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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has defended his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat as he attacks President Obama over his broken promises. As he answered readers' questions online, Snowden lambasted U.S. officials for calling him a traitor and said the government won't silence him by 'jailing or murdering' him. 'The US Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me,' he said in the live chat, which was launched on Monday. 'Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.' The Guardian hosted the online chat with Snowden, who has been in hiding in Hong Kong since fleeing the U.S., as reporter Glenn Greenwald received and posted Snowden's answers. Speaking out: Edward Snowden is taking part in a live web chat, where he is defending leaking information . Among his responses, he said he waited until after the election to release the information as he had been hopeful that Obama would make good on his promises about civil liberties. In fact, Snowden said, privacy and civil liberties have actually worsened since the re-election. 'Shortly after assuming power, [Obama] closed the door on investigating systemic violations of law, deepened and expanded several abusive programs, and refused to spend the political capital to end the kind of human rights violations like we see in Guantanamo, where men still sit without charge,' he said. He said he saw no option but the flee the country as the administration would never have given him a fair trial. 'The U.S. Government, just as they did with other whistleblowers, immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of a fair trial at home, openly declaring me guilty of treason,' he said. 'That's not justice.' But Snowden added that he did not think it was too late - that the leaks gave the president a chance 'for a return to sanity, constitutional policy, and the rule of law rather than men'. Connection: Snowden is responding via Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian reporter who broke the story . On his escape to Hong Kong: 'The U.S. Government immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of a fair trial at home... That's not justice. It would be foolish to volunteer yourself to it if you can do more good outside of prison than in it.' On leaking information about the U.S. tracking foreign countries: 'Congress hasn't declared war on the countries but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting?' On being silenced: 'The U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me.' On why he leaked the information: 'Obama's campaign promises gave me faith that he would lead us toward fixing problems. Unfortunately, he closed the door on investigating systemic violations of law, deepened and expanded several abusive programs, and refused... to end human rights violations.' On beating NSA surveillance: 'Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.' On spying for China: 'Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.' On when he decided to act: 'There was no single moment. It was seeing a continuing litany of lies from senior officials to Congress.' He called for Obama to set up a special committee to review the surveillance programs and set up a special investigator to review presidents' policies for wrongdoing. He added that he did not reveal any . U.S. operations against what he called legitimate military targets, but . instead showed that the NSA is hacking civilian infrastructure like . universities and businesses. U.S. officials say the data-gathering programs were legal and operated under court supervision. Snowden explained his claim that from his desk, he could 'wiretap' any phone call or email - a claim top intelligence officials have denied. 'If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc. analyst has access to query raw SIGINT (signals intelligence) databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want,' he said. 'Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.' Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has said that the kind of data that can be accessed and who can access it is severely limited. His online chat comes after China . denied that Snowden is working for them after former US Vice-President . Dick Cheney branded the leaker a 'traitor and possible Chinese spy'. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily briefing today, 'This is sheer nonsense,' when asked if Snowden worked for China. Snowden himself added in the web chat: 'Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.' Several nations, including U.S. allies, have reacted angrily to revelations by the ex-CIA employee that U.S. authorities had tapped the servers of internet . companies for personal data. National defense: Former Vice President Dick Cheney spoke on Fox News Sunday in Washington about the need for surveillance . 'We believe the United States should . pay attention to the international community's concerns and demands and . give the international community the necessary explanation,' Hua said. The Chinese government has previously . not commented directly on the case, simply repeating the government's . standard line that China is one of the world's biggest victims of . hacking attacks. A senior source with ties to the . Communist Party leadership said Beijing was reluctant to jeopardise . recently improved ties with Washington. Cheney said how the controversial surveillance methods used by the NSA could . have prevented the September . 11 attacks and said the revelations have done 'enormous . damage' to America's security. Speaking on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Cheney took credit for crafting the program of data collection, saying that he 'worked with [former Director of . National Intelligence] Mike Hayden when we set this program up.' 'Traitor': According to Cheney, Snowden . could be leaking U.S. security secrets to China. Supporters in Hong Kong have come out strongly in defense of . the former CIA employee, as pictured . 'As everybody who's been associated with the program's said, if we had . had this before 9/11, when there were two terrorists in San Diego - two . hijackers - had been able to use that program, that capability, against . that target, we might well have been able to prevent 9/11,' Cheney told Wallace. In the webchat, Snowden added: 'Journalists should ask: since these programs began operation shortly after September 11th, how many terrorist attacks were prevented SOLELY by information derived from this suspicion-less surveillance that could not be gained via any other source? 'Then ask how many individual communications were ingested to acheive that, and ask yourself if it was worth it.' Cheney ridiculed the notion that the NSA . was listening in to personal calls of ordinary Americans. 'The allegation is not that we get all this personal information on . Aunt Fanny or Chris Wallace, that's not the way it works,' he said. Anger: Snowden said civil liberties had worsened ever since President Obama was re-elected last year . 'What . information [was collected]?' he said. 'And the answer is phone numbers . and who contacted who. But we don’t have any names associated with it. It’s just a big bag of numbers that’s been collected.' Of Snowden, Cheney said the breach of security was one of the worst in history. 'I think he's a traitor. I think it's . one of the worst occasions, in my memory, of somebody with access to . classified information doing enormous damage to the national security . interests of the United States,' he said. He suggested that Snowden, who is thought to have fled to Hong Kong, could be working with the Chinese government. 'I am very, very worried that he still . has additional information that he hasn't released yet, that the Chinese . would welcome the opportunity and are probably willing to offer . immunity - or sanctuary, if you will - in exchange for what he . presumably knows or doesn't know,' said Cheney. | Edward Snowden answers questions from readers in live web chat .
'The government won't be able to cover this up by murdering me'
Says civil liberties have worsened under Obama despite his promises . | 5ad584b9276433ac7ae29d84f5de3ff7b5fc97bf | [
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] | government won't silence him by 'jailing or to be able to cover this up by jailing or answers. Speaking out: Edward Snowden is taking part in a live web chat, where he is defending and civil liberties have actually worsened since this up by jailing or murdering me.' On why he |
By . Daily Mail Reporter . Last updated at 3:45 PM on 3rd September 2011 . The sister of Rebecca Zahau, the woman found hanging at billionaire Jonah Shacknai’s home, has repeated her refusal to believe her sister committed suicide after police spelt out the finding of their investigation. Rebecca Zahau, 32, was found dead on July 13, hanging from a second-floor balcony at a historic mansion in suburban Coronado, California belonging to Mr Shacknai, whose son had a tragic fall two days earlier. Before she died a distraught Zahau painted a message in black paint on a door revealed San Diego Country Sheriff Bill Gore, as he said police had concluded the death was suicide not murder. According to Zahau's ex-husband, Neil Nalepa, it read: 'She saved him, can he save her.' Suicide: Rebecca Zahau, right, was found hanging naked at Jonah Shacknai's mansion in Coronado, California . But the lawyer representing her family has said that they do not want police to close the case. 'Rebecca had no history of suicidal tendencies, no psychological . problems and no history of depression,' Anne . Bremner told . RadarOnline. 'The family wants justice. The police have a duty to . fully investigate the case and we don’t want them to close the . investigation today. The family does not believe it was a suicide.' Ms Zahau’s sister Snowem Horwath believes her . sister was murdered. 'Becky did not kill herself, someone killed her,' she told RadarOnline. 'Time will reveal who killed Becky. I think I . know who killed my sister. We are not stupid, she never had any . enemies.' The family is calling for a forensic psychiatrist and a . criminal profiler to investigate the case and say the cryptic message in black paint was not Ms Zahau's handwriting. Authorities showed a photo of the balcony over which Rebecca allegedly killed herself, but they covered up the message she painted in black on a door shortly before her death, seen right . Officials revealed yesterday that the paint from the message was still on her hands and on the rope when she died. The fatal fall over a staircase railing of . 6-year-old Max Shacknai, Jonah's son two days before Rebecca's death, was ruled an accident. He was . found not breathing and with no pulse by Rebecca at the bottom of the . stairs after she heard a noise and came to look. She was the only adult at home at the time. Authorities said the last call to . Zahau's voicemail before her death had delivered the message that the . boy was in grave condition and would likely die, as he did six days later. The findings in the deaths followed a lengthy investigation. 'Were . these deaths the result of criminal conduct? Was Max's death a . homicide? The answer is no,' San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore told a . news conference. . This is a diagram shown Friday of how investigators say Max accidentally fell his death . Max was revealed to have broken his spinal chord in his fall, and was not breathing and had no pulse when he was found . 'It was a tragic accident. Was . Rebecca's death a homicide? Again the answer is no. It was a suicide ... These deaths were not the result of any criminal acts.' There . was no evidence of foul play, sexual assault or a struggle, authorities . said. She was alive when she went over the balcony and she died by . hanging. There were no alcohol or drugs in her system. She died at about 3 a.m and was found at 6:45 a.m. by Jonah's brother, who cut her down and called 911. When Zahau's naked body was found . hanging from the mansion's balcony with her ankles and wrists bound, . investigators were quick to say they weren't ruling out suicide . On Friday they showed a video re-enactment of how someone could bind their own hands. Authorities also said on Friday that Zahau had not been happy for some time and had recently lost weight. DNA from the rope around her neck that was tied to a bed footboard, and foot impressions on balcony dust were also tied to Zahau, investigators said. Someone left a voice mail message with Zahau at 12:50 a.m. the morning her body was found indicating that Max's condition had taken a serious turn and he wasn't expected to survive, Gore said. One witness who authorities declined to identify said Zahau appeared depressed in January, Gore said. Investigators discovered a lengthy 'journal' stored in her phone that also indicated she was unhappy. 'Max was an extraordinarily loving, . happy, talented, and special little boy. He brought joy to everyone who . knew him... Rebecca too was a wonderful and unique person' Jonah Shacknai . 'This type of a suicide — its unusual but I don't think it's unprecedented,' Gore said. All the DNA found on the binding and rope and fingerprints on the paint also belonged to her. Jonah Shacknai released a statement expressing his sadness. 'While the investigation is over, the emptiness and sadness in our hearts will remain forever,' Shacknai said. 'Max . was an extraordinarily loving, happy, talented, and special little boy. He brought joy to everyone who knew him, and we will miss him . desperately. 'Rebecca too was a wonderful and unique person who will always have a special place in my heart,' he added. Rebecca's sister Mary Zahau-Loehner revealed . the news that the death had been ruled a suicide late Wednesday, but said she found investigators unconvincing when they broke . their findings to her. Marriage plans: Shacknai reportedly told friends he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Rebecca, who had quit her job to spend more time with Shacknai and his children . It doesn't add up,’ she said, after . she was visited on Wednesday at her home in in St Joseph, Missouri, by . investigators who told her their theory. ‘Nothing adds up.’ Ms Zahau was Jonah Shacknai's girlfriend of two years and Max was his son from a marriage that ended in divorce in 2008. Ms Zahau-Loehner said she spoke with her . sister the night before her body was found and she gave no hint that she . planned to take her life. She said she planned to bring Mr . Shacknai breakfast and a change of clothes the next morning to the . hospital where his son was being treated. Ms Zahau also told her sister that she would call her parents in the morning on the way to the hospital. She emailed another sister in Germany to say she would be updating throughout the next day. 'We've obviously had an extraordinarily difficult time. We have undertaken some tragedies, some losses that one couldn't imagine experiencing in a lifetime' Jonah Shacknai . ‘Too detailed planning for someone who's planning to end their life that night,’ Ms Zahau-Loehner said. When Max fell down the stairs, Ms Zahau was at home with a 13-year-old girl who was related to her, authorities say. He was hospitalised after paramedics found the boy wasn't breathing, his neck was broken and he did not have a pulse. Two days later, Mr Shacknai's brother, Adam, called 911 to report that Ms Zahau appeared to be dead, investigators said. The brother was staying in a mansion guesthouse. Jonah Shacknai was not at home as he was at his son's hospital bedside . The home, known as the Spreckels . mansion, is one of the more storied properties in Coronado, a small . suburb of multimillion-dollar homes on the tip of a peninsula across a . bay from downtown San Diego. The home has unobstructed beach views . and sits near Coronado's main street, which is lined with palm trees and . upscale boutiques. Mr Shacknai bought the mansion in March 2007, when it was assessed at $12.75million. Tragic home: The historic 27-room Spreckels mansion in Coronado, an affluent suburb of San Diego, where Jonah Shacknai's girlfriend was found hanging naked . An aerial view of the historic mansion . The home was built in 1908 and named . for its original owner, John D. Spreckels, who also owned newspapers the . San Diego Union and San Diego Tribune. Mr Shacknai founded Medicis . Pharmaceuticals and has been chairman and chief executive of the . Scottsdale, Arizona-based company since 1988. In a divorce filing, he filed a tax return that showed his income in 1998 at $17million. Medicis makes acne treatments Solodyn and Ziana and facial wrinkle treatment Restylane and Dysport, a competitor of Botox. Last year, the company earned $123million on $700million in revenue. Mr Shacknai has two children with his first wife, Kimberly. Max was his only child with his second wife, Dina. He told Medicis investors in August . that he was planning to resume his daily routine of showing up at the . office as soon as school resumed for his children in Arizona. ‘We've obviously had an . extraordinarily difficult time,’ he said. ‘We have undertaken some . tragedies, some losses that one couldn't imagine experiencing in a . lifetime.’ Ms Zahau, a native of Myanmar, was an . ophthalmic technician at Horizon Eye Specialists & Lasik Center in . the Phoenix area from April 2008 to December 2010. Ms Zahau-Loehner urged investigators keep the investigation open and said the family has hired an attorney. ‘There are many unanswered questions,’ she said. | Rebecca Zahau, 32, found dead at mansion in Coronado, California, in July .
Zahau found dead two days after her boyfriend's son, 6, fell and broke his neck while under her care. He later died from the accident .
Authorities laid out their case for why her death was ruled suicide in Friday press conference .
Jonah Shacknai: 'While the investigation is over, the emptiness and sadness in our hearts will remain forever'
For confidential support in the UK call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch, or see www.samaritans.org for details .
In the U.S. call the National Suicide Prevention Line on 1-800-273-8255 . | adc2207826c7336b0a0e089a2f9824085726d2e6 | [
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"someone killed her,' she told RadarOnline. 'Time",
"will reveal who killed Becky. I think I . know",
"who killed my sister. We are not stupid, she",
"never had any . enemies.' The family is calling",
"for a forensic psychiatrist and a . criminal",
"profiler to investigate the case and say the",
"cryptic message in black paint was not Ms Zahau's",
"handwriting. Authorities showed a photo of the",
"balcony over which Rebecca allegedly killed",
"herself, but they covered up the message she",
"painted in black on a door shortly before her",
"death, seen right . Officials revealed yesterday",
"that the paint from the message was still on her",
"hands and on the rope when she died. The fatal",
"fall over a staircase railing of . 6-year-old Max",
"Shacknai, Jonah's son two days before Rebecca's",
"death, was ruled an accident. He was . found not",
"breathing and with no pulse by Rebecca at the",
"bottom of the . stairs after she heard a noise",
"and came to look. She was the only adult at home",
"at the time. Authorities said the last call to .",
"Zahau's voicemail before her death had delivered",
"the message that the . boy was in grave condition",
"and would likely die, as he did six days later.",
"The findings in the deaths followed a lengthy",
"investigation. 'Were . these deaths the result of",
"criminal conduct? Was Max's death a . homicide?",
"The answer is no,' San Diego County Sheriff Bill",
"Gore told a . news conference. . This is a",
"diagram shown Friday of how investigators say Max",
"accidentally fell his death . Max was revealed to",
"have broken his spinal chord in his fall, and was",
"not breathing and had no pulse when he was found",
". 'It was a tragic accident. Was . Rebecca's",
"death a homicide? Again the answer is no. It was",
"a suicide ... These deaths were not the result of",
"any criminal acts.' There . was no evidence of",
"foul play, sexual assault or a struggle,",
"authorities . said. She was alive when she went",
"over the balcony and she died by . hanging. There",
"were no alcohol or drugs in her system. She died",
"at about 3 a.m and was found at 6:45 a.m. by",
"Jonah's brother, who cut her down and called 911.",
"When Zahau's naked body was found . hanging from",
"the mansion's balcony with her ankles and wrists",
"bound, . investigators were quick to say they",
"weren't ruling out suicide . On Friday they",
"showed a video re-enactment of how someone could",
"bind their own hands. Authorities also said on",
"Friday that Zahau had not been happy for some",
"time and had recently lost weight. DNA from the",
"rope around her neck that was tied to a bed",
"footboard, and foot impressions on balcony dust",
"were also tied to Zahau, investigators said.",
"Someone left a voice mail message with Zahau at",
"12:50 a.m. the morning her body was found",
"indicating that Max's condition had taken a",
"serious turn and he wasn't expected to survive,",
"Gore said. One witness who authorities declined",
"to identify said Zahau appeared depressed in",
"January, Gore said. Investigators discovered a",
"lengthy 'journal' stored in her phone that also",
"indicated she was unhappy. 'Max was an",
"extraordinarily loving, . happy, talented, and",
"special little boy. He brought joy to everyone",
"who . knew him... Rebecca too was a wonderful and",
"unique person' Jonah Shacknai . 'This type of a",
"suicide — its unusual but I don't think it's",
"unprecedented,' Gore said. All the DNA found on",
"the binding and rope and fingerprints on the",
"paint also belonged to her. Jonah Shacknai",
"released a statement expressing his sadness.",
"'While the investigation is over, the emptiness",
"and sadness in our hearts will remain forever,'",
"Shacknai said. 'Max . was an extraordinarily",
"loving, happy, talented, and special little boy.",
"He brought joy to everyone who knew him, and we",
"will miss him . desperately. 'Rebecca too was a",
"wonderful and unique person who will always have",
"a special place in my heart,' he added. Rebecca's",
"sister Mary Zahau-Loehner revealed . the news",
"that the death had been ruled a suicide late",
"Wednesday, but said she found investigators",
"unconvincing when they broke . their findings to",
"her. Marriage plans: Shacknai reportedly told",
"friends he wanted to spend the rest of his life",
"with Rebecca, who had quit her job to spend more",
"time with Shacknai and his children . It doesn't",
"add up,’ she said, after . she was visited on",
"Wednesday at her home in in St Joseph, Missouri,",
"by . investigators who told her their theory.",
"‘Nothing adds up.’ Ms Zahau was Jonah Shacknai's",
"girlfriend of two years and Max was his son from",
"a marriage that ended in divorce in 2008. Ms",
"Zahau-Loehner said she spoke with her . sister",
"the night before her body was found and she gave",
"no hint that she . planned to take her life. She",
"said she planned to bring Mr . Shacknai breakfast",
"and a change of clothes the next morning to the .",
"hospital where his son was being treated. Ms",
"Zahau also told her sister that she would call",
"her parents in the morning on the way to the",
"hospital. She emailed another sister in Germany",
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"day. 'We've obviously had an extraordinarily",
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"experiencing in a lifetime' Jonah Shacknai . ‘Too",
"detailed planning for someone who's planning to",
"end their life that night,’ Ms Zahau-Loehner",
"said. When Max fell down the stairs, Ms Zahau was",
"at home with a 13-year-old girl who was related",
"to her, authorities say. He was hospitalised",
"after paramedics found the boy wasn't breathing,",
"his neck was broken and he did not have a pulse.",
"Two days later, Mr Shacknai's brother, Adam,",
"called 911 to report that Ms Zahau appeared to be",
"dead, investigators said. The brother was staying",
"in a mansion guesthouse. Jonah Shacknai was not",
"at home as he was at his son's hospital bedside .",
"The home, known as the Spreckels . mansion, is",
"one of the more storied properties in Coronado, a",
"small . suburb of multimillion-dollar homes on",
"the tip of a peninsula across a . bay from",
"downtown San Diego. The home has unobstructed",
"beach views . and sits near Coronado's main",
"street, which is lined with palm trees and .",
"upscale boutiques. Mr Shacknai bought the mansion",
"in March 2007, when it was assessed at",
"$12.75million. Tragic home: The historic 27-room",
"Spreckels mansion in Coronado, an affluent suburb",
"of San Diego, where Jonah Shacknai's girlfriend",
"was found hanging naked . An aerial view of the",
"historic mansion . The home was built in 1908 and",
"named . for its original owner, John D.",
"Spreckels, who also owned newspapers the . San",
"Diego Union and San Diego Tribune. Mr Shacknai",
"founded Medicis . Pharmaceuticals and has been",
"chairman and chief executive of the . Scottsdale,",
"Arizona-based company since 1988. In a divorce",
"filing, he filed a tax return that showed his",
"income in 1998 at $17million. Medicis makes acne",
"treatments Solodyn and Ziana and facial wrinkle",
"treatment Restylane and Dysport, a competitor of",
"Botox. Last year, the company earned $123million",
"on $700million in revenue. Mr Shacknai has two",
"children with his first wife, Kimberly. Max was",
"his only child with his second wife, Dina. He",
"told Medicis investors in August . that he was",
"planning to resume his daily routine of showing",
"up at the . office as soon as school resumed for",
"his children in Arizona. ‘We've obviously had an",
". extraordinarily difficult time,’ he said. ‘We",
"have undertaken some . tragedies, some losses",
"that one couldn't imagine experiencing in a .",
"lifetime.’ Ms Zahau, a native of Myanmar, was an",
". ophthalmic technician at Horizon Eye",
"Specialists & Lasik Center in . the Phoenix area",
"from April 2008 to December 2010. Ms",
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By . Kieran Corcoran . PUBLISHED: . 04:50 EST, 20 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 06:24 EST, 20 February 2014 . 'BANG!': Robin Clark, 44, slipped and re-opened his leg wound after colleagues played a prank on him . A City broker who was shot in the leg by a balaclava-wearing gunman ended up in hospital again after a cruel joke on his first day back at work. Robin Clark, 44, needed hospital treatment after pranksters sneaked up behind him and shouted 'bang!'. He fell over and re-opened his leg wound from the shock. Mr Clark, dubbed 'The Wolf of Shenfield' in light of his City boy lifestyle, was blasted in the thigh with a shotgun at close range by an unknown attacker last month in the car park of an Essex train station. As he recovered in hospital from the initial shooting, where he was given armed police guards, Mr Clark said he had 'no idea why someone would want to hurt me like this.' RP Martin, the firm where Mr Clark works, declined to comment on the incident. He is understood to have returned to work. British Transport Police have made no arrests in the case, though they said that they are investigating and have no doubt that Mr Clark was deliberately targeted. The gunman approached Mr Clark at 5.55am on Friday January 24 in the car park of Shenfield station. Using a sawn-off shotgun, he fired once at point-blank range, leaving a fist-sized wound. Surgeons later said that the blast was just inches from severing major arteries in Mr Clark's leg. Speaking from his hospital bed to The Sun after his attack, he said he through he was going to die. He told the paper: 'I said a quick prayer because I thought this was going to be the end. I thought I was going to bleed to death before any help would come.' Famous folk: Mr Clark has been pictured . alongside celebrities and models, such as Nancy Sorrell, left, and race . driver Lewis Hamilton, right . Mr . Clark, a twice-divorced father-of-four, last year rented out his . £2.2million five-bedroom house in nearby Ingatestone after running into . debt. After the incident, pictures emerged of his lavish lifestyle, where he was pictured next to Formula One drivers and models in a previous job. While working in the U.S., Mr Clark had brought in salaries as high as £1million a year after being appointed to a senior position on a huge financial merger. However, friends said the broker had been suffering money worries in more recent years, and was saddled with debts. Last year a . county court judgment was filed against him for debts of £14,653, and he . was director of a number of companies that were shut down while owing . money. The day before the shooting Mr Clark had tried to sell his Range Rover for £10,000. Scene: Armed officers from Essex Police scoured the scene last month at Shenfield station . Attack: Mr Clark was shot in the car park of the station at 5.55am . Former home: Mr Clark had lived in this £2.2million house in the village of Stock, Essex . He . is thought to have already sold two Porsches. Luxury car dealer Steve . Hurn, from Stowmarket in Suffolk, said Mr Clark had been a ‘prolific car . buyer’ until he went through a ‘messy divorce’ around 18 months ago. Over the past few years he had bought a number of expensive cars including Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Maseratis. Mr . Hurn said: ‘His great love is classic cars and particularly Porsches. But from what I understand Robin is having a few money difficulties.' Mr Clark works as a euro derivatives trader at RP Martin, a brokerage firm in the City of London. Affluent Shenfield is 24 minutes by train from central London and is popular with City workers. | Robin Clark, 44, was shot at Shenfield train station in Essex last month .
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By . Joshua Gardner . A Chicago man who was seriously gored by a bull July 9 during Pamplona's running of the bulls has spoken out from his Spanish hospital bed to detail his terrifying brush with death. Bill Hillman, who was on his tenth run, writes in the Washington Post that it wasn't his own ineptitude that got him impaled by the bull called Bravito. Instead, the American author of Fiesta: How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona claims it was several terrified and inexperienced British runners who inadvertently got him gored. Gored: Bill Hillman was one of a handful of runners at this year's running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain who were gored. He suffered a terrible gash to his thigh and remains in the hospital but has written a first-hand account of his brush with death in which he vows to run again . The harrowing moment: Here, Bill is seen being impaled in the leg by the bull named Brevito, meaning 'fierce one' Despite his harrowing experience, and before he was even released from the hospital, Hillman vowed to run again. 'Bravito, meaning "fierce one," pierced his horn through my right thigh and lifted me into the air,' Hillman writes. Hillman says that he first tripped over the leg of one inexperienced British runner before another knocked him right into Bravito's horns. After the first goring, Hillman was knocked to the ground and gored once more. 'As I fell to the ground and scuttled toward the barricades on my back, Bravito gored my leg again,' he writes. 'When paramedics pulled me to safety, I saw a racquetball-size hole in my mid-thigh. Blood ran down my leg and flooded my shoe.' Hillman writes in the Washington Post that the men pictured in blue were inexperienced runners who inadvertently caused him to be gored . Some of his first thoughts were with his family: 'Go find my wife and tell her I'm sorry,' he told a man. Given more time to think back on his experience, he wasn't so sorry that he'd leave the tradition behind. 'I will keep running for another chance to lead a Spanish fighting bull up the street. When that happens, I become one with the fiercest, most majestic animal on Earth,' he says. Hillman, who says he was raised on the wrong side of the tracks by a former gangster father before making his own mistakes, reveals that running from the bulls is therapeutic for him. A Miura fighting bull gores another reveler during the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival, one of several who were impaled in 2014 . Runners run ahead of a ''Miura'' fighting bull which tossed some runners during the running of the bulls, at the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Monday, July 14, 2014 . 'Being gored is part of the bull-running tradition,' he writes. 'The sense of danger — and the excitement of narrowly escaping it — are part of what got me into bull running. Danger has always been a part of my life.' Dozens of people are injured each year in the 'encierros,' as the runs are called in Spanish, most of them in falls. Two twenty-something Australians and five Spaniards, in addition to Hillman, were gored in this year's running of the bulls as part of the San Fermin festival. Fifteen people have died from gorings since record-keeping began in 1924. Reveler falls in front ''Miura'' pack fighting bulls on the way to the bull ring, during the running of the bulls, at the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Monday, July 14, 2014 . | Bill Hillman was on his tenth bull run when he was gored in the thigh and thrown into the air by a bull .
The Chicago native blames several British first-timers for all but shoving him into the bull .
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(CNN) -- A jury Friday acquitted W.R. Grace & Company and three of its former executives of having knowingly exposed mine workers and residents of Libby, Montana, to asbestos. The W.R. Grace plant in Libby, Montana, in an undated photograph. "We at Grace are gratified by today's verdict and thank the men and women of the jury who were open to hearing the facts," said Fred Festa, chairman, president and CEO of the company in a written statement. "We always believed that Grace and its former executives had acted properly and that a jury would come to the same conclusion when confronted with the evidence." Festa said that during the time Grace owned and operated a vermiculite mine in Libby, "the company worked hard to keep the operations in compliance with the laws and standards of the day." The jury began deliberating Thursday and returned its verdict Friday morning. The Department of Justice's response to the verdict, which came after a three-month trial, was measured. "The jury has spoken, and we thank them for their service," said a written statement issued by the office of public affairs. "We are refraining from further comment at this juncture because one individual awaits trial in connection with this case." Prosecutors plan to try another executive separately. Asked if the Justice Department plans to appeal, department spokesman Andrew Ames said, "I wouldn't want to comment on that." Federal prosecutors had accused the mining company and its executives of exposing Libby's 100,000 residents to asbestos for decades, resulting in more than 200 deaths and 1,000 illnesses. The product covered patches of grass, dusted the tops of cars and drifted through the air in a hazy smoke that became a part of residents' daily lives. "There's never been a case where so many people were sickened or killed by environmental crime," said David Uhlmann in an April interview. He helped spearhead the case when he was the Justice Department's top prosecutor of environmental crimes before stepping down in 2007. During the trial, those who lost loved ones testified at the federal courthouse in Missoula, about 130 miles southeast of Libby, that residents had been kept in the dark about the dangers. Until 1990, W.R. Grace & Company operated a mine in Libby that produced vermiculite, a substance used in all sorts of products, from insulation to fertilizers. The vermiculite was contaminated with tremolite asbestos -- linked to numerous illnesses including mesothelioma, a cancer that can attack the lining of the lungs, abdomen or heart. The government's indictment alleged that W.R. Grace conspired to "knowingly release" the asbestos. It said the company tried to hide the dangers from employees and residents, leaving them "in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury." "It was a purpose of the conspiracy to conceal and misrepresent the hazardous nature of the tremolite asbestos contaminated vermiculite, thereby enriching defendants and others," the indictment read. The indictment also said W.R. Grace tried to "defraud the United States and others by impairing, impeding, and frustrating" the Environmental Protection Agency and other government agencies once they launched an investigation in 1999. The 10-count indictment included charges of wire fraud and obstruction of justice. Had it been convicted, the company could have faced criminal fines of up to $280 million, which is twice the value of its profits from the mine. Grace executives, who were named as defendants, could have faced prison time. The company did not deny that asbestos emanated from its plant. Nor did it question that some people had been sickened and killed, though a definitive number of deaths linked to the vermiculite plant probably will never be known. But W.R. Grace denied any kind of conspiracy. In fact, the company said, it acted responsibly and took appropriate steps. It said it had voluntarily paid millions of dollars in medical bills for 900 Libby residents. In the courtroom, defense attorneys noted that the asbestos problem dates back to about 1920, long before W.R. Grace took over the mine in 1963. The attorneys said that, as information about the asbestos came to light, the company took numerous steps to mitigate the dangers and were open about it. Defense attorney David Bernick said he was not surprised by the verdict. "The evidence showed that what was going on internally with the company was anything but conspiratorial," he told said. "It was responsible." However, some townspeople did not share Bernick's view. "I don't see how they could have gotten out of it," said Steven Schnetter, who worked at the mine for 17 years until it closed in 1990. Shortly afterward, Schnetter was diagnosed with asbestosis, a lung disease caused by exposure to asbestos fibers. The 60-year-old retiree said he told his managers in the late 1980s that he was concerned to find that tremolite is a form of asbestos. "They said, 'Oh, yeah, but it's the short-fiber type that won't hurt you,'" he said. Schnetter settled with the company for a "small amount," he told CNN Friday in a telephone interview. When asked about his frequent coughing, he said, "I do that all the time. ... My lungs won't expand right." | Jury acquits W.R. Grace, three former execs in asbestos exposure case .
Chemical company accused of hiding asbestos dangers from employees, residents .
Prosecutors claim pollution left 200 dead, more than 1,000 sick .
W.R. Grace claims it took steps to mitigate danger, paid residents' medical bills . | f77911107ee2b2b56162d31b79efaba6fd84ef11 | [
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By . Belinda Robinson . Dead: Police were searching for . Julian Paris, 54, who allegedly shot dead his wife at a crowded park in Florida . The dead body of a man wanted by police in Florida for allegedly murdering his wife in front of their kids has been found. Julian Paris, 54, was wanted by police after he callously shot his wife Liza Nicole Adderly, 34, dead at Dr. Phillips Community Park in Orlando in front of their three children. However, Orange County officers confirmed that Mr Paris had been found dead by family members from a self-inflected gunshot wound, next to his late son's grave at Woodlawn Cemetery. Mr Paris had been on the run since May 7 after investigators said he fatally shot his wife at 4.20pm in broad daylight. Ms Adderly had taken her three children to a play date with another family when Paris showed up, officers said. He then shot and killed his wife in front of their shocked children who were standing next to their mother and are aged four, 13 and 15. Eyewitnesses said the suspect fled from the park in a white Kia Spectra compact hatchback, with the Florida number plate K259IV. The couple’s three children watched as their dad sped away from the parking lot wearing a red fedora and red T-shirt, according to a witness. Shocked onlookers along with the couple's children were among the first to dial 911 for emergency services to get help after the horror at the park unfolded. Murder scene: Police were searching for a Florida man who brazenly shot his wife to death at a crowded park in Orlando but he was later found dead . Sheriff’s spokesman Jeff Williamson said: 'It shows how . brazen he was to come here in broad daylight and shoot this woman in . broad daylight in front of multiple witnesses, including juveniles.' 'I think it says a lot about . the person and the crime itself. It’s heinous,' he added. Mr Paris had several aliases, but his given name was Rick Adderly, according to his family. The couple had a history of domestic abuse and officers were called out to an incident between the pair two hours before Mrs Adderly was killed. On Wednesday, the 34-year-old mother of three was shoved by Mr Paris during a meeting at his job as an irrigation worker, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. Ms Adderly was so distraught that she went back to her car, screaming for help, say police officers. She was shot to death just a few hours later. Orange County police officers launched a widespread manhunt for the 54-year-old but his daughter found him dead at 7.20p.m. on May 8. Investigators are still trying to determine why he killed himself. In happier times: Rick Adderly (also known as Julian Paris), his wife Liza Nicole Adderly and their children pose together in a group shot at the beach . Police line: Julian Paris, 54, had fled the park in a white Kia Spectra watched by his three kids . After more than 16 years of marriage, the couple separated a month before the killing. Relatives said that the graveside where Mr Paris was found dead belonged to their 17-year-old son - who was their eldest - but had been hit by a car and killed in January . 2012. Jane Watrel of the Orange County Sheriff's Office said: 'You all know that he was going through a separation, but we do not know why he took this extreme drastic measure. 'We got the call around 7:25 p.m [from] family who called saying they found the body of Mr Paris at his son's grave.' The tragic couple married in 1998, when she was 18 and her husband 38. Deputies are still looking for the deceased man's car. Adrianna Adderlini, . 23, a relative through marriage told The Orlando Sentinel: 'This is very surprising because they've been so good after the death of . their son — just holding their family strong.' The couple leave behind their three surviving children. | Mr Paris, 54, died from a single self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head .
He had been on the run since Wednesday for killing his wife in Florida .
His wife Liza, 34, called police just hours before her death .
The couple had been separated for a month before the murder . | 81339d578921ed12d4f3134dafd4dd44db27b4f6 | [
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A senior Palestinian Authority official died Wednesday after a confrontation with Israeli troops, prompting President Mahmoud Abbas to halt security coordination with Israel, according to Palestinian officials. Ziyad Abu Ein died after clashes with Israeli soldiers midday Wednesday in the Palestinian village of Turmusaya, which is northeast of the West Bank city of Ramallah, longtime chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said in a statement. Abu Ein -- a minister in Abbas' Fatah party and head of the Committee to Resist the Wall and Settlements -- was there participating in nonviolent demonstrations to mark international Human Rights Day, according to Erakat's statement. There were varying reports of exactly how Abu Ein died, including what role -- if any -- Israeli authorities played in it. Pictures from various news agencies depict an Israeli soldier with his hands to Abu Ein's neck, followed by another showing him on the ground. The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, meanwhile, reported that the Palestinian official lost consciousness after he inhaled tear gas and an Israeli soldier hit him in the chest. "The Israeli soldiers called Abu Ein by name and seemed to be focused on him," witness Kamal Abu Safaka told CNN. "There was a lot of pushing, kicking and punching by the soldiers. ... When Abu Ein tried to intercede, they hit him on the chest with a rifle butt and grabbed him by the throat and pushed him back and then threw a large amount of tear gas and stun grenades." Dr. Ahmed Bitawi, the director of the Ramallah hospital that inspected Abu Ein's body, said he died from asphyxiation after choking on vomit brought on by tear gas inhalation. But a preliminary autopsy report released by the Israeli government indicated that Abu Ein's death was caused by a blockage of the coronary artery due to hemorrhaging. The bleeding could have been caused by stress, the report said, suggesting the poor condition of Abu Ein's heart caused him to be more sensitive to stress. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a message -- via his special envoy Yitzhak Molcho -- to Palestinian Authority officials telling them that Israel will investigate the death, according to a government statement. "The Prime Minister, who has been holding security consultations throughout the day, pointed to the need to calm the situation and act responsibly," the statement said. The Israeli military said in a statement that the incident happened after its "forces halted the progress of (about 200) rioters into the civilian community of Abed-Ad using riot dispersal means." "The IDF is reviewing the circumstances of the participation of Ziyad Abu Ein and his later death," the Israeli military said, noting an Israeli pathologist will join a group of pathologists from Jordan for an examination. "... Additionally, a proposal has been made to the Palestinians to establish a joint investigation team to review the incident." Jordanian Minister of Information Mohammed Al-Momani said that two forensic doctors were sent to the West Bank "to help in determining the cause of (Abu Ein's) death" in response "to a Palestinian request." Declaring three days of mourning, Abbas slammed Abu Ein's death as an "intolerable barbaric act," according to WAFA. "What happened is a crime by all means, we cannot sit idle and silent (after) this crime," he said later on Palestinian television. "For that, this leadership is meeting now to decide what it wants, and I say honestly all options are open for discussion and for implementation. ... We don't have any other solutions." Hanan Ashrawi, an executive member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said Abbas also froze security coordination with Israel. Jibril Rajoub, a member of Fatah's central committee, confirmed this development. A meeting of PLO representatives Wednesday night about the day's development's was "heated," Ashrawi said. One of the options discussed at the session was taking the Palestinian case to the U.N. Security Council. There will be another meeting Friday. Ashrawi is among the Palestinians outraged by the minister's death, demanding "an international and impartial investigation." "This is a deliberate and willful act of murder and criminality," she said. | Autopsy report released by Israel says Ziyad Abu Ein died from blocked artery .
A Palestinian doctor says he choked on vomit brought on by tear gas inhalation .
A Palestinian official says Ziyad Abu Ein was taking part in nonviolent protests .
Israel's Netanyahu sends his envoy to the Palestinian Authority, vows to investigate . | 73de0878323d26e0d07d8a193e835375e89eaa54 | [
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By . Louise Cheer . A former design school employee accused of leaking details of a $60,000 scholarship to the daughter of Prime Minister Tony Abbott has filed a legal claim with the Fair Work Commission. The Whitehouse Institute of Design's chief executive officer Ian Tudor confirmed to the Daily Mail Australia that an 'adverse action case' by a former employee was to be heard by the workplace relations tribunal. The complaint was filed by the former employee who had been investigated by the school after it was reported Frances Abbott had been given the chairman's scholarship worth $60,636, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. Scroll down for video . Frances Abbott was awarded a $60,000 scholarship at Whitehouse Institute of Design in Sydney . Mr Tudor told the Daily Mail Australia the institute was 'confident that the adverse action case is without merit and has no prospect of success'. 'The former employee concerned was subject to an internal disciplinary review and resigned before that review was complete,' he said in a statement. 'Given that the matter is currently before the Fair Work Commission, we will be making no further comment.' In May, it was revealed Mr Abbott's second daughter had won the prestigious chairman's scholarship to the Whitehouse Institute of Design. The school, which has campuses in Sydney and Melbourne, has Liberal supporter Les Taylor as chairman of its board of governors. The institute that awarded Tony Abbott's (pictured) daughter the scholarship has had legal action launched against it through the Fair Work Commission . The former employee of the school who lodged the case was investigated for a student confidentiality breach . The revelations Frances Abbott received the 2011 scholarship caused controversy was it was revealed in May because Mr Abbott did not declared the scholarship on his pecuniary interest register - despite previously declaring other matters relating to his children such as trips, accommodation and tickets to sporting events. Mr Abbott has maintained that he had no reason to declare the scholarship because his daughter won it on merit. A school spokesman told The Sydney Morning Herald that the employee was investigated for a breach in student confidentiality, but did not name the student in question. It was revealed to Fairfax media by a source that it was Frances Abbott. Fair Work Commission vice-president Joe Catanzariti will be overseeing the case within weeks and the employee who filed the complaint is believed to be represented by the same legal team who handled James Ashby's sexual harassment allegations against former speaker Peter Slipper, Harmers Workplace Lawyers, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The Prime Minister's office, Harmers Workplace Lawyers and the Fair Work Commission have been contacted by Daily Mail Australia for comment. | In May, it was revealed Frances Abbott received a $60,000 scholarship from the Whitehouse Institute of Design .
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A Las Vegas substitute teacher has been accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old student after his father noticed a love bite on the boy's neck. Tanikka Bella Queen, who was working as a long-term substitute at Hyde Park Middle School, faces charges of sexual assault against a child, sexual seduction and kidnap. The 22-year-old, who taught geography, initially denied having a relationship with the teenager, but later told police she was in love with him. Banned: Tanikka Queen, who was arrested for having sex with a student, will no longer be able to work as a substitute teacher . When detectives searched cell phone records they found 2.400 messages, 108 phone calls and 38 images that had been shared between Queen and the student. Queen was arrested Tuesday, but the . alleged inappropriate relationship began shortly after she started . teaching at the student's school on February 2. Charged: Substitute teacher Tanikka Queen is accused of having a relationship with a 15-year-old student . The student's father reported Queen after discovering messages from Queen about the relationship on a cell phone belonging to the boy's sister. He also noticed a love bite on his son's neck. According to police reports seen by the Las Vegas Review Journal, Queen and the boy would meet at a park, or arrange tutoring sessions at the lunch break. The also went to McDonald's together and to the cinema to watch the romcom About Last Night. On February 13, Queen is alleged to have created a code name for the student on her cell phone, and urged him to do the same. On Valentine's Day a text said to be from the boy read: 'Your kisses take me to the clouds babe,' and a few days later the pair were declaring their love for each other, with the boy texting: 'Death is the only thing that's going to separate us.' Toward the end of February Queen . contacted the boy to say people were getting suspicious and that they . needed to 'cool it down', before reassuring him: 'No matter how I act at school I still love you with all my heart.' When . she was arrested Queen denied having a relationship with the student, . but she admitted kissing him and spending time with him. The . boy she is accused of having a relationship with told police he had . spent time away from school with the substitute teacher but denied . having sex. When . police spoke to another student at the school, she told them Queen had . told her the pair did have sex and had been dating since Valentine's Day, Fox 5 Vegas reported. A police report says Queen admitted having sex with the teenager while house-sitting for a friend. Accused: Queen, 22, faces kidnapping and luring a child charges over claims she met the boy at a park and at a McDonald's . Filling in: Tanikka Queen started work at the boy's school in February, where she was teaching geography . Inappropriate: The 22-year-old is accused of having a sexual relationship with one of her young students at Hyde Park school . Queen is being held without bail and will no longer be allowed to work as a teacher substitute in the school district. Her charges include first-degree kidnapping, sexual assault against a child under 16, statutory sexual seduction and luring a child to engage in a sex act. The kidnapping and luring a child charges are related to text messages that suggest the pair met at a park and at a McDonald's. | Tanikka Bella Queen banned from working in schools after arrest .
