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Keywords: <keyword>PINTEREST BOARDS</keyword>, <keyword>NEROY CREATED</keyword>, <keyword>BLOG EVENTUALLY</keyword>, <keyword>ARTS CRAFTS</keyword>, <keyword>WAY DIGITALLY</keyword>, <keyword>PASTING MAIL</keyword>, <keyword>READWRITEWEB SURPRISED</keyword>, <keyword>FILING THOUGHT</keyword>, <keyword>SHARED COLOR</keyword>, <keyword>CNN HEATHER</keyword> (CNN) -- For Heather Neroy, it used to be a tedious process: Whenever she came across an interesting arts-and-crafts project or recipe on the Internet, she would save it for later by copying the link, pasting it into an e-mail and sending it to herself. After that Neroy, a stay-at-home mom from Southern California, would file the e-mail in a folder for future reference. It wasn't exactly the most efficient system. Then last year, during one of her browsing sessions, she read a blog post that gushed about a new website called Pinterest. The virtual pinboard, where users can pin and organize images onto individual "boards," didn't pique Neroy's interest at first, but she quickly changed her mind. "Someone described it as an online filing system, and I thought, 'That's exactly what I need,' " she said. Soon Neroy was pinning away and, like many Pinterest users, got quickly hooked. She first started with a Halloween board where she pinned costume ideas. Next, Neroy created a shared color board for redecorating her daughter's bedroom that she and her husband could add to. Pinterest also allows other users to follow each other's boards and "re-pin" another person's images. In no time Neroy was sharing other people's pins and following users with similar tastes. "It's been really neat to see what other moms are pinning," she said. "Some days you run out of ideas and you don't know what to do to fill the time before bedtime. I thought it was going to be just me organizing, but it's really a community sharing all these different ideas that I didn't even know existed." Think of Pinterest as a way of cataloging your passions. Members have used the website to plan weddings and holidays. Others have pinned images of clothes, recipes, architecture, art, crafts, cars and even technology. Thanks to media reports and the devotion of users like Neroy, there's been a lot of buzz around Pinterest in recent months. In October, TechCrunch confirmed that Pinterest had received $27 million of funding from the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowtiz. The pinboard website has been covered and praised extensively by media like Time magazine, and Mashable, which called it "addictive." Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann declined to cite specifics about the invite-only site's growth. But Experian Hitwise, an Internet analytics firm, estimates that Pinterest received nearly 11 million total visits during the week ending December 17, 2011 -- almost 40 times the number of visits six months earlier. Silbermann said what's most exciting about his website is how it helps you find new influences for things that you like -- and in turn lets other people with shared interests provide feedback on your pins. "The things that you collect say a lot about who you are," Silbermann told CNN. "Our job at Pinterest is to help you discover people who have similar taste. It creates an online catalog where every item is handpicked just for you." The appeal of content curation . Marshall Kirkpatrick, a senior writer at ReadWriteWeb, is not surprised by Pinterest's success. In an analysis of the website in September, he wrote that Pinterest's "clean retro visual design" and our fundamental need to collect and organize are part of its appeal. In an interview with CNN, Kirkpatrick added that collecting "affirms our relationship with the world around us." Pinterest offers an easy way to digitally curate content without the pain of cutting clippings or saving endless web pages on your desktop, he said. "Content curation is a timeless problem that a lot of people have tried to solve," Kirkpatrick said. "Pinterest brings a lot of high design to doing it and a lot of user experience. And with a larger group of people then there's a never-ending supply of content to enjoy." Yet the concept of content curation is hardly new. FFFFound, vi.sualize.us, We Heart It, Image Spark and Tumblr are among the other websites that offer visual bookmarking with a few clicks and have been doing so for a while. But Elad Gil, director of corporate strategy at Twitter, pointed out in a blog post a few weeks ago that Pinterest takes this further by giving structure to "push button content generation." Here's what he means: Clicking Pinterest's "Pin It" button, which can be added to your browser's bookmarks toolbar, will automatically grab the picture you want from the website you are on. What is different is that it immediately adds it to any of your Pinterest boards, allowing you to categorize your content then and there. The boards each have a separate page and can be easily accessed, shared and viewed on a sort of mother board on your Pinterest profile. "Importantly, it was easy for new users to consume these sets of content visually as structured sets, and to share these sets with others," Gil wrote. "This next wave of social curation will fundamentally change how users find and interact with content over time." Users: Defining 'your own aesthetic' Blogger Jonathan Lo, creative director of J3 Productions, a design and marketing agency, often pins using the Pinterest mobile app. He calls using the website "instinctual." Lo first started with home and graphic design pins related to his blog and then eventually created a board for his personal taste in fashion. "It helps you define your own aesthetic," said Lo, who lives in Irvine, California. "I noticed patterns and recurring themes, so I got a stronger sense of what style I have. I wouldn't have necessarily been able to see that earlier. It's nice to be able to put a sense of order to all the things you like." Business owners also are flocking to the website to lead new audiences to their products. Jeanine Hays, the creative director and founder of AphroChic, an interior design company and blog, says she uses Pinterest to find inspiration for her business. As a designer, she uses Pinterest as a virtual mood board to develop concepts, and is often up till midnight just pinning. "Pinterest is a great tool for designers looking for new and different content," said Hays, who lives in Philadelphia. "And it is a way to get into the mind of the designer and the brand of the company. My readers can actually see what the next trend is going to look like." Silbermann believes Pinterest is different from other social networks because users are using the website to catalog their day-to-day activities. "I think it's really cool that people are pinning the most important projects in their lives." he said. "I think it's a service that can really make your offline life more interesting." Neroy is one such user. She is determined to use Pinterest for more offline purposes. "I want to spend more time doing than pinning, to encourage time with my kids so that mom's not just sitting at the computer," she said. In fact, Neroy went as far as to start a blog called Pinfluence to make sure of that. The blog chronicles her Pinterest exploits, in which she picks interesting do-it-yourself pins, tries them out for herself and writes about the results. At present, Neroy has blogged about more than 30 pins, from cleaning her ceiling fans with a pillowcase to an unsuccessful crock-pot lasagna recipe to dressing her daughters in her wedding dress, which has been her most popular post to date. "I thought it would be interesting to other moms to see me putting my own spin on it and sharing my success and failures," she said. "I want to show that if I could do it, they could do it as well." Neroy added: "What I tell my friends [is], they are not just pinning but creating. And that's really where they'll find the benefit from Pinterest."	On Pinterest, users can organize images into individual "boards" Thanks to media reports and the passion of users, there's been a lot of buzz around Pinterest . Co-founder Ben Silbermann: Pinterest "creates an online catalog" that is "handpicked" It's "a great tool for designers looking for new and different content," Jeanine Hays says .
Keywords: <keyword>SYRIA FACEBOOK</keyword>, <keyword>ASSAD CAMPAIGN</keyword>, <keyword>POLLS SYRIAN</keyword>, <keyword>ADS PROMOTING</keyword>, <keyword>SAWA AL</keyword>, <keyword>000 LIKES</keyword>, <keyword>PAGE LAUNCHED</keyword>, <keyword>ORG CALLING</keyword>, <keyword>POLLING</keyword>, <keyword>RETURN MONEY</keyword> (CNN) -- Facebook is facing pressure to return money it accepted to run ads promoting its page for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's presidential campaign. The social media network has pulled the ads, which directed users to the campaign page, but it has refused to say whether it will return the money it took in exchange for them. "By accepting money for 'promoted posts,' Facebook has provided a platform for the propaganda of a regime that has been at the heart of one of the world's most brutal conflicts," Anna Nolan of The Syria Campaign said Monday. The group has created an online petition, multiple YouTube videos and launched website called AdsForDictators.org calling on Facebook to return the money and take down the Assad campaign page. Launched in May, the Facebook page is called "Sawa al-Assad" (Sawa means "together") and has more than 230,000 likes. It is regularly updated with photos from the Assad campaign, including pictures of Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma, going to a polling station to vote Tuesday. Polls for the Syrian presidential election opened against the backdrop of a bloody and protracted civil war, and al-Assad is almost guaranteed to emerge victorious in a vote that opposition groups and many Western countries say has been be rigged from the start. "We have looked onto this thoroughly, including reviewing IP address and payment information, and we have no evidence that these ads were ordered from Syria," a Facebook representative said. An IP address indicates an Internet user's location, though users can easily mask real IP addresses to make it appear they're in another country. "We comply with all relevant Syrian sanctions and we do not permit ads originating from or targeting Syria," the Facebook representative added. Even though it removed the ads promoting the page, Facebook says it is not considering taking down the Assad campaign page. "You'll find a range of voices debating events in Syria on Facebook," according to the Facebook representative. Users don't have to pay to open an account on social media, so the social network typically allows political leaders and heads of state to maintain a presence on its platforms, regardless of their standing. Social media networks often prefer not to decide which leaders deserve and don't deserve the ability to have a presence on their sites. The campaign to reelect al-Assad has maintained an active presence on Facebook and other social media with additional accounts on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, which are all regularly updated.	The site has taken down ads for a page promoting Bashar al-Assad's presidential campaign . Group accuses Facebook of accepting money from a regime "at the heart" of a brutal conflict . "We comply with all relevant Syrian sanctions," a Facebook spokesman says . The site typically allows heads of state to have a presence, regardless of their standing .
Keywords: <keyword>APPLYING MAKEUP</keyword>, <keyword>SKIN CHELSEA</keyword>, <keyword>BEAUTY TIPS</keyword>, <keyword>BLEMISH FREE</keyword>, <keyword>BOOK BINKY</keyword>, <keyword>START CLEANSING</keyword>, <keyword>SCULPT SLIM</keyword>, <keyword>REQUIREMENT PREP</keyword>, <keyword>GORGEOUS LOVE</keyword>, <keyword>LID CREATE</keyword> By . Binky Felstead . Binky will launch her very own book Being Binky next week . Yes it's true; I'm releasing a book. Being Binky will reveal lots of tales from my childhood, teenage years and life in Chelsea - as well as my favourite beauty tips of course. I'm so excited for it to come out, and so this week I thought I'd show you all how to achieve my book cover look. Step One: Prep the Skin . As a Chelsea girl it's very important to me to have perfect blemish free skin so it's a necessary requirement to prep the skin before applying make-up. Start by cleansing the skin with Bioderma Sensibio H2O, followed by the Clarins BB Skin Perfecting Cream - this is a really nice base just before applying foundation. Then spritz some Caudalie Beauty Elixir onto the face â€“ this hydrating skin mist is perfect to use just before applying makeup. Step Two: Smokey-Shimmery Eyes . For this look I've gone for a bronze smoky eye. To stick with the elegant Chelsea look apply Daniel Sandler Waterproof Eyeliner with lots of Too Faced Lash Injection Mascara and a set of Eylure eyelashes. Then take the Clarins Eye Quartet Mineral Palette in Forest, starting with a nice light shimmer base on the lid. After this, create some depth in the eye by using a deep brown and a tiny bit of black in the crease of the lid. Step Three: Define the Brows . Use the Clarins Pro Palette Eyebrow Kit to define your brows. After applying the powder with an angled brush comb it through so the brows don't look too harsh. Binky recommends using an angled brush when applying colour to your eyebrows to avoid looking to harsh . Although Binky had a make-up artist at her shoot she says her cover look can easily be achieved at home . Step Four: Sun-Kissed Skin . Take a foundation brush and apply Guerlain Terracotta Skin Healthy Glow Foundation to the face. The foundation lasts for a long time girls so a little goes a long way for that flawless, natural look. Step Five: Killer Cheekbones . Use the Daniel Sandler Sculpt and Slim Contour Kit to contour the face and create killer cheekbones. Follow up by brushing DiorBlush in Miss Pink gently into the apples of the cheeks. To get a professional look use a brush to apply your lipstick and for a glamorous cover girl look for a big night out try a pair of false eyelashes . Binky says to create depth in the eye area apply a deep brown colour . Step Six: Perfect Pout . Last but not least are the lips. As I always say you never know when a kiss is coming so you're better off being prepared. For the perfect pinky pout swipe a layer of Guerlain Rouge Automatique in Cherry Blossom over the lips. For a better and more professional result use a brush to apply, moving it vertically along the lines of your lips for a more even finish. We're all human and we all make mistakes, so after applying your lipstick use a cotton bud to clean up any mistakes. To avoid the embarrassment of having lipstick on your teeth, you can put your index finger in your mouth and drag it out; this will catch up any lipstick that would have made a stain on your teeth. You can get all the products to create this look on escentual.com. Being Binky is out on Thursday 8th May - can't wait for all of you to read it!Until next time, stay gorgeous.Love Binky xxx .	Next week Binky Felstead will launch her first book . Being Binky will give you an insight into Binky's world . Here she shows you how to achieve her front cover beauty look .
Keywords: <keyword>TAKES SWANSEA</keyword>, <keyword>EVERTON IMPROVED</keyword>, <keyword>IDENTIFIED BARKLEY</keyword>, <keyword>MONK SAID</keyword>, <keyword>SEASON INJURY</keyword>, <keyword>UNDERDOGS GIVEN</keyword>, <keyword>PARK ROSS</keyword>, <keyword>TALENT WISE</keyword>, <keyword>PREPARE GAME</keyword>, <keyword>FACTOR MISSED</keyword> Garry Monk takes his Swansea side to a revitalised Everton on Saturday believing it is no coincidence that the Toffees' upturn in form has come with Ross Barkley finally over his early-season injury problems. Everton have won both Barclays Premier League games Barkley has been involved in since the 20-year-old England talent missed the first two months of the season with a knee injury. Roberto Martinez's side scored six goals in beating Aston Villa and Burnley to move into ninth spot after a sticky start to the campaign and they would leapfrog sixth-placed Swansea by beating them at Goodison Park. Ross Barkley has been in fine form as Everton have improved on their early-season form . Swansea have never won on the blue half of Merseyside and Monk has identified Barkley - who scored in both Everton league wins against them last season - as the main threat to his team creating club history. 'Barkley is a top player, a real talent,' Swansea manager Monk said. 'He plays with no fear and he is a big factor for them. 'They missed him when he was out. Since he's come back he's done well and, if he stays fit, he will only get better. 'He is right up there as a young English talent. I know he has been likened to quite a few players and ability-wise and talent-wise he is showing that week in, week out. 'He's only just come back from his injury so whether he is at his full best right now I don't know, but he is right up there. 'Roberto will give him the freedom to express himself, but he can attack and defend and he is an all-rounder.' Swansea beat Everton for the first time in 21 attempts in the Capital One Cup in September . Swansea claimed their first win in 21 attempts against Everton in September when Monk's men ran out comfortable 3-0 Capital One Cup winners at the Liberty Stadium. They also claimed a first win in six league games with a 2-0 victory over Leicester last weekend, but Monk knows the size of the challenge ahead as he once more comes up against his former Swansea manager Martinez. 'We beat them before but that was in the cup and the league will be a different situation,' Monk said, . 'Goodison is a really tough place to go but we go there with confidence after an important win against Leicester, which was a bit of justification for the lads. 'We are not expected to get anything from the game, but we are sixth in the league and have good momentum. 'We can go there with freedom and put on a performance that warrants some points.' Swansea were in front against Liverpool in the cup this week before they were knocked out . Everton have had a rare free week to prepare for the game without any European distractions, while Swansea have already been on Merseyside this week in losing 2-1 to Liverpool in the Capital One Cup. Monk knows the strain that playing in the Europa League puts on players after Swansea's participation in the tournament last season but he believes Everton have now adjusted to the demands of juggling domestic and European commitments. 'The games come thick and fast and you get out of the routine with games on Thursday and Sunday,' Monk said. 'We learnt it's an adjustment last season when we were in the Europa League, but they are a more experienced squad in Europe. 'They are showing they are right back to where they were last season. 'We go there as underdogs given the form they are in, but we're confident we can go up there and do something.'	Ross Barkley's return from injury has helped boost Everton's form . Swansea travel to Goodison Park this weekend in the league . Garry Monk's returned to winning ways against Leicester last weekend .
Keywords: <keyword>HELICOPTER CRASH</keyword>, <keyword>BLOOMBERG CHOPPER</keyword>, <keyword>SONIA MARRA</keyword>, <keyword>WOMAN DIED</keyword>, <keyword>YORK CNN</keyword>, <keyword>RIVER MAYOR</keyword>, <keyword>SANK NEW</keyword>, <keyword>PASSENGER UNABLE</keyword>, <keyword>CITIZEN TRAVELING</keyword>, <keyword>MALONEY SAID</keyword> New York (CNN) -- A woman who died in a helicopter crash in New York's East River was identified by authorities as Sonia Marra of Sydney, Australia and died on her 40 birtthday, authorities said Wednesday. Marra was the only passenger who died after Tuesday's crash in the river near midtown Manhattan, New York police said. Marra, who is also a British citizen, was traveling with a friend her mother, stepfather when the chopper went down, CNN affiliate WABC reported. The other were injured but Marra got trapped in the backseat of the Bell 206 chopper and was the sole passenger unable to escape the craft as it inverted and sank, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. As the chopper approached for a helipad landing, the pilot radioed that he was having problems, just moments before the craft crashed into the river, the mayor said. Images broadcast on CNN affiliate WCBS soon after the crash showed at least three people being towed to shore in a rescue effort. U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat who represents Manhattan's East Side in Congress, said in a statement she was "saddened and deeply concerned" about the crash. "There have been at least 28 helicopter crashes in our city over the last three decades," Maloney said. "Federal transportation officials should investigate not only the causes of this crash, but also whether it is safe to have such a high volume of helicopter traffic over our densely populated city." Had the crash occurred over land, the death toll could have been much higher, she said. CNN's Jason Kessler, Eden Pontz and Rob Frehse contributed to this report.	The victim was traveling with family members . The pilot radioed ahead about problems with the aircraft . Sonia Marra got trapped in the helicopter, mayor says .
Keywords: <keyword>ALAN TURING</keyword>, <keyword>SCREENPLAY IMITATION</keyword>, <keyword>ENIGMA CODE</keyword>, <keyword>SUICIDE 16</keyword>, <keyword>MOVIES MOORE</keyword>, <keyword>PARDONED POSTHUMOUSLY</keyword>, <keyword>ACCEPTING OSCAR</keyword>, <keyword>MOVING GRAHAM</keyword>, <keyword>SAID TRIED</keyword>, <keyword>STAY WEIRD</keyword> An Oscar winner admitted that he tried to kill himself when he was 16 and urged kids who feel different to 'stay weird' as he accepted the award. Graham Moore took the opportunity to raise awareness about depression and suicide when he collected the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the Imitation Game. The Columbia University graduate first paid tribute to Alan Turing, the subject of the film who solved the Enigma code, as he had never received recognition for his achievements while he was alive. Moving: Graham Moore, who won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay said: 'I tried to commit suicide at 16 and now I'm standing here' The writer then said: 'I tried to commit suicide at 16 and now I'm standing here. I would like for this moment to be for that kid out there who feels like she doesn't fit in anywhere. 'You do. Stay weird. Stay different, and then when it's your turn and you are standing on this stage please pass the same message along.' After the war Turing was prosecuted for homosexuality. He killed himself at the age of 41 in 1954. Since his death, his discovery of the code has been credited as one of the main reason's Allied forces were able to defeat Hitler's army. He was never recognized for his achievements while he was alive and was pardoned posthumously for his crime. Earlier in the evening, another reference to suicide was included in an acceptance speech when Dana Perry mentioned that her son had killed himself. Perry made her comments in accepting the Oscar for best documentary for 'Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1.' 'We should talk about suicide out loud,' she said. Speech: The Columbia University graduate paid tribute to Alan Turing, who solved the Enigma code, as he had never received recognition for his achievements while he was alive . Reaching out: The screenwriter urged children who felt left out: 'Stay weird. Stay different, and then when it's your turn and you are standing on this stage please pass the same message along' According to BuzzFeed, Moore grew up on the north side of Chicago, the son of two lawyers who divorced and then married two other lawyers. In an interview with the site he described how he started writing at the end of college and came up the an idea for a screenplay while out drinking with his friend Ben Epstein, who was at New York University film school at the time. He said: 'It was one of those nights where you tell a joke, and you tell it again, and the joke gets funnier as the night goes along, even though it might never have been that funny to start with. But it was an idea for a comedy. 'I hadn’t written fiction since a couple short stories in high school, but he was in film school so he wanted to write movies.' Moore's debut novel, The Sherlockian, was a New York Times best seller in 2010.	Graham Moore spoke as he collected Best Adapted Screenplay award . Paid tribute to subject of the film Alan Turing, who solved the Enigma code . He committed suicide at 41 and was not recognized during his life . Moore said: 'I tried to commit suicide at 16 and now I'm standing here' He added: 'I would like for this moment to be for that kid out there who feels like she doesn't fit in anywhere' Columbia University graduate then urged kids everywhere to 'stay weird'
Keywords: <keyword>POUND PUB</keyword>, <keyword>PRICES PINT</keyword>, <keyword>DRINK CUSTOMERS</keyword>, <keyword>BEERS 40P</keyword>, <keyword>BARGAIN BAR</keyword>, <keyword>MIDDLESBROUGH SELLING</keyword>, <keyword>CHANNEL BENEFITS</keyword>, <keyword>WORRIES STOCKTON</keyword>, <keyword>APPEAL CONSIDER</keyword>, <keyword>RATES HOSPITALISATIONS</keyword> Britain's first £1 pub has opened its doors to punters chasing a cheap drink. But customers may be in for surprise when they get to the bar - because a pint of beer will actually set them back £1.50 . From 8am, bar staff at The Pound Pub in Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough, will serve half pints for £1 and a full pint for an extra 50p. Bargain bar: The Pound Pub has opened its doors in Stockton, Middlesbrough, selling half pints for £1 and a full pint for £1.50 . Menu: Bar staff will be serving a variety of soft and alcoholic drinks for the low prices, including Fosters, Theakstons, Strongbow and John Smiths . Fosters, John Smith Strongbow, Theakstons and a range of soft drinks will be available at budget prices, but . residents fear the venue will attract the wrong sort of crowd to the town. Local councillors, alcohol awareness groups and campaigners also believe it will be bad for the community, which already has a high number of people receiving hospital treatment for alcohol-related illnesses. The makers of Channel 4's Benefits Street are currently scouting out the area as a possible location for the next series. Carol Harris, 68, who lives in Stockton, said: 'My dad's brother used to run that place. It was a respectable old pub, The White Heart. 'Selling beer that cheap will be bad for the town, it will attract the wrong crowd. It is all wrong.' Councillor Jim Beall, Stockton . Council's Cabinet Member for Adult Services and Health, who is working . to reduce the negative impacts of alcohol on the community, said: 'We . know our Borough has higher than average rates of hospital stays for . alcohol-related harm. 'We want to reduce the harmful impact of alcohol on communities, families and individuals. 'The sale of cheap alcohol in this pub, and indeed anywhere, does nothing to help us tackle these issues. Concern: Residents in the north east town say the venue is going to attract the 'wrong sort of crowd' Worries: Stockton has one of the highest rates of hospitalisations for alcohol-related illnesses in the UK . "The Council's Chief Executive spoke to representatives of this company to appeal to them to consider an alternative operating model but unfortunately they declined.' The pub is raising fresh concerns over it's application to start serving alcohol at 8am. Chair of the Stockton Town Team, Joanna Waker called the Pound Pub 'counter-productive' to Stockton's development. She said: 'Businesses do not need to be low cost to survive in Stockton, . 'Earls of Ashwood deli serving fine cheeses and The Storytellers pub serving fine and real ales from around the world - both of which are absolutely thriving - prove it.' Early start: Punters will be able to make the best of the deal from 8am, when the venue's doors open . But Mike Wardell, a director at Here for Your Hospitality Ltd which owns the premises, insisted the pub would take part in responsible drinking campaigns, including challenging anyone who looked under 25 for identity. He added that anyone drunk would not be served and pointed out that supermarkets are able to sell their own value beers at 40p a can - something which is not monitored by councils. Mr Wardell said the PoundPub is aimed at the kind of person who would have frequented Working Men's Clubs in a previous generation and not the night-time market. He said: 'It is an eye-catching logo and, I suppose it's a bit cheesy, but the phrase we're going for is "get more round for your pound". 'At a time when 12 pubs a week are closing across the country we have to think outside the box a bit.' Hike: The average price of a pint of beer is £3.03, a five per cent increase since 2012 . The average price for a pint of beer in the UK is £3.20, but it varies depending on where you are in the country. According to the Good Pub Guide, the average prices of a pint in different places are: . London: £3.60 . Scotland: £3.24 . Wales: £3.15 . Manchester: £3.00 . Leeds: £2.40 . Surrey: £3.52 . Newcastle: £3.05 . Northern Ireland: £3.30 . Other venues . Coach and Horses in Soho, Central London: £5.80 . Wetherspoons, Birmingham: £3.30 .	The Pound Pub in Stockton, Middlesbrough, opened its doors yesterday . Punters can get a half pint for £1 and a pint for £1.50 from 8am onwards . Residents say the venue will 'attract the wrong sort of crowd' to the town . Makers of Channel 4's Benefits Street are currently scouting the area . The average price of beer in the UK is £3.03, a five per cent rise from 2012 .
Keywords: <keyword>CHILDREN GUN</keyword>, <keyword>PATIENTS GUNS</keyword>, <keyword>FIREARM INJURIES</keyword>, <keyword>SHOOTING NEWTOWN</keyword>, <keyword>VIOLENCE EPIDEMIC</keyword>, <keyword>PEDIATRICS ISSUED</keyword>, <keyword>DISEASES HEALTH</keyword>, <keyword>ADVOCATES PARENTS</keyword>, <keyword>NEIGHBORHOODS RISK</keyword>, <keyword>INCREASED AUTOMOBILE</keyword> (CNN) -- Gun violence is a public health threat to our children. My husband, Sean Palfrey, and I are pediatricians. We are not specialists or experts in the field of injuries, but we are, sadly, all too familiar with the devastating impact of guns in children's lives. Firearms have claimed the lives of patients, friends and family members. The shooting this week of a 6-year-old boy by his 4-year-old neighbor, who apparently had gotten hold of a loaded .22-caliber rifle from his home in New Jersey, reminds us that gun-related tragedies are daily occurrences in America. Last December, in the days after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, my husband and I wanted the public to know that gun injuries are too common in our children's lives. We wanted doctors and nurses to redouble efforts to help families decrease the threat that guns pose to children and to offer hope and encouragement that there really are positive things we can do to increase our children's safety. So we wrote an article for the New England Journal of Medicine . For the article, we didn't have to look far to discover that guns are as much a threat to our children and grandchildren as infectious diseases and other health disorders. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 6,570 people ages 1 to 24 died from firearm injuries in 2010. That's 18 people every day and a staggering seven a day for children ages 1 to 19. In 2010, firearms caused twice as many deaths as cancer, five times as many as heart disease and 15 times as many as the recorded infections. Protecting children from gun violence is not a political decision, it's a public health imperative. Guns kill teenagers who get into scuffles over weighty and trivial matters. They kill sad boys and girls who make the impulsive decision to end it all right now, and can because they have the lethal means right in their hands. And they kill little children who play act what they see adults doing around them or on television or the internet. In October, a committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a policy statement on firearm-related injuries. The statement included technical background research and statistics, asked questions about how and why kids get their hands on guns and came to the evidence-based conclusion that if children have access to guns in their homes or neighborhoods, they are at risk of injury. Here is what the AAP recommended . "The best preventive measure against firearm injuries and deaths is not to own a gun. However, if you choose to have firearms in your home, adhere to these rules for gun safety: . • Never allow your child access to your gun(s). No matter how much instruction you may give him or her, a youngster in the middle years is not mature and responsible enough to handle a potentially lethal weapon. • Never keep a loaded gun in the house or the car. • Guns and ammunition should be locked away safely in separate locations in the house. Make sure children don't have access to the keys. • Guns should be equipped with trigger locks. • When using a gun for hunting or target practice, learn how to operate it before loading it. Never point the gun at another person and keep the safety catch in place until you are ready to fire it. Before setting the gun down, always unload it. • Do not use alcohol or drugs while you are shooting. The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School has awakened our nation into action. It prompted our president to declare that "now is the time" to end gun violence. It encouraged our elected leaders to come together to vote on legislation that can make children feel safe in their homes, school and communities. It mobilized advocates and parents to come to Washington. It spurred dialogue in local and national media. We are at a tipping point. And we can do this. We have increased automobile and bike safety and prevented drownings and poisonings by making simple but strict rules compelling Americans to change their habits. We can make our country safer, but only if we work together. Only if we look at these numbers and say: Enough. Gun violence is an epidemic that we can treat over time. We must not only understand this, we must act. Through strong state and federal gun safety policies, through research into the causes and prevention strategies of gun violence, through doctors talking to patients about guns in the home, through reducing children's exposure to violence in the media, in their homes and in their communities, we can do this. Medical professionals, clergy, government officials, police officers, families must collectively say, without relent or apology: We must protect our children. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Judith Palfrey.	Judith Palfrey: Gun violence a health threat to kids; New Jersey shooting is an example . She says 6,570 people ages 1 to 24 died from firearm injuries in 2010 . She says Americans must commit to gun laws to keep kids safe . Palfrey: We need simple, strict rules to get Americans to change their habits on guns .
Keywords: <keyword>ENGLAND ARRESTS</keyword>, <keyword>ARRESTED PAKISTANIS</keyword>, <keyword>BRITISH INTELLIGENCE</keyword>, <keyword>QAEDA OPERATIVE</keyword>, <keyword>COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATION</keyword>, <keyword>ONGOING INVESTIGATION</keyword>, <keyword>POLICE MEN</keyword>, <keyword>RAID OBSCURED</keyword>, <keyword>TARGETS NORTH</keyword>, <keyword>AIRLINERS ACCORDING</keyword> (CNN) -- British police Wednesday arrested 12 people in a counterterrorism operation, and locations were being searched, authorities said. A Scotland Yard official's papers show details of the raid, which have been obscured in this photo. Arrests were carried out in a series of raids in northwest England, police said. Participating agencies included Merseyside Police, Greater Manchester Police and the Lancashire Constabulary, according to a statement from Greater Manchester Police. The men arrested were involved in a "very serious" plot closely associated with al Qaeda and escaped al Qaeda operative Rashid Rauf, whom British intelligence have linked to the 2006 plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners, according to a security source with knowledge of the investigation. The new plot was not believed to be targeting national infrastructure, such as rail lines, airports or utilities, nor was it clear if the plot was to involved bombs or an assault involving gunmen, the source said. Details, the source said, were speculative at this point in the investigation. The source also said authorities don't believe the targets would have been in the north of England, where the arrests took place, and that at least some of those arrested were Pakistanis in the United Kingdom on student visas. Several hundred officers were involved in the raids, according to a later Greater Manchester Police statement. The men arrested range in age from a youth in his mid- to late teens to a 41-year-old, the statement said. No further information was available, police said. "Today's action is part of an ongoing investigation and we have acted on intelligence received," said Steve Ashley, chief superintendent of Merseyside police. "We understand that this kind of police activity can cause concerns to people living in nearby communities. The extra patrols, cordons and measures we have in place have been implemented to make sure we are doing everything we can to reassure the public and maintain public safety." Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, in a written statement, congratulated police for the "successful anti-terrorism operation which has resulted in 12 arrests at a number of locations." She said the actions were an operational decision by police and Security Services, but she and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown were kept apprised. Police rushed to make the arrests after press photographers on Tuesday snapped images of the U.K.'s chief terrorism officer as he got out of a car at the prime minister's residence, according to the security source. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick was carrying a document containing the names of those to be arrested, the source said, and the photographers were able to easily read the names when they enlarged the photographs. But, the source said, the arrests would probably have taken place Thursday, and preparations for the arrests were the reason for Quick's visit to see Brown. "Tonight, the focus is the ongoing operation. That's my priority," Smith said. Scotland Yard issued a statement regarding the incident. "Quick accepts he made a mistake on leaving a sensitive document on open view and deeply regrets it. He has apologized to the commissioner and the colleagues." CNN's Andrew Carey and Laura Perez-Maestro contributed to this report.	NEW: Men involved in plot associated with escaped al Qaeda operative, source says . NEW: Some of those arrested were Pakistanis in the U.K. on student visas . NEW: U.K.'s chief terrorism officer apologizes for pictures of him with documents . Police from Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Lancashire Constabulary involved .
