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7 hours and 34 minutes ago
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width="1" height="1" //divpThe true scale of the maltreatment of children in the UK is revealed by
child abuse experts today who say that one in 10 suffers physical, sexual, emotional abuse or
neglect./ppUnlike Baby P, who died in Haringey, north London, while on the at-risk register after
months of abuse and neglect, most maltreated children are not even referred to the authorities.
/ppTeachers, GPs and paediatricians have no confidence in the ability of social services to make a
difference to their lives and fear the child's plight will be made worse if he or she is taken into
care and placed in a foster family, they say./ppA series of papers published today by the Lancet
medical journal in collaboration with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health paints a
grim picture of the unseen sufferings of an estimated 1 million children a year in the
UK./ppBetween 4 and 16% of children suffer physical abuse, such as hitting, punching, beating and
burning, according to a paper by Ruth Gilbert and colleagues from University College London's
Institute of Child Health. The figures come from research in high-income countries, including the
UK, which is not thought to differ from the average. /ppSome 5-10% of girls and 1-5% of boys have
been subjected to penetrative sex, usually by a family friend or relative. If sexual abuse is
defined more widely - as anything from being shown pornographic magazines to rape - it is estimated
that it will include at least 15% of girls and 5% of boys./ppAround 10% of children suffer
emotional abuse every year, the paper says, which includes persistently being made to feel
worthless, unwanted or scared. More still - up to 15% a year - suffer neglect, defined as the
failure of their parents or carers to meet the child's basic emotional or physical needs or ensure
their safety./ppThose like Baby P who are picked up by the social services and placed on the
at-risk register are only the tip of the iceberg. The plight of fewer than one in 10 maltreated
children is investigated and substantiated by child protection services. /ppThe experts underline a
key finding from the case of Baby P - that professionals are not communicating and sharing their
suspicions./ppLancet editor Richard Horton said the findings, which had taken a year to reach
publication, had "huge significance for considering an appropriate and measured response to the
findings around Baby P". /ppHe added: "What this report does emphasise is the extent of the risk
factors and consequences of child maltreatment, which are of such complexity that any reflex
attempt to apportion blame or think there is a simple solution to this issue is to completely
misrepresent the extent and depth of the problem."/ppThe papers also expose the paucity of evidence
behind the decisions taken by health professionals and social workers. Far more research is needed
into finding out what will prevent a child being abused. "We don't know how effective existing
practice is," said Jane Barlow, professor of public health in the early years at Warwick
University, co-author of the paper on interventions. "These are some of the most vulnerable
children out there in society."/ppIn a Lancet commentary, Dr Horton says the series "will
unfortunately not halt the blight of child abuse, because the phenomenon is too common, too
surreptitious and too deeply rooted in deprivation and other social ills - but we nonetheless hope
to raise awareness of the scientific evidence that is available, and indeed essential, to guide
paediatricians and other professionals in their practice with children who might have been abused
and to help bring a new logic and clarity to public debate about this contentious area."/pdiv
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MacUpdate - Mac OS X -
13 hours and 20 minutes ago
WhatSize 4.4.1
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Especially if your Mac starts to get a lot of "stuff" on it, WhatSize helps find out what files
are taking up all of that space. Then it makes it really easy to remove or move those files.
You'd be surprised how many useless files are lying around on your Mac's hard disk. The files and
folders are automatically sorted by size, with the biggest sizes first.
While the app is measuring a folder the user can browse the files within that folder and
immediately see the size in bytes. Hidden files, cache files, directories will all show up with
their corresponding size. This application is similar to the ancient NeXTSTEP, DarkForest.
Once the measuring of a folder has ended the user can also view the information by filtering for
particular file sizes or types. The user can also move unwanted files and folder in the
corresponding Trash bin similar to the Finder's Delete button.