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By . David Rose . PUBLISHED: . 20:21 EST, 16 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 20:23 EST, 16 March 2013 . Councils across the UK are spending millions and employing hundreds of ‘low carbon’ officers to fight global warming – which now appears not to pose an imminent threat – at the same time as making sweeping cuts to children’s services, the arts and the elderly. The councils have increased their spending on salaries of climate change staff by 34 per cent since the 2008 crash, almost three times the rate of inflation, while grants from central government were slashed by 12 per cent. wind farm . Our investigation comes from data sought under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. It shows: . Big spenders: As budgets are cut councils are still ploughing money into their green policies . Our FoI requests asked for details of jobs primarily related to climate change, sustainable development and cutting emissions. The roles are variously described as ‘undertaking climate change awareness projects’, ‘collecting climate change data for national records’ and ‘conducting research on climate change issues’. Middlesbrough’s ‘sustainable communities project officer’ offers a salary worth more than £21,000. It grandiosely claims the council has adopted the ‘One Planet model’ for its operations. Some climate change officers are working closely with other parts of the ‘green economy’. In Stoke, a spokesman said that when the energy company E.on fitted 567 homes with solar panels, this ‘did not cost the council anything’. Despite this boast, the cost to the public was significant, as the scheme is subsidised by taxes and levies on consumers’ energy bills. 'Green economy': Some councils have become preoccupied with spending on climate change prevention and cutting carbon footprints . Stoke City Council’s ‘green enterprise’ cabinet member, Andy Platt, said the authority had been ‘hailed as a pioneer in the sustainable energy field’ and added: ‘Our climate change strategy is not just about getting people to cut down on energy use, it is about creating our own renewable energy and is producing great returns on investment.’ But in 2011, a plan in Brighton to spend £2.6 million on solar panels and recoup the cost from subsidies was thrown into doubt when handouts were reduced. Other massive solar panel schemes have been launched in Bradford and Oxford. Some green activities appear oddly personal. In Peterborough, a video called Gillian’s Footprint explains how council chief executive Gillian Beasley is reducing her carbon footprint with measures such as switching off her computer. ... And the MPs and peers who benefit from green causes . Twenty MPs and peers who help shape . ‘green’ legislation have personal interests in campaign groups and firms . which stand to benefit from such laws. The disclosure comes as MPs prepare . for a final debate on the Energy Bill, which seeks to bring in vast . subsidies for wind farms and is set to cost taxpayers and consumers . £110 billion. The two MPs who declared the biggest . personal benefits are Tim Yeo, the Tory chairman of the Select . Committee on Energy and Climate Change, and his Labour Deputy, Barry . Gardiner. They are also behind a radical . amendment to the Bill that would impose a target of cutting carbon . dioxide emissions from electricity generation by 90 per cent by . 2030.Many observers believe this goal would lead to frequent power cuts. It would also shut off all investment in new, clean gas-fired power . stations and fracking for natural gas in the countryside. Here are the most high-profile of the MPs and peers benefiting from the green cause: . The MPs . Influential: Barry Sheerman is a Labour Associate of Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group . Tim Yeo . Influence: Tory chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Select . Committee, co-sponsor of Energy Bill amendment to impose 90 per cent . emission reduction from power generation by 2030. How he benefits: Director of three renewable energy and transport firms . which last year paid him £135,970 – double his MP’s salary. Barry Gardiner . Influence: Senior Labour member of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, co-sponsor of Energy Bill. Benefits: Accepted travel and hospitality worth £29,432 from Globe, an . international group that campaigns for tough climate-change laws . worldwide. Barry Sheerman . Influence: Labour Associate of Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group. Benefits: Paid £5,000 for his services by Veolia Environmental . Services, part of a multinational with renewable energy interests. Graham Stuart . Influence: Member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Globe. Benefits: Accepted travel worth £5,226 from Globe. Laura Sandys . Influence: Parliamentary Private Secretary to Greg Barker, Minister for Energy and Climate Change. Benefits: Accepted travel worth £3,692 from Globe – which campaigns for . legislation in the field for which Barker is responsible. Ear of government: David Cameron, when he was leader of the opposition, talking to John Gummer MP, left, and editor of the Ecologist magazine, Zac Goldsmith, right . The peers . (Members of the Lords do not have to disclose the monetary value of their interests) Lord Deben . Influence: Chairman of Committee on Climate Change, an influential . official government advisory body on energy policy, carbon emissions . and targets. Interests: Chairman of Sancroft, environmental lobbying company of . which two of his children are directors. Chairman of Veolia Water UK . PLC, which connects wind farms to national grid. Chairman of Globe. Baroness Maddock . Influence: Lib Dem Associate of Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group. Personal interest: President of Micro Power Council, a lobby group run . by small energy firms which campaigns for a ‘mass market for . small-scale, low- and zero-carbon electricity and heat-generating . technologies’. Lord Hunt of Chesterton . Influence: Member of All-Party Parliamentary Group for Globe. Interests: Director of Globe. Director of Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd. Lord MacLennan of Rogart . Influence: Member of EU subcommittee on agriculture, fisheries, environment and energy. Interests: Chairman of Firth Tidal Energy Ltd. Lord Oxburgh . Influence: Member of All-Party Parliamentary Group for Globe; led . inquiry which cleared University of East Anglia climate scientists of . wrongdoing after ‘Climategate’ emails leak. Interests: Professional advice given to Evo Electric Motors Ltd and . Climate Change Capital Geothermal Engineering Ltd; director of Green . Energy Options Ltd; President of Carbon Capture and Storage Association. The implications of the inconvenient truth we publish today are profound. Since the Kyoto Treaty in 1997, Britain has been impoverishing itself in a lonely quest to cut its CO2 emissions – even though the world’s powerhouse economies, such as China and America, have refused to set any limits. It is clear that the science, supposedly ‘settled’, is deeply uncertain, while growing numbers of experts now say that the effects of greenhouse gases are much less bad than they feared: any warming is going to happen much more slowly than they thought a few years ago. It is time to join the dots. The way is open to solving this country’s most serious problems, all at once. The Chancellor, pondering next week’s Budget, knows the US is not only avoiding a triple-dip recession but is also expecting more than three per growth this year. This is thanks mainly to ‘fracking’ for the natural shale gas beneath its soil, which produces 37 per cent of the CO2 emitted by coal when generating cheap, clean electricity. In the US, once-moribund industries are being reborn, with jobs lost to China now returning home, while CO2 emissions are back to 1990 levels. Britain can follow this lead. We too have vast reserves of shale gas, as yet untapped. The time has come to scrap the Energy Bill, together with existing ‘renewable’ energy subsidies. It is now clear that we have decades to come up with the really serious low- carbon energy sources which may one day be needed. By abandoning wind, nuclear and other failed, risky or dubious ‘renewables’, and exploiting the benefits of shale gas, we can simultaneously boost our economy and shrink our national carbon footprint. It would be irresponsible to ignore such an opportunity. | Councils spend on a huge range of green jobs from Carbon Officers to Climate Change Managers while their grants are being cut .
Green staff spending has increased at three times rate of inflation .
Green salaries totalled £8.7 million in 2011 to 2012 at 65 councils, representing 17 million people – about one third of all councils. This sum does NOT include the cost of publicity materials urging people to cut their carbon footprints.
Spending on green salaries rose by 137 per cent in Stoke. In 2010, the council spent £137,000 on solar panels for its civic centre roof. It is now set to close it and build a new centre for more than £50m.
The highest-spending councils face deep cuts to core provisions. In Glasgow, where the green jobs spend of £390,000 is up 43 per cent on 2008 to 2009, the council is to cut £54 million from schools, social services and help for the disabled. In Birmingham, green salaries of £338,000 have risen 62 per cent, but £102 million is to be axed and 1,000 jobs lost.
In Bradford (where green salaries are up from zero to £289,000), the council has issued a 25-page booklet claiming locals face an influx of foreign migrants displaced by sea level rises and drought.
Not all councils are burning money on climate change. In 17 areas, green salaries have been reduced. The biggest cut was in Colchester which will now do without any climate change officers, having spent £23,000 in 2008 to 2009.
The hiring binge was sparked by the 2008 Climate Change Act. It demands a cut in CO2 emissions in the UK by 80 per cent by 2050. It was followed by the Low Carbon Industrial Strategy, putting the onus on councils. | 1391e3950dc993419cff86871c82a500958ea9a8 | [
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"Oxford. Some green activities appear oddly",
"personal. In Peterborough, a video called",
"Gillian’s Footprint explains how council chief",
"executive Gillian Beasley is reducing her carbon",
"footprint with measures such as switching off her",
"computer. ... And the MPs and peers who benefit",
"from green causes . Twenty MPs and peers who",
"help shape . ‘green’ legislation have personal",
"interests in campaign groups and firms . which",
"stand to benefit from such laws. The disclosure",
"comes as MPs prepare . for a final debate on the",
"Energy Bill, which seeks to bring in vast .",
"subsidies for wind farms and is set to cost",
"taxpayers and consumers . £110 billion. The two",
"MPs who declared the biggest . personal benefits",
"are Tim Yeo, the Tory chairman of the Select .",
"Committee on Energy and Climate Change, and his",
"Labour Deputy, Barry . Gardiner. They are also",
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"would impose a target of cutting carbon . dioxide",
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"cent by . 2030.Many observers believe this goal",
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"power . stations and fracking for natural gas in",
"the countryside. Here are the most high-profile",
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"cause: . The MPs . Influential: Barry Sheerman is",
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"Sustainable Energy Group . Tim Yeo . Influence:",
"Tory chairman of the Energy and Climate Change",
"Select . Committee, co-sponsor of Energy Bill",
"amendment to impose 90 per cent . emission",
"reduction from power generation by 2030. How he",
"benefits: Director of three renewable energy and",
"transport firms . which last year paid him",
"£135,970 – double his MP’s salary. Barry Gardiner",
". Influence: Senior Labour member of the Energy",
"and Climate Change Select Committee, co-sponsor",
"of Energy Bill. Benefits: Accepted travel and",
"hospitality worth £29,432 from Globe, an .",
"international group that campaigns for tough",
"climate-change laws . worldwide. Barry Sheerman .",
"Influence: Labour Associate of Parliamentary",
"Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group. Benefits:",
"Paid £5,000 for his services by Veolia",
"Environmental . Services, part of a",
"multinational with renewable energy interests.",
"Graham Stuart . Influence: Member of the",
"All-Party Parliamentary Group for Globe.",
"Benefits: Accepted travel worth £5,226 from",
"Globe. Laura Sandys . Influence: Parliamentary",
"Private Secretary to Greg Barker, Minister for",
"Energy and Climate Change. Benefits: Accepted",
"travel worth £3,692 from Globe – which campaigns",
"for . legislation in the field for which Barker",
"is responsible. Ear of government: David Cameron,",
"when he was leader of the opposition, talking to",
"John Gummer MP, left, and editor of the Ecologist",
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"Influence: Chairman of Committee on Climate",
"Change, an influential . official government",
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". and targets. Interests: Chairman of Sancroft,",
"environmental lobbying company of . which two of",
"his children are directors. Chairman of Veolia",
"Water UK . PLC, which connects wind farms to",
"national grid. Chairman of Globe. Baroness",
"Maddock . Influence: Lib Dem Associate of",
"Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy",
"Group. Personal interest: President of Micro",
"Power Council, a lobby group run . by small",
"energy firms which campaigns for a ‘mass market",
"for . small-scale, low- and zero-carbon",
"electricity and heat-generating . technologies’.",
"Lord Hunt of Chesterton . Influence: Member of",
"All-Party Parliamentary Group for Globe.",
"Interests: Director of Globe. Director of",
"Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants",
"Ltd. Lord MacLennan of Rogart . Influence: Member",
"of EU subcommittee on agriculture, fisheries,",
"environment and energy. Interests: Chairman of",
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"Engineering Ltd; director of Green . Energy",
"Options Ltd; President of Carbon Capture and",
"Storage Association. The implications of the",
"inconvenient truth we publish today are profound.",
"Since the Kyoto Treaty in 1997, Britain has been",
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"CO2 emissions – even though the world’s",
"powerhouse economies, such as China and America,",
"have refused to set any limits. It is clear that",
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"to happen much more slowly than they thought a",
"few years ago. It is time to join the dots. The",
"way is open to solving this country’s most",
"serious problems, all at once. The Chancellor,",
"pondering next week’s Budget, knows the US is not",
"only avoiding a triple-dip recession but is also",
"expecting more than three per growth this year.",
"This is thanks mainly to ‘fracking’ for the",
"natural shale gas beneath its soil, which",
"produces 37 per cent of the CO2 emitted by coal",
"when generating cheap, clean electricity. In the",
"US, once-moribund industries are being reborn,",
"with jobs lost to China now returning home, while",
"CO2 emissions are back to 1990 levels. Britain",
"can follow this lead. We too have vast reserves",
"of shale gas, as yet untapped. The time has come",
"to scrap the Energy Bill, together with existing",
"‘renewable’ energy subsidies. It is now clear",
"that we have decades to come up with the really",
"serious low- carbon energy sources which may one",
"day be needed. By abandoning wind, nuclear and",
"other failed, risky or dubious ‘renewables’, and",
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(CNN) -- Bangkok remains on edge after tens of thousands of anti-government protesters "shut down" the Thai capital Monday in an effort to force caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step aside and postpone elections planned for February 2. The showdown is the latest chapter in a divisive political conflict that has convulsed the country since 2005 and shows no signs of a resolution. Who are the protesters and what do they want? The protesters insist they are not opposed to democracy but want wide-ranging reform to clean up Thai politics and root out corruption before elections are held. Their slogan is: "Reform before elections." They ostentatiously festoon themselves in red, white and blue -- the colors of the Thai flag -- and have adopted the practice of loudly blowing whistles to drive home their message to the government: "Get out!" Are you there? Send us your photos and experiences but please stay safe. The self-styled "whistle mob" is overwhelmingly drawn from two groups in society -- the wealthier residents of Bangkok, the middle and upper classes, and Thais from the south of the country, who have traveled to the capital to join the protests. Their apparent leader, Suthep Thaugsuban, is a southern Thai political strongman who has long been among the most powerful powerbrokers in the Democrat Party. The protesters have adopted much of the symbolism of recent political protests elsewhere in the world, wearing Guy Fawkes masks and calling their planned shutdown of the capital "Occupy Bangkok." But there are significant differences from global protest movements against the "one percent" -- the Thai protesters draw their support from wealthier members of society, and are staunchly elitist, royalist and nationalist. They also support the country's military, which has a habit of launching coups to overthrow elected governments. Many protesters have openly called for a coup to kick out Yingluck. They argue that poorer Thais, particularly in the rural northeast of the country, are uneducated and sell their votes to the highest bidder at election time, allowing wealthy political strongman Thaksin Shinawatra -- brother of the current prime minister -- to dominate the country even though he fled abroad in 2008 to escape a corruption conviction. How much popular support do the protesters have? Supporters of the whistle mob insist they represent "the people" and have made inflated claims about the number of protesters who have joined mass rallies over the past two months, saying several million Thais have regularly taken to the streets to demand political change. In fact, they represent a minority of Thais, and this is their problem. In every general election held in Thailand since 2001, the Democrat Party has been trounced by political parties controlled by Thaksin, and the same outcome is virtually certain if the February vote goes ahead. Thaksin's ability to dominate electoral politics thanks to his huge support from the urban and rural poor has caused immense resentment among wealthier residents of Bangkok, who believe they should be the people calling the shots. Besides the class divisions fueling the political conflict, there are also regional faultlines -- the relatively wealthy provinces of southern Thailand staunchly back the Democrat Party, while support for Thaksin is highest in the north and northeast. Rich Thais object to having their electoral choices drowned out by the votes of the masses, and southern Thais object to losing out in every election to the votes of the more populous, but poorer, north and northeast. Opponents of the protesters include the pro-Thaksin "Red Shirt" movement and also progressive pro-democracy Thais in Bangkok who have held several candlelight vigils calling for peace and have adopted the slogan "Respect My Vote." They argue Thailand's divisions can only be healed by embracing democracy, and say canceling the February election would be a disastrous step backwards. Several commentators have drawn parallels between the whistle mob and the Tea Party movement in the United States. Both groups have overwhelming support in some parts of the country and among some social groups, but are unable to win national elections at the ballot box, and so have increasingly adopted disruptive tactics in response. What's going on behind the scenes? One reason the Thai conflict can often appear so bewildering is that an important element of the story is routinely left out. One of Thailand's most sacred taboos forbids discussion of the royal succession when the ailing 86-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej passes, and the country's draconian lèse majesté law imposes long jail sentences on those who discuss uncomfortable facts about the monarchy. The royal succession is absolutely central to the ongoing conflict that has engulfed Thailand since 2005. Although Thailand is nominally a constitutional monarchy in which the palace has a purely symbolic role, in fact the king controls a vast royal fortune conservatively estimated at more than $30 billion and wields enormous influence. Thailand has long been dominated by an oligarchy of immensely wealthy families connected to the palace through intermarriage and through business deals with the Crown Property Bureau, which manages royal wealth. The Thai establishment fears the rise of a new political and business elite revolving around Thaksin, which would spell the end of the dominance of the old elite. Will there be violence? Unfortunately this seems possible. Several people have been killed and wounded in recent weeks, and the casualty toll is highly likely to rise significantly after the Bangkok blockade gets under way. Both sides in the conflict between Thailand's old establishment and the new elite allied to Thaksin have sought to provoke chaos and bloodshed in recent years. The aim is to provoke a harsh crackdown from the other side that creates the impression it has lost legitimacy and become tyrannical. Opponents of Thaksin blockaded Bangkok's airports in late 2008 and succeeded in toppling the government. Thaksin's supporters occupied the center of the capital in April and May 2010, and Thaksin has been widely accused of funding an illegal militia that worsened the mayhem -- though he has emphatically denied supporting violence. The latest protest will use tactics from the same playbook. By paralyzing Bangkok, the movement's leaders hope to push the Yingluck administration into adopting a heavy-handed response, or to stir up violence among the government's Red Shirt supporters. They then intend to exploit the chaos to declare the government is unable to govern with legitimacy, and to provide a pretext for the conservative military to launch another coup. They know that they cannot win the February elections, so they will do all they can to prevent the polls from taking place. If they succeed, this will further inflame the resentment of poorer Thais who believe their electoral aspirations are routinely ignored by the establishment. If they lose, they will almost certainly become even more disruptive in the months and years ahead, until the unacknowledged succession struggle plays out. Either way, the prognosis for Thailand is depressingly bleak. The opinions expressed in this analysis are solely those of the author. | Bangkok lock down the latest chapter in a divisive political conflict that has convulsed Thailand .
The protesters insist they are not opposed to democracy but want wide-ranging reform .
They are drawn from wealthier residents of Bangkok and Thais from the south of the country .
They argue poorer Thais, particularly in rural northeast, are uneducated, sell votes to highest bidder . | 2f7b76f5fd91c6c4d9cdc6e4a94332d248a7233d | [
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Cocaine worth more than £40million has been found aboard a private jet owned by a French tycoon based in London. The vast haul of drugs was found by customs officers in the Dominican Republic on a plane owned by millionaire businessman Alain Afflelou - who was not on board at the time. Officials boarded the Falcon jet minutes before it was due to leave the Caribbean island for Paris and seized 26 suitcases packed with 680kg of the class A drug. Drugs seizure: £40million of cocaine was found on board Alain Afflelou's Falcon jet in the Dominican Republic . Four French nationals, as well as several local police officers, were arrested after the seizure on suspicion of being part of an international drug-trafficking network. Opticians chain owner Afflelou swiftly denied all knowledge of the drugs, stating he had loaned his plane out to Lyon-based Transhelicopter Services company. A spokesman for Mr Afflelou said after the bust on Sunday: 'Alain heard the news last night through the media and he's amazed. Tycoon: Mr Afflelou denied any knowledge of the drugs and was not on board the plane at the time . 'He will now take all the necessary steps to establish what happened. A letter demanding an explanation has also been sent to the French leasing company.' Mr Afflelou, 64, sparked a storm on controversy in December when he announced he was moving to Britain amid plans for massive tax hikes on France's highest earners. The businessman - who has an estimated £190 million fortune - is among a flood of French millionaires including film star Gerard Depardieu and musician Jean-Michel Jarre quitting France ahead of a looming 75 per cent tax on earnings above one million euros. Mr Afflelou sold around 70 per cent of his shares in his retail chain to UK investment firm Bridgeport in 2006, but remained a shareholder with capital. The chain has more than 890 stores in France as well as in other European countries and sells more than a 1.5 million pairs of glasses a yer. A new report revealed yesterday said that repressive tax regimes in France had lost the country up to a million jobs, with entrepreneurs fleeing abroad. Tax hikes and employment regulations imposed by left and right wing governments over 20 years meant there were now 60,000 French businessmen abroad employing around 16 people each . | Vast haul of drugs was found by customs in the Dominican Republic .
It was on a Falcon jet owned by millionaire businessman Alain Afflelou .
Officials seized 26 suitcases packed with 680kg of the class A drug .
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These breath-taking pictures show a playful humpback whale leaping from the sea to show off to a group of tourists on a nearby boat. The humpback appears to wave one of its fins and leaps from the Pacific Ocean, almost clattering into a low-flying bird which gets the shock of its life as the giant creature emerges a few feet below. German photographer Mario Nonaka was amazed when the whale suddenly launched from the water and raised its fin in his direction. Scroll down for video . Whale hello there: The humpback whale was pictured leaping from the water, almost clattering into a low-flying bird as it waved its fin towards a boat . Whale of a time: The humpback splashed around in front of photographer Mario Nonaka in Monterey Bay, California . The 36-year-old was on a boat trip around Monterey Bay, California, when he saw the humpback majestically throwing itself out of the sea. The whale breached more than three times as it entertained the photographer and tourists on the boat. Mr Nonaka said: 'It was absolutely amazing to personally watch something so spectacular. 'When it flicked up its right flipper it appeared to be waving at everyone on the boat. 'It seemed almost effortless for such a big animal to get so high out of the water. 'I've been on about 10 trips around Monterey Bay and never seen anything like this. In the late summer months you are almost guaranteed of seeing breaching whales but this was something else.' German photographer Mario Nonaka was amazed when the whale suddenly launched from the water and raised its fin in his direction . Humpback whales are often seen in Monterey Bay in the late Summer months, where gray and killer whales can also be found . Humpbacks are often seen in Monterey Bay in the late Summer months, where gray whales can also be found. The humpbacks live in the bay between April and December, feeding on schooling fishes and krill. They often use a 'bubble net' to catch their prey, blowing bubbles that surround the school so it cannot escape before swooping through with their mouths wide open. Killer whales often lurk just outside of the bay, hoping to catch the gray whales when they migrate north. The acrobatic humpbacks can grow up to 50ft long, and have a reputation for throwing themselves out of the water despite weighing up to 40 tons. They were almost hunted to extinction during the 1960s, but a ban has allowed their global population to reach approximately 80,000. The whales are also known for the songs they sing when looking for a mate, which can last for up to 20 minutes and can be heard 18 miles away. | German photographer Mario Nonaka took the magnificent pictures while on a boat in Monterey Bay, California .
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(CNN) -- The Obama administration asserts America is "not alone" in planning its proposed Syria strikes, though ally countries have yet to formally join the call for limited military action now advanced by the White House. Whether other countries will participate in an American offensive against Syria remains to be seen. Short of an official White House list of who's in, analysts and CNN correspondents size up which countries may -- or may not -- play a military or diplomatic role in a planned U.S.-led air assault on Syria. What about the British, our loyal ally in the Iraq War? Forget it. In a staggering setback to Prime Minister David Cameron, the British House of Commons said no to joining a U.S. assault against Syria. The United Kingdom is overwhelmingly against another Middle East conflict, with only 16% in favor of militarily punishing the Syrian regime. Is there a chance UK legislators might reconsider? 5 things on Syria: Obama overseas to developments at home . It's possible, experts say, because Obama's strategy to make a public case before Congress for a limited Syria attack may win favor in Europe. However, Cameron seemed to quash speculation that there might be a new Commons vote Wednesday. "Britain cannot be and will not be part of any military action" against Syria, he said, adding that he respects the outcome of last week's vote and "will not be bringing back plans for British participation in military action." The White House alleges that the Syrian regime is deploying chemical weapons that are killing innocent children and adults in a civil war that has lasted more than two years. "It'll be interesting to watch in the coming days if the Obama administration's case on chemical weapons reverberates with the European public," said Andrew Tabler, senior fellow of the Washington Institute. Well, who in Europe does support us? It could be France, in something of a role reversal from 2003, when France declined to join the Iraq invasion but the British sent many troops. The French parliament is expected to debate military action against Syria this week. But there's not a lot of nationwide support for such an intervention -- only one in three people in France endorses punishing Syria. What's the evidence? But the French are more open than the Germans, who are against it by a 5-1 ratio. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is facing re-election later this month, said her country won't participate in any military action, though she called the plight of the Syrian people "catastrophic." Where does Israel stand on all this? Israel, the ultimate U.S. ally in the Mideast, has already intervened in the Syrian conflict but in a measured way, using isolated bombing in instances that Israel deemed Syrian aggression. 'Red line' debate: Are chemical weapons worse? "They have been doing this tit-for-tat thing," said Jeff Martini, Middle East analyst for the Rand Corporation. For now, Israel is maintaining a low-profile in the international debate about whether to launch an offensive against Syria because it doesn't want to further antagonism between it and Arab neighbors. Israel's vast military force -- fighter jets, surveillance, early warning systems -- would be an important asset to American forces if an attack on Syria proceeds. "Israel is doing its part by keeping quiet," Martini added. Israel is being supportive behind the scenes. What about U.S. access to Turkey's air bases? Some Turkish support will be public, and some will be under the table, said Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of the New America Foundation. The same goes for Saudi Arabia and Jordan, she said. How a no-boots-on-the-ground attack against Syria would play out hasn't been revealed by the Obama administration. Bombing would likely include missiles launched from the U.S. warships in the Mediterranean Sea. The use of other countries' soil in the region for air strikes is uncertain, experts say. Four questions for backers of Syrian mission . Secretary of State John Kerry told House Democrats that Turkey -- along with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates -- has already offered military assets for any Syrian attacks, two sources on the call told CNN this week. If so, Turkey could play a huge role: There are already two big U.S. air bases there that could be used by fighter jets, refueling tankers, AWACS surveillance planes and U2 spy aircraft. There are also U.S. defense missile systems on the Turkish border as a defense against Syria. Tell me more about oil-rich Saudi Arabia . Analysts believe that Saudi Arabia heavily influenced the recent announcement by the Arab League foreign ministers who called upon the international community to punish the Syrian regime for its alleged use of chemical weapons. Is it 'High Noon' for Obama on Syria? That statement was interpreted as the Arab League "green-lighting" a military strike against Syria without specifically mentioning bombing. With its vast air force and bases, Saudi Arabia would offer a lot of resources to Western militaries. But it wouldn't participate directly in any attack on Syria because that would inflame a widespread Arabian Peninsula antipathy against Western military forces intruding into Arab affairs. Still, Saudi Arabia is a diplomatic heavyweight in the Arab world, so the country's tacit support and money would ease any U.S. burden if it is forced to act alone against Syria. Syria missile strike: What would happen next? Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week that Arab countries -- presumably including Saudi Arabia -- have offered to help bear the financial cost of the proposed military offensive against Syria. "That's how dedicated they are to this," Kerry said. U.S. ally Jordan is in a bind . Like Saudi Arabia, Jordan has air bases close to Syria's border that could be useful for inserting and extracting special forces and mounting rescue missions for downed pilots. Jordan also hosts U.S. forces, and together they train rebels for combat in Syria. The Jordanians also allow weapons to flow over its border to the Syrian opposition, and their country is home to one of the biggest CIA operations on Syria in the region. But Jordan is perhaps the most vulnerable of U.S. allies because it's so close to Syria and has declared that it won't be a launching pad for Syrian attacks. Jordan is unlikely to be involved directly in a U.S. strike against Syria because Jordan could face retaliatory missiles and terror attacks from the Syrian regime. Meanwhile, Jordan is nervous about its own internal tensions arising from Arab Spring, including how the country deals with corruption allegations and a not-so-popular king. "Jordan fears Syria will escalate horizontally and switch the geography of conflict," Martini said. Could Russia do anything? Russia has been supportive of the Syrian regime, but if it wanted to assist the United States, it could pull its military advisers out of Syria and stop its alleged supplying of arms to the regime. Russia could also tell Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to an interim administration. Such Russian support is unlikely, and the most that the Obama administration could expect is Russia expressing uncertainty about whether the Assad regime is the best to govern Syria, as Russia did a year ago. So what kind of a coalition could we be talking about? When all is said and done, any U.S.-led coalition against Syria could be one that offers more moral than military support. That is still important, especially when the nations act outside the aegis of the United Nations Security Council. "A coalition is political in nature, but the United States would do the heavy lifting militarily," Tabler said. CNN's Nic Robertson, Nick Paton Walsh and Marc Sauber contributed to this story. | A U.S.-led coalition to bomb Syria has yet to take shape .
British legislators vote against joining, but experts say it's possible they may reconsider .
The French Parliament is expected to take up the U.S. proposal this week .
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Thug: Jai Falconer has been jailed for six years for beating up his mother Joyce, 69, over £20 . A thug addicted to drugs and alcohol broke his own mother's back because she refused to lend him £20. Jai Falconer has been jailed for six years for the brutal attack on his pensioner mother Joyce, 69, in his childhood home. A court heard the 40-year-old woke his mother up by banging on her door in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire at 7am on June 7. Falconer told his mother he was going to make himself breakfast before demanding to borrow £20. When she refused he punched her in the face before throwing her to the ground and took cash from her purse. Falconer then grabbed his mother by the throat and beat her with a plastic brush as she lay on the kitchen floor. The pensioner managed to struggle to the front door and alerted a neighbour who had already dialled 999 after hearing the disturbance. She was taken to hospital where it was confirmed she had a fractured vertebrae in her back. Yesterday Falconer admitted robbery and grievous bodily harm at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court and Judge Paul Glenn jailed him for six years. He also made him subject to a restraining order, preventing him from contacting his mother and going within 100 yards of her home. Prosecutor Paul Farrow told the court Falconer, stole £60 and Mrs Falconer now wears a supportive brace and may need surgery on her back. He added: 'He looked around the fridge and said he was going to have toast, and wanted £10. Then straight away he said 'no, give me £20'. Shocking: Stoke Crown Court heard that Falconer beat his mother so viciously she broke her back before she crawled to the front door for help . 'She said she didn't have any money. He asked where her purse was in an aggressive tone. 'Using his right fist, he punched her on the right side of the head. This blow knocked her backwards and she said she'd had enough of this. 'He pushed past her and rushed upstairs. His mother followed him. He went to her bedroom, grabbed her handbag and took out her purse. 'He went back to the kitchen and emptied the contents on the table. 'Ms Falconer told him to give her purse back and finally said she had had enough and was phoning the police. 'The defendant reached towards his mother, telling her she wasn't. 'He grabbed her by the throat, causing her to fall backwards and onto the floor. 'She lay on the floor, curled up in a ball. The defendant then began to hit her with a plastic kitchen brush, at least five or six times, striking her all over her body.' Defending Falconer, Anis Ali said: 'It's clear that the catalyst of this offending appears to be his habitual use of illicit substances and alcohol. 'It was a sense of desperation that lead him to be in the situation he found himself. I don't condone what he did. It's a serious situation and unpleasant. 'He does express regret and understands what he did was wrong.' | Jai Falconer jailed for six years for the brutal attack on mother Joyce, 69 .
Addict demanded breakfast before asking her to lend him £20 .
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By . Anna Edwards . PUBLISHED: . 08:55 EST, 9 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:10 EST, 9 October 2013 . War usually conjures up images of bloodshed, violence and death. Rarely do we see the softer side of the life on the front line - and these stirring images give a glimpse of soldiers chatting with children, cleaning their weapons and caring for their animals. The remarkable pictures in the annual Army Photographic Competition show Britain's soldiers at work and play. 'Powder Room' by Cpl Wes Calder RLC, winner in the Professional Portrait section, shows Private Craig Leaman From 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment clear part of a trench system during a dawn attack whilst on Exercise Askari Thunder 6 in Kenya . The Professional Operations winning picture, 'Sunset Soldiers' by Cpl Jamie Peters RLC in the Army Photographic Competition 2013, shows sappers from 21 Engineer Regiment working as the sun sets, to de-construct a Hesco Bastion building in Patrol Base Nahidullah . 'Celtic Warrior' by Cpl Jamie Peters RLC captures Private Ross Cunningham from 1SCOTS cleaning his personal weapon at FOB Shawqat after a patrol to an ANA checkpoint . 'Hot under the collar' by Cpl Jamie Peters RLC shows a lighter side of army life. This Military Working Dog (MWD) attached to the Welsh Gaurds takes a rest from the heat under an umbrella during an operation in Helmand Province, Afghanistan . They have been taken by amateur and professional soldier cameramen and include images from operations in Afghanistan, ceremonial occasions and sporting events. Corporal Jamie Peters, RLC, won the top prize for his portfolio of images from six months in Afghanistan, where he was deployed as the photographer for the Army's Combat Camera Team (CCT). It was his job to document the work of British troops and show an otherwise unseen side of Army life and his stunning images show how much has changed and progressed in Afghanistan. His overall winning image, Celtic Warrior, shows a soldier from the 1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland cleaning his personal weapon after an early morning patrol to an Afghan National Army checkpoint. 'Sun Sand and Soldiers' by Cpl Jamie Peters RLC shows sappers from 21 Engineer Regiment working during the midday sun to deconstruct a Hesco Bastion building in Patrol Base Nahidullah . 'Flowers for a Friend' by Cpl Jamie Peters RLC. Guardsmen from 1 Welsh Guards chatting to Afghan children during a break in a patrol around their village during an operation to clear insurgent activity and reassure the villagers . 'Paddle Power' by Graeme Main, Pro Sports and AT winner. Major Chis Elesmore, Royal Signals practicing at Newgale beach near Brawdy, St Davids Bay, Wales for the the World Surf Kayaking Association Championships held in Queensland, Australia in July 2013 . 'Beach Gallop' by Sgt Adrian Harlen RLC, runner up in the Pro Portfolio section of the Army Photographic Competition 2013, of members of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment (HCMR) during a beach exercise as part of their Regimental Training camp, in Norfolk . 'Carl' by Sgt Rupert Frere, Runner Up in the Professional Portrait section of the Army Photographic Competition 2013, of Cpl Carl Hines Royal Artillery, as he provides covering fire while members of the BRF cross open ground . Another of his pictures shows Sappers from 21 Engineer Regiment working during the midday sun to de-construct a Hesco Bastion building in Patrol Base Nahidullah. The base which was home to Burma Company 1 LANCS was completely stripped down and the land handed back to the farmer. In another picture guardsmen from 1 Welsh Guards are seen chatting to Afghan children during a break in a patrol around their village. Whilst another image shows a military working dog attached to the Welsh Guards taking a rest from the heat under an umbrella during an operation in Helmand Province. 'Breaking Barriers' by Cpl Jamie Peters RLC, showssoldiers from 1SCOTS bonding with their Afghan colleagues during a checkpoint visit . 'Big Air' by SSgt Dan Harmer, Pro Sports and AT runner up captures LCpl Matt Forster, REME (Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers) attached to 7 Regiment RLC (Royal Logistic Corps) getting some air during his timed stage of the course during the Saracen British Downhill Series (BDS) Round 5 at Bringewood . 'Smash' by Sgt Jonathan Van Zyl, 1 PWRR based in Paderborn, Runner Up in the Amateur Sports and AT section, captures Pte Woods vs Pte Francis, during an Inter Company Boxing Night, 1st Battalion the Princes of Wales's Royal Regiment . 'Snap VCP' by Trooper Chris Wade, winner of the Amateur Operational Image, snapped two soldiers and an interpreter from the Queen's Royal Lancers, QRL questioning an Afghan motorcyclist in Northern Helmand while his young daughter looks on . 'Quad Bike' by Captain Dave Scammell from Fareham, winner in the Amateur Portfolio section, photographed Sgt Evans from the Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Battery, whose role is to provide the Army's 'eye in the sky' in support of Land Forces on operations, at the UAS Battery and driver training area in Afghanistan . Corporal Peters said: 'Being on the . Combat Camera Team I was able to see so much of the work that British . troops do in Afghanistan from patrols and operations in Helmand to the . Officer Academy in Kabul. 'I think it is a unique job to travel so much around the country and see so much of our soldiers. 'Everywhere we went there was a story to tell, from the experiences of the private soldiers right to the HQ level of planning and executing the missions.' The runner-up in the portfolio category was London District photographer Sergeant Adrian Harlen, whose images include the funeral guard at Baroness Thatcher's funeral and the first Sikh Guardsman to wear a turban on Royal Guard Duty. 'Goodbye Kiss' by Sgt Adrian Harlen RLC, runner up in the Pro Portfolio section, captured Thomas, a 22-year-old gelding and one of the oldest horses in the Household Cavalry, as he kisses Troop Leader, Captain Charlie Fitzroy, 28, prior to the animals retirement . 'Changing of the Queen's Life Guard' by Sgt Adrian Harlen RLC, runner up in the Pro Portfolio section, shows these personnel dressed in the crimson robes as they ride their horses . 'Dawn Patrol' by Cpl Mike O'Neill RLC, runner up in the Professional Operations Image section, snapped soldiers of 2 Platoon, Corrunna Company (Coy), 1 LANCS patrolling onto insurgent held ground in the lower Nahr-E-Sahraj district, Afghanistan . 'Guards Uniform' by Sgt Adrian Harlen RLC, runner up in the Pro Portfolio section, shows the Major General's Inspection of the Public Duties Incremental Company (PDIC) Sergeant Harlen, who has worked as a professional Army photographer for eight years, said: 'The opportunities in London are different from the rest of the Army, but the challenge and skills are the same. 'I learnt on operations that you can't photograph a bullet but you can capture the human reactions, to try to tell the whole story in one image. 'In my current job there's just as much pressure to capture that split second moment, whether it's the ceremony of official engagements or capturing the bond between a cavalryman and his horse.' Other winning photos feature boxing matches, horses being exercised and soldiers on duty. The pictures are now on display at the National Army Museum in Chelsea. Broadcaster Dan Snow, who is honorary colonel of the Army's media operations group and opened the display, said: 'These professional and amateur pictures capture elements of Army life that we just don't see otherwise, and it's a reminder that excellence on operations is not only about the frontline, but also about the individual, the bond between soldiers, the training and hard work, and also the lighter side of life.' 'Proud' by Sgt Adrian Harlen RLC, runner up in the Pro Portfolio section, shows Guardsman Jatenderpal Singh Bhullar, 25, from West Bromwich, who has joined F Company Scots Guards, an incremental company of soldiers responsible for delivering ceremonial duties in London. 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By . Becky Barrow and James Salmon . PUBLISHED: . 10:22 EST, 9 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:19 EST, 9 April 2013 . Forfeit: Sir James Crosby today offered to give up 30 per cent of his £700,000-a-year pension . The disgraced boss who was the 'architect' of the collapse of Halifax owner HBOS yesterday became the first man to forfeit his knighthood for more than 60 years. In a sensational admission of guilt, Sir James Crosby said he was 'deeply sorry' for the disaster that unfolded at the banking giant after he left in 2006. It comes after a damning report by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards last week singled him out as 'the architect of the strategy that set the course for disaster' and savaged his 'reckless incompetence' as chief executive. The 57-year-old has also offered to forfeit 30 per cent of his gold-plated pension of £580,000 a year every year until he dies. This is equal to around £175,000, which he hopes will be given to a charity or the shareholders of Lloyds – which controversially rescued HBOS in 2009 – whose nest eggs have been decimated. In a final humiliation he was last night forced to quit his £125,000-a-year job as a senior independent director of the catering giant Compass, having already lost two other major roles in the wake of the scandal. Sir James, whose knighthood was awarded under Tony Blair in 2006 for 'services to the finance industry', said he believed 'it is right that I should now ask the appropriate authorities to take the necessary steps for its removal'. Last night, there were calls for other bankers to follow his lead by either forfeiting their knighthoods or sacrificing a part of their pensions built up during their reckless leaderships. John Mann, the Labour MP who sits on the Treasury Select Committee, said the move is 'highly appropriate', adding: 'This sets the benchmark for others. 'At last, we have a banker who is prepared to say he got it wrong and wishes to make amends. 'I hope now that this is not an isolated stance and others will follow his example and give up some of the grandeurs of power and pension benefits that they have gained on the back of poor leadership of the banks.' Sir James was among three HBOS chiefs who were savaged over their 'catastrophic failures of management' by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. 'Chastening': Sir James, pictured giving evidence to the Treasury Select . Committee admitted that the Parliamentary Commission report made . for 'very chastening reading' Country pile: Sir James Crosby's large home near Harrogate. He has . offered to surrender 30 per cent of his £580,000-a-year pension pot . He was singled out as one of the . leaders who steered the bank to the brink of collapse – saddling . taxpayers with a £28billion bill to bail it out. The report said the former bosses' 'high-risk' strategy, 'reckless lending' and 'deluded' leadership all . contributed to the disaster – yet all three have since moved on to . lucrative positions in the City. In a heartfelt statement yesterday, . Sir James said the report had made 'very chastening reading'. He offered . his 'sincere regret for events' and added: 'I am deeply sorry for what . happened at HBOS and the ensuing consequences for former colleagues, . shareholders, taxpayers and society in general.' Under investigation: Former HBOS chief executive Andy Hornby and ex-chairman Lord Stevenson who could potentially face being barred from working as company directors for life . Banking disaster: Former HBOS chief executive Sir James Crosby was heavily criticised in the Parliamentary Commission last Friday . A friend of Sir James said last night: . 'He saw the newspapers and decided he didn't want to become part of a . Fred Goodwin-style witch-hunt. 'He wanted to be able to meet friends and business acquaintances in the eye and know he'd done the right thing.' It marks a dramatic fall from grace for a man who was known as former prime minister Gordon Brown's favourite banker. Pension pot: Sir James Corsby has built up a pension pot worth an estimated £25million . Renouncing a knighthood after accepting it is almost unheard of. It . is thought the last time it happened was in 1948 when an Indian lawyer . and politician called C P Ramaswami Iyer (pictured) renounced his . following Indian independence. The . year before, the Maharajah of Vizianagram had renounced his knighthood . on the grounds it was not in keeping with the ideals of Republican . India. In 1969 John Lennon returned an MBE he received in 1965 in protest over Britain’s involvement in Biafra. If an honour is to be taken away, evidence is put to the shadowy honours Forfeiture Committee, a group of senior civil servants. Their recommendation goes via the Prime Minister to the Queen who makes her decision. A notice is then published in the London Gazette that the honour has been forfeited. The . process can take weeks or months. But anyone writing directly to the . Forfeiture Committee to tell them they are returning an honour is likely . to see their case dealt with slightly faster, a source said. He lost his lucrative high-profile job . at Bridgepoint, the private equity firm, and his trusteeship of the . charity Cancer Research UK in the wake of the damning report. But he . will still enjoy a pension of around £400,000 a year. David Ruffley, the Tory MP and a . senior member of the Treasury committee, said Sir James's move was . 'better late than never'. He said: 'Frankly, the relinquishing of 30 per . cent of his pension is a highly arbitrary figure. It still sees this . walking advertisement for corporate incompetence taking home over . £400,000 in pension every year until he dies.' Sir James's contrite behaviour is in . sharp contrast to the lack of any public displays of regret by Mr . Goodwin, the former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland. He had to . be stripped of his knighthood by the Queen and agreed to forfeit part . of his pension only after a long and bitter campaign, although it is . still worth £342,500 a year. Mr Mann said the man who replaced Sir . James as HBOS chief executive in July 2006 – Andy Hornby – and its . former chairman, Lord Stevenson, should be in the firing line. When Mr Hornby, now 46, left the bank . in disgrace three years later, his pension was worth £240,000 a year. Pension experts said it is likely to be worth around £320,000 a year . when he reaches 50 and can start claiming it. An ordinary saver would have to build . up a pension pot of around £11million to generate the same pension . income, according to financial advisers Hargreaves Lansdown. Mr Hornby has received the 'complete . backing' of bookmaker Coral, where he receives a package of more than . £500,000 as chief executive. Lord Stevenson has also received the support of bookseller Waterstones where he is an independent director. | Sir James Crosby has a pension pot worth an estimated £25million or £580,000-a-year .
He said he was 'deeply sorry' for what happened at HBOS .