Keywords: <keyword>MIRIAM CAREY</keyword>, <keyword>POLICE SHOOTING</keyword>, <keyword>34 KILLED</keyword>, <keyword>STORY INVESTIGATION</keyword>, <keyword>SLAMMED CAPITOL</keyword>, <keyword>SUDDEN AMY</keyword>, <keyword>SPECULATE SISTER</keyword>, <keyword>DAUGHTER RELEASED</keyword>, <keyword>CHASE HEARTBREAKING</keyword>, <keyword>MOMENTARY BREAKDOWN</keyword> By . Meghan Keneally . PUBLISHED: . 21:51 EST, 4 October 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 05:37 EST, 5 October 2013 . What was she thinking: Investigations are underway to see what caused Miriam Carey, 34, to go on her dangerous drive . The sisters of the woman who was shot to death by police officers after ramming her car into a White House barricade have spoken out about how she was a 'vibrant woman and had a lot of dreams and aspirations'. Miriam Carey, 34, was killed on Thursday after she slammed into a Capitol Hill barricade following a police chase and it was only after the officers approached the vehicle did they realize she had her young daughter in the backseat. 'She was fun, she was loving. She was filled with dreams for her new daughter,' Miriam's sister Amy Carey-Jones said during an exclusive interview with CNN. 'We don't know what happened. 'We're still trying to put the pieces together. It's very sudden. It still doesn't seem real. We're still waiting for the real story.' The investigation into the use of . force by the Capitol police and the metropolitan police during the . shooting is underway, and the sisters say that may prove one area where . they can get some closure on their unanswered questions. 'Was there some other way that she could have been helped so that it didn’t end tragically?' the woman's sister Amy Carey-Jones asked. 'Personally, I feel that as professionals there has to be another way other than shooting and killing an individual.' Since the shooting, police have revealed that Miriam suffered from post-partum depression following the birth of her now-18-month-old daughter, whose name has not been released. Speaking out: Miriam Carey's sisters- Valerie Carey (left) and Amy Carey-Jones- held a press conference near Amy's home in Brooklyn on Friday . Searching for answers: The sisters have said that they are awaiting the results of the investigation into the use of deadly force, saying that there should have been another way to stop Miriam during her car chase . Heartbreaking: Amy said that they spoke regularly and she knew that Miriam had been working closely with her doctors about tapering off the medication the prescribed for her post-partum depression . Her sisters have spoken out about the . wide-ranging claims about Miriam's mental state, saying that while she . had mental issues in the past, they were under the belief that it was . under control. ‘I didn’t . know she was in DC. I was on my way to work- the call was very sudden,’ Amy said, telling Anderson Cooper how her first reaction was ‘“That . could not have been my sister.”’ 'I immediately went to the television to see what was being reported… I did recognize the car. It just didn’t seem real.' After searching Miriam's Stamford, . Connecticut home, police found files confirming her former mental . diagnosis, though the clearest reports come from the interview with the . victim's sisters. The people who knew; Miriam's sister Amy Carey-Jones spoke to Anderson Cooper about the doctor's decision to taper her off medication he had prescribed for post-partum depression . Surrounded: Police officers surround the car with their weapons drawn after the female driver rammed a barricade close to the White House on Thursday . Luxury Car: Police swarm around the Nissan Infiniti car on grass near the U.S. Capitol October 3, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC . 'My . sister was not a bipolar schizophrenic individual. I can’t say as to why . she was in DC. Regardless as to why, she was in dc her life should not . have ended there,' Valery Carey, one of Miriam's sisters, told CNN. Amy . described the medical issues as something that was carefully monitored . by her doctors, who felt that she only needed to be on the medication . for a year following the initial diagnosis given her lack of any prior . issues. 'I just know that my sister did experience post-partum depression along with psychosis,' Amy said. 'She worked very closely with her doctor to taper her off the medication. 'It wasn’t something that was displayed- it was a momentary breakdown… She didn’t appear to be unstable. Questions: Sisters Valerie (left) and Amy (right) said that there is no clear reason why Miriam drove down to DC where she met her death on Thursday . Investigation: A federal agent removes evidence from the apartment complex where Miriam Carey is believed to have lived in Stamford, Connecticut, this morning . 'There (were) not moments of her walking around with delusions- that's not what was going on. 'She . had her challenges as a new parent and I always spoke closely with . her,’ Amy said, describing those challenges as ‘nothing out of the . ordinary’. 'She seemed to be overwhelmed.' The . biggest question- why she did it- will be one that remains with family . members for the rest of their lives as Valerie Carey said that 'she was a . law-abiding citizen. She had no political agenda'. 'We will never know what Miriam was thinking in those last hours before she died. We can only speculate,' her sister Amy said. Miriam's boyfriend has told investigators that she feared her house was under surveillance by President Obama, though her sisters dispute that theory. 'What I can say is she has never disclosed of anything of that nature and since my sister is not here to speak for herself, that statement in itself is very questionable,' Valerie told Anderson Cooper during the Friday interview.	Miriam Carey, 34, was killed by police on Thursday when she drove into a barricade near the Capitol and the White House . Her sisters have spoken out about her medical history, including the post-partum depression she suffered . Said that Miriam had been working closely with her doctor to get her off the prescribed medication . Now waiting for results of investigation into whether police were right to use deadly force in the hectic car chase .
Keywords: <keyword>EUROPA OCEAN</keyword>, <keyword>JUPITER ICY</keyword>, <keyword>MOON SURFACE</keyword>, <keyword>EARTH LIQUID</keyword>, <keyword>FROZEN SURFACE</keyword>, <keyword>SCIENTISTS BELIEVE</keyword>, <keyword>CHEMICAL EXCHANGE</keyword>, <keyword>SEARCH LIFE</keyword>, <keyword>NICE SALTY</keyword>, <keyword>HAWAII PROFESSOR</keyword> By . Emma Innes . PUBLISHED: . 05:31 EST, 7 March 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 07:13 EST, 7 March 2013 . Underground oceans could be bubbling up to the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, scientists believe - making it the perfect place to look for life. A new paper has detailed the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the huge liquid ocean beneath Europa’s frozen surface actually makes its way to the moon’s surface – reinforcing suggestions that there could be life on Europa. The research suggests there is a chemical exchange between the ocean and surface, making the ocean a richer chemical environment. Illustration shows Europa in the foreground with Jupiter to the right and lo - another of Jupiter's moons - in the middle . The report was compiled by Professor Mike Brown, an astronomer . at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, and . Kevin Hand from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also in Pasaden. The exchange between the ocean and the surface, Professor Brown said, ‘means that energy might be going into the ocean, which is important in terms of the possibilities for life there. ‘It also means that if you'd like to know what's in the ocean, you can just go to the surface and scrape some off.’ Europa's ocean is thought to cover the moon's whole globe and is about 60 miles deep under a thin ice shell. Scientists have long debated the composition of Europa’s surface. Now, using the Keck II Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, Professor Brown and Mr Hand have identified indications of the presence of a magnesium sulphate salt, a mineral called epsomite, that could have formed by oxidation of a mineral likely originating from the ocean below. The researchers started their study by mapping the distribution of pure water ice versus anything else. Then, at low latitudes - the area with the greatest concentration of the non-water ice material - they found a tiny, never-before-detected, change in the results. The two researchers tested everything from sodium chloride to Drano in Mr Hand's laboratory where he tries to simulate the environments found on various icy worlds. At the end of the day, the signature of magnesium sulphate persisted. Salty water from the huge liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen surface makes its way to the moon's surface, scientists believe . The authors, who are publishing their report in the Astronomical Journal, believe that this magnesium sulphate is generated from magnesium chloride salt which originates in Europa’s ocean. The scientists also believe the composition of Europa's ocean may closely resemble the salty ocean of Earth. Europa is considered a premier target in the search for life beyond Earth, Mr Hand said. A NASA-funded study team is working with the scientific community to identify options to explore Europa further. ‘If we've learned anything about life on Earth, it's that where there's liquid water, there's generally life,’ Mr Hand said. ‘And of course our ocean is a nice, salty ocean. Perhaps Europa's salty ocean is also a wonderful place for life.’ Europa is the sixth closest moon to Jupiter and the smallest of the four Galilean satellites that belong to the planet. It was discovered by Galileo Galilei in January 1610 and is named after a Phoenician noblewoman in Greek mythology who was courted by Zeus and became the Queen of Crete. Europa orbits Jupiter in around three-and-a-half days with an orbital radius of 670,900km. It is slightly smaller than the Earth's moon, but at 3,100km in diameter it is the sixth largest moon and 15th largest object in the entire solar system. It is likely to have an outer layer of water, some 100km thick. The outer layer of the water is believed to be frozen with a liquid ocean underneath. It is one of the smoothest objects in the solar system with few craters on its surface, which is tectonically active and relatively young.	Water from the ocean inside Europa makes its way to the surface . This suggests that there could be life on Jupiter's moon .
Keywords: <keyword>PACIFIC TSUNAMI</keyword>, <keyword>PAGO CAPITAL</keyword>, <keyword>SAMOA HOURS</keyword>, <keyword>LAUMOLI SPEAK</keyword>, <keyword>ISLAND LEAVING</keyword>, <keyword>DEVASTATED VILLAGE</keyword>, <keyword>QUAKE RANKED</keyword>, <keyword>TROPICAL MEDICAN</keyword>, <keyword>TULAFONO CITED</keyword>, <keyword>REPORTERS TUESDAY</keyword> (CNN) -- A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck the Pacific near American Samoa, triggering towering tsunami waves that gushed over the island and leaving at least 22 people dead. The tsunami wave hit right in the middle of the harbor of Pago Pago, the capital. American Samoa Gov. Togiola Tulafono, speaking from Hawaii, said Tuesday's quake ranked "right up there with some of the worst" disasters on the island. He said about 50 people had been treated for injuries so far but he expected that number to rise. The quake hit the small cluster of South Pacific islands early Tuesday morning. By evening, Laumoli, standing outside the LBJ Tropical Medican Center morgue in the capital of Pago Pago, confirmed 22 deaths. "I thought it was the end of the world," said Dr. Salamo Laumoli, director of health services. "I have never felt an earthquake like that before." Laumoli feared more fatalities would turn up as rescue workers were still trying to access parts of the island severed by damaged infrastructure. Laumoli said people in outlying villages on one end of the main island have been cut off because the main bridge was washed away. "Two or three villages have been badly damaged," he told CNN International. Listen to Laumoli speak about the impact of the quake and tsunami » . Tulafono cited extensive damage to roads, buildings and homes, and said he had spoken to the military about mobilizing reserve forces for assistance. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, canceled tsunami watches and warnings for American Samoa about four hours after the earthquake hit. However, a tsunami advisory is still in effect for for the coastal areas of California and Oregon. Watch report on end of tsunami warning » . The Japan Meteorological Agency also activated a tsunami advisory along its eastern coast. The precautionary alert means that the height of a possible tsunami wave would be less than a foot and a half. President Barack Obama "declared a major disaster exists in the Territory of American Samoa" late Tuesday and ordered federal aid to supplement local efforts. The declaration makes federal funding available to affected individuals. The tsunami waves hit right in the middle of the Pago Pago harbor, the capital, said Cinta Brown, an American Samoa homeland security official working at the island's emergency operations center. The water devastated the village of Leone. Watch a resident talk about what happened » . "The wave came onshore and washed out people's homes," Brown said. The same happened on the hard-hit east and west sides of American Samoa, she said. The quake generated three separate tsunami waves, the largest measuring 5.1 feet from sea level height, said Vindell Hsu, a geophysicist with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. Preliminary data had originally reported a larger tsunami. Officials in the U.S. territory issued a clear call and were focusing on assessing the damage, Brown said. Reports of damage were still emerging, but a bulletin from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the waves "may have been destructive along coasts near the earthquake epicenter and could also be a threat to more distant coasts. Authorities should take appropriate action in response to this possibility." Tulafono, the governor, was on his way back home Tuesday night on one of two U.S. Coast Guard C-130 transport planes flying to American Samoa with aid. The Coast Guard also will transport more than 20 officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to American Samoa, said John Hamill, external affairs officer for FEMA in Oakland, California. The FEMA team will include a variety of debris experts, housing experts, members of the Corps of Engineers, and other disaster relief specialists, Hamill said. Tulafono told reporters Tuesday that it was hard being away from home when disaster came calling. It was a time, he said, for families to be together. Those who experienced the massive quake described it as a terrifying event. Brown was standing in a parking lot when her sports utility vehicle began rocking left and right. "You could hear the rattling of the metal" of a large chain link fence around the lot, Brown said. "It shakes you because you know something else is coming," she said. CNN's Augie Martin, Mariano Castillo, Moni Basu, Tess Eastment and Nick Valencia contributed to this report .	NEW: White House declares major disaster; orders federal aid . U.S. sending plane with aid, officials to help American Samoa . Magnitude-8.0 quake strikes near Samoan Islands early Tuesday . Quake struck at depth of 7.4 miles, triggered three 5-foot tsunamis .
Keywords: <keyword>VOTERS FLIP</keyword>, <keyword>FLOPPERS LIBERAL</keyword>, <keyword>ROMNEY DEALING</keyword>, <keyword>JOHN KERRY</keyword>, <keyword>DYSFUNCTIONAL WASHINGTON</keyword>, <keyword>REPUBLICAN DEBATES</keyword>, <keyword>LEGISLATIVE STALEMATE</keyword>, <keyword>GRIDLOCK TERM</keyword>, <keyword>MAKING DEALS</keyword>, <keyword>INCONSISTENCIES POSITION</keyword> Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- American voters need to decide what they really want from Washington. On the one hand, voters are dismissive of presidential and congressional candidates who can be called "flip-floppers," people who shift positions or agree to compromise. On the other hand, voters rail against a dysfunctional Washington that seems unable to reach agreement on almost anything because politicians on the right and left don't seem willing to compromise . As a result, the approval ratings of Congress have fallen to only 9%. Voters insist they want the type of candidate who won't compromise, and thus won't be able to cut the deals that are needed to break through the partisan gridlock. Indeed, the term flip-flopper has become one of the dirtiest words in American politics. When candidates have a record that reveals inconsistencies in their position, their opponents pounce. In 2004, President George W. Bush's campaign eviscerated Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry through a devastating campaign that focused on this point. In one television ad, Republicans showed Kerry windsurfing, arguing that this was a metaphor for his approach to politics. The narrator stated: "In which direction would John Kerry lead? Kerry voted for the Iraq war, opposed it, supported it and now opposes it again. ... John Kerry: whichever way the wind blows." Right now the top candidates in both parties are viewed by many voters as flip-floppers. For some liberal Democrats, one of the biggest problems with President Obama has been that he has governed too much like President Bill Clinton. Rather than standing on principle, he has made deals. The president has consistently reached out to centrists and has been willing to accept the best that he could get, rather than challenging his opponents to a tough fight. On the other side of the aisle, there is former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the front-runner who Republicans love to hate. His critics argue he is a politician willing to stand for anything that will get him elected. They point to positions he has taken a stand on, issues such as abortion, health care and gay rights, and note how he later changed his stance for political expediency. In response to a question during one of the Republican debates, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said, "I think Americans just don't know sometimes which Mitt Romney they're dealing with." Erick Erickson, a CNN contributor and editor of redstate.com, wrote, "Mitt Romney is not the George W. Bush of 2012 -- he is the Harriet Miers of 2012, only conservative because a few conservative grand pooh-bahs tell us Mitt Romney is conservative and for no other reason." Even before the GOP nomination battle is decided, President Obama's surrogates such as David Plouffe are already attacking Romney as a flip-flopper. The critics of Obama and Romney are picking up on the fact that voters react negatively to candidates who shift their positions. And there are forces in both parties that are pushing for the kind of candidate who will stand firmly on principle and not negotiate with the other side. Yet if these are the ideals that we demand of our elected officials, it will certainly be more difficult to solve America's problems. There seems to be no room any more for politicians like Sen. Everett Dirksen. The Illinois Republican and Senate Minority Leader in the 1960s was a striking figure. With his baritone voice and wavy white hair, Dirksen was a memorable politician who passionately believed in the art of compromise and was often willing to cut a deal. Indeed, his critics often complained that he was all compromise and no principle. One southern Democrat refused to join a birthday celebration for Dirksen, explaining, "He is a delightful companion, but he changes too often for me. I never know where he is." Dirksen didn't really care. He liked to quote Emerson as saying "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," believing the job of the legislator was to find or shape bills that could pass. As a result, he was able to make bold moves to make legislative deals even when they defied some of the core ideals of his party. Dirksen, for example, was instrumental in ending the filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. With Southern Democrats opposing the bill, the White House depended on him to deliver enough votes to reach the 67 required to end debate and bring the bill to a vote. He delivered. Though he was not a champion of civil rights, Dirksen emerged as a towering figure on Capitol Hill as a result of this and other deals. Dirksen was not alone. Some of the most successful presidents of the 20th century didn't practice what they preached. President Franklin Roosevelt was notoriously difficult to pin down, embracing programs that appealed to the left and the right, such as cutting government spending in 1933 while expanding the regulatory power of Washington at the same time. President Ronald Reagan is often praised for having negotiated a historic agreement with the Soviet Union in 1987, even though he had spent much of his career railing against other Republicans and Democrats who were willing to sit down and talk with the Kremlin. Of course we don't want presidents and legislators who stand for nothing and simply move whichever way the wind blows. But flexibility and pragmatism are virtues as well. If we are to fix Washington, the city needs more figures like Dirksen, FDR, and Reagan, individuals who love the craft of politics and the art of making deals. But if the nation insists on electing politicians who have a pure partisan track record, compromise will be hard, if not impossible, to achieve. At some level, Americans will have to come to learn to love the flip-flopper if they really want to end the legislative stalemate we've seen for more than a decade. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer.	Julian Zelizer: American voters want candidates who aren't flip-floppers . But they also criticize Washington for failing to solve America's problems, he says . Reaching agreement on legislation takes compromise, Zelizer says . Zelizer: There seems no room anymore for figures who bring parties together .
Keywords: <keyword>MINOGUE PERFORMANCE</keyword>, <keyword>CRASHED KYLIE</keyword>, <keyword>LACAZE TOLD</keyword>, <keyword>KATE LYONS</keyword>, <keyword>MISSED DAUGHTER</keyword>, <keyword>ATHLETES CLOSING</keyword>, <keyword>INCIDENT TOTALLY</keyword>, <keyword>ANTICS STEEPLECHASER</keyword>, <keyword>LOCKED STAGE</keyword>, <keyword>INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES</keyword> By . Kate Lyons . The Australian athlete who stage-bombed Kylie Minogue during the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony says her mother and friends thought she would be locked up for her on-stage antics. Steeplechaser Genevieve LaCaze, who turned 25 today, was seen across the world jumping onstage during Kylie Minogue's headline set at the closing ceremony in Glasgow yesterday. LaCaze said her friends were surprised when she returned to the group soon after being escorted offstage and told her: "We thought you'd be in jail!" Scroll down for video . Genevieve LaCaze made headlines when she crashed Kylie Minogue's performance at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games . But LaCaze, who cam fifth in the 3,000m steeplechase, said the security staff member who ushered her from the stage 'was so nice, she just forcefully took me to the back and she said: "You should go find your country now,"' LaCaze told Today. But LaCaze's parents, who were in Scotland for the Games, missed their daughter's moment in the spotlight. Her father had lost his phone that night and did not receive any of LaCaze's text messages telling him she was making international headlines and LaCaze's mother slept through the incident. 'I woke up this morning and thought, I don't think my parents know anything. I met up with them today outside London for my birthday and my mum said she had been a nervous wreck all day. 'Mum was like: "I've been worrying all day long, I've been nervous, I haven't been able to eat; I thought maybe you were locked up in jail."' LaCaze said her parents missed her big moment and her mother was worried the next day that she was locked up in jail . Write caption here . LaCaze says the incident was totally out of character and that she was caught up in the atmosphere of the closing ceremony. She has apologised on Twitter to anyone she might have disturbed by her antics and says she is most worried that she upset Kylie Minogue. 'I'm hoping that I didn't upset her because if you upset Kylie Minogue, you're not too much of a hero. I heard that she went offstage and that's when I entered, so I like to think I was kind of just entertaining while she need a quick break, so maybe she'll thank me, I don't know,' she said. The Australian is yet to be disciplined over the incident and hopes to compete in the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, her hometown. LaCaze, 25, came fifth in the 3,000m steeplechase at the Games . Genevieve Lacaze (right) pictured with other Australian athletes at the closing ceremony before she joined Kylie Minogue's dancers onstage .	Genevieve LaCaze jumped onstage during Kylie Minogue's performance at the closing ceremony of Glasgow Commonwealth Games . Speaking today, she said her parents slept through the dramatic moment . Her mother spent the next day worried her daughter was in jail . The steeplechaser says she is worried she upset her 'hero' Kylie .
Keywords: <keyword>KIDS PERU</keyword>, <keyword>CARE EULALIA</keyword>, <keyword>EDUCATION PRIORITY</keyword>, <keyword>POOR ALPACA</keyword>, <keyword>LIVES PUNO</keyword>, <keyword>PARENTS TRY</keyword>, <keyword>INDIGENOUS</keyword>, <keyword>ILLEGAL GOLD</keyword>, <keyword>CROPS LABOR</keyword>, <keyword>GIVES RIDE</keyword> (CNN) -- Eulalia goes to school on a motorcycle. The 10-year-old girl lives in the Puno region of Peru with her parents and six siblings. There is no school near Eulalia's home, so on Mondays, her father gives her a ride down the mountain on his motorcycle to a boarding school run by the humanitarian organization CARE. She attends school during the week and comes home on the weekends. For Eulalia, this ride to school is a journey into a promising future that is hard to come by in Peru. She is one of nearly a million indigenous children who struggle to get an education. According to CARE, 73% of indigenous kids in Peru are behind in school for their age and nearly 30% don't go to school at all. Most people in the Puno region live in poverty and parents have no choice but to have their children work to help support the family. Child labor is often used for illegal gold mining in the area. Eulalia's father is a poor alpaca shepherd, but he wants his daughter to have a better education than he had and he has made it a priority. The school doesn't charge Eulalia's family for school fees, but her parents try to contribute in other ways such as with crops or labor. Soon, her little brother will also be attending the school. Eulalia's favorite subject is math but her father says she likes "everything." When she grows up, she wants to be a teacher. Eulalia's loving spirit is what endears her to the people at CARE. "I can tell you, she is the sweetest of them all ... quite shy, but at the same time very loving once she knows people a bit. The first time she visited our office, she gave big hugs to all my colleagues, and that's how she is remembered here, as 'the little hugger'," says Elsie Ralston of CARE. Eulalia studies a bilingual curriculum with CARE's Education Program. The school is a private project founded by a company that wants all its workers to be able to provide education for children in the area. CARE's Education Program in Peru promotes proper schooling for children and adolescents in vulnerable conditions, as well as the elimination of discrimination in all its forms. "The innovative bilingual and intercultural approach allows us to empower girls in urban and rural areas. CARE seeks to address the barriers Peruvian boys, but especially girls, face, while actively advocating the investment of public resources to education," Ralston says. CARE has similar educational programs around the world to assist and empower girls and young women. You can help CARE continue to help girls like Eulalia in Peru. For even more ways to make an impact on education for girls around the world, check out CNN's Impact Your World resources or take action with 10x10. - More about CNN Films' "Girl Rising" project . - More from CNN's Impact Your World .	Eulalia from Peru is one of few indigenous children able to go to school . Eulalia attends a boarding school run by the humanitarian organization CARE . CARE: 73% of indigenous children in Peru are behind in school and nearly 30% don't go to school . Child labor is often used for illegal gold mining in Peru .
Keywords: <keyword>CHAMAKH MISSED</keyword>, <keyword>CHANGES EVERTON</keyword>, <keyword>PALACE RETURN</keyword>, <keyword>SQUAD WARNOCK</keyword>, <keyword>SELHURST</keyword>, <keyword>SCORE LEICESTER</keyword>, <keyword>SERVICES MAROUANE</keyword>, <keyword>INSISTING PLAYERS</keyword>, <keyword>CONTENTION CRYSTAL</keyword>, <keyword>HAMSTRING INJURY</keyword> Marouane Chamakh is back in contention as Crystal Palace return their attentions to the Barclays Premier League against Leicester on Saturday. A Palace side showing a full 11 changes following the win at Everton lost 3-2 after extra-time to Newcastle on Wednesday night to exit the Capital One Cup at Selhurst Park. Chamakh missed the defeat and the 3-2 win at Goodison Park with a hamstring injury and may be selected among the substitutes against the Foxes, with manager Neil Warnock insisting the players which began at Everton would likely return to start. Neil Warnock will be able to call on the services of Marouane Chamakh for the first time as Palace boss . Chamakh will be in contention for the first time in a month this weekend against Leicester . 'Chamakh will be available,' Warnock said. 'He was very close to being available last weekend but we felt it was not worth the risk. 'There won't be many changes from Everton. At Everton we were fantastic, so I don't envisage many changes. 'But it's nice to look at the squad, the second group of players, knowing what you can bring into the squad. 'That was the pleasing thing last night, the way we played, we enjoyed it, we went forward whenever we could, we looked like we wanted to go out and play football in the cup. 'They all played really well against a strong Newcastle team. It showed we've got quite a good squad.' Warnock was less than happy with the stadium announcement, made while the match with Newcastle was ongoing, that Manchester City would be the opponents in the fourth round. 'I made an enquiry after the game, because I was disappointed, if I'm honest,' Warnock added. Chamakh gets up to head the ball during Crystal Palace's home defeat to West Ham . 'I don't think it should have been announced. I don't know why it was announced and who announced it. I'm sure there will be some enquiries today. 'I felt it was out of order for both sets of fans, who just wanted to get on with the game.' Asked if knowing City, 7-0 winners over Sheffield Wednesday, would be their next opponents with victory had affected his players, Warnock's response was sarcastic. Warnock, with a smile, said: 'I think that's why they threw the last goal in, so they didn't go to Man City away. We heard the score.' Leicester beat City's Manchester rivals Manchester United 5-3 last weekend and are seventh in the table with two wins and one loss in their five matches since promotion from the Championship. 'They've made the Premier League look quite easy, really,' Warnock added. 'I'm hoping they get a more difficult game on Saturday.'	Neil Warnock will have Marouane Chamakh available for the first time since rejoining Crystal Palace as manager earlier this month . The 30-year-old returns to the Palace squad after a month on the sidelines with a hamstring problem . Palace entertain Leicester on Saturday as they look for their first home win of the season .
Keywords: <keyword>DOLPHINS INFECTED</keyword>, <keyword>DOLPHIN DEATHS</keyword>, <keyword>DOLPHINS STRANDING</keyword>, <keyword>ASHORE VIRUS</keyword>, <keyword>VIRGINIA DEADLY</keyword>, <keyword>2013 MEASLES</keyword>, <keyword>STRANDING SHORES</keyword>, <keyword>BODIES WASHED</keyword>, <keyword>330 BOTTLENOSE</keyword>, <keyword>RECORD PICTURE</keyword> By . Steve Nolan . PUBLISHED: . 07:35 EST, 28 August 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 08:49 EST, 28 August 2013 . A measles-like virus is being blamed for the death of more than 330 dolphins whose bodies have washed up on America's East Coast. Scientists say that cetecean morbillivirus is the cause for nine times the usual number of bottlenose dolphins stranding on shores between New York and North Carolina since the beginning of July. Most are dead by the time they reach the shore with many already decomposed and more than half of the deaths occuring in Virginia. Deadly: Virginia Aquarium Stranding Response Team members Krystal Rodrique (left) of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and intern Liz Schell examine a dead male dolphin that was washed up on the beach, one of 330 killed by a measles-like virus . Investigation: Danielle Monaghan, from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine New Jersey, photographs a dead dolphin that washed ashore in Spring Lake on Wednesday . Dolphins infected by the virus typically suffer symptoms such as skin lesions, brain infections and pneumonia. The virus is usually spread through inhalation of respiratory particles or direct contact between animals. Officials confirmed that there's no risk of the virus being caught by humans. Teri Rowles of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration described the number of dolphin deaths as 'extraordinary'. The NOAA announced earlier this month that the number of dolphins dying this year is above average and devoted extra resources to trying find the cause. It had suspected that the virus was behind the extra deaths and has now confirmed it as the 'tentative cause' with research ongoing. Record: This picture shows an identification tag - the equivalent of a dolphin toe tag - for a dolphin that had died on the Spring Lake beach, New Jersey . Examination: Equipment is ready to perform a necropsy on a dead dolphin at the Virginia Aquarium Marine Animal Care Center, in Virginia Beach . Officials believe that many more dolphins may have succumbed to morbillivirus but haven't washed ashore. The virus, which affects a broad range of mammals, was the cause of some 740 dolphin deaths between New Jersey and Florida in 1987 and 1988. The disease is expected to spread south and to last until next spring. Eventually, dolphins will build up a resistance to the disease as they have been known to with similar strains in the past. A new generation of dolphins could become susceptible to the disease again in the future however. There are two different stocks of dolphins that populate the affected region, with the northern stock having between 7,000 and 9,000 dolphins, while the southern stock has between 9,900 to 12,000 dolphins, according to federal estimates. Bottlenose dolphins are typically found in groups of two to 15 and live for between 40 and 50 years. Outbreak: More than 330 bottlenose dolphins have been killed by a measles-like virus on the East Coast of America since July 1 (file picture)	More than 330 dolphins have died between New York and North Carolina . Most are dead and heavily decomposed by the time they reach the shore . The number of deaths is nine times the usual between July and August . The disease cannot be caught by humans say wildlife experts .
Keywords: <keyword>FLORIDA TEENAGERS</keyword>, <keyword>BEATING TEEN</keyword>, <keyword>VIDEO ASSAULTING</keyword>, <keyword>VICTIM 16</keyword>, <keyword>PRISON ALLEGED</keyword>, <keyword>ADULTS SENTENCED</keyword>, <keyword>BOYS ACTED</keyword>, <keyword>FELONY BATTERY</keyword>, <keyword>GIRLS FIGHTING</keyword>, <keyword>CNN RICH</keyword> (CNN) -- Eight Florida teenagers -- six of them girls -- will be tried as adults and could be sentenced to life in prison for their alleged roles in the videotaped beating of another teen, the state attorney's office said Thursday. The teenagers seen in a video assaulting a 16-year-old could face life in prison. The suspects, who range in age from 14 to 18, all face charges of kidnapping, which is a first-degree felony, and battery, said Chip Thullbery, a spokesman for the Polk County state attorney. Three of them are also charged with tampering with a witness. Everyone involved in the case was under a gag order imposed by a judge. The only attorney for the teens who has been publicly identified did not return calls from CNN, and his assistant cited the gag order as the reason. The teens are scheduled for their first appearance in court Friday. The video shows a brutal scene: The 16-year-old victim is punched, kneed and slapped by other girls. She huddles in the fetal position, or stands and screams at her attackers, but the assault continues. Authorities say the eight teens said they were retaliating for insults posted on the Internet by the attack victim. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd called the March 30 attack "animalistic." "I've been involved in law enforcement for 35 years, and I've seen a lot of extremely violent events, but I've never seen children, 14 to 18 years of age, engage in this conduct for a 30-minute period of time and then make these video clips," he said. Police say the teens planned to post the video on YouTube. Watch the disturbing video » . The victim, a 16-year-old from Lakeland, Florida, was hospitalized, and still has blurred vision, hearing loss, and a swollen face, her mother told CNN on Wednesday. The video shows only girls doing the beating; Judd said the boys acted as lookouts. The idea of girls administering a vicious beating so they can post the video online may seem shocking, but it's becoming an increasingly common scenario, according to experts and news reports. Watch why more teens are putting fights online » . A search for "girl fight" on YouTube gets thousands of results, and a suggestion to also try "girl fight at school, boy girl fight" and other search terms. There's at least one Web site devoted exclusively to videos of girls fighting. In 2003, 25 percent of high school girls said they had been in a physical fight in the past year, according to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (The figure for boys was 40.5 percent.) A Justice Department report released in 2006 showed that by age 17, 21 percent of girls said they had assaulted someone with the intent to cause serious harm. Frank Green is executive director of Keys to Safer Schools, a group that studies and tries to prevent school violence. He said he's not sure whether girls have actually become more violent, or whether there's just more awareness of their fights. "In one respect, girls have always been more vicious than boys," Green said. "Their violence is of a personal nature." He said boys usually have some focus and a concrete goal when they fight. "But girls want to cause pain and make the other girl feel bad," he said. Judd, the Polk County sheriff, said an important part of the plan in the Lakeland attack was to post the video of the beating on YouTube to humiliate and embarrass the victim. "It's the next stage of cyberbullying," psychologist Susan Lipkins said. "They want to show what they're doing." "Our kids are being peer pressured, in another sense of a trend, to put these shock videos out there at other peoples' expense," said Talisa Lindsay, the victim's mother. "And I hope that it doesn't come to the point where there's more people's lives that are being affected by having to take a beating for entertainment, or possibly being killed." Watch mother describe how the victim is doing » . The suspects didn't have a chance to post the video online before police moved in and seized it, Judd said. The Sheriff's Department made it public, and it wound up on YouTube anyway. Judd recognizes the irony. "In a perverted sense, we were feeding into exactly what the kids wanted," he said. "But according to Florida law, [the video] is public record, and it's going to be in the public domain whether we agree with that or not." Judd said the suspects showed no remorse when they were arrested and booked. "They were laughing and joking about, 'I guess we won't get to go to the beach during spring break.' And one ... asked whether she could go to cheerleading practice," he said. Lipkins, the psychologist, says there's a "disconnect between their actions and their thoughts." "They think the entire society is doing it, and they think it's funny. So they put it on YouTube. And I don't think they expect kids to get really hurt, and they also don't expect to get really caught." E-mail to a friend . CNN's Rich Phillips contributed to this report.	Eight Florida teens to be tried as adults in videotaped beating case . Video shows 16-year-old girl punched by other girls . 21 percent of girls age 17 say they've assaulted someone, the Justice Dept. reports . The teens have "disconnect" between thoughts and actions, psychologist says .
