report throughput performance with the latest operatingsystem and applications,” said Steve Kang, General Manager of QualityLogicProducts Group. We anticipate that the appeal by the United States Air Force(“USAF”) and Boeing of the Court of Federal Claims ruling will be resolved inlate 2009 or early 2010. VWR enables the advancement of the world’s most critical researchthrough the distribution of a highly diversified product line to most of theworld’s top pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as industrial,educational and governmental organizations.

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