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By . Simon Cable . PUBLISHED: . 20:11 EST, 20 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:39 EST, 21 February 2013 . Her father rose to fame capturing his idyllic village upbringing in the best-selling novel Cider With Rosie. But for Laurie Lee’s daughter, Jessy, life growing up with the celebrated author was a very different story. Miss Lee has revealed that she was driven to seek therapy as a result of her father’s ‘controlling’ behaviour. Overwhelmed: Jessy Lee, daughter of author Laurie Lee, pictured at her family home in the Slad Valley, said she struggled with a controlling father . The 49-year-old said she struggled to cope with the writer’s extreme mood swings and admitted she is only now coming to terms with her upbringing, almost 16 years after her father’s death. She has claimed that as an only child she was often forced to mediate between her parents if they quarrelled and said the strain of frequently moving between Gloucestershire and London left her ‘unable to make sense of my background’. She said: ‘It was very difficult being his daughter and he did suffer with his epilepsy. His moods could be extreme and, of course, he liked a drink or two so I never knew how he was going to be from one minute to the next. ‘When you’re younger, you tend to think, “What have I done to provoke this?”’ Controlling: Poet and novelist Laurie Lee was 'extreme' in his mood swings, his daughter has revealed . Miss Lee became a psychotherapist in . 1998 – a year after her father died at the age of 82 – and said she was . inspired by the help she was given in overcoming her own problems. ‘I’m sure that’s true of most people who train as therapists,’ she told Cotswold Life magazine. Cider With Rosie evokes a long-lost, rural England that was on the cusp of being overwhelmed by the modern age. Published in 1959, it is Laurie Lee’s best-loved work and immortalised his childhood in Slad, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, after the First World War. Rosie was, years later, revealed to be his cousin Rosalind Buckland. At the age of 16, Lee joined a firm of chartered accountants, but did not enjoy the work. In 1934 he walked to London, playing his violin to make money. Settling in Putney, he worked as a builder’s labourer, but soon travelled to Spain where he joined the International Brigade in the civil war in 1937. Back in England he was rejected from the Army due to poor health. The first volume of his autobiography, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, was published in 1969. Lee gained recognition as a poet during the Second World War. ‘I did feel that I’d been left with this extraordinary legacy and my mother and I felt rather alone with it. 'Psychotherapy was the way forward for me to try to make sense of my background, to understand the world differently.’ She added: ‘I did some interesting work on only children as a therapist. 'People talk about sibling rivalry but very little has been done about the only child, except to say they tend to grow up much more quickly because they often have to be the mediator between both parents. ‘I often felt like I was looking after . both parents. Laurie didn’t want me to grow up, either. He wanted to . keep me where he could control me. I think there’s no secret there. ‘I was so overwhelmed by being out of . control of my world. But I’ve learned to take back my control and that . has enabled me to have this passion now for bringing Laurie back for his . centenary [next year] – and forever.’ Laurie . Lee married Catherine Polge in 1950 and Jessy was born in 1963, four . years after he wrote Cider With Rosie, which has sold six million copies . worldwide. In the book Lee . details how his own father, Reginald, abandoned the family when Lee was a . child. He later bought the family home in Slad, Gloucestershire. The author also owned a property in Fulham and the family spent much of their time moving between the two locations. It meant that Miss Lee was constantly switching schools when she was growing up. ‘I . used to go to two schools at once,’ she added. ‘Not the most stable of . upbringings. I’d be at Painswick School half the year and Park Walk . School in Chelsea the other. I never really knew where I was from. I . didn’t know my place in the world.’ | Author Laurie Lee's daughter unveils less than idyllic childhood .
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New Delhi (CNN) -- The Indian anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare has begun a new hunger strike to add pressure to his persistent demands for a tough law to deal with endemic corruption in the country. Hazare and his supporters are also seeking special investigations into allegations of corruption they have made against more than a dozen of India's federal government ministers, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh -- accusations the government denies. A 75-year-old former army driver, Hazare galvanized the nation last year with his use of fasting to demand a strong citizen ombudsman to tackle official corruption. The attention his protest generated brought huge political pressure to bear on Singh, who agreed in August to Hazare's demand for the new anti-corruption agency. The resulting legislation, however, has become bogged down in parliament. A protest Hazare organized in Mumbai in December to press lawmakers to act drew fewer people than expected, suggesting the momentum behind his campaign might be waning. But thousands of people turned out in New Delhi on Sunday when the veteran activist commenced his new, open-ended fast, adding his clout to a similar protest that three of his supporters had started Wednesday. Hazare told the crowds that his agitation would continue until the government accepted his group's version of the bill to establish a Jan Lokpal, or citizen ombudsman. Government legislation to create the agency is still pending in parliament, but Hazare and other activists say it is too weak to tackle widespread graft around India, the world's second most populous country after China. "I want to tell my supporters that I will not die until the Jan Lokpal bill is passed," Hazare said Sunday. India's coalition government, led by the Congress party, has been rocked by a series of corruption scandals in recent years. Last year, a former government minister was among a dozen defendants charged in a multibillion-dollar telecom scandal. Andimuthu Raja, a former telecommunication minister, is accused of being involved in a scheme involving the underselling of cell phone licenses at the height of India's lucrative telecom boom. He denies any wrongdoing. Congress suffered a crushing electoral defeat earlier this year in the key state of Uttar Pradesh in a vote that was considered a litmus test for Singh's government ahead of national elections due in 2014. | Thousands of people in New Delhi attend the start of the fast .
Anna Hazare wants the government to set up an anti-corruption agency .
Legislation to create the ombudsman has got bogged down in parliament .
Hazare galvanized the country last year with a hunger strike protest . | 8ddb277519d888d6e36c2f93ce8fc4d4429b8166 | [
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(CNN) -- A College of the Holy Cross basketball player accused her coach of being "verbally, emotionally and physically abusive" in a lawsuit filed this week in a New York court. And on Wednesday, that coach, Bill Gibbons, announced to the team that he would "step back" from his duties while the college reviews the allegations. Ashley Cooper, 20, was a student athlete at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, on a full athletic scholarship from 2011 to May. During that time, she claims Gibbons shook and struck her, according to the complaint. Gibbons' behavior included "violently yanking" Cooper's shirt collar, squeezing her neck and hitting her on the back hard enough to leave a red hand-print on her skin during one basketball game in January 2012, the complaint says. During one basketball game, Gibbons' behavior prompted players on the opposing team to comment, "Your coach is crazy," according to the complaint filed Tuesday. In 2011, a psychological professional who was brought in to discuss team chemistry revealed that the only issues the team had were related to Gibbons' abuse, according to the complaint. After several incidents, Cooper and her teammates complained to the athletic director's office, but their coaches retaliated for "going over their heads," according to the lawsuit. The complaint also alleges that school officials were aware of the abuse but did nothing to address or stop it. "Ashley was told, 'stop complaining'," Elizabeth Eilender, Cooper's attorney, told CNN Tuesday. "Eventually we realized nothing would happen and took the next step." Holy Cross will review the allegations in the lawsuit, a spokeswoman said. "The physical, mental and emotional well-being of our students is our highest priority at Holy Cross," Ellen Ryder, director of public affairs at Holy Cross, said in a statement. "We just received the lawsuit and are in the process of reviewing it. Ms. Cooper had brought her concern to the College, and we investigated at that time. The lawsuit we received includes a series of new allegations and we will now bring in outside counsel to review them." Holy Cross said Wednesday that Gibbons had announced to the team that he would "step back from his coaching duties while the college reviews the claims" in the lawsuit. During that review, Gibbons will be on administrative leave with pay, the college said. Gibbons is currently in his 29th season as coach of the basketball team, and according to the school's website, he is the most victorious coach in Holy Cross' history. CNN's calls to Gibbons for comment were not immediately returned. Cooper is filing this lawsuit not only for herself, but for all women athletes who are abused by their coaches, the lawsuit says. "This has been going on forever. It just takes somebody strong enough like Ashley to stand up to this coach and this institution," Eilender said. "The real question is, why is this institution continuing to protect him?" Eilender also noted that the majority of the women's basketball team at Holy Cross holds athletic scholarships, making them "beholden to the school." "Everyone is on scholarships," Eilender said. "They're not going to say anything." According to Eilender, former players have now reached out to Cooper thanking her for taking a stand against something that has been going on for years without consequence. In the lawsuit, Cooper alleges that the behavior of Gibbons' exceeds that of former Rutgers men's basketball coach Mike Rice. Rice was seen on a tape that surfaced in April throwing basketballs at his players, shoving them, cursing and using a homophobic slur. He was fired shortly after the tape aired on ESPN. Rice later apologized for his actions. Cooper has since transferred this fall to New York University and is not playing basketball, according to Eilender. "To transfer in the middle of her college experience is extremely traumatic to her, but she felt she had no other choice in light of Coach Gibbons' abuse of her," Eilender said. Rutgers coach fired after abusive video broadcast . | A former basketball player says she was physically abused by her coach .
Ashley Cooper, 20, says Holy Cross coach Bill Gibbons hit her, yanked her collar .
Holy Cross will review the allegations; Gibbons is on administrative leave . | c2227bca155cf3ef517351b839a255eee65f1a8c | [
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(CNN) -- Once investigators looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 decide to shift from listening for pings emanating from the floor of the Indian Ocean to poring over its terrain, they will begin drawing from a whole new set of tools. Among them will be the Bluefin-21, a probe equipped with side-scan sonar -- an acoustic technology that creates pictures from the reflections of sound rather than light. "That is a piece of equipment that does assist in locating where the wreckage may be," said Sylvia Earle, an oceanographer from National Geographic who was chief scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A 'massive, massive task' Though the discovery of four pings believed to be from the jet's so-called black boxes -- its flight data recorder and its cockpit voice recorder -- have helped investigators narrow the search area, they would still face a formidable task. "It's a lot of terrain to cover," given that the Bluefin-21 moves at the pace of a leisurely stroll, she told CNN. Though it moves slowly, it creates good images -- so good that they are "almost a picture of what's there ... but it's imaged with sound instead of with a camera." Listen for a ping, and the water may play tricks on you . Once the debris field is found, then other equipment -- such as remotely operated vehicles -- would be brought in to recover the black boxes, Earle said. ROVs working at depths of three miles would require power conveyed down a cable from a ship above, she said. "There are not many pieces of equipment in the world able to do this." And there are only a handful of countries that have manned submarines capable of descending to such depths, she said, citing the United States, Russia, Japan, France and China. "Having the human presence there can make a big difference," she said. It "can give you a real edge in terms of understanding what's there." The scarcity of resources "shows how ill-prepared we are to operate in the deep sea," Earle said. "We've invested in aviation and aerospace, and we've been neglecting the ocean." The time to move from listening for pings to looking for debris is fast approaching, said Alan Diehl, a former Air Force accident investigator. "We're right on the cusp where we need to go from passive listening to active (looking) with the Bluefin," he told CNN. That's because the batteries powering the black boxes' locator devices are probably already dead, said Mary Schiavo, former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation, who noted that more than four days had elapsed since any pings were detected. "I'm surprised that they lasted as long as they did," she said. The failure of searchers to find any debris linked to the plane has not surprised CNN Aviation Analyst David Soucie, author of "Why Planes Crash." The model used for tracking the debris could be incorrect, he said, noting that that was the case when investigators were searching for evidence of Air France Flight 447, which plunged into the southern Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all 228 people aboard. "They spent weeks looking for debris in the wrong area," he said. The lack of debris could also mean that the plane did not break apart on impact, but instead sank largely intact, he said. If that was the case, it could complicate the effort to retrieve the black boxes, since they were stored inside the tail of the plane. Investigators would have to dismantle the tail in order to extract them and whatever secrets they may hold. Lessons from past air disasters . Where's the debris? How deep is deep? | Probe of the ocean floor will move from ping locators to sonar .
The Bluefin-21 is equipped with side-scan sonar .
And once the debris field is found, investigators would turn to remotely operated vehicles .
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"the Indian Ocean to poring over its terrain, they",
"will begin drawing from a whole new set of tools.",
"Among them will be the Bluefin-21, a probe",
"equipped with side-scan sonar -- an acoustic",
"technology that creates pictures from the",
"reflections of sound rather than light. \"That is",
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"chief scientist for the National Oceanic and",
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- North Korea is to blow up a key part of its controversial Yongbyon nuclear reactor on Friday. Hyun Hak-Bong (right), North Korea's deputy negotiator to six-party talks, crosses the border into South Korea on June 5. The destruction of the plant's cooling tower is part of an agreement with the United States aimed at denuclearizing the Korean peninsula in exchange for loosening some restrictions on the highly secretive Communist country. The North Korean government has invited news organizations, including CNN, to witness the event. Earlier this year, Pyongyang agreed to disable its nuclear reactor and provide a full accounting of its plutonium stockpile, "acknowledge" concerns about its proliferation activities and its uranium enrichment activity, and agree to continue cooperation with a verification process to ensure no further activities are taking place. North Korea has been taking Yongbyon's main reactor apart, but imploding the cooling tower is an exceptionally important psychological step given that the highly recognizable shape of the structure is synonymous with nuclear power plants. The United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, says it would take a year to rebuild if North Korea decided to go back on its agreement, and that the construction could not be done in secret. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended U.S. diplomacy toward North Korea last week, saying the deal with Pyongyang made Asia and the U.S. safer. Speaking at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank, Rice said that "North Korea will soon give its declaration of nuclear programs to China." China is the host of the six-party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear program, along with Russia, South Korea, Japan and the United States. Rice spoke in advance of her upcoming trip to Asia where she will be attending a meeting of G8 foreign ministers and meeting with her Asian counterparts. Rice said once North Korea submits its declaration, President Bush will notify Congress he intends to remove North Korea from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism and scrap some sanctions levied against North Korea because of nuclear concerns. But she noted that there would be no practical effect to loosening the restrictions because North Korea still was under the same sanctions because of other areas of U.S. law. Rice said a 45-day review would then begin to see if North Korea is telling the truth and living up to its end of the deal struck in the six-party talks. "Before those actions go into effect, we would continue to assess the level of North Korean cooperation in helping to verify the accuracy and completeness of its declaration," she said. "And if that cooperation is insufficient, we will respond accordingly." The United States softened its demand that North Korea publicly admit to having a highly enriched uranium program and to providing Syria with nuclear technology, key unanswered questions that have left negotiations stalled for months. North Korea has already handed over about 18,000 documents on its nuclear past to the U.S., which the U.S. says are critical to verify North Korea's claims. Rice said that the deal with North Korea wasn't perfect but offered the U.S. the best chance to learn about North Korea's nuclear history. "We must keep the broader goal in mind: the elimination of North Korea's nuclear weapons and programs, all of them," she said. "North Korea has said that it is committed to this goal. We'll see." Rice said that "no final agreement can be concluded" unless the U.S. verifies North Korea's claims. CNN State Department Correspondent Elise Labott contributed to this report . | North Korea plans to destroy nuclear plant's cooling tower .
Implosion is part of an agreement with the United States .
U.N. says the cooling tower would take a year to rebuild .
Long-term aim is to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons . | 53e5784f76fc11cda5670954475e7179a1346636 | [
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"The destruction of the plant's cooling tower is",
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A woman who says her huge 38KK breasts are ruining her life is outraged after being denied surgery to reduce them on the NHS. Kim Mills, 32, has been refused the operation even though she claims her enormous chest has caused arthritis of the spine. The mother-of-two has even lost 4st in a bid to shrink her chest - but it failed to help. Kim Mills has 38KK breasts and she says they are so big they have caused her to develop arthritis in her spine . Ms Mills has applied for funding to have her breasts reduced on the NHS but her request was refused . However, . her local Clinical Commissioning Group in Essex has denied her request to have her breasts reduced her to a D cup because her circumstances are ‘not exceptional’. Ms Mills says she is unable to afford to have the surgery carried out privately. She now . hopes that Jeremy Hunt’s call yesterday to stop cosmetic procedures . being carried out on the NHS will free up money for surgery like hers. Yesterday, . Mr Hunt said the taxpayer should not be funding cosmetic surgery and . that there should be a clampdown on NHS spending on it. Ms Mills, a resource planning analyst, said: ‘People may think it's not a serious health issue but they don't have to live with it. ‘My breasts are so heavy and I'm only 5ft 8in. It affects everything from cleaning to struggling to brush my four-year-old daughter's hair. ‘If I attempt to go for a run I'm left in agony, it's horrendous. The NHS are happy to shell out boob jobs for vanity reasons but I just want a reduction so I can live normally.’ Ms Mills, from Chelmsford, Essex, was wearing a 38DD by the age of 13 and had was a KK by her early 20s. Ms Mills has lost 4st in a bid to shrink her breasts but it failed to reduce their size . While her friends longed for bigger breasts, the mother-of-two hated her chest and the unwanted attention it attracted from men. On nights out men would make lewd comments about her chest, despite Ms Mills always making sure her big bust was covered. With her self-esteem at a low point, she turned to comfort eating and by 2010 had ballooned to 19st 8Ibs. Yesterday the Health Secretary said cosmetic surgery should not be paid for by the tax payer. He said there should be a clampdown on NHS spending and that he could understand public anger at high profile cases of breast enlargements and dental work being offered by the NHS. Mr Hunt insisted all decisions must be taken on ‘clinical need’ and public money must not be used to pay for surgery just to improve someone's looks. He said: ‘We should not be doing cosmetic work on the NHS. 'The decisions are taken on the basis of clinical need, but I have made it very clear that I am against purely cosmetic work being done. ‘There will be times when there is a mental health need, which the local doctor has said is very serious. ‘But I do completely understand people’s reservations about some of the things that happen.’ Despite this, her weight did not affect her bust size and she stayed a massive 38KK. ‘I . hated my boobs so much I comfort ate,’ she said. ‘I would snack on . chocolate and sweets when I was feeling low, and soon my waistline . started to grow but my boobs didn't. ‘At my biggest weight I felt so depressed that I decided to lose weight in an attempt to shed some pounds from my boobs as well. But it was to no avail.’ Now her 4st weight loss has failed to help, she says her situation is becoming desperate. Last month she was diagnosed with arthritis of the spine and believes her breasts are to blame. She claims the fear of showing a man her large chest has also prevented her from having a relationship for the past three years. Ms Mills said: ‘Mr Hunt's comments really ring true for me. The use of NHS funds for glamour and vanity reasons is disgraceful. ‘It seems wrong that I should be denied a breast reduction on the NHS when it is seriously affecting my health. ‘If the government stop the funding for cosmetic procedures then that might leave enough funding to help people who need the operations for medical reasons.’ The single mother, who lives with daughters, Alana, 14, and Alyssa-Mae, four, added that the condition is affecting her mental health. She said: ‘People see me as a confident girl, but it is far from the truth. I have no self-esteem because my chest has ruined my life. ‘I've lost all my confidence and haven't been seen naked by a man for three years. Ms Mills (pictured with her daughter, Alana) says her breasts are so big that exercise leaves her in agony . Ms Mills is angry that other women have been given boob jobs on the NHS for cosmetic reasons . ‘The thought of showing a man my chest horrifies me because they're so heavy and saggy. Wherever I go men make lewd comments at me, it's embarrassing. ‘Women are always getting boobs jobs and nose jobs on the NHS, it seems unfair I can't get a breast reduction when it isn't just for cosmetic reasons but for my health. ‘Girls out there are getting nose jobs and boobs jobs on the NHS, going up from As to DDs. So it seems unfair I can't get a breast reduction. ‘I have never been on benefits in my life, and I'm a single working mum so I can't afford to pay for the surgery privately. ‘I can't get involved with my children when they are playing, and I look ridiculous. ‘Where ever I go people stare at my chest or make lewd comments. I hate it and the NHS won't do anything.’ Last year, NHS surgeons carried out 790 breast implant operations costing the taxpayer approximately £3.5 million. 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President Obama showed off his grooviest 'dad dancing' on Tuesday night as he got down to the best of Memphis Soul at a White House show. The President enjoyed a star-studded concert celebrating the sound of Soulsville as he and wife Michelle belted out the classics performed by artists including Queen Latifah, Booker T. Jones, Cyndi Lauper and Justin Timberlake. He was also joined on the front row by daughters Malia and Sasha who giggled and shook their heads at their dad's dance moves. Timberlake leaned in and serenaded the first couple from the stage with his version of the Otis Redding classic (Sittin' on) 'The Dock of the Bay accompanied by legendary guitarist Steve Cropper. Scroll down for videos... Getting down: The President shows off his dance skills as he takes his seat beside First Lady Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia . Paying tribute: Obama spoke about the important role of Soulsville music in overcoming segregation . Singing out: The First Lady gets down at the Memphis Soul event at the White House . Obama opened the concert by saying: 'Let's face it, who does not love this music? These songs get us on the dance floor. 'They get stuck in our heads. We go back over them again and again. And they've played an important part in our history. 'Memphis, Tennessee, was segregated in . the 1960s, but blacks and whites came together despite the institutional . racism to create a soulful blend of gospel and rhythmic blues music . that sought to 'bridge those divides, to create a little harmony with . harmony.' Suit and tie: Justin Timberlake was one of the many stars who performed along with Booker T. Jones and Queen Latifah . Serenaded: Justin Timberlake (left) sings Otis Redding's (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay to the first couple . Giggles: First Lady Michelle enjoys the music as daughter Malia looks on . He . noted that two of the night's guests, Booker T. Jones and Steve . Cropper, helped form one of the city's first integrated bands. 'They . weren't allowed to go to school together. They weren't always allowed . to travel or eat together,' Obama said. 'But no one could stop . them from playing music together.' The President continued: 'And . that was the spirit of their music - the sound of Soulsville, U.S.A., a . music that, at its core, is about the pain of being alone, the power of . human connection, and the importance of treating each other right.' 'After all, this is the music that asked . us to try a little tenderness. It's the music that put Mr Big Stuff in . his place. And it's the music that challenged us to accept new ways of . thinking with four timeless words: ''Can you dig it?''' Facing the music: The Obama family listen to performances from Booker T. Jones, Queen Latifah and Justin Timberlake . Soul rocks: Performers gather on the stage with Obama (far left) and Michelle (center) at the White House . All smiles: President Obama speaks welcomes performers to the concert in honor of Memphis Soul music in the East Room of the White House . Singing the blues: Queen Latifah performs during a concert in honor of Memphis Soul music hosted by Obama in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday . Groovy dad: Obama looks to daughter Sasha as they sit on the front row at the gig . And . with that, Obama took his seat and the show opened with Sam Moore, half . of the duo Sam & Dave, and 'American Idol' finalist and gospel . singer Joshua Ledet belting out Moore's 'Soul Man.' They . were followed minutes later by Justin Timberlake and Cropper's . rendition of Otis Redding's (Sittin' on) 'The Dock of the Bay.' The President and First Lady clapped and bopped along to the tunes. Song and dance: Sam Moore, pictured left, and Joshua Ledet perform 'Soul Man' for President Obama and the First Family in the front row . Musical guest: Booker T. Jones performs during the celebration of Memphis Soul music . MC in chief: The concert was the 10th in the 'In Performance at the White House' series since Obama took office . The concert was the 10th in the 'In Performance at the White House' series since Obama took office. Other performers included Alabama Shakes, Ben Harper, Cyndi Lauper, Charlie Musselwhite, Mavis Staples, Queen Latifah and William Bell. Latifah also was the host and Jones led the band. Earlier in the day, Bell said the concert reaffirmed years of hard work that began in the 1960s when Stax Records was created in Memphis, and the label cranked out one soul and R&B hit after another for more than a decade. Redding, Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Bell and Sam & Dave were among the company's artists. Al Green had been scheduled to perform but, about an hour before the show, the White House released a statement from the singer's spokesman who said Green had suffered a back injury and would be unable to attend. Since February 2009, 'In Performance at the White House' has highlighted the music of Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, plus Hispanic music, music from the civil-rights era, Motown and the blues, Broadway and country music. The series itself dates to 1978. The Memphis Soul concert was streamed on the White House website, and will air on PBS stations on April 16. It will also be broadcast at a later date over the American Forces Network for service members and civilians at Defense Department locations worldwide. Lavish bash: Memphis Soul is the 10th in the 'In Performance at the White House' concerts . However the extravagant event is likely to have Republicans once again questioning Obama's priorities at a time of stringent government cuts. Some conservatives have called on Obama . to give up golf, especially since popular public tours of the White . House have been canceled because of the budget cuts. Other . recent casualties of the sequester have been the Navy's Blue Angels . fleet and the tens of thousands of furloughed government workers forced . to go days without pay. History lesson: Michelle Obama speaks at a student workshop on Memphis Soul on Tuesday backed by (l-r) Sam Moore, Mavis Staples, Justin Timberlake and Charlie Musselwhite . Industry buddies: Sam Moore, Mavis Staples and Justin Timberlake fist bump at the White House . Oklahoma . Republican Senator Tom Coburn said in a statement on Tuesday that 'millions . of Americans have been doing more with less,' but 'the federal . government continues to do less with more'. Fellow . Republican Darrel Issa, the chairman of the House Committee on . Oversight and Government Reform, has also blasted the Obama . administration for failing to eliminate overlapping programs and other . examples of wasteful government spending. | Queen Latifah, Justin Timberlake, Cyndi Lauper and Booker T. Jones all performed .
President joined by First Lady Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia at the bash .
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By . Simon Tomlinson . Four Syrian men were publicly executed by jihadist militants in an Iraqi town for allegedly spying for President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Rebels fighting for the Islamic State (ISIS) brought the men to a main street in Al-Qaim, near Iraq's border with Syria, in a convoy of trucks on Sunday, witnesses said. One militant then announced that they were spies for Assad's regime, which ISIS is fighting in Syria, and the men, with their hands bound, were shot dead one by one. A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter stands guard as new equipment arrives at the Kalak refinery in Irbil, Iraq, as the Kurds try to ease a fuel shortage after ISIS militants laid siege to Iraq's largest oil refinery in the city of Beiji . Their bodies were taken away by ambulance and Dr Mustafa Shawqi from the Al-Qaim hospital confirmed the deaths, according to the AFP news agency. The report came as the Iraqi army launched a fresh assault today to try to retake the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, according to an officer and a soldier involved in the attack. The executions are the latest reportedly carried out in Iraq and Syria by ISIS militants who have gleefully documented their killings online with grisly photos of their victims, including some who have been beheaded. Militants seized control of Al-Qaim last month during a major jihadist-led offensive that has overrun swathes of five provinces north and west of Baghdad. A Shi'ite volunteer from brigades loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr keeps guard as he mans a machine gun during a military advance against ISIS on the outskirts of Samarra . According to the UN refugee agency, there are more than 4,500 Syrian refugees in Iraq's Anbar province, many of them at a camp near Al-Qaim. The new assault by Iraq's army on Tikrit is the latest attempt to re-capture the city, which fell on June 12 to Sunni insurgents led by the extremist Islamic State group. The army has been saying for two weeks that its forces are on the outskirts of the city. Tikrit lies 160km (100 miles) north of Baghdad. It is a stronghold of loyalists of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein and ex-army officers who joined forces with Islamic State to take over large parts of north and west Iraq last month. Baghdad municipality workers clean the site of a car bomb in the Allawi neighborhood. Shi'ite militias are now fighting ISIS alongside the Iraqi army, but there have been few notable victories for the government . An officer and a soldier said the military attacked from the village of Awja, some 8km south of the city. The army retook Awja, the birthplace of Saddam, on the night of July 3, and has been trying to push north since. Heavy fighting broke out in the Shishin district of southern Tikrit, they said. Government forces retreated when Sunni insurgents overran Mosul on June 10 and swept south to seize Tikrit two days later. Shi'ite militias are now fighting alongside soldiers and police, but there have been few notable victories for government forces since they began a campaign late last month to seize back territory. | ISIS militants shot men in street in rebel-held town on Syrian border .
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By . Caroline Graham . and Patrick Strudwick . Cold: Marlene Dietrich with her grandson David Riva. He said she was emotionally distant . She was a Hollywood icon, a bisexual beauty whose style and intoxicating sex appeal endured through the ages. But Marlene Dietrich was also a cruel woman who did nothing to protect her own daughter from sexual assault by a lesbian nanny, her grandson claimed last night. Speaking about an auction of her possessions, grandson David Riva, 53, told The Mail on Sunday: ‘She was cold and emotionally detached. She wasn’t a conventional granny.’ The German-born star of The Blue Angel and Judgement At Nuremberg was an alcoholic and bulimic who cheated on long-suffering Rudi Sieber throughout their 52-year marriage with both men and women. Her lovers included John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Greta Garbo and Edith Piaf. David said: ‘She slept with anyone she found attractive. But it wasn’t the physical side of sex that mattered. For her, intimacy was about power. ‘One night my mother got a frantic call and raced over. Marlene ushered her to her bedroom. The bed was rumpled and covered in make-up. 'She’d slept with Yul Brynner, who was acting in The King And I. She just wanted to show off her conquest.’ David’s mother Maria, now 89, was Dietrich’s only child. She wrote a biography of her mother in which she revealed the legend would refer to her as ‘The Child’ and never showed her maternal love. Dietrich hired a lesbian nanny who raped Maria at 13. When Maria confronted Marlene about it later, the diva sneered at her: ‘Well, you’re over it now, aren’t you? You’re not dead. Deal with it.’ Relationship: Marlene Dietrich and her daughter Maria Riva in 1944 (left) and in the 1930 romance Morocco . Woman about town: Marlene Dietrich sharing a cigarette with the German author Erich Maria Remarque in 1939 . Sex symbol: Marlene Dietrich had affairs with both men and women during her 52-year marriage . Dietrich was also obsessed with cleanliness: ‘The first thing she would do in a hotel room, even the Ritz, would be to get on her knees and scrub the bathroom,’ David said. David, who was his grandmother’s agent, told how her last years were spent miserably in her Paris flat, drinking and popping pills: ‘She was one of those alcoholics that doesn’t appear drunk. The star in publicity for Rancho Notorious (1952) ‘She loved food but was bulimic. That was her solution. Enjoy food and then throw it up, why not?’ One of his earliest memories is of Dietrich using tape behind her ears to give herself a facelift. ‘She didn’t leave her apartment for her last 15 years. She was offered an Oscar if she’d collect it in person but turned it down. ‘She hadn’t spent 60 years creating an image for it to be destroyed by photos of her ageing.’ When a paparazzo climbed up to snap a picture through her window she shot at him with a starting pistol she kept under her bed. But David said his grandmother also had a ‘quietly heroic’ side. Dietrich enraged Hitler by becoming a US citizen and entertained US troops at the front line with hits like ‘Lili Marlene’. She won America’s highest civilian honour, the Medal of Freedom, and disowned her sister when she discovered she ran a cinema catering to guards at the notorious Bergen-Belsen death camp. David said: ‘To her, the GIs were “her boys”. Her wartime work was what she was most proud of.’ Dietrich died in 1992 aged 90 and in debt (‘she lived large and hadn’t earned money for years’). The German government bought most of her possessions, which are exhibited in a Berlin museum in her honour. Her family are selling the remainder. Items including one of Marlene’s tuxedos, crystal cigarette lighters and a letter from the novelist Ernest Hemingway in which he refers to her as ‘Dearest Kraut’ and fantasizes about cavorting naked on stage with her will be sold at auctionmystuff.com from March 19 to April 6. Legend: Pictured left arriving in New York in 1954, Dietrich was dubbed the world's most famous grandmother . Auction: Items will soon be sold including one of Marlene's tuxedos, crystal cigarette lighters and a letter from the novelist Ernest Hemingway in which he fantasised about cavorting with her naked on stage . Surprise: She was presented with a 4ft, 400lb cake for her 48th birthday. Right, one piece of memorabilia . | German-born star Marlene Dietrich had affairs with Sinatra and Edith Piaf .
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By . Damien Gayle . PUBLISHED: . 04:44 EST, 11 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 16:28 EST, 11 February 2014 . Florida has become the latest state to take steps to allow the use of marijuana on prescription, as it's prominent senator Marco Rubio dodged the question of whether he had ever used the drug. The Republican rising star - who is touted as a potential presidential candidate - declined to say whether he had smoked the herb in a direct question at an education forum. 'If I tell you that I haven't, you won't believe me,' said Mr Rubio. 'And if I tell you that I did, then kids will look up to me and say, "Well, I can smoke marijuana because look how he made it."' 'If I tell you that I haven't, you won't believe me': U.S Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican who represents Florida, speaking at a press conference where he dodged the question of whether he'd ever smoked marijuana . The senator's comments came as Florida's lawmakers introduced identical bills to legalise the use of marijuana for medical purposes. It is hoped that the proposals will be passed before Florida voters decide on a ballot initiative in November to amend the constitution to allow for the change in the law. Jeff Clemens and Joe Saunders, both Democrats in Florida's Senate, brought patients and their families to the unveiling of their bill, which would implement by statute the constitutional amendment on the November ballot. 'This bill puts patients before politics,' said Cathy Jordan of Parrish, president of the Florida Cannabis Action Network, who has lived for 28 years with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig Disease. Mrs Jordan, whose speech is slurred by her illness, sat in her wheelchair next to her husband, Robert, who read her statement at a news conference in front of the Senate building. The amendment, and the newly introduced legislation, would specify tight state regulation for doctors to prescribe marijuana for treatment of conditions like cancer, HIV/AIDS, ALS and other severe afflictions. Green goddess: Mr Rubio's comments came as . Florida lawmakers introduced bills to legalise marijuana for medical . purposes ahead of a November vote to amend the constitutional to allow . for the change in law . Identically worded bills were introduced in both houses of the state legislature yesterday, in an effort to ease their quick passage. The session starting March 4 will mark the fourth year such a bill has been introduced. Prominent Florida Republicans, along with Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi, vigorously oppose a change in the law. Allowing the medical use of marijuana - a move already taken in 20 states and the District of Columbia - has been seen as a first step to ending the ban on recreational use of marijuana. Federal law currently classifies marijuana as a Schedule I drug, meaning that it regarded as having a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use. Nevertheless, Colorado and Washington have both voted to legalise the drug for recreational use under state law. Mr Rubio, one of Florida's two representatives in the U.S. Senate, yesterday insisted that he opposed the legalisation of the recreational use of marijuana. He said like most teenagers he made dumb decisions when he was younger, and he said he didn't need the help of marijuana or alcohol to further that, the Associated Press reported. High times: New Year's Eve revellers smoke marijuana during a Prohibition-era themed party at a bar in Denver celebrating the start of retail pot sales in Colorado after the state decided to legalise the drug . The Florida Supreme Court has already . approved the ballot language on the amendment and it will become law if . 60 per cent of the voters approve it in November. Raiding the cupboards for food is a well-known effect of smoking cannabis. But for years, scientists have been unable to understand why cannabis’ active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), causes such a powerful surge in appetite. Now a European study has revealed that people get ‘the munchies’ after using marijuana because their sense of smell and taste is heightened. A group of neuroscientists, led by Giovanni Marsicano of the University of Bordeaux, found that in mice, THC fits into receptors in the brain's olfactory bulb. This dramatically increases the creature’s ability to smell food and leading them to eat more of it, they said in a study published in Nature Neuroscience. If the findings hold true for humans, it may help develop treatments for appetite disorders by changing the link between smell and appetite. Polls . show it has a strong chance of success. If the amendment passes, Mr . Saunders said the 2015 Legislature will have to pass implementing . legislation specifying 'how will we grow it, how will people who need it . get access to it and how will those who are seeking to abuse it receive . consequences? While Republican leaders oppose the medical marijuana amendment, a separate bill allowing use of a non-euphoric marijuana extract known as 'Charlotte's Web' is also making progress in the Florida House. The derivative is drawn from a portion of the marijuana plant that does not get users high, but has shown results in treating seizures. The amendment is seen as a key driver to encourage Democrat voters to turn out at the polls in November. The petition campaign that put it on the ballot was bankrolled by Orlando attorney John Morgan, a close ally of former Governor Charlie Crist, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for another term as governor. 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Arsene Wenger believes that the addition of Alexis Sanchez has helped to fill his squad with belief ahead of a Premier League title charge. The Arsenal boss oversaw a 3-0 win at Wembley against Premier League champions Manchester City in the Community Shield and felt his players are now 'united' after having problems with departing players in the past. The Gunners lost a series of big names with Robin van Persie, Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas all departing for rivals at home and abroad in recent years but they have recently hung onto their star players while adding to the squad. Putting Pellegrini in the shade: Arsene Wenger's side produced a great performance to see off the champions . Happiness: The Arsenal boss breaks out a rare smile as he looks up at the Community Shield being lifted . Calum Chambers - Southampton - £12M . Mathieu Debuchy - Newcastle United - £10M . David Ospina - Nice - £3.2M . Alexis Sanchez - Barcelona - £30M . Total spend: £45.2M . And Wenger believes that is making a big difference to the spirit of his players - with the likes of Aaron Ramsey praising the positive atmosphere in the dressing room. 'It was a united team performance,' Wenger said of the Wembley win. 'We stopped physically in the second half which was expected but it was a first half of quality, togetherness and good movement. 'In the last two years we’ve added (Mesut) Ozil and Sanchez and every year before that we lost big transfers -so that of course strengthens the squad.' And Wenger praised Sanchez's immediate impact in the Community Shield despite not enjoying a full pre season with his new team mates. 'He's not completely ready but in the first half he was lively it is very promising for the future. 'It will be an interesting season. People who watch the Premier League should be excited because there are so many strong teams in the league.' And Mikel Arteta also believes that Sanchez's addition is making an immediate difference. 'We've got pace up front now and it makes a big difference so we're really happy to get another trophy,' he said. Big money purchase: Alexis Sanchez arrived from Barcelona this summer to the delight of his new team mates . RVP: Arsenal were more used to losing big players such as former captain Robin van Persie to their rivals . Overseeing the rise: Wenger believes the additions of big money signings is helping his squad's belief . | Likes of Robin van Persie and Samir Nasri moved on to rivals in the past .
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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 07:56 EST, 25 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 08:30 EST, 25 August 2012 . Clues: Human remains have been found where Iraq War veteran Noah Pippin disappeared two years ago . Human remains have been found in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in northwest Montana, where a team has been searching for an Iraq war veteran who disappeared two years ago, a sheriff said Friday. About . a month before he was last seen, Noah Pippin quit his job with the Los . Angeles Police Department where he worked after serving with the Marines in Iraq. He later went to visit his family in Michigan . and told them he was heading back west to serve with the California . National Guard. Instead, he drove a rental car to Montana. Hikers reported seeing Pippin heading into the wilderness ill-prepared for a long stay in the wild and apparently on-edge. He was never seen again. The parents of Noah Pippin released a statement Friday saying Lewis and Clark County sheriff's and coroner's officials told them remains had been found in the Burnt Creek area. Authorities haven't confirmed the identity of the remains yet, but Mike and Rosalie Pippin said there is a strong likelihood they belong to their son. 'Noah's remains are almost 98% positively identified as having been found. Thank you to all you sweet and wonderful people who have held us up in prayer and expressed your caring over the last 2 years,' the family wrote on a Facebook page for their missing son. A search party of border agents, search and rescue officials, a sheriff's deputy and volunteers found the remains and planned to bring them back to the state crime lab in Missoula. Coroner M.E. 'Mickey' Nelson said it could be several days or even weeks before the body can be positively identified. 'There was enough circumstantial evidence that I felt comfortable, and I informed the family, that their loved one has been located, based on preliminary indicators and circumstantial things we found,' Nelson said. He declined to elaborate on what was found. Scroll down for video . Family's prayers: Noah Pippin's parents, his mother pictured beside him, released a statement on Friday announcing the remains' recovery but said they have not been positively identified as his . Disappearance: The remains had been found in the Burnt Creek area that is part of the Bob Marshall Wilderness south of Glacier National Park, pictured . Missing: Noah Pippin, described as a giant but polite man with a shaved head, was last seen on September 15 of 2010 by hikers . Nelson said animals appeared to have gotten to the body, but there was no indication yet of how the person died or when. He said nothing so far suggests it is a criminal case. Noah Pippin, described as a giant but . polite man with a shaved head, was last seen Sept. 15, 2010, near the . Chinese Wall, which is a ridge along the Continental Divide that is part . of the Bob Marshall Wilderness south of Glacier National Park. 'It's about as primitive, outside of Alaska, as you can get in the United States,' Nelson said. People . who saw Noah Pippin on a trail before he disappeared said the former . Marine appeared ill-prepared for an extended stay in the wilderness. About . a month before he was last seen, Noah Pippin quit his job with the Los . Angeles Police Department. He later went to visit his family in Michigan . and told them he was heading back west to serve with the California . National Guard. Instead, he drove a rental car to Montana. The . relatively short spring and summer in the higher elevations of . northwest Montana had hampered other searches for Pippin. Nelson said . the family reacted about as he expected to the news of remains being . found. 'It's a tough situation in the sense that there's some joy but of course a long time of sorrow, the sorrow being they haven't seen him in so long,' he said. 'The joy that we've found him doesn't overcome the grief.' Watch the video here: . | Noah Pippin disappeared in 2010 after quitting job with LAPD and telling family he planned to join the CA national guard .
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By . Simon Jones . Blackpool have signed Costa Rica midfielder Jose Miguel Cubero for £250,000 from Herediano. And manager Jose Riga is also lining up a move for former Fulham defender Matt Briggs, 23, and ex-Brighton winger Andrea Orlandi, 29. Cubero, 27, has agreed a one-year deal, with the option of a further 12 months. Rebuilding job: Jose Riga must reassamble a squad at Blackpool after last season's calamitous slide . 56-year-old Riga has endured a frustrating spell at Blackpool after joining from Charlton and has a fractious relationship with chairman Karl Oyston. Blackpool added Nathan Delfouneso to their ranks on Tuesday after agreeing terms with Peter Clarke, Jacob Mellis and Tomas Cywka on Monday. But Delfouneso's official arrival brings the total number of players on the club's books to just 12. The former Aston Villa striker is no stranger to Bloomfield Road having had two loan spells there in the past, most recently last season. | Blackpool bring in the Costa Rican midfielder for a quarter of a million pounds .
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Peanuts: British workers face a bigger financial shock in retirement than their Continental cousins thanks to our proportionally low state pension . British workers face a bigger financial shock in retirement than their counterparts on the Continent thanks to our proportionally low state pension, a study has claimed. Research carried out by the think-tank International Longevity Centre UK (ILC) looked at how much elderly Britons get and how this compares to the income of workers. It found the figure paid here – £113.10 a week – is typically only one third of the average working person’s income after more than 40 years in the workforce. Proportionally, this makes it one of the least generous state pension schemes in Europe. As a result, people who retire without a private pension or any other form of nest egg receive a sudden financial shock, making it difficult to cover bills such as heat, light, food and transport. By comparison, the state pension in the rest of the EU works out at around half the national income. Some countries are even more generous, with the Italians getting 60 per cent of the average working wage. Workers in Greece currently get a figure equal to the working wage – although they do have a lower average working wage than the UK and their public finances are in greater disarray. The study also found that the UK has a greater number of pensioners at risk of poverty, 16 per cent, compared to a European average of 13 per cent. But the report concluded that the picture was not entirely gloomy for older people in the UK. It pointed out that the Winter Fuel Allowance has had a positive impact on pensioners’ quality of life – with only 3 per cent of old people here complaining about living in cold homes, compared to European average of 12 per cent, and a staggering 52 per cent of those in sunny Portugal. The ILC has argued for the scrapping of the traditional concept of retirement with efforts to encourage older people to remain in the workforce and earning money to cover their bills. To the workhouse with you old man! The International Longevity Centre UK, which carried out the research, has argued for older people to remain in the workforce and earning money to cover their bills . Helen Creighton, of the ILC UK, said: ‘Different countries have their own strengths and weaknesses. ‘While the UK has a good record on warm homes, thanks to the success of the Winter Fuel Allowance, Nordic countries have the best record on keeping older people in employment, which leads to higher incomes and fewer problems of social isolation. ‘The Government aspires for the UK to be the best place in the world to grow old. But while the UK is by no means the worst place in Europe to grow old, we’ ve got a lot to do to top the European league. ‘The Government is right to aspire to be the best. But to achieve that we must look at and learn lessons from our European colleagues.’ She added: ‘Europe’s ageing has profound implications for individuals, governments and businesses, and the UK must adapt to a Continent where it is projected that almost one in three people will be over the age of 65, and more than 1 in 10 will be over the age of 80 by 2060.’ Richard Willets, Director of Longevity at Partnership, which sells annuities to cover elderly care costs, said: ‘As with the UK, the rest of Europe is rapidly going grey. 'This raises a unique set of challenges for government, business and individuals who not only need to plan for their own later life but also need to put structures in place that will help society at large.’ | The UK state pension is typically just a third of average working income .