Keywords: <keyword>JENNY DEATH</keyword>, <keyword>KINDERGARTNER DIED</keyword>, <keyword>OKLAHOMA FEVER</keyword>, <keyword>ENTEROVIRUS DIED</keyword>, <keyword>SYMPTOMS SCHOOL</keyword>, <keyword>YANG OOLOGAH</keyword>, <keyword>UNRESPONSIVE MONDAY</keyword>, <keyword>PENDING TOXICOLOGY</keyword>, <keyword>PARENTS IMMIGRANTS</keyword>, <keyword>SAYS DISTRICT</keyword> An Oklahoma school district has canceled all classes after a kindergartner died of a mysterious illness after she was sent home with a fever. The sudden death Monday night of six-year-old Jenny Yang from Oologah-Talala Lower Elementary School in Oklahoma caused panic among parents and students. More than half of pupils didn't show up for class on Wednesday after parents were informed about Jenny's death. By Wednesday night, the superintendent had canceled school on Thursday. It is not yet know what caused Jenny's death. The medical examiner says results of an autopsy are pending a toxicology report. Jenny Yang, 6, died shortly after she was sent home from school in Oklahoma with a fever . According to a GoFundMe page set up by her brother, Jenny was found unresponsive Monday night after she went to sleep on a couch after being sent home from school. An ambulance rushed her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her parents, who are immigrants who came to the US in 2005, were traveling at the time of her death and were not home. She was one of seven children. Her uncle Xiong Yang told KOKI-TV: 'She’s never been sick. She’s such an outgoing child. One day she’s here and the next day she’s not here anymore.' Her cause of death is not yet known and medical examiners are waiting on test results before they can figure out how she died so suddenly . It's unknown whether Janny had a communicable disease that caused her death. In September and October more than 1,100 people - many of them young school children - fell ill with contagious enterovirus and several died suddenly from the respiratory infection and polio-like symptoms. School superintendent Max Tanner says the district has been following the advice of the county and state health departments. A GoFundMe page established to pay for Jenny's funeral has raised more than $7,100 for the family in just a few days.	Jenny Yang died suddenly hours after being sent home from school . Superintendent of Oologah-Talala Lower Elementary School in Oklahoma canceled class on Thursday after panic from parents . Jenny's cause of death is not known .
Keywords: <keyword>SEASON GERRARD</keyword>, <keyword>LEAVE LIVERPOOL</keyword>, <keyword>116 GOALS</keyword>, <keyword>LEAVE CLUB</keyword>, <keyword>WIN STEVEN</keyword>, <keyword>LEAGUE FACT</keyword>, <keyword>34 YEAR</keyword>, <keyword>MANAGER DALGLISH</keyword>, <keyword>DECISION LIFE</keyword>, <keyword>LEVEL FAILED</keyword> Steven Gerrard has described it as the 'toughest decision of my life' after announcing he will leave Liverpool. Outgoing Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has 'been a hero to this generation' and is no less of a player because he never won a league title, according to Reds legend Kenny Dalglish. Gerrard announced his decision to leave his boyhood club at the end of the season late on New Year's Day following their 2-2 draw at home to Leicester City. The 34-year-old's decision ends a glittering 17-year professional career at Anfield, in which the midfielder has scored 180 goals in 695 appearances to date. VIDEO Scroll down to see Steven Gerrard's career highlights . Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard announced that he will leave the club at the end of the season . Gerrard revealed his decision late on Thursday night after scoring twice in their 2-2 draw against Leicester . Premier League: 494 appearances, 116 goals . FA Cup: 39 appearances, 13 goals . League Cup: 28 appearances, 9 goals . Champions League: 87 appearances, 30 goals . UEFA Cup/Europa League: 42 appearances, 11 goals . Other: 5 appearances, 1 goal . TOTAL: 695 appearances, 180 goals . Liverpool's iconic No 8 has won nine major trophies during his time on Merseyside - including the club's unforgettable Champions League triumph against AC Milan in 2005. Despite his impressive list of honours, Gerrard has never won the Premier League - a fact detractors look to point out when comparing the midfielder to other Kop heroes and greats of his generation. Former Liverpool player and manager Dalglish though, who won 19 major trophies in two separate spells with the Reds, believes that notion is a myth because every top player in the history of the game has failed to win something in their careers. Writing in his column for the Mirror, the 63-year-old wrote: 'Everybody who has ever played football at the top level has failed to win everything they wanted to win. Me? Well we could have won three Doubles at Liverpool in my time as a player. But we didn’t. 'There’s always something you feel you have missed out on. There’s always something that people can throw at you. You know what that’s called? It’s called sport. Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish (right) believes Gerrard is a club hero, despite never winning the league . 'In time, you come to understand that the most important thing is the trophies you have won. You are defined by them, not by the trophies you didn’t win. And Steven won the Champions League. 'He lifted his team to the most prestigious title in the game. He led the club in that astonishing victory in Istanbul in 2005. 'At that stadium on the outskirts of the city, he wrote his name even larger in the history of his club.' Gerrard kisses the Champions League trophy after captaining the Reds to glory against AC Milan in 2005 . Gerrard's achievements for the five-time European champions undoubtedly make him of one of the greatest-ever players to play for Liverpool. Dalglish though, who is another to fall into that category, believes that it is impossible to determine if he is the greatest-ever at the club; due to the fact that it is hard to compare and contrast players from different eras. 'When Billy Liddell was in his pomp after the Second World War, everybody said he was the greatest. They called Liverpool ‘Liddellpool’ in his honour. Everyone has their favourites and Steven has been a hero to this generation,' he added. Gerrard is mobbed by Liverpool fans in Istanbul after guiding them to glory in the Champions League final .	Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard will leave at the end of the season . Gerrard announced his decision to leave Anfield late on New Year's Day . Midfielder has won nine major honours during his 17-year Reds career . 34-year-old scored twice in their 2-2 draw at home to Leicester on Thursday .
Keywords: <keyword>THUGS CAPTURED</keyword>, <keyword>ALTERCATION ASSAULT</keyword>, <keyword>SHOCKING FOOTAGE</keyword>, <keyword>NYPD TAKEN</keyword>, <keyword>LAY PUNCHES</keyword>, <keyword>BRONX VIDEO</keyword>, <keyword>SHOCKED DELI</keyword>, <keyword>VICTIM FELL</keyword>, <keyword>CONTENT BRUTAL</keyword>, <keyword>MAN WEARING</keyword> This shocking footage shows the moment a man was repeatedly punched and stamped on during a savage attack in a deli in The Bronx. The video, which has been released by NYPD, was taken on November 27 inside the deli at 285 East 165th Street. The victim, whose identity has been hidden, is seen standing at the shop's counter when a man wearing jeans, a shirt and a hat approaches him. Scroll down for video - WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT . Brutal: The two thugs were captured on CCTV repeatedly punching a man in a deli in The Bronx, New York . The two appear to argue and the 20-second clip then jumps forward to show another man, also wearing a hat, begin to punch the victim from behind. The two thugs then unleash a wave of punches, sending the victim flying into shelves near the entrance to the deli. Once on the ground, he is subjected to a series of vicious kicks and stamps before the dramatic footage ends. The beaten man was taken to a nearby hospital where he was treated for his injuries and released. Argument: The victim and one of his attackers appear to get into an altercation before the assault unfolds . Thugs: The outnumbered victim's trousers fall down while the two men begin to lay into him with punches . Police describe one of the suspects as 6ft tall, and say he was last seen wearing a blue baseball hat, a blue shirt, and grey jeans. The second suspect was wearing grey jeans, a grey shirt, and black sneakers at the time of the attack. No arrests have been made yet, according to police. Helpless: The vicious attack took place in a deli in The Bronx on November 27 while shocked deli staff and customers looked on in horror . Savage: The men were captured kicking and stomping on the victim after he fell to the deli floor . Scene of the crime: Police are yet to arrest anyone over the assult which took place at the deli at at 285 East 165th Street .	Chilling footage shows moment thugs savagely attack man in The Bronx . Men repeatedly punch victim before stamping on him when he falls to floor . Police released shocking video in hope it will help catch the two attackers .
Keywords: <keyword>ICE SCULPTURE</keyword>, <keyword>TALLEST ICE</keyword>, <keyword>SCULPTURE COLLAPSED</keyword>, <keyword>VIDEO LAKE</keyword>, <keyword>HANSON BELIEVES</keyword>, <keyword>WATER FREEZE</keyword>, <keyword>BUILD TALLEST</keyword>, <keyword>CRASHING TUESDAY</keyword>, <keyword>HELD CHINA</keyword>, <keyword>NEARLY 60</keyword> A man who spent months sleeping in a lakeside trailer and days attempting to build the tallest ice sculpture in the world watched his roughly 60-foot creation come crashing down on Tuesday morning in Wisconsin. A video of the Lake Superior Ice Project collapsing at 10:06 a.m. this morning was posted to the Minnesota artist Iceman Roger Hanson's Facebook Page. Hanson was giving an interview about his project to the New York Times when the structure fell due to what Hanson believes is due to weeks of unseasonably warm weather. Scroll down for video . Standing tall: This roughly 60-foot ice sculpture collapsed at 10:06 a.m. this morning . Toppling down: One of the icy pillars in the sculpture’s 17 foot base caved in and the rest of the structure came tumbling down with it . Bye, bye, sculpture: It hasn't been confirmed but the Superior Ice Sculpture was nearly 60-feet tall which would break the record for the world's tallest ice sculpture currently held by China . Since December, Hanson spent hours every day spraying lake water onto a cable strung between two poles. The water would freeze and create shapes that continued to grow higher and higher. The Star Tribune reports that one of the icy pillars in the sculpture’s 17 foot base caved in and the rest of the structure came tumbling down with it. It hasn't been confirmed but the Superior Ice Sculpture was nearly 60-feet tall which would break the record for the world's tallest ice sculpture currently held by China. Yichun, China holds the record for tallest ice sculpture at 53 feet. Superior officials gave Hanson $30,000 to try to break the record and he was aiming for building it up to 70 feet. 'The weather just wasn't with us this year,' said Superior Parks Director Mary Morgan to the Star Tribune. Long process: Roger Hanson had been slept in a lakeside trailer by night and spent day after day spraying lake water onto a cable strung between two poles . Winter wonderland: The ice sculpture was meant to be a centerpiece for community gatherings starting on Valentine’s Day and wasn't expected to collapse until mid March . On January 24 the weather was as high as 44 degrees. Morgan told reporters that city officials will discuss whether or not they will be able to save the project. The ice sculpture was meant to be a centerpiece for community gatherings starting on Valentine’s Day. The collapse wasn't expected sometime until mid-March. '[I]ts collapse, expected sometime in mid-March, may also prove to be an exciting part of the process, the Superior-Douglas County Chamber of Commerce wrote on its site. 'Just think of the over 6 million pound ice crashing spectacle!' The city planned events around the sculpture such as light shows, family activities, and bonfires.	Minnesota artist Iceman Roger Hanson was on a mission to build a 70-foot ice sculpture in Lake Superior making it the tallest in the world . Hanson was giving an interview about his project to the New York Times when the structure fell due to unseasonably warm weather . Yichun, China holds the record for tallest ice sculpture at 53 feet . It hasn't been confirmed but the Superior Ice Sculpture was nearly 60-feet tall which would break the record for the world's tallest ice sculpture .
Keywords: <keyword>SINABUNG ERUPTION</keyword>, <keyword>VOLCANOES INDONESIA</keyword>, <keyword>DEADLY LAVA</keyword>, <keyword>INDONESIA RESCUERS</keyword>, <keyword>VICTIMS MOUNT</keyword>, <keyword>SENT ASH</keyword>, <keyword>SLOPES DEADLY</keyword>, <keyword>DEATH TOLL</keyword>, <keyword>BANOS YESTERDAY</keyword>, <keyword>NEARLY 14</keyword> At least 16 people have been killed by a violent volcanic eruption on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, which sent ash spewing several miles into the air. The dead include a TV journalist, four high school students and their teacher who went to see Mount Sinabung up close after being told it was becoming safer. Only yesterday thousands of villagers were allowed to return to their homes on the slopes of the volcano despite the fact it has been erupting sporadically for four months. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Scroll down for video . At least 16 people have been killed by a violent volcanic eruption on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia which sent ash spewing several miles into the air . Catastrophic: The volcano erupts in Banos, yesterday sending ash and pyroclastic material into the atmosphere . Authorities had evacuated more than 30,000 people after the earlier eruptions which sent lava, gas and rocks from the 8,530ft peak . Fleeing: Locals from Bekerah village run for their lives as clouds of scorching dark ash followed them down the sides of Mount Sinabung . All unclear: Thousands of locals had only returned home yesterday after being evacuated in September . Rescuers run away from Suka Meriah village after they searched for victims of the Mount Sinabung volcanic eruption in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia . An Indonesian soldier runs on ash-covered road as he and his team search victims of the eruption of Mount Sinabung in Bekerah, North Sumatra, Indonesia . A police utility vehicle during the search for victims of Mount Sinabung eruption in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia . Rescuers search victims of the eruption of Mount Sinabung in Bekerah, North Sumatra, Indonesia after a volcano erupted . Tragedy: Relatives carry a coffin containing one victim at a nearby hospital. Officials fear the death toll will rise as the darkness and heat from the eruption hamper efforts to reach the mountain slopes . Distraught: A man weeps after identifying a family member killed by the eruption in Kabanjahe, Sumatra . Trauma: Thousands of villagers have been displaced by the eruptions, with families torn apart . A series of huge blasts and eruptions thundered from the 8,530-foot-high volcano, spewing lava and pyroclastic flows up to three miles away . At least three other people have been injured and officials fear the death toll will rise further. Rescue workers have been hampered by darkness and cannot get closer to the affected areas because of the heat. Authorities . had evacuated more than 30,000 people, housing them in cramped tents, . schools and public buildings, after the earlier eruptions which sent . lava, searing gas and rocks from the 8,530ft peak. They culminated today in a series of huge blasts which sent lava and pyroclastic flows up to three miles away, said officials. Caught: Officials have said 16 people have died but they fear the death toll could rise . Harrowing: Rescue workers set about looking for bodies and survivors but their job was made more difficult by the intense heat, the dark and the threat of another eruption . Villagers were seen tending to the charred corpses of victims, themselves covered in thick grey as, as far as two miles from the peak. Many in the rural island communities had been desperate to return to check on their homes and farms, presenting a dilemma for the government. But hundreds of villagers also demanded to be moved safer areas because they were scared to go back. Evacuee Naek Sembiring, one of 156 camping in a church, told The Jakarta Post two months ago that his entire village had agreed they would not return despite the situation being declared safe. 'We fear we might die,' he said. 'Our village is nearest to Mount Sinabung. In the event of an eruption where would we run to?' Policemen sit on an utility vehicle as they search for victims of Mount Sinabung eruption in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia . Dilemma: Evacuated locals had only been permitted to return home yesterday but today had to leave behind homes and farms as the ash reached further and further down the volcano's slopes . Deadly: Lava and pyroclastic flows have spread from the volcano, killing people up to two miles away . Deadly: Lava and pyroclastic flows have spread from the volcano, killing people up to two miles away . Yesterday authorities allowed nearly 14,000 people living outside a three-mile danger zone to return home after volcanic activity decreased. Others living close to the peak have been returning to their homes over the past four months despite the risk. After today's eruptions all those who had returned have been ordered to move back to evacuation centres. 'The death toll is likely to rise as many people are reported still missingand the darkness hampered our rescue efforts,' said Lt. Col. Asep Sukarna, who led the rescue operation. Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin. Mount Sinabung had been dormant for 400 years until it erupted in 2010, killing at least two people and displacing 30,000 others. It is now among about 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia and has sporadically erupted since September. But despite volcanos being notoriously hard to predict, it is difficult to keep farmers away because the slopes of the mountains are highly fertile. In 2010, 324 people were killed over two months when Indonesia's most volatile volcano, Mount Merapi, roared into life. Sleeping giant: Before 2010 Mount Sinabung had been dormant for four centuries .	Dead include four students and a journalist who went to see blasts up close . Only yesterday 14,000 villagers were allowed to return to their 'safe' homes . Mount Sinabung in Sumatra, Indonesia, has been rumbling for four months .
Keywords: <keyword>FASTER SMARTPHONE</keyword>, <keyword>IPHONE 5S</keyword>, <keyword>A7 PROCESSORS</keyword>, <keyword>ACCORDING 9TO5MAC</keyword>, <keyword>APPLE TESTING</keyword>, <keyword>LATEST MODEL</keyword>, <keyword>HANDSET PREDICTED</keyword>, <keyword>CAMERA UPGRADE</keyword>, <keyword>FINGERPRINT SENSOR</keyword>, <keyword>31 PERCENT</keyword> By . Sarah Griffiths . PUBLISHED: . 07:16 EST, 26 August 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 08:09 EST, 26 August 2013 . Apple's eagerly anticipated new smartphone, the iPhone 5S, could be 31 percent faster than the current iPhone 5 model, according to rumours. Speculation about the phone's new features includes a fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone, a slow motion camera - and now a faster chip. According to a TV anchor, the iPhone 5S will include a fast A7 processor to make the phone noticeably faster than the latest model currently available. Apple's eagerly anticipated new smartphone, the iPhone 5S could be 31 percent faster than the current iPhone 5 model, according to rumours. According to a TV anchor, the iPhone 5S will include a fast A7 processor to make the phone noticeably faster than the latest model currently available (pictured) Clayton Morris of Fox News tweeted: 'Sources are telling me the new iPhone's A7 chip is running at about 31% faster than A6. I’m hearing it’s very fast.' According to 9to5Mac Apple is testing 64-bit A7 processors in its prototypes, which would give the phone much better performance per watt and let it handle animated graphics more smoothly. If the company can deliver a faster smartphone, it will once again put them on a level pegging with Samsung's popular high-end smartphones. Experts have speculated that the same processor will probably be included in the next iPad. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, recently told the news site that the transition to the new, faster processor will probably happen soon. If the company can deliver a faster smartphone, it will once again put them on a level pegging with Samsung's popular high-end smartphones. The phone is also rumoured to boast a fingerprint sensor to identify the owner, a slow-motion camera with dual flash and could even be gold-coloured (like this treated iPhone 5) However, Mashable reported many people believe that . while the chips are rumoured to be in testing, there is no solid . evidence to suggest that they will be launched this year. If not, many Apple fans hope a 64-bit A8 processor will be launched early in 2014. Insiders believe the new phone - along with a low-cost handset dubbed the iPhone C - will be unveiled next month with the event rumoured to be taking place on September 10. Mr Morris said: 'I’ve also heard there’s a separate chip devoted to motion tracking. Should be an interesting camera upgrade.' Rumoured updates on the new iPhone 5S include an slow-motion camera with code discovered in iOS 7 suggesting that phones . running the software will be able to record video at a rate of 120 . frames-per-second (FPS) rather than around 30 frames per second. The high-end handset is also predicted to have a sensor that can identify the owner by his or her fingerprints. Code uncovered describes a user touching the Home button with their thumb. A fingerprint then appears on the screen, that changes colour - presumably to signify a match - and the 'recognition is complete'.	According to a TV anchor, the iPhone 5S will include a fast 64-bit A7 processor that would make the phone noticeably faster than the iPhone 5 . The chip would give the phone better performance per watt and let it handle animated graphics more smoothly . The highly-anticipated handset is also rumoured to include a fingerprint scanner, slow-motion camera with dual flash and even be gold in colour .
Keywords: <keyword>DESIGN KIA</keyword>, <keyword>VEHICLE AMBIENCE</keyword>, <keyword>CROSS VEHICLE</keyword>, <keyword>ALERTS DRIVERS</keyword>, <keyword>INDICATORS AMID</keyword>, <keyword>SAFETY HIGHER</keyword>, <keyword>SORRENTO SPORTS</keyword>, <keyword>FRANKFURT UPMARKET</keyword>, <keyword>FEATURE FRUGAL</keyword>, <keyword>BLIND SPOT</keyword> Amid all the fashion models and concept cars at the Paris motor show, Kia's new, third-generation Sorrento sports utility vehicle, brought a refreshing sense of reality. Designed for families on the move who need space, the seven-seater promises improved ride, handling and crash safety and a higher quality interior and design. Kia says it features a higher level of sophistication than the present model. The Korean company's European design team, based in Frankfurt, is behind the move upmarket. A spokesman says: 'A higher proportion of soft-touch materials and leather creates a modern luxury feel to the cabin and premium vehicle ambience.' Buyers will be offered a menu of safety technologies, including a lane departure warning system, which audibly alerts drivers who stray from the chosen lane without using indicators. Amid all the fashion models and concept cars at the Paris motor show, Kia's new, third-generation Sorrento sports utility vehicle stood out . A blind-spot detection system flashes a warning in the door mirror when another car is in the driver's blind spot, and rear cross-traffic alert warns against other cars driving behind the vehicle in a car park. There's also a feature once found only in limos — the speed limit is displayed on the dashboard console, constantly relayed from onboard cameras that read roadside signs. Its second row of seats can split several ways and can slide away to allow easier access to the third. All passengers are promised more legroom and greater baggage space. There's also a 'smart' power tailgate. A spokesman says: 'This system opens the tailgate automatically when the key is sensed close to the boot, so owners can put shopping bags or heavy objects straight into the vehicle.' A new soundproofing material for the transmission tunnel and a 29 per cent thicker panel combine to help cut cabin noise by 3 to 6 per cent, depending on the driving conditions. Three engines are available, including a 2.4-litre petrol direct injection (GDI) and two turbodiesel engines — two-litre and 2.2-litre. However, UK models on sale next spring from around £40,000 will be available only with the 2.2 CRDi engine. The UK version has also been designed to give a softer ride over bumps to reduce the stress and possible discomfort on long journeys. Kia is on a bit of a roll, enjoying its best ever September UK sales. It delivered 13,292 new cars, taking the total so far this year to 62,538 — more than 7 per cent up on 2013. It aims to surpass its 2014 target of 78,000. Its biggest seller, the Sportage, had almost 3,500 buyers, followed by the Picanto, Cee'd, Rio and Venga. More than half of customers (56 per cent) are private buyers. If you fancy a trip across the Channel, the Paris show runs until October 19. You'll need more than a day to see everything. Tickets start at €14 (£11). Go to: mondial-automobile.com. The Countess of Wessex revealed she drives an F-Type Jaguar when she met its designer, Jaguar design boss Ian Callum, at a reception for the London Press Club Ball. Even the roar of the engine appeals to her, she confided. Jaguar Land Rover was the main automotive sponsor of the Ball, held this week at the Royal Courts of Justice, to raise funds for the Journalists' Charity. One racy lady royal, clearly. The wraps came off the new high-tech Mondeo in Paris. It marks the debut of Ford's new technology which can detect people in the road ahead — or who could cross the vehicle's path — and applies the brakes automatically if the driver does not respond to warnings. The pre-collision assist with pedestrian detection also aims to help reduce road deaths and serious injuries. The new versions have the widest range of engines and gearboxes Ford has ever offered. Fuel-efficient auto start-stop technology is standard throughout the range. The new Mondeo also introduces intelligent all-wheel drive to the range's line-up. The new Hyundai hatchback i20 which the company describes as a 'truly European car' A new hatchback from Hyundai turned a few heads in Paris. The Korean firm said the new-generation i20, has evolved into 'a more premium-quality package'. It's been designed, developed and built in Europe, and was billed as a 'truly European car' on its world premiere at the show. It will feature a frugal one-litre turbocharged three-cylinder petrol engine in 2015. Allan Rushforth, senior vice-president and chief operating officer at Hyundai Europe, says: 'The i20 is a truly European car. 'Our one-litre engine follows the trend of small turbocharged engines, which provide great driving performance while being very efficient. It underlines Hyundai's commitment to sustainable mobility and gives an insight into our future innovations.' AUDI unveiled a five-door prototype of its popular TT coupe. The TT Sportback, powered by a 395bhp two-litre engine. Hands-free and driverless at nearly 150mph... are you mad? Well, Audi thinks it's not. A driverless Audi RS7 Sportback is to tackle Germany's Hockenheim circuit at race speed next week to showcase the potential for self-driving car technology.	The seven-seater promises improved ride, handling and crash safety . Kia says it features a higher level of sophistication than the present model . The car is designed for families on the move who need space . The Korean company's European design team is behind the move upmarket . A warning system alerts drivers who stray from their lane without indicators .
Keywords: <keyword>MCILROY ELIMINATED</keyword>, <keyword>TOURNAMENT 2013</keyword>, <keyword>SHANE LOWRY</keyword>, <keyword>CNN NIKE</keyword>, <keyword>WORLD PLAYER</keyword>, <keyword>RORY</keyword>, <keyword>WOODS SAID</keyword>, <keyword>EARLY CHANCES</keyword>, <keyword>BEDECKED COURSE</keyword>, <keyword>MAKE BIRDIES</keyword> (CNN) -- When Nike signed a multi-million dollar deal to add Rory McIlroy to their ranks they must have salivated at the thought of the world's top player going head-to-head with stablemate Tiger Woods. Imagine the marketing potential of their twin titans battling it out down the stretch at major championships for years to come, bedecked, of course, in Nike gear. That dream may well be realized in time, and Woods at least has one title to his name this year, but at the most high-profile tournament of 2013 to date both crashed and burned at the first hurdle. World No. 1 McIlroy was eliminated in the first round of the World Match Play Championship by Ireland's Shane Lowry in Arizona, to add to his missed cut at his only other appearance this year, in Abu Dhabi. Woods, the world No. 2, didn't fare any better, losing to Charles Howell III. The other two top seeds, South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen and England's Luke Donald, the world No. 3, went safely through to round two. McIlroy squandered early chances against Lowry, who came to life on the back nine, chipping in for birdie at 11 and 12 before an eagle at 13 put him in the driving seat. The Northern Irishman won 16 to reduce the deficit to one shot but Lowry, ranked 68, held firm to sink a four-foot putt at the last to claim a famous triumph. "I didn't make enough birdies in the end," McIlroy told the PGA Tour's official website. "Shane had a nice little stretch around part of the back nine. I hung in there, but I just didn't do enough." "Deep down I knew I could beat him," a jubilant Lowry said. "I'm not here for no reason. I'm not here to make up the numbers. "I said to Darren, my caddie, walking down 11 or 12, 'He's not liking this one bit. He's the one under pressure, I've got nothing to lose, so let's have a go from here.' "I'm feeling quite good now, but it's important not to get too high now because it's only the first round, and I've got another match tomorrow." Heavy snow curtailed the first day and delayed the start on Thursday as the course was prepared for play. And in fading light, Woods and Howell decided to continue playing in near gloom to reach a conclusion. Woods squared the game on 13 but Howell birdied the 15th and 16th to go two up, wrapping the match up on the 17th. Woods was naturally disappointed in defeat but was pleased with his performance. "I played well, I really did," Woods said. "I hit a lot of good shots out there. "It's the nature of the format. You've just got to beat the guy you're playing against, and I didn't do that today. Chucky won the match." Elsewhere, defending champion Hunter Mahan moved into the second round after a comprehensive 5&4 victory over Matteo Manassero. Donald, the 2011 champion, fought hard to beat Germany's Marcel Siem on the final hole while fellow Englishman, and European Ryder Cup hero, Ian Poulter beat Stephen Gallacher 2&1. Graeme McDowell edged a close game with Padraig Harrington, Jim Furyk defeated Ryan Moore while 2012 Masters champion Bubba Watson and 2012 U.S. Open winner Webb Simpson moved into round two. There were other high-profile departures in the form of 2011 U.S. PGA champion Keegan Bradley, Lee Westwood and 2012 British Open winner Ernie Els.	Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy both lose in first round of Match Play Championship . World's top two players fall at the first hurdle in Arizona to players outside the top 60 . McIlroy is beaten by Ireland's Shane Lowry while Charles Howell III defeats Woods . Defending champ Hunter Mahan through but Keegan Bradley and Dustin Johnson are out .
Keywords: <keyword>JAMAL LESSON</keyword>, <keyword>ADVOCATED VIOLENCE</keyword>, <keyword>CENSORED MUMIA</keyword>, <keyword>EYEWITNESSES ABU</keyword>, <keyword>KING CONVICTED</keyword>, <keyword>DANIEL FAULKNER</keyword>, <keyword>JUDGE RACIST</keyword>, <keyword>POLICEMAN 4AM</keyword>, <keyword>POLICY STRICT</keyword>, <keyword>STUDENTS ASKED</keyword> A school which asked students to compare Martin Luther King to convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal in a lesson plan has been branded an 'absolute disgrace'. Maureen Faulkner, whose husband Daniel was shot by Abu-Jamal in 1981, blasted the taxpayer-funded plan, saying it advocated violence. The lesson, given to students in Oakland, California, asked them to draw a 'possible parallel' between civil rights activist King, and 'someone else many believe is currently targeted by the U.S. government, Mumia Abu-Jamal.' Students were asked to compare Mumia Abu-Jamal (left), who was convicted of killing a policeman in 1981, and Martin Luther King Jr. who had a policy of strict non-violence . Speaking to Fox News, Maureen said: 'It’s a travesty. You’re going to teach children about a man who murdered a police officer? 'That’s not a good lesson to be teaching children. He was a radical, a militant.' The plan, written by teacher Craig Gordon and designed for 11h grade students, also asks them to consider the following statement: 'The media, prison system and law enforcement organizations have censored Mumia Abu-Jamal. 'On one hand, there have been occasional stories in print and broadcast media about Mumia Abu-Jamal. 'On the other, despite the widespread support for Abu-Jamal that has made his case the most renown and controversial of death penalty cases in the world today, these stories are extremely rare and always refer to him as a "convicted cop-killer."' The plan was posted on the Oakland . Unified School District’s website. Troy Flint, spokesman for the . district, said the lesson plan is no longer part of the curriculum. 'The . fact that a website documenting Urban Dreams remains accessible is an . oversight related to technology management; it does not speak to current . instructional practice in OUSD,' Flint told Fox News in an e-mail. Daniel Faulker was killed during an early-morning traffic stop in Philadelphia in 1981 . 'To avoid any confusion in the future, we will conduct an inventory of the numerous websites created to support learning districtwide to ensure they conform with our present academic philosophy and do not inadvertently misrepresent Oakland schools.' Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of Daniel Faulkner's murder after his brother got into a scuffle with the policeman during a 4am traffic stop in Philadelphia. Faulkner was shot several times and died at the scene, Abu-Jamal was later found with a bullet wound from Faulker's gun, and a .38 calibre handgun registered to Abu-Jamal was found at the scene. It took a Pennsylvania jury just thre hours to find him guilty and he was sentenced to death. However, over the years Abu-Jamal challenged the predominantly white makeup of the jury, the instructions given to the jurors and the accounts of eyewitnesses. Abu-Jamal had his sentence reduced to life in jail in 2011 after three decades of campaigning by supporters . He also said that his lawyer was ineffective, that the judge was racist and that another man confessed to the crime. The one-time journalist's own 1995 book, 'Live From Death Row,' depicts prison life and calls the justice system racist. He got worldwide support from the 'Free Mumia' movement, with hundreds of vocal supporters and death-penalty opponents regularly turning out for court hearings in his case. In 2011 the sentence was downgraded to life imprisonment after Maureen Faulker agreed to the decision. The niece of Martin Luther King, Alevda, said she was not familiar with Abu-Jamal's case, but that anybody seking to understand her uncle should start with his policy of non-violence.	School lesson plan published online asked students to compare the two . Asked pupils to draw 'critical parallel' between King and 'someone else many believe is currently targeted by the US government' Plan created for Oakland, Calif., schools using money government money . Widow of Daniel Faulkner, officer shot by Abu-Jamal, brands it a 'disgrace'
Keywords: <keyword>UKRAINE CRISIS</keyword>, <keyword>PUTIN DELAYED</keyword>, <keyword>PUTIN MERKEL</keyword>, <keyword>BACKED MOSCOW</keyword>, <keyword>POROSHENKO TALKS</keyword>, <keyword>LEADERS SUMMIT</keyword>, <keyword>ARRIVING TALKS</keyword>, <keyword>CANCELLED SESSION</keyword>, <keyword>EU ENERGY</keyword>, <keyword>COST 600</keyword> Vladimir Putin blasted the West today over Ukraine after angering the German chancellor by turning up late for a summit in Milan with world leaders. Angela Merkel cancelled a session with the Kremlin strongman last night after Putin was delayed arriving at the talks, which include David Cameron. Putin had travelled from Belgrade where he was given a hero's welcome. German chancellor Angela Merkel initially cancelled talks with Vladimir Putin at a world leaders summit in Milan after the Russian president turned up late . Putin and Merkel at the 10th Asia-Europe Meeting; Putin made it clear there was little progress with Russia and the West sharply divided over solutions to the Ukraine crisis, which has cost more than 3,600 lives . A tense late night two and a half hour bilateral between Russian-speaking Merkel and German-speaking Putin was eventually rescheduled after a welcome dinner at the two-day ASEM summit of European and Asian leaders. Putin's spokesman made clear there was little progress with Russia and the West sharply divided over solutions to the Ukraine crisis, which has cost more than 3,600 lives in six months. Dmitry Peskov said: 'There are still serious differences concerning the origin of Ukraine's internal conflict, as well as the root causes of what is currently happening.' Mr Peskov said some Western leaders displayed 'incomprehension' over Ukraine and refused to accept 'reality'. He said: 'Unfortunately, some participants at breakfast demonstrated complete unwillingness to understand the reality in southeastern Ukraine. 'Indeed the talks are difficult, there are plenty of disagreements, plenty of incomprehension. Putin shakes hands with Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko before the talks began . Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko speaks with Merkel and prime minister David Cameron . 'But at the same time they are going on, there is an exchange of opinion.' Merkel contends that Russia is holding back peace by failing in a promise to pull out its troops. A ceasefire agreement thrashed out last month in Minsk was 'first and foremost' Russia's responsibility to implement, she told the Russian leader. Putin was today meeting Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko over the crisis and said 'peace and stability in Ukraine, it is the only thing we expect'. Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov assured Czech leaders that Moscow had no intention of invading Ukraine, said Czech president Milos Zeman. It was the first time Cameron has met Putin since Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot out of the skies above Ukraine, in an act the West blames on rebel fighters backed by Moscow. Putin was delayed after attending a military parade in Belgrade where he received a heroes welcome . Serbian onlookers wave the Russian flag as they cheer during the military parade . Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte admitted he had an 'emotional' confrontation with Putin over the tragedy. All 298 passengers on board were killed - 153 of them from the Netherlands. Rutte said: 'I have just spoken to President Putin in Milan and demanded maximum cooperation in resolving the MH17 disaster. 'It is an emotional subject and of course I am angry at all parties who have made it impossible to start work in at the crash site. 'But it's now up to us to reach our goal. I'll use every opportunity to highlight the issue.' A mass funeral was held in Ukraine yesterday for 21 unidentified soldiers killed during the conflict . On Monday four Dutch experts returned to the crash site in pro-Moscow rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, but Dutch officials, including Rutte, have lamented the lack of proper access to the wreck site. Dutch forensic experts called off their search of the area in early August because of the ongoing fighting between Kiev and pro-Russian separatists. The summit was also on edge over a Putin threat to cut gas supplies to the EU if energy-starved Ukraine is found to siphon off supplies from a pipeline transiting its territory. 'There are major transit risks,' Putin said ahead of the meeting. Meanwhile, a mass funeral was held in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, yesterday for 21 unidentified soldiers killed during the conflict. After a brief service the deceased were taken out of town and buried in lines next to one another.	German chancellor Angela Merkel cancelled a meeting with Vladimir Putin . Putin turned up late to summit of world leaders after military parade . He said there was still 'serious differences' over the Ukraine crisis .