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Macworld -
13 hours and 43 minutes ago
Silence (and applause and on-stage banter) isn't always golden. Learn how to easily remove bits of
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Read/WriteWeb -
16 hours and 12 minutes ago
pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/peoplebrowsr_icons.jpg"Imagine a
href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/"TweetDeck/a as an online application. Now imagine that you
could use its paneled dashboard interface to keep tabs on your other online identities, too. With a
href="http://peoplebrowsr.com"PeopleBrowsr/a, you can. This new application, currently in alpha,
lets you update your networks, follow your friends, organize your favorites, and search for content
across networks that include a href="http://twitter.com"Twitter/a, a
href="http://flickr.com"flickr/a, a href="http://youtube.com"YouTube/a, a
href="http://linkedin.com"LinkedIn/a, a href="http://www.digg.com"Digg/a, a
href="http://seesmic.com"Seesmic/a, a href="http://identi.ca"identi.ca/a, a
href="http://www.photobucket.com"Photobucket/a, a href="http://upcoming.com"upcoming/a, and a
href="http://friendfeed.com"FriendFeed/a./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a
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//a/p h2About PeopleBrowser/h2 pKeeping tabs on all the happenings across the social web can be a
challenge. For some, a href="http://www.friendfeed.com"FriendFeed/a is the destination of choice as
it lets you see streams of information from all your friends as they share, comment, and
participate in social media. Others find the application too noisy, as it requires a lot of manual
tweaking and filtering to remove unwanted content. /p pA good alternative for those who want to
keep up with the social web in a more organized fashion is a
href="http://peoplebrowsr.com"PeopleBrowsr/a, a virtual dashboard for tracking your online
identities. It's very much inspired by TweetDeck with panels that you scroll through horizontally.
It also has a "Groups" feature, but its implementation was somewhat confusing. We'll give it a pass
for now, though, as the application is still in alpha. /p a
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahintampa/3076841943/" title="peoplebrowsr by sarahintampa,
on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3225/3076841943_84a7e7c4cd.jpg" width="500"
height="405" alt="peoplebrowsr" //ap h2How To Use It/h2 pTo get started with a
href="http://peoplebrowsr.com"PeopleBrowsr/a, you simply add your online IDs and authorize the
PeopleBrowsr service when necessary, as with a href="http://flickr.com"flickr/a and a
href="http://youtube.com"YouTube/a. Once you're finished, you can then switch over to the
PeopleBrowsr app itself. /p pThere are actually two different views to choose from: the stream view
(which resembles TweetDeck) and the Gallery view which lays out the avatars of your friends across
the page. You must select your view of choice upon login. In the Gallery view, you can click on
friends' avatars to see their latest updates and then interact with those updates accordingly,
depending on what network you are browsing at the time. /p pTo select the network you want to see,
there's a navigation bar at the top left side of the page. You can scroll through the various
online sites listed, selecting those you want displayed. In the Stream view, this is more practical
as it loads up each new network in a separate panel, letting you then scroll horizontally from
Twitter, to flickr, to YouTube, etc. /p a
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sarahintampa, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3139/3076781771_9e7209b2f8_o.png"
width="311" height="68" alt="peoplebrowsr_navigation" //a h2Your Streams/h2 pEach network provides
different options for the types of views you can add to your paneled view. Clicking on the network
from the navigation bar (see above) will add some default views to the window, but you can also
choose to add other views from the navigation bar above the streams themselves. For Twitter, the
views to choose from may include things like Replies and your Friends Timeline, for Flickr it
includes options like Favorites and Friends' photos, and for YouTube, it includes your videos, your
favorites, and so on./p pa href="http://peoplebrowsr.com"PeopleBrowsr/a also has "PeopleTags" which
let you tag friends in order to create cross-network groups. This feature wasn't entirely intuitive
to use because the "My Groups" option appears at the top of the page even when no groups have been
created. It seems to respond to a click but does nothing even though you're assuming that it will
open up a pane for group creation as in TweetDeck. However, as you click on the individual posted
items in your streams, you have the option of tagging them in order to create groups which then
makes the "My Groups" link functional. /p p a
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahintampa/3076877597/" title="peoplebrowsr_streams_001 by
sarahintampa, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3245/3076877597_b081018b5b_o.jpg"
width="602" height="261" alt="peoplebrowsr_streams_001" //a p a
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sarahintampa, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/3076877795_2fa67ab53f_o.jpg"
width="599" height="258" alt="peoplebrowsr_flickr" //a h2PeopleBrowsr Shows Promise/h2 pFor an
alpha app, this is a great first start. There are still some tweaks, like the Groups feature for
example, that need to be made. Also, although it was possible to add a FriendFeed ID, FriendFeed
did not appear in the top navigation for some reason. Without its inclusion, this would be an
incomplete application. The app was also slow at times, once even crashing Firefox entirely.
However, it's hard to tell for sure whether that's the app at fault or the pre-beta OS the testing
was done on. That said, a href="http://peoplebrowsr.com"PeopleBrowsr/a definitely looks like a
promising tool to organize your social streams in ways that make sense to you. /p stronga
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/peoplebrowsr_a_visual_dashboard_for_your_online_identities.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong
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The Portable Freeware Collection -
1 days and 19 hours ago
ShellMenuView is a small utility that display the list of static menu items that appeared in the
context menu when you right-click a file/folder on Windows Explorer, and allows you to easily
disable unwanted menu items.