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By . Sam Webb . PUBLISHED: . 17:14 EST, 28 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:50 EST, 29 July 2013 . With her painstakingly-applied make up and fashionable clothes, Seanie Nammock is like any other teenager. But behind her stylish looks, the teenager is battling a devastating genetic condition that is slowly paralysing her. The 17-year-old, from West London, is suffering from fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a disorder that is turning her muscle and tendon into bone. Seanie Nammock, 17, has a debilitating genetic condition that causes her to grow a 'second skeleton' Her arms are locked onto a bent position and she struggles to raise them above her waist. Seanie with her 22 year old sister Sinead Nammock (right), who is helping to raise money to fight the condition . Already, her arms have become locked into a bent position at her waist, rendering them immobile like a statue. The teenager has grown extra bone over her shoulders so she can no longer reach above her waist and struggles to brush or wash her own hair or dress without assistance - and the condition could get even worse. The slightest knock or bump causes painful flare-ups that trigger the irreversible bone growth which locks her joints into place, and she cannot have any injections or biopsies as this too may cause unwanted bone to form. Seanie with her mother Marian Granaghan (left), 58, and sister Sinead. Miss Granaghan says she lives in constant fear her daughter will be in an accident that will exacerbate her condition . Bone growth caused by FOPs is different to regular bones . Happier times: Seanie as a baby. She was not diagnosed with the condition until she was 12. Right, Seanie and Sinead as youngsters . Perversely, the condition makes it harder for her to avoid accidents as she finds it hard to steady herself on banisters when climbing the stairs and her locked arms affect her balance. She can't even out out her hands to break her fall, a situation she describes as 'scary'. But the debilitating condition has not hampered her hobbies or social life. A keen cook, she loves to shop and spend time with her friends. Sisterly love: Sinead is climbing Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise cash to combat Seanie's condition . 'My friends are brilliant, they do my hair for me sometimes and help me get my coat on and anything I can't do really,' she said. Seanie uses barbecue tongs to apply make up and a comb with an extended handle to do her hair. The teenager, who passed 10 GCSEs, including five A grades, told the Sunday People: 'I just crack on with things to be honest. There is no other option. 'It's taken me the last five years to get to the point where I'm able to push it to the back of my mind and just carry on.' The condition is particularly frustrating for Seanie because before she was diagnosed she was a keen sports fan, playing tag rugby and frequently visiting the gym. Maria Granaghan, Seanie's mother said: 'Her friends are all great. They all look out for each other and just get on with being girls and enjoying themselves.' Seanie was diagnosed with FOP in 2008 after she was admitted to hospital following a minor trampoline accident. 'She had fallen on her back and it had caused a sore lump to form,' said Miss Granaghan. 'It was huge, hard red and hot to the touch, so I took her to the hospital to get it checked out.' Unfamiliar with the symptoms, doctors at St Mary's Hospital told her not to worry, and sent her home - but when the lump didn't clear and Seanie began complaining of severe pain, her mother rushed her to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. MRI scans and further testing revealed the diagnosis. 'It was a horrible shock,' said Mrs Granaghan, speaking in 2009. She added that she is always on the lookout when she's out with Seanie, living in fear that a skateboarder or someone on a scooter will crash into her. There is no cure for FOP and only about 600 people in the world have been diagnosed with it. Seanie is forced to rely on over-the-counter pain killers to combat the condition. Like many other girls her age, Seanie is into make up and fashion. She has adopted more sedate pursuits because of her FOP, but used to be a keen sportswoman . Even a simple injection at the dentist is off-limits, so the teenager has to take good care of her teeth. The family is trying to raise £120,000 for the FOP research team, which gets no funding from the government, and her sister Sinead is setting off on a charity trek up Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise cash later this week. Seanie is furious that the battle to cure the condition gets so little support. She said: 'If you get me started on that I will really have a right old rant, especially when I hear about girls getting boob jobs on the NHS or politicians and their spending sprees.' To support her sister's fundraising trek visit her Virgin Money Giving page to donate online. | Seanie Nammock has FOP - an incredibly rare genetic condition .
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By . Larisa Brown . UPDATED: . 09:06 EST, 16 January 2012 . Transvestite: Jamie Love claims he was asked to leave Govan High School because he came in dressed as a girl . A teenage boy claims he was thrown out from a notoriously rough high school after turning up to class dressed as a girl. Jamie Love, 17, arrived at Govan High School wearing tights, mini-shorts, a high-waisted belt, hair extensions and make-up - shortly before he was ordered to leave. Jamie, a dancer, who asked schoolmates to call him Keirny, claims he was speaking to teachers for months about how he felt trapped in a boy’s body. He plucked up the courage to face his classmates as a girl on Monday - despite being taunted by some pupils for his outward feminity. The sixth-former, who is ‘known by everybody in Govan’ and has predominately female friends, was last night described as a very ‘brave’ boy. Jamie said: ‘It took me years to finally open up to someone about my sexuality and now I feel betrayed by the people I trusted. ‘I have always felt different but I have never been able to talk about it. ‘I left the school in tears feeling totally humiliated and embarrassed.’ The schoolboy, who is from Govan, in Glasgow, said he told the school in advance of his plans to attend class as a girl - a claim the school denies. But on the first day he turned up dressed like all of his female friends, he was allegedly told to pack up his things and leave. Jamie - who likes to wear blonde, brown and blue long hair extensions - said the school knew about his need to express himself as a woman. He added: ‘I was very nervous about going to school as a girl but I thought I had the support of the school.’ Yet during the first period at school a teacher came into the class and escorted him to the head teacher’s office. ‘The two deputy heads asked me, "What are you trying to do to this school?" They told me to get my stuff and not come back.’ But the school strenuously denies all claims that Jamie was asked to leave school because of his clothing. Glasgow City Council said Jamie was told to move on because of his lack of commitment to education. While Jamie admits he has behavioural problems and has been disruptive in the past because of his confusion over his sexuality, both he and his mother Alison, 45, insist his cross-dressing was the focus of their discussions with the school. He was in the middle of a hairdressing course in the sixth-form at the school and had hoped to gain enough qualifications for a place at Central College in Glasgow. His mother said: ‘Jamie has done nothing wrong here. He has every right to express himself the way he wants and I will stand by him.’ Make up: Jamie says he has battled with his gender identity for years and the confusion it has caused him led to disruptive behaviour at school . Jamie broke the news to his mother only six weeks ago that he wanted to start dressing as a woman. She said: ‘At first I was horrified and shocked that my only son would want to be a girl but once we had a long talk, I realised that it was something he had to do. He has been bottling it up for years. ‘But I have accepted him for who he is. Why can’t the school?’ His sister Michaela, 19, said: ‘People turn up to school wearing trackies, trainers and polos and they don’t get told to leave.’ Support: Jamie with his mother, Alison, left, and sister, Michaela, right. He broke the news to his mother only six weeks ago that he wanted to start dressing as a woman . As he was: Jamie's school denies that he was asked to leave because of his decision to dress as a girl . A Glasgow City Council spokesman said: ‘Jamie was not expelled and is still on the school roll. 'The suggestion the pupil was told he was not welcome at the school because of his clothing is completely untrue. ‘He did not speak to us about the way he wanted to dress, however, his choice of clothing is not an issue and he was not told it was inappropriate. ‘He was advised on Monday that school was no longer meeting his needs and he should move on, and that staff would continue to support him. ‘However, he appears to want to continue at school. 'It’s therefore important that we put measures in place to accommodate Jamie’s choice of clothing and the school would like to meet him and his mother, along with relevant support agencies, to discuss these and be clear on expectations so he can come back to school in a positive and supportive climate.’ | Govan High School denies the pupil was thrown out because of his decision to dress as a girl . | 1da25caa0ac1b77b405c83cfdf4d2917dc4c910f | [
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(CNN) -- Chinese amateur golfer Guan Tianlang was not even born when Tiger Woods won the Masters for the first time in 1997. Guan will become the youngest player in Masters history when he tees off on Thursday, eclipsing the mark set by Italy's Matteo Manassero in 2010 . And on Monday, the Chinese teenager -- aged 14 years, five months and 14 days -- was given a helping hand by Woods after the 14-time major winner invited Guan to take in the back nine of the fabled Augusta course. Guan qualified for the year's first major by winning November's Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, an event designed specifically to unearth global talent. It was the third time the teenager had played with world No. 1 Woods, with the pair joined on their Monday practice round by big-hitting American Dustin Johnson. "He gives me advice and I will say every time I play with him I feel a lot better and give myself confidence," Guan told the PGA Tour's official website. "I'm not going to push myself too hard. I'm trying to just enjoy my game, play my best and hopefully play a good score." Woods, who goes into this weekend's tournament as favorite to clinch a fifth Masters crown, is pleased his legacy has helped created a new generation of players. Opinion: For Tiger, winning does take care of everything . "It's frightening to think that he was born after I won my first Masters," the 37-year-old said after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational a few weeks ago. "It's exciting that I've inspired kids to play and not just here in the States, but obviously in China and around the world." At the other end of the age scale, Northern Irishman Darren Clarke, aged 44, was hoping to take part in his 12th Masters. But the 2011 British Open champion has been forced to withdraw with the same hamstring injury which kept him out of last week's Valero Texas Open. Clarke was one of Jose Maria Olazabal's vice captains when he led Europe to a stunning Ryder Cup victory against the United States at Medinah in September. Meanwhile Spain's Olazabal, a two-time champion at Augusta, hit a wayward drive during the first day of practice which left a male spectator with blood pouring from his head. Olazabal, the last European to wear the green jacket, immediately apologized and offered the stricken fan a signed glove. Woods back on top of the world . | Chinese amateur Guan Tianlang plays back nine of Augusta with Tiger Woods .
Guan to become the youngest player in Masters history when play begins on Thursday .
2011 British Open champion Darren Clarke forced to withdraw due to a hamstring injury .
Jose Maria Olazabal apologizes to fan after hitting him in the head with a wayward shot . | 37d9487e06f2e5bee425f3481037beda8ccc9266 | [
"(CNN) -- Chinese amateur golfer Guan Tianlang was",
"not even born when Tiger Woods won the Masters",
"for the first time in 1997. Guan will become the",
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"the Chinese teenager -- aged 14 years, five",
"months and 14 days -- was given a helping hand by",
"Woods after the 14-time major winner invited Guan",
"to take in the back nine of the fabled Augusta",
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"unearth global talent. It was the third time the",
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"play a good score.\" Woods, who goes into this",
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"fifth Masters crown, is pleased his legacy has",
"helped created a new generation of players.",
"Opinion: For Tiger, winning does take care of",
"everything . \"It's frightening to think that he",
"was born after I won my first Masters,\" the",
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"during the first day of practice which left a",
"male spectator with blood pouring from his head.",
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"jacket, immediately apologized and offered the",
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(CNN) -- Maybe this iPhone 5 "purple haze" issue isn't such a big deal after all. In the few weeks that the phone has been on the market, a number of users have grumbled about a purplish glow appearing in their photos when the lens is angled toward the sun. Because no detail about Apple is too trivial to go unreported by the tech press, their complaints were magnified throughout the blogosphere. But Consumer Reports said Wednesday that this effect is not unusual. The respected product-review publication tested the iPhone 5 and found that it is "no more prone to purple hazing on photos shot into a bright light source than its predecessor or than several Android phones with fine cameras." The iPhone 5's purple-haze effect was no more pronounced than with the iPhone 4S or two Android-based smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy S III and the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, when tested those under the same conditions, Consumer Reports said. "All camera lenses, even those made for expensive SLRs, can yield lens flare, which is produced by scattered reflections inside the lens from a bright light source," Consumer Reports added. "How much flare appears in an image depends on how you orient the lens." Apple said basically the same thing in a recent post on its website and suggested that iPhone users angle the camera or shield the lens with their hand to keep bright light from shining into photos taken with the phone. "Some expensive advanced cameras, and even many point-and-shoots, have special lens coatings that can limit or eliminate such flare, and possibly associated colored haze. So can attaching a shading hood around the lens's edge," Consumer Reports said. "But smartphones' cameras are designed differently, so it's typically more difficult for manufacturers to minimize flare in them." Perhaps this will put an end to the purple-haze saga, and iPhone 5 users can go back to griping about the new Apple maps. | Consumer Reports says the "purple haze" effect on iPhone 5 photos is not unusual .
Effect was no more pronounced than with iPhone 4S or two Android-based phones, they say .
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"(CNN) -- Maybe this iPhone 5 \"purple haze\" issue",
"isn't such a big deal after all. In the few weeks",
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"appearing in their photos when the lens is angled",
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"product-review publication tested the iPhone 5",
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The mother of Jack Sykes posted this harrowing photo of him in hospital on her Facebook page after he died of injuries caused by a house fire which killed his father, Darren, and brother, Paul . A father ‘murdered’ his two sons by luring them into an attic playroom and setting the house on fire, it was claimed yesterday. Darren Sykes – who also died in the blaze – tricked Jack, 12, and Paul, nine, into believing they could play on a new train set he had bought for them. He started a fire using fuel downstairs, went into the attic room and closed the hatch as the fire began to rip through the building, said his ex-wife. In a traumatic account, 42-year-old Claire Sykes said her children were caught ‘like rats in a trap’ by their cruel father. The elder boy managed to get out of the loft room only to suffer terrible burns below, according to his family. All three were rescued by firemen wearing breathing apparatus after neighbours realised the house was in flames. But the 44-year-old father and his younger son were pronounced dead when they arrived at hospital. Jack clung to life in intensive care for five days with his mother at his bedside. He died on Monday. Yesterday Mrs Sykes spoke of how her ex-husband ‘murdered’ their sons over the bitter family split. She said: ‘He was adamant I wouldn’t get anything following the divorce and this was his way of making sure of that. ‘I want people to know they were murdered by their father. I can just see them running hell for leather up those stairs. They had no chance. 'Darren had been texting them all day about these new trains he had, and they seemed quite excited that he was showing an interest. ‘They must have shot straight into the attic not knowing what he had planned. He has set it up as a playroom for them and as soon as they were in he shut the hatch. Devastated Claire Sykes has posted a series of heartbreaking messages on Facebook, accusing her former partner of murdering their sons and encouraging parents to cherish every moment with their children . The fire, which was started deliberately, killed Mr Sykes (centre) and his nine-year-old son Paul (left). His other son Jack (right) died yesterday after fighting for his life in hospital . ‘They were like rats in a trap and fell for his cold, calculated plan.’ She has also described how she treasures a pair of blankets that belonged to her two boys. She told the Daily Mirror: 'They used to come down in the morning wrapped in them. 'I can't take them off because I can still smell them.' Mrs Sykes described her ex, a carpet estimator, as ‘violent and controlling’. She left the family home in Penistone, South Yorkshire, earlier this year and they later divorced. The father, who had been given just five hours a week of access to his sons, picked the boys up from their grandmother’s house, where they were living, at 6.10pm last Wednesday. Only 20 minutes later his house was on fire, with the ‘terrified’ boys inside. Mrs Sykes, a buildings administrator, said: ‘He’s taken away the only two things I really wanted. It was his final way of taking control and getting his own way. The boys' mother said they both died in her arms and 'their hearts will stay with me forever' She made the comments in a series of heart-rending posts on the 'Pray for Jack' Facebook page . ‘If it hadn’t have been last week, it would have been a birthday or Christmas. He would have got what he wanted in the end.’ Mrs Sykes gave an emotional account of her elder son’s final hours. After suffering 50 per cent burns he battled for life at Manchester Royal Infirmary. She said: ‘I held him in my arms before he died. I told him how much I loved him and he looked at me and then I saw the light go out of his eyes. At least I got to say that to him.’ She described Jack as a ‘talented musician’ and Paul as a ‘cheeky chappy who would help anybody’. Mrs Sykes urged other parents to ‘cherish every moment they have as a family,’ adding: ‘You never know what’s around the corner.’ Police and fire investigators said evidence pointed to the fire being started deliberately and they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the tragedy. An inquest will be held at a later date. | Darren Sykes tricked sons into believing they could play with the new toy .
He started fire using fuel and went into the attic room as flames took hold .
Jack, 12 , and Paul, nine, were 'trapped like rats' in attic, their mother said .
Father, 44, and youngest son died in house fire in Yorkshire last Wednesday .
Older son died in hospital five days later, from injuries sustained in the blaze .
Police have said fire was started deliberately and are not looking for anybody .
Claire Sykes has since taken to Facebook branding ex-husband a 'murderer'
She posted a tragic picture of her son in hospital as he fought for his life .
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(CNN) -- Unseeded Italian Roberta Vinci prolonged the best week of her career to date by dumping No. 7 seed Samantha Stosur out of the Dubai Tennis Championships to take her place in the last four. But her second scalp of the week has set up an uncomfortable semifinal, against best friend Sara Errani, who also happens to be the doubles partner she's claimed three grand slam titles alongside. Having disposed of Angelique Kerber in the third round on Wednesday, Vinci was in solid form again as she took just an hour and 18 minutes to beat her Australian opponent 6-2 6-4. Errani, the No.5 seed Sara, disposed of Russia's Nadia Petrova 6-4 0-6 6-3 to set up a clash that will bring forward mixed emotions for both players. "It will be different mentally because I know her, she's like a sister for me and we play doubles together all the time," Errani told the Tour's official website. "Normally she's with me on my side of the net and not on the other one, so to see her on the other side is tough because one of us will lose. "She's an amazing person outside the court. Outside the court she will always try to help you when she can. She's like a sister to me. We stay together maybe 300 days a year. Of course we have had a lot of good moments together. "I will have to think about it as just another tennis match, and not that it's against her. I just have to go on the court and do my best. The good thing is one of us will be in the finals here." Elsewhere, Agnieszka Radwanska, the No. 3 seed from Poland, was knocked out by Petra Kvitova who grabbed her first win over a top five player since the 2011 season. Czech Kvitova hit 37 winners compared to Radwanska's six and will now face Caroline Wozniacki in the semis. The Dane edged a grueling match with Marion Bartoli, of France, to win 4-6 6-1 6-4. "It was disappointing to lose that first set after I had been up; I'm happy I turned it around," Wozniacki said. "In the third set I was down 2-0 and it could have been 3-0, and all of a sudden it wasn't looking good, but I kept fighting and every game was close, and I'm happy I ended up winning it." At the Open 13 tournament in Marseille, Juan Martin Del Potro, the No. 2 seed from Argentina, moved into the last eight after beating France's Michael Llodra 3-6 7-6 7-5. Del Potro, the 2009 U.S. Open champion will face another home favorite in the next round, Gilles Simon, after he beat Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut 6-3 6-1. Russia's Dmitry Tursunov is also into the last eight after toppling fourth seed Janko Tipsarevic, of the Czech Republic, 7-6 6-2. | Roberta Vinci beats No. 7 seed Samantha Stosur at Dubai Championships .
Unseeded Italian will now play doubles partner and 'sister' Sara Errani .
Petra Kvitova knocks out No. 3 seed Agnieszka Radwanska .
Juan Martin Del Porto into quarterfinals at Open 13 in Marseille . | 8a761d05681ffcc091a8996872b39b4325e898d0 | [
"(CNN) -- Unseeded Italian Roberta Vinci prolonged",
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Anjelica Huston ended her relationship with actor Ryan O'Neal after the actor viciously attacked her at a Hollywood party, the Oscar-winner has claimed in a new memoir. The Addams Family star, 63, and O'Neal, 73, a trained amateur boxer, were together in the 1970s. In her new tell-all Watch Me - the second installment to her 2013 book, A Story Lately Told - Huston writes the Peyton Place star headbutted her during a soiree at a Beverly Hills mansion. 'He turned on me, grabbed me by the hair and hit me in the forehead with the top of his skull,' Huston alleges in the tome, an early copy of which was obtained by The National Enquirer. Scroll down for video . Tempestuous: Anjelica Huston - pictured left in 1971 - claims in her new book that boyfriend Ryan O'Neal - right - assaulted her at a party in Beverly Hills when they were together . Longtime love: Huston claims the attack made her retreat to Jack Nicholson, with whom she shared off-on relationship between 1973 and 1989. The couple are pictured here in 1976 . Explosive: Huston's new memoir, Watch Me, a follow-up to her 2013 tome A Story Lately Told, will be released on November 11 . 'I saw stars and reeled back. Half blind I ran away from him.' Huston said she had been walking back to the dining room of the house after going to the bathroom when she stopped in a hallway so as not to interrupt the performance of a belly dancer. She claimed this agitated O'Neal, who ran outside where the alleged attack occurred. Huston said she then went back to the bathroom to collect herself and was looked after by some security guards. Kevin O'Neal, the actor;s brother, who had witnessed the assault, also comforted her, she says in the book. Eventually Huston agreed to allow O'Neal into the bathroom to talk to her alone, however he allegedly turned on her again. 'Ryan was batting me about the head with an open hand,' the book says, according to The Enquirer. 'Then abruptly he left.' Huston broke up with O'Neal as a result. O'Neal's agent and publicist did not return requests for comment from The MailOnline. The alleged attack saw Huston retreat into the arms of her longtime on-off love, Jack Nicholson. Together again: Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston attend a party together in 1985 . Ryan O'Neal attends the Paper Moon premiere with Tatum O'Neil in 1973 (left) and is pictured this year in Los Angeles (right) Support: Kevin O'Neal (left), brother of Ryan O'Neal, allegedly witnessed the attack on Huston (right) Kindred: Huston said she fell instantly in love with Nicholson, but could not handle his womanizing ways . She had left Nicholson in order to take up with O'Neal. Huston and Nicholson were together, intermittently, between 1973 to 1989. However she reveals in Watch Me that the constant adoration Nicholson received from female fans - and the way he responded to them - became too much for her. When she confronted him about a sexual encounter he had with a former lover, Nicholson shut her down. 'Oh toots, it was just a mercy f---,' Nicholson is said to have responded. Huston also writes of a drug arrest for cocaine possession. The incident occurred at Nicholson's house. Detectives had arrived at the scene to arrest director Roman Polanski, who had been dating a 13-year-old girl. Friends: Controversial director Roman Palanski and Jack Nicholson. Huston writes in her book that Polanski was the reason she was arrested for cocaine possession . The officers began searching Huston. 'They started to go through my handbag, where they found a gram of cocaine,' she wrote. 'Roman and I were bundled into the back of two separate police cars. 'We were under arrest.' After finally ending her relationship with Nicholson, Huston went on to marry sculptor Robert Graham in 1992. The two were together until Graham's death in 2008. They did not have any children. Love: In 1992 Huston married artist Robert Graham, seen together here in 2006. Graham died in 2008 . | Incident occurred at a Beverly Hills house party in the 1970s .
Huston claims O'Neal headbutted and repeatedly slapped her .
Allegations revealed in her new book Watch Me, out November 11 .
Says that she left Nicholson because of his womanizing ways .
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By . Mark Duell . PUBLISHED: . 10:38 EST, 28 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 11:09 EST, 28 October 2012 . A former singer last night claimed she had a relationship with Jimmy Savile that spanned almost two decades - and even secretly aborted his baby. Donna Foot, 50, of Leatherhead, Surrey, said they had a secret fling after the late Top of the Pops presenter flattered her outside BBC studios - but she had no idea that he was a paedophile. The mother of two revealed she felt physically sick to remember how she had almost given birth to Savile’s love child - and was pleased she eventually went through with the abortion. Former couple: Donna Foot (left), 50, of Leatherhead, Surrey, said she had a secret fling for 17 years after the presenter Jimmy Savile (right) flattered her outside BBC studios - but she had no idea that he was a paedophile . She said: ‘I'm absolutely disgusted, as you can imagine. He was a total conman, he conned everyone. Now I'm thinking “you should have picked up on it”. I'm disgusted. I feel betrayed.’ Mrs Foot, who claimed to have had a 17-year relationship with Savile, added that she was ‘so glad’ she didn’t give birth to his child ‘because they would have to be dealing with all his shame now’. She also chillingly claimed Savile that told her that he would never marry or have any sons or daughters because ‘the best thing about other people’s children is that you can give them back’. Mrs Foot told how she had met Savile outside BBC Radio One in the early 1980s, while she was waiting for singer Cliff Richard - only to bump into the famous DJ on his way to work. She had written to Savile as an eight-year-old for his Jim'll Fixit Show and admits she was instantly enamoured upon meeting him while in her early 20s, after noticing him on the way into Radio One. Mrs Foot said: ‘He started saying to me “Blondie, Blondie - give me your hand”. I said that I was waiting to see Cliff Richard and he said “if you are here when I come out, I will get you a poster”. Past times: Mrs Foot in her 20s (left) and a signed calender from Savile is pictured (right), calling her 'DoDo' ‘I was there when he came back and he said "I'm going up to my apartment" and asked me to go. I couldn't believe it was true. We went to the apartment and he wanted to take my number. ‘He was asking about my singing and was . saying he could help me. He was talking about Cilla Black and he said he . was in with Tom Jones. I was on cloud nine. I was star struck.’ 'I'm absolutely disgusted, as you can imagine. He was a total conman, he conned everyone. Now I'm thinking “you should have picked up on it”. I'm disgusted. I feel betrayed' Donna Foot . She claimed Savile said he would take her to ‘sit on the bean bags’ at the Jim'll Fix It studio, and arranged for them to meet again at his flat, before they took a taxi to the BBC. Mrs Foot said that when she visited the studio, Savile would make her give code words to get past security guards and would not want to pose for photographs with her. She claimed he would call her ‘Do-Do’, and signed memorabilia from his radio and TV shows for her but banned her from telling people about their courtship. Mrs Foot said that she now wanted to burn all of her signed items and her only remaining photograph of the pair together which was taken on the day that she first met Savile. Today: Mrs Foot, 50, is a mother-of-two married to her husband Nigel and lives in Leatherhead, Surrey . ‘When I think back he was very flirty with all the girls,’ she said. ‘There wasn't one girl who went past without him getting hold of them or kissing him, and would act like he wanted to go further. ‘He would always kiss my hand and when he got hold of you he would push his groin into you.’ 'He would get me on the bed, he would look me in the eye - eye contact was the first thing - then he would put his hand on my leg and started rubbing me' Donna Foot . She later became intimate with Savile - with their relationship lasting until 1999. Mrs Foot said she had even become pregnant by Savile in 1999 but had aborted the child without telling him. Their relationship ended soon after, she said. Mrs Foot, now married to husband Nigel, said she had been seeing another man alongside Savile at that point but that the baby could only have been his. ’I fell pregnant, and I worked out the dates,’ she said. ‘I was 10 weeks pregnant at that time. I would go to his apartment and there was a wardrobe where he showed me his colourful jackets. ‘I thought it was a wardrobe, but it was really a bed that came down. He would get me on the bed, he would look me in the eye - eye contact was the first thing - then he would put his hand on my leg and started rubbing me.’ She added: ‘The ones I feel sorry for are the children. I could always walk away, I could walk out of his place - but if you are subjected to that as a child there is nothing you can do.’ | Donna Foot, 50, of Leatherhead, Surrey, claims they met outside BBC studio .
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(CNN) -- In kindergarten, Owen Kellogg came home sobbing one day because another boy at school had told him that he had a peanut, and that he was going to force Owen to eat it. Owen, now 7, is allergic to peanuts and tree nuts, said his mother, Haylee Kellogg of Cedar Hills, Utah. In reality, the taunting boy did not have a peanut, but Owen didn't know that -- he just knew that eating a peanut could make him stop breathing. It's hard for parents of food-allergic children to keep them safe at school when there are so many opportunities to eat snacks and meals with unsafe ingredients. For some kids, just touching a certain food or inhaling particles of it could cause a reaction. But on top of the safety question is a social one. A study released last week suggests that almost half of children who have food allergies have been bullied -- sometimes by having food thrown at them. "Clearly, it's an issue for these school-aged children in terms of how they interact with their peers," said Dr. Clifford Bassett, director of Allergy & Asthma Care of New York. "Immediately, when there's a diagnosis of food allergy, there's a little bit of a stigma." The new study furthers the mounting evidence that many kids with food allergies may endure social ostracism while also trying to eat safely. A 2010 study in the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology said that 35% of kids over age 5 with food allergies have endured bullying, teasing or harassment. Parents of children with food allergies reported in the study that these incidents -- both physical and verbal -- happened because of food allergies. Food allergy is a growing problem in young people. As many as 8% of children in the United States have at least one food allergy, according to research data. There is no cure for food allergies. The only way to stop a life-threatening reaction, called anaphylaxis, is an epinephrine auto-injector, which allergists recommend that everyone with severe food allergies should carry. Allergists offer skin or blood tests to see what specific foods may cause reactions, but they cannot know how severe those reactions will be -- some people may have only mild symptoms, while others may stop breathing. How to ensure no schoolchild dies of an allergy attack . Negotiating school safety . Owen's family moved nearly 30 miles from Spanish Fork, Utah, to Lehi, Utah, when Owen was in kindergarten, so that they could live in a school district with some peanut-free accommodations. Peanut products aren't sold at lunch at Owen's school, said Kellogg. When Kellogg learned about the peanut taunting incident, she went to see the school principal. The result was that the other boy, who had also been bullying other kids, was moved to a different classroom. At the bus stop, Kellogg met the woman partly responsible for food allergy awareness at Owen's school: Jessica Norton, whose 11-year-old daughter Grace is allergic to peanuts, soy and various kinds of beans. Grace is the only one of three siblings who has food allergies; so is Owen. When Grace was in first grade, she had to eat her lunch in the principal's office on days that the school served peanut butter, to avoid a reaction from coming into contact with it. This solution was not optimal, in Norton's view. She petitioned the school district to stop serving peanut products, and was successful. Like Owen, Grace also experienced bullying because of her allergy. A boy would often chase Grace around with peanut butter in hand -- once, he touched her face with it, making her break out in hives. She only told her parents a couple of months after it stopped happening. These days, she doesn't get picked on that way, Norton said. "I think she can, kind of, stand up for herself now, and will stand up for herself now," Norton said. Standing up to other adults . Norton was surprised by the negative reactions reflected in the CNN.com reader comments about provisions for allergic kids in schools. In a story about the recent bullying study, user "Brad Heddan" wrote, in response to one reader, "how about you keep your sickly kid home? That is what homeschooling is for. (...) we don't have to accommodate your sick kid." And "lorie" wrote, "Many allergies can be life threatening. It is completely unfair and ridiculous to expect 400 other families to change their eating habits because you can't teach your kid not to touch someone else's food." These sentiments were also seen on the comment board on a 2010 story about food allergy bullying. At that time, Norton chimed in explaining Grace's school's situation and adding, "My only thought is this, teaching children compassion for others is a good thing. And frankly, it seems a lot of adults that have made comments on here could use a little compassion too.' Norton has not felt that level of backlash from her efforts to keep Grace safe in her own community. A few parents have made remarks of the "Why do we have to accommodate your daughter?" variety, but generally everyone has been kind and supportive. "We're talking about life and death here," says Norton. "If it were their child's life, they would do everything they could to make sure their child's life is protected." Making people understand . Communication with teachers, administrators, coaches, and the school nurse is key to ensuring that a food-allergic child does well, in terms of staying safe from allergens and psychologically speaking, Bassett said. It's also important to talk to a child about bullying, which can have serious psychological consequences, such as anxiety, Bassett said. It's harder to get teenagers to not take risks when it comes to avoiding problem foods and always carrying the epinephrine auto-injector, Bassett said. "Unfortunately the adolescent and child psyche is very sensitive to what people think and say and do," he said. Kellogg is proactive about getting Owen's peers to understand his situation. Every school year, on the first day, Kellogg takes a book called "Allie the Allergic Elephant: A Children's Story of Peanut Allergies." The teacher reads this book to the children in the class so that they better understand what it means to have food allergies. She also brings allergy-safe treats to keep in the classroom so that Owen can have them if someone brings in unsafe sweets to celebrate a birthday. He carries an epinephrine auto-injector with him. "School is the scariest thing for me because a lot of people just don't understand how serious it could be," Kellogg said. Norton also has a routine for the beginning of Grace's school year: Talking to the teacher about foods and determining where the epinephrine auto-injector should be kept. The classroom policy is that if kids ate peanuts for lunch, they are supposed to wash their hands. She and her husband John told their son Jack, who is Owen's age, to keep an eye out for Owen when they were attending the same school -- to tell a teacher if he were being teased. Jack and Owen are still friends. "I just didn't want anyone picking on him and if you have friend who will stand up for you, it makes a big difference," Norton said. Food allergy treatment shows promise . A table of their own? When it comes to what the best course of action is in terms of protection from allergens, the plan should be individualized, Bassett said. You want to shield children from harm, but you also want to let kids be kids, he said. The Kelloggs moved to Cedar Hills in May. At Owen's new school, there is a special table where children with common allergies can -- in theory -- sit together for lunch, isolated from kids who bring food that would be unsafe for the allergic group. Owen sat at the table for the first couple of days of school this year, alone. Back that the regular lunch table, Owen takes several precautions. He owns his own lunch box and doesn't put food on the table. He has antibacterial napkins so he can wipe contaminants off the area where he sits. And he knows what peanut butter looks like and smells like, so he can avoid it. However, Kellogg said she believes Owen's school can do more to raise awareness and practice caution regarding food allergies. "I'm going to have to be the Jessica Norton in this school, and go in and make it known that they have to do a little bit more to protect these kids," Kellogg said. When Valentine's Day is dangerous for kids . Does your child have food allergies? What's your strategy for allergy protection at school? | Studies show that many kids with food allergies are bullied .
About 8% of U.S. kids have at least one food allergy .
Talk to your allergist to develop an action plan . | b38989852a484507e86a78b490202081a3d3701b | [
"(CNN) -- In kindergarten, Owen Kellogg came home",
"sobbing one day because another boy at school had",
"told him that he had a peanut, and that he was",
"going to force Owen to eat it. Owen, now 7, is",
"allergic to peanuts and tree nuts, said his",
"mother, Haylee Kellogg of Cedar Hills, Utah. In",
"reality, the taunting boy did not have a peanut,",
"but Owen didn't know that -- he just knew that",
"eating a peanut could make him stop breathing.",
"It's hard for parents of food-allergic children",
"to keep them safe at school when there are so",
"many opportunities to eat snacks and meals with",
"unsafe ingredients. For some kids, just touching",
"a certain food or inhaling particles of it could",
"cause a reaction. But on top of the safety",
"question is a social one. A study released last",
"week suggests that almost half of children who",
"have food allergies have been bullied --",
"sometimes by having food thrown at them.",
"\"Clearly, it's an issue for these school-aged",
"children in terms of how they interact with their",
"peers,\" said Dr. Clifford Bassett, director of",
"Allergy & Asthma Care of New York. \"Immediately,",
"when there's a diagnosis of food allergy, there's",
"a little bit of a stigma.\" The new study furthers",
"the mounting evidence that many kids with food",
"allergies may endure social ostracism while also",
"trying to eat safely. A 2010 study in the journal",
"Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology said that",
"35% of kids over age 5 with food allergies have",
"endured bullying, teasing or harassment. Parents",
"of children with food allergies reported in the",
"study that these incidents -- both physical and",
"verbal -- happened because of food allergies.",
"Food allergy is a growing problem in young",
"people. As many as 8% of children in the United",
"States have at least one food allergy, according",
"to research data. There is no cure for food",
"allergies. The only way to stop a",
"life-threatening reaction, called anaphylaxis, is",
"an epinephrine auto-injector, which allergists",
"recommend that everyone with severe food",
"allergies should carry. Allergists offer skin or",
"blood tests to see what specific foods may cause",
"reactions, but they cannot know how severe those",
"reactions will be -- some people may have only",
"mild symptoms, while others may stop breathing.",
"How to ensure no schoolchild dies of an allergy",
"attack . Negotiating school safety . Owen's",
"family moved nearly 30 miles from Spanish Fork,",
"Utah, to Lehi, Utah, when Owen was in",
"kindergarten, so that they could live in a school",
"district with some peanut-free accommodations.",
"Peanut products aren't sold at lunch at Owen's",
"school, said Kellogg. When Kellogg learned about",
"the peanut taunting incident, she went to see the",
"school principal. The result was that the other",
"boy, who had also been bullying other kids, was",
"moved to a different classroom. At the bus stop,",
"Kellogg met the woman partly responsible for food",
"allergy awareness at Owen's school: Jessica",
"Norton, whose 11-year-old daughter Grace is",
"allergic to peanuts, soy and various kinds of",
"beans. Grace is the only one of three siblings",
"who has food allergies; so is Owen. When Grace",
"was in first grade, she had to eat her lunch in",
"the principal's office on days that the school",
"served peanut butter, to avoid a reaction from",
"coming into contact with it. This solution was",
"not optimal, in Norton's view. She petitioned the",
"school district to stop serving peanut products,",
"and was successful. Like Owen, Grace also",
"experienced bullying because of her allergy. A",
"boy would often chase Grace around with peanut",
"butter in hand -- once, he touched her face with",
"it, making her break out in hives. She only told",
"her parents a couple of months after it stopped",
"happening. These days, she doesn't get picked on",
"that way, Norton said. \"I think she can, kind of,",
"stand up for herself now, and will stand up for",
"herself now,\" Norton said. Standing up to other",
"adults . Norton was surprised by the negative",
"reactions reflected in the CNN.com reader",
"comments about provisions for allergic kids in",
"schools. In a story about the recent bullying",
"study, user \"Brad Heddan\" wrote, in response to",
"one reader, \"how about you keep your sickly kid",
"home? That is what homeschooling is for. (...) we",
"don't have to accommodate your sick kid.\" And",
"\"lorie\" wrote, \"Many allergies can be life",
"threatening. It is completely unfair and",
"ridiculous to expect 400 other families to change",
"their eating habits because you can't teach your",
"kid not to touch someone else's food.\" These",
"sentiments were also seen on the comment board on",
"a 2010 story about food allergy bullying. At that",
"time, Norton chimed in explaining Grace's",
"school's situation and adding, \"My only thought",
"is this, teaching children compassion for others",
"is a good thing. And frankly, it seems a lot of",
"adults that have made comments on here could use",
"a little compassion too.' Norton has not felt",
"that level of backlash from her efforts to keep",
"Grace safe in her own community. A few parents",
"have made remarks of the \"Why do we have to",
"accommodate your daughter?\" variety, but",
"generally everyone has been kind and supportive.",
"\"We're talking about life and death here,\" says",
"Norton. \"If it were their child's life, they",
"would do everything they could to make sure their",
"child's life is protected.\" Making people",
"understand . Communication with teachers,",
"administrators, coaches, and the school nurse is",
"key to ensuring that a food-allergic child does",
"well, in terms of staying safe from allergens and",
"psychologically speaking, Bassett said. It's also",
"important to talk to a child about bullying,",
"which can have serious psychological",
"consequences, such as anxiety, Bassett said. It's",
"harder to get teenagers to not take risks when it",
"comes to avoiding problem foods and always",
"carrying the epinephrine auto-injector, Bassett",
"said. \"Unfortunately the adolescent and child",
"psyche is very sensitive to what people think and",
"say and do,\" he said. Kellogg is proactive about",
"getting Owen's peers to understand his situation.",
"Every school year, on the first day, Kellogg",
"takes a book called \"Allie the Allergic Elephant:",
"A Children's Story of Peanut Allergies.\" The",
"teacher reads this book to the children in the",
"class so that they better understand what it",
"means to have food allergies. She also brings",
"allergy-safe treats to keep in the classroom so",
"that Owen can have them if someone brings in",
"unsafe sweets to celebrate a birthday. He carries",
"an epinephrine auto-injector with him. \"School is",
"the scariest thing for me because a lot of people",
"just don't understand how serious it could be,\"",
"Kellogg said. Norton also has a routine for the",
"beginning of Grace's school year: Talking to the",
"teacher about foods and determining where the",
"epinephrine auto-injector should be kept. The",
"classroom policy is that if kids ate peanuts for",
"lunch, they are supposed to wash their hands. She",
"and her husband John told their son Jack, who is",
"Owen's age, to keep an eye out for Owen when they",
"were attending the same school -- to tell a",
"teacher if he were being teased. Jack and Owen",
"are still friends. \"I just didn't want anyone",
"picking on him and if you have friend who will",
"stand up for you, it makes a big difference,\"",
"Norton said. Food allergy treatment shows promise",
". A table of their own? When it comes to what the",
"best course of action is in terms of protection",
"from allergens, the plan should be",
"individualized, Bassett said. You want to shield",
"children from harm, but you also want to let kids",
"be kids, he said. The Kelloggs moved to Cedar",
"Hills in May. At Owen's new school, there is a",
"special table where children with common",
"allergies can -- in theory -- sit together for",
"lunch, isolated from kids who bring food that",
"would be unsafe for the allergic group. Owen sat",
"at the table for the first couple of days of",
"school this year, alone. Back that the regular",
"lunch table, Owen takes several precautions. He",
"owns his own lunch box and doesn't put food on",
"the table. He has antibacterial napkins so he can",
"wipe contaminants off the area where he sits. And",
"he knows what peanut butter looks like and smells",
"like, so he can avoid it. However, Kellogg said",
"she believes Owen's school can do more to raise",
"awareness and practice caution regarding food",
"allergies. \"I'm going to have to be the Jessica",
"Norton in this school, and go in and make it",
"known that they have to do a little bit more to",
"protect these kids,\" Kellogg said. When",
"Valentine's Day is dangerous for kids . Does your",
"child have food allergies? What's your strategy",
"for allergy protection at school?"
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By . Suzannah Hills . PUBLISHED: . 10:33 EST, 9 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:57 EST, 9 August 2013 . He is one of the most photographed teenagers in the world but it appears it still doesn't take much to impersonate Justin Bieber. With a pair of sunglasses, a hoody, some fake tattoos and a few bodyguards, 16-year-old Jeremy Frost managed to convince die-hard Bieber fans he was the real deal. A hoard of delighted, screaming girls can be seen posing up for pictures and hugging the imposter in a clip uploaded to YouTube which has already been viewed more than 440,000 times. Scroll down to watch video . Lookalike: Jeremy Frost, 16, poses for photographs in Boston with two Justin Bieber fans who are convinced he is the real deal . Imposter: Jeremy Frost, 16, pictured left, decided to attempt the prank after being told he looked like singer Justin Bieber, 19, pictured right . Jeremy, who has been told he resembles the pop singer, decided to pull the prank with the help of his friend and brother, who have their own YouTube channel called Three Amigos Comedy, to see what sort of reaction he received. Hours before the real Justin Bieber, 19, was due to perform in Boston, Jeremy went on a tour of the city complete with fake paparazzi and bodyguards. To make sure he looked the part, he wore Bieber's typical outfit of a baseball cap, white hoody, baggy jeans and lots of bling. Delighted Bieber fans couldn't believe their luck and happily posed for photos, asked him for autographs, hugs and kisses, with no idea they weren't meeting the famous teen. YouTube viewers congratulated Jeremy and his friends on a 'hilarious' video. Prank: Jeremy Frost greets a Justin Bieber fan who believes he is the 19-year-old pop-star . Convincing: Delighted fans asked for Jeremy's autograph and to have their picture taken with him . Criticism: But while many viewers thought the video was funny, some said it was cruel to let fans believe they'd had actually met the star . ILoveSellyG101 wrote: 'This was hilarious! Especially considering he doesn't even look like Justin that much, like if it weren't for the bodyguards and cameras no one probably would've believed him. But it was hilarious'. But some Bieber fans weren't quite so happy. Ellie Belieber wrote: 'Congratulations. you made all those girls believe they saw Justin. OMG. no respect or what?' Others suggested it was easy to tell it wasn't the real Justin Bieber because 'the real justin would just spit on his fans', referring to the stars recent 'pop brat' behaviour. He has been pictured spitting on fans and urinating in a janitor's mop bucket in the kitchen of a New York night club. But Jeremy and his team kept their fake Bieber tour around Boston strictly professional. Now watch the video . | Jeremy Frost posed as Justin Bieber in Boston just a few hours before the singer was due to perform a concert in the city .
To make the prank more believable, he organised a fake entourage of bodyguards and paparazzi .
Delighted die-hard fans believed they'd met the real deal - getting Jeremy to sign autographs and pose for pictures .
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By . James Slack . Stephen Lawrence, 18, was stabbed to death in an unprovoked racist attack as he waited at a bus stop in Eltham, southeast London . Corrupt police will face up to 14 years in jail under new laws introduced in response to the botched Scotland Yard investigation into the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence. Ministers said dishonest officers would be subject to ‘the full force of the criminal law’ under the proposals, which carry the same maximum sentence as burglary or importing Class B drugs. The widely-drawn legislation covers officers who threaten to do something - or not do something - for an ‘improper purpose’. Crucially, it will also apply to police who fail to act because of a friendship or other relationship with a perpetrator – a key allegation in the Lawrence case. A review by Mark Ellison QC, published in March, into the Metropolitan Police’s original Stephen Lawrence murder investigation in 1993 found evidence to suspect one of the officers in the inquiry team, DS John Davidson, acted corruptly. Davidson had a relationship with the gangster father of one of Stephen's killers and deliberately stalled the inquiry, it is alleged. The new offence will also be seen as a further crackdown on police behaviour in the wake of the Plebgate affair, which led to Cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell losing his job after a row with police at the gates of Downing Street in 2012. Police Minister Damian Green said: ‘Where police officers fall short of the high standards we expect of them, it is right that the full force of the criminal law is available to punish and deter acts of corruption by police officers. Neville Lawrence the father of Stephen, outside the Old Bailey, London, after Gary Dobson and David Norris were sentenced for Stephen's murder . Doreen Lawrence, the mother of Stephen, during the ceremony when she took her seat in the House of Lords as Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon . ‘Corrupt . behaviour in the police should be deterred and punished so we can . maintain their standing in the eyes of the public and underline the . important work done by the overwhelming number of officers across the . country.’ Currently, . police can be prosecuted under other laws such as misconduct in public . office, but ministers believe the specific offence of police corruption . will act as an even stronger deterrent. Mark Ellison QC (above) published a review in March into the Metropolitan Police's original Stephen Lawrence murder investigation in 1993 . It . will cover cases in which a police officer acts improperly to obtain an . advantage for themselves or someone else, or to cause detriment to . someone else. Last week, the Mail revealed how a full probe into Davidson will examine claims he had a corrupt relationship with the gangster father of one of Stephen's killers and deliberately stalled the inquiry. In police intelligence reports the former detective sergeant was described as having 'no integrity as a police officer' and being 'open to offers from any source if financially viable'. The Metropolitan Police referred a file on Davidson to the IPCC two months ago after the Ellison report raised questions about his conduct in the days following Stephen's murder. Since the report was published, a series of Daily Mail investigations has exposed a web of suspected corruption in the Scotland Yard inquiries into the stabbing of Stephen and axe killing of private investigator Daniel Morgan in 1987. Scotland Yard chiefs believe it would be 'inappropriate' for the force to head the Davidson corruption probe. Instead, it will be carried out by a team of investigators from the IPCC or detectives from a provincial force, supervised by the watchdog. Barrister Mark Ellison's review of the Lawrence case in March found that Davidson may have acted corruptly. It was claimed he had admitted having a 'corrupt connection' with gangland boss Clifford Norris, the father of David Norris, who was finally convicted of Stephen's murder in 2012 along with Gary Dobson. The 18-year-old aspiring architect was stabbed to death by a racist white gang in April 1993. Not until 2012 were two of his killers convicted, and then only after a long campaign led by this newspaper to bring them to justice. The Daily Mail was in the forefront of the campaign to bring Stephen Lawrence's racist killers to justice . | Punishment would carry same maximum sentence as burglary or importing Class B drugs .