Keywords: <keyword>KILLED LESLIE</keyword>, <keyword>LEGEBOKOFF ARRESTED</keyword>, <keyword>CHARGED MURDER</keyword>, <keyword>TRIAL CODY</keyword>, <keyword>ALLEGEDLY MET</keyword>, <keyword>DRIVER SPEEDING</keyword>, <keyword>CANADIAN AUTHORITIES</keyword>, <keyword>REPORTED RCMP</keyword>, <keyword>LEFT YOUNGEST</keyword>, <keyword>BLOOD SMEARS</keyword> By . Lydia Warren . On trial: Cody Legebokoff, 24, allegedly killed 3 women and a teenager between 2009 and 2010 . An alleged serial killer told Canadian authorities who had pulled over his vehicle that he was covered in blood because he had just clubbed a deer to death, it has emerged. But Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers knew there was more to the story when they stopped Cody Legebokoff, 24, for speeding on a rural road near Prince George, British Columbia. He is now on trial for the murders of Loren Leslie, 15, Jill Stuchenko, 35, Cynthia Maas, 35, and Natasha Montgomery, 23, who all died in 2009 or 2010. Legebokoff had allegedly just killed Leslie, whom he met after they chatted online, when he was pulled over on a quiet stretch of highway on November 27, 2010, the National Post reported. RCMP Constable Aaron Kehler, who was just a rookie at the time, had spotted the truck speeding through a forest and thought it was strange when the vehicle didn't slow down when it hit the highway. He guessed that the driver was speeding so signaled for him to stop and waited for another officer, K.P. Sidhu, to meet him. The two constables had been about to meet to exchange a lost purse. When they approached the vehicle, Legebokoff had blood smears on his face and chin, blood on his legs and a pool of . blood on the driver's mat. But it was an open beer can that allowed the constables to conduct a thorough search of the truck under the Liquor Control Licence Act, the Post reported. Loss: Loren Leslie, 15, was found killed near to a rural road where Legebokoff was pulled over by suspicious police officers in November 2010. They found him with blood on his face and legs . Inside they found a multi-tool and a wrench covered in blood. Legebokoff claimed that he had been poaching - but the constable asked why the items were covered in blood. 'He said they took turns clubbing it [the alleged deer] to death,' Kehler told the court. When Kehler asked Legebokoff if he did much poaching, he replied: 'Yeah, I'm a redneck. That’s what we do for fun.' Inside the vehicle, they also allegedly found a monkey backpack on the passenger seat, a wallet containing a children's hospital card with Leslie's name on and bottles of drinks favored by teen girls. 'I told him I was looking for the truth of what was going on,' Kehler told the court. Victims: Leslie, left, was his youngest alleged victim at age 15. After her body was discovered, Legebokoff, was allegedly connected by DNA evidence to the death of 35-year-old mother Cynthia Maas, right . Killed: He also allegedly killed 35-year-old Jill Stuchenko, left, and Natasha Montgomery, 23, right. Montgomery's body has never been found but her DNA was allegedly found on items in Legebokoff's apartment . 'From the things I've learned, people who enjoy killing animals, taking turns clubbing a deer - I said that sometimes they could turn out to be serial killers.' Mr. Legebokoff was arrested under the Wildlife Act for poaching but Kehler . also requested a conservation officer to check the area for signs of . poaching - and Leslie's body was found. RCMP Constable Aaron Kehler . 'I asked (the conservation officer) if it was what we expected or if everything is OK,' Kehler said. 'He replied back to me: "It's worst-case scenario".' Leslie's body was partially buried near a gravel pit close to the road with her pants pulled down. While there was no signs of life, she was still warm to the touch, the court heard. Legebokoff was charged with her murder. 'Immediately after the charter warning, Mr. Legebokoff turned to me and said, "I found her like that",' Kehler said. He was later allegedly linked to the . deaths of the three other women. Montgomery's body was . never found but items in his home, including sheets and her clothes, allegedly had . evidence of her DNA. 'Evidence': Constables allegedly found blood-covered tools in his truck, pictured, but he claimed the blood was from beating a deer to death as he poached. Authorities also allegedly found Leslie's backpack inside . All . three adults had been cocaine users and involved in the sex trade, the court heard. Legebokoff allegedly met Leslie in November 2010 after exchanging text messages and talking on the social media site Nexopia and arranging to buy alcohol, the Post reported. He initially claimed they had met each other by accident and agreed to have sex - but he later changed his story and claimed she became agitated and started stabbing herself, so he struck her to put her out of her misery. His trial is expected to last six to eight months. Legebokoff has pleaded not guilty. Loren Leslie's family have launched a foundation in her name that aims to spread her intention of treating others with dignity and respect. For more information, visit their website.	Cody Legebokoff, 24, is on trial in British Columbia 'for killing Loren Leslie, 15, Jill Stuchenko, 35, Cynthia Maas, 35, and Natasha Montgomery, 23' He had blood smears across his face and legs when he was stopped by a suspicious constable on a rural road in November 2010 . He claimed he had been poaching but authorities also found a teenager's backpack and ID inside the truck, as well as blood-covered tools . Another officer searched the area and found the still-warm body of Loren Leslie, whom Legebokoff had allegedly met after they spoke online . He was 'later linked to the killings of three sex workers', although one of their bodies has never been found .
Keywords: <keyword>WELFARE REFORMS</keyword>, <keyword>IAIN DUNCAN</keyword>, <keyword>BRITAIN ABLE</keyword>, <keyword>CREATED LABOUR</keyword>, <keyword>PREDICTIONS ECONOMY</keyword>, <keyword>PRODUCTIVE PLAN</keyword>, <keyword>BRITONS CYCLE</keyword>, <keyword>SMITH SAY</keyword>, <keyword>WORK UNLESS</keyword>, <keyword>FOREIGN NATIONALS</keyword> Iain Duncan Smith will today suggest that Britain will never be able to compete on the world stage unless his welfare reforms are put at the heart of the economic recovery plan. The Work and Pensions Secretary will make a speech outlining how reducing dependency on welfare is getting more British people into work. He will say: ‘The core and point of the economic plan, the driving force, is the quality of the people who make it happen – the British people – for no plan can work unless their well-being is at the heart of it. ‘But none of this is deliverable if we don’t deal with the British domestic problem. The economy can never be where it should, holding its own in this tough world market place, unless British families play a full productive part in that plan.’ Scroll down for video . Iain Dunch Smith will make a speech outlining his welfare reforms to help the economic recovery plan . Video courtesy of Centre For Social Justice . Mr Duncan Smith will also say that half of the jobs created under Labour were filled by foreign nationals, while many Britons were ‘in a cycle of dependency’. But in the past year a million jobs have been created and three quarters have gone to Britons. It comes as analysts said that Britain is in a period of low wage growth, meaning the Bank of England could delay the expected rise in interest rates until next year. The amount that those in work are earning is not growing as fast as expected. Governor Mark Carney will present his latest predictions on the economy in his quarterly inflation report on Wednesday. Wage growth is key to boosting the economy so once this it is on track it is likely interest rates will start to rise to prevent inflation. The inflation report will give the best indication yet on whether rates are likely to rise before the end of 2014. Experts last night said the decision was on a ‘knife edge’. Governor Mark Carney will present his latest predictions in his quarterly inflation report issued on Wednesday . The inflation report will give the best indication yet on whether rates are likely to rise before the end of 2014 .	Work and Pensions secretary will make speech outlining plans on welfare . He'll say reducing welfare dependency is getting more Britons into work . Britain is in period of low wage growth which could delay interest rate rise . Governor Mark Carney will present predictions in quarterly inflation report . Report will give best indication on whether rates will rise before end of 2014 .
Keywords: <keyword>MARSHAL FIRED</keyword>, <keyword>MACLEAN UNAUTHORIZED</keyword>, <keyword>TSA ACTION</keyword>, <keyword>FEDERAL AIR</keyword>, <keyword>BLOWER PROTECTIONS</keyword>, <keyword>SUSPENDING MISSIONS</keyword>, <keyword>TIPPED MSNBC</keyword>, <keyword>GOVERNMENT CUTTING</keyword>, <keyword>HEIGHTENED HIJACKING</keyword>, <keyword>COVERAGE TIME</keyword> Washington (CNN) -- A federal air marshal fired after revealing the government was cutting back air marshal coverage at a time of heightened hijacking concern has lost a major battle in his fight to reclaim his job. A federal panel, upholding a decision by an administrative judge, said this week it has ruled the Transportation Security Administration's decision to fire Robert MacLean was legal and "did not exceed the bounds of reasonableness." The Merit System Protection Board said it accepted MacLean's statements he was motivated by a desire to protect the flying public, but said his leak "could have created a significant security risk." Further, it said, MacLean cannot claim whistle-blower protections because his disclosure "was specifically prohibited by law." MacLean said he will appeal the decision. The case began in July of 2003, when MacLean, an air marshal based in Las Vegas, Nevada, anonymously tipped off an MSNBC reporter that the TSA was temporarily suspending missions that would require marshals to stay in hotels -- basically taking them off coast-to-coast or overseas flights -- just days after air marshals were briefed about a new "potential plot" to hijack U.S. airliners. The agency planned the cutback because it was running out of money at the end of the fiscal year. The news caused an immediate uproar on Capitol Hill and the TSA retreated, withdrawing the scheduling cuts before they went into effect. A year later, MacLean appeared on "NBC Nightly News" -- in disguise and identified only as "Air Marshal 'Mike'" -- to criticize the agency's dress policy, which, he said, made it easier for terrorists to identify the undercover air marshals. But someone from the TSA recognized MacLean's voice and the agency ordered an investigation into MacLean for an "unauthorized media appearance." During that investigation, MacLean admitted he leaked the information to the media about the 2003 suspension of long-distance flights. The agency fired MacLean, saying his leak was an unauthorized disclosure of "sensitive security information," or SSI. MacLean's case has become celebrated by whistle-blower advocates and government watchdog groups. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, filed a brief on his behalf. Supporters argue MacLean brought to public light a TSA action that violated federal law, which mandates the agency give priority to flights that present high security risks, specifically mentioning "nonstop, long-distance flights." They say the information he gave was factual and that it ultimately protected passengers by changing a flawed policy. In court filings, MacLean argued the information he disclosed was not protected. The TSA had sent the information to him as a text message on his cell phone, instead of as an encrypted message on his password-protected pager. And it was not labeled SSI. Indeed, it was three years later -- in August of 2006 -- that the TSA officially issued an order classifying the directive as "sensitive security information." MacLean argued his firing in retaliation for union activities, and the agency discriminated against him by imposing a harsher penalty than it imposed against others who had disclosed sensitive information. But the Merit System Protection Board said that even if the scheduling directive was not labeled SSI, deployment information was "within the definition of SSI." MacLean "admittedly knew that he was not permitted to tell anyone about (air marshal) scheduling, yet he did so anyway, and it could have created a significant security risk," the board said. The board said there is "no direct evidence" the agency retaliated or discriminated against MacLean for his union activities. It confirmed the TSA treated other air marshals less harshly for disclosing information, but said the circumstances were different. The board notes that MacLean raised his concerns with his supervisor and with the agency's inspector general's office and was not satisfied with the response he received. But MacLean did not take his complaint to an authorized committee of Congress, nor to the Office of Special Counsel, and thereby was not entitled to whistle-blower protection, the board ruled. MacLean said the board ruling will have a chilling effect on whistle-blowers if it is allowed to stand. "If front-line, non-intelligence government employees cannot disclose wrongdoing to the public that was never classified and then that information can be stamped years later with an unclassified TSA marking, the First Amendment is now meaningless," he said.	Air Marshal Robert MacLean tipped the media off to a cutback in schedules . He was fired after the TSA found out he was the one who leaked the information . The merit board says the leak "could have created a significant security risk" MacLean says he will appeal the decision .
Keywords: <keyword>AZUZ CNN</keyword>, <keyword>STUDENT NEWS</keyword>, <keyword>GUATEMALANS RISK</keyword>, <keyword>JOBS RECESSION</keyword>, <keyword>OBAMA SPENDING</keyword>, <keyword>MOURNING CHILE</keyword>, <keyword>ANCHOR NEW</keyword>, <keyword>AMERICANS DISAPPROVE</keyword>, <keyword>UPDATED CARL</keyword>, <keyword>HEAR TODD</keyword> (CNN Student News) -- September 7, 2010 . Download PDF maps related to today's show: . • New Zealand • Guatemala • Chile . Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Well, there's a new technology out that makes annoying noises to try to stop people from loitering. But is it targeting teens? You'll hear all about it in today's edition of CNN Student News. You viewers who've been with us since the beginning of the school year: We hope you had a good Labor Day weekend. To you viewers who are just joining us: Welcome to a new year and a new year's worth of news from CNN Student News. I'm Carl Azuz. Let's go ahead and get started. First Up: Focus on the Economy . U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Eight million Americans lost their jobs in this recession. And even though we've had eight straight months of private sector job growth, the new jobs haven't been coming fast enough. Now, here's the honest truth, the plain truth: there's no silver bullet; there's no quick fix to these problems. AZUZ: President Obama, spending part of the Labor Day weekend talking about jobs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It's part of a White House plan to put a spotlight on the U.S. economy. During yesterday's speech, the president talked about transportation projects: rebuilding roads, building and maintaining railways, working on airport runways. He says that all of that would help create jobs and help the country's economy. Now creating jobs, definitely a big priority. The government just released the latest unemployment numbers last week. And unemployment is at 9.6 percent. That is up one-tenth of a percent from the previous month, and it's been right around that same range since May. Congress would have to approve all of the president's proposed transportation projects. And some analysts don't think there's any chance of that happening soon. A recent CNN poll shows almost 60 percent of Americans disapprove of how President Obama is handling the economy. Forty percent give him a thumbs up. Midterm Elections . AZUZ: Jobs and the economy: probably going to be big factors in this year's midterm elections. We are less than two months away from the big day, November 2nd. No one's running for president, but there are a lot of congressional seats up for grabs. That includes every seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, all 435 of 'em. Plus, 37 of the 100 U.S. Senate seats, and 37 states will be electing governors, too. So, where do things stand? In a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll, around 1,000 people were asked what's called a "generic ballot" question. It doesn't have names on it; it just asks, "Would you vote for a Republican or a Democrat?" 52 percent said they would vote for a Republican. 45 percent said they'd vote for a Democrat. Back to that point about the economy being a major concern. According to another CNN poll, 81 percent of Americans think the U.S. economy is in poor shape. 18 percent think that the economy is doing well. Those opinions, probably gonna impact how some people vote. Blowout Preventer Raised . AZUZ: You see that thing coming out of the water? It's called a blowout preventer, and it's supposed to shut down an oil or gas well if anything goes wrong. This one didn't; it failed, and a lot of experts think that's what led to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Officials who are investigating that spill want to examine the blowout preventer to find out why it failed. A new one is in place on top of the oil well. Once it's been tested and approved, authorities can drill the last few feet of a relief well that's gonna seal up the original well for good. I.D. Me . JOHN LISK, CNN STUDENT NEWS: See if you can I.D. Me! I'm an island nation that's located in the South Pacific Ocean. You'll find me southeast of Australia, my biggest trading partner. I'm home to about 4 million people, who are sometimes called Kiwis. I'm New Zealand, and my capital city is Wellington. New Zealand Quake . AZUZ: Parts of New Zealand are trying to recover from a massive earthquake that hit over the weekend. A couple people had serious injuries. Around 100 others had minor bumps and cuts. Luckily, there were no immediate reports of any deaths. But there is a lot of damage, as you can see here. The government has gotten 5,000 claims for damaged properties. A lot of those are for houses. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1. It struck early Saturday morning. There have been some pretty strong aftershocks since then, too. Experts say those aftershocks could keep coming for a week. Guatemala Landslides . AZUZ: Over in the Central American nation of Guatemala, people are struggling through the strongest rain in 60 years. More than 40,000 Guatemalans are at risk. What happens is the powerful rain storms cause landslides. Dozens of Guatemalans have been killed or hurt. In one spot, a landslide knocked some vehicles off the road, and when people nearby came to help, another one hit the exact same location. Thousands of homes have been damaged. Fields full of crops have been washed out. The country's president declared a national emergency over the weekend. He also said Monday would be a day of mourning. Chile Miners . AZUZ: In Chile, officials are working to get 33 men out of a mine they've been trapped in for more than a month. These officials have a plan, a back-up plan, and a back-up, back-up plan. And they're gonna run all three at the same time. You can see the miners in this video. They seem to be in good spirits. Now, Plan A is to drill straight down to the shelter these guys are in. That could take several months. Plan B is to drill at an angle. That could take about half the time. Plan C is to use an oil drill. That could be the fastest option, but it won't be ready until later this month. What's the Word? TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: What's the Word? to hang around or stay in one place for no apparent reason . LOITER . That's the word! Anti-Loitering Device . AZUZ: So, loitering might not seem like a big deal. We've all probably spent time hanging out at the mall. Store owners might see loitering differently. If you're loitering, more often than not, you're not shopping. And in some cases, loiterers can drive away business. One mall is trying a sonic solution to drive away loiterers. But as Brian Todd tells us, some people are sounding off in opposition. (BEGIN VIDEO) BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT, WASHINGTON, D.C.: It can cause a high-pitched headache, and that's by design. Just outside the Gallery Place subway stop in Washington, the Mosquito beeps often. But is it indiscriminate? This anti-loitering device was placed here after a big street brawl, but the property managers and the Mosquito's distributor both tell CNN the noisemaker doesn't target young people. Still, the distributor says teenagers happen to do the most loitering, and he says the sound is most effective for the stage of life when humans can hear the highest pitches. MIKE GIBSON, MOVING SOUND TECHNOLOGIES: The Mosquito, when activated, emits a sound at 17.5 kilohertz, which is at the high end of the youth hearing range, 13 to 25-year-old hearing range. When a youth hears the sound, they find it extremely annoying and will leave the area in a few minutes. TODD: At Gallery Place, we saw some young people getting irritated. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can you hear it? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Probably wouldn't shop at any of these shops if I heard it again. TODD: Why not? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's too annoying. It gave me a headache. TODD: There are settings on the Mosquito that can be heard by older age groups. I played the sound off a computer in our newsroom near several people in their 20s, 30s and older. I didn't tip them off beforehand. On settings for people 25, 30, 35 and younger, no one reacted. Then... We're going to play a setting now for people 50 years old and under. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, I heard that. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I hear that. TODD: I can hear that, too. Still, some believe this device does target teenagers unfairly. Among the community leaders who have concerns about this device, Judith Sandalow of the Children's Law Center here in the Gallery Place area. Judith, if there are problems with violence and loiterers driving away customers from businesses that count on that business in this area, wouldn't anything like this help? JUDITH SANDALOW, CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER: I'm sympathetic to businesses needing to be able to engage the most customers in the best possible way. I'm sympathetic to that. This isn't the best solution. We need to have better programs for youth; we need to engage them in activities. (END VIDEO) Before We Go . AZUZ: Finally today, before we go, ever seen a black widow take down a buffalo? That's what happened this weekend in Buffalo, New York. All right, so we're talking about buffalo wings, not a full bison. But these guys -- and gal -- can pack 'em away. In fact, Sonya Thomas -- she's known as the Black Widow -- ate 181chicken wings in 12 minutes. That's enough to take home the title and beat her own world record. Goodbye . AZUZ: We actually didn't plan any puns for this story, so I guess I'm just gonna have to wing it. She buffalo'd the competition? She obviously had a wing-ing strategy. That whole event looks like a three wing circus! Maybe we'll just chew over the possibilities. Either way, we'll be back tomorrow. Hope you will too! For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz.	Hear why the subject of jobs is a top priority in Washington . Learn about natural disasters in New Zealand and Guatemala . Consider whether an anti-loitering technology targets teens . Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories .
Keywords: <keyword>ROGER FEDERER</keyword>, <keyword>DJOKOVIC USTA</keyword>, <keyword>WTA TOUR</keyword>, <keyword>ATP EXECUTIVE</keyword>, <keyword>USTA ANNOUNCED</keyword>, <keyword>OPEN 2017</keyword>, <keyword>SEMIFINALS COMPLETED</keyword>, <keyword>SPORT GAIN</keyword>, <keyword>FEDERATION</keyword>, <keyword>PRIZE PURSE</keyword> (CNN) -- He's enjoyed unprecedented success off the court, now Roger Federer has helped pave the way for some major changes at the U.S Open. As president of the ATP Player Council, the 17-time grand slam champion, from Switzerland, has helped to negotiated a hike in prize money to $50 million by 2017, nearly double the figure in 2012. The United States Tennis Association (USTA) confirmed the tournament -- the season's final major -- will also rejig its schedule to ensure the men's semifinals are played on Friday with the final reverting to Sunday by 2015. It marks the culmination of a year's worth of discussions with the game's top players, led by Federer, but also including world No. 1 Novak Djokovic. "The [USTA] approached our concerns with a true spirit of partnership, and as president of the ATP Player Council I am personally grateful for their support," five-time U.S. Open winner Roger Federer said in a statement on the tournament's official website. "The U.S. Open is very special, and we all look forward to great competition at Flushing Meadows later this year, and in the years yet to come." Under the terms of the five-year deal with the men's ATP Tour and the women's WTA Tour, the tournament will now have a 2013 prize purse of $33.6 million -- a record $8.1 million increase from 2012. Grass roots tennis will also see a boost in funding and Flushing Meadows in New York, which hosts the competition, will also be revamped, with a new Louis Armstrong Stadium and Grandstand. "We welcome the commitment the USTA has made concerning player prize money at the U.S. Open through 2017," said Brad Drewett, ATP executive chairman and president. "These increases are the largest in the history of the sport, representing a significant step forward in truly recognizing the input the players have in the success of the U.S. Open. "We also welcome the decision from the USTA to adopt a schedule with the men's semifinals completed by Friday and the final on Sunday, from 2015 onwards." The USTA announced in December 2012 it was moving the women's final back to Sunday and the men's final to Monday to allow the players more rest time. Poor weather in recent years has seen the men's final take place on a Monday for the past five years, with some players having to play their semifinal and final on consecutive days. But though the schedule will remain in place for the next two installments, by 2015 the U.S. Open will come into the line with the other majors and become a 14-day tournament. "We applaud the USTA's long-term commitment to increased and fair compensation for our athletes," said Stacey Allaster, WTA chairman and CEO. "For 40 years the USTA has been a leader for equality and for women's tennis, and today's announcement is a testament to their continued bold vision for the sport." Recently, the game's top male players, like Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, called for more stringent drug testing, prompting the International Tennis Federation to announce they were introducing biological profiling into the sport. "The USTA has a long-term vision in place to ensure that tennis continues to thrive in the United States," said David Haggerty, USTA chairman and president. "This vision encompasses every level of the sport, from energizing existing fans, to attracting new players, to ensuring the U.S. Open remains one of the world's most prestigious sporting events. "With this unprecedented commitment to long-term prize money and recognition of the value that players bring to the sport, we will gain stability for the sport so that we can focus our energy on growing the game and ensuring tennis' vitality in the U.S. for years to come."	U.S. Open announces a rise in tournament prize money to $50 million from 2017 . Tournament also hikes prize money for 2013 competition by a record $8.1 million . Men's final to revert to Sunday rather than Monday as of 2015 . Flushing Meadows also to be revamped as part of the five-year agreement .
Keywords: <keyword>WI FI</keyword>, <keyword>HOURS OFFLINE</keyword>, <keyword>ROUTEHAPPY DOESN</keyword>, <keyword>FLIGHTS SIGNIFICANT</keyword>, <keyword>INSTAGRAM INFLIGHT</keyword>, <keyword>CONNECTION QUALITY</keyword>, <keyword>ACCESS INCREASINGLY</keyword>, <keyword>SPEEDS COVERAGE</keyword>, <keyword>FABRICATE TWITTER</keyword>, <keyword>18 MONTHS</keyword> (CNN)Remember the days when flying long distance meant at least nine guaranteed hours offline? Of course you don't, your brain is far too frazzled by constantly having to check Facebook and emails. According to new statistics released this week by air industry data cruncher Routehappy, flying without Wi-Fi access is becoming increasingly rare as more airlines connect their customers. This is good news for anyone who needs to Instagram their inflight meal or fabricate Twitter spats with imaginary passengers. Bad news for those who need to unjack themselves from the Matrix for long enough to watch a weepy movie and re-balance their blood-Smirnoff levels. According to Routehappy, there's now a 24% chance your international flight will have Wi-Fi access. On domestic U.S. flights the odds rise to 66% -- a figure nearly triple what it was 18 months ago. Connection quality and speed are also improving, it reports. "Wi-Fi is one of the most sought-after new amenities fliers want to access on their flights, and there has been significant investment by airlines since our last report," says Routehappy CEO Robert Albert. "Coverage is starting to be meaningful on flights worldwide, along with a wide variety of speeds, coverage availability and pricing models, including free of charge." Internationally, Nordic airlines are leading the connectivity charge, with Icelandair and Norwegian both offering Wi-Fi on more than 80% of their flights. (The number of flights this represents isn't specified.) The next four -- Etihad Airways, Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa and Iberia -- currently only supply it to between 40-60% of flights. Aeroflot, Emirates and Japan Airlines are in the 20-30% range, while Qatar Airways, Thai Airways and Turkish Airlines score between 15 and 20%. For U.S. airlines, Delta leads the game, offering Wi-Fi across more than 3,500 of its daily flights. Routehappy doesn't offer any comparative statistics between U.S. and international operators.	There's now a 24% chance your international flight will have Wi-Fi access, according to Routehapp . In the United States, the chance of catching a Wi-Fi-enabled flight has more than tripled in the past 18 months .