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Guardian Unlimited -
1 days and 21 hours ago
divimg alt=""
src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/81417?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Mumbai+terror+attacks%3A+Rice+calls+for+%27transparency%27+from+Pakistanch=World+newsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Mumbai+terror+attacks+%28News%29%2CTerrorism+-+international%2CIndia+%28News%29%2CPakistan+%28News%29%2CUS+news%2CWorld+newsc5=Unclassified%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Randeep+Ramesh%2CJason+Burke%2CPeter+Walkerc7=2008_12_01c8=1126818c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Mumbai+terror+attacksc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FMumbai+terror+attacks"
width="1" height="1" //divpThe US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, today called for "total
transparency" from Pakistan over the Mumbai terror attacks as an angry India blamed its neighbour
for the mass killings./pp"I don't want to jump to any conclusions myself on this, but I do think
that this is a time for complete, absolute, total transparency and cooperation and that is what we
expect [from Pakistan]," Rice told reporters travelling with her to London, Reuters
reported./ppRice was scheduled to meet David Miliband, the foreign secretary, later today in London
before travelling to India on Wednesday./ppThe US and UK have been urging restraint as India's
government said it had raised security to a "war level" and had obtained definite proof of a
Pakistani link to the killings./ppSri Prakash Jaiswal, India's minister of state for home affairs,
said last night that the country's "intelligence will be increased to a war level, we are asking
the state governments to increase security to a war level". The Press Trust of India, India's
official news agency, also reported that the government was considering suspending the
four-year-old peace process with its neighbour./ppJaiswal said there was "no doubt that the
terrorists had come from Pakistan ... We have evidence of their nationalities. We will reveal
everything soon"./ppA police officer involved in the interrogation of the only attacker captured
alive by Indian commandos, named as Ajmal Amir Kasab, a 21-year-old Pakistani, told Reuters the
militants had spent months in Pakistan having military-style training. It is believed 10 militants
carried out the assault./ppIndia's actions prompted Pakistan to say it would end military
operations against Islamist militants on the Afghan border, which are critical to the hunt for
al-Qaida-linked militants, due to the "unwanted conflict" with Delhi./ppPakistan's government has
condemned the Mumbai assault as a "barbaric act of terrorism" and denied involvement by any "state
institutions". But the group named by India, Lashkar-e-Taiba, has longstanding relationships with
Pakistan's security establishment./ppIn an interview published this morning, Pakistan's president,
Asif Ali Zardari, appealed to India not to punish his country, warning that "non-state actors"
could provoke the nuclear-armed neighbours into conflict./pp"Even if the militants are linked to
Lashkar-e-Taiba, who do you think we are fighting?" he told the Financial Times./ppAs many schools
and shops opened this morning for the first time since the attacks on Wednesday evening, state
government officials said the final siege site to be cleared, the Taj Mahal hotel, had now been
completely checked. The death toll has now been put at 172, including 19 foreigners. One Briton was
among the dead./pp"We were apprehensive about more bodies being found. But this is not likely. All
rooms in the Taj have been opened and checked," said a spokesman for Maharashtra's state
government./ppIn India, the government is struggling to contain public anger over the attacks with
demonstrators taking to the streets to vent their anger over the inability to stop the
killings./ppThe chief minister of Maharashtra state, Vilasrao Deshmukh, said today he had offered
to resign. India's home minister, Shivraj Patil, stepped down yesterday./ppIndia's ruling Congress
party, which faces a general election next year, has been attacked by opponents for being soft on
terrorism, a potent charge given that India has suffered a major attack every month this year. The
government said last night it would urgently upgrade maritime and air security and look to create a
federal investigative agency./ppThe peace process between India and Pakistan now appears in doubt.
"There is a view in the government that India should suspend the peace process ... to show that it
is not going to take lightly the deadly carnage in Mumbai," the Press Trust of India reported. It
quoted sources as saying the government, "including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is very upset as
it feels that Pakistan has not kept its promise made at the highest level to end terrorism directed
at India"./ppLashkar-e-Taiba, which is fighting Indian control of the disputed Kashmir region, was
behind a deadly 2001 assault on the Indian parliament that pushed New Delhi and Islamabad to the
brink of war./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia
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Michael Geist's Blog -
1 days and 22 hours ago
The CBC a href="http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/11/27/calling.html"reports/a that the CRTC
has received thousands of complaints about the do-not-call list and the continuation of unwanted
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