It will also apply to police who fail to act because of a friendship or other relationship with a perpetrator .
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"By . James Slack . Stephen Lawrence, 18, was",
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"as he waited at a bus stop in Eltham, southeast",
"London . Corrupt police will face up to 14 years",
"in jail under new laws introduced in response to",
"the botched Scotland Yard investigation into the",
"racist murder of Stephen Lawrence. Ministers said",
"dishonest officers would be subject to ‘the full",
"force of the criminal law’ under the proposals,",
"which carry the same maximum sentence as burglary",
"or importing Class B drugs. The widely-drawn",
"legislation covers officers who threaten to do",
"something - or not do something - for an",
"‘improper purpose’. Crucially, it will also apply",
"to police who fail to act because of a friendship",
"or other relationship with a perpetrator – a key",
"allegation in the Lawrence case. A review by Mark",
"Ellison QC, published in March, into the",
"Metropolitan Police’s original Stephen Lawrence",
"murder investigation in 1993 found evidence to",
"suspect one of the officers in the inquiry team,",
"DS John Davidson, acted corruptly. Davidson had a",
"relationship with the gangster father of one of",
"Stephen's killers and deliberately stalled the",
"inquiry, it is alleged. The new offence will also",
"be seen as a further crackdown on police",
"behaviour in the wake of the Plebgate affair,",
"which led to Cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell",
"losing his job after a row with police at the",
"gates of Downing Street in 2012. Police Minister",
"Damian Green said: ‘Where police officers fall",
"short of the high standards we expect of them, it",
"is right that the full force of the criminal law",
"is available to punish and deter acts of",
"corruption by police officers. Neville Lawrence",
"the father of Stephen, outside the Old Bailey,",
"London, after Gary Dobson and David Norris were",
"sentenced for Stephen's murder . Doreen Lawrence,",
"the mother of Stephen, during the ceremony when",
"she took her seat in the House of Lords as",
"Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon . ‘Corrupt .",
"behaviour in the police should be deterred and",
"punished so we can . maintain their standing in",
"the eyes of the public and underline the .",
"important work done by the overwhelming number of",
"officers across the . country.’ Currently, .",
"police can be prosecuted under other laws such as",
"misconduct in public . office, but ministers",
"believe the specific offence of police corruption",
". will act as an even stronger deterrent. Mark",
"Ellison QC (above) published a review in March",
"into the Metropolitan Police's original Stephen",
"Lawrence murder investigation in 1993 . It . will",
"cover cases in which a police officer acts",
"improperly to obtain an . advantage for",
"themselves or someone else, or to cause detriment",
"to . someone else. Last week, the Mail revealed",
"how a full probe into Davidson will examine",
"claims he had a corrupt relationship with the",
"gangster father of one of Stephen's killers and",
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Five Taliban militants were killed in a US drone strike on a hideout in northwestern Pakistan today as the military response to this week's school massacre continues to intensify. In a separate operation, officials say Pakistani security forces also killed seven 'terrorists' on the outskirts of Peshawar - where the atrocity unfolded on Tuesday morning. Since the appalling attack - in which 148 people, mostly children, were murdered - Pakistani air strikes and ground operations have killed around 200 militants in the northwest tribal region near the Afghan border. WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT . Scroll down for video . Retribution: Pakistani military forces have intensified their efforts against the Taliban following Tuesday's slaughter in which 148 people were murdered . The US drone strike took place in the town of Datta Khel in North Waziristan, where Pakistani troops have been carrying out a major operation against local and foreign militants since June. Security officials say the men killed in the drone strike fought under local Pakistani Taliban warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur. It is unclear whether the drone strike hit militants directly involved in the slaughter at Peshawar as US officials rarely if ever comment on the covert drone program. The weapon has eliminated several top militants - but has also resulted in civilian casualties, making it extremely unpopular among Pakistanis. Military response: A Pakistani police officer stands next to an ambulance carrying bodies of Taliban militants killed by security forces in an operation on the outskirts of Peshawar today . Fallen colleague: Pakistani police carry the casket of another officer killed a separate gunfight in Peshawar today in which two militants also died . Bloody battle: Since Tuesday's appalling attack Pakistani security forces have killed 200 Taliban militants . The bodies of five Taliban fighters killed in Peshawar today were pictured piled into the back of an ambulance van - their lifeless feet smeared with blood. In another incident in Peshawar two militants were killed in a gunfight with police - and a security official and a police officer were also died in the shootout. Police officers were seen carrying their fallen colleague in a casket above their heads before standing to attention to pay their respects. Retribution: The violence at a school (pictured) in Pakistan's northwest earlier this week stunned the country and brought cries for retribution . Yesterday morning, troops killed 18 more militants during a 'cordon and search operation' in Khyber, the military said . Pakistan has described the bloody rampage in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday as its own 'mini 9/11', saying it was a game changer in its fight against terror. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif relinquished the six-year ban on the death penalty in terror-related cases two days after the school attack - with two convicted terrorists the first to be hanged yesterday. Today Human Rights groups condemned the decision - labelling it as 'a craven politicized reaction to the Peshawar killings'. The Human Rights Watch added: 'Pakistan’s government has chosen to indulge in vengeful blood-lust instead of finding and prosecuting those responsible for the horrific Peshawar attack.' A Pakistani army soldier stands guard outside the Army Public School in Peshawar. Pakistani forces have intensified their offensive against Islamist militants . Demanding justice: Supporters of the Pakistan People's Party take to the streets in protest after the horrific Taliban attack earlier this week . Yesterday photos were released showing the bodied of 18 militants covered by sheets - killed by Pakistan's security forces in the country's northwest tribal region of Khyber. Khyber Agency is one of two main areas in the where the military has been trying to root out militants in recent months. It borders Peshawar, where the school massacre happened, and militants have traditionally attacked the city before fleeing into the tribal region where police can't chase them. The other area being targeted by anti-terror forces is North Waziristan - where today's US drone killed five militants. In a direct video message Khalifa Omar Mansoor said: 'If our women and children died as martyrs your children will not escape' In response to the Prime Minister's hardline approach Taliban commander Khalifa Omar Mansoor has warned the Army: 'If our women and children died as martyrs your children will not escape.' In a direct video message, the mass murderer nicknamed 'slim' and described as 'the most hated – and dangerous' man in Pakistan, said: 'I want to tell the Pakistan government, and the directors, teachers and students of the army's affiliated institutions, that you are the ones strengthening this un-Islamic democratic system. 'It is these institutions that graduate future generals, brigadiers and majors, who then kill Taliban and innocent tribal people.' Evil: Taliban fighters who allegedly stormed an army-run school in Peshawar pose for a picture before carrying out the atrocity . | Bloody corpses of five Taliban fighters pictured heaped in back of vehicle .
US drone said to have killed five more militants in nearby North Waziristan .
And two others were shot dead in gunfight with Pakistani police today .
Around 200 militants have been killed since Tuesday's school massacre . | 39c0f326e2505a4e715a958fc9c2690c4d4b8d52 | [
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(LonelyPlanet.com) -- With more than 2,000 islands, ranging from tiny atolls to the veritable continent that is Crete, maritime Greece is unmatched for sheer variety. Beaches, history, walking, cycling, water sports, festivals, food ecology: chances are if you want it, they've got it. Here are just a few of the incomparable offerings Greece's islands hold. Lonely Planet: Europe's six surprise islands . Best for beaches: Crete, Lipsi, Kefallonia, Skiathos, Mykonos . Almost every Greek isle has great beaches, but few come with a Venetian castle, like laid-back Frangokastello Beach in southern Crete. For lapping turquoise waters, try Platys Gialos and Kambos on quiet Lipsi, and the stunning cove at Myrtos Beach in Kefallonia. To see and be seen, bowl up to one of Skiathos' 65 beaches, join the mainstream masses at 1200m-long Koukounaries Beach or bronze up on nudist-friendly Banana and Little Banana Beach, popular with the gay and lesbian set. Even more full-on are the legendary Paradise and Super Paradise beaches on decadent Mykonos. Best for history: Rhodes, Delos, Corfu, Patmos . Gape at Rhodes' magnificent, walled old town, where the Knights of St John ruled from 1309-1523, and explore their quarter before visiting the 14th-century Palace of the Grand Masters. Tiny Delos, near Mykonos, was once dedicated to Apollo; see ruins of shrines to the gods and explore mosaic-rich ancient dwellings. Kick back in Corfu's old town, with its Venetian, French and British architecture. On ethereal Patmos, visit the Monastery of St John the Theologian, and see the grotto where the saint wrote the Book of Revelations. Best for walking: Crete, Naxos, Alonnisos, Skopelos . The varied terrain on Greece's biggest island, Crete, ranges from gentle plateaus dotted with windmills to canyons and mountains. Hiking the Samaria Gorge, Europe's longest at 16km, brings you through the homeland of Crete's famed wild goat, the kri kri. The Zakros-Kato Zakros (a former Minoan palace site) amble in eastern Crete is more relaxed. Cool relief awaits on the forested 'river walk' at southern Plakias (inquire at the excellent Youth Hostel Plakias). The Greek Mountaineering Club of Hania informs about trekking opportunities and conditions, while Hania'sAlpine Travel organizes walking and trekking tours. Fertile Naxos boasts numerous walks along the old paths connecting the villages of the central plain; these traverse ancient temples, Hellenistic towers and Byzantine churches. For guided walks contact Flisvos Sport Club. The Sporadic isles of Alonnisos and Skopelos, full of forests, orchards and wildflowers, offer more excellent walks; contact the Alonnisos Walking Club and Skopelos Walks. Lonely Planet: The Mediterranean without the crowds . Best for cycling: Evia, Kos, Thasos . The meandering country roads of Evia make for blissfully stress-free cycling. Another favorite is well-equipped Kos, bursting with bike-rental places. Excellent forested trails (and a popular international race) bring mountain biking aficionados to Thasos. Best for diving and snorkelling: Karpathos, Milos, Paros, Kastellorizo . For organized dives in sea caves full of colorful aquatic life, check out Karpathos Diving School on Karpathos. Milos has phenomenal diving; Diving Center Milos brings you face-to-face with deep-sea fish, dolphins and even monk seals. Snorkeling is also great here, and on Paros and remote Kastellorizo. Lonely Planet: What's the world's sexiest accent? Best for responsible travel: Zakynthos, Chios, Crete . Volunteer to protect endangered wildlife like sea turtles on Zakynthos with the Earth, Sea & Sky Center and Sea Turtle Protection Society. Get your hands dirty while tending endemic mastic trees, and explore Chios' other eco-tourism opportunities with Masticulture in Mesta. Finally, enjoy guilt-free eating and sleeping in Crete's secluded mountains at Milia Traditional Settlement, powered by solar energy and living off its organic farm and good vibrations. Best for food and drink: Lesvos, Samos, Corfu, Folegandros, Crete . Lesvos is renowned for its olive oil and its ouzos (it produces some 70 percent of all Greek ouzos). The national aperitif is served with mixed mezedhes (appetizers) at traditional ouzeries (ouzo restaurants), which blend the island's old Turkish influences with Greek seafood specialties. Lesvos produces fine wine, as does Samos, famed for its sweet muscat dessert wine. Like other Ionian islands, Corfu was never Ottomanised, and its cuisine remains Italian-flavored. Folegandros' Cycladic specialties include matsata (pasta with rabbit/chicken in red sauce), astakomakaronada (lobster with spaghetti) and liokafto (sun-dried fish). Crete is famous for its olive oil and specialties like dakos (rusks topped with tomato, olive oil and cheese) and myzithra (sweet cheese, used in kalitsounia pastries). Horta (wild greens) provide seasoning for fish or roast lamb. © 2011 Lonely Planet. All rights reserved. | Greece's islands offer beaches, history, walking, cycling, water sports and festivals .
Crete, Lipsi, Kefallonia, Skiathos and Mykonos have the best beaches .
Dive and snorkel off the coasts of Karpathos, Milos, Paros and Kastellorizo . | 458885dcffa29d8304a6a66ec7621b110016b027 | [
"(LonelyPlanet.com) -- With more than 2,000",
"islands, ranging from tiny atolls to the",
"veritable continent that is Crete, maritime",
"Greece is unmatched for sheer variety. Beaches,",
"history, walking, cycling, water sports,",
"festivals, food ecology: chances are if you want",
"it, they've got it. Here are just a few of the",
"incomparable offerings Greece's islands hold.",
"Lonely Planet: Europe's six surprise islands .",
"Best for beaches: Crete, Lipsi, Kefallonia,",
"Skiathos, Mykonos . Almost every Greek isle has",
"great beaches, but few come with a Venetian",
"castle, like laid-back Frangokastello Beach in",
"southern Crete. For lapping turquoise waters, try",
"Platys Gialos and Kambos on quiet Lipsi, and the",
"stunning cove at Myrtos Beach in Kefallonia. To",
"see and be seen, bowl up to one of Skiathos' 65",
"beaches, join the mainstream masses at 1200m-long",
"Koukounaries Beach or bronze up on",
"nudist-friendly Banana and Little Banana Beach,",
"popular with the gay and lesbian set. Even more",
"full-on are the legendary Paradise and Super",
"Paradise beaches on decadent Mykonos. Best for",
"history: Rhodes, Delos, Corfu, Patmos . Gape at",
"Rhodes' magnificent, walled old town, where the",
"Knights of St John ruled from 1309-1523, and",
"explore their quarter before visiting the",
"14th-century Palace of the Grand Masters. Tiny",
"Delos, near Mykonos, was once dedicated to",
"Apollo; see ruins of shrines to the gods and",
"explore mosaic-rich ancient dwellings. Kick back",
"in Corfu's old town, with its Venetian, French",
"and British architecture. On ethereal Patmos,",
"visit the Monastery of St John the Theologian,",
"and see the grotto where the saint wrote the Book",
"of Revelations. Best for walking: Crete, Naxos,",
"Alonnisos, Skopelos . The varied terrain on",
"Greece's biggest island, Crete, ranges from",
"gentle plateaus dotted with windmills to canyons",
"and mountains. Hiking the Samaria Gorge, Europe's",
"longest at 16km, brings you through the homeland",
"of Crete's famed wild goat, the kri kri. The",
"Zakros-Kato Zakros (a former Minoan palace site)",
"amble in eastern Crete is more relaxed. Cool",
"relief awaits on the forested 'river walk' at",
"southern Plakias (inquire at the excellent Youth",
"Hostel Plakias). The Greek Mountaineering Club of",
"Hania informs about trekking opportunities and",
"conditions, while Hania'sAlpine Travel organizes",
"walking and trekking tours. Fertile Naxos boasts",
"numerous walks along the old paths connecting the",
"villages of the central plain; these traverse",
"ancient temples, Hellenistic towers and Byzantine",
"churches. For guided walks contact Flisvos Sport",
"Club. The Sporadic isles of Alonnisos and",
"Skopelos, full of forests, orchards and",
"wildflowers, offer more excellent walks; contact",
"the Alonnisos Walking Club and Skopelos Walks.",
"Lonely Planet: The Mediterranean without the",
"crowds . Best for cycling: Evia, Kos, Thasos .",
"The meandering country roads of Evia make for",
"blissfully stress-free cycling. Another favorite",
"is well-equipped Kos, bursting with bike-rental",
"places. Excellent forested trails (and a popular",
"international race) bring mountain biking",
"aficionados to Thasos. Best for diving and",
"snorkelling: Karpathos, Milos, Paros,",
"Kastellorizo . For organized dives in sea caves",
"full of colorful aquatic life, check out",
"Karpathos Diving School on Karpathos. Milos has",
"phenomenal diving; Diving Center Milos brings you",
"face-to-face with deep-sea fish, dolphins and",
"even monk seals. Snorkeling is also great here,",
"and on Paros and remote Kastellorizo. Lonely",
"Planet: What's the world's sexiest accent? Best",
"for responsible travel: Zakynthos, Chios, Crete .",
"Volunteer to protect endangered wildlife like sea",
"turtles on Zakynthos with the Earth, Sea & Sky",
"Center and Sea Turtle Protection Society. Get",
"your hands dirty while tending endemic mastic",
"trees, and explore Chios' other eco-tourism",
"opportunities with Masticulture in Mesta.",
"Finally, enjoy guilt-free eating and sleeping in",
"Crete's secluded mountains at Milia Traditional",
"Settlement, powered by solar energy and living",
"off its organic farm and good vibrations. Best",
"for food and drink: Lesvos, Samos, Corfu,",
"Folegandros, Crete . Lesvos is renowned for its",
"olive oil and its ouzos (it produces some 70",
"percent of all Greek ouzos). The national",
"aperitif is served with mixed mezedhes",
"(appetizers) at traditional ouzeries (ouzo",
"restaurants), which blend the island's old",
"Turkish influences with Greek seafood",
"specialties. Lesvos produces fine wine, as does",
"Samos, famed for its sweet muscat dessert wine.",
"Like other Ionian islands, Corfu was never",
"Ottomanised, and its cuisine remains",
"Italian-flavored. Folegandros' Cycladic",
"specialties include matsata (pasta with",
"rabbit/chicken in red sauce), astakomakaronada",
"(lobster with spaghetti) and liokafto (sun-dried",
"fish). Crete is famous for its olive oil and",
"specialties like dakos (rusks topped with tomato,",
"olive oil and cheese) and myzithra (sweet cheese,",
"used in kalitsounia pastries). Horta (wild",
"greens) provide seasoning for fish or roast lamb.",
"© 2011 Lonely Planet. All rights reserved."
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By . Emma Innes . A British inventor hopes to revolutionise the health industry after producing 3D printed prosthetic limbs. The NHS currently has to pay around £70,000 for a prosthetic hand, but robotics expert Joel Gibbard, 23, has come up with an alternative which could cost just £600. The engineering graduate has created The Dextrus hand, a fully-working prototype built with a 3D printer. Joel Gibbard has invented a fully functional 3D printed prosthetic hand which could be sold for as little as £600 - currently a prosthetic hand costs tens of thousands of pounds . Dextrus works like a human hand, using electric motors instead of muscles and steel cables instead of tendons. The 3D printed plastic parts work like bones and a rubber coating acts as the skin. The hand, which is made from the same material as Lego, can be used without a custom fitting. It can articulate each finger individually enabling it to hold objects of different sizes and shapes. It takes about eight hours to print one off. The Dextrus hand works like a human hand, using electric motors instead of muscles and steel cables instead of tendons . Mr Gibbard, from Bristol, said: ‘The motivation for this was seeing really advanced prosthetics. ‘They’re very expensive so I thought I would create one using my robotics experience and a 3D printer. ‘I want to make it in a way that is cost effective but still profitable. At the moment they would sell for around £1,000 but the idea is to get this down to £600. ‘Money is not my goal with this, I want to make it more accessible for amputees.’ The hand, which is made from the same material as Lego, can be used without a custom fitting and it can articulate each finger individually enabling it to hold objects of different sizes and shapes . It takes about eight hours to print one of the hands. The device is pictured in front of a 3D printer . The hand doesn’t have sensors but detects the amount of resistance on each of the fingers, enabling it to hold an egg without crushing it. Mr Gibbard says it has a ‘firm grip, but not as strong as a human hand’. The hand can crush a paper cup, but not a metal can. Mr Gibbard hopes the hand will be particularly beneficial for children as they are currently often unable to have an expensive prosthetic as they grow out of them every couple of years meaning it is not cost effective. This device is sufficiently cheap that it might allow children to have a new hand every time they grow out of their old one. The scientist graduated with a first class degree in robotics from Plymouth University in 2011. Mr Gibbard said: 'The motivation for this was seeing really advanced prosthetics. They're very expensive so I thought I would create one using my robotics experience and a 3D printer' He then spent two years honing his engineering skills working with National Instruments as an Applications Engineer. But he gave up the job to focus on his robotics hand, moving back in with his parents and ploughing his savings into the ambitious project. Mr Gibbard has got to this stage in just five months and has now raised £39,000 through crowd funding so he can take the invention to the next stage, testing its robustness while working on the electronics and robotics. It is hoped the ‘The Open Hand Project’ will be completed by the end of 2014. The hand doesn't have sensors but detects the amount of resistance on each of the fingers, enabling it to hold an egg without crushing it. Image shows the 3D printer Mr Gibbard used to make the hand . And despite all his hard work, Joel is giving away all of his secrets by making the whole project ‘open source’. This means there are no patents and everything is published online so anyone has the right to use his coding to create and sell prosthetic hands themselves. He said: ‘My passion is robotics and this is a positive outlet. I find it frustrating seeing new technology which is too expensive or not in the public domain. Mr Gibbard has got to this stage in just five months and has now raised £39,000 through crowd funding so he can take the invention to the next stage - testing its robustness while working on the electronics and robotics . ‘I’m giving away the code for this so anyone can use this to build hands and even make money off it themselves. ‘I am not a businessman, I am an inventor and I hope it will be something the NHS might implement themselves. ‘I hope to finish the development in one year and have it on sale in 15 months.’ | Joel Gibbard has made a fully-working prototype of The Dextrus hand .
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The 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 is not yet available to the public, and already the car is having some possibly major problems. While testing out the convertible model of the car in Jackson, Michigan on a rainy day, the car spun out on the highway and hit another car, crashing into a nearby wire fence that slashed through the car. This is the second accident for a 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, with the coupe version crashing while undergoing a high-speed test on Germany’s grueling Nürburgring. Crash: A 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 convertible was in a car crash (above) on a highway in Jackson, Michigan . Not looking good: The car spun out and hit another car, then going into a nearby wire fence . Nice model: This is the second crash one of the Corvettes (above, new) has suffered, with the coupe crashing in Germany during a speed test . An eyewitness told Corvette Blogger, 'The vette spun out and took another vehicle with it through a cable wire median, shredding the vehicle to the point where the cable almost came through the drivers seat, and ... ended up facing backwards on the opposite side of the barrier that it originally spun out from.' Luckily neither of the drivers were injured in the crash. This all happens as the car is set to go in to production in order to be available to buy in early 2015. Sliced: The wire fence tore throw almost the entire car . Still moving forward: The cars are expected to go on sale in early 2015, and will be priced starting at $54,000 . On the Chevrolet site, the new car is described as, 'the closest link yet between Corvettes built for racing and the road.' Vehicle pricing starts at $54,000. | A 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 convertible was in a car crash in Jackson, Michigan, spinning out and hitting another car during rainy weather .
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What to do for a family holiday when the children have grown too old for Center Parcs? One option is to graduate to Denmark, where the countryside is beautiful - and there are plenty of bicycles to go around. A pedal-powered trip along the ‘Danish Riviera’ - those miles of unspoilt coastline that stretch along the north of Zealand island - is Center Parcs with knobs on. Pedal power: The cycle paths of the Danish Riviera are a fine destination for a family summer holiday . Or, perhaps, being Danish, that should be ‘with knøbs on’. Maybe it is because so many parts of Britain have become wretchedly overpopulated, but it comes as a delightful shock to be in a country where there seem to be so few people. We could cycle for 30 minutes down coastal tracks and forest trails, and not meet a soul. One morning, the only person we see is a man from the local council on a motor-mower, as he prettifies our route. And what a pretty route it is. The upper Zealand coast - from Helsingør in the east (where Kronborg Castle was immortalised by Shakespeare as the home of Hamlet) to the fishing town of Hundested in the west - is utterly gorgeous. Fresh air and wide horizons: The Danish Riviera specialises in quiet beaches and Scandinavian charm . Our family itinerary is a perfect arrangement of self-led routes, tailor-made to be the right length for all ages and abilities - stuffed with sights and food-stop opportunities. Very quickly, we are able to confirm the observation in that waspishly accurate book, A Xenophobe’s Guide To The Danes, that cycling to Denmark is what skiing is to Norwegians and driving is to Germans. Not to ride a bicycle is a sign of eccentricity. During our week, we spend two nights in each of three different seaside hotels, cycling a total of about 150 miles - with all luggage transportation taken care of. Our first stop, after an efficient train journey from Copenhagen airport, is the family-run Hotel Villa Brinkly, overlooking the Oresund - the strip of sea which separates Denmark from Sweden, and is just two miles ‘wide’ at its narrowest. After breakfast, we have a get-to-know-you session with our rental bikes. These come fitted with a handy handlebar map-rest, spanners and puncture-repair kit (only required once). Let's do lunch: The Gordon family halted in Hornbaek for - surprisingly inexpensive - fish and chips . We pedal a few miles down the coast to visit a museum detailing the life of the author Karen Blixen, whose colonial memoir Out Of Africa was turned into a film starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. Our second day entails a delightful inland route through woods to the magnificent royal palace of Frederiksborg (‘the Danish Versailles’). After this meandering 26-mile effort, we take the train back to base (the tickets cost 72 krone (£7) each, plus £1.20 per bike) - and set off west the next morning to take in the fishing village of Hornbæk, and miles of empty white-sand beaches. I don’t know why anyone would want to persuade us that this is the ‘Danish St Tropez’ - because nothing could be further removed from that now oligarch-infested French Riviera resort. Apart from the beaches, our route takes us past several freshwater lakes, in which we swim with few other souls in sight. The cliché about Scandinavia is that it is ‘very expensive’. This is not exactly true. Fish and chips at Hornbæk harbour’s Fiskehuset costs a mere £6.40. A palace to be proud of: Frederiksborg has been described - not without reason - as the 'Danish Versailles' Picnics are another treat. A splendid deli called Røgeri in the village of Tikøb even sells guilt-inducing pork scratchings. This leads us to ponder that unsolved conundrum - if the home of Danish bacon has more pigs than people, where on earth are they all? We do not see a single one. We do, however, come across a beautiful Cistercian monastery in Esrum - a religious relic, consecrated in 1151, with a kitchen herb garden. One member of staff is dressed in medieval costume. This sight is capped 15 minutes later when we stop to see if the church in the village of Esbønderup is open. It is. Inside, a young bearded man is sitting at a piano, playing Bach’s Prelude And Fugue from memory. It is hard to sum up the wonder of the region - but a morning visit to the cliff-top home of the Arctic explorer Knud Rasmussen rather encapsulates our trip. This thatched house is now a museum with heart-stirring views out to sea. Like many small places, it only accepts cash or Danish credit cards. Short of krone for the (£5) entrance fee, we cannot go in. 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By . Meghan Keneally . PUBLISHED: . 19:03 EST, 18 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:35 EST, 19 September 2013 . Syrian President Bashar al Assad has maintained that he is defending his people from outside terrorist groups, saying that the country's war is one that is helping his people on the whole. The doctor-turned-dictator was asked to compare his role in ordering the government forces to attack the rebels is similar to that of a surgeon getting rid of destructive portions of a sick person's body. 'Doctors take the right decisions to protect the life of the patient because you can't say they don't do harm physically,' he said during an interview with Fox News, making a reference to the Hippocratic oath that all doctors. Indignant: Syrian President Bashar al Assad used his latest televised interview to say that there is still no evidence that his soldiers used chemical weapons . 'The same for a politician: a doctor deals with one patient and the politicians deal with the public. 'The question is whether your decision should help the lives of the Syrians or not. Nobody likes the violence... but what do you do when the terrorists attack your government?' During a televised interview with Fox . News that aired Wednesday night, the Syrian President rejected the . findings of the United Nations report that declared that an attack . involving sarin gas did occur in the country on August 21. First due no harm: Assad was asked about the Hippocratic Oath he was forced to take as a doctor, and if that applied to him as a politician . He did not deny that the attack occurred- saying that 'it's despicable, it's a crime'- but he did clearly try to distance his forces from any culpability. 'Sarin gas is called the kitchen gas you know why? because you can make it anywhere,' he said. Assad said that the evidence cited in the United Nations report was not all of the proof and did not prove that the weapons were used by his armed forces. 'They have the samples and they're supposed to be objective... the information is different than evidence,' he said of the UN report. 'No one has verified the credibility of the video and the pictures. the only verified things are the samples from victims. 'You cannot build a report on videos, its not verified. You have a lot of forgery on the internet,' he said making a clear reference to the videos of dying victims that the CIA made publicly available first to Senators and Congressmen but then also to the American public when President Obama was building his case for a retaliatory missile attack. The interview marks the second that the Syrian President has approved with Western journalists since the August 21 chemical weapons attack outside of Damascus. The first was with Charlie Rose for . CBS and the interview that aired today on Fox News was arranged through . former Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich. During . the interview with Rose, Assad did not say whether his government was . in control of chemical weapons and during the Fox interview he said that . they clearly do since they have agreed to the international proposal to . turn over their stockpile. Sit down: Assad was interviewed by former Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich (left) and Fox News reporter Greg Palkot (next to Kucinich) inside the Presidential palace in Damascus . 'It's not a secret anymore,' Assad said. 'We never said no, we never said yes but we always say it is a classified issue.' During the hour-long interview, Assad maintained that he did not necessarily agree with the number of fatalities that have occurred since the onslaught of the civil war in Syria two years ago- nor did he even agree that it should be categorized as a civil war. He said that the large number of missing individuals makes it impossible for there to be a firm number of more than 100,000 people killed in the country- which has been widely accepted by Western governments as well as the United Nations. ‘We have tens of thousands of Syrians who have died... mainly because of terrorists and bombs,’ he said. 'We have thousands of missing people, we don't know if they're dead or not dead....This is a human tragedy its not about numbers. 'I cannot minimize it (the death toll) because in every house you have pain today, in every house your have sadness.' Under attack: Assad maintained that the government was continually being attacked by outside terrorist groups who are masquerading as internal opposition forces . Assad continually asserted that the rebels and opposition forces originate from outside of Syria, claiming that his country embraces opposition and allows them to exist since they have ‘grassroots’ in the homeland. The people fighting Syrian government forces now, Assad said, are funded and come from other countries and the large majority of them- 80 to 90 per cent- have ties to al Qaeda. ‘What we have is not civil war what we have is war but it’s a new kind of war,’ he said. 'We are defending our country. if you do not defend, this number will be many fold,' he said of the disputed death count.' Assad said that in spite of the months of heated rhetoric and outright threats from the United States, he does not see America as opposition- even though he previously said that the country should 'expect everything' if President Obama did order a missile strike against Syria. 'We never looked at the United States as (an) enemy,' Assad said in Tuesday's interview. 'First of all the United States because they're the greatest country in the world, that's self evident... we want to have good relations of course.' He went on to say that once an international agreement is settled regarding the collection and destruction of the Syrian nuclear weapons, he will make sure that it will be put into effect. 'We want to fully cooperate with this agreement, not partially,' Assad said. Horror: The Obama administration has released a series of videos (pictured)of the victims from the August 21 attack, but in today's interview Assad said there is no way to know the video is not a fake . Attacks: The chemical gas attacks occurred on August 21 in the rebel strongholds near Demascus and was thought to have left more than 1,000 dead . There is a tentatively-scheduled . presidential election in Syria in the spring of next year, and while he . 'won' his last election with 97.6 per cent of the vote in 2007, he said . that the people should feel fully entitled to nominate a different . candidate if they do not like his leadership. In spite of the ongoing war, he maintains that his rule is still a good one for his people. 'I . would say I am the hope of the Syrians... Other states- they are much . farther from democracy than the Syrian state,' Assad said. The hour-long . Fox interview took place on Tuesday inside the presidential palace in . Damascus but aired on Wednesday evening in the United States. The interview was taped by a Syrian news crew but Clemente was in the control room at the time and it was aired in full on Fox. 'On Saturday, Sept. 7, ... Dennis Kucinich advised me that he believed he could secure an interview with … Assad, whom he had met on previous occasions,' Fox executive vice president of news Michael Clemente said in a statement to Politico. 'At the time, it appeared that an American military attack on Syria was imminent, and I decided that Kucinich should pursue the interview, on condition that Fox News journalists would also be included.' Mr Kucinich has worked for Fox as a contributor since January, but during the interview he was accompanied by the network's Middle East correspondent Greg Palkot. | Syrian President admitted that 'it's not a secret' that they have chemical weapons but said that they will agree to hand them over to be destroyed .
Still denies that the August 21 sarin gas attack stemmed from his troops .
Said that his government must fight back against the 'terrorists' who he believes have come into Syria from other countries and al Qaeda .
Called America the 'greatest country in the world' but also said he has never spoken with President Obama . | 883b41d4fc7eced68ddde78fe776b463344fa7e5 | [
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More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's today, with another person developing the disease every 68 seconds. By 2050, the number of people living with Alzheimer's disease is expected to triple. As if those numbers weren't staggering enough, consider this: Alzheimer's disease is the only cause of death among the top 10 (it's currently ranked No. 6) in the United States that can't be prevented, cured or slowed down. Ask any expert, and he or she will tell you that early diagnosis is key to helping patients live better day to day, so even though the disease is still progressing, the symptoms are less harsh. "Our hope is that if we could identify patients who are developing the disease early, it would give us a much better opportunity to intervene with treatments, and it's much more likely for those treatments to be effective," says Dr. Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. But while early diagnosis leads to early intervention, some news out of the 2013 Alzheimer's Association International Conference is troubling: An expert panel found 16 online tests for Alzheimer's disease scored poorly on scales of overall scientific validity, reliability and ethical factors. "Self-diagnosis behavior ... is increasingly popular online, and freely accessible quizzes that call themselves 'tests' for Alzheimer's are available on the Internet," says Julie Robillard, who presented the data this week in Boston. "However, little is known about the scientific validity and reliability of these offerings and ethics-related factors, including research and commercial conflict of interest, confidentiality and consent." "Frankly," Robillard adds, "what we found online was distressing and potentially harmful." Robillard and her colleagues at the University of British Columbia found that unique monthly visitors for the parent sites hosting the online tests reached as high as 8.8 million. At the same conference, another study concluded that the misdiagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in Medicare patients who actually have vascular dementia or Parkinson's disease leads to substantial excess costs of care. The study, conducted by Analysis Group, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Co., found the costs of erroneous care to be in excess of $14,000 a year per patient . The silver lining: Those excess costs decline and eventually dissipate following a correct diagnosis. "Recent developments in technology have greatly improved our ability to properly diagnose patients with cognitive impairment," said Analysis Group's Noam Kirson. "Our results suggest that there are economic benefits to properly diagnosing -- as early as possible -- the cause of the cognitive impairment." If you suspect a family member or friend is developing Alzheimer's, take a look at these 10 warning signs of Alzheimer's Disease, put together by the Alzheimer's Association: . 1.Memory changes that disrupt daily life . 2.Challenges in planning or solving problems . 3.Difficulty completing familiar tasks at home, at work, or at leisure . 4.Confusion with time or place . 5.Trouble understanding visual images and spatial relationships . 6.New problems with words in speaking or writing . 7.Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps . 8.Decreased or poor judgment . 9.Withdrawal from work or social activities . 10.Changes in mood and personality . Rather than diagnose Alzheimer's disease at home, head to your doctor's office. You can also find more information at www.alz.org, or by calling the Alzheimer's Association's 24-hour hotline at (800) 272-3900. The importance of early detection and early intervention can't be stressed strongly enough. It could mean added years of lucidity and life for you or someone you love. The first chapter in fighting Alzheimer's . | Early diagnosis is key for helping Alzheimer's patients, experts say .
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David James continues to impress for new side Kerala Blasters as he kept a fourth consecutive clean sheet in a 1-0 win at Delhi Dynamos on Sunday. The former England keeper was in inspired form as the visitors moved up to third in the Indian Super League, after Penn Orji's goal was enough to see off a Delhi side containing Juventus legend Alessandro Del Piero. James humbly acknowledged praise aimed towards him in the post-match press conference, while insisting it is the collective team effort which is the recipe for their current success. David James is all smiles as Kerala Blasters beat Delhi Dynamos 1-0 on Sunday night . Alessandro Del Piero looks on after a good chance to score goes begging for the Juventus legend . He told ISL.com: 'We all are playing unbelievingly well. Today, we made many clearances and tackles and that's what we need to do. 'If every individual in the team has the desire of not conceding, then, that desire translates to the entire team as a unit to not concede.' The 44-year-old also heaped praise on the Delhi supporters, hailing them as the 'best around'. James celebrates with team-mate Gurwinder Singh after the win moved that up to third in the table . Penn Orji celebrates scoring the decisive goal to seal a win for Kerala against Delhi . He added: 'We have the best fans in the country. The noise in Kochi for the three matches has been nearly deafening. 'At the end of the game we go over to them and thank them for coming, regardless of a win, loss or draw. 'We look forward to the next match in Kochi among the 50,000 fans. I recommend you bring some earplugs for the game.' | Kerala Blasters beat Delhi Dynamos 1-0 on Sunday night .
Former England keeper David James impressed again as he kept a fourth consecutive clean sheet for Delhi .
James hails Delhi fans as the 'best in the country' after the game .
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PUBLISHED 12 October 2012 . A dog died after being stabbed 23 times in a frenzied attack by another dog owner. Mother of three Daisy Jenkins cradled her dying American Bulldog Tyson following the daylight attack. Her dog had got in a fight with another dog in a walkway near her Hampstead home in north London. WARNING: Graphic images . Attack: Mother of three Daisy Jenkins cradled her dying American Bulldog following the vicious daylight attack . The owner of the other dog left the scene and returned with two 10-inch knives before stabbing the bulldog. One of the blows was so forceful that the knife bent in half in what one witness described as a ‘blood bath’. Today, he said he knifed the dog because he was only trying to stop it killing his own terrier Monty. 'The dog’s a lunatic.I’d just stepped out my house and the dog went for him. It wasn’t on a lead. It locked its jaw on to Monty’s head. He’s only little and he’s a donut around other dogs. 'It was like a lion on top of a gazelle. I was screaming for help and the owner was nowhere to be seen. Dying: The owner of the other dog left the scene and returned with two 10-inch knives before stabbing Tyson . 'When she did finally turn up five minutes later all she did was stroke her dog. I was kicking and punching it but it wouldn’t budge so I went into the kitchen and got three knives. 'I’m not proud of what I’ve done but what was I supposed to do, stand there and let it kill my dog?' He said the bulldog tried to attack his dog three months earlier. 'I literally had to pick Monty up and throw him over the fence because this dog was going to go for him. He’s attacked loads of dogs on this estate and he’s even gone for a kid outside the Budgens up the road. 'I’m just glad it happened to me because it was only a matter of time before it killed a kid.' Eleven-year-old Monty, who he has had since he was a puppy, suffered bite marks to his head, . face, ear and chin and now flinches when anyone tried to touch him. 'He’s going to be alright but it has . affected him. I’m on anti depressants because I can’t stop thinking . about it. I can’t sleep. It’s been an absolute nightmare,' he said. The waterways worker, of north London, was arrested over the incident and held in a police . cell for 22 hours but has since been released without charge. Pet: Tyson was an American bulldog like this one pictured. A 41-year-old . man was since been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage . He could be charged with criminal damage but is not expecting any further action to be taken against him. 'The police have actually been very . sympathetic to me. It’s not nice to say but people are happy now the . dog’s gone. It caused so much trouble round here,' he said. Miss Jenkins, 41, who has since set up . a shrine to her dog at the spot where he died, had begged passers-by to . help her as Tyson died on the Aspern estate near Hampstead. Witness . Allison Havey said: 'It was a bloodbath. She was covered in blood and . she was just saying: ‘Please help. Help me make my dog live.’ It was . very sad indeed.' A vet was called to try to save Tyson, but the 42kg bulldog died on the footpath. Miss Jenkins said of the attack: 'We . were just clinging together right up against the fence and trying to . keep away from the knives. 'I could feel bleeding but I just held him tightly. I thought if I pretended to be dead he would leave us alone. 'I just kept saying to Tyson ‘hang on, please hang on, pull through’. She was unavailable for further comment today. Neighbour Kim McFarland, 54, claimed Miss Jenkins let to dog run around the estate. She said: 'Daisy always used to let the dog off the lead and it would run round the estate. 'It used to go for other dogs. It never had a muzzle on. 'One . neighbour only just managed to get her dog inside once before he went . for it. Even when she closed the door it kept charging at it.' Weapon: One of the blows was so forceful the knife bent in half in what one witness described as a 'blood bath' The . grandmother-of-10, who has lived on the estate for 22 years, said the . man, was acting in self defence and was . ‘devastated’ about what had happened. She . said: 'He’s a dog lover himself and he’s not the kind of person to go . around doing things like that. He was just trying to save his dog who is . a lot smaller and older. 'Daisy had let Tyson off his lead and . he ran into the woods and got hold of this other dog by the throat. I . don’t even think she was there at the time to stop him. 'The . other dog owner tried to punch Tyson to get him off but he’s a big dog. He went inside to get something and the next thing I heard was a dog’s . been stabbed and it’s dead. 'He literally couldn’t get Tyson off his . dog. What was he supposed to do, wait until it killed his dog? It would . have been the same circumstances - a dog would still be dead.' | Daisy Jenkins' dog had got into a fight with another dog near her home .
The owner of the other dog returned with two 10-inch knives before stabbing the bulldog .
One of the blows was so forceful that the knife bent in half in what one witness described as a 'blood bath'
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By . Deni Kirkova for MailOnline . With handsome good looks and stellar performance on the pitch Aaron Ramsey is hotly tipped to be the next David Beckham. The Welshman famously scored the winning goal in extra time of the 2014 FA Cup final and has since signed a contract with Elite models. Now the Arsenal midfielder, 23, stars in Urban Active - Men's Health's brand new biannual supplement dedicated to fashion and sport - revealing his diet secrets and what he really thinks about modelling. Scroll down for video . Handsome footballer Aaron Ramsey is hotly tipped to be the next David Beckham . Giving an insight into his daily diet, he said: 'Breakfast is muesli, a couple of eggs, green tea and a banana; lunch is fish with a big plate of vegetables and maybe a bit of rice. 'I stay away from desserts but every now . and then I have a sticky toffee pudding or a cup of tea with some . biscuits… I say "some", more like half a packet. I try not to keep any . in the house.' After a game, he swears by protein shakes and cherry supplements - 'they help you recover that extra one or two per cent,' he said. Fashion is something the photogenic Ramsey is increasingly concerned about, having been signed to the special bookings' board of London's Elite model agency. 'There's been some banter about it from the lads. But I really enjoyed the Urban Active shoot,' he said of his recent turn in front of the camera. Aaron also plays for the Wales national football team, and married childhood sweetheart Colleen this summer . He even got an edgy new haircut for the shoot, as previously reported by MailOnline. 'I like it, but it takes me too long to do in the morning,' he said of the style. His preference for High Street brands such as Reiss reflects his humble upbringing, but he has more extravagant tastes in watches - wearing an Audemars Piguet. And, like many men, he loves expensive cars. 'They're my guilty pleasure. I drive a Mercedes SLS, which is fun. One of the nicest cars I've seen is the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta. I'd like to give that a go,' he admitted. Full interview appears in the October issue of Men’s Health, on sale Friday 5 September. Also available as a digital edition . The worlds of football and fashion are taking notice of Aaron, and now Urban Active shines a spotlight on him . | Footballer has recently signed modelling contract .