Keywords: <keyword>HMS EREBUS</keyword>, <keyword>SANK VICTORIA</keyword>, <keyword>ABANDONING SHIPS</keyword>, <keyword>TERROR DISAPPEARED</keyword>, <keyword>EXPLORERS SOUGHT</keyword>, <keyword>SEEN WHALING</keyword>, <keyword>USING SONAR</keyword>, <keyword>CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL</keyword>, <keyword>1846 APRIL</keyword>, <keyword>DEFINITELY PAIR</keyword> The fate of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, two British ships lost at sea while searching for the Northwest Passage, has been a mystery that has baffled Naval historians for more than 160 years. The two ships, along with their captains and 129 men, were last seen sailing north of Canada in July 1845. It is believed the doomed boats became trapped in sea ice, and that the crew may even have resorted to cannibalism to stay alive, but their exact fate has remained unknown, until now. Yesterday the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that underwater drones using sonar had located one of the two boats at the bottom of the Victoria Strait, near King William Island, Nunavut. Scroll down for video . Found! This image released by Parks Canada on Tuesday shows a side-scan sonar image of ship on the sea floor in northern Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that one of two fabled British explorer ships, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, that disappeared in the Arctic more 160 years ago has been found . Discovery: A second image shared by Parks Canada shows another side-scan. It is not clear which of the two ships it is, but officials said it is definitely one of the pair . Ill-fated voyage: Both ships sailed from London to Baffin Bay, when they were last seen by two whaling ships. A note found by a later rescue mission detailed the rest of their journey, though the exact location of the wrecks remained a mystery until now . Mr Harper said it was too early to tell which of the vessels it was, but images beamed back to the surface contain enough information to confirm that it is one of the two. In 2008, Canada announced it would search for the ships in a bid to assert its sovereignty over the passage, which was found during searches for the missing ships. He said: 'This is truly a historic moment for Canada. This has been a great Canadian story and mystery and the subject of scientists, historians, writers and singers so I think we really have an important day in mapping the history of our country.' He added: 'Finding the first vessel will no doubt provide the momentum – or wind in our sails – necessary to locate its sister ship and find out even more about what happened to the Franklin Expedition’s crew.' Archeologists have hailed the find as highly significant, saying it is likely that items on board are well preserved and may include the bodies of crew members or photographs of their voyage. HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were heavily-armoured bomb ships, and two years before the mission to the Northwest Passage, they had taken an expedition captained by James Clark Ross to the Antarctic. Despite his experience in exploring polar waters, Ross turned down the latest mission, viewing it as too dangerous, so instead the command of Erebus passed to Sir John Franklin with Terror captained by Francis Crozier. The pair departed on their ill-fated expedition from London in May 1845, and were last seen sailing towards the Lancaster Sound by two whaling ships in July that year. After that, they were never seen again. While no one knows for sure exactly what happened to the crew, experts believe the ships were lost in 1848 after they became locked in the ice near King William Island and that the crews abandoned them in a hopeless bid to reach safety. In 1854, an explorer by the name of John Rae came across an Inuit who claimed to have met the expedition, and produced a small silver plate with the engraving ‘Sir John Franklin K.C.B’. However, the man also told Rae that the explorers had resorted to cannibalism in order to stay alive. Mission: The HMS Terror and Erebus, depicted in New Zealand in 1841 in a painting, left, were being led by British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, right . What happened to them? Mystery still surrounds exactly what happened to the crew, who are depicted in 1847 depiction by W Turner Smith. It is widely believed the expedition was troubled by thick ice and that most of the men died of starvation - although Inuits reported at the time that some turned to cannibalism . Missing: Franklin is pictured in the left picture, second row down center, along with his crew. Right, some of the tools and equipment they took on their expedition . Hunt: Another illustration shows the noonday rest of a search party led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka as they search for Sir Franklin and his team, circa 1880 . Eventually an expedition to King William Island, near to where the wreck has now been found, discovered a note written by Franklin which revealed that the expedition camped at Beechy Island between 1845-6, the Erebus and Terror then sailed southwards to the entrance of Victoria Strait. Here on September 12, 1846 the two vessels became trapped in ice north of King William Island, and spent two winters here between September 1846 and April 1848. The note says Franklin died on 11 June 1847, without giving a cause of death, and the command passed onto Francis Crozier. Abandoning their ships on April 22, 1848, 105 survivors led by Crozier set out toward Back River. After that, historians rely on Inuit accounts for the fate of the men, and believe that some may have headed back to the stricken ships, which sank at different times. It is thought some survivors may have lived as late as 1850. The failure of the expedition was a huge event in England in the mid-19th century; The Globe and Mail likened it to a moon landing gone wrong today. Franklin's vessels are among the most sought-after prizes in marine archaeology, and Harper said the discovery would shed light on what happened to Franklin's crew. Tantalizing traces have been found over the years, including the bodies of three crewmen discovered in the 1980s. The bodies of two English seamen - John Hartnell, 25, and Royal Marine William Braine, 33 - were exhumed in 1986. An expedition uncovered the perfectly preserved remains of a petty officer, John Torrington, 20, in an ice-filled coffin in 1984. Franklin's disappearance prompted one of history's largest and longest rescue searches, from 1848 to 1859, which resulted in the passage's discovery. The original search for the ships helped open up parts of the Canadian Arctic for discovery back in the 1850s. The route runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Arctic archipelago. European explorers sought the passage as a shorter route to Asia, but found it rendered inhospitable by ice and weather. Search: An image from August 24 shows a crew member of the HMCS Kingston loading an remote underwater vehicle as part of the Victoria Strait Expedition . Proud: Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, talks about the find from the Victoria Strait Expedition as Parks Canada's Ryan Harris looks on. Canada started looking for the ships in 2008 in a bid to assert its sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, which Franklin's crews had been searching for . Recognizable: Parks Canada's Ryan Harris explains the find from the Victoria Strait Expedition during a a news conference in Ottawa on Tuesday . Early clues: John Geiger, president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, holds an iron fitting from a Royal Navy ship, which is regarded as the key piece of evidence that led to the discovery of the ship . With the melting Arctic ice now unlocking the shipping route Franklin was after, Harper's government searched for the ship in order to stake a claim on the passage. Sunday's discovery came shortly after a team of archaeologists found a tiny fragment from the Franklin expedition. Searchers discovered an iron fitting that once helped support a boat from one of the doomed expedition's ships in the King William Island search area. The search for an Arctic passage to Asia frustrated explorers for centuries, beginning with John Cabot's voyage in 1497. Eventually it became clear that a passage did exist, but was too far north for practical use. Cabot, the Italian-British explorer, died in 1498 while trying to find it and the shortcut eluded other famous explorers including Henry Hudson and Francis Drake. No sea crossing was successful until Roald Amundsen of Norway completed his trip from 1903-1906. The HMS Erebus which sank in the Victoria Strait along with the HMS Terror after an ill-fated expedition to find the Northwest Passage . In May 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin set off from London to find the Northwest Passage, a rumoured trading route which European merchants hoped would cut shipping times to Asia. Sailing on board the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, along with 129 hand-picked crew and enough supplies to last seven years, Franklin sailed north to Baffin Bay, between Greenland and Canada, before turning into Lancaster Sound. In July 1845 two whaling vessels recorded spotting Franklin and his ships as they sailed past. That was to be the last sighting of either vessel for nearly 160 years. Back in London, in 1847, after months without contact from Franklin, another Arctic explorer by the name of James Clark Ross raised the alarm, saying a search party should be sent to look for them. However, believing the boats had enough supplies to last another year at least, the Navy delayed sending a search party until 1848. No trace of the boats or their crews could be found, despite a £20,000 reward being offered for any captain who brought back news of the ill-fate expedition. It wasn't until 1850 that a camp at Beechy Island was discovered, though there was no note explaining where the boats had gone. Later, in 1854, explorer John Rae came across an Inuit who claimed to have passed the vessels as they were dragged along by their crew, and produced a silver plate with Franlink's initials engraved on it as proof. However, the man also said that he had seen the crews resorting to cannibalism in order to survive, a claim that is still hotly debated. Finally in 1857 Captain F.L. Mc’Clintock, sailing on a mission funded by Franklin's wife, discovered the remains of a camp on William Island, along with a note detailing the last movements of Franklin and his crew. The note, which had originally be written saying everything was going well, was penned over with a message revealing how everything had gone wrong. After spending the winter from 1845-6 at a camp on Beechy Island, Franklin sailed his ships south towards Victoria Strait before becoming stuck in ice north of King William Island where the crew spent two winters between September 1846 and April 1848. According to the note, Franklin died on 11 June 1847, though no cause is given. The command passed to Francis Crozier, who waited until 22 April 1848 before taking 105 survivors and heading for the mainland. Nothing more is known about Crozier, or what became of the men, though it is thought that several may have returned to the ships and lived there until 1850, before the vessels sank to the bottom of the sea.	HMS Erebus and HMS Terror took British explorer Sir John Franklin and 129 crew to find Northwest Passage . Ships last seen in July 1845 sailing north of Canada before vanishing and their fate has been a mystery ever since . Parks Canada have found a wreckage in the Victoria Strait near King William Island but do not know which ship it is . Canada began searching for the wreckages in 2008 in a bid to assert its sovereignty over the Northwest Passage .
Keywords: <keyword>STURDEY BURIED</keyword>, <keyword>GEOFFREY BODY</keyword>, <keyword>WIFE REBEKAH</keyword>, <keyword>DISPOSED HUSBAND</keyword>, <keyword>REES EXPLAINED</keyword>, <keyword>CARER CLAIMED</keyword>, <keyword>YEARS JAILED</keyword>, <keyword>SUSPICIOUS DISABILITY</keyword>, <keyword>SALKELD</keyword>, <keyword>000 INCOME</keyword> By . Luke Salkeld . A wife who secretly buried her dead husband under a garden rockery and continued to collect his benefits payments for four years was jailed yesterday. Rebekah Sturdey disposed of her husband Geoffrey's body on their isolated small holding - and pocketed over £70,000. The 56-year-old carried out the secret burial with two other women after he died aged 60 of a suspected heart attack. Cover-up: The body of Geoffrey Sturdey was hidden by his wife Rebekah on a remote farm in West Wales . Officials became suspicious after disability allowance and pension credits totalling £77,318 were paid in Mr Sturdey's name after he was last seen alive in 2008. A court heard Mrs Sturdey told investigators her husband had gone on a touring holiday around Europe. But checks revealed he had no valid passport and a £20,000 aerial and land search was launched by a specialist forensic team to find his body in a plot on the land near Tregaron, West Wales. Sturdey buried her husband with the help of his paid carer, Boqer-Ore Adie and Adie's daughter, Karmel. Prosecutor Huw Rees said Adie, 43, was paid in excess of £19,000 in income support and carers' allowance for looking after Mr Sturdey in the years after he died. The Department for Work and Pensions said after October 2008, when Mr Sturdey died, his wife and carer claimed £21,718 in disability living allowances, £9,415 in carer's allowance, £10,143 in income support and £36,041 in pension credits. Search: Sturdey was sentenced to 20 months for preventing the lawful and decent burial after police discovered the body at her home (pictured) Mr Rees said: 'He was buried in a rockery at twice the depth of a normal grave. 'The women later admitted the rockery was the easiest place to bury a body but it was what he wanted. 'His body was remarkably well-preserved and he was identified by his dental records. 'The women were originally arrested on suspicion of murder but tests showed he had died of natural causes. Avoided jail: Karmel Adie 25 admitted preventing the lawful and decent burial of Geoffrey Sturdey and was given a nine month suspended sentence at Swansea Crown Court . 'He had a history of stroke and heart attacks.' The court heard it had been Mr Sturdey's wish to be buried on his land at the 20-acre farm. Swansea Crown Court heard Iranian-born Mrs Sturdey and her British-born husband had set up a religious community along with Adie and her two children. Mr Rees explained: 'Their home contained a large number of religious books. 'They were not part of any organised group but they studied the Bible, particularly the Old Testament and Adi had taught herself Hebrew. 'Mr Sturdey had chosen his own burial plot where he expected to be raised from the dead. 'The group expected Jesus's return to earth after his death.' Mrs Sturdey and Adie carried on being paid the benefits after his death in October 2008. Investigators found more than £6,000 cash in a sweet tin, and gold worth £50,000. Sturdey and Adie admitted fraud by failing to notify authorities they were in receipt of disability allowance and pension credits in Mr Sturdey's name. Their Beth Berin 'wildlife haven' and religious community was at the end of a remote track near the village of Llwynygroes, deep in the Welsh countryside. Warnings on the gate told hikers and walkers to keep away and the Ten Commandments were pinned up on a board at the entrance. Mrs Sturdey admitted conspiracy to prevent the lawful and decent burial of her husband. Adie and stepdaughter Karmel Adie, 25, admitted the same charge. Representing Sturdey, Christopher James said: 'She respected his wishes for his burial. They did not wish for a post mortem examination to be carried out. 'The burial was in accordance with their Biblical beliefs.' Mrs Sturdey and Adie were both given 20 months in prison. Karmel Adie was given a nine-month suspended sentence. Judge Keith Thomas described their crime as 'highly unusual and a unique set of circumstances'. He said: 'You took advantage of the sad death of Geoffrey Sturdey to conceal the fact he had passed away and deliberately continued to claim benefits. 'You were not entitled to that money. 'Whatever the motivation for burying him on the land without notifying the authorities, it gave you the opportunity to enrich yourself at the expense of the rest of us. 'You told a series of lies to fool the authorities. This was a calculated fraud.' Mr Sturdey's body has since been reburied under the rockery in accordance with his wishes.	Rebekah Sturdey hid her husband' Geoffrey's body on their small holding . The 56-year-old carried out the secret burial after he died of a heart attack . She pocketed £70,000 in benefits after he was last seen alive in 2008 . Was sentenced to 20 months in prison at Swansea Crown Court .
Keywords: <keyword>FRESHWATER RESERVES</keyword>, <keyword>2030 WATER</keyword>, <keyword>COST SEAWATER</keyword>, <keyword>DROUGHTS CONTINENTAL</keyword>, <keyword>AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS</keyword>, <keyword>DISCOVERED OCEAN</keyword>, <keyword>WORLD POPULATION</keyword>, <keyword>EXTRACTED EARTH</keyword>, <keyword>CONTINENTAL SHELVES</keyword>, <keyword>USE GROWING</keyword> Vast freshwater reserves have been discovered under the ocean floor which scientists believe could sustain future generations. Australian researchers claim to have found 500,000 cubic kilometres (120,000 cubic miles) of freshwater buried beneath the seabed on continental shelves off Australia, China, North America and South Africa. The discovery comes as United Nations estimates suggest water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of the population of the world over the last century. Australian researchers have discovered vast freshwater reserves beneath the seabed on continental shelves . Lead author Vincent Post, from Flinders University, said: ‘The volume of this water resource is a hundred times greater than the amount we've extracted from the Earth's sub-surface in the past century since 1900. ‘Freshwater on our planet is increasingly under stress and strain so the discovery of significant new stores off the coast is very exciting. ‘It means that more options can be considered to help reduce the impact of droughts and continental water shortages.’ According to UN Water estimates, water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population in the last century due to demands such as irrigated agriculture and meat production. More than 40 per cent of the world's population already live in conditions of water scarcity. By 2030, UN Water estimates that 47 per cent of people will exist under high water stress. Scientists hope the discovery will help reduce the impact of droughts and continental water shortages . Mr Post said his team's . findings were drawn from a review of seafloor water studies done for . scientific or oil and gas exploration purposes. ‘By . combining all this information we've demonstrated that the freshwater . below the seafloor is a common finding, and not some anomaly that only . occurs under very special circumstances,’ he said. The . deposits were formed over hundreds of thousands of years in the past, . when the sea level was much lower and areas now under the ocean were . exposed to rainfall which was absorbed into the underlying water table. When . the polar icecaps started melting about 20,000 years ago these . coastlines disappeared under water, but their aquifers remain intact - . protected by layers of clay and sediment. Post said the deposits were comparable with the bore basins currently relied upon by much of the world for drinking water and would cost much less than seawater to desalinate. Drilling for the water would be expensive, and Post said great care would have to be taken not to contaminate the aquifers. He warned that they were a precious resource. ‘We should use them carefully: once gone, they won't be replenished until the sea level drops again, which is not likely to happen for a very long time,’ Mr Post said.	Researchers make discovery on continental shelves off Australia, China, North America and South Africa . Discovery comes as UN estimates suggest water use has been growing at more than double the rate of population over the last century .
Keywords: <keyword>PINKI OSCAR</keyword>, <keyword>CHARITY SMILE</keyword>, <keyword>CLEFT LIPS</keyword>, <keyword>COURAGEOUS LITTLE</keyword>, <keyword>GIRL GROWING</keyword>, <keyword>LIVE DEFORMITY</keyword>, <keyword>CNN EYES</keyword>, <keyword>FATHER RAJENDRA</keyword>, <keyword>MILLIONS CHILDREN</keyword>, <keyword>TRANSFORMED OPERATION</keyword> (CNN) -- While all eyes seem to be on "Slumdog Millionaire" for the Oscars, one very courageous little girl will be focused on another India-based film at the ceremony. Pinki, like millions in developing countries, had to live with her deformity and suffer the social consequences. It's called "Smile Pinki," and it's up for an Oscar, too -- nominated for best short documentary, which it won on Sunday. The little girl watching it from inside the Oscar ceremony has traveled all the way to Los Angeles, California, from her small Indian village with her dad -- and it has been an incredible journey for Pinki Sonkar. "Smile Pinki" tells the story of her transformation from a sad outcast to a vibrant 8-year-old with plenty of spunk. Pinki was born with a cleft lip, and her impoverished family did not have the money for corrective surgery. Like millions of other children born with the lip deformity in developing countries, Pinki simply had to live with it and suffer the social consequences. Her father Rajendra Sonkar says: "She used to go to school and the kids would not befriend her. She would say, 'I don't want to go to school.'" Watch how Pinki was transformed by the operation » . "Pinki was a depressed, sad, lonely, shy, young little girl, growing up on the periphery of the society in a little village," said Satish Kalra, director of Smile Train's South Asian region, after meeting with Pinki. The little girl's own family was ashamed of her, Kalra says. But all of that has changed. Pinki is now a real pistol, full of energy and confidence, and she has a fantastic smile too -- thanks to the Smile Train charity. Smile Train teaches doctors in their own countries to operate on cleft lips, a deformity afflicting up to four million children across the world. iReport: Share your Oscar predictions . Pinki just happened to be one of the chosen candidates for surgery and was also chosen to be the subject of the documentary. The film chronicles her transformation, following her from her village to the hospital and home again. "She has absolutely and totally changed," said Pinki's surgeon, Dr. Subodh Kumar. The film's director is Megan Mylan. She has won several awards but not an Oscar -- until now. For Pinki and her dad, being able to see the film's director win an Oscar would be a thrill. But they know they already have the greatest prize: Pinki's new smile. "I am so happy that my daughter's lips have been repaired," her dad Rajendra said with a smile, expressing hope that the movie will inspire people to help children whose families can't afford the surgery.	NEW: "Smile Pinki" wins best short documentary Oscar . Pinki Sonkar was born with cleft lip; her family in India couldn't afford surgery . Smile Train charity provided operation; 4 million children worldwide have cleft lips . Pinki, once an outcast because of the deformity, will attend the Oscar ceremony .
Keywords: <keyword>ELECTION DOMINICAN</keyword>, <keyword>VERSUS MEJIA</keyword>, <keyword>FERNANDEZ CENTRIST</keyword>, <keyword>AGE MEDINA</keyword>, <keyword>SUNDAY PRESIDENTIAL</keyword>, <keyword>SANTANA CONTRIBUTED</keyword>, <keyword>LIVES SANTO</keyword>, <keyword>POLLS CLOSE</keyword>, <keyword>PASTIME BASEBALL</keyword>, <keyword>AVERAGE CITIZEN</keyword> Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (CNN) -- Preliminary results for Sunday's presidential election in the Dominican Republic gave former lawmaker Danilo Medina an early lead. Polls closed at 6 p.m. ET in the race, which shaped up as a two-man contest between political veterans. Medina and former Dominican Republic President Hipolito Mejia were in a close race heading into election day. Four other candidates, between them, didn't surpass 5% in the polls. With close to half of the ballots counted Sunday night, Medina led with more than 51% of the vote, versus Mejia's 47%. A candidate must garner 50% of the vote plus 1 to avoid a second round of voting. The election is a rematch of the 2000 presidential contest, where Mejia defeated Medina. Since the end of Mejia's term in 2004, the presidency has been held by Leonel Fernandez, of the centrist Dominican Liberation Party, the same party that Medina belongs to. Mejia represents the left-leaning Dominican Revolutionary Party. Some see the candidates as similar in some respects, but passions nonetheless on both sides are strong. "The truth is that in the Dominican Republic, I would say the national pastime is not baseball. The national sport is politics," said Mauricio De Vegoechea, a political analyst. The boisterous campaigns stretched from the island to New York, where there is a large population of Dominicans. Ahead of Sunday's vote, some 200 foreign electoral observers were in the country, and 60,000 police and troops were deployed for security. "The big difference, obviously, is that one of these candidates was already president and showed us who he was, and the other candidate has certainly been close to the government, but has never held the executive position and is known as a very qualified official," said Javier Cabreja, president of the civic group Citizens' Participation. Mejia, 71, the former president, has a background in agriculture. He served a previous administration as minister of agriculture, and became involved in politics at an early age. Medina, 60, was elected to four-year terms as a lawmaker in 1986, 1990 and 1994. He also served as president of the country's House of Representatives. He twice served as secretary of state. There are more than 6 million registered voters in the country. Dominicans living abroad were allowed to cast their votes as well, so much attention was paid by the candidates to the Dominican population in the United States, and particularly in New York. About 5% of registered voters live outside the island. "A lot of my family lives in Santo Domingo, that's our homeland, and we have to support our brothers who are there, working hard," one voter in New York said. According to the International Monetary Fund, the Dominican Republic is expected to grow between 3.5% and 4% this year. Campaign issues have included discussions whether that growth is trickling down to the average citizen. "I want there to be in my country social security, better education and better medical services," said another New York Dominican voter, Johnny Hinojosa. CNN's Camilo Egana and Maria Santana contributed to this report.	NEW: Preliminary results give former lawmaker Danilo Medina an early lead . The election is a rematch of the 2000 elections . Dominican populations abroad play an important role in voting . The winner will need to garner 50% of the vote plus 1 .
Keywords: <keyword>BAE DETAINED</keyword>, <keyword>KOREA ARRESTED</keyword>, <keyword>CITING KOREAN</keyword>, <keyword>KCNA REPORTED</keyword>, <keyword>TRIPS NORTH</keyword>, <keyword>CITIZEN NAMED</keyword>, <keyword>COUNTRY NEWS</keyword>, <keyword>JUN HO</keyword>, <keyword>AMERICAN CONFESSED</keyword>, <keyword>EMBASSY VISITED</keyword> North Korea has arrested a U.S. citizen for committing an unspecified crime against the country, state media reported Friday, 10 days after U.S. officials said an American had been detained by the reclusive nation. Bae Jun Ho entered North Korea on November 3 to carry out a tour, the country's official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, reported. He was detained and evidence was uncovered proving that he had committed a crime against the country, the news agency said. The American then confessed to the offense, it said, and faces legal action. A U.S. official told CNN last week that an American citizen named Kenneth Bae had been detained in North Korea for more than a month. The U.S. official said Bae had made several trips to North Korea previously, and that he was not believed to have been mistreated in detention. Neither Washington nor Seoul has yet confirmed that Bae is the same man referred to by North Korean state media. His detention was first reported by South Korean newspapers, which said that Bae, a tour operator, entered North Korea at the port city of Rajin accompanied by five other tourists. Bae and the group were on a five-day trip to the country, according to South Korea's Yonhap News. One of the tour members was carrying a computer hard disk "that apparently contained sensitive information," Yonhap News reported, citing a Korean-language paper. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said last week that the United States was aware of the reports of Bae's detention, but that it would not discuss the issue further because of privacy issues. "We obviously have no higher priority than the welfare of our citizens. As you may know we have no representation in Pyongyang. The Embassy of Sweden acts as our protecting power for issues involving U.S. citizens in North Korea," Nuland said then. Consular officials from the Swedish Embassy visited Bae on Friday, KCNA said. The United States and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations.	U.S. officials said last week that an American had been detained in North Korea . Bae Jun Ho is accused of committing a crime against North Korea, state media says . He entered North Korea on November 3 to carry out a tour, it reports . The United States and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations .
Keywords: <keyword>DOG STOLEN</keyword>, <keyword>GREYHOUND MISSING</keyword>, <keyword>DISAPPEARED DAUSMAN</keyword>, <keyword>OLD DAUZ</keyword>, <keyword>FENCED COLLINSVILLE</keyword>, <keyword>LILIAN PICTURED</keyword>, <keyword>REUNITED VIRGINIA</keyword>, <keyword>CHILDREN DAVID</keyword>, <keyword>RESCUE GROUPS</keyword>, <keyword>NEWSPAPERS TOLD</keyword> By . Helen Pow . PUBLISHED: . 22:16 EST, 9 April 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 01:31 EST, 10 April 2013 . An Italian greyhound that had been missing for eight months has found his way back to his southwestern Illinois home after he turned up hundreds of miles away in Virginia. Five-year-old Dauz disappeared from the Dausman family's fenced Collinsville yard in July last year. To the surprise of his heartbroken owners David, Alicia, and their two children David Jr., 3, and the dog's 'best friend' six-year-old Lilian, the pet traveled more than 900 miles to end up last month at an animal shelter in Fairfax. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Found: Five-year-old Dauz, pictured center with Lilian, 6, left, and David Jr., right, has been found months after he disappeared from the Dausman family's fenced Collinsville yard in July last year . 'He's the same dog, but he won't let us out of his sight. As we will not, either,' said Alicia Dausman, 35. The mother suspects Dauz, a purebred, was stolen by a friend's family member who was temporarily living with them, and that person took him to Virginia, according to Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis. He was given to a man, who gifted the dog to his wife on her birthday. The couple, who called him 'Bruno,' took care of the pet but after a time he managed to escape and found his way to the shelter. Ms Dausman said she tried everything she could think of to locate the dog, posting his picture on her Facebook page, submitting weekly Craigslist ads, and contacting shelters and Italian greyhound rescue groups. Map: The Italian greyhound that had been missing for eight months found his way back to his southwestern Illinois home after he turned up hundreds of miles away in Fairfax, Virginia . Dauz was finally reunited after the Virginia shelter scanned the digital identification chip implanted in the dog's neck and notified the family, according to KDSK.com. Ms Dausman said she couldn't believe her ears when the shelter called her, then the disbelief was replaced by elation that they would soon have their beloved pet back. 'I was so excited I had to pull over,' she told the news outlet. 'I got (Lilian) from school and she was walking down the hallway towards me. When I told her we found Dauz, she just stopped dead in her tracks.' She said the animal shelter insisted the dog was in good shape suggesting someone had been taking care of him. Journey: The pet, pictured, traveled more than 900 miles to end up last month at an animal shelter in Fairfax, Va. Stolen: David, Lilian, Alicia and David Jr, pictured left to right, believe the dog was stolen by a friend's family member who was temporarily living with them . 'But I just didn't get how he ended up 900 miles away,' she said. The family was distraught when Dauz went missing last summer. After diligently searching for him in the yard and the surrounding neighborhood, Ms Dausman called police. She said the loss of the pet hit hardest with Lilian who was just a year old when they bought the loving dog. 'She would just cry her eyes out,' the mother said of Lilian. 'She said, "Mom, I want my dog." And I had to say,"'Sorry, I don't know where he's at." I put his crate and toys downstairs. I couldn't even see a picture of him, I would cry. It hurt.' Best friends: The loss of the pet hit hardest with Lilian, pictured, who was just a year old when they bought the loving dog . Chip: Dauz, pictured, was finally reunited after the Virginia shelter scanned the digital identification chip implanted in the dog's neck and notified the family . Ms Dausman said she started to think finding Dauz wasn't going to happen, but Lilian always held out hope that he'd find his way home. 'Mom thought he was dead,' Lilian told the newspapers. 'I told her he was still alive.' Ms Dausman said the microchip company, HomeAgain, transported Dauz back to Collinsville.And while he's thinner, lighter in color and has a raspier bark than before, he's still the same loveable pet. 'If there is one lesson to be learned, it's get your pets microchipped,' she said. 'And never give up. Miracles do happen.'	Five-year-old Dauz disappeared from the Dausman family's fenced Collinsville yard in July last year . Turned up last month at an animal shelter in Fairfax . Owners believe the pet was stolen by a house guest who gave him to a Virginia couple . He escaped and was brought home after the shelter scanned a digital microchip in the dog's neck linking him to the Dausmans .
Keywords: <keyword>TENNESSEE DIED</keyword>, <keyword>BOY DEATH</keyword>, <keyword>ABUSE CHILD</keyword>, <keyword>REKE YOUNGER</keyword>, <keyword>EVANS BEATEN</keyword>, <keyword>MURDER COURT</keyword>, <keyword>LACERATIONS LIVER</keyword>, <keyword>ALLEGEDLY</keyword>, <keyword>CHARGES TFACTS</keyword>, <keyword>BELT DOCTORS</keyword> By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 12:07 EST, 19 August 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 12:07 EST, 19 August 2013 . A four-year-old boy was allegedly beaten to death with a belt by his mother and step-father after a computer glitch at the Department of Child Services failed to pick up abuse claims against them, it has emerged. Little Ty'Reke Evans, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, died in December 2011 with rib fractures, lacerations to his liver and bowels, needle punctures, brain swelling and bruises and welts that looked as if he had been beaten with a belt, doctors said. Ty'Reke's younger brother, who was then three, was also admitted to hospital with liver abrasions and bruises to his body but survived. He is now in protective custody. Their mother, Patricia Brewer, 25, and her boyfriend, Kenneth Coleman, 23, have been charged with child abuse, child neglect and murder and are due in court for a preliminary hearing on Monday. Victim: Four-year-old Ty'reke Evans was beaten to death in December 2011 even though the Department of Child Services in Tennessee had received numerous calls about potential abuse . It has now emerged that the DCS had received calls about the family, but that a glitch in the computer system meant staff did not connect the cases, the Tennessean reported. In the weeks before Ty'Reke's death, the DCS received at least three claims of child abuse from family and pre-school teachers - with one noting his bruises and saying the 'situation is escalating'. But one child abuse report made on November 11, 2011 was given to one caseworker, while two further reports made on December 7 and December 8 were given to a different worker. It meant that the two caseworkers were unaware of the other calls or that the family was already under investigation; if they had known, there could have been swifter actions, the paper noted. Accused: His mother, Patricia Brewer, and her boyfriend, Kenneth Coleman, were arrested after the death . DCS records point out that there were 'technical challenges' with the $27 million data system, the Tennessee Family and Child Tracking System or TFACTS. 'The TFACTS system, for some reason, did not make the connection when the reports came in,' read the records. 'With the volume of referrals that are assigned on a daily basis there were no opportunities to make the connection.' The records also show that some entries showing the department's investigation of the family were not entered into the system until five months after the boy's death - rather than the 30 days required. Spokesman Rob Johnson told the paper that some records show that staff had been meeting with law enforcement and prosecutors, who were deciding whether to go ahead with criminal charges. TFACTS, which was created in August 2010, . underwent a $4 million system upgrade after legal advocates complained . its problems had reached a 'crisis' stage. Hurt: Ty'reke's little brother Donamiche also suffered lacerations and bruising but survived . Other issues included failures to issue payments for foster families or being unable to track child deaths. Children's Rights noted there had been significant improvements earlier this year. Brewer and Coleman will appear in court on Monday to hear if they will be tried separately. Ty'Reke's biological father is now seeking custody of his surviving son. His attorney, Tabitha Finch, said: 'I am very disappointed by how this case has been handled by DCS. People look to DCS for protection for children. If policies had been adhered to, this situation may have ended differently.' Brewer's attorney said she was a caring mother who did not harm her children.	Ty'reke Evans died of blunt force trauma in December 2011 . His brother, then 3, was also hospitalized but survived . Department of Child Services computer glitch meant complaints of abuse were not linked so caseworkers did not realize the severity of the case .
Keywords: <keyword>AMANDA PREGNANT</keyword>, <keyword>PERFORMED CAESAREAN</keyword>, <keyword>MIDWIFE GAVE</keyword>, <keyword>HOSPITAL UNEXPECTED</keyword>, <keyword>CHLOE REFERRED</keyword>, <keyword>MONITOR UNBORN</keyword>, <keyword>STOMACH ACHES</keyword>, <keyword>BLOATED BLAMED</keyword>, <keyword>PARTNER PAUL</keyword>, <keyword>GRANDCHILDREN MARRIAGE</keyword> By . Ellie Zolfagharifard . PUBLISHED: . 05:58 EST, 29 July 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 07:25 EST, 29 July 2013 . A woman has given birth to her first baby just 15 hours after discovering she was pregnant. Amanda Ross, 41, was out shopping with her partner Paul Dean when she suddenly developed stomach cramps. She had been feeling bloated and blamed it on constipation and went to her local health centre to see a GP. Amanda Ross, 41, was out shopping with partner Paul Dean when she suddenly developed stomach cramps. Fifteen hours later she gave birth to baby Chloe . They referred her to a midwife who gave her a scan - and told her she was probably seven or eight months pregnant. Amanda was sent home with some medication for her stomach but at 1.30am told Paul she had to get straight to hospital as her tummy was rumbling. Paul, who has two children and two grandchildren from his first marriage, drove Amanda to the nearest hospital. Unexpected: Amanda had been feeling bloated and blamed it on constipation. She was astounded when her GP said she was pregnant - and went into labour just hours later . She was quickly checked and immediately transferred by ambulance to the maternity unit at South Hospital in Bristol. Doctors performed a caesarean section and daughter Chloe was born 80 minutes later weighing 4lb 9oz . Amanda arrived there at 5.30am where a monitor found the unborn baby’s heartbeat dipping dangerously. Doctors performed a caesarean section and daughter Chloe was born 80 minutes later weighing 4lb 9oz. Amanda, who has never been pregnant before, was kept in hospital for six days before being allowed home to their two-bedroom flat in Yate, South Gloucestershire. She said: ‘My first reaction when they told me I was pregnant was one of sheer terror. ‘I thought "Oh my God", I could have done this ten years ago - but I’m in my 40s. ‘It was a massive shock and I still can’t believe it. It’s going to get some getting used to.’ She added: ‘I had no idea I was expecting - there’d been no flutters, no cravings, no kicking, no morning sickness, no kicking, nothing. ‘We were totally unprepared for a new baby - we hadn’t even got a cotton bud. ‘Thankfully our families have been really good, running around to get everything we need.’ Stunned Paul, 53, has been with Amanda for 14 years and neither of them work. He is already dad to Andrew, 34, and daughter Jessica, 32. He said: ‘I thought ‘where the hell did that come from? She’s had no pains or cravings or stomach aches, nothing. ‘I’m still in shock and the reality has yet to sink in. It’s going to take some getting used to.’ Amanda said: 'I had no idea I was expecting - there'd been no flutters, no cravings, no kicking, no morning sickness, no kicking, nothing'	Amanda Ross, 41, was out shopping when she developed stomach cramps . Blaming it on constipation, she visited her GP who said she was pregnant . 15 hours later she gave birth to daughter Chloe via caesarean section .
Keywords: <keyword>AFFLECK DUNNE</keyword>, <keyword>WIFE NICK</keyword>, <keyword>AMY PLAYED</keyword>, <keyword>CAST SOAP</keyword>, <keyword>PORTRAYING GUY</keyword>, <keyword>THRILLER GONE</keyword>, <keyword>LUSTER FLOP</keyword>, <keyword>LIKE TABLOID</keyword>, <keyword>DID PREGNANT</keyword>, <keyword>GLARE SPOTLIGHT</keyword> (CNN) -- Ben Affleck looks distinctly ill at ease. Portraying Nick Dunne—a man attempting to put out the dragnet for his missing-and-presumed dead wife Amy (played by British actress Rosamund Pike)—during a key scene in the adaptation of Gillian Flynn's bestselling crime thriller "Gone Girl," Affleck has swapped his usual movie star luster for, well, flop sweat. In a sequence that was screened by director David Fincher exclusively for an EW cover story hitting newsstands Friday, Affleck's Dunne faces a candlelight vigil for Amy crawling with TV cameras, police detectives, and somber neighbors in the sequence, and he appears less like a grief-stricken husband than a shifty dude trying to seem grief-stricken. "I may not behave the way the cameras want me to," Affleck tells a crowd that already views him as the prime suspect. "If you need to mock somebody, mock me. But please don't turn this investigation into a circus." "Where's your wife, Nick?" responded a voice from the darkness. "What did you do to your pregnant wife?!" Affleck, of course, knows the searing glare of the spotlight all too well, having comprised, along with J-Lo, the celebrity entity "Bennifer." To hear him tell it, portraying a guy who's being hounded by the press and second-guessed by a judgmental public hardly required extensive prep. "It wasn't something I had to do a lot of research for," Affleck says with a weary smirk. "I knew what it was like to have the tabloid world paying attention to me and ascribing negative motivations to whatever I might be engaging in. I knew what it was to be cast in a soap opera I had no control over." Ben Affleck will be a great Batman, Adam West says . According to Fincher, Affleck's intimate familiarity with being misunderstood by the Fourth Estate— moreover, with "what it's like to be hunted"—factored heavily in his casting. "We knew we needed somebody who was charming and could be seductive, who could be a ladies man, a guy's guy, a frat boy," Fincher says. "But most important, [someone] who had the wits and experience of knowing that situation. The gift of having Ben Affleck is that this is a guy who knows. He knows what a lose-lose situation is and understands what's funny about it, however sad." See the original story at EW.com. CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved.	Affleck plays Nick Dunne in "Gone Girl" He faced tabloid scrutiny while dating Jennifer Lopez . Director says Affleck's experience factored into casting .
Keywords: <keyword>NANCY BENOIT</keyword>, <keyword>PUBLICITY DISPUTE</keyword>, <keyword>MAGAZINE MAUREEN</keyword>, <keyword>WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT</keyword>, <keyword>VIDEO HUSTLER</keyword>, <keyword>NUDE PHOTOS</keyword>, <keyword>TOFFOLONI DAUGHTER</keyword>, <keyword>14TH AMENDMENT</keyword>, <keyword>CONCEPTUALLY MURDERS</keyword>, <keyword>STEROIDS LATER</keyword> Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has decided that the family of a slain professional wrestling personality can continue its lawsuit against Hustler magazine, a case that tested privacy concerns and the competing right to publish "newsworthy" material. The justices without comment Monday turned aside an appeal from the publishers of the men's magazine, which featured old nude photos of Nancy Benoit, who was killed nearly three years ago by her husband and fellow wrestling superstar Chris Benoit. The couple's young son also was slain in the family's Georgia home. The order is a victory for the estate of Nancy Benoit, which is seeking damages from Hustler. At issue was whether the constitutional right of privacy indirectly referenced in the 14th Amendment trumps the First Amendment protections of the media and publishers in this "right-of-publicity" dispute. The original lawsuit was brought by Maureen Toffoloni, whose daughter, Nancy Benoit, had posed nude for a photographer more than two decades ago. Toffoloni claims that her daughter, who was also known by the wrestling moniker Woman, had asked immediately after the shoot to have the photos and video destroyed and believed that photographer Mark Samansky had done so. He later sold stills from the video to Hustler, a men's magazine founded by Larry Flynt that publishes racy material. The photos were published in the March 2008 issue. The murders had occurred the previous summer. At the center of the crimes was Chris Benoit, a Canadian-born athlete who worked for several professional wrestling circuits, including the popular World Wrestling Entertainment. In 2000, he married Nancy Sullivan, a Florida native who had become a well-known wrestling manager after her time in the ring. Their son, Daniel, was born earlier that year. Police say the crimes occurred over a three-day period in June 2007 at the Atlanta-area home of the Benoits. Investigators concluded that Chris Benoit first bound his 43-year-old wife and strangled her. The 7-year-old boy was then drugged and strangled. The man then committed suicide by hanging himself with a weight machine. No formal motive was ever established. CNN reported at the time that doctors found testosterone, painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs in the body of 40-year-old Chris Benoit, according to Georgia's chief medical examiner. Performance-enhancing anabolic steroids were later found in the home. Weeks after the killings, a study of Chris Benoit's brain showed damage from "prior repetitive injury." His father, Michael Benoit, said on CNN's "Larry King Live" that a series of concussions from his high-flying moves in the ring were in part to blame. Georgia has a law similar to many states' recognizing the right to privacy against "the appropriation of another's name and likeness ... without consent and for the financial gain of the appropriator." That would include "a private citizen, entertainer, or a public figure who is not a public official" like a legislator. The state's high court ruled against Hustler magazine in June, finding that a "brief biography" of Nancy Benoit and her murder accompanying the nude photos did not represent a "newsworthy article." "The photographs published by [Flynt] neither relate to the incident of public concern conceptually [the murders] nor correspond with the time period during which Benoit was rendered, against her will, the subject of public scrutiny," the state court wrote. "Were we to hold otherwise, [Flynt] would be free to publish any nude photograph of almost anyone without their permission, simply because the fact they were caught nude on camera strikes someone as 'newsworthy.' Surely that debases the very concept of a right to privacy." The state justices said "crude though the concept may seem," Nancy Benoit's mother is now entitled to control such images "in order to maximize the economic benefit to be derived from her daughter's posthumous fame." Such power is known legally as the "right of publicity." Flynt and the photographer, Samansky, later filed the appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court and had the support of several media organizations. In a brief filed in support of Hustler, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press said the Georgia ruling "makes no sense, as it goes well beyond the photographs that appear in magazines such as petitioner's to affect all news-gathering." The group noted that other courts have long recognized a broadly read "newsworthiness" standard for commercial media like CNN and that such specific "dissection" of content-based stories and pictorials by judges would cripple editorial decision-making by all news outlets. The case is LFP Publishing Group (dba Hustler Magazine) v. Maureen Toffoloni, as administrator and personal representative of the estate of Nancy E. Benoit (09-625).	Supreme Court turns aside appeal over Nancy Benoit nude photos . Hustler published pictures months after Benoit's husband killed her, son, himself . Nancy Benoit's mother sued, saying daughter thought materials destroyed . Case centers on rights of media, privacy .
Keywords: <keyword>CRIME TRACEY</keyword>, <keyword>CONNELLY JAILED</keyword>, <keyword>LEFT PAEDOPHILE</keyword>, <keyword>BABY SUFFERED</keyword>, <keyword>APPLY PAROLE</keyword>, <keyword>CRITICISED SHARON</keyword>, <keyword>JUDGE STEPHEN</keyword>, <keyword>32 HARINGEY</keyword>, <keyword>ASSESSMENTS PSYCHOLOGISTS</keyword>, <keyword>POSSIBLE FREEDOM</keyword> The mother of Baby P could walk free from prison within days after serving just six years for a crime that horrified a nation. Tracey Connelly, who allowed her infant son Peter to be tortured to death by her boyfriend, may be set free this week as experts believe she poses ‘no danger to the public’. A parole board panel is considering fresh evidence about the 32-year-old after her parole hearing was adjourned in July for further reports. Awful crime: Tracey Connelly (left), 32, of Haringey, north London, was jailed indefinitely in 2009 after admitting doing nothing while her son Baby P (right) was tortured to death by her boyfriend and his paedophile brother . Sources said the panellists had been . conferring over the weekend and a decision is expected within the next . couple of days, which could see Connelly released from prison the same . day. She was branded ‘manipulative, self-centred and calculating’ during her trial in the Old Bailey. Assessments . by psychologists and probation officers now suggest that she poses no . threat to public safety, even though she was still found to be . manipulative following the expert examinations. It is understood that she has shown remorse for her horrific crimes, which is crucial to her plea for freedom. Let out: Connelly has left Low Newton jail (pictured) in Brasside, County Durham and was released after five years there for allowing her son's death . Connelly . was jailed indefinitely in 2009 after she admitted doing nothing while . her little boy was tortured to death by her boyfriend Steven Barker and . his paedophile brother Jason Owen. Peter . was just 17 months old when he was found dead in his blood-spattered . cot at his mother’s north London flat, after suffering a catalogue of . injuries, including a broken back. With . her time on remand following her arrest in 2007, Connelly has served . longer than the five-year minimum tariff handed down at the Old Bailey . by judge Stephen Kramer QC, which means she could apply to the Parole . Board. A source said yesterday that the board did not require a further hearing and a decision will be announced soon. Connelly . could be out less than 24 hours after her release is approved, but a . shortage of suitable bail hostel places may keep her in jail a few . days longer. She is currently being held at Low Newton jail near Durham. News of her possible freedom has been met with horror by Baby Peter’s grandmother Mary O’Connor, 63. Indefinite sentences: Tracey Connelly's boyfriend Steven Barker (left) and his paedophile brother Jason Owen (right) were both convicted of causing or allowing Peter's death . Criticised: Sharon Shoesmith, the former children's services chief in Haringey, waged a long battle to clear herself of any personal responsibility for the tragedy . ‘She . should never come out,’ she said. ‘But even if she does I won’t be . seeing her again, she’s out of my life. She wants me to move to Kent . with her. But I said no.’ Jason Owen was freed on licence in 2011 after serving half his six-year sentence for causing or allowing Peter Connelly to die. But . the 41-year-old was returned to prison in April this year after being . caught in an area from which he had been banned under the conditions of . his parole. Baby P suffered . 50 injuries before he died on August 3, 2007. The attacks took place . while Owen, a convicted arsonist, crack addict and National Front . member, was lodging with Barker and Connelly. The . case provoked a national scandal after it emerged that social workers, . police and doctors missed a series of warning signs that could have . saved the child’s life. Social workers considered his care to be ‘a routine, low-risk case’. Connelly was described as ‘without much conscience’. She denied knowing who injured the 17-month-old but admitted causing or allowing the death of a child. Barker was given an indefinite sentence with a tariff of 10 years after being convicted of causing or allowing Peter’s death. Owen was convicted of the same offence and, after challenging his initial sentence, he was jailed for six years.	Tracey Connelly, 32, of Haringey, north London, jailed indefinitely in 2009 . Boy tortured to death in 2007 by her boyfriend and his paedophile brother . But Connelly has now applied to Parole Board to have her case reviewed .
Keywords: <keyword>TITANIC SANK</keyword>, <keyword>SAFER CRUISE</keyword>, <keyword>SKIPPER COSTA</keyword>, <keyword>CONCORDIA SAID</keyword>, <keyword>ABANDON SHIP</keyword>, <keyword>DISASTER FRANCESCO</keyword>, <keyword>AGROUND PEOPLE</keyword>, <keyword>ISLAND FAILED</keyword>, <keyword>FRIDAY ACCIDENT</keyword>, <keyword>SCHETTINO TOLD</keyword> By . Rob Cooper . Last updated at 9:47 AM on 17th January 2012 . The captain of the Costa Concordia said 'everything is much safer' on cruise ships than when the Titanic sank a century ago in a newspaper interview a year before the disaster. Francesco Schettino, 52, faces court action over the accident which left six people dead and a further 29 still missing. The captain told a journalist at the Czech paper Dnes that the risk of a modern disaster was much lower because of safety systems that had been put in place. Interview: Francesco Schettino, captain of the Costa Concordia, said in a newspaper interview that modern ships were easier to navigate . Sunk: A rescue boat and a helicopter patrol near the doomed cruise liner yesterday after it ran aground. Six people have been confirmed dead, 29 more are missing . But he added: 'I wouldn't like to be in the role of the captain of the Titanic, having to sail in an ocean of icebergs.' However, when pressed on the impact of the 1912 disaster and the long-term impact it had on shipping, he responded: Luckily, people forget about tragedies'. The £400million liner which crashed, with 4,200 passengers and crew, was sailing just 300 yards from the island’s rocky coast when it should have been at least four miles out to sea. Following the accident thousands have taken to Facebook to vent their fury at the so-called ‘Captain Coward’, who is now claimed to have ‘skimmed’ past the Tuscan isle of Giglio not just to salute a retired officer but also to impress his head waiter’s family on shore. After the collision there was allegedly a delay of more than 30 minutes before the coastguard knew about it. Captain: Francesco Schettino had skippered the ship for the past six years . The first the authorities heard of the accident was when they were alerted by passengers on the ship. Captain Schettino told the newspaper in his interview 13 months ago that the risk of a cruise ship accident was much reduced in the 21st century. 'These days, everything is much safer. It is easier to navigate thanks to modern technical instruments and the internet,' he said. 'If an error occurs, it is not so serious, because we are better prepared for possible complications. 'Using the internet we know straightaway the weather conditions and the situation that we'll find in the ports that we are heading to. And it's easy to take important decisions.' He added that he enjoyed the unpredictable and liked to face a challenge when in control of a cruise ship. 'I enjoy moments when something unpredictable happens, when you can diverge a bit from standard procedures. It's a challenge to face, I enjoy it,' he said. After swiftly escaping from the Concordia quickly after Friday's accident, Captain Schettino was arrested along with first officer Ciro Ambrosio. Clear-up: An oil removal ship is seen enar the Costa Concordia last night which ran aground off Giglio Island . Rescue teams search for missing people around the partially-submerged cruise ship in the harbour or the Isola del Giglio yesterday . Search: A helicopter hovers over the doomed cruise ship. The captain faces court action over the disaster . The captain was spotted wrapped in a blanket on his way to the shore at around 11.30pm – more than four hours before the evacuation of the vessel was completed and breaking the maritime tradition of remaining with his ship. Coastguards are said to have told him to ‘get back on board your vessel’ once they realised he was safe on the island but he failed to do so. Underwater search: A scuba diver swims next to the Costa Concordia in this photo released by the Italian Coastguard yesterday . In the December 2010 newspaper . interview he stressed that he was 'constantly vigilant' and said 'every . moment on a ship is important to me' and he had never been in a . dangerous situation. The . Daily Telegraph reported that he added: 'I think that's down to the . fact that I prepare myself every day of the voyage. I have to be . constantly vigilant. 'I believe that with thorough preparation we are able to keep any situation under control.' Captain Schettino has been skipper of the Costa Concordia for the last six years. He has a wife and a daughter. Abandon ship: Dancer James Thomas, 19, pictured next to the cruise liner, said the instruction to evacuate the vessel should have been made an hour earlier . Preventing pollution in the sea surrounding the sunken Costa Concordia will be a 'race against time', but the ship could be sailing again in future with a lot of hard work and a lot of money, according to a maritime expert. Malcolm Latarche, editor of IHS Fairplay Solutions, says that although the ship's tanks are in protected locations, there may be 'some small spillage' from the 17 tanks, which contain a total of 500,000 gallons of fuel, because of the current position of the cruise liner. He also says that while holidaymakers may not be rushing to book themselves a cabin on the luxury ship, it is possible that Concordia could be repaired and back in service some time in 2013. 'It would take an awful lot of work and a lot of money. It would be a year at least before it would be in a serviceable condition and the question is would anybody really want to go on it? 'Would you go on a ship that has been in that condition? Would you think it was unlucky or what? It'll always be a hard sell to get people to go on it, that's my opinion,' said Mr Latarche. He said that pollution was something the shipping industry dreaded the most. 'It is an issue, it's always an issue in these cases. It's what we in the industry hate to see because the pollution aspect of oil, and when you see oil tankers go aground, more than anything else, puts public opinion against the shipping industry,' he said. The maritime expert added: 'The longer it sits there...the waves are very very forceful. A powerful force is acting on the ship. 'A ship is designed to float, it's not designed to be sat on the bottom so while it's pushed about and prodded, and kicked around by the wind and waves, stresses will come on it and wells will crack.' However, he did add that although preventing pollution from a spillage would be hard work and 'not the easiest job in the world', it would not be 'rocket science'. The ship's operator, Costa Crociere, has enlisted Smit of Rotterdam, one of the world's biggest salvagers, to handle the removal of the 290-metre cruise liner. Yesterday he said on Italian television he did not understand why the ship had hit the rocks. 'Even though we were sailing along the coast with the tourist navigation system, I firmly believe the rocks weren't detected,' he said.'The ship wasn't heading forward but sideways as if under water there was this rock projection. 'I don't know if it was detected or not, but on the nautical chart it was marked just as water and some 100-150 metres (330ft-500ft) from the rocks, and we were about 300 metres from the shore, more or less. 'We shouldn't have had this contact.' A dancer who helped to direct petrified passengers off the ship said yesterday the instruction to abandon ship should have been given 'an hour earlier, if not more'. James Thomas, 19, had been working as an entertainer on the cruise liner for six months when it ran aground in the Mediterranean. He said: 'We started to lean to the port side... it got more and more dramatic and everyone seemed to know that it wasn't just a normal turn, we were turning unbelievably sharply. 'I was thrown out of bed and then as I stood there all my aftershave and a bottle of wine came towards me as I was catching things and smashed on my foot.' The teenager said an announcement over the ship's intercom system urged passengers to stay calm and assured them that there was simply a 'minor technical fault'. But a coded series of beeps was sounded to let crew know that there was a leak on board. Mr Thomas, from Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, said: 'We had an announcement saying please stay calm, everything is under control, it's just a minor technical fault. 'Then we had the coding of two short blasts followed by alternate tones which means there is a leak on board and so the crew were divided, very much so. 'A lot of people said, 'no just tell everyone to stay calm, that's what we've been told to say'. 'But then other people took the initiative and said, "Okay, let's tell everyone to stay calm but hand over life jackets".' Mr Thomas said he put on warm clothes and a life jacket before making his way to a pre-arranged meeting point, helping passengers along the way. He said: 'We thought it was a "just in case" scenario but then we started to lift and started to tilt and we knew something was deadly wrong. 'We knew we were going to have to do something drastic to get out of the situation we were in.'	Skipper Francesco Schettino told interviewer: 'I wouldn't like to be Captain of the Titanic' He said modern ships are 'easier to navigate thanks to technical instruments and the internet' The captain, 52, said he 'enjoyed the unpredictable' and liked to diverge from standard procedure . Six people have been confirmed dead, 29 are still missing after accident .
Keywords: <keyword>MAN UNITED</keyword>, <keyword>MONDAY ROONEY</keyword>, <keyword>SWANSEA LOST</keyword>, <keyword>GAAL INSISTS</keyword>, <keyword>PLAYERS IMPORTANT</keyword>, <keyword>SAID VAN</keyword>, <keyword>FALCAO LEFT</keyword>, <keyword>MANAGER STAFF</keyword>, <keyword>YOUNG SUSPENDED</keyword>, <keyword>ASSESS PERFORMANCE</keyword> Louis van Gaal has one word for his achievements after three months in charge at Manchester United – great. The Dutchman, who asked to be judged in mid-October when he took over at Old Trafford in July, was asked to assess his performance on Friday and the response was typically blunt. ‘I am always great,’ said Van Gaal. ‘That’s a very easy question. Thankyou! Louis van Gaal insists his work at Man United during the first three months of his tenure have been 'great' Manchester United trio Angel di Maria, Daley Blind and Juan Mata hold weights during Friday's session . Manchester United captai Wayne Rooney, pictured with Ashley Young, is suspended for the trip to West Brom . AUGUST . Saturday 16 - Swansea (H) LOST 2-1 . Sunday 24 - Sunderland (A) DREW 1-1 . Tuesday 26 - MK Dons (A) LOST 4-0 . Saturday 30 - Burnley (A) DREW 0-0 . SEPTEMBER . Sunday 14 - QPR (H) WON 4-0 . Sunday 21 - Leicester (A) LOST 5-3 . Saturday 27 - West Ham (H) WON 2-1 . OCTOBER . Sunday 5 - Everton (H) WON 2-1 . ‘How do I respond to that? No I’m not going in the right direction? No. I have confidence in myself and in my players and that is very important. But much more important is that the players have confidence in the manager and his staff. ‘When I respond I’m arrogant because normally I am always moving in the right direction – I have showed that already.’ ‘How do I respond to that? No, I’m not going in the right direction? No. I have confidence in myself and in my players and that is very important. But much more important is that the players have confidence in the manager and his staff. ‘When I respond I’m arrogant because normally I am always moving in the right direction – I have showed that already.’ Despite winning the last two games, United were holding on against Everton and West Ham and Van Gaal believes the players have still to fully embrace his philosophy. Radamel Falcao (left) and Spanish midfielder Mata (right) are both set to start against the Baggies on Monday . Rooney, Young and James Wilson walk to training as the team hope to extend their winning run . He added: ‘I think they do understand the philosophy but they have to perform that philosophy. We have to see if it is going to a higher level. We need more balance in the team. ‘I said that after the match against Everton, and I am looking for balance in the team not only spectacular attacking football, but also when you lose the ball that you have a shape as a team and that you can defend more easily, and kill the game better. ‘That’s also part of the philosophy and also because I am always choosing creative attacking football players. So we are looking for the balance and we shall see if the time I have had was long enough.’	Louis van Gaal insists his performance during the first three months of his Man United tenure has been 'great' Dutchman's team are fourth in Premier League after two consecutive wins . Players returning from international duty such as Robin van Persie and Angel di Maria looked fit . Suspended captain Wayne Rooney also took part in the session as Van Gaal watched on .
Keywords: <keyword>TALKS UKRAINE</keyword>, <keyword>UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT</keyword>, <keyword>MOSCOW OBAMA</keyword>, <keyword>OBAMA POROSHENKO</keyword>, <keyword>RUSSIAN AGGRESSION</keyword>, <keyword>DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION</keyword>, <keyword>MEETING PRESIDENT</keyword>, <keyword>HOPED CEASEFIRE</keyword>, <keyword>POLITICAL SUPPORT</keyword>, <keyword>DESCRIBING CRITICAL</keyword> President Obama sat down to talks with Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko in the White House Thursday, making a pledge to continue mobilizing the international community to reach a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Ukraine. Obama, however, stopped short of offering his Eastern European counterpart lethal military aid he had been asking for. President Poroshenko, who met with Obama in the Oval Office, said he hoped the ceasefire in his country would lead to a broader peace. He told reporters later that he was satisfied with the assistance that Washington was providing to Ukraine. Scroll down for videos . Side by side: President Obama sat down to talks with Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko in the White House to discuss the ongoing crisis with Russia . Pleased: Poroshenko later told reporters he was satisfied with the outcome of his meeting with the president . The two world leaders met in the Oval Office, sitting side by side in an apparent show of support for the Ukraine against Moscow. Obama praised Poroshenko's leadership, describing it as 'critical, at a very, very important time in Ukraine's history.' ‘Unfortunately, what we have also seen is Russian aggression, first in Crimea and most recently in portions of eastern Ukraine,’ he added. Mr Obama also hit out at Russia for violating Ukraine's sovereignty and accused Vladimir Putin's government of trying to undermine Poroshenko's reforms, reported AFP via Yahoo News. At the conclusion of the bilateral talks, Mr Poroshenko spoke to reporters outside the West Wing but would not say whether he had asked Obama to send the Ukrainian forces weapons to fight against insurgents. 'I asked the president to increase the cooperation in security and defense and I received a positive answer,' he said. Glowing praise: President Obama applauded Poroshenko for his leadership and his reform efforts . Putting on a show: Obama and Poroshenko sat side by side in the Oval Office, presenting a united front . Earlier in the day, Poroshenko appealed to the U.S. Congress for a broad spectrum of military aid, more sanctions and a special security . status. Poroshenko was on a visit to Washington DC to bolster US support for his strategy in handling Russian-backed separatists. 'I strongly encourage the United States to give Ukraine a . special security and defense status which reflects the highest . level of interaction with non-NATO allies,' Poroshenko said in . an emotional speech to the House of Representatives and Senate. He was interrupted frequently by applause and standing ovations. Poroshenko asked for more aid for Ukraine's military, going . beyond equipment such as night-vision goggles that Washington . has already sent. 'They need more political support throughout the world. They . need more military equipment, both lethal and non-lethal,' he . said. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (front) was joined by Speaker of the House John Boehner (right) and Vice President Joe Biden (left) for a joint meeting of Congress in Washington today . 'Blankets, night-vision goggles are also important, but one . cannot win the war with blankets,' he said. Poroshenko also pushed for more sanctions against Russia for . its seizure of Crimea from Ukraine and backing of the separatist . movement. 'I also asked that the United States be forceful and reflect . its principles with the respect of further sanctions against the . aggressor,' Poroshenko said. As Poroshenko visited the U.S. Capitol, President Barack . Obama's administration pledged $53 million in fresh aid to . Ukraine for its struggle against Russia's incursion, including . counter-mortar radar equipment. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was welcomed by U.S. lawmakers as he arrives to address a joint meeting of Congress today .	Obama's administration pledged $53million in fresh aid to Ukraine . Petro Poroshenko appealed for lethal and non-lethal military aid . Ukraine also wants more sanctions and a special security status . President . Poroshenko later met with President Obama in the Oval Office for bilateral talks .
Keywords: <keyword>HOLMES SUED</keyword>, <keyword>COURTNEY LOVE</keyword>, <keyword>LIBEL TWITTER</keyword>, <keyword>LOVE DEFAMED</keyword>, <keyword>DEFAMING ATTORNEY</keyword>, <keyword>JUDGE DETERMINED</keyword>, <keyword>BOUGHT FAIRNEWSSPEARS</keyword>, <keyword>DEVASTATED RHONDA</keyword>, <keyword>ALLEGEDLY</keyword>, <keyword>CASE DATES</keyword> By . David Mccormack . Courtney Love has been taken to court by her former lawyer in the first ever case of an alleged libel on Twitter going to trial. The verdict could have serious repercussions for all Twitter users if Love is found guilty of defaming her former attorney in less than 140 characters. The case dates back to a tweet sent by Love in 2010 in which she suggested Rhonda Holmes had been ‘bought off’. Courtney Love has been taken to court by her former lawyer in the first ever case of an alleged libel on Twitter going to trial . At the time, Love had retained Holmes and her San Diego firm, Gordon & Holmes, to pursue a fraud case against the executors of her late husband Kurt Cobain’s estate. Holmes sued Love in May 2011 over the tweet sent from the now suspended @CourtneyLoveUK account. ‘@noozjunkie I was f***ing devastated when Rhonda J Holmes Esq of san diego was bought off @fairnewsspears perhaps you can get a quote,’ she tweeted. Gordon & Holmes claim Love defamed it online after it stipulated that the singer ‘remain clean and sober’ while it represented her case, reports Spin. The case dates back to a tweet sent by Love in 2010 in which she suggested Rhonda Holmes, left, had been 'bought off' Yet according to the complaint, ‘There was never any indication Love honored this condition,’ which allegedly ‘caused Love to become angry with plaintiffs.’ While a number of Twitter-related libel cases have been filed in the past few years - including one in 2009 involving Love that was settled out of court - none before have gone to trial. When she took the witness stand on Wednesday, Love, 49, said the tweet was merely an opinion and that the internet is full of hyperbole and exaggeration. Love said she thought she was only tweeting it to two people. Last month, Love claimed that her tweet was not defamatory because, in the context of the internet, it represents an opinion. However, Judge Michael Johnson did not agree and sent the case to trial. The . trial, originally scheduled to finish up by the end of next week, is . expected to continue for at least a few days beyond that. The offending tweet was send from the now defunct @CourtneyLoveUK account and the singer now tweets as @Courtney . The verdict in this case could have serious . repercussions for all Twitter users if Courtney Love is found guilty of defaming . her former attorney. ‘The Courtney Love Twitter lawsuit is . monumental because the judge has now determined that tweeting in . California can potentially give rise to liability under the theory of . defamation,’ attorney Brian Claypool told ABC. ‘The . Courtney Love case will set a precedent that will result in, . potentially, the average person being liable as well,’ he added. The . case could also re-write the rules for much-loved celebrity Twitter . wars that have made headlines over the years such as Miley Cyrus vs. Sinead . O’Connor and Demi Lovato vs. Perez Hilton.	Courtney Love has been taken to court by her former lawyer in the first ever case of an alleged libel on Twitter going to trial . The case dates back to a tweet sent by Love in 2010 in which she suggested Rhonda Holmes had been 'bought off' Love, 49, claims she thought she was only tweeting it to two people . A guilty verdict could have serious implications for all Twitters users regarding defamation laws .
Keywords: <keyword>POPE DEPARTURE</keyword>, <keyword>RESIGNING BENEDICT</keyword>, <keyword>BENEDICT 85</keyword>, <keyword>CONCLAVE MEETING</keyword>, <keyword>CARDINALS ESTABLISH</keyword>, <keyword>LOMBARDI SAID</keyword>, <keyword>APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION</keyword>, <keyword>DECISION SOONER</keyword>, <keyword>STEPS FEBRUARY</keyword>, <keyword>67 117</keyword> The cardinals who must pick a successor to Pope Benedict XVI after he steps down on February 28 could meet to make the decision sooner than thought, a Vatican spokesman said Saturday. The conclave, the meeting which will bring together the 117 cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, could start before March 15 if all the cardinals are already in Rome, Father Federico Lombardi said. Lombardi had previously said the conclave was likely to start between March 15 and 19. But he gave new details Saturday, saying that because the pope had resigned rather than the conclave being triggered by his death, there was scope for the time frame to be brought forward. The decision may not come until after Benedict's departure and lies in the hands of the cardinals, he added. Opinion: Pope Benedict shows true leadership by resigning . Benedict is the first pope to step down in nearly 600 years, throwing the Vatican into some confusion. Experts are working on points of the Apostolic Constitution that need to be clarified or interpreted, Lombardi said, and are expected to give pointers on the new protocol soon. Lombardi said he had met with the pope Saturday morning and found him "calm and relaxed even in these so emotional days." Benedict, 85, shocked the world Monday when he announced his intention to stand down at the end of the month, citing the frailty of old age. Read more: Huge challenges await next pope . While Benedict won't be directly involved in his successor's selection, his influence will undoubtedly be felt. He appointed 67 of the 117 cardinals that are set to make the decision. More than two-thirds of the final number of cardinals must agree on the next pope. The announcement that a decision has been made will come in the form of a puff of white smoke emerging from a chimney in the Vatican. Benedict will hold a final audience in Vatican City's St. Peter's Square on February 27, but the church is not planning a formal ceremony to mark the pope's departure, Lombardi said. The pontiff, born Joseph Ratzinger, will first go by helicopter to the pope's summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Lombardi said. He could remain at Castel Gondolfo until the end of April or early May while the works to ready a new residence for him in a monastery within the Vatican are completed, Lombardi said. Once there, he will devote himself to a life of reflection and prayer. Lombardi told reporters that the pope's decision shouldn't be seen only as negative, but rather as a lucid and responsible choice that he had taken for the good of the Church. Benedict wants the new pontiff to have the physical and moral vigor necessary to take on the necessary reforms of the Church, Lombardi said, adding that it will be up to the new pope and the cardinals to establish their priorities. Benedict's decision to remain in Vatican City has a practical as well as a spiritual motivation, he said. His presence will enable him to support his successor and the rest of the clergy, Lombardi said, although he dismissed the idea that Benedict would interfere as the new pope takes charge. The last pope to step down before his death was Gregory XII, who in 1415 quit to end a civil war within the church in which more than one man claimed to be pope. When do you know it's time to go?	Benedict could stay in the summer papal residence till April or May, Vatican aide says . Guidance on the protocol for what comes next should be issued soon, he says . The cardinals could meet sooner than March 15 if they are all in Rome, Lombardi says . Benedict XVI announced Monday that he will step down on February 28 .