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By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 04:34 EST, 20 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 05:25 EST, 20 November 2012 . Arrested in court: Lisa Biron (pictured) abducted a teenage girl to Canada and forced her to have sex on camera while on bail for child pornography charges . A female lawyer for an anti-gay Christian group abducted a teenage girl and forced her to have sex on camera while on bail for child pornography charges, it is alleged. Lisa Biron, 43, was arrested by FBI agents in a Manchester courtroom while awaiting a hearing on district-level charges of possessing pornographic material on her computer. A few hours later, she was taken into a court in Concord, New Hampshire, accused of taking the teenage girl to Canada, making her engage in sexual activity and convincing her to let it be filmed. Biron, who is associated with the anti-gay group Alliance Defending Freedom, was initially arrested after a man walked into the Manchester Police Department claiming he had seen pornography on her computer. After a search of her computer, police found five videos and two pictures of a teenage girl on her computer. Biron was released on bail on seven charges of possessing child pornography earlier this month. After her arrest by the FBI, she allegedly told agents they would find a loaded pistol under her mattress. They didn't find a weapon, but they did discover 200 rounds of ammunition in her Manchester home. At the hearing on federal-level charges, the prosecutor also alleged that: . Charged: Biron was arrested by FBI agents at a Manchester court (above) while awaiting a hearing on district-level charges of possessing pornographic material on her computer . Biron's lawyer, Jim Moir, asked the judge to consider his clients lack of criminal history and that she had attended all of her court appearances, according to the Concord Monitor. But Judge Landya McCafferty remanded her in custody after saying she was 'not at all comfortable' that she would comply with any new bail conditions. She is due to stand trial in January on the federal charges of transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, possession of child pornography and five counts of sexual exploitation of children. She faces up to life in prison if convicted. Biron, who was briefly associated with the Donais Law Offices in Manchester before her arrest, has been suspended indefinitely. On Biron's Facebook page, she lists the Bible as her favorite book. | Lisa Biron took teenager across border while on bail for child porn charges .
She was arrested in court by the FBI as she awaited district-level hearing .
Initially held after police allegedly found porn material on her computer .
She is associated with the anti-gay group Alliance Defending Freedom .
Two witnesses have testified to seeing Biron with ecstasy, marijuana and cocaine.
Biron sent a text to the man who turned her into the police warning him to watch his back 'for ever'.
Other youngsters have been subjected to Biron’s sexual activity and drug use . | 7af00fcc5b7db4a0ba7877688401240fd576d2e6 | [
"By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 04:34 EST,",
"20 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 05:25 EST, 20",
"November 2012 . Arrested in court: Lisa Biron",
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"her computer, police found five videos and two",
"pictures of a teenage girl on her computer. Biron",
"was released on bail on seven charges of",
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"After her arrest by the FBI, she allegedly told",
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"discover 200 rounds of ammunition in her",
"Manchester home. At the hearing on federal-level",
"charges, the prosecutor also alleged that: .",
"Charged: Biron was arrested by FBI agents at a",
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"attended all of her court appearances, according",
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(Mental Floss) -- Dozens of companies use acronyms or initials in their names, but how well do you know what the abbreviated letters mean? Let's take a look at the etymologies behind a few abbreviated company names. 1. CVS . Sorry, drugstore fans, there aren't three fat cat pharmacists with these initials running around out there. When the pharmacy chain was founded in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1963, it was known as "Consumer Value Stores." Over time the name became abbreviated to simply CVS. 2. K-Mart . Longtime five-and-dime mogul Sebastian S. Kresge opened his first larger store in Garden City, Michigan, in 1962. The store was named K-Mart after him. (Kresge had earned the right to have a store named for him; he opened up his new venture at the tender age of 94.) 3. IKEA . The Swedish furniture giant and noted charity takes its name from founder Ingvar Kamprad's initials conjoined with a the first initial of the farm where Kamprad grew up, Elmtaryd, and the parish he calls home, Agunnaryd. 4. DHL . In the late 1960s, Larry Hillblom was a broke student at the University of California, Berkeley's law school, so to pick up a bit of extra cash, he would make courier runs from San Francisco. After he finished law school, he decided the courier business was the real racket for him, so he recruited his pals Adrian Dalsey and Robert Lynn to help him with the runs. Although they started out making their delivery trips in a single Plymouth Duster, the company quickly took off, and they named it after their respective last initials. Mental Floss: Mojave Desert's airplane graveyard . 5. AT&T . No surprises here. The telecom giant sprang to life in 1885 as American Telephone and Telegraph, although it's now legally known as just AT&T. 6. JBL . The speaker company is named after its founder, James Bullough Lansing. But if Lansing had kept his original name, the company might have been called Martini Speakers. Lansing was born James Martini in 1902, but when he was 25, he changed his name to James Lansing at the suggestion of the woman who would become his wife. (The martini was already a popular cocktail at the time, and several of Lansing's brothers had also changed their name by shortening it to Martin.) 7. 3M . The conglomerate behind Post-It Notes gets its name from its roots as a company that mined stone to make grinding wheels. Since it was located in Two Harbors, Minnesota, the company was known as Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, which was later shortened to 3M. 8. BVD . The stalwart men's underwear maker was originally founded by a group of New Yorkers named Bradley, Voorhees, and Day to make women's bustles. Eventually the trio branched out into knitted union suits for men, and their wares became so popular that "BVDs" has become a generic term for any underwear. 9. H&M . The beloved clothing store began in Sweden in 1947. Founder Erling Persson was only selling women's duds, so he called the store Hennes -- Swedish for "hers." Twenty-one years later, he bought up a hunting supplier called Mauritz Widforss. After the acquisition, Persson branched out into men's clothing and began calling the store Hennes and Mauritz, which eventually became shortened to H&M. 10. A&W Root Beer . Roy Allen opened his first root beer stand in Lodi, California, in the summer of 1919, and quickly began expanding to the surrounding areas. Within a year he had partnered with Frank Wright, and the pair christened their flagship product "A&W Root Beer." 11. GEICO . The adorable gecko's employer is more formally known as the Government Employees Insurance Company. Although GEICO has always been a private, standalone company, its name reflects its original purpose: Leo Goodwin founded the company in 1936 to sell insurance directly to employees of the federal government. Mental Floss: 15 companies that originally sold something else . 12. YKK . The initials you see on darn near every zipper you own stand for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha, which translates into "Yoshida Manufacturing Corporation." The company is named after Tadao Yoshida, who started the zipper concern in Tokyo in 1934. 13. P.F. Chang's . If you go looking for Mr. P.F. Chang, you'll be in for a long search. The Asian dining chain's name is actually a composite of the founding restaurateur Paul Fleming's initials and a simplification of founding chef Philip Chiang's last name. 14. BJ's Wholesale Club . The bulk retailer is named after Beverly Jean Weich, whose father, Mervyn, helped found the chain as a spinoff from discount retailer Zayre in 1983. Mental Floss: 10 snack foods originally sold as medicines . 15. ING Group . The banking giant's name is an abbreviation of Internationale Nederlanden Groep, or "International Netherlands Group," a nod to the company's dutch origins and headquarters. The company's heavy use of the color orange in its buildings and promotion is also a shoutout to the Netherlands; orange is the color of the Dutch royal family dating all the way back to William of Orange. 16. H&R Block . Brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founding the tax preparation firm in Kansas City in 1955. Their only problem was their last name. The brothers worried that people would mispronounce their surname as "blotch," hardly a term you want associated with your tax return. They decided to sidestep this problem by spelling the company's name "Block" instead, so that nobody would miss the solid hard "k" sound. | Ever wonder about the stories behind names like CVS or H&M or IKEA?
Pharmacy chain CVS started out as "Consumer Value Stores"
IKEA takes first 2 letters from founder's name, second 2 letters from locations .
H&M comes from first letters of women's store and hunting supplier . | 20e8d74a86b70b818c1e752a94b3168d78ee8f41 | [
"(Mental Floss) -- Dozens of companies use acronyms",
"or initials in their names, but how well do you",
"know what the abbreviated letters mean? Let's",
"take a look at the etymologies behind a few",
"abbreviated company names. 1. CVS . Sorry,",
"drugstore fans, there aren't three fat cat",
"pharmacists with these initials running around",
"out there. When the pharmacy chain was founded in",
"Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1963, it was known as",
"\"Consumer Value Stores.\" Over time the name",
"became abbreviated to simply CVS. 2. K-Mart .",
"Longtime five-and-dime mogul Sebastian S. Kresge",
"opened his first larger store in Garden City,",
"Michigan, in 1962. The store was named K-Mart",
"after him. (Kresge had earned the right to have a",
"store named for him; he opened up his new venture",
"at the tender age of 94.) 3. IKEA . The Swedish",
"furniture giant and noted charity takes its name",
"from founder Ingvar Kamprad's initials conjoined",
"with a the first initial of the farm where",
"Kamprad grew up, Elmtaryd, and the parish he",
"calls home, Agunnaryd. 4. DHL . In the late",
"1960s, Larry Hillblom was a broke student at the",
"University of California, Berkeley's law school,",
"so to pick up a bit of extra cash, he would make",
"courier runs from San Francisco. After he",
"finished law school, he decided the courier",
"business was the real racket for him, so he",
"recruited his pals Adrian Dalsey and Robert Lynn",
"to help him with the runs. Although they started",
"out making their delivery trips in a single",
"Plymouth Duster, the company quickly took off,",
"and they named it after their respective last",
"initials. Mental Floss: Mojave Desert's airplane",
"graveyard . 5. AT&T . No surprises here. The",
"telecom giant sprang to life in 1885 as American",
"Telephone and Telegraph, although it's now",
"legally known as just AT&T. 6. JBL . The speaker",
"company is named after its founder, James",
"Bullough Lansing. But if Lansing had kept his",
"original name, the company might have been called",
"Martini Speakers. Lansing was born James Martini",
"in 1902, but when he was 25, he changed his name",
"to James Lansing at the suggestion of the woman",
"who would become his wife. (The martini was",
"already a popular cocktail at the time, and",
"several of Lansing's brothers had also changed",
"their name by shortening it to Martin.) 7. 3M .",
"The conglomerate behind Post-It Notes gets its",
"name from its roots as a company that mined stone",
"to make grinding wheels. Since it was located in",
"Two Harbors, Minnesota, the company was known as",
"Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, which was",
"later shortened to 3M. 8. BVD . The stalwart",
"men's underwear maker was originally founded by a",
"group of New Yorkers named Bradley, Voorhees, and",
"Day to make women's bustles. Eventually the trio",
"branched out into knitted union suits for men,",
"and their wares became so popular that \"BVDs\" has",
"become a generic term for any underwear. 9. H&M .",
"The beloved clothing store began in Sweden in",
"1947. Founder Erling Persson was only selling",
"women's duds, so he called the store Hennes --",
"Swedish for \"hers.\" Twenty-one years later, he",
"bought up a hunting supplier called Mauritz",
"Widforss. After the acquisition, Persson branched",
"out into men's clothing and began calling the",
"store Hennes and Mauritz, which eventually became",
"shortened to H&M. 10. A&W Root Beer . Roy Allen",
"opened his first root beer stand in Lodi,",
"California, in the summer of 1919, and quickly",
"began expanding to the surrounding areas. Within",
"a year he had partnered with Frank Wright, and",
"the pair christened their flagship product \"A&W",
"Root Beer.\" 11. GEICO . The adorable gecko's",
"employer is more formally known as the Government",
"Employees Insurance Company. Although GEICO has",
"always been a private, standalone company, its",
"name reflects its original purpose: Leo Goodwin",
"founded the company in 1936 to sell insurance",
"directly to employees of the federal government.",
"Mental Floss: 15 companies that originally sold",
"something else . 12. YKK . The initials you see",
"on darn near every zipper you own stand for",
"Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha, which translates",
"into \"Yoshida Manufacturing Corporation.\" The",
"company is named after Tadao Yoshida, who started",
"the zipper concern in Tokyo in 1934. 13. P.F.",
"Chang's . If you go looking for Mr. P.F. Chang,",
"you'll be in for a long search. The Asian dining",
"chain's name is actually a composite of the",
"founding restaurateur Paul Fleming's initials and",
"a simplification of founding chef Philip Chiang's",
"last name. 14. BJ's Wholesale Club . The bulk",
"retailer is named after Beverly Jean Weich, whose",
"father, Mervyn, helped found the chain as a",
"spinoff from discount retailer Zayre in 1983.",
"Mental Floss: 10 snack foods originally sold as",
"medicines . 15. ING Group . The banking giant's",
"name is an abbreviation of Internationale",
"Nederlanden Groep, or \"International Netherlands",
"Group,\" a nod to the company's dutch origins and",
"headquarters. The company's heavy use of the",
"color orange in its buildings and promotion is",
"also a shoutout to the Netherlands; orange is the",
"color of the Dutch royal family dating all the",
"way back to William of Orange. 16. H&R Block .",
"Brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founding the tax",
"preparation firm in Kansas City in 1955. Their",
"only problem was their last name. The brothers",
"worried that people would mispronounce their",
"surname as \"blotch,\" hardly a term you want",
"associated with your tax return. They decided to",
"sidestep this problem by spelling the company's",
"name \"Block\" instead, so that nobody would miss",
"the solid hard \"k\" sound."
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By . Leon Watson . PUBLISHED: . 02:31 EST, 23 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:15 EST, 23 April 2013 . Historic county names that date back nearly 1,000 years will be brought back to life as part of an effort to champion the 'local history that makes us who we are'. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has pledged to formally recognise 'abolished' county names such as Cumberland, Huntingdonshire and Westmorland. The names disappeared during Edward Heath's government in 1972, but could be seen across the country again if councils erect signs bearing their names. Communities Minister Eric Pickles has pledged to bring back historic county names that date back nearly 1,000 years . The move is being seen as a symbolic gesture to celebrate St George’s Day. Mr Pickles wants residents and local authorities to start using the historic names as much as possible to remind ourselves of the 'tapestry' of England. As part of the initiative, the Government has now set up an online map to allow people to see the layout of the historic counties. Mr Pickles said: 'No Westminster officials or European bureaucrats can remove people’s loyalty to the country they were born in. 'From Cumberland to Huntingdonshire . or Middlesex to Westmorland, our local history makes us who we are and . do what we do. It’s all part of being English. The tapestry of England’s counties binds our nation together.' Lost over time: A map of the historic counties of England which shows where the abolished ones of Cumberland, Westmorland, Huntingdonshire and Middlesex used to be located . How they are now: This image shows the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties map which came into existence after the reforms under the Local Government Act 1972 . He said the current government has . 'binned the arbitrary Government Office Euro-Regions' and was instead . 'championing England’s traditional local identities which continue to . run deep'. He added: 'Administrative restructuring by previous governments has sought to suppress and undermine such local identities. 'Today, . on St George's Day, we commemorate our patron saint and formally . acknowledge the continuing role of our traditional counties in England’s . public and cultural life.' Rupert Barnes, the vice-chairman of the Association of British Counties, welcomed the move, saying: 'The counties are the basic tapestry on which countless generations have made their lives. The move is being seen as a symbolic gesture to celebrate St George¿s Day . 'They have shaped our identities and our view of ourselves and have remained a constant throughout centuries of change to become a vital part of British culture, geography and heritage. 'The counties predate any transient lines drawn for convenience or administration and predate the kingdom itself, rooted in history and cultural identity, so that the ancient counties are of the people not of the state. 'Statutes on administration have respectfully left the ancient counties alone. 'This pattern of the counties brought down to us through the centuries then is the pattern around which the nation has grown and grown great, and worthy of celebration.' WESTMORLAND . The Normans conquered this county in 1092 and created the baronies of Kendal and Westmorland, which were then formed into the single county of Westmorland in 1226. It formed an administrative county in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888 until 1974, after which it became part of the county of Cumbria. But there is still the Westmorland Gazette or the Westmorland Shopping Centre in Kendal.MIDDLESEX . The county ceased as an administrative council in 1965. The former area now corresponds too much of Greater London and parts of Berkshire, Hertfordshire and Surrey. Middlesex is still used in the names of organisations based in the area, such as Middlesex County Cricket Club and Middlesex University.CUMBERLAND . This is an historic county of North West England that had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974. The first record of 'Cumberland' was in 945. In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the council was abolished and combined with parts of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire to form part of the new county of Cumbria. But the name continues today most famously as in Cumberland sausage, the HMS Cumberland, nicknamed 'the fighting sausage', the Cumberland County Cricket Club, and as the local newspaper The Cumberland News.HUNTINGDONSHIRE . This former area covers Huntingdon, St Ives, Godmanchester, St Neots, and Ramsey and formed an administrative county between 1889 and 1965. Under the Local Government Act 1972, Huntingdon and Peterborough merged to form the new non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire. Huntingdonshire still has its own cricket board. | Eric Pickles pledges to formally recognise 'abolished' county names .
Names disappeared during Edward Heath's government in 1972 .
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"cultural life.' Rupert Barnes, the vice-chairman",
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"1972, the council was abolished and combined with",
"parts of Lancashire and the West Riding of",
"Yorkshire to form part of the new county of",
"Cumbria. But the name continues today most",
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"newspaper The Cumberland News.HUNTINGDONSHIRE .",
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The grand jury that is considering whether to charge the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown has been accused of misconduct, after a Tweet showing an apparent leak among the panel surfaced online. The Twitter message - which was posted Wednesday morning but quickly deleted - suggested one member of the jury had been discussing the case with a friend. The Tweet suggested that the jury had not seen enough evidence in the case to charge the officer at its center, Darren Wilson. The trail started on August 20, just days after the shooting of 18-year-old Brown, who was unarmed - and is confidential. Scroll down for video . Under investigation for miconducty: This Tweet, posted Wednesday by Susan M Nichols but quickly deleted, suggests that a member of the grand jury investigating the shooting of Michael Brown has been discussing the case, which could force the trial to start again . Shooter: The trial started just days after the August 9 shooting of Michael Brown by St. Louis officer Darren Wilson (pictured) and will decide whether Wilson is to face any charges over the incident . The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office has since confirmed it is 'looking into' the alleged breach, according to The Washington Post. A leak could force the trial to restart. A restart would require a full new jury panel. The possible leak was made public by Shaun King, who has been a vocal activist in the Brown case, according to Mashable. King noticed that a woman, Susan M. Nichols, had posted information about the trial on her Twitter handle @thesusannichols. The handle has now been deleted, but King made a screenshot. Nichols has also been vocal about the case and her support for Darren Wilson. She allegedly Tweeted: 'I know someone sitting on the grand jury of this case There isn't enough at this point to warrant an arrest. #Ferguson.' Scene: Michael Brown, 18, was shot dead in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, on August 9. He was not armed at the time . A grand jury reviewing evidence in the case of Michael Brown (pictured), including testimony direct from officer Darren Wilson, has yet to decide whether to charge him with a crime. The deadline on the case in January 7 . The grand jury has until January to reach a decision. However The Post reported that the FBI and county police's investigations into the shooting are 'pretty much done'. Protests have continued in Ferguson, however on a more peaceful scale, as people wait to hear whether Wilson will face charges. | Woman, Susan M Nichols, said on Twitter Wednesday that there wasn't enough evidence to charge police officer Darren Wilson .
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By . Becky Evans . A firearms collector has been accused of making 'gun porn' after posting almost daily photographs of his 115 weapons online. Almost 40,000 people follow the Instagram account of Chris, known as @Gun_Collector. Followers are encouraged to share pictures of their own weapons and can win gun-related prizes for the best entries. One picture on his page shows a handgun in a bowl of Fruit Loops for the theme of 'Guns in the kitchen'. A firearms collector has been accused of making 'gun porn' after posting almost daily photographs of his 115 weapons online . One picture on his page shows a handgun in a bowl of Fruit Loops for the theme of 'Guns in the kitchen' Almost 40,000 people follow the Instagram account of Chris, known as @Gun_Collector . Followers are encouraged to share pictures of their own weapons and can win gun-related prizes for the best entries . In another, a gun lies on a fan of $20 bills for the theme 'Guns in Black & White'. In another dramatic photograph, a semi-automatic heavy machine gun and belt feed rests on a Polish flag and camouflage material. Other images show weapons next to household items such as toasters, dishwashers and on Poker tables. Followers can win prizes from gun shops, which are keen to share in the web page's popularity. Chris's follower numbers increased dramatically from 8,500 after the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre prompted a fierce debate about gun laws. Chris, 42, from Florida, who has not revealed his surname for fear of reprisals from anti-gun activists, has collected weapons legally for the past 20 years. He bought the first weapon at a gun show in Virginia and said he is fascinated by the history of his collection. Chris, 42, from Florida, who has not revealed his surname for fear of reprisals from anti-gun activists, has collected weapons legally for the past 20 years . The soft focus collection of images have been labeled 'pretty run-of-the-mill gun porn' The collector now has a celebritylike following of nearly 40,000 fans who subscribe to portraits he posts of his arsenal of semi-automatic handguns and rifles . Chris's follower numbers increased dramatically from 8,500 after the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre prompted a fierce debate about gun laws . @Gun_Collector had 8,500 followers on the photo-sharing site Instagram before the December mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary bolstered calls for tougher firearms laws . He says his Instagram page, launched last summer, encourages people not to fear guns but critics say it glorifies weapons. Chris told Yahoo News: 'It is an inanimate . object. It’s people behind the guns that have ill intentions that are . what you need to watch out for.' He denied being a 'gun nut' and said he enjoys sharing is passion with people. Ladd Everitt, spokesman for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, said the collection of images were 'pretty run-of-the-mill gun porn.' Debates on whether to tighten gun laws in the U.S. have polarised the country. Chris said he bought the first weapon at a gun show in Virginia and said he is fascinated by the history of his collection . About 70,000 people attended the National Rifle Association's annual convention last week after Senate failed to pass a bipartisan gun control bill. However, recent polls have shown that the majority of Americans are in favour of both background checks and a national gun owner data base. Chris's collection includes automatic weapons similar to those used in the Sandy Hook massacre. He has 15 AK-47s and Eastern Bloc snip rifles . Chris, who stores his collection of weapons in four safes at his home, said he feels strongly about the Second Amendment and wants to education people on guns. He told Yahoo News: 'I do feel strongly about the Second Amendment and what it means for the country. I try to educate people about what is right and what is wrong.' | Chris, known as @Gun_Collector, holds competitions for his followers .
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By . Harriet Arkell . and Ted Thornhill . PUBLISHED: . 08:15 EST, 10 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 09:34 EST, 10 January 2014 . Residents of a town in western Mexico set fire to at least three trailer trucks on Thursday to protest the arrival of 600 vigilantes to their community. The burning trucks blocked roads leading into Paracuaro in Michoacan state before federal police and soldiers removed them. The ‘self-defense’ group arrived Saturday in pickup trucks and SUVs and set up a checkpoint at the entrance to Paracuaro, a town of artisans and lime farmers. Scroll down for video . Torched: A vehicle burns at an entrance to Paracuaro, Mexico, on Thursday as part of a protest by residents at the arrival of vigilantes . The situation in Paracuaro is akin to a civil war, with drug dealers, the police, vigilantes and locals, all fighting each other . An armed member of a self-defense group, that formed to fight organized crime, mans a checkpoint in Paracuaro . Federal police patrol the entrance of Paracuaro . Soldiers guard the entrance to Paracuaro with one of the three trailer trucks that residents set on fire in the background . A man belonging to a self-defense group that formed to fight organized crime stands at a checkpoint in Paracuaro . Vigilant: A member of a self-defense group cleans his weapon at a Paracuaro checkpoint . Townspeople said they oppose the vigilantes because they are forcing young men to join them. Detained: Local vigilantes arrested police in Paracuaro in south-west Mexico as they seized back control of the town from the Knights Templar drugs gang . Taking matters into their own hands: Hundreds of residents joined forces to storm Paracuaro, headquarters of the Caballeros Templarios gang . They disarmed some police officers on . suspicion they were working with drug traffickers. An unidentified man . was killed in a gunbattle after the vigilantes seized the town. Townspeople said they oppose the vigilantes because they are forcing young men to join them. Vigilante . groups have formed to confront drug cartels in parts of Michoacan, a . rich farming state that is a major exporter of limes, avocados and . mangos. Police officers are forced to surrender their weapons to armed vigilantes in Paracuaro after the group seized control . Members of Guerrero state's Public Safety System marched in honour of their first anniversary - their region is a centre for drugs production . Rumors circulate . that some self-defense groups have been infiltrated by the New . Generation cartel, charges that the groups vehemently deny. New Generation has been fighting a turf war with the Michoacan-based Knights Templar cartel. Some . people in the region say members of the Knights Templar have also tried . to use self-defense groups as cover for illegal activities. The . vigilantes drove into the town in black armoured vehicles shouting . 'don't be frightened, we are vigilantes', before expelling drugs . traffickers. Local vigilantes armed themselves to take control of Paracuaro back - they accuse police of being in league with the gangs and say they have to protect themselves . In neighbouring Guerrero state members of the Public Safety System (a community police organisation) marched in honour of their first anniversary . Bloody battle for control: A vigilante aims his weapon after storming into Paracuaro yesterday - one man was reported dead in the gun battles that ensued . Smash: This plane crashed in western Mexico on Sunday, killing one man and injuring four others including vigilante group leader, Dr Jose Manuel Mireles . Michoacan has . been rocked by repeated explosions of civil unrest since February last . year, as vigilante groups have sprung up in communities where people say . they are not being protected from drugs trafficking gangs. Over . in the neighbouring state of Guerrero, which produces half of Mexico's . heroin and is riddled with drugs gangs, members of the Public Safety . System, or the Guerrero community police, marched yesterday to . commemorate the first anniversary of their foundation in Ayutla de los . Libres. Insecurity dominates . the lives of millions of Mexicans, for whom taking the law into their . own hands has become the only option. Drugs cartels make millions of . dollars producing and selling drugs, so the land where they produce . opium poppies and marijuana is highly prized and often fought . over. | Residents living in fear of violent criminal gangs in south-west Mexico are taking matters into their own hands .
600 vigilantes seized control of town of Paracuaro in Michoacan state in bloody battle that left one dead .
Convoy of 'autodefensas', or self-defence groups, drove into the town controlled by drugs gang in blacked-out SUVs .
They took back control from the Cabelleros Templarios (Knights Templar) gang which terrorised local residents .
Residents angry at the vigilantes recruiting young people have burnt at least three trailers to keep them out . | 9e167edb50c85e99cffec656b1375128b5397141 | [
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A U.S. soldier charged with plotting to blow up troops from the nation's largest Army post has been found guilty of a battery of federal charges, prosecutors announced Thursday. Naser Jason Abdo was found guilty of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, attempted murder of federal employees, and weapons charges, the U.S. attorney's office in Waco, Texas, said. Prosecutors said the 22-year-old private first class wanted to bomb a restaurant frequented by soldiers from Fort Hood, in Killeen, Texas. Special coverage: The Fort Hood shootings . Abdo was absent without leave from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, when he was arrested in Texas in July 2011. Prosecutors said he was in the process of building a bomb when he was caught. The Muslim-American paratrooper had been granted conscientious objector status after refusing to deploy to Afghanistan. In May 2011, he was charged with possession of child pornography, and went AWOL the following month. Judge wants to see tapes of alleged Gitmo abuse . In a November interview with CNN affiliate WSMV in Nashville, Tennessee, Abdo said he originally planned to attack his own post, hoping to kill "a high-ranking member of my chain of command" who had served in Afghanistan. But he said he went AWOL after military police learned he had visited gun stores and bought a variety of tools he planned to use in that attack, including a cattle prod, handcuffs and shovels. Instead, he turned his attention to Fort Hood, where another Muslim-American soldier, Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, is accused of gunning down 13 comrades and wounding more than 30 others. "I felt like the only way to freedom or justice was martyrdom," Abdo told WSMV. | Naser Jason Abdo was arrested in Texas in July .
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By . Liz Hull . First came glamping, the middle class approach to spending a night under canvas without all the wind and rain. But if that all seems a bit passé - and you’re not easily spooked – then you might want to try the next big holiday trend of church camping or ‘champing.’ Sleeping overnight inside a disused church is the latest initiative by The Churches Conservation Trust (CCT), the charity which looks after more than 300 redundant churches nationwide. Rugs are laid out on flagstones in the nave and visitors sleep on inflatable mattresses with blankets. Folding chairs, tables, a tea-making kit and portable lavatory and water basin add to the comfort . It hopes that trippers, keen for a quirky and educational holiday experience, will flock to stay in one of their historical Grade I or II listed buildings, and help generate cash for their upkeep in the process. The charity are currently trialling group camping trips at All Saints Church, in Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. Some might think that the medieval Domesday-listed church, with its Gothic windows, handsome limestone pillars and arches and creepy gargoyles, would not be conducive to a good night’s sleep. But, although some visitors have admitted to feeling anxious, most have reported a very peaceful and satisfying stay, said Laoise Bailey, a spokesman for the CCT. ‘Some people have been a bit nervous because they thought it may be a bit creepy, but afterwards they’ve said they found it very calm and relaxing,’ she said. ‘The feedback we’ve had is they’ve enjoyed getting back to nature and the peace and quiet.’ Rugs are laid out on flagstones in the nave and visitors sleep on inflatable mattresses with blankets. Folding chairs, tables, a tea-making kit and portable lavatory and water basin, installed in the vestry, add to the comfort. Guests are treated to a home-cooked meal at a local farmhouse bed and breakfast, before returning to the church where candles are lit at nightfall and a local historian arrives to regale them with magical stories about local myths and legends. Guests are treated to a home-cooked meal at a local farmhouse B&B, before returning to the church where candles are lit and a local historian regales them with magical stories about local myths and legends . Bacon and egg baps are brought in by the same B&B for breakfast. The scheme is being run in conjunction with the Wildlife Trust, who offer sessions on bat spotting in the surrounding graveyard, and Canoe2, a local adventure firm which organises self-guided paddle trips along the nearby River Nene as part of the deal. Packages start from £99 per person, including the activities. The CCT say they are already in talks to set up a similar scheme at a church in Kent, and hope to bring on board other activities, such as hiking, cycling and star gazing, as well as rolling champing out to other venues across the country. You can sleep in All Saints Parish Church, Aldwincle village, Northamptonshire . ‘It is certainly one of the more innovative things we are doing and we are looking to make a profit,’ Miss Bailey said. ‘But any money we make all goes back into conserving the churches we look after.’ Village resident Bernard Lowe, who sits on the parish council, said local people in Aldwincle had been supportive of the ‘champing’ trips. ‘There’s not been any objections,’ he added. ‘The church was decommissioned 70 years ago and has been redundant a long while. It’s been used for the odd musical event, but there’s no pews or facilities, such as electricity or drainage, so it’s a big, quite spectacular cavernous floor space inside. ‘We’re right in the middle of the Nene valley and the River is less than half a mile away, so it’s perfect for the canoeing.’ | First nights will be at at All Saints' Church, in Aldwincle, Northamptonshire .
Rugs are laid out on flag-stones in the nave and visitors sleep on inflatable mattresses with blankets .
Folding chairs, tables, tea-making kit, portable lavatory and water basin add to comfort .
Packages start from £99 per person, including the activities .
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Orlando (CNN) -- When Walt Disney World's New Fantasyland opens Thursday in the Magic Kingdom, guests will be in for a slew of magical moments, and they'll have plenty of room to enjoy them. This portion of the park nearly doubled in size, making it the largest expansion in the park's 41-year history. "It gives guests another level of immersion," says Tom Staggs, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. "We have technology to play with that Walt DIsney didn't have." For instance, part of the expansion includes Beast's Castle, which sits atop Be Our Guest restaurant. During lunch hours, guests order at touch-screen kiosks and take radio-frequency devices to their tables. Once the pager is placed on the table, servers know exactly where to deliver the food. And voila, meals arrive within minutes via a glass-enclosed cart. "Everything is fresh, made to order, and for lunch we are hoping for the bustling kind of energy like the movie scene (from 'Beauty and the Beast') in the dining room," says Lenny DeGeorge, Walt Disney World executive chef. In the evening, the restaurant transforms into fancy table-service dining, inviting guests to feast upon French onion soup, mussels Provençal and charcuterie while sipping on French wines and beers. This is a first, since alcohol has never been served before in the Magic Kingdom. In true Disney style, the decor inside and out is over the top. From the chandeliers to the walls to the terrazzo floor to the draperies, it's all true to the movie. Even suits of armor that whisper to passersby line the hallway. Guests then make their way into the grand ballroom, which has an entire wall of arched windows, complete with magical snowflakes falling upon the French countryside. Faith Lee, from Lake Mary, Florida, appreciates the extreme theming. "I felt like a kid again entering (Be Our Guest restaurant)," she says. "It completely recreates the details of Beast's Castle to the most minute aspect." Other areas of New Fantasyland involve similar attention to detail, completely immersing guests in the beloved Disney stories. The expansion, which has been in the works for more than three years, introduces two new areas ---- the Enchanted Forest, which focuses on Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid, and Storybook Circus, an area inspired by the Disney animated feature "Dumbo." Have you been to New Fantasyland? Share your images . Major focus on character time . Outside, to the far left of Beast's Castle is Maurice's Cottage, a provincial abode that houses an enchanted mirror. It spectacularly transforms into a portal whisking guests into the story of Beauty and the Beast. Once in the Beast's library, Enchanted Tales with Belle goes way beyond a typical meet and greet when Belle and friends invite guests to help act out the "tale as old as time." Next door at Prince Eric's Castle, kids and adults alike will enjoy Under the Sea - Journey of the Little Mermaid (almost identical to the Disney California Adventure version). After walking through an interactive queue, guests board giant clamshells as animation and animatronics retell Ariel's story. Afterward in Ariel's Grotto, guests score one-on-one time with the redheaded mermaid herself as she poses for photos and signs autographs. "For us, the Fantasyland expansion was more than we could have imagined," Lee says. "It was like being immersed in the stories of Belle and Ariel, not just visiting attractions." Lee and her family were also impressed with Storybook Circus, which opened over the summer. This portion of the park includes a water play area, tame roller coaster and gift shop. The revamped Dumbo ride, with its new indoor queue lounge, is a crowd pleaser for parents who want to sit down for a bit and children who want to enjoy an elaborate playground. Guests receive a pager that virtually holds their place in line; it lights up when it's time to board the ride. Another option is to grab a FastPass and wait in a traditional line outdoors. Overall, the new additions certainly have Disney fans aflutter, but will this translate to an influx of Orlando visitors? Danielle Courtenay, chief marketing officer for Visit Orlando, thinks so. "When any major new attraction opens in Orlando, there's always a positive impact in terms of increased awareness and interest in the destination," she says. "With New Fantasyland being the largest expansion in Magic Kingdom history, we are certainly optimistic that it will impact visitation for 2013 and beyond." Coming soon . Princess Fairytale Hall is scheduled to open in 2013 in the former home of Snow White's Scary Adventures. Located in the Castle Courtyard in the center of Fantasyland, it will be a place for guests to meet Disney princess characters. Come early 2014, the finishing touch will be a roller coaster, the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, in the heart of it all. This family thrill ride will be an experience somewhere in between the tame Barnstormer, a re-themed "beginner's coaster," and the classic Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. With its patented train of vehicles that swing back and forth, the attraction will be the first of its kind. Have you visited Disney World recently? Please share your experiences and tips in the comments section below. | Walt Disney World's New Fantasyland officially opens December 6 .
The expansion is the largest in the Magic Kingdom's history .
The new restaurant Be Our Guest is inspired by "Beauty and the Beast" | ca352f35041eaf5055aa558f17a1816be58808de | [
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By . Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 18:19 EST, 3 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:20 EST, 3 June 2013 . A federal grand jury has indicted a Mississippi man suspected of sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other officials, according to an indictment made public Monday. The 5-count indictment charges 41-year-old James Everett Dutschke with developing, producing and stockpiling the poison ricin, threatening the president and others and attempting to impede the investigation. If convicted on the charges, he could face life in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. Scroll down for video . Disappeared: Everett Dutschke, the chief person of interest in the case of deadly ricin letters being sent to President Obama, was arrested on Saturday. He went missing earlier this week . Dutschke was arrested April 27 at his home in Tupelo. He is suspected of mailing ricin-laced letters on April 8 to Obama, Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Lee County Justice Court Judge Sadie Holland. Dutschke has denied any involvement. George Lucas, an attorney for Dutschke, said he had not yet seen the indictment and had no immediate comment. Dutschke is the second person to face charges in the case. Paul Kevin Curtis, a 45-year-old Elvis impersonator, was arrested on April 17, but the charges were dropped six days later. Suspect: Federal agents search the property of Everett Dutschke in Tupelo, Mississippi on Tuesday . Arrested: Everett Dutschke (pictured left and right in previous mugshots) had been under surveillance this week. An FBI spokesman said he was arrested without incident early on Saturday . Curtis said after his arrest that he believed he was framed. Curtis said he and Dutschke know each other and had feuded. Dutschke, a former martial arts . instructor, has unsuccessfully run for elective office, including a 2007 . challenge of Holland's son, Democratic state Rep. Steve Holland. Authorities said a dust mask that . Dutschke removed from his former martial arts studio and dumped in a . nearby trash can tested positive for ricin and the DNA of two people, . including Dutschke. Southern-fried feud: Everett Dutschke, left, and Kevin Curtis, right, are both caught up in the federal investigation over poison letters sent to the president. They are both also martial arts rivals . 'Framed': Kevin Curtis, who works as an Elvis impersonator, may have been set up by a man who was once his brother's business partner, his lawyer says . Sweet relief: Paul Kevin Curtis, who had been in custody under suspicion of sending ricin-laced letters to President Obama and others, left, hugs his attorney Christi McCoy following his release Tuesday . Authorities haven't said who else's . DNA was on the mask, but an FBI agent testified during a preliminary . hearing that most of the genetic material on it belonged to Dutschke. Authorities said Dutschke used the . Internet to make three purchases of castor beans, from which ricin is . derived, and researched how to make the poison. The FBI has not revealed details about . how lethal the ricin was. A Senate official has said the ricin was not . weaponized, meaning it wasn't in a form that could easily enter the . body. If inhaled, ricin can cause respiratory failure, among other symptoms and no antidote exists. | Everett Dutschke was arrested at his home in Mississippi in April but the details of the five charges against him are just now being released .
Has been charged with being in possession of a biological toxin .
The ricin-laced letters were sent last week to President Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and 80-year-old Mississippi judge Sadie Holland .
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"suspected of sending poison-laced letters to",
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"according to an indictment made public Monday.",
"The 5-count indictment charges 41-year-old James",
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Philadelphia (CNN) -- Philadelphia abortion provider Kermit Gosnell was sentenced Wednesday to life with no parole in the death of one of three babies who died in his clinic. He received the same sentence in the two other deaths Tuesday. Gosnell, 72, was convicted Monday on three consecutive counts of first-degree murder for killing babies by cutting their spinal cords with scissors. Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said he doubts there would be a doctor that would think three consecutive life sentences "is not a deterrent," but admitted that there might be criticism that Gosnell didn't get death. "We have shown him mercy where he failed to show mercy," Williams told reporters Wednesday. Williams' office announced Tuesday that Gosnell agreed give up his right to appeal in exchange for avoiding a possible death sentence. Judge Jeffrey Minehart, who rendered the decision, also sentenced Gosnell on Wednesday to 2½ to 5 years in the case of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar, who died of an anesthetic overdose during an abortion at Gosnell's West Philadelphia clinic. Before sentencing, Mongar family attorney, Bernie Smalley Sr., delivered a statement on behalf of her family. "She was a mother, a wife and a grandmother," Smalley said. "They lost something that can never be returned." Mother shares regrets amid trial . "They will always mourn the loss." Gosnell also was sentenced to 10 to 20 years each on two counts of conspiracy to commit murder. Those sentences will run concurrently. Additionally, he was sentenced to 10 to 20 years for running a corrupt organization. When the judge asked if he had anything to say, Gosnell turned to his attorney Jack McMahon, smiled and said, "Not at this time." Defense attorney McMahon, in an impassioned, 2½-hour closing argument, said said that none of the infants were killed. Rather, he said, they were already dead as a result of Gosnell administering the drug Digoxin, which can cause abortion. After the Wednesday court appearance, McMahon said Gosnell did not believe his acts constituted homicide and said his clinic "was not a house of horrors" "There was a lynching by the media prior to the trial," he said. "Dr. Gosnell performed over 16,000 abortions, helped many young women." McMahon said Gosnell knows that "some of his methodology was wrong" and that it was "wrong to perform abortion past 24 weeks. In Pennsylvania, abortions past 24 weeks are illegal unless the health of the mother is at stake. "He bent the rules but he's not a monster," McMahon said. After the hearing, jurors spoke and they said it was tough to look at images of victims during the trial. David Misko said Gosnell is "more of a predator than a monster." He said the trial was overwhelming and "took an emotional toll." Gosnell horror fuels fight for abortion laws . Gosnell's co-defendant, Eileen O'Neill, 56, was found guilty of conspiracy to operate a corrupt organization and two counts of theft by deception for operating without a license to practice medicine. O'Neill, a medical school graduate, was not charged with performing illegal abortions. She did not plead guilty. Eight people involved in Gosnell's clinic, called the Women's Medical Society, earlier pleaded guilty to various charges. Four of them pleaded guilty to murder. A grand jury report from 2011 says the "people who ran this sham medical practice included no doctors other than Gosnell himself, and not even a single nurse," yet they still made diagnoses, performed procedures and administered drugs. Gosnell also was accused of reusing unsanitary instruments; performing procedures in filthy rooms, including some in which litter boxes and animals allegedly were present at the time; and allowing unlicensed employees -- including a teenage high school student -- to perform operations and administer anesthesia. The remains of aborted fetuses were stored in water jugs, pet food containers and a freezer at the clinic, the city's chief medical examiner Sam Gulino testified. Former employee Kareema Cross said Gosnell regularly performed illegal late-term abortions that he routinely recorded as "24.5 weeks." McMahon, who called no witnesses, accused prosecutors of "the most extraordinary hype and exaggeration in the history of the criminal justice system," even adding that they are "elitist" and "racist." Gosnell has been accused by authorities of preying on low-income, minority women. McMahon argued that Gosnell offered access to health care for people who were poor and without health insurance. The doctor was first charged in January 2011. The case has drawn national attention and sharp criticism from anti-abortion activists. | Gosnell gets consecutive sentences of life without parole .
District attorney says of Gosnell: "We have shown him mercy where he failed to show mercy"
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Jason Griffin straps his right arm in bandages, preparing himself to grip the reins of a wildly bucking bronco. Tall, broad-shouldered, with a rough beard, he steps into his cowboy boots, fits a Stetson hat and heads out to meet his mount in the rodeo arena. Griffin is a four-time world champion bareback bucking horse rider -- competing in a sport that began in the 19th century heyday of the Wild West. With each victory -- he has also won three all-round rodeo championships -- the Texan raises awareness of a strong tradition which is rarely seen in the many novels, films and television series dedicated to the tales of the old West: The historic story of America's black cowboys. On cinema screens and paperback covers, the cowboys of old were heroic, hard-bitten and -- almost always -- white. In reality, the American West of the 1800s was traversed by an assortment of black, white, Mexican and Native American cattle hands. Contemporary records are rare but historians now estimate that up to one in four Texan cowboys was African American, while the number of Mexican cowboys was even greater. Watch online: the video trailer for the documentary "The Forgotten Cowboys" John Ferguson and Gregg MacDonald's documentary film -- and multimedia project -- "The Forgotten Cowboys" follows Griffin and other contemporary black cowboys as they gain a following competing at rodeos and go about their working lives. London-based photographer Ferguson first became interested in the group 10 years ago while watching a news report in New York about local black cowboys holding a parade. His interest was immediately piqued: "It's really nice to find something that's new, isn't it? They have been around for hundreds of years, but history has forgotten about them." Read related: 'Texas in Queens': Junior wranglers find refuge with black cowboys . During the 17th and 18th century, many slaves were displaced from areas of Western Africa where cattle herding cultures -- as depicted in 4,000 year old cave paintings at Tassili n'Ajjer, in the south of modern-day Algeria -- had existed for millennia. But historians say that those who became cowboys in the 19th century joined a new cultural tradition -- developed in the company of their European and Native American counterparts -- with different breeds of cattle and new techniques. Life for a black cowboy was tough, explains Michael Searles, Emeritus Assistant Professor of History at Augusta State University, who has edited an anthology of writing on the subject. "Black cowboys were sometimes expected to do ... more than their white counterpart -- in other words, some of the roughest work." "Breaking of stock (taming horses) and getting horses ready to ride each morning was often the work of the black cowboy -- where there were black cowboys -- and when they had to cross a swollen river to move cattle ... black cowboys were the first to cross that river." Searles -- known to his students as Cowboy Mike -- lectures in a check shirt, bandana and ten gallon hat. He explains that life as a cowboy was still preferable to other roles given to slaves and, later, free African Americans in the South, such as picking cotton on a plantation. "Many black cowboys, when they were slaves, weren't treated as you'd think a traditional slave would be treated, because a cowboy needed a lot more independence," said Searles. In America: Top-ranked polo players hail from Philadelphia's inner city . Even after the abolition of slavery, prejudice and discrimination were still common -- but black cowboys could expect a better relationship with white Americans than many. Ferguson talks about a "cowboy code" of equal responsibility, teamwork and mutual protection binding today's cowboys and their black and white ancestors. Mike agrees that a kind of loyalty developed between cowboys of different races -- but suggests that cowboys were initially united by necessity. "If you've got nine or 10 cowboys on a cattle drive, you are interdependent with the folk who are riding with you -- they can either save your life or they can let you die. "There are times when you really need the assistance of another cowboy. That was not the place to be too prejudiced or too hostile to the cowboy riding next to you," says Ferguson, the filmmaker. Asked how the image of the black cowboy disappeared from popular culture, Ferguson points the finger at the Western movie business of the mid-20th century. "Hollywood played a major part in dismissing the role of black cowboys. In 99% of Western cowboy films, there is no black cowboy." "America was a divided country -- segregation -- Hollywood played their part down. Compare Clint Eastwood or John Wayne to the black cowboys. It just doesn't fit the image. Black cowboy. A hero." | Photographer John Ferguson documents the lives of modern-day black cowboys .