Keywords: <keyword>AFFIRMATIVE ACTION</keyword>, <keyword>REINSTATE RACIAL</keyword>, <keyword>CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS</keyword>, <keyword>ISSUES IMMIGRATION</keyword>, <keyword>UNIVERSITIES BANNED</keyword>, <keyword>OPINION ASIAN</keyword>, <keyword>MICHIGAN LAW</keyword>, <keyword>1996 BALLOT</keyword>, <keyword>SOUTHWEST EXCLUDED</keyword>, <keyword>SOTOMAYOR REALLY</keyword> (CNN) -- When it comes to thinking about affirmative action, there's an old way and a new way. The old way was in full bloom this week at the Supreme Court, in a blistering 58-page dissenting opinion by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in what was a state's rights case involving a 2006 Michigan law banning the use of racial criteria in publicly funded college and university admissions, and the question of whether these matters can be settled not just by courts but also by voters. The new way is on display in California, where lawmakers who want to amend the state constitution to reinstate racial and ethnic preferences at public colleges and universities -- something that was banned by a 1996 ballot initiative -- have a formidable opponent in the form of a group that knows a little something about discrimination: Asian-Americans. Under the old way of thinking, the narrative goes like this: There was once in this country ugly, overt and systematic discrimination based on race or ethnicity. African-Americans in the South and Mexican-Americans in the Southwest were excluded not just from barbershops, country clubs and public swimming pools, but also from places that could change the destinies of individuals and uplift families -- colleges and universities. There had to be a corrective device, the thinking went, by which these institutions that had previously treated race and ethnicity of certain groups as a negative could flip the script and treat it as a positive. Some people saw it as a reparation, a historical payoff. But it was more of an acknowledgment that discrimination leaves behind vestiges, and institutions that once went out of their way to be unwelcoming to certain groups now had to go out of their way to be welcoming to those groups by taking applicants' race and ethnicity into account. This is how Sotomayor, a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, sees the program that she has often credited for opening those doors. In her dissent in the Michigan case, part of which she read aloud to her colleagues, the nation's first Latina Supreme Court justice wrote: "This refusal to accept the stark reality that race matters is regrettable. The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination. As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society." Anyone out there support racial inequality and think it ought to be preserved? I didn't think so. Besides, this case wasn't about whether racial and ethnic preferences are good or bad, but whether their use could be restricted by voters at the state level. By a vote of 6-to-2, the high court ruled that it could be. Meanwhile, in California, there is a group that -- like Sotomayor -- really dislikes racial inequality. So much so that they don't think it ought to be reinstated by the state legislature under the pretext of expanding educational opportunity. In Alabama or Georgia or Mississippi, the dominant racial storyline is black-and-white. But in California, the most interesting relationship -- the one that will help define the future of the nation's most populous state -- is the relationship between Latinos and Asian-Americans. At 38% of the population, Latinos now make up a plurality in California. Yet the fastest-growing minority in the state is Asian-Americans, who now make up nearly 14% of California, or more than twice the number of African-Americans. And just as Latinos are divided on issues such as immigration and bilingual education, so, too, are there differences of opinion among Asian-Americans when the conversation turns to affirmative action. Still, what sends shock waves through the debate in California is that one of the most prominent subsets -- Chinese-Americans -- is opposed to the idea of colleges and universities taking into account race and ethnicity. Organizations representing that constituency pressured a small group of Asian-American lawmakers to stall the legislation. They did. You might think that an ethnic group that holds nearly 40% of seats in the University of California system would have little to complain about. You'd be wrong. Asian-American organizations that oppose racial and ethnic preferences claim that the 40% figure could soar to 50% or 60% if colleges and universities awarded slots based on merit. They insist that there is a quota to keep the Asian-American students below 50%, and that this primarily benefits white students who might not be able to compete head-to-head with Asian-Americans. Welcome to affirmative action, California-style, where things get complicated. As the debate plays out in this state, you don't hear much about "reparations" or the "vestiges of discrimination." The dominant themes are "merit" and "fairness." Those are not small things. Let's put to rest the old way of thinking about affirmative action and confront the new challenges that lie ahead in a country that, with every passing day, resembles less and less what it used to be.	Ruben Navarrette: There's an old and new way of thinking about affirmative action . Navarrette: Some think use of racial criteria in college admission helps minorities . But Asian-Americans, a powerful minority in California, oppose affirmative action . Navarrette: The debate in California is not about "reparations," but rather "merit"
Keywords: <keyword>AIRCRAFT ANTARCTIC</keyword>, <keyword>DISAPPEARED FLYING</keyword>, <keyword>ARCTIC MISSING</keyword>, <keyword>MISSING BOB</keyword>, <keyword>CARRYING CANADIANS</keyword>, <keyword>EMERGENCY LOCATOR</keyword>, <keyword>TWIN OTTER</keyword>, <keyword>MOUNTAIN RANGE</keyword>, <keyword>BAY WEATHER</keyword>, <keyword>BEACON TRANSMITTING</keyword> By . Jill Reilly . PUBLISHED: . 03:29 EST, 24 January 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 04:53 EST, 24 January 2013 . A small plane carrying three Canadians has disappeared while flying over an Antarctic mountain range, and now bad weather is hampering a search. The flight was going from a U.S. station near the South Pole to an Italian research base in Terra Nova Bay. The Calgary Sun newspaper identified the pilot as Bob Heath from the Northwest Territories, an experienced pilot in both the Antarctic and Arctic. Missing: Bob Heath from the Northwest Territories, an experienced pilot in both the Antarctic and Arctic . The pilot's wife, Lucy Heath, told the newspaper that she'd been called by airline officials and told 'Bob's plane was down, and they were trying to reach it.' She said she was just waiting for more news: 'I'm so worried.' The plane's emergency locator started transmitting in a mountainous area about 280 miles north of the pole. New . Zealand, US and Italian authorities are working together to find the de . Havilland Twin Otter plane, which they presume has crashed. Search: A small plane carrying three Canadians has disappeared while flying over an Antarctic mountain range, and bad weather is hampering a search (file photo) It was carrying survival equipment including tents and food, according to New Zealand Search and Rescue Mission Co-ordinator John Ashby. New Zealand authorities said a Hercules C130 aircraft flew to the Queen Alexandra mountain range early today but was unable to see the aircraft. Mr Ashby said in a statement that a DC3 aircraft flew over the area where the beacon was transmitting but heavy cloud prevented the rescuers from seeing the ground or any sign of the plane. Destination: The flight was going from a U.S. station near the South Pole to an Italian research base in Terra Nova Bay . 'Weather conditions are extremely challenging,' Mr Ashby said. He said that winds had reached 90 knots per hour and heavy snow was predicted. He said several planes and helicopters were standing by in Antarctica, waiting until conditions improved so they could travel to the site. On the online networking site . LinkedIn, Heath writes that he typically spends this time of year . coaching and mentoring other pilots to upgrade their skills in polar . regions. Take off: The Martin A. Pomerantz Observatory at the Amundsen Scott South Pole station - the plane had left the station when it went missing . The plane is owned and operated by Kenn Borek Air Ltd, a Canadian firm based in Calgary that charters aircraft to the U.S. Antarctic programme. In a release, the National Science Foundation (NSF) said the plane was flying in support of the Italian Antarctic Programme. There are no permanent residents in Antarctica but typically the population there swells to several thousand in the Southern Hemisphere summer as a number of countries send scientists and other staff to research stations. The U.S. runs the largest programme, with about 850 staff at its McMurdo Station and another 200 at its Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, where the plane was flying from.	The flight was going from a US station near the South Pole to an Italian research base in Terra Nova Bay . Pilot is Bob Heath from the Northwest Territories . Rescue Co-ordinator: 'Weather conditions are extremely challenging'
Keywords: <keyword>POLICE GOOGLE</keyword>, <keyword>PHOTOGRAPHING HOMES</keyword>, <keyword>SPOTTING CAR</keyword>, <keyword>BURGLARIES LOCALLY</keyword>, <keyword>STREET LEVEL</keyword>, <keyword>UK LAW</keyword>, <keyword>BROUGHTON SEEN</keyword>, <keyword>DARE PHOTOGRAPH</keyword>, <keyword>VILLAGE BLOCKED</keyword>, <keyword>VIEW EXCEPTION</keyword> (CNN) -- Google's ambitious plan to offer a 3-D street level view of communities across three continents hit a snag when angry residents of a UK village blocked the search engine's camera car from photographing their homes. Broughton, can be seen from the air on Google Earth, but not from the ground. Fearing the appearance of their well appointed properties on the Web site would attract criminals scouting for burglary targets, villagers in Broughton, north of London, summoned the police after spotting the car. "I was upstairs when I spotted the camera car driving down the lane," resident Paul Jacobs told The Times of London. "My immediate reaction was anger: How dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent? I ran outside to flag the car down and told the driver he was not only invading our privacy but also facilitating crime. "This is an affluent area. We've already had three burglaries locally in the past six weeks. If our houses are plastered all over Google it's an invitation for more criminals to strike. I was determined to make a stand, so I called the police." Google's Street View project to map 360-degree images of roads and homes across the world has generated numerous complaints over privacy, despite automated software that blurs faces and car licence plates. A Google spokesman, quoted by the UK Press Association, said: "Embarking on new projects, we sometimes encounter unexpected challenges, and Street View has been no exception. "We know that some people are uncomfortable with images of their houses or cars being included in the product, which is why we provide an easy way to request removal of imagery. Most imagery requests are processed within hours." The spokesman added: "We take privacy very seriously, and we were careful to ensure that all images in our Street View service abide by UK law."	Villagers in Broughton summoned police after Google car arrived . Residents say the Street View service will help burglars scout targets . Google says it isn't breaking any laws .
Keywords: <keyword>AMBER CARTER</keyword>, <keyword>CONFIRMED DIAGNOSIS</keyword>, <keyword>BRAIN TUMOUR</keyword>, <keyword>OPTOMETRIST ANNA</keyword>, <keyword>CRIPPLING HEADACHES</keyword>, <keyword>LIFE MS</keyword>, <keyword>WEAR GLASSES</keyword>, <keyword>RANG HOSPITAL</keyword>, <keyword>RIGHT ARM</keyword>, <keyword>REMOVE GROWTH</keyword> Amber woke from the operation with no feeling on her right side but can now walk unaided for short distances . By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 08:58 EST, 24 January 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 19:37 EST, 24 January 2013 . When Amber Carter went for an eye test, her biggest fear was that she’d have to wear glasses. Instead, the 23-year-old was told she might have a brain tumour. She was rushed to hospital where scans confirmed the diagnosis, and the next day had a nine-hour operation to remove a growth that was so big it ‘freaked her out’. Scroll down for video . Amber Carter (left) suffered months of crippling headaches when she visited the optician. A resulting brain scan revealed a huge brain tumour (right) Miss Carter, an assistant manager at a . perfume shop, said: ‘I was having really bad headaches and sickness . last summer and my right arm started to get weak. ‘I was in so much pain and feeling really tired all the time and some days I couldn’t get out of bed. ‘I’d been to the doctor several times . but nothing was getting done so I changed my GP and the new one . suggested I went for an eye test. ‘At that time my biggest concern was . that I might have to wear glasses but in the end it saved my life. The . optometrist noticed that both my optic nerves were swollen and rang the . hospital in Bath for an appointment within two hours and everything . happened so fast from then.’ Grateful: Amber Carter (right) with the optometrist Anna Lewin who saved her life. Ms Lewin rang up the local hospital to get her an urgent appointment after noticing her optic nerves were swollen . Miss Carter, from Chippenham, . Wiltshire, was given CAT and MRI scans which revealed she had a tumour . on the right side of her brain. Afterwards she was taken by ambulance to . the specialist centre at Bristol’s Frenchay Hospital. She said: ‘I didn’t really know what was going on at that stage, but everyone was fussing over me. ‘I had a second MRI scan in Bristol and that confirmed the tumour and I was admitted for surgery the next day. ‘When the surgeon brought my scan . picture up it was under his arm but I could see how big it was and it . freaked me out. They compared it to the size of a small orange, about . 5cm [2in] across. ‘I really thought that was it for me then.’ She added: ‘They actually shaved part of my brain away because the tumour had grown so big.’ Relieved: Amber with her boyfriend Will Tunnicliffe who went with her to the hospital . Miss Carter woke from the operation, . last October, with no feeling on her right side. But, mercifully, she . was told the tumour was benign and that all traces of it had been . removed. She needs physiotherapy three times a week and has yet to . regain the full use of the right side of her body. But she can now walk unaided for short distances and hopes to return to work in a couple of months’ time. Miss Carter said: ‘They don’t know if . I’ll get all the sensation back, but I’d rather have this weakness and . know they got it all out. ‘I’m so grateful to the optician. If I hadn’t made that appointment I probably wouldn’t be here today.’ Optometrist Anna Lewin, 33, of Haine . & Smith in Chippenham, said: ‘I could see that her optic nerves were . swollen in both eyes and that can indicate the presence of a tumour. ‘She needed to be checked immediately at hospital and I rang them myself and got her in. ‘She was completely shocked to find . she’d got a brain tumour – her biggest fear when she arrived was that . she might have to wear glasses. ‘I would always urge anyone suffering similar symptoms to have an eye test as a precaution.’	Amber, 23, had suffered from crippling headaches for months when GP suggested an eye test . Optician referred her straight to hospital after spotting swollen optic nerves . Scans revealed large brain tumour, which was removed 24 hours later in emergency operation . Amber woke from the operation with no feeling on her right side but can now walk unaided for short distances .
Keywords: <keyword>TAYLOR BATTED</keyword>, <keyword>PIETERSEN BELITTLED</keyword>, <keyword>TEST CRICKET</keyword>, <keyword>LANKA SELECTORS</keyword>, <keyword>WAY JAMES</keyword>, <keyword>HEIGHT KEVIN</keyword>, <keyword>CONSISTENT SHOT</keyword>, <keyword>DEBUT SOUTH</keyword>, <keyword>233 AVERAGES</keyword>, <keyword>CONTEMPT POOR</keyword> James Taylor is used to wisecracks about his height. But when Kevin Pietersen’s scattergun autobiography took aim and pulled the trigger, the 5ft5in Taylor looked likely to become just another piece of collateral damage in English cricket’s civil war. Now, as he prepares for England’s seven-match one-day series in Sri Lanka — a tour that will help the selectors finalise their plans for the World Cup — Taylor is in the mood to fire a few shots of his own. Pietersen’s disregard for Taylor’s ability stems from his Test debut against South Africa at Headingley in 2012. In the first innings, while Pietersen was crashing a sensational 149, Taylor made 34. Kevin Pietersen was critical of the way James Taylor batted against South Africa at Headingley in 2012 . It was a quiet but crucial innings. The pair added 147. Pietersen, though, had made up his mind. In KP: The Autobiography, he writes: ‘His dad was a jockey and James is built for the same gig. We were facing the fiercest bowling attack in the world. I didn’t think he was up to it.’ Pietersen took his concerns to coach Andy Flower, and — after Taylor was out — told next batsman, Matt Prior: ‘Listen, batting is easy. Taylor was just making it look hard. The South Africans were laughing at him. Just relax.’ There is some dispute about whether Pietersen belittled Taylor in the dressing room. But one thing is clear: a ringing endorsement it was not. In his autobiography, Pietersen (right) said that Taylor was 'built for the same gig' as his dad - a jockey . Taylor has only played two Tests for England, both against South Africa during the summer of 2012 . Taylor was dropped after making 10 and four in the next game at Lord’s and has not played Test cricket since. He said: ‘Plenty of people have slagged me off behind my back and he is just another one of them. It is plenty of years ago. ‘I haven’t spoken to him since and it doesn’t really bother me.’ Asked about their relationship now, Taylor said with a smile: ‘Me and Kevin are friends — we had a nice exchange on Twitter.’ What he may find genuinely amusing, however, was Pietersen’s attempts to justify his contempt. ‘The poor guy has never been seen again,’ writes Pietersen. ‘So I was wrong about Taylor, was I?’ Taylor’s performances for Nottinghamshire in last season’s 50-over Royal London One-Day Cup suggest Pietersen might have crowed too early. Taylor scored three hundreds and averaged 88 for Nottinghamshire in the Royal London Cup last season . Taylor's only two one-day international appearances to date have both been against Ireland . In seven innings Taylor crashed three hundreds, averaged 88 and had a strike-rate of 96. Only Kent’s talented wicketkeeper-batsman Sam Billings hit more than his 15 sixes. And every time one of Nottinghamshire’s games was televised, Taylor seemed to rise to the occasion. ‘As you have seen more over the last six months I can hit the ball as far as anybody and as cleanly as most,’ said Taylor, who was speaking to promote Royal London’s sponsorship of the PCA’s Benevolent Fund. ‘In my eyes my height has never proved a problem. Sachin (Tendulkar) is not that tall (he is also 5ft5in). I can pack a good punch and I can perform in pressure situations.’ He might also have added that, at the age of just 24, he has already made 12 List A centuries, from 97 innings. Pietersen has 15 from 233, and averages 40 to Taylor’s 53. Now he will have the chance to take his game to the next level. Aside from those two Tests against the world’s best pace attack, Taylor has played only two one-day internationals, both against Ireland. The experience has added to his drive. ‘I have been frustrated to say the least that I haven’t had a more consistent shot,’ he said. India's little master Sachin Tendulkar is widely regarded as the best batsman ever despite his height . ‘I didn’t get told an official reason. The only thing I got told was to go away and score more runs, which I consistently did in all three formats.Everybody can say they are mentally strong but I think that is one of my strengths. ‘I have been knocked down plenty of times and I will be knocked down plenty more. It is how you bounce back. ‘A big thing that spurs me on is proving people wrong. With my size I am going to have plenty of doubters. I have proved them wrong over the years and I will prove plenty more people wrong over the next few months and years.’ If the process begins in Sri Lanka, the selectors may just be able to pencil in a middle-order name for the World Cup.	James Taylor returns to England side for one-day series in Sri Lanka . Nottinghamshire batsman set for first England appearance since 2013 . Taylor has played just two Tests and two ODIs for England . 5ft5ins batsman was taunted by Kevin Pietersen for his height .
Keywords: <keyword>IMAM OUTREACH</keyword>, <keyword>TERRORIST STIGMA</keyword>, <keyword>SEPTEMBER 11</keyword>, <keyword>AL HIJRAH</keyword>, <keyword>CNN JOB</keyword>, <keyword>WORSHIP AMERICANS</keyword>, <keyword>BRIDGE FAITH</keyword>, <keyword>HOWARD UNIVERSITY</keyword>, <keyword>CALLING PATIENTS</keyword>, <keyword>SMOKE DISTANCE</keyword> (CNN) -- My job as an imam and outreach director for the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, located minutes from the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, was created September 11, 2001, to convey a more accurate image of the American Muslim community and to create opportunities for interfaith cooperation and understanding distinct from the stereotypical image of Muslims as intolerant and violent religious anti-American extremists. On the morning of the 9/11 attack, while I was calling my patients from the waiting room at Howard University Hospital, I saw the plumes of smoke in the distance coming from the Pentagon, and on the TV monitor watched the twin towers of the World Trade Center being destroyed. I had been volunteering as the Muslim chaplain and imam at Howard University at that time, and the media began calling me for interviews. By 2002, the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center asked me to be their first outreach director. I left my work as a biomedical researcher, working on my doctorate studying sickle cell disease, and took up this work. Much like the tradition of the black church, I believe I was "called" to this ministry to bring people back together, to try to heal a lot of the pain, fear and anger that persisted. The work I do in the greater Washington area is similar to what Daisy Khan and Imam Faisul [Feisal Abdul Rauf] want to do with the Cordoba Initiative at Park51, which is being referred to as the "Ground Zero mosque." I know how important this work is, since I do it every day, reaching out to Christian, Jewish and other faith groups as well as colleges, universities, government and the media in order to find common ground and understanding. In March of this year, a group protested my leading an opening prayer for the Virginia General Assembly. I called the delegate who was responsible for the official invitation -- Adam Ebbin, who is white, Jewish, male and gay. He said he looked at the work I had been doing for almost a decade, and said "I will stand by you." That was a teachable moment. Later, members of the House of Delegates said this was one of the most impressive prayers they had heard, and that they were convinced they were hearing from the type of Muslim that we need in America. The struggle for equal access, for the right to build mosques in America -- not just in lower Manhattan -- is reminiscent of the pain and struggle of black Americans for churches, housing, employment and, actually, public acceptance. By the letter of the law, blacks had the right to live or work anywhere, but they were often segregated to certain areas and specific jobs. Similarly, American Muslims have the right to worship anywhere, but some Americans say we're not ready yet for mosques being built in certain areas. Some years ago I preached in the Holy Land to 70,000 Palestinians at the "Jerusalem Festival." I wondered why they invited me. As I saw their communities and felt a reminiscent pain of being a second-class citizen in my country, then I knew why God made me a black American at this time: to share my hope and faith. I told them the Quran teaches,"O you who believe! Stand out firmly as a witness before God; and let not the enmity and hatred by others allow you to depart from justice. Be just: that is closer to piety; and fear Allah. Indeed, Allah is Well-Acquainted with what you do." [Al Maaidah 5: 8] . I realized then that as an heir through the civil rights and black power movements, and now as a Muslim, I am building a bridge from one faith tradition and civil rights movement to another faith and new civil rights movement -- from the fight for civil rights for black Americans, to the fight to secure the right for American Muslims to overcome and live beyond the "terrorist" stigma in a post-9/11 world, to make a better America for everybody. The spiritual says, "I come too far from where I started from, nobody told me the road would be easy." Establishing Park51 is another step on the road to equality for all people. It must succeed for all of us. These Muslims who respect America want to continue to pray, live and work in their community in lower Manhattan. While honoring our fallen citizens, we must continue to uphold the banner of freedom -- not guilt by association. Although I thrive off the passion of Malcolm X, I engage in struggle with the compassion of Dr. King. "We shall overcome" once again. America eventually gets it right. That America will once again choose the road toward freedom, justice and equality for all people, and that is the America that I believe in. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Imam Johari Abdul-Malik.	Imam Johari Abdul-Malik is director of outreach for a Washington Islamic Center . He compares moderate Muslims' struggles to the civil rights movement . U.S. Muslims have the right to live without the "terrorist" stigma, he says .
Keywords: <keyword>SOLDIER FATHER</keyword>, <keyword>DOUGLAS RAINE</keyword>, <keyword>SOMME IDENTIFIED</keyword>, <keyword>PHOTOGRAPH PTE</keyword>, <keyword>IDENTIFICATION SUSPECT</keyword>, <keyword>MAN CAPTURED</keyword>, <keyword>FILMED BATTLEFIELD</keyword>, <keyword>CAMERA CARRYING</keyword>, <keyword>DARKES PICTURED</keyword>, <keyword>1916 SCOTLAND</keyword> By . Hugo Gye . A police expert who is trained in identifying suspected criminals from CCTV believes he may have found the soldier behind one of the most famous photographs of the First World War. Last week, Raymond Darkes claimed that his father Frederick was the man captured on camera carrying a wounded comrade through the trenches during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. However, Scotland Yard 'super-recogniser' PC Dale Nufer has ruled Pte Darkes out of the running, saying he cannot be the person from the propaganda film. Instead, he pointed to Pte George Edwin Raine as a possible candidate, as there is a 'link and a resemblance' between photographs of him and the famous image from the Somme. Mystery: The soldier in this image, taken from The Battle of the Somme, has never been identified . Found? Douglas Raine believes the soldier was his father, Pte George Edwin Raine, pictured in this photograph . The picture was taken from The Battle of the Somme, a film which helped educate the British public to the horrors of the trenches at a time when many had a much more positive image of the war. It shows a soldier looking up at the camera with a haunted look, carrying a wounded man who is said to have died half an hour after the footage was captured. However, the film's producers did not keep a record of who appeared in it, leading to decades of speculation about the soldier's identity. Last week Mr Darkes, 83, said he had no doubt that the man must have been his father, who survived the trenches and lived until 1960. Claim: Last week the son of Frederick Darkes, pictured with his wife, said he thought he was the soldier . But Mr Nufer, one of the Metropolitan Police's most skilled identification experts, told The Times it was almost impossible that the two men were the same person. 'His nose is a lot longer and sharper and the eyes seem different,' he said. 'The soldier has a full ear lobe and [Darkes] doesn't - he has a squarer chin and slightly higher forehead.' Solution? PC Dale Nufer, pictured, says Pte Darkes cannot have been the soldier and suggests it is more likely to have been Pte Raine . Douglas Raine, 83, from West Sussex, insists that the man was in fact his father George, who served with the Durham Light Infantry. The former soldier apparently remembered being caught on camera while carrying his comrade towards the nearest medical station. When Mr Nufer saw a photograph of Pte Raine, he said: 'There is more of a link and a resemblance, if you look at the straight brow, the stronger and broader nose and the solid-looking, oval shape of the face. 'And he has the right kind of ear lobe. I would say there is a link with this one.' Pte Raine was a miner from County Durham, before moving to London to work on building the Underground. During the war he used his mining experience to help dig military tunnels, and he died in 1960 at the age of 76. The Imperial War Museum, which owns the propaganda film, says the question of identification is 'officially open' and has declined to comment on the competing claims. Mr Nufer has identified more than 200 criminals from examining CCTV footage of crime scenes. He is part of a team of Met 'super-recognisers' who have been picked out as exceptionally talented at spotting people and matching up identifications. The specialist officers are often used to provide the initial breakthrough in a case, which will then be investigated using conventional means to corroborate the identification of the suspect. The Battle of the Somme was shown around Britain just four weeks after it was filmed on the battlefield. It was a huge success, and 20million people had flocked to cinemas to see the footage just six weeks after it was released. A single film would not reach so many viewers again until Star Wars in 1977. Photographs and descriptions of life on the front had been available previously, but this was the first time a moving picture of modern warfare was widely shown. Many audience members would never have seen a film before. At first was feared that the graphic depiction of war might damage morale, but instead the images of brave British soldiers struggling on the front line brought about a huge swell of support. A newspaper report at the time said: 'Crowded audiences ... were interested and thrilled to have the realities of war brought so vividly before them, and if women had sometimes to shut their eyes to escape for a moment from the tragedy of the toll of battle which the film presents, opinion seems to be general that it was wise that the people at home should have this glimpse of what our soldiers are doing and daring and suffering in Picardy.'	Soldier caught on camera in the Somme in 1916 has never been identified . Last week it was claimed that his name was Pte Frederick Darkes . But PC Dale Nufer says it is not possible that the two men are the same . The constable - who is an expert in identifying people using photographs - says it is more likely to be Pte George Edwin Raine, a former miner .
Keywords: <keyword>WOODS YOUNGEST</keyword>, <keyword>WIN GOLF</keyword>, <keyword>SUPERSTAR TIGER</keyword>, <keyword>BARCLAYS TOURNAMENT</keyword>, <keyword>PLAYOFFS FEDEX</keyword>, <keyword>GOING DIVORCE</keyword>, <keyword>NORDEGREN TOLD</keyword>, <keyword>BEST POSSIBILITY</keyword>, <keyword>BEST SAD</keyword>, <keyword>ACKNOWLEDGING ACTIONS</keyword> (CNN) -- Golf superstar Tiger Woods said Wednesday that he wishes ex-wife Elin Nordegren "the best in everything" after their divorce, acknowledging that "My actions led us to this decision." "I've made a lot of errors in my life, and that's something I'm going to have to live with," Woods said in Paramus, New Jersey, where he was practicing for The Barclays tournament, this weekend's first round of playoffs for the FedEx Cup. Woods and Nordegren were officially divorced Monday, nine months after a Thanksgiving-weekend incident outside the couple's home in Florida. It set in motion the crash of the golfer's once tightly controlled image, ultimately leading to his admission that he had engaged in multiple extramarital affairs during his nearly six-year marriage. "I wish her the best in everything. It was a sad time in our lives," he said. But he added they were looking at how they could help their two young children, Sam and Charlie, "the best we possibility can." Under their settlement, Woods and Nordegren will share custody of their children. Woods was the youngest player to win all four of golf's major tournaments in 2000. But the 34-year-old has struggled since returning to the sport he has dominated for more than a decade. He said Wednesday that going through the divorce was "a lot more difficult than I was letting on." Nordegren, meanwhile, has told People magazine that she was blindsided by the breakup. In an interview scheduled for publication this week, she said, "The word 'betrayal' isn't strong enough." "I've been through hell," she said. "It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden -- was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me." Nordegren told the magazine that she is working on a psychology degree and that the interview will be her last. People is owned by Time Warner, the parent company of CNN.	Woods: "I've made a lot of errors in my life" The divorce follows November accident, infidelity revelations . Woods says proceedings were "a lot more difficult than I was letting on"
Keywords: <keyword>BATH ALLEGEDLY</keyword>, <keyword>CHILD PORNOGRAPHY</keyword>, <keyword>COLLECTORS PROSECUTED</keyword>, <keyword>ABUSE CIRCULATING</keyword>, <keyword>ESCAPE CASTLE</keyword>, <keyword>JUDGE SENTENCED</keyword>, <keyword>AUTHOR SECRET</keyword>, <keyword>INTERNET ATTORNEY</keyword>, <keyword>LIBRARY PORTLAND</keyword>, <keyword>INCLUDED IMAGES</keyword> (CNN) -- A federal judge sentenced children's author K.P. Bath to six years in prison Thursday for possessing child pornography. Investigators found a large collection of pornographic photographs and video clips in the Portland, Oregon, home of the author of "The Secret of Castle Cant" and "Escape from Castle Cant," according to a statement federal prosecutors released Thursday. "Many of the videos graphically depicted the sexual abuse of very young children," the statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Oregon said. Bath, 51, pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing child pornography. "It is shocking that a children's author would contribute to the trauma these kids endure -- both physical and emotional trauma from the sexual abuse itself, and psychological trauma from knowing that images of that abuse are circulating on the Internet," U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton said in a statement. Bath's collection included images depicting sadistic conduct, rape, sodomy and bestiality, prosecutors said. Prosecutors also allege that an investigation revealed that Bath had traded images of child pornography with at least two different collectors in Washington and Ohio. Those collectors were prosecuted, but charges against Bath for allegedly transporting, distributing and receiving child pornography were dropped as part of a plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Bath volunteered at the Beverly Cleary Children's Library in Portland and worked at The Asian Reporter newspaper, according to a 2004 University of Alabama news release describing an alumni reading series. Bath had a master's degree from the university and had worked as a field hand, factory laborer, musician, editor and teacher, the news release said. CNN's Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to this report.	Federal judge sentences author K.P. Bath . Investigators found large collection of pornographic photos and videos in his home . Many videos "graphically depicted" sexual abuse of young children, prosecutors say . Bath wrote "The Secret of Castle Cant" and "Escape from Castle Cant"
Keywords: <keyword>GANDHI AUCTION</keyword>, <keyword>GANDHI POCKETWATCH</keyword>, <keyword>WATCHES GLASSES</keyword>, <keyword>INDIA INDEPENDENCE</keyword>, <keyword>ARTIFACTS FREEDOM</keyword>, <keyword>METAL RIMMED</keyword>, <keyword>ITEMS ESTIMATED</keyword>, <keyword>ANTIQUORUM SPECIALIZES</keyword>, <keyword>OPTIONS DISCLOSE</keyword>, <keyword>YORK OFFICIAL</keyword> (CNN) -- India is trying to reclaim the famous metal-rimmed glasses and some other artifacts from freedom leader Mahatma Gandhi that are up for auction next week in New York, a top official said Saturday. Mahatma Gandhi was known for his peaceful opposition to tyranny, which led to India's independence. "The government will be doing whatever is required to get them back," India's culture ministry secretary Jawhar Sircar told CNN. He said there were "several options" in place for India. When asked whether India planned any indirect participation in the bidding reportedly scheduled next week at the Antiquorum auction house on New York's Madison Avenue, he said it is one of the "speculative" options. "I can't disclose what (exactly) those options are. But we are doing something," Sircar remarked. The glasses are scheduled to be auctioned off along with Gandhi's pocketwatch, sandals, bowl, and plate with letters of authenticity, according to the Web site for Antiquorum, which specializes in watches. The glasses and other items are estimated to sell for as much as $30,000, the Web site said. CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report.	Auction scheduled to take place in New York . Glasses and other items estimated to sell for as much as $30,000 . Indian official: India has "several options" Gandhi's pocketwatch, sandals, bowl, and plate among items on auction .
Keywords: <keyword>OBAMA ANCESTOR</keyword>, <keyword>BLACK FATHER</keyword>, <keyword>FACT AFRICANS</keyword>, <keyword>PROVE BORN</keyword>, <keyword>ESCAPED VIRGINIA</keyword>, <keyword>DIFFERENCE PUNCH</keyword>, <keyword>GRANT JOHN</keyword>, <keyword>1827 TRANSCRIPT</keyword>, <keyword>SLAVE FILE</keyword>, <keyword>UNABLE PINPOINT</keyword> By . Daily Mail Reporter . President Obama is descended from America's first black slave on his white mother's side, genealogists have claimed. DNA analysis and marriage and property records have suggested that Obama is the 11th great-grandchild of John Punch, the first black slave living in colonial Virginia nearly four centuries ago. While it was known that Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, had European ancestors, researchers discovered she also had at least this one African American forebear. The discovery sheds further light on the American biography of Obama, who last year released his birth certificate to prove he was born in the country and not Kenya, from where his black father hails. Discovery: Ancestry.com has found Obama is descended from America's first black slave on the side of his mother, Ann Dunham, pictured with Obama as a child. He is the slave's 11th great grandson . The team from Ancestry.com said they lacked definitive proof, but that evidence 'strongly suggests' the tie, which two independent genealogists told the New York Times was 'sound'. John Punch's story stretches back to the mid-1600s; he was working as a servant when he escaped Virginia for Maryland in 1640, the Times reported. Once there, he was captured and put on trial with two white servants who had also escaped, but he received the severest punishment and was condemned to servitude for life. The sentence, which came years before Virginia set laws condoning slavery, has led historians to regard him as America's first legally sanctioned slave. Family tree: The chart shows the line from Punch to Obama. The name changed to 'Bunch' after Punch had children with a white woman, who passed on her free status to them and changed their name . University of Maryland professor Ira Berlin said that historians . are unable to pinpoint an exact date the slave . trade began, but servants were bought and sold in the region from 1617. Without the specific date, historians deem Punch to be one of the first certain slaves, he added. Over two years, Ancestry.com used marriage and property records to trace Obama's mother's ancestors back to the time and place where Punch lived. Records . also showed he fathered children with a white woman, who passed on her . free status to them and gave them a slightly different name - Bunch. This name is in Dunham's family tree. As the Bunches married, they became prominent landowners in Virginia and were known as white, according to Ancestry.com. The . team traced two Bunch family branches - one that stayed in Virginia and . one that moved to the Carolinas. In Virginia, they were known as white, . in North Carolina they were recorded as 'mulatto'. Home: A map of early Virginia drawn between 1677 and 1793 shows where the first Bunches owned land . 'Proof': Left, a land grant for John Bunch I in 1662 shows he was at least 21, making him the right age to be father of John Punch II. Right, a 1827 transcript of 1640 John Punch court record enslaving him for life . Descendants of this mulatto family - another term for mixed race - are the president's cousins, records show. But Obama descends directly from the Virginia family, which moved to Tennessee. His great-great-great-great-grandmother was born there, and her daughter moved to Kansas, where his mother was born in 1942. 'We sort of stumbled across it,' lead researcher Anastasia Harman told the New York Times. 'We were just doing general . research into the president’s family tree, and as we started digging . back in time, we realised that the Bunch family were African-American.' Despite the discovery, investigators can't be 100 per cent sure of the connection as many records have been destroyed. But . the similarities of the surnames, DNA evidence showing today's Bunches have sub-Saharan African heritage and the fact that only a few Africans lived . in Virginia in the 1600s confirmed the connection. Descendants: Obama is pictured with his mother, her father Stanley Dunham and his half-sister Maya Soetoro in the early 1970s . Family: Obama is pictured with his step-father Lolo Soetoro, his half sister and his mother in the 1960s . Future president: Obama is pictured in the 1960s with his father, Barack Obama Sr, who was from Kenya . 'The odds, based on what does actually . survive, strongly suggest that President Barack Obama is a descendant . (he would be the 11th great-grandson) of the first enslaved African in . America,' Harman and her team wrote in their research paper. Two independent genealogists agreed that the research was 'sound' and 'safe', adding that the difference . of the 'P' and 'B' of Punch and Bunch were 'meaningless'. Bunch descendants also provided a DNA swab to help with the project, and researchers found the DNA profile was common in Cameroon. 'I consider myself Caucasian, but I find that my mixed-race roots go way back,' Mark Bunch, who lives in Othello, Washington, told the Times. While the mixed-race heritage of a woman . deemed Caucasian may seem odd, the Times added that more and more . Americans are discovering they too have ancestors from a different race. Before the slave trade: Obama's ancestor John Punch was condemned to a life of slavery in 1640 for escaping a home where he worked as a servant. The sentence made him America's first slave (file picture) 'It is becoming increasingly common now because people are discovering it,' said Elizabeth Shown Mills, a former president of the American Society of Genealogists, adding the internet has helped. 'In the past, very few records were available. Very few people made the effort to do the research.' President Obama, 50, was born in Hawaii in 1961 soon after his father, from Kenya, and mother split. Last year, he released his long form birth certificate to silence the 'birther' row and prove he was born in Hawaii and not Kenya, making him eligible to be the U.S. president. His father, Barack Obama Sr., went to Harvard University after his birth then returned to Kenya where he remarried before he passed away in 1982. The president's mother, Ann Dunham, died in 1995.	Ancestry.com carried out two-year project into mother's heritage . Property and marriage records suggested his mother was descended from John Punch, who was condemned to life of slavery in 1640 . He had children with white woman who passed on her free status to them and changed their name to 'Bunch' DNA taken from today's white Bunch family suggests Cameroonian roots . Makes Obama 11th great-grandchild of Punch .
Keywords: <keyword>ELIZABETH 1588</keyword>, <keyword>MONARCH ILLEGITIMATE</keyword>, <keyword>TUDOR SUCCESSION</keyword>, <keyword>ILLEGITIMATE RIGHTS</keyword>, <keyword>CHILDREN THRONE</keyword>, <keyword>HENRY ACKNOWLEDGED</keyword>, <keyword>CONSEQUENCES ENGLISH</keyword>, <keyword>TAILBOYS LATER</keyword>, <keyword>BLOUNT RIGHT</keyword>, <keyword>NORTON EXAMINED</keyword> King Henry VIII had a secret daughter who should have taken the throne before Elizabeth I, new research has revealed. Elizabeth Tailboys was the Tudor monarch's illegitimate lovechild who would have changed the course of English history had the King acknowledged her as his at the time. By rights she should have taken the throne on the death of Queen Mary in 1558, making her the true Elizabeth I and not Elizabeth, the daughter of Anne Boleyn. Illegitimate: By rights Elizabeth Tailboys, daughter of Bessie Blount, right should have been Queen instead of Elizabeth I . The decision would have had far reaching consequences for English history and the succession of every monarch since. For example, England may have been invaded by the Spanish Armada which was actually seen off by the English fleet inspired by the real Elizabeth I in 1588. The country could also have become embroiled in religious turmoil as Elizabeth I was credited with religous settlement by founding the Church of England. And with Elizabeth Tailboys' own children on the throne instead of James I and Charles I, the country may have avoided Civil War, and the rule of Parliamentarians. The revelation has been unearthed by . historian Elizabeth Norton who has re-examined royal records as part of . an investigation into the life of Henry VIII's famous mistress Bessie . Blount. Mrs Norton . discovered Elizabeth Tailboy's was not the daughter of Bessie's future . husband Gilbert Tailboys as previously thought, but the secret lovechild . of the King. A picture of Henry VIII's lock for his private apartments - he is said to have taken it everywhere and kept the key to himself . Mrs . Norton found Elizabeth was born between April and June 1520, a year . after her brother Henry, who was acknowledged as the King's. Both . children were conceived during a period when Henry VIII lived a few . miles away from Bessie's home and when he was known to visit her . regularly. This was also two years before Bessie married Gilbert Tailboys who later gave Elizabeth his surname. The date of Elizabeth's birth made her younger than Mary I but older than Elizabeth, both of whom were also declared illegitimate by the King when he deemed his marriages to their mothers invalid. However, because he acknowledged them as his, they were included in the Tudor succession after Henry failed to produce further sons. The historian also noted the King paid particular attention to Elizabeth throughout his life, unusually adjudicating on court cases involving her and securing her financial interests. Mrs Norton, an author and historian who studied at Cambridge and Oxford universities, said: 'If Henry had acknowledged her, it could have changed the whole course of British history. 'Bessie Blount is widely known to . have been Henry's mistress, and she was already the mother of his . acknowledged son Henry Fitzroy. Elizabeth Tailboys - the lovechild of Henry VIII, pictured left, should have taken the throne after the death of Queen Mary in 1558 making her the true Elizabeth I and not Elizabeth, the daughter of Anne Boleyn, pictured right . 'But I believe the evidence and dates make it likely that he was also the father of her second daughter Elizabeth. 'As . far as we know, she was conceived about three years before she met her . husband Gilbert Tailboys, who would later give her his surname. 'At that time, Henry was staying in the same area as Bessie, within ten miles of her for the whole summer. 'Put simply, we know he was sleeping with her mother. 'In addition to the conception dates, there is also legal evidence that Henry took a personal interest in Bessie and Elizabeth's affairs. 'It would have been very odd for a King to take such an interest in a girl with a relatively minor title otherwise. 'It's highly probably that she was the King's child, but because she was a girl she was of little significance to him - he had no reason to acknowledge her as he did her brother. 'If he had acknowledged her, he would have had to consider her in the succession along with his two other illegitimate daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. 'That would result in further problems for Henry. 'To include two 'illegitimate' daughters in the succession but not a third would suggest that some of his illegitimate daughers were perhaps less illegitimate than others - a political point the King had no wish to make.' Bessie also had a third child, George Tailboys, born two years after Elizabeth and indisputably fathered by her husband Gilbert. Mrs Norton has now published the startling research in a new book, Bessie Blount; Mistress to Henry VIII, which is available from Amberley Publishing costing £25.	Elizabeth Tailboys would have changed the course of English history had the King acknowledged her as his . Revelation unearthed by a historian who has re-examined royal records into the life of Henry VIII's famous mistress Bessie . Blount .
Keywords: <keyword>2011 ARSENAL</keyword>, <keyword>ARSENAL DRAWS</keyword>, <keyword>PERSIE SCORED</keyword>, <keyword>BEAT MANCHESTER</keyword>, <keyword>UNITED OLD</keyword>, <keyword>AARON RAMSEY</keyword>, <keyword>STRIKER</keyword>, <keyword>RETURN EMIRATES</keyword>, <keyword>STAND FIXTURES</keyword>, <keyword>NET RETURN</keyword> Played: 11 . Man United: 7 . Arsenal: 1 . Draws: 3 . Arsenal versus Manchester United has always been one of the stand-out fixtures in Premier League history – but the Gunners have only won one of the last 11 matches between the clubs. Louis van Gaal will take his injury hit side to the Emirates on Saturday afternoon knowing that his team have recent history on their side. Despite struggling last season, United beat Arsenal 1-0 at Old Trafford and then played out a goalless draw in north London. Aaron Ramsey scored the only goal of the game the last time Arsenal beat Manchester United in 2011 . Arsenal beat Manchester United 1-0 in 2011 - their only win in the last 11 games against United . Danny Welbeck - who is now at Arsenal - scored the last time Manchester United won at the Emirates in 2012 . Former Arsenal striker Robin van Persie scored the winner for United at Old Trafford last season . While in Sir Alex Ferguson’s final season at Old Trafford, Robin van Persie and Patrice Evra scored in a 2-1 win at home while Van Persie also found the net on his return to the Emirates later that season to cancel out a Theo Walcott goal in a 1-1 draw. Arsenal’s last win in the Premier League came back in May 2011 when Aaron Ramsey scored in a 1-0 home win. Of the Arsenal team that day, five are still at the club, including goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, Laurent Koscielny, Walcott, Ramsey and Jack Wilshere. But if Wenger is looking for some comfort then he need look no further than United’s away record, they are yet to win on the road this season and have not picked up three points on their travels since April 5 when they beat Newcastle 4-0. In seasons gone by Arsenal vs Manchester United was a game that would often decide the title, but this year’s contest looks more likely to be the battle for fourth and the final Champions League place. But more immediately, the Gunners will be hoping to end their poor run against United.	Aaron Ramsey scored winner the last time Arsenal beat Man United in 2011 . Manchester United have won seven of the last 11 meetings . Danny Welbeck scored the winner for United the last time they won at the Emirates .
Keywords: <keyword>LOGS WATER</keyword>, <keyword>WALKING WATER</keyword>, <keyword>SOOZ MOON</keyword>, <keyword>HYDRANT BUILDING</keyword>, <keyword>FIR</keyword>, <keyword>ARNOLFINI ARTS</keyword>, <keyword>INSPIRED STEVEN</keyword>, <keyword>TREE REFLECTION</keyword>, <keyword>INSTALLATION BRISTOL</keyword>, <keyword>28 STEPS</keyword> By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 20:40 EST, 3 October 2012 . \| . UPDATED: . 13:42 EST, 4 October 2012 . When firefighters got a call asking them to pump 20,000 litres of water at an art gallery, they may have expected to find a serious case of flooding when they arrived. But the crews were actually needed to help create a work of art which, unusually, required the water to be pumped into the first floor of the building. Now the only way to get about the room at Bristol's Arnolfini arts centre is to walk on pieces of a 150-year-old tree, arranged in the water like stepping stones. Scroll down for video . Walking on water: Sooz Moon, 28, steps from log to log as she visits the installation at Bristol's Arnolfini . Impressive: The installation by artist Matti Braun features some 20,000 tonnes of water and logs from a 150-year-old Douglas fir tree . Reflection: The installation is based on the opening scene of a movie by renowned Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray, which was never released but is thought to have inspired Steven Spielberg's hit E.T. The unusual installation is the central work in an exhibition called Gost Log, by Berlin-born artist Matti Braun. It is based on a movie by renowned Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray entitled The Alien, which was never released but is thought to have inspired Steven Spielberg's hit E.T. The extra weight of the water on the art centre is estimated to be almost 20 tonnes and the building's architects had to be consulted before the project could begin. The logs on the water are remnants of a Douglas fir tree from Gloucestershire's Westonbirt Arboretum, which had to be felled due to an invasive fungus. Preparations: Firefighters from the Avon Fire and Rescue Service fill the exhibition space with water from a nearby hydrant. The building's architects had to be consulted beforehand . Felled: The logs on the water are remnants of a Douglas fir tree from Gloucestershire's Westonbirt Arboretum . Andy Jane, of the Forestry Commission, told the BBC at the time: 'As with all trees that have to be removed as part of the management of Westonbirt's tree collection, this historic Douglas fir won't be wasted. 'Westonbirt's trees go on to become a multitude of things, from woodcraft, tables and flooring to woodchip for the arboretum's paths, but this is the first time we have linked with a major art exhibition. 'We are all excited to see how the installation will look.' Visitors will get the chance to see how the installation looks when the display opens on Saturday. It is due to run until January 6. A series of talks, screenings and events will accompany the exhibition. Necessary: The tree, from Gloucestershire's Westonbirt Arboretum, had to be felled due to an invasive fungus . Timber! The tree comes down at Gloucestershire's Westonbirt Arboretum, ready to play an important role in the art exhibition . VIDEO: And this was the tree that was felled especially!	Project at Bristol's Arnolfini arts centre features 20,000 litres of water . Visitors explore it by walking on logs from a 150-year-old Douglas fir tree . Installation is highlight of German artist Matti Braun's Gost Log exhibition .
Keywords: <keyword>WOUNDED KURDISH</keyword>, <keyword>SYRIA CLOSE</keyword>, <keyword>CRITICAL WOUNDS</keyword>, <keyword>CLINICS WORKING</keyword>, <keyword>MILITANTS BUFFER</keyword>, <keyword>BURNER BLOOD</keyword>, <keyword>AIR STRIKES</keyword>, <keyword>ARIF HELPS</keyword>, <keyword>SURVIVAL MOBILE</keyword>, <keyword>KOBANE BELIEVE</keyword> Like much of this battered Syrian Kurdish border town on the front lines in the battle against the Islamic State group, most of its hospitals and clinics now lie in ruins. Only one is still working - but its location is kept secret for fear it could be targeted by the militants. Inside the tiny field clinic, saving lives and dealing with horrifying wounds of war comes first, and concerns such as keeping operating rooms sterile and cleaning up after surgery are on the back burner. Blood is splattered across most of the beds and floors, and a small team of only three doctors and five nurses are providing the only remaining medical services in the town. They are sometimes forced to operate by torchlight since power generators regularly fail. Scroll down for video . Dr Mohammed Arif helps to deal with a wounded patient at a field hospital in Kobane, Syria. Like much of this besieged Syrian border town, most of its medical clinics are now in ruins. Only one still stands. Tts location a secret for fear it will be targeted . A small team of three doctors and five nurses work at this aid station, treating the flood of Kurdish and Free Syrian Army fighters who are holding the Islamic State militants at bay . Lucky escape: A Kurdish fighter receives medical attention for a bullet that grazed his temple. Right, a Kurdish YPG commander stands in the rubble in Kobane. The scene of intense fighting with Islamic State militants . They treat a seemingly unending flood of wounded Kurdish fighters and members of the Free Syrian Army, just yards away from the front lines. The Spartan clinic only has the very basic equipment and regularly runs out of supplies. Those with more critical wounds must make a mad dash for the border with Turkey, and wait there for a transport to a better hospital in the neighboring country. But losing precious time in the perilous journey often diminishes their chances for survival. 'If we had a mobile operating unit, we wouldn't have to leave our wounded at the Turkish border to wait for six or 10 hours where they sometimes die,' said Mohammed Aref, a doctor at the Kobane clinic. Terror: A young Kurdish YPG fighter braves sniper fire in the debris-strewn contested zone in Kobane. The fighting has dragged on for months . Hellish: Kobane was once an ordinary town of 50,000 people. It is now the scene of some of the fiercest urban warfare in Syria's civil war . Incongruous: A cheery bright red heart on a mug offers a stark contrast to the war-blasted buildings and sounds of gunfire across Kobane . Male and female Kurds from across the region - and indeed all over the world - have flocked to the town to fight ISIS . A jury-rigged 10ft sniper rifle used by ISIS in Kobane. Many believe the militant group are finally being driven back . An exclusive report shot by videojournalist Jake Simkin inside Kobane late last month offered a rare, in-depth glimpse of the destruction that more than two months of fighting has inflicted on the Kurdish town in northern Syria by the Turkish border. The Kurdish fighters of Kobane, backed by a small number of Iraqi peshmerga forces and Syrian rebels, are locked in what they say is a fight to the end against ISIS, which swept into the town in mid-September. The militants' advance was part of a summer blitz after the Islamic State group overran large parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq. Kobane, which once had a population of about 50,000, has seen some of the fiercest urban warfare in Syria's civil war, now in its fourth year, and has paid a heavy price for battling the Islamic State extremists. Desolation: A ruined shop front hints at what the town was like before it became the site of fierce and prolonged fighting . Remnants of a more civilised time: A gutted police car is among the dozens of destroyed and abandoned vehicles gathering dust in the town . Fearsome: In this November 19 photo, a Kurdish fighter shows the extent of the damage from a truck bomb in Kobane . It's so big that it has to be supported on two tripods and fires ammunition that's three times the size of standard rifle ammo. An Isis terrorist has been photographed aiming a 10-foot long sniper rifle out of a flat window in Kobane. The fearsome weapon fires 23mm calibre bullets, far larger than the standard size. Huge casings from the bullets can be seen on the floor next to the gunman. What sort of effect this gun would have remains open to debate, however, according to firearms expert David Dyson. He told MailOnline: 'The problem with identifying the effect of this gun is firstly that we don't know for sure what the calibre is, although there wouldn't be a lot of point in building something like this if it wasn't of a significant calibre. Secondly, and probably of more importance, we don't know how well it is made: is the barrel accurately machined and rifled? 'The effect will also depend on the type of ammunition used. These rounds exist [23mm] fitted with high explosive incendiary or armour piercing incendiary projectiles.They will be effective against personnel and vehicles including lightly armoured ones.' The picture emerged after a show of force from al Qaeda's Nusra Front, a rival group. Aref and the others at the Kobane clinic say the immobility of their facility slows them down, since they cannot venture far outside and treat the wounded at the scene - as paramedics and mobile doctors elsewhere do in combat situations. Still, Aref is dedicated to saving Kobane's wounded as best he can and dreams of someday rebuilding the town clinics and working in a safe operating theater. Helped by more than 270 airstrikes from a U.S.-led coalition and an American airdrop of weapons, the fighters in Kobane have succeeded in halting the militants' advance and believe that a corner has been turned. But the fight against the Islamic State is not slowing down. 'We know that the number (of wounded) will increase and more injured will come so we have to be ready,' said Aref. 'The most important thing for us is having an operating room.' Determined: Pervin is part of a team holding an eastern front-line position that comes under regular attack from the extremist fighters . Fighting family: Pervin Kobani, who's fighting Isis in Kobane, hugs her father, who's doing the same . The Kurds' defence of Kobane (pictured) has been aided by Coalition air strikes . Desperate: families take shelter from fighting between Kurdish fighters and Islamic State militants on in the buffer zone in Kobane, Syria, close to the Turkish border . In a previous report Simkin spoke to a teenage girl who's fighting Isis in Kobane with her father. Pervin Kobani is part of a team holding an eastern front-line position that comes under regular attack from the extremist fighters. Three weeks ago, Pervin bumped into her father on a street corner. She was surprised to see him holding a gun. She didn't know that he too had decided to fight. Her mother is a refugee in Turkey, her only brother studying in Algeria. 'Honestly when I heard my father is fighting on the western front with the YPG I was so proud of him, and it made me want to fight more,' she said.	The clinic is the only one left standing in the war-ravaged town that has become a symbol for Syrian civil war . The walls are splattered with blood as the small team of medics barely have time to clean and sterilise . Doctors are sometimes forced to operate by torchlight since power generators regularly fail .
Keywords: <keyword>AFRICAN TORTOISE</keyword>, <keyword>SAMSON TRAVELED</keyword>, <keyword>REUNITED PLUMBS</keyword>, <keyword>REPTILE SPENT</keyword>, <keyword>SULCATA IMMEDIATELY</keyword>, <keyword>LIVED LAM</keyword>, <keyword>BABIES HATCHED</keyword>, <keyword>MARICOPA ADOPTED</keyword>, <keyword>ANIMAL FARM</keyword>, <keyword>NEWS MISSING</keyword> By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 01:57 EST, 14 January 2014 . \| . UPDATED: . 01:58 EST, 14 January 2014 . Happy reunion: Mary Plumb was recently reunited with her family's 100-pound African-spurred tortoise after it traveled 30 miles away and lived on the lam for a full year . An Arizona family has finally been reunited with their giant African tortoise after it wandered 30 miles from home and lived a year on the lam. The sulcata, or African-spurred tortoise, named Samson took off from an exotic animal farm owned by George and Mary Plumb in November 2012. After traveling 30 miles in about six months, the 100-pound reptile spent another half year with a foster owner before an online ad and a microchip implant recently helped the Plumbs get him back. According to Mary Plumb, Samson’s saga began when someone caring for him and the dozens of other animals her family keeps near Casa Grande left a gate open. Plumb believes Samson first sauntered over to a nearby alfalfa farm before making his 6-month, 30-mile trek to Maricopa, where he was adopted by Intel engineer and amateur herpetologist Jonathan Grove. Sulcatas are herbivores and originally come from the hot, dry grasslands south of the Sahara Desert in Africa. They can live up to 200 years. While known for their friendly and gentle natures, they can grow up to 3 feet long and tip the scale at 150 pounds. After another six months, Grove renewed his search for Samson’s—who he’d renamed Eddie—owners. Run for it: Samson escaped from an open gate on the Plumb's exotic animal farm in November 2012 . Living on the edge: Samson first traveled 30 miles from home before being taken in by a foster owner. Six months later, he would finally be reunited with the Plumbs . African spurred tortoises live in sub Saharan African grasslands. They are herbivores that live largely on grasses. The reptiles can measure up to 36 inches long and weigh 240 pounds. They are the thrid largest tortoises in the world and can live over 100 years. ‘I went all over Hidden Valley handing out fliers, (but) basically all the people who called couldn't describe Eddie,’ Grove said. ‘Eddie's shell was so perfect that he was probably worth a lot of money. I really didn't want somebody to come and flip him and put him on Craigslist.’ Meanwhile, the Maricopa Monitor posts Eddie as ‘pet of the week’ in the middle of November. It turns out Grove's hunt was a little off. Just west of Casa Grande, news of a missing tortoise rings alarm bells for George and Mary Plumb. They can't find their tortoise anywhere. ‘We kind of gave up on the big male,’ George said. ‘I assumed someone picked him up. We didn't worry too much because he was microchipped.’ George drove to Maricopa to inspect Eddie, and the big sulcata immediately responded to his voice. The microchip embedded in the animal's skin confirmed Eddie was actually Samson. So, how does a tortoise wander 30-some miles in six months? ‘They are very big explorers, especially the males,’ Mary said. The four tortoises at her home like to burrow under fences. A lovely time had by all: Samson not only rejoined the plumbs, but also his lifelong pal Goliath . 'They are an instant love¿: Mary Plumb hopes to will the long-lived pets to her grandchildren one day . The Plumb family owns a menagerie of animals on their property just west of Casa Grande. Neighborhood kids and children from churches and schools come to see the animals, more than 73 in all. In addition to the tortoises, the Plumbs own a wide array of peacocks, guinea hens, chickens and snakes. But the male tortoises are special. George rescued one 19 years ago from a busy road, effectively launching his turtle obsession. The large land-crawlers even have mates. In August, 12 babies hatched from eggs burrowed in the ground. The couple intends to give the hatchlings to their future grandchildren. They don't even have grandchildren yet, but their four teenage boys know what's expected down the road. But Mary’s not too worried they'll stray from the family tradition. ‘They are an instant love,’ she said.	A sulcata, or African spurred tortoise, went missing from an Arizona farm in November 2012 . The 100-pound reptile named Samson traveled 30 miles, where a foster owner took him in . After a year, George and Mary Plumb were reunited with their wayward reptile thanks to an online ad and a microchip .
Keywords: <keyword>SUDAN BORN</keyword>, <keyword>MADING MAKER</keyword>, <keyword>CHILDHOOD EXILED</keyword>, <keyword>FATHER JIGGED</keyword>, <keyword>WAR RAVAGED</keyword>, <keyword>HUMAN HERO</keyword>, <keyword>CHASING RUNNING</keyword>, <keyword>EMOTIONAL LIMITS</keyword>, <keyword>SAID 30</keyword>, <keyword>SAFETY BORDER</keyword> (CNN) -- He was dubbed the "man without a country" who found he was at home running in one of athletics' toughest events. Guor Mading Maker's story makes most sporting tales of triumph over adversity look like a walk in the park. Robbed of a childhood, exiled from his parents and then his country, the marathon runner was pushed to the emotional limits during his upbringing in war-ravaged Sudan. "I was born in a war -- a civil war," Mading Maker told CNN's Human to Hero series. "So there's no such thing as childhood. "I don't really like to talk about it ... but simply, my family sent me to go and live with my uncle in northern Sudan. It took me three years to get to him." The 30-year-old can be forgiven for not wanting to dwell on some of the horrors that Sudan's second civil war inflicted. An estimated two million lives were lost between 1983 and 2005, with 28 of his family including eight of his 10 siblings, perishing during the conflict. It was against this bloody backdrop that a nine-year-old Mading Maker set off on foot on a marathon journey north in search of safety in 1993. Journey into the unknown . He was one of Sudan's "Lost Boys" -- an itinerant band of around 20,000 youngsters, mostly male, who were displaced during the war. They sought refuge in cities in the north or in refugee camps in neighboring countries, but many became entangled in the conflict. Mading Maker was no exception, being made to work for a dollar a day by Sudanese soldiers as well as enduring kidnap by herdsmen. "They were not going to let us go back ... they might go and kill us or do whatever they want with us," he recalled of his capture and subsequent escape alongside another boy. "When the sun came up, we started running. And we walk, we ran, we walk, we ran." After finally being united with his uncle, the pair sought safety across the border in Egypt before both were granted asylum by the U.S. in 2001. They settled in Concord, New Hampshire where Mading Maker was encouraged by his new gym teacher to take up running, though initially he was reluctant. "I told him: 'You know what? Running is not my thing. I'm not going to run because I already ran in Africa so I ran for my life... so unless someone is chasing me, that's when I would take running. "Otherwise, no way' and he was kind of 'No, you can, you can. You look like you could be a good runner.'" Two months later, he was on the school team. "In my junior year in high school I won ...and in my senior year in high school I won the national indoor (two-mile title). That pretty much opened the door to college." That performance and others outdoors earned him a scholarship to Iowa State University where he cemented his status as a promising young athlete. Marathon man . While Mading Maker began making great strides in the U.S. back in his homeland things were also looking up. A peace agreement signed between north and south Sudan in January 2005 would eventually lead to full independence for South Sudan six years later. The date, July 9 2011, is etched into Mading Maker's memory -- he had recently graduated from Iowa with a degree in chemistry and was setting off for a new life in Flagstaff, Arizona. "I put my South Sudan flag on the front of my car and pretty much drove 22 hours from Ames, Iowa to Flagstaff celebrating." The move west also signaled a change in direction for his fledgling athletic career as he made the switch from track to tarmac. "There were no (short-distance) races available. The only opportunity was a marathon. I got into the Twin Cities Marathon (in Minnesota)." He was a natural, coming home in two hours 14 minutes 32 seconds -- a time that comfortably met the qualification standard for London Olympics the following year. But there was a problem. He had no country to run for -- South Sudan was not a member of International Olympic Committee (IOC) and he had yet to be granted U.S. citizenship. At the last minute, the IOC granted Mading Maker permission to compete as an independent athlete -- a first in Olympic history. There wasn't a Hollywood ending to this real-life fairytale -- he finished down in 47th place -- but as he ran around the streets of London in his black and grey IOA (Independent Olympic Athlete) kit he transmitted a powerful message to millions of disenfranchised people around the world. "It was very important for all the refugees around the world, and others who are (feeling) hopeless about the future to (say) 'I was just like you before but here I am now with the help of people,'" he said. "'And with you working hard, you are going to achieve whatever you want to achieve.'" Return to homeland . The following summer was even more momentous for Mading Maker as he returned to South Sudan to visit his parents for the first time in two decades. "It was just overwhelming. I was very fortunate to be able to see them again. I was praying hard to find them alive," he said of the trip organized by the United Nations Refugee Agency in June 2013. The reunion proved equally emotional for his parents. His mother collapsed at his feet in tears while his father jigged around singing songs before telling everyone his son's running talent was down to him -- he claims to have chased and killed giraffes in his youth. Mading Maker had previously used his uncle's surname (Marial) when he moved to the U.S. but reverted to his father's name (Mading Maker Deng) when he was sworn in as a U.S. citizen. And it's his country of birth that remains at the forefront of his thoughts now. "I want to do something for the community and the South Sudanese people, especially for the youth. It's my goal to make sure they make the 2015 World Championships and 2016 Olympics if possible," said the 30-year-old athlete. "I hope to continue what I'm doing right now, to be able to show the South Sudanese youth and the country that there's a way. "Instead of being in a war, there's a way we can unite. We can be together, we can be happy by doing something that's positive." Read more: Can skateboarding be considered an art form?	South Sudanese refugee recalls emotional journey from war child to Olympic athlete . Guor Mading Maker was one of 20,000 "Lost Boys" who were displaced during Sudan civil war . Granted asylum in U.S. Mading Maker revealed talent for distance running . Ran 2012 Olympic marathon as an independent athlete .
Keywords: <keyword>EUROZONE LEADERS</keyword>, <keyword>GREECE CRASHING</keyword>, <keyword>MERKEL SAID</keyword>, <keyword>CURRENCY PRIME</keyword>, <keyword>TSIPRAS BORIS</keyword>, <keyword>JOHNSON SAID</keyword>, <keyword>AUSTERITY SUGGESTED</keyword>, <keyword>HUGE CONTAGIOUS</keyword>, <keyword>EXTEND BAILOUT</keyword>, <keyword>AGREE SHELL</keyword> The eurozone will unravel unless its leaders agree to 'shell out' to Greece, Boris Johnson said last night. The London Mayor, speaking during a tour of the US, risked undermining efforts to persuade Athens to make concessions – insisting it was in a 'strong position'. 'They will shell out in one way or the other,' Mr Johnson said of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other eurozone leaders. 'Everybody in power in Europe basically reckons … they have got to try and keep this thing together so I think they will try to do a deal with [Greek prime minister] Tsipras.' Boris Johnson said the eurozone will unravel unless its leaders agree to 'shell out' to Greece, pictured giving a speech in New York . He also predicted to Bloomberg TV that there would be 'a huge amount of fudge all over the floor'. Mr Johnson joined David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne in urging an end to the 'stand-off' between Athens and the eurozone leaders, warning of the 'huge contagious impact' of Greece crashing out of the single currency. The Prime Minister used his first meeting with Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras in Brussels to urge him to reach a compromise over demands that the conditions of his country's vast bailout are torn up, ending years of austerity. He also suggested eurozone leaders should give some ground. Syriza, the most Left-wing party ever to take power in Europe, is threatening to turn to Russia for help if the eurozone cuts it adrift. Mr Cameron said: 'The British economy is growing but we are affected by the situation on the European continent and the longer this stand-off goes on the worse potentially that could be for Britain.' The Prime Minister used his first meeting with Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras in Brussels to urge him to reach a compromise over demands . German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has sent shockwaves through Europe by declaring that if Athens does not sign up to continue its aid and austerity programme 'then that's it'. The European Central Bank is upping pressure on Greece to extend its bailout deal when its current one expires at the end of this month, or risk a bank collapse. Mr Tsipras insists he has no intention of extending the €240billion EU/IMF package. Yesterday, ECB officials were said to be discussing how long they could continue to keep Greek banks afloat. Mrs Merkel said: 'Europe always aims to find a compromise, and that is the success of Europe. Germany is ready for that. 'However, it must also be said that Europe's credibility naturally depends on us respecting rules and being reliable with each other.'	Boris said eurozone will unravel unless leaders 'shell out' to Greece . London Mayor urged end to 'stand-off' between Athens and Europe . He warned of 'contagious impact' of Greece crashing out of single currency . David Cameron urged Greek PM Alexis Tsipras to reach a compromise .
Keywords: <keyword>KIDNEY DONOR</keyword>, <keyword>MRS CARVER</keyword>, <keyword>ILLNESS DEVON</keyword>, <keyword>DIABETES TODDLER</keyword>, <keyword>FEET AMPUTATED</keyword>, <keyword>MOTHER NEEDS</keyword>, <keyword>HOPE BILLBOARDS</keyword>, <keyword>CARTER ABLE</keyword>, <keyword>DOUBLE</keyword>, <keyword>REPLACE REJECTED</keyword> By . Sara Malm . PUBLISHED: . 12:19 EST, 12 February 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 12:19 EST, 12 February 2013 . A gravely ill mother has put up billboards across Tampa Bay, Florida in a desperate attempt to find a kidney donor. Devon Carver, 34, has type 1 diabetes and has been suffering from complete kidney failure since 2010. After a double organ transplant of her kidney and pancreas in September proved unsuccessful, the Lithia mother-of-one now urgently needs to find a living donor to replace the rejected kidney. Saving grace: Thanks to a generous donation, Devon Carter has been able to put up digital billboards near Tampa Bay highways asking for a kidney . Desperate: After two rejected transplants since her kidney failure of 2010, Mrs Carver now urgently needs a new one . Last week Mrs Carver had all her toes and parts of her feet amputated and is currently spending 12 hours at night on complete dialysis in her home. Thanks to an anonymous donator Mrs Carver now appear on billboards along Tampa Bay highways hugging her 12-year-old son David captioned ‘Local mother needs living kidney donor’. Mrs Carver has been living with diabetes since she was a toddler and has had two failed transplants so far. ‘It's