Historians now estimate up to one in four cowboys in Old West were African-American .
Historian: The black cowboy played a crucial role in taming the American West .
Were cattle-herding slaves labelled "cow-boys" where the term originated? | 8383067fa535734b8104453343ac3cf473f4bab2 | [
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So much blood the theater floor had become slippery. Bodies with horrific injuries. The eerie sound of cell phones ringing, over and over again. This is the scene Aurora police Officer Justin Grizzle said he encountered moments after entering the theater where, according to authorities, 25-year-old James Holmes killed 12 people in a July 20 shooting rampage. Grizzle testified Monday on the opening day of the preliminary hearing for Holmes, who is charged with 166 counts of murder, attempted murder and weapons charges. The 13-year veteran wiped away tears while describing his efforts to rush badly wounded victims to the hospital in his police cruiser, including shooting victim Ashley Moser and her husband, who wanted Grizzle to turn around and head back to the theater. "He was shot in the head somewhere. He kept asking where his ... daughter was," Grizzle said. "He opened the door and tried to jump out." Grizzle said he had to drive and hold the man by his shoulder to keep him in the car. The girl the man was seeking, 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, was shot four times and was among those killed in the shooting at a midnight showing of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises." Veronica's mother, Ashley, faces a long recovery after being paralyzed in her lower half and miscarrying after the shooting. The scene was still gruesome when Detective Matthew Ingui arrived 12 hours later with other investigators. "We saw the first victim laying on the ground," he said "There's shoes, blood, body tissue and popcorn on the floor." Blood was everywhere, he said. Ingui described how he outlined each of the victims and marked where the bodies were found. Holmes had no visible reaction during the testimony. The detective said investigators found 209 live rounds of .223 ammunition and 15 cartridges of .40-caliber rounds inside the auditorium. The preliminary hearing that began Monday is designed to show a judge that the state has enough evidence to proceed to trial. Prosecutors are calling scores of witnesses and outlining their evidence in the case. The hearing could go on for days. A gag order imposed by the judge in the case has limited the flow of information about the attack. However, a source said Holmes allegedly went out a rear exit door, propped it open and gathered his weapons. He then returned to the theater and tossed a canister inside before opening fire, the source said. Screaming moviegoers scrambled to escape from the gunman, who shot at random as he walked up the theater's steps, according to witnesses. It was a scene "straight out of a horror film," said Chris Ramos, who was inside the theater. While none of the four law enforcement witnesses who testified Monday offered insight into a possible motive for the shooting, some new details emerged. Prosecutors showed surveillance camera video taken inside the theater complex that they said shows Holmes -- dressed in dark trousers, a light-colored shirt with a T-shirt underneath and a ski cap covering his hair -- using a cell phone at a ticket kiosk. Holmes printed out a ticket that had been purchased July 8, they said. The cameras also captured the aftermath of the shooting as waves of people ran out of doors with theater staff behind counters. One employee even leaped over a counter. There was no video from inside the auditorium where the shootings occurred. Police Sgt. Gerald Jonsgaard said Holmes stopped the theater door from locking by using a small piece of plastic commonly used to hold tablecloths onto a picnic table. Jonsgaard also said he spotted a shotgun and a large drum magazine that appeared to be jammed on the floor of the theater. Holmes' attorneys are expected to argue that their client has "diminished capacity," a term that, according to the Colorado Bar Association, relates to a person's ability or inability "to make adequately considered decisions" regarding his or her legal representation because of "mental impairment or for some other reason." Several times, on cross-examination, they have asked witnesses about Holmes' demeanor and what he looked like when police found him. The day's testimony concluded with a detective who interviewed people wounded in the attack and the two coroners who conducted the 12 autopsies. After the hearing, Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester will determine whether there is enough evidence for Holmes to stand trial. Security was tight at the hearing. Spectators had to pass through a metal detector and then were searched again before entering the courtroom. At least nine armed officers stood guard inside, some of them scanning the audience packed with reporters and victims' family members. Holmes did not speak during the hearing. His bushy hair and long beard contrasted with the bright red hair and close-cropped looks he sported during previous appearances. During portions of the hearing, family members of victims held one another, sobbing. Earlier in Monday's hearing, police Officer Jason Oviatt -- the first officer to encounter Holmes after the rampage ended -- testified that Holmes seemed "very, very relaxed." Holmes, his pupils dilated, sweating and smelly, didn't struggle or even tense his muscles as he was dragged away to be searched. "He seemed very detached from it all," Oviatt testified, describing Holmes as unnaturally calm amid the chaos and carnage. Oviatt testified Monday that within minutes of the first calls, he responded to the theater and found Holmes standing outside in a helmet and gas mask, his hands atop a white coupe that turned out to belong to him. At first, Oviatt said, he thought Holmes was a police officer, but as he drew within 20 feet, he realized something was terribly wrong. "He was just standing there. All the other officers were running around, trying to get into the theater," Oviatt said. A trail of blood led from the theater. The rifle that authorities believe Holmes used in the attack lay on the ground near the building. Holmes calmly complied with all Oviatt's orders, the officer testified. Another officer, Aaron Blue, testified later that Holmes matter-of-factly told him, without prompting, about the complex web of explosives that authorities would later find in his Aurora apartment. He told Blue that the devices "wouldn't go off unless we set them off." Holmes was a doctoral student in the neuroscience program at the Anschutz Medical Campus of the University of Colorado, Denver, in Aurora, until he withdrew a month before being arrested outside the bullet-riddled movie theater. He had been a patient of a University of Colorado psychiatrist, according to a court document filed by his lawyers. His only brush with the law in Colorado appears to have been a 2011 summons for speeding from Aurora police. If Holmes is ruled incompetent to stand trial, the hearing could provide the best opportunity for victims and the public to understand what happened and why. To at least one victim, it doesn't matter if Holmes stands trial. "I obviously don't want him to walk, but as long as he doesn't see the light of day again, it doesn't really much concern me beyond that," said Stephen Barton, who suffered wounds on his face, neck and upper torso in the shooting that night. "To me, I see the trial as being an opportunity to learn more about what happened that night beyond just my own personal recollection." University releases e-mails related to Holmes . | Youngest victim was shot four times, according to coroner .
Prosecutors say video shows Holmes in theater complex, using a ticket kiosk .
Suspect James Holmes kept theater door unlocked with piece of plastic, officer says .
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Prosecutors urged jurors on Friday to focus on two questions at the corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen: Why did a businessman give the couple more than $165,000 in gifts and loans, and why did the McDonnells accept? The answer, prosecutor David Harbach said in his closing argument, was a 'corrupt understanding.' The McDonnells needed money because they were badly in debt, and he said they were willing to undertake official acts to help former Star Scientific Inc. CEO Jonnie Williams promote his tobacco-based supplement, Anatabloc. 'That is bribery. That is corruption ... the real thing,' Harbach said. Scroll down for video . In closing arguments, prosecutors argued that former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell accepted huge cash gifts because he was in a pile of debt . The McDonnells are charged in federal court in a 14-count indictment and could face decades in prison if convicted. They are being tried together, but have their own attorneys, who will give their closing arguments later Friday. Harbach said the only reason Williams did not get the state-backed research he wanted was because a McDonnell aide 'shut it down.' The 'polite no' did not come from McDonnell, he said. 'That's because he was on the Jonnie Williams gravy train, and he and Jonnie Williams had a deal: Do what you can when opportunities arise and I'll keep paying,' Harbach said. He said it doesn't matter that McDonnell failed to help Williams get a state grant for research studies. 'The corrupt deal is why he's guilty,' Harbach said. The five-week, soap opera-like trial aired the McDonnells' dirty laundry as family members and those in the former first couple's inner circle testified about their fights, crumbling marriage and financial troubles. McDonnell, once considered a possible running mate for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, calmly and confidently testified in his own defense, saying the couple did nothing illegal and extended courtesies to Williams like any other elected official would. McDonnell and wife and wife Maureen (right) can face decades in prison if convicted . Father and son: Bob McDonnell leaves his trial with his son Bobby (right) Harbach challenged the former governor's credibility, questioning McDonnell's assertion that he knew nothing about the first gifts Williams showered on the couple: an April 2011 shopping spree in New York City in which he spent nearly $20,000 on designer dresses and accessories for Maureen McDonnell to wear at her daughter's wedding. McDonnell denied knowing Williams had paid for such expensive dresses. The former governor wasn't on the shopping spree, but did sit next to Williams later that day at an event. 'Folks, how do you miss that?' Harbach said to the jury. 'You decide who to believe.' Williams, the prosecution's star witness, testified under immunity that he spent lavishly on the McDonnells only to secure their support for Anatabloc. One of the gifts was a $6,500 Rolex watch that Williams said the first lady asked him to buy. She gave it to her husband for Christmas. 'I shouldn't have had to buy things like that to get the help I needed,' Williams testified. He also spent $15,000 on catering for a McDonnell daughter's wedding and about $3,200 on golf outings for Bob McDonnell and his sons. Former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell holds hands with her son Bobby as they arrive at the corruption trial on Thursday . Williams treated the McDonnells to a family vacation that included use of his Ferrari and issued three loans: $50,000 to Maureen McDonnell, which she used to pay credit cards bills and buy Star Scientific stock, and two checks totaling $70,000 to MoBo Realty, the money-losing Virginia Beach vacation rental house owned by Bob McDonnell and his sister. Prosecutors said a product launch event at the governor's mansion was outside the norm of usual courtesies. McDonnell took time to speak briefly, even though he was dealing with the aftermath of an earthquake and an approaching hurricane. 'Jonnie Williams was on cloud nine,' Harbach said. 'This is exactly what he wanted. This is exactly what he was paying for.' Prosecutors also have cited several instances of Maureen McDonnell, and to a lesser degree her husband, promoting Anatabloc at various events. Bob McDonnell's arrangement of a meeting between Williams and the state's top health official also was one of the 'official acts' prosecutors say benefited Williams. Maureen McDonnell, whose reputation took a beating from a parade of witnesses who talked about her frequent angry outbursts, anxiety and depression, did not testify. One former employee acknowledged telling investigators her old boss was 'a nutbag.' | Prosecutor David Harbarch argued the ex-governor and wife Maureen were willing to take gifts from a businessman because of a mountain of debt .
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By . Anna Edwards . PUBLISHED: . 06:36 EST, 30 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:36 EST, 30 April 2013 . It's the sort of fantasy world that children's dreams are made of. But as these wonderful pictures show just how Disney world was built, the dream is definitely a reality. These archive photographs show the incredible amount of work that went into building Walt Disney's sprawling Florida playground. Today's Kingdom counts four major Disney theme parks, two water parks, six golf courses and a shopping and dining complex. Scroll down for video . The Magic Kingdom is pictured slowly starting to take shape - with the famous castle and its turrets clearly seen as the avenues are built around it . Some 9,000 workers were involved in the two-year construction effort. They produced an entertainment paradise around lakes, forests and meadows . Walt Disney wanted a much larger area than Disneyland's 450 acres to develop a total resort - and in 1964 the team purchased nearly 28,000 acres from more than 100 property owners . In 1967 a flurry of work began, including the development of a 45-mile network of water-control channels . And it all began with the Disney founder's dream in the early 1960s to provide a kingdom for those is east of the United States to come and be entertained. By 1963 the Disney planning team had chosen Florida because of its clement weather conditions, which meant that the park could open all-year-round and the state had already been ranked first in tourism among all states. Orlando was chosen because of available land and its prime location at the crossroads of major traffic arteries and dynamic growth. Walt Disney wanted a much larger area . than Disneyland's 450 acres to develop a total resort - and in 1964 the . team purchased nearly 28,000 acres from more than 100 property owners - . costing nearly $5.5 million. Another 2,000 acres have been added since, . according to the brand. In . 1965 Walt publicly announced his ambition to build the unique . entertainment and vacation centre and eventually a way of life found . nowhere else in the world - this was embodied in his EPCOT centre - . Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Choo choo! Workers created fantasy lands and even built an internal infrastructure that meant visitors could travel round the extensive entertainment complex . The road to paradise: Walt Disney envisioned a sprawling entertainment complex, and a community that would change the way people lived . Orlando and its clement weather was picked for the destination so that visitors could visit the magical place throughout the year . More than 700million visitors have visited the four theme parks and huge Disney complex - and for many children, it's a dream come true once they visit . Up until his death in December 1966, Walt developed his ideas, directed planning outlined his philosophies for the new complex. In 1967 a flurry of work began, including the development of a 45-mile network of water-control channels. Construction for the ambitious project began in April 1969 after an opening date was set for October 1, 1971. Some 9,000 workers were involved in the two-year construction effort producing an entertainment paradise around lakes, forests and meadows. During the final 18 months before opening, one million guests visited the Walt Disney World Preview Center where models, drawings and motion pictures explained details of the vast development. Total cost of the project by opening was $400 million. Clearly the hard work was worth it, as today the four Disney theme parks have welcomed more than 700 million guests. The Magic Kingdom as it is today: Years of hard toil and a huge vision produced the well-known theme park, which is known the world over . | Walt Disney envisioned a huge entertainment complex - and a new way of life .
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(CNN) -- A Utah man with chronic health problems died Wednesday from complications associated with swine flu, a local health official said. If confirmed, it would be the ninth U.S. fatality associated with the flu outbreak. Memorials appeared at the door of I.S. 238 in Queens, New York, this week after the death of an administrator. The man, who was from around Salt Lake City, was between 18 and 25 years old and "had chronic medical conditions that may have contributed to severe complications from influenza," said Gary Edwards, executive director of the Salt Lake Valley Health Department. Also on Wednesday, health and education officials in New York announced that 21 of the city's public schools had been closed after an increase of reports of students with flu-like symptoms. A school administrator in Queens died after being hospitalized with the H1N1 virus, commonly called swine flu. Nineteen of the schools closed at the recommendation of the Health Department are public and two are private, the city's Education Department announced in a news release. In addition, two private schools in Manhattan -- St. Davis Academy and Horace Mann -- have decided on their own to close after a number of students exhibited flu-like symptoms, according the schools' Web sites. In the city's news release, city Health Commissioner Thomas R. Frieden repeated what has become a familiar refrain: "We continue to see a rising tide of flu in many parts of New York City. As the virus spreads, we will look to slow transmission within individual school communities by closing individual schools." Late last week the city closed 11 schools in Queens and one in Brooklyn after confirming cases of the virus at Intermediate School 238 in Queens and unusually high levels of flu-like symptoms in the others. Mitchell Wiener, an assistant principal at I.S. 238 who died Sunday after being hospitalized with the disease, had an underlying condition, according to Frieden. The death in Utah was the first associated with the swine flu, or H1N1, virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has linked eight U.S. deaths to the flu outbreak, but had not confirmed a link to H1N1 in the Utah death as of Wednesday evening. The outbreak has sickened at least 10,176 people and caused at least 80 deaths -- mostly in Mexico, according to the World Health Organization. The actual number of people affected may be higher, as it takes time for national governments to confirm cases and report them to the global body. In the United States, at least 5,710 cases of swine flu have been reported, according to recent figures from the CDC. Utah officials echoed national agencies in saying that the swine flu has largely behaved like typical seasonal influenza, which usually is fatal only among the very old, the very young or people with other health problems. In New York, 19 of the schools closed at the recommendation of the Health Department are public and two are private, it and the city's Education Department announced in a news release. In addition, two private schools in Manhattan -- St. Davis Academy and Horace Mann -- have decided on their own to close after a number of students exhibited flu-like symptoms, according the schools' Web sites. In the city's news release, city Health Commissioner Thomas R. Frieden repeated what has become a familiar refrain: "We continue to see a rising tide of flu in many parts of New York City. As the virus spreads, we will look to slow transmission within individual school communities by closing individual schools." Late last week the city closed 11 schools in Queens and one in Brooklyn after confirming cases of the H1N1 virus, commonly called swine flu, at Intermediate School 238 in Queens and unusually high levels of flu-like symptoms in the others. An assistant principal of Intermediate School 238 died Sunday after being hospitalized with H1N1. Frieden has said the administrator, Mitchell Wiener, had an underlying condition. CNN's Deb Brunswick contributed to this report . | NEW: New York City has closed 21 schools since virus confirmed, health officials say .
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By . Emily Payne . Thirty-two people fell from a bank of sand on Polzeath Beach in Cornwall - and ended up in the path of a dangerous rip current. The bathers, who included seven swimmers, 25 bodyboarders and several children, were all brought back to shore by the local Royal National Lifeboat Institution team. Senior lifeguard Ben Miskowicz, . coordinated the rescue which involved colleagues Chris Rowlands, Phil . Bartlett, Scott Temple, Christian Parker and Craig O'Rourke. Caught on camera: One of the RNLI rescues at Polzeath, where 32 bathers were caught in dangerous tides . Mr Miskowicz said: 'The conditions at Polzeath this week are particularly challenging, we have a high tide, strong onshore winds and large swell.' 'The winter storms have changed the typography of Polzeath and now at high tide we have some rip currents at both the northern and southern end of the beach. 'The northern rip is particularly prominent at high tide at the moment. Danger: A senior lifeguard said that conditions at Polzeath beach have been particularly challenging recently . 'I was at the cliff top unit at the south end of the beach and Chris was at the northern end while Craig, Phil and Christian were in the water on rescue boards. 'As we had a higher view we were able to spot casualties and guide the lifeguards in the water to them. 'I could see how strong the rip was, when the lifeguards stopped paddling on the rescue board they were pulled away very quickly, it was incredibly strong.' Polzeath beach in North Cornwall, where 32 people fell from a bank of sand into the path of a rip current . Chris Wafer, RNLI lifeguard supervisor, said: 'The lifeguard team did a fantastic job last night in challenging conditions and received praise from many members of the public for their efforts in keeping people safe. 'We've seen strong onshore winds and a big swell combined with spring tides in recent days which have created these difficult conditions. 'If you are heading to the beach please speak to the lifeguards to find out the hazards and take heed of their advice.' | Bathers, included seven .
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(CNN) -- Interruptions in the emergency room may exact an unhealthy toll on patient care, a group of Australian researchers reported Thursday. The researchers, from the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, found that interruptions led emergency department doctors to spend less time on the tasks they were working on and, in nearly a fifth of cases, to give up on the task altogether. The researchers carried out a time-and-motion study in the emergency department of a 400-bed teaching hospital, observing 40 doctors for more than 210 hours. They found that each doctor was typically interrupted 6.6 times per hour; 11 percent of all tasks were interrupted, 3.3 percent of them more than once. They calculated time on task and found that physicians spent less time on interrupted tasks than on uninterrupted tasks. In addition, doctors were multitasking 12.8 percent of the time. Doctors did not return to 18.5 percent of the interrupted tasks, according to the study, which was published in the journal Quality and Safety in Health Care. "It appears that in busy interrupt-driven clinical environments, clinicians reduce the time they spend on clinical tasks if they experience interruptions, and may delay or fail to return to a significant portion of interrupted tasks," concluded the authors, who were led by Johanna Westbrook, director of the health informatics research and evaluation unit on the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney. "Task shortening may occur because interrupted tasks are truncated to 'catch up' for lost time, which may have significant implications for patient safety." Other studies have shown that interruptions can result in lapses of attention, memory or perception, they wrote. "Further, interruptions add significantly to cognitive load, increase stress and anxiety, inhibit decision-making performance and increase task errors," they said. The interruptions included a doctor being asked a question while trying to write a prescription. "Now, most people think it's very acceptable to interrupt," but doing so can be dangerous, lead author Westbrook said. She urged hospital emergency department directors to teach hospital personnel when it is acceptable to interrupt and when it may be better to find an alternative strategy. "We really have to look at ways to try and reduce unnecessary interruptions," she said. Though this study did not document any negative outcomes associated with interruptions, Westbrook published a paper two weeks ago that found a direct association between interruptions and the number of medication errors made by nurses. "I think we have to look at interruptions as a potentially dangerous strategy in clinical work environments," she said. On average, doctors completed tasks that were interrupted once in about half the time they would have taken if they had not been interrupted. That perplexed the authors, who speculated that the interruptions led clinicians to try to compensate for the "lost" time by working faster and cutting corners. They said there was a strong need to develop processes that minimize unnecessary interruptions and multitasking. "Our results support the hypothesis that the highly interruptive nature of busy clinical environments may have a negative impact on patient safety," they said. If their results are confirmed, they added, clinical work processes should be redesigned. Other industries have recognized interruptions as dangerous, including the airline industry, which has developed strategies to reduce interruptions to the flight crew during takeoff and limited unnecessary communications with the cockpit. "In our society, we get very used to interrupting each other," Westbrook said. "Sometimes we need to stop and think about that." Neither the American College of Emergency Physicians nor the American Academy of Emergency Medicine responded immediately to requests for comment. The study was funded by Australia's Health Contribution Fund, Health and Medical Research Foundation and National Health and Medical Research Council. | Australian study looks at 40 emergency department doctors for 210 hours .
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Six months ago, the story began as a puzzling news bulletin. A Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with 239 people on board had vanished from radar screens as it was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The disappearance was quite the mystery. Was it a terrorist attack? Was there a mechanical failure that led to a crash? Did the plane go down over land or water? Were there any survivors? We all figured the answers would come after searchers found the aircraft or its wreckage. Half a year later, it remains a deep mystery. No part of the plane has been discovered. Not one speck of debris. A Boeing 777-200ER just disappeared. With 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, it just vanished. Authorities are convinced the plane crashed March 8 in the southern Indian Ocean. Satellite data and radar information indicate the plane turned off course and most likely went down about the time it would have run out of fuel. Officials don't know why it flew off course. Looking for debris yielded nothing but garbage . Airplanes and ships searched the surface of the ocean for nearly two months, with each report of debris turning out to be a false lead or flotsam from another source. To date, more than 4.5 million square kilometers of sea have been scoured. An underwater drone with sonar took the search beneath the waves in mid-April and looked for the source of four underwater pings picked up by devices towed by ships. The pulses were encouraging because they were of a frequency close to that used by the locator beacons on the plane. The four signals were within 30 kilometers of one another. More days of searching followed. Dozens of underwater missions over hundreds of kilometers. Still nothing. Heartbroken family members of the people on board the plane have been left still seeking answers. Deciphering the noise . Recently, Australian researchers said they had recovered another underwater sound recorder that was in the ocean when MH370 vanished. They found a signal similar to one they noticed on recordings from other devices pulled from the water. It could be a noise made by the plane crashing. As with many possible clues in this strange case, there is a big but. The researchers at Curtin University believe the sound or sounds came from an area thousands of kilometers to the northwest of the search area. The signal seems to have originated close to the tip of India, near a geologically active ridge -- meaning the recordings are most likely those of a seismic event. Experts poring over data . The latest clue comes from a failed satellite phone call from the airline's staff on the morning the plane disappeared. Subsequent analysis of the failed call has given experts a better idea of the aircraft's position and where it was traveling, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said August 28. And that data indicates the missing passenger jet may have turned south slightly earlier than previously thought. The next phase of the search for the remains of the plane and the people on board is primarily focused on a 60,000-square-kilometer area, roughly the size of West Virginia, in the southern Indian Ocean. Forbidding undersea terrain . A deepwater search that will involve three ships is expected to start in the area in late September, using a range of sophisticated sonar equipment. The process is forecast to take as long as a year and cost $48 million, officials have said. Ships have already been mapping the undersea terrain in the isolated swath of ocean to help the searchers. Much of the geography of the area was previously unknown before MH370's disappearance drew attention there. And some of it will be very, very difficult to search, with the mapping survey showing undersea volcanoes and steep ridges. The latest analysis of the data indicates that southern areas of the huge search grid may be of high interest, Australian officials have said, suggesting that the zone is likely to be further adjusted. Job cuts at airline . The loss of MH370 and the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in July have contributed to 6,000 people at the airline losing their jobs because of heavy financial losses. The carrier reported in late August that it lost $97.4 million in the second quarter. Malaysia Airlines was once a symbol of national pride. But the airline was in big financial trouble before the twin disasters of Flight 370 and Flight 17 claimed the lives of 537 people. Australia: MH370 may have turned south earlier than previously thought . Hard areas found in search zone unlikely to be man-made . | On March 8, MH370 veered off course and vanished from radar en route to Beijing .
Millions of square kilometers of ocean surface have been searched .
The deepest parts of the sea will be the next place searchers send their equipment .
Family members of the 239 people on the plane have been left still seeking answers . | 4d798b5834d47b2c7d888008a8b214c1b025cb48 | [
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(CNN) -- The parents of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl waiting for a lung transplant say they have asked U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to change the rules that keep children under 12 from being prioritized for donated adult organs. Attorneys for the family of Sarah Murnaghan, a 10-year-old Philadelphia girl with cystic fibrosis, have sent a formal letter to Sebelius, requesting that she "set aside" what they're referring to as the "Under 12 Rule" that, they say, is preventing Sarah from getting priority on the adult waiting list for lung transplants. Sarah could die within weeks without a transplant. She has been waiting 18 months for another pair of lungs as her ability to breathe has rapidly deteriorated. Adult lungs are far more available than lungs from children, and doctors believe modified adult lungs might save the girl's life. "This is in the scope of (Sebelius') ability to change this law for all of the children rather than let her wait and die," Janet Murnaghan told CNN's "Starting Point" Monday. With just weeks left, Sarah fights the system for life-saving pair of lungs . Sarah's parents and attorneys are arguing that the rule is making it all but impossible for her to receive a lung, since children's lungs are so rare. As it currently sits, every adult on the list -- regardless of the severity of their illness -- would first have to turn down a pair of lungs before it could be offered to someone under 12. In the letter, attorney Stephen G. Harvey of Pepper Hamilton LLP in Philadelphia, called the rule "discrimination." "The Under 12 Rule is unfair, arbitrary and capricious, inconsistent with the statute and regulations, and stands in the way of Sarah potentially receiving a set of lungs that she needs to live," Harvey wrote. "It violates her rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the United States Constitution." Harvey also argues that the Murnaghan family is not asking for the secretary to intervene "in favor of Sarah to ensure that she receives a set of donated lungs." "They are only asking that you exercise your authority to direct that an inflexible policy ... be set aside so that medical professionals can exercise their judgment and Sarah can be considered for a set of donated adult lungs under the same requirement that apply to persons aged 12 and over." Dying girl's plight sparks fight over organ transplants . Several lawmakers also urged Sebelius to act. Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey and Rep. Patrick Meehan co-signed a letter to the secretary saying in part, "You have the ability and authority to intervene to allow for Sarah and other children under the age of 12 to become eligible for adult organs." They asked that Sebelius "direct OPTN (the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network) to conduct an experimental variance" and that an example in Murnaghan's case would "help better inform the medical community's understanding of how these transplants work in pediatric settings." Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat, wrote a separate letter to Sebelius, requesting her "immediate attention to several crucial questions" and would like answers no later than Wednesday. The questions include whether it would be possible for HHS to suspend the current system while Sebelius' requested review of the policy for children's lung transplants is carried out. Sarah is at the top of the list for any pediatric lungs that may become available for transplant in her six-state region. Sebelius has previously told the family that she doesn't have the authority to intervene in a particular case, but she also called for the policy review. Any change could take up to two years. CNN's Chris Welch contributed to this report. | Sarah Murnaghan's parents asking HHS secretary to change transplant rules .
Sarah is waiting for a lung transplant, could die within weeks .
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Bob Casale - the guitarist for iconic US band Devo, best known for the 1980 hit Whip It - has died of heart failure, his brother and band member Gerald Casale said Tuesday. He was 61. Devo founding member Casale said in a statement that his younger brother's death in New York on Monday was 'sudden" and 'a total shock'. The loss of Casale has given the music world more reason to mourn following the loss of Devo drummer Alan Myers, who died of brain cancer in June aged 58. Scroll down for video . Musician Bob Casale of US band Devo has died from a health complication that led to heart failure . Mourning: Devo drummer Alan Myers lost his battle with brain cancer at age 58 . New Wave: Devo - Bob . Mothersbaugh, Mark Mothersbaugh, Gerald Casale, Bob Casale and Alan Myers - went on to become . the sound of a generation in the 70s and 80s . 'As an original member of Devo, Bob . Casale was there in the trenches with me from the beginning,' Gerard Casale . said in a statement. 'He was my level-headed brother, a solid performer and talented . audio engineer, always giving more than he got.' No further details on his death were provided. The Ohio-based Devo introduced themselves to the world in 1977 by making a frenetic version of the Rolling Stones' Satisfaction. The new wave band released its Brian Eno-produced debut, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, in 1978. They reached platinum status in the 1980's with record Freedom of Choice, largely thanks to the success of Whip It, which became the theme song of a generation. Devo, pictured here during a reunion tour in 2008. (From left) Gerald Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh, Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob Casale and David Kendrick. The band became as famous for their sound as they did their iconic 'energy dome' hats . Gerald Casale formed Devo with lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh. Myers, who was the group's third and most famous drummer, has been credited with taking the band out of Ohio and onto the big stage. 'We were mostly in basements and . garages writing songs,' Gerard Casale said following his death. 'It was Alan that brought everything to life. 'That was the catalyst where everything clicked. 'People watching him thought we were using a drum machine. Nobody had ever drummed like that.' While . Myers left the group in 1986 after 10 years because of creative differences . due to the increased use of electronic drum machines, his legacy lived . on long after that. Surprisingly, he went from rock star to blue collar worker and took a job as an electrician in Los Angeles. Since . 2005 had played improvisational music with his wife, Christine Myers, . in the group Skyline Electric. He had also performed with his daughter, . Laena Geronimo, in the experimental ensemble Swahili Blonde, reported Rolling Stone. Skyline Electric will perform a tribute to Myers this Friday, June 28th, at the Human Resources gallery in Chinatown in L.A. Legacy: Myers is credited with cementing the band's signature sound with his drumming skills . Devo is short for devolution, the idea that man was regressing into an earlier state. | Bob Casale, 61, died in New York on Monday from heart failure .
Death follows that of Devo drummer Alan Myers, 58, who passed away in June from brain cancer .
The US band, who hail from Ohio, became the sound of a generation in the 70s and 80s .
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By . Daily Mail Reporter . Last updated at 5:49 PM on 20th October 2011 . Mugshots have been released of the five foreign nationals travelling the . country in a rented RV who broke into a San Antonio courthouse early . Wednesday, triggering a heavy police response. Downtown streets were closed, bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in and the . FBI were summoned. After officials watched security footage of them it was thought they may just be . harmless pranksters. Some of the men, all in their 20s, . wore sombreros and seemed on surveillance video to wield a gavel while running through the . courthouse before getting caught, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said. Scroll down for video . Pranksters: The 'terror suspects' were later found to have been running the halls of the court in sombreros while waving gavels . Fake bomb scare: A rented RV used by the suspects in the break-in at the Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio, Texas . Authorities said they had no weapons and didn't appear dangerous. The identities of the men weren't immediately released, but officials found 90-day visas and Moroccan passports in their rented RV. Bexar County Sheriff Amadeo Ortiz said some of them arrived in New York last month and drove the vehicle to Florida, where the others joined them. 'It's just very strange,' Mr Wolff said. 'If it was some kids in the neighborhood, you'd think it was a prank.' Hours earlier: A suspect is patted down by an officer outside the courthouse in San Antonio, Texas, at 2am on Wednesday . Cuffed: A man is guarded by a police officer as he sits outside the courthouse with his hands behind his back . Authorities said the men, who were expected to be charged with burglary, spoke little English but were cooperating with authorities through the help of a translator. Mr Wolff chuckled at times while describing what may have been a prank, which apparently began with some of the group entering the courthouse through a fire escape. Three of the men were caught inside, and two were outside near the RV. The mood was far more serious around the Bexar County Courthouse when police arrested the men about 1.30am. Ongoing probe... over a prank: District Court Judge Peter Sakai walks past a taped-off stairway that leads from the fourth to the fifth floor of the courthouse . Officers called in bomb-sniffing dogs, FBI agents were brought to the scene, and downtown streets were blocked off. Authorities also searched the nearby convention centre, where dozens of top U.S. intelligence officials are attending a conference. Michael Vickers, the undersecretary of defence for intelligence, was scheduled to speak there Wednesday along with Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler, chief of U.S. Strategic Command. Mr Ortiz said authorities were waiting on a search warrant to comb the RV more thoroughly. Investigators said they already had found the visas, maps, cell phones and computers. | San Antonio had been on alert after initial reports said the foreign suspects had photos of courthouses and water systems in their van . | 8a8c1c231b043b5d51abf1d3b4761bc345db8ad0 | [
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The taxman is to target children with alarmist videos warning them to pay their bills when they grow up. A film depicting HM Revenue & Customs staff chasing ‘ghosts’ – unseen tax cheats who hide billions from the Treasury – will be screened to 14 to 17-year-olds from next month in new classes on personal finance and how to contribute to society. But James Daley, of the Fairer Finance consumer group, said: ‘Some personal finance education in schools is very useful, but trying to brainwash children into paying their tax isn’t the right way of going about it.’ HM Revenue & Customs is to target children with new alarmist videos warning them to pay their tax bills . The animation portrays tax inspectors as ‘ghostbusters’ hunting spooks who fail to declare money from their jobs and moonlighting workers who only pay tax on one income. After a successful chase, it ends with the tax evaders in jail. Officials are relying on greater influence in schools as well as their traditional enforcement activities to crack down on tax evasion, which represents a loss of £36billion to the UK each year. Jennie Granger, of HMRC, said: ‘Educating young people so they don’t get tempted is vital. We are very proud this film is part of the national curriculum.’ Critics suggested HMRC should focus on catching tax evaders rather than lecturing pupils. Anastasia de Waal, of the Civitas think-tank, said: ‘The reason people don’t pay their taxes is down to loopholes and inefficiencies. Better education will help, but there are much better ways of doing it than this.’ In its fight to narrow the tax gap, schools are set to become a new battlefront for HMRC. For the first time, financial education is now part of the compulsory National Curriculum. Introduced in September, it forms part of Citizenship classes for 11-16-year-olds and maths for 5-14-year-olds. The tax video - to be launched officially next month - will be broadcast as part of these. The film will be screened to 14 to 17-year-olds from next month in new classes on personal finance and how to contribute to society (file picture) HMRC also offers other information guides for teachers to use – mainly in paper form - to use with pupils. These include games and tests on how to understand income tax and what your National Insurance contributions are used for. Two years ago, it was criticised for a teaching module which encouraged students to shop tax dodgers to their teachers. A teaching aid asked children if they could think of any activities in their local area where tax wasn’t being paid. HMRC did not say how much the new video cost but its fight against tax fraud and evasion has already seen it spend millions setting up regional taskforces to go after industries it believes are prone to tax evasion. These now include taxi drivers, restaurants, market stall owners and even Avon ladies. Its pursuit of non-payment has also raised fears it is delving too deeply into people’s financial affairs. HMRC is currently pushing for new powers to raid the bank accounts of those it says owe it tax. The headquarters of HMRC. The government department is currently pushing for new powers to raid the bank accounts of those it says owe tax . Around 17,000 people a year would have money seized under proposed debt recovery powers - without the need for HMRC to go to court. Official documents reveal it anticipates receiving £375million from the planned scheme between 2015 and 2019. It claims it will always ensure its targets have at least £5,000 left over after any raid on their accounts. But experts worry not enough safeguards will be put in place to protect innocent or vulnerable households from errors that leave them out of pocket. Critics stress HMRC appears more interested in chasing down innocent parties than giant multinationals who pay negligible amounts of tax. | New HMRC film will warn children to pay their tax bills when they grow up .
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CLICK HERE to read the full match report from the Britannia Stadium . Several years ago after watching a routine Manchester United victory at the Britannia Stadium, Lou Macari was asked just why Sir Alex Ferguson's team seemed to find it easier than others in North Staffordshire. As well as being a United player in the 1970s, Macari was a Stoke City manager in the 1990s, back in the days when the arena of intimidation was the rather more functional Victoria Ground down the A500 'D Road' from here. Macari knows how things work in this part of the world and his answer was immediate. Jose Mourinho got his tactics right as Chelsea defeated Stoke 2-0 at the Britannia Stadium . Chelsea players celebrate after ensuring that they would be top of the table at Christmas . The Chelsea manager speaks to Stoke's tough tackler Phil Bardsley (right) after the game . 'It's simple,' he said. 'Too many teams come here anticipating a physical battle and start messing with their team and tactics. They pick big 'physical' players. 'United, though, always come here and pick footballers and tell them to play better football than Stoke. Usually, it works.' It was tempting to think back to that conversation here on Monday night and conclude that it remains as pertinent now as it did then. Stoke's current manager Mark Hughes has tweaked his team's style a little. They do play slightly differently than they did in the Tony Pulis days, even if his right-back Phil Bardsley did his best to drag us all back to another era altogether with some wretched early tackling on Monday night. Nevertheless, Stoke still present an athletic challenge that some managers try – and often fail – to nullify with a like for like approach. It is a peculiar tactic and one that Jose Mourinho eschewed very sensibly. Bardsley showed that Stoke's reputation as a physical team hasn't completely disappeared . Eden Hazard (left) is left writhing on the ground after the challenge that could have seen Bardsley sent off . Mourinho and Stoke boss Mark Hughes became involved in a touchline spat over the tackle . All Barclays Premier League footballers should be able to look after themselves physically, whoever they are and what ever position they play. If they can't then they arguably shouldn't be playing the game. Just like the great United teams of the past – and indeed Arsene Wenger's really good Arsenal teams – Mourinho's modern Chelsea combine the physical and the technical expertly. They are footballers first and foremost but, equally, you wouldn't mind having them by your side when it gets lively in the pub on a Friday night either. It is this combination that makes them so irresistibly impressive and clear favourites to win the first Premier League title of Mourinho's second spell at Stamford Bridge. Stoke's early approach was robust to say the least. Bardsley should have been booked for a tackle on Eden Hazard by the Chelsea byline and could perhaps have received a straight red for another on the Belgian at the other end soon after. John Terry opens the scoring with a header to help send Chelsea three points clear at the top of the table . Mourinho has built a Chelsea side that combines both physical and technical attributes . Nemanja Matic (right) gave another commanding performance at the heart of Chelsea's midfield . Chelsea didn't like it. Mourinho waved an imaginary card around on the touchline and became involved in a bickering contest with the particularly irritable Hughes. Crucially, though, Chelsea didn't allow the feuding to transfer itself to the field. They ensured it remained a football match and that was key. The league leaders' opening goal came after only a minute or so and was headed in from a corner by John Terry. 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Jose Mourinho game plan involving strength and technique worked .
Phil Bardsley was fortunate not to see red for a challenge on Eden Hazard .
John Terry opened the scoring with a header from Cesc Fabregas' corner .
Fabregas netted his second league goal of the season after the break .
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By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 05:20 EST, 3 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:37 EST, 4 January 2013 . Myra Hindley admitted that she was even worse and more wicked than her fellow Moors Murderer Ian Brady, it has emerged today. She even spoke of her 'love' for children and desire to work with old people if she was ever released. The child-killer said she was more 'culpable' than her partner-in-crime because she knew better and 'knew the difference between right and wrong'. Hindley's astonishing confession has been uncovered as secret details about the killer's time in a Suffolk jail were today revealed in prison files. Self-improvement: Moors murderer Myra Hindley turned herself from a 'brassy blonde' to an 'intelligent, well-educated woman' and even earned an Open University degree, pictured right, new files have revealed . It sees new light shone on her . clandestine trips to the county's hospitals, and her last views on the . brutal pair's notorious killings. Evil: Ian Brady who killed five children with Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965 . Hindley, branded the 'most . hated woman in Britain', was jailed for life in May 1966 for the . barbaric murders of Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17. She was also an accessory to the horrific murder of John Kilbride, 12, by Brady. In 1987 Hindley and Brady confessed to murdering Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, 12. Hindley, who was at Highpoint Prison at Stradishall, near Newmarket, from 1998, died in 2002 aged 60. Her confidential files were supposed to have remained secret for another 50 years. But, due to intense public interest, . they have been released to the national archives and are now being . studied and ordered by Dr Tom Clark, a lecturer at the University of . Sheffield. The typed reports, handwritten notes . and prison correspondence, which Dr Clark has been working on for three . years, give a unique snapshot of Hindley through the eyes of fellow . prisoners, welfare workers, warders and chaplains. And prison documents, which include a . final psychological assessment made in the months before her death, . carry blood-chilling accounts of how she felt about the Moors murders, . which horrified the nation. The interviews reveal that although . Hindley believed Brady initiated the killings her attitude towards . involvement shifted from 'one of fear to one of a willing participant . who enjoyed the feelings of affinity with Mr Brady which involvement in . the offences afforded her'. Hindley also suggests she recognises . her own culpability by stating: '...although by the end I had become as . corrupt as Ian was, there is a distinction...I did not instigate...but I . knew the difference between right and wrong...I didn't have a . compulsion to kill...I wasn't in charge...but in some ways I was more . culpable because I knew better.' Victims: Pauline Reade, 16, left, was their first victim and John Kilbride was killed in 1963 . Murdered: Lesley Ann Downey, 10, left, and Edward Evans, 17, right . Twelve-year-old Keith Benett was abducted on his way to visit his grandmother in Manchester on 16 June 1964. His body has never been found . The document reports that Hindley was 'extremely tearful' as she stated 'I've affected so many people.' She said that coverage of the Soham . murders in August 2002 - when Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, both 10, . were murdered by Ian Huntley - had brought back 'painful memories.' Hindley added: 'I can see how the public perceive my offences since the Cambridge offences.' During the interviews her lack of . mobility is also noted, with the claim that her ability to 'engage in . direct physically aggressive acts' is reduced. Hindley, who was described in other . documents at the time as 'generally cheerful' and even 'houseproud', . appeared to be content with 'unofficial segregation' in her single room . at Highpoint. She states: 'I would like to stay . here...peace of mind...good staff...appreciation of mum's needs...told . may move to Foston Hall (in Derbyshire)...I do not want to go . there...too far for visits....prefer to stay here at Highpoint.' 'I've made my funeral arrangements for here in case I die in prison,' said Hindley. But the Roman Catholic convert still . hoped she would be released from prison to spend time with her family, . despite what she admitted was 'the real threat of assassination'. Hindley added: 'I would like to work . with old people...know I can~t work with children...but love . children...would like to be of some help to older people.' The documents, which include letters . to then Home Secretary Jack Straw, also chart Hindley's ailing health . and top-secret operations to take her to West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St . Edmunds, and Addenbrooke's, Cambridge. Letters dated December 21, 1999, and . addressed to senior members of the prison service, said Hindley would be . attending West Suffolk Hospital on December 30 as an in-patient for . between two and five days after suffering 'ill-health for some time'. Jailed: Hindley was put in charge of the kitchen on E wing at Holloway Prison in North London and died in 2002 at Highpoint Prison, Suffolk . The letter goes on to say that the . visit could not be 'out and back' because the 'media are on the scent' and the savage multiple child-killer was more at risk of an attack than . she was likely to escape. An accompanying document said Hindley . should be cuffed when travelling to the hospital and on a closeting . chain when moving from her bed 'mainly to prevent abduction, though . there is always a possibility of her attempting to escape'. The report, which stressed that . Hindley could not be relied upon to keep arrangements secret, added: 'It . is probably fair to say that neither she nor the staff who care for her . here have much real idea of the true risks of her visit to hospital.' Hindley suffered ill-health throughout . her 36 years in jail and suffered from the heart condition angina, high . blood pressure and brittle bone disease osteoporosis. Although the exact reason for her . visit to West Suffolk Hospital is not contained in documents seen, she . is known to have had heart scans and suffered a stroke while at . Highpoint - attributed to her heavy smoking - in January 2000. One document in the archive gives . details of 'Operation Charlton', the pre-planned admission of Hindley . into Addenbrooke's on January 13, 2000. The exercise was named after Hindley's . pseudonym, Christine Charlton, which was used at all times when . communicating with the hospital. The document, which includes the exact . route into the hospital, also explains how the prisoner should be . guarded by officers in civilian clothing. Hindley died in West Suffolk Hospital . in November 2002 from a serious chest infection that followed a . suspected heart attack two weeks before. She received the last rites from a Catholic priest. | Prison papers about Myra Hindley released early to national archives .
She and lover Ian Brady killed and tortured five children in the 1960s .
Bodies of victims were then buried on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester .
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By . Ryan Gorman . New Orleans police are searching for two people wanted in the kidnapping of a toddler girl in the back seat of a car stolen last week from a downtown gas station. The assailants, both black males, were in another stolen car Wednesday night when they pulled into the Shell station just before 10.30 p.m. and one jumped out and stole the car with the baby inside, surveillance video showed. The tot was dumped on a nearby sidewalk and scooped up by a good Samaritan, according to police, but neither the stolen cars nor the suspects have been found. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Mad dash: The man circled can be seen running from the stolen PT Cruiser (far right) to the Infinity (far left) Police called the theft a ‘crime of opportunity’ in comments to WVUE, and said the toddler’s father leaving the windshield wipers and headlights on led the thief to make off with his black Infiniti G35. ‘Who would get out and run into a gas station and leave your car running? More so, who would leave their child inside of a car? So, this is something that may have and could have been prevented if somebody had just taken a little more precaution,’ said NOPD Commander Robert Bardy. ‘Never leave your child alone in a car that's running. First and foremost, that's one thing you don't want to do,’ added Retired NOPD Sgt. Michael LeVasseur. Video shows the father walking inside the gas station as the thieves roll into another pump in a stolen Chrysler PT Cruiser. The theft: He is seen here opening the door to the Inifiniti, the car's headlights and windshield wipers are noticeably on when the occupant is inside the store . The switch: The man circled was the passenger in the stolen PT Cruiser, he walks around to the front of the car while the other thief drives the Infiniti from the station (bottom left corner) His turn at the wheel: The PT Cruiser passenger jumps behind the wheel of the stolen car . The driver of Chrysler then gets out and runs over to the Infiniti while his passenger casually exits the car and hops behind the wheel. The black male quickly drives the Infiniti away and the Chrysler follows close behind.The whole theft took less than 10 seconds. ‘This is a crime of opportunity, and it's something that we as citizens should be more aware of, Bardy explained. Police sources said the Chrysler was similarly stolen from a Valero gas station only one block away. ‘It's reported to us that a gentleman had exited his car at Wagner's Market right down on Claiborne and Martin Luther King, and then he went to the back to check his tire, and somebody got in his car. The car was left running,’ Bardy recalled. The car thief soon dumped the young child on a bleak street corner marked by a concrete wall and crooked fencing around a home abandoned after being damaged in Hurricane Katrina, said police. Over and out: The PT Cruiser then follows the Inifiniti out of the gas station - neither car has been seen since . Where it happened: The Shell gas station where the brazen theft occurred . Desolate: The nearly-abandoned block where the baby was found by a good samaritan before being brought to a local police station . The person brought the girl to a nearby police station where she was reunited with her father, cops said. It is not clear if the father will face neglect charges for leaving the tot in the car, but police told the station they will take that into consideration after the more serious crime is solved. Both cars are still missing. The black 2003 Infinty G35 has Louisiana plate XXM725 and the red PT Cruiser has Louisiana plate XTF472. | The thief ran from a stolen Chrysler PT Cruiser to take the Infiniti G35 while it was left with the headlights and windshield wipers on .
A two-year-old girl was in the backseat of the Infiniti while her father was inside the gas station .
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By . Matt Blake . PUBLISHED: . 06:10 EST, 21 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:32 EST, 21 May 2013 . Snuggling tenderly on the sofa, Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp could not seem more in love as they share a laugh over their pet monkey - in their final photograph together before he shot her dead. The photo provides a moving insight into the life of the lovers, who friends claim appeared every inch South Africa's golden couple. But four days after it was taken, Reeva would be dead and Pistorius in court accused of murder. Golden couple: The photo provides a moving insight into the life of the lovers, who friends claim appeared every inch South Africa's perfect couple . 'He was tickling her,' Pistorius' best friend Christo Menelaou, who took the picture, told South Africa's You magazine. 'They were lovers and also real friends.' Christo, 34, who said Pistorius had grown a thick beard since his girlfriend's death, added: 'He cries a lot and says over and over, "I’m sorry".' Pistorius denies murder, claiming he shot his model girlfriend by accident because he believed a burglar had entered their home while they slept. It comes as it was today reported detectives investigating Reeva's death have questioned a blonde socialite over her relationship with the Blade Runner amid claims the two shared flirty text messages and canoodled at a party. Junior PR executive Erin Stear, 25, gave a statement to police under oath in which she denied having an affair with Pistorius, according to The Sun. A source told the paper: 'Erin met Oscar when Reeva was his girlfriend. They hit it off and met up again after messaging each other. She was really excited about getting to know him.' Also today, Pistorius' brother Carl appeared in court . charged with killing a woman with his 4x4 in a road . accident in 2008. The brother: The picture was revealed by You magazine today - the same day Pistorius' brother Carl appeared in court charged with killing a woman on a motorbike with his 4x4 in a road accident 2008 . Prosecutors say Carl Pistorius was . driving an SUV in March 2008 when he collided with a female . motorcyclist. The woman, Marietjie Barnard, died in a hospital. Although . the culpable homicide charge against Carl was initially dropped, it was . reinstated this year after forensic evidence and reports from the . accident scene became available, according to prosecutors. The Pistorius family said last month that Carl deeply regretted the incident, but insisted it was a 'tragic accident.' He was not under the influence of alcohol, the family said. In the dock: Pistorius denies murder, claiming he shot his model girlfriend, believing a burglar had entered their home while they slept . Tragedy: Reeva Steenkamp died after being shot in the bathroom at Pistorius' home . Blade Runner: Pistorius' coach claims the South African is not ready to head back into action . It comes days after Oscar Pistorius revealed he will not return to the track for the rest of the year so he can focus on his looming court case. Pistorius . stands accused of premeditated murder after the death of his girlfriend . Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot dead on Valentine's Day at his Pretoria . home. The 'Blade Runner', . who was released on bail in February, will be back in court on June 4 . and is likely to stand trial before the end of 2013. But the Paralympian’s coach Ampie Louw . revealed Pistorius has turned down invitations to take part in major . international athletic events and will stay away from the track. Louw said: 'We have decided as a team we are not talking [about] any training or athletics. 'We have postponed [races] for the whole year.' | Four days later, Reeva would be dead and Pistorius accused of her murder .
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By . Mark Duell . Last updated at 10:50 PM on 14th February 2012 . Barack Obama today assured China's heir apparent leader that the U.S. welcomes Beijing's rise in the world - despite the country’s sharp policy differences over foreign affairs and economic issues. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping was given a warm welcome by the U.S. President, who said strong cooperation is good for the rest of the world - but reiterated concerns over its human rights record. Vice President Xi, who is slated to replace Communist Party President Hu Jintao in autumn, defended China’s rights record over the past 30 years, but added that ‘there's always room for improvement’. Scroll down for video . Greetings: U.S. President Barack Obama, right, meets with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Tuesday . His comments on Tuesday were similar to those made by President Jintao during a state visit one year ago. Both sides stressed the importance of stable relations between the two global powers. Underscoring the sensitivity of the rights issues among China's critics, a few hundred protesters marched outside the White House in Washington, waving Tibetan flags and calling for a free Tibet. They held signs proclaiming, ‘Xi Jinping: Tibet will be free’ and shouted slogans such as ‘Shame on Chinese government’ and ‘Stop lying to the world.’ But Vice President Xi's unusually long and high-level visit to the U.S. reflected the stature he is set to assume, and the importance the Obama administration puts on building ties with Beijing. Foreign affairs: Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping also met with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, left, and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, on Tuesday . ‘We welcome China's peaceful rise,’ President Obama said. ‘We believe that a strong and prosperous China is one that can help to bring stability and prosperity to the region and to the world.’ 'We welcome China's peaceful rise. We believe that a strong and prosperous China is one that can help to bring stability and prosperity to the region and to the world' U.S. President Barack Obama . He said he looks forward to future cooperation. A smiling Vice President Xi said he wants to build on the past relationship between President Obama and President Hu and ‘deepen the friendship’. ‘I hope to engage with a broad cross-section of American society during my current visit so as to deepen mutual understanding, expand consensus (and) strengthen cooperation,’ he added. Vice President Xi's visit is being closely watched because he will likely lead China over the coming decade. After becoming party leader, he is expected to replace President Hu in office next year. Good health: Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, centre, proposes a toast with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington D.C. on Tuesday . In the years ahead, the U.S. and China are likely to see their economic ties grow even as they are viewed increasingly as military rivals - something acknowledged by Vice President Joe Biden. 'We are not always going to see eye-to-eye (or) see things exactly the same. But we have very important economic and political concerns that warrant that we work together' U.S. Vice President Joe Biden . ‘We are not always going to see eye-to-eye (or) see things exactly the same,’ he said. ‘But we have very important economic and political concerns that warrant that we work together.’ Vice President Xi has impeccable Communist Party credentials as the son of a famed revolutionary, but is viewed as more able to make personal connections than Hu and be more friendly. While his trip is unlikely to herald any policy changes, it may signal his leadership style. Other than his genial demeanour, he revealed little in his rather staged appearances at the White House. Talks: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, third right, and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, fifth left, hold an expanded bilateral meeting with other U.S. and Chinese officials in the Roosevelt Room at the White House . But President Obama let on that Vice President Xi may take in an L.A. Lakers NBA basketball game when he visits Los Angeles, California, toward the end of his trip. 'I hope to engage with a broad cross-section of American society during my current visit so as to deepen mutual understanding, expand consensus (and) strengthen cooperation' Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping . Later on Tuesday, Vice President Xi was meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who was hoping to inject some vigour into half-hearted ties between their two militaries. Washington will need to convince a sceptical Beijing that an adjustment in U.S. foreign policy to emphasise the economically booming Asia-Pacific region is not aimed at containing the rise of China. And for its part, China needs to convince the U.S. and many Asian nations that they need not fear its two-decade military build-up. Protests: Demonstrators wave flags and banners during a pro-Tibetan demonstration in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington D.C. on Tuesday . Vice President Biden and President Obama also discussed some thorny foreign policy issues with Vice President Xi, including North Korea, Iran and Syria. 'Shame on Chinese government' / 'Stop lying to the world' Slogans shouted by protesters . Last week China joined Russia in vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution pressuring Syrian President Bashar Assad's government over its violent crackdown on opponents. Vice President Xi said that a greater part of his discussions were on economic and trade issues. He said the U.S. and China agree the international economic and financial situation remains ‘grim.’ He added that ensuring growth and promoting employment were high on the domestic agenda of both countries. Shouts: Dozens of impassioned pro-Tibet and anti-Chinese government activists outside the White House meditated, waved flags and chanted 'China lies, Tibetans die' and 'Xi, Tibet will be free!' The key American concerns are the vast trade imbalance between the world's two largest economies, and Chinese trade rule violations. 'On critical issues like human rights we . will continue to emphasise what we believe is the importance of . recognising the aspirations and rights of all people' U.S. President Barack Obama . The U.S. also reiterated problems with intellectual property theft and the value of China's currency. The yuan has gained a little against the dollar in the past 1 1/2 years but still is viewed by Washington as undervalued to boost the exports that still drive China's economy. With President Obama vying for re-election this November, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is accusing him of being soft on China at the expense of a still-fragile U.S. economy. Taking part: Losel Tenzon, left, attends a pro-Tibetan demonstration and Falun Gong practitioners meditate . Alongside Vice President Xi, President Obama stressed the ‘importance of working by the same rules of the road when it comes to the world economic system.’ 'On critical issues like human rights we will continue to emphasise what we believe is the importance of recognising the aspirations and rights of all people,' President Obama added. Vice President Xi said the U.S. and China should ‘strive for greater balance in trade and investment between the two countries’. U.S. officials see the visit primarily as an investment in relationship-building, both on the personal level and to advance a three-year push for cooperative ties with Asia's emerging superpower. See video here . | Barack Obama meets Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping at White House .
Xi is slated to replace Communist Party President Hu Jintao in autumn .
Also met Vice President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta .
Few hundred protesters call for free Tibet while talks continued inside . | cf768adf15a7d08cd5b822a94d71918374c37ab0 | [
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"February 2012 . Barack Obama today assured",
"China's heir apparent leader that the U.S.",
"welcomes Beijing's rise in the world - despite",
"the country’s sharp policy differences over",
"foreign affairs and economic issues. Chinese Vice",
"President Xi Jinping was given a warm welcome by",
"the U.S. President, who said strong cooperation",
"is good for the rest of the world - but",
"reiterated concerns over its human rights record.",
"Vice President Xi, who is slated to replace",
"Communist Party President Hu Jintao in autumn,",
"defended China’s rights record over the past 30",
"years, but added that ‘there's always room for",
"improvement’. Scroll down for video . Greetings:",
"U.S. President Barack Obama, right, meets with",
"Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Tuesday .",
"His comments on Tuesday were similar to those",
"made by President Jintao during a state visit one",
"year ago. Both sides stressed the importance of",
"stable relations between the two global powers.",
"Underscoring the sensitivity of the rights issues",
"among China's critics, a few hundred protesters",
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"waving Tibetan flags and calling for a free",
"Tibet. They held signs proclaiming, ‘Xi Jinping:",
"Tibet will be free’ and shouted slogans such as",
"‘Shame on Chinese government’ and ‘Stop lying to",
"the world.’ But Vice President Xi's unusually",
"long and high-level visit to the U.S. reflected",
"the stature he is set to assume, and the",
"importance the Obama administration puts on",
"building ties with Beijing. Foreign affairs:",
"Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping also met with",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, left, and",
"U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, on Tuesday",
". ‘We welcome China's peaceful rise,’ President",
"Obama said. ‘We believe that a strong and",
"prosperous China is one that can help to bring",
"stability and prosperity to the region and to the",
"world.’ 'We welcome China's peaceful rise. We",
"believe that a strong and prosperous China is one",
"that can help to bring stability and prosperity",
"to the region and to the world' U.S. President",
"Barack Obama . He said he looks forward to future",
"cooperation. A smiling Vice President Xi said he",
"wants to build on the past relationship between",
"President Obama and President Hu and ‘deepen the",
"friendship’. ‘I hope to engage with a broad",
"cross-section of American society during my",
"current visit so as to deepen mutual",
"understanding, expand consensus (and) strengthen",
"cooperation,’ he added. Vice President Xi's visit",
"is being closely watched because he will likely",
"lead China over the coming decade. After becoming",
"party leader, he is expected to replace President",
"Hu in office next year. Good health: Chinese Vice",
"President Xi Jinping, centre, proposes a toast",
"with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, and",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in",
"Washington D.C. on Tuesday . In the years ahead,",
"the U.S. and China are likely to see their",
"economic ties grow even as they are viewed",
"increasingly as military rivals - something",
"acknowledged by Vice President Joe Biden. 'We are",
"not always going to see eye-to-eye (or) see",
"things exactly the same. But we have very",
"important economic and political concerns that",
"warrant that we work together' U.S. Vice",
"President Joe Biden . ‘We are not always going to",
"see eye-to-eye (or) see things exactly the same,’",
"he said. ‘But we have very important economic and",
"political concerns that warrant that we work",
"together.’ Vice President Xi has impeccable",
"Communist Party credentials as the son of a famed",
"revolutionary, but is viewed as more able to make",
"personal connections than Hu and be more",
"friendly. While his trip is unlikely to herald",
"any policy changes, it may signal his leadership",
"style. Other than his genial demeanour, he",
"revealed little in his rather staged appearances",
"at the White House. Talks: U.S. Vice President",
"Joe Biden, third right, and Chinese Vice",
"President Xi Jinping, fifth left, hold an",
"expanded bilateral meeting with other U.S. and",
"Chinese officials in the Roosevelt Room at the",
"White House . But President Obama let on that",
"Vice President Xi may take in an L.A. Lakers NBA",
"basketball game when he visits Los Angeles,",
"California, toward the end of his trip. 'I hope",
"to engage with a broad cross-section of American",
"society during my current visit so as to deepen",
"mutual understanding, expand consensus (and)",
"strengthen cooperation' Chinese Vice President Xi",
"Jinping . Later on Tuesday, Vice President Xi was",
"meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta,",
"who was hoping to inject some vigour into",
"half-hearted ties between their two militaries.",
"Washington will need to convince a sceptical",
"Beijing that an adjustment in U.S. foreign policy",
"to emphasise the economically booming",
"Asia-Pacific region is not aimed at containing",
"the rise of China. And for its part, China needs",
"to convince the U.S. and many Asian nations that",
"they need not fear its two-decade military",
"build-up. Protests: Demonstrators wave flags and",
"banners during a pro-Tibetan demonstration in",
"Lafayette Park across from the White House in",
"Washington D.C. on Tuesday . Vice President Biden",
"and President Obama also discussed some thorny",
"foreign policy issues with Vice President Xi,",
"including North Korea, Iran and Syria. 'Shame on",
"Chinese government' / 'Stop lying to the world'",
"Slogans shouted by protesters . Last week China",
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"critical issues like human rights we . will",
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"still is viewed by Washington as undervalued to",
"boost the exports that still drive China's",
"economy. With President Obama vying for",
"re-election this November, Republican",
"presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is accusing",
"him of being soft on China at the expense of a",
"still-fragile U.S. economy. Taking part: Losel",
"Tenzon, left, attends a pro-Tibetan demonstration",
"and Falun Gong practitioners meditate . Alongside",
"Vice President Xi, President Obama stressed the",
"‘importance of working by the same rules of the",
"road when it comes to the world economic system.’",
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"‘strive for greater balance in trade and",
"investment between the two countries’. U.S.",
"officials see the visit primarily as an",
"investment in relationship-building, both on the",
"personal level and to advance a three-year push",
"for cooperative ties with Asia's emerging",
"superpower. See video here ."
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(CNN) -- A compromise is putting rah, rah, rah back in place of no, no, no at a Florida school that had banned cheerleader skirts administrators said were too revealing for the classroom. The decision to prohibit cheerleader skirts during classroom hours had been ridiculed as short in spirit by some Countryside High School cheerleaders and parents. School leaders said the uniforms just weren't appropriate for classrooms and didn't fit into student dress codes. Under the compromise between Pinellas County Schools and the cheerleading team, the skirts will have to be lower than the cheerleaders' fingertip reach, and no sleeveless tops will be allowed, school district spokeswoman Melanie Marquez Parra told CNN Friday. Sophomore Jeana Fraser has been cheering since middle school, and she scored a spot on the Countryside High School Varsity cheerleading team this year. Before the compromise was announced, she told CNN affiliate WFLA that her "shorter than mid-thigh" skirt was a part of tradition: The football players and cheerleaders wear their uniforms each Friday during school on game day. Jeana said dressing up for game day is a way for students to get excited for the football game. Jeana's father, David Fraser, told CNN that some kids "just don't wear as many clothes as they should," primarily because of the Florida heat. He said he understands administrators were in a tough spot, but he noted that cheerleading is part of Americana. Her mother, Norma Fraser, agreed, telling WFLA the ban was "almost un-American." Marquez Parra said all 16 schools in the district have a dress code, and have for some time, but Countryside is an example of a school that is increasing enforcement. The spokeswoman told CNN the emphasis should be on academics, and noted squads express their spirit during school hours at several schools in different ways. At one, cheerleaders wear their uniform tops, with sleeves, and matching bows in their hair. | A compromise allows cheerleader outfits in a Pinellas County, Florida, high school .
The district bans too-short cheerleader skirts during classroom hours .
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Australian airline Qantas grounded all its aircraft Saturday in response to a labor dispute, in a step that will disrupt travel for thousands of people. Flights in the air will complete those journeys, the airline said in a statement, but there will be no further domestic or international departures worldwide. The industrial action involves three unions representing air and ground staff. Qantas, the flag carrier for Australia and its largest domestic and international airline, said that all employees involved in the strike would be locked out from Monday evening. "Pilots, licensed engineers and baggage, ground and catering staff are essential to Qantas operations and the lock-out will therefore make it necessary for all Qantas aircraft to be grounded," the airline said. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard told reporters the dispute had "escalated in a dramatic way" during the day. As a result, the government had asked Fair Work Australia -- an independent national workplace relations tribunal -- to terminate the industrial action and resolve the dispute itself, she said. A hearing is taking place Saturday night. "My message to Qantas, the employees and trade unions is: Australians do want to see this dispute sorted out. Qantas is an iconic Australian brand, it is the employer of thousands of Australians, thousands of people rely on it for their livelihoods and we do need this dispute to be brought to an end," she said. The move comes at an embarrassing moment for Australia, which is hosting dozens of heads of government and their staff for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth. Gillard said government workers would help those whose flights home were booked with Qantas to make alternative plans. Speaking at a news conference in Sydney, Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said it was a hard decision to ground the fleet but that the airline had been left with no alternative in the face of the unions' "extreme claim." Staff involved in the industrial action will be locked-out for as long as it takes, he said, and the unions "will have to decide how badly they want to damage Qantas." Grounding its fleet will have a daily financial impact of about 20 million Australian dollars ($21.4 million), Qantas said. Customers booked on Qantas flights should not go to the airport until further notice, the airline said. It will offer travelers full refunds or the chance to rebook. Flights with subsidiaries Jetstar and QantasLink, as well as Qantas flights across the Tasman Sea operated by Jetconnect and freight services, are not affected by the grounding, it said. The unions involved in the dispute reacted angrily to Joyce's statement. Richard Woodward, vice president of the Australian and International Pilots' Union (AIPA), branded it "a maniacal overreaction." The decision to ground the Qantas fleet, stranding thousands of passengers around the world, was unnecessary and grossly irresponsible, he said in a statement, adding: "Alan Joyce is holding a knife to the nation's throat." Speaking to CNN, he accused Qantas management of "complete brinkmanship" and said the company's action -- only announced Saturday -- had been planned for months. The Transport Workers Union of Australia said in on online statement: "Today's unwarranted and disgraceful snap announcement by Qantas CEO Alan Joyce is designed to destroy Qantas as we have always known it." The union accused Qantas management of "untruths and subterfuge" in its dealings with staff, in a statement earlier this week. The airline plans to outsource ground jobs, the union says, at a cost of thousands of Australian jobs. The Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers union (ALAEA) accused Qantas of lying to the media and putting profits first, in a statement on its website earlier this month. It said the union's industrial action was aimed at ensuring Qantas "will have less money to set up the overseas operations that will cannibalise Qantas routes and our job security." Qantas says the weeks-long dispute with staff has already affected more than 70,000 passengers and cost it about 15 million Australian dollars ($16 million) a week in lost revenue. London's Heathrow airport said only a handful of long-haul Qantas flights had been scheduled to fly Saturday and Sunday, and it had been able to contact passengers to rebook their travel. Qantas, which has its headquarters in Sydney, is the second oldest airline in the world, having marked the 90th anniversary of its foundation last year. It employs about 32,500 people and flies to more than 180 destinations worldwide, according to the company website. For the financial year ending June 2010, it made a post-tax profit of 116 million Australian dollars. | PM Gillard: "We need this dispute to be brought to an end"
Australian pilots' union says Qantas's move is "a maniacal overreaction"
Qantas boss says the unions' "extreme claim" left the airline no choice .
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Compared to the deep snow that has blanketed much of the North, the South experienced little more than a few flurries yesterday. Yet dozens of schools in the region decided to close or open late ‘because of the weather’. And commuters across the country were hit by road and rail chaos – even in places that had received the lightest of dustings. Irate travellers said it was a joke that a few snowflakes could bring the country ‘to its knees’. One-year-old Max Beamer held his mother's hand as he experienced his first taste of snow during a walk in Whitby, North Yorkshire yesterday . Little Max throws his first snowball during his walk around Whitby, which was hit by roughly eight inches of snow yesterday . In Surrey, eight schools were closed due to the snow while three were shut in Buckinghamshire, two in Hampshire and another in Berkshire. Among them was Crondall Primary School near Farnham, which told parents in an online message that staff were ‘having difficulty travelling in from outside of the area’. Twelve miles away, Oakwood Infant School in Hartley Wintney blamed its partial closure on ‘lack of heating in the main building’. Dozens of other schools opened later than usual to accommodate pupils and staff held up on icy roads. Emma Spencer from Whitby ropes in her dog Beattie to help free her red VW Beetle from the snow on the A169 road yesterday . Having fun: Alexander and Paige Davies enjoy a rather unorthodox ride to school in this image taken by mother Emma in Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire (left), while Louise Lorkin took this picture of son Mason Charge, two, in Hemel Hempstead, Greater London . No snow day for you: Two girls make their way to school over the frozen pavements of North Ascot in this photo by an unknown reader . On Monday night, an average of 1 - 3cm (0.3 - 1in) of snow fell in Southern England. It was up to 8cm (3in) in the North. A further 2cm was expected in the South last night. No doubt, rail and road travellers will be hoping yesterday’s morning misery won’t be repeated. Signalling problems, broken-down trains and congestion hit the railways, especially in the South East. Some trains were cancelled, while others were delayed on routes including the West Coast Mainline between Northampton and London Euston. Many passengers blamed snow but Network Rail insisted this was not the case. Last night a spokesman said: ‘There have been no significant weather-related delays on the network today.’ Union leaders blamed cuts in maintenance for the problems, which have hit rail services since the start of the year. A couple walk through snow covered streets in Goathland in North Yorkshire, as temperatures reaching a spine-chilling -11C on Monday . Irate commuters aid it was a joke that a few snowflakes could bring the country ‘to its knees’ after road and rails were hit by travel chaos . On the roads there were 7,096 separate congestion hotspots by 8.50am, causing 5,135 miles of tailbacks and 699 hours of delay, according to TomTom Traffic. Many motorists took to social media to vent their annoyance. Ed Hayward from Buckinghamshire tweeted: ‘Can’t believe that 2 inches of snow brings High Wycombe’s traffic system to its knees.’ Another commuter near Horsham, West Sussex, wrote: ‘The three flakes of snow that have fallen on the A281 have created traffic chaos.’ Two crashes on the A34 and M25 caused huge delays during rush hour, and the AA said it had rescued 43 stranded cars by noon. This was despite gritters being out in force on the main roads and motorways, which are run by the Highways Agency. However many local roads leading to them — which are the responsibility of councils — were untreated, causing log-jams and a string of crashes. London Underground was also in chaos during rush hour, with some passengers stranded for hours after a signal failure hit three of the busiest Tube lines. Forecasters predict a new band of freezing cold air will blow in from central Europe on Friday. Today is expected to be a cold and largely dry day with some sleet and snow in the East, according to Meteogroup. Still snowing: Michael Harper shared this image of Tongham, near Farnham in Surrey as the snow continued to fall on Monday morning . Winter walk:This image of Wimbledon Common coated with snow was taken on Monday morning by Mail Online reader Sarah Rooke . | Eight schools were closed in Surrey, three in Buckinghamshire, two in Hampshire and another in Berkshire .
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By . Jaymi Mccann . PUBLISHED: . 05:54 EST, 5 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:46 EST, 5 March 2013 . The opera Carmen has featured the most iconic and talented stars of the stage. But now, two donkeys will enter stage left and take parts in this year’s production at the King’s Theatre in Southsea, Hampshire. The show, produced and directed by Ellen . Kent, will see Ollie and Rusty appear in two scenes, first in a market . selling oranges in Act One, and carrying smugglers goods in the second . act. Ollie (left) and Rusty (right) audition for parts in Carmen at the King's Theatre in Southsea, Hampshire . Owner Tracy Hunt struggles to control Rusty as she successfully auditions her donkey Rusty for a part in the show . Ollie and Rusty’s handlers, Paul and Tracy Hunt, had a tough time getting the stable-mates through their audition successfully. But the talented donkeys will appear when the touring show goes to Southsea on March 17. They will join internationally renowned mezzo soprano Nadia Stoianova who has portrayed Carmen in tours across the country. Paul Hunt also struggled to successfully audition Ollie for the part, but the pair were eventually chosen . Tracy Hunt pulls Rusty into position before the two donkey's audition . Ollie the donkey shows his best side as he auditions for the role in Carmen . Paul Hunt leaves the auditions with a successful Ollie after both of his donkeys grabbed the parts . Set in Seville, Bizet’s opera features some of the most famous and evocative songs in classical theatre. The award-winning producer Ellen Kent spent her teenage years in Spain and said she was influenced by the colours and atmosphere of the country. Ms Kent started the equivalent of the RSPCA in Spain with her mother during her time there. She has used live donkey's in past productions, including one recently in Dartford's Orchard Theatre. Ms Kent said that the use of live donkeys helps to create an authentic Spanish feel as well as allow her to raise awareness for donkey sanctuaries in the UK. She has attempted to include a live donkey wherever possible during her UK tour of Carmen. In the past she has also included a black stallion in her cast, and used pyrotechnics to give her interpretation of the opera a more visual element. | Donkeys Ollie and Rusty will grace the stage when they appear in Carmen .
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He spent almost half a century building up a fashion empire, but lost it over a bank holiday weekend. Now Jaeger founder Harold Tillman is back in the clothing business but in a very different style – making outfits to combat malaria. The determined 68-year-old will be producing suits, shirts, trousers and other clothes impregnated with a powerful insect repellent. Harold Tillman, pictured here with former face of Jaeger Laura Bailey, is taking on . the mosquito - by launching a range of clothes which have an inbuilt . insect repellent . The revolutionary technology used will allow the clothes to be washed dozens of times before they lose their repellent effect. The new venture comes two years after he lost control of Jaeger and Aquascutum in a bitter power-struggle with bankers. He was away in Italy over that Easter when he learned that Lloyds Bank had sold Jaeger’s debt to venture capitalists Better Capital, which put the firm into administration. He says bankers ‘stole’ his company – a charge they deny. Detractors may see Tillman’s new adventure as a little crazy, but the entrepreneur insisted: ‘I don’t think I’ve gone off my rocker at all. I’m doing things that I want to do, that give benefit back to the world.’ According to the World Health Organisation, half the world’s population is at risk of malaria. In 2012 it claimed an estimated 627,000 lives. Tillman’s new clothing – and new mosquito nets he is helping produce – will be embedded with SIL2U, tiny porous silica particles with microscopic holes that can be filled with different biological agents. Mosquitos can bite through thin fabric but the repellant works to stop them coming near . For the anti-malarial garments, the substance will be the repellent IR3535, just as effective as DEET – the most common active ingredient in insect repellents – but far less toxic, oily or smelly. Mosquitos can bite through thin fabric, so the repellent works by stopping them coming near. Tillman is also bringing out a spray that temporarily ‘mozzy-proofs’ normal clothes and that can be sprayed on skin, and wet wipes containing repellent and sunscreen. He is also working with top chemists to create antibacterial hospital bedding – and even paint – by putting peroxide into the particles. Tillman said the projects were ‘very exciting’, adding: ‘I never realised the market for these sort of products was so big. We are talking billions.’ Jane Kaye-Bailey, founder of UK malaria prevention charity The Butterfly Tree, which works in Zambia, said: ‘I would welcome anything that has the potential to save lives.’ She urged Mr Tillman to make his new products affordable for those in poorer parts of the world, or to give them directly to charities. | Harold Tillman, 68, is producing clothes filled with a powerful insect repellent .
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Welcome to England's future. On Tuesday, in Belo Horizonte, a game of football will be played. If England lose, it means nothing. If England win, it means nothing. If England draw - well, you get the idea. And not just because the World Cup is over for Roy Hodgson and his men. The FA decided on Friday, in the aftermath of an eight-day exit from meaningful tournament football in Brazil, that victory and defeat were very over-rated qualities when assessing the success of a sports team. Save me: England boss Roy Hodgson talks to Raheem Sterling at training on Monday . There were other factors, intangibles, concerning preparation and work across several years that had to be considered, too. 'If it doesn't matter who wins and who loses, then why do they keep score?' asked the great Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, a man with more quotable one-liners than Bill Shankly, yet England are moving beyond these earthbound measures of advancement. It is just as well, for the Costa Rica experience is destined to be repeated two years from here. The qualification campaign for the 2016 European Championship, with the finals expanded and downgraded to 24 teams, means it will get no easier to ascertain English progress in the coming months. Team talk: England's manager Roy Hodgson with the players on Monday . Strength: John Terry and Rio Ferdinand formed an exceptional partnership . England must play Switzerland, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania and San Marino to qualify, knowing a top-two finish guarantees entry and third place affords a puncher's chance via the play-offs. The only high quality opposition England will face between now and June 2016, then, is in friendly games, and those results are notoriously deceptive. England have defeated Italy and Spain in their most recent non-competitive meetings and won against Germany in a friendly in 2008. There will be no way of knowing England's true standing until their next competitive game in finals football in 2016. Everything that happens until that date lacks substance. Coming here, the message was that England had battled through a difficult qualifying group, which allowed for false security. It was suspected that Gary Cahill and Phil Jagielka were far from an exceptional pairing at centre-half, when compared to their predecessors: John Terry and Rio Ferdinand, Tony Adams and Sol Campbell, with Ledley King in the role of fifth Beatle. Bottom line: England's whole defence struggled to cope in Brazil . Yet, England had only conceded four goals in qualifying, it was pointed out. Fewer than any country in Europe, bar Spain. Cahill and Jagielka were not perfect, but they could do a job. This wasn't true. England's centre-halves, the whole defence in fact, were below the standard required. That is why the World Cup, not the route to it, is the health check. Hodgson thinks it would be harsh to judge his work on two matches, but that is football's bottom line. Did Carlo Ancelotti become a better coach because he won a single match, and with it Real Madrid's 10th European Cup final? In a word: yes. The fear when Hodgson succeeded Fabio Capello was that he would turn England, not into Inter Milan, nor even his overachieving Fulham and Switzerland teams, but into West Bromwich Albion. Hodgson did a very good job at West Brom, but it was a job with limitations. West Brom do not tolerate relegation, but they have no realistic ambitions of major success, either. If they finish safe and give it a go against the biggest clubs, it will be regarded as a good season. This is where England are now. High and mighty: Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti celebrates Champions League glory . For Premier League safety, read tournament qualification. Alex Horne, the general secretary, summed up the dismal reprogramming that has taken place at the FA when he announced before the tournament began that he believed Hodgson had done enough to justify seeing out his contract until 2016 just by getting to Brazil. The widespread acceptance of courageous defeat by Italy in Manaus is another sign that England now regard themselves as small and provincial, unable to challenge the elite. Hodgson's final season at West Bromwich Albion began with a home game against the champions, Manchester United. Wayne Rooney put United ahead, but David de Gea was inexperienced and vulnerable, and West Brom equalised through Shane Long. Limited success: Roy Hodgson made sure West Brom were safe from relegation . They gave United a real game from there but, with nine minutes to go, an Ashley Young cross that deflected once before going in off Steven Reid handed United victory. It was agreed that West Brom could have put more pressure on De Gea after half-time, but had done pretty well in the circumstances and were perhaps unlucky not to earn a point against a classier team. There was definitely cause for optimism. In . essence, that was the reaction to England's defeat by Italy. Even the . same scoreline against Uruguay has produced no grand inquest. What . began as realism is now the meek acceptance of defeat. The impossible job, we are now told. It isn't. That is more expectation . management. If it is impossible then the incumbent should step aside to . make room for another candidate, who might entertain possibility. Others see the green shoots of recovery in the next generation. Yet . this presumes on several fronts. Any team that includes Phil Jones or . Chris Smalling presumes they will train on and make the team regularly . at Manchester United under Louis van Gaal, in a way they have not over . the last three years. Any team that includes John Stones on the back of . 26 appearances for Everton, presumes he will grow up to be John Terry . not James Tomkins, who made 37 appearances for England at all levels . from Under 16 onwards, without quite fulfilling the outstanding promise . of his youth. In the previous three World Cups, the players with five caps or fewer are Michael Dawson, Stephen Warnock, Joe Hart, Aaron Lennon, Stewart Downing, Scott Carson, Theo Walcott, Wayne Bridge, Darius Vassell and Trevor Sinclair. Not everybody delivers on that early promise. Any team that includes Jack Wilshere presumes he avoids injury, and any wholly youthful starting XI presumes depth below, as at all tournaments the law of averages dictates there will always be at least one significant injury, possibly more. Call up: Shaw and Jack Wilshere will get the chance to impress against Costa Rica on Tuesday . Go through the motions: England prepare for final group game against Costa Rica on Tuesday . VIDEO City Guide: Belo Horizonte . Yet here we are. Reimagining what constitutes success. The England of the future gets its kicks from logistical efficiency. 'The best prepared team at the World Cup,' we were told and that boast persists through back-to-back defeats. We wish to be judged on intangibles, when in sport there is a very finite measure of attainment. It's called the score. It is immune to spin, management, foresight, hindsight, revisionism, criticism or any form of external pressure. By removing it from the equation, nothing is. Win, so what? Lose, so what? Glen Johnson came out of the lift at England's team hotel in Sao Conrado, in the aftermath of the defeat by Uruguay. A fellow countryman asked how he was feeling. Johnson shrugged philosophically. 'What can you do?' he asked. Actually, that shouldn't be a rhetorical question. There are books written on what you can do. Indexed, cross-referenced, alphabetised. There are videos and coaching sessions, debates and discussions, and plans A, B, C, probably through to Z. There is always something you can do. Yet England's right-back is a man of our times. What can you do, eh? He should have an FA blazer. He'd fit right in. | If England qualify for a tournament and and give it a go against the big sides, then it's regarded as a success .
The only high quality opposition England will face between now and Euro 2016 is in friendly games .
The World Cup and not the route to the finals is the barometer and England's whole defence was not up to standard . | c685ecde6a84b0434b804690379036aa6f38d0b8 | [
"Welcome to England's future. On Tuesday, in Belo",
"Horizonte, a game of football will be played. If",
"England lose, it means nothing. If England win,",
"it means nothing. If England draw - well, you get",
"the idea. And not just because the World Cup is",
"over for Roy Hodgson and his men. The FA decided",
"on Friday, in the aftermath of an eight-day exit",
"from meaningful tournament football in Brazil,",
"that victory and defeat were very over-rated",
"qualities when assessing the success of a sports",
"team. Save me: England boss Roy Hodgson talks to",
"Raheem Sterling at training on Monday . There",
"were other factors, intangibles, concerning",
"preparation and work across several years that",
"had to be considered, too. 'If it doesn't matter",
"who wins and who loses, then why do they keep",
"score?' asked the great Green Bay Packers coach",
"Vince Lombardi, a man with more quotable",
"one-liners than Bill Shankly, yet England are",
"moving beyond these earthbound measures of",
"advancement. It is just as well, for the Costa",
"Rica experience is destined to be repeated two",
"years from here. The qualification campaign for",
"the 2016 European Championship, with the finals",
"expanded and downgraded to 24 teams, means it",
"will get no easier to ascertain English progress",
"in the coming months. Team talk: England's",
"manager Roy Hodgson with the players on Monday .",
"Strength: John Terry and Rio Ferdinand formed an",
"exceptional partnership . England must play",
"Switzerland, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania and San",
"Marino to qualify, knowing a top-two finish",
"guarantees entry and third place affords a",
"puncher's chance via the play-offs. The only high",
"quality opposition England will face between now",
"and June 2016, then, is in friendly games, and",
"those results are notoriously deceptive. England",
"have defeated Italy and Spain in their most",
"recent non-competitive meetings and won against",
"Germany in a friendly in 2008. There will be no",
"way of knowing England's true standing until",
"their next competitive game in finals football in",
"2016. Everything that happens until that date",
"lacks substance. Coming here, the message was",
"that England had battled through a difficult",
"qualifying group, which allowed for false",
"security. It was suspected that Gary Cahill and",
"Phil Jagielka were far from an exceptional",
"pairing at centre-half, when compared to their",
"predecessors: John Terry and Rio Ferdinand, Tony",
"Adams and Sol Campbell, with Ledley King in the",
"role of fifth Beatle. Bottom line: England's",
"whole defence struggled to cope in Brazil . Yet,",
"England had only conceded four goals in",
"qualifying, it was pointed out. Fewer than any",
"country in Europe, bar Spain. Cahill and Jagielka",
"were not perfect, but they could do a job. This",
"wasn't true. England's centre-halves, the whole",
"defence in fact, were below the standard",
"required. That is why the World Cup, not the",
"route to it, is the health check. Hodgson thinks",
"it would be harsh to judge his work on two",
"matches, but that is football's bottom line. Did",
"Carlo Ancelotti become a better coach because he",
"won a single match, and with it Real Madrid's",
"10th European Cup final? In a word: yes. The fear",
"when Hodgson succeeded Fabio Capello was that he",
"would turn England, not into Inter Milan, nor",
"even his overachieving Fulham and Switzerland",
"teams, but into West Bromwich Albion. Hodgson did",
"a very good job at West Brom, but it was a job",
"with limitations. West Brom do not tolerate",
"relegation, but they have no realistic ambitions",
"of major success, either. If they finish safe and",
"give it a go against the biggest clubs, it will",
"be regarded as a good season. This is where",
"England are now. High and mighty: Real Madrid",
"coach Carlo Ancelotti celebrates Champions League",
"glory . For Premier League safety, read",
"tournament qualification. Alex Horne, the general",
"secretary, summed up the dismal reprogramming",
"that has taken place at the FA when he announced",
"before the tournament began that he believed",
"Hodgson had done enough to justify seeing out his",
"contract until 2016 just by getting to Brazil.",
"The widespread acceptance of courageous defeat by",
"Italy in Manaus is another sign that England now",
"regard themselves as small and provincial, unable",
"to challenge the elite. Hodgson's final season at",
"West Bromwich Albion began with a home game",
"against the champions, Manchester United. Wayne",
"Rooney put United ahead, but David de Gea was",
"inexperienced and vulnerable, and West Brom",
"equalised through Shane Long. Limited success:",
"Roy Hodgson made sure West Brom were safe from",
"relegation . They gave United a real game from",
"there but, with nine minutes to go, an Ashley",
"Young cross that deflected once before going in",
"off Steven Reid handed United victory. It was",
"agreed that West Brom could have put more",
"pressure on De Gea after half-time, but had done",
"pretty well in the circumstances and were",
"perhaps unlucky not to earn a point against a",
"classier team. There was definitely cause for",
"optimism. In . essence, that was the reaction to",
"England's defeat by Italy. Even the . same",
"scoreline against Uruguay has produced no grand",
"inquest. What . began as realism is now the meek",
"acceptance of defeat. The impossible job, we are",
"now told. It isn't. That is more expectation .",
"management. If it is impossible then the",
"incumbent should step aside to . make room for",
"another candidate, who might entertain",
"possibility. Others see the green shoots of",
"recovery in the next generation. Yet . this",
"presumes on several fronts. Any team that",
"includes Phil Jones or . Chris Smalling presumes",
"they will train on and make the team regularly .",
"at Manchester United under Louis van Gaal, in a",
"way they have not over . the last three years.",
"Any team that includes John Stones on the back of",
". 26 appearances for Everton, presumes he will",
"grow up to be John Terry . not James Tomkins, who",
"made 37 appearances for England at all levels .",
"from Under 16 onwards, without quite fulfilling",
"the outstanding promise . of his youth. In the",
"previous three World Cups, the players with five",
"caps or fewer are Michael Dawson, Stephen",
"Warnock, Joe Hart, Aaron Lennon, Stewart Downing,",
"Scott Carson, Theo Walcott, Wayne Bridge, Darius",
"Vassell and Trevor Sinclair. Not everybody",
"delivers on that early promise. Any team that",
"includes Jack Wilshere presumes he avoids injury,",
"and any wholly youthful starting XI presumes",
"depth below, as at all tournaments the law of",
"averages dictates there will always be at least",
"one significant injury, possibly more. Call up:",
"Shaw and Jack Wilshere will get the chance to",
"impress against Costa Rica on Tuesday . Go",
"through the motions: England prepare for final",
"group game against Costa Rica on Tuesday . VIDEO",
"City Guide: Belo Horizonte . Yet here we are.",
"Reimagining what constitutes success. The England",
"of the future gets its kicks from logistical",
"efficiency. 'The best prepared team at the World",
"Cup,' we were told and that boast persists",
"through back-to-back defeats. We wish to be",
"judged on intangibles, when in sport there is a",
"very finite measure of attainment. It's called",
"the score. It is immune to spin, management,",
"foresight, hindsight, revisionism, criticism or",
"any form of external pressure. By removing it",
"from the equation, nothing is. Win, so what?",
"Lose, so what? Glen Johnson came out of the lift",
"at England's team hotel in Sao Conrado, in the",
"aftermath of the defeat by Uruguay. A fellow",
"countryman asked how he was feeling. Johnson",
"shrugged philosophically. 'What can you do?' he",
"asked. Actually, that shouldn't be a rhetorical",
"question. There are books written on what you can",
"do. Indexed, cross-referenced, alphabetised.",
"There are videos and coaching sessions, debates",
"and discussions, and plans A, B, C, probably",
"through to Z. There is always something you can",
"do. Yet England's right-back is a man of our",
"times. What can you do, eh? He should have an FA",
"blazer. He'd fit right in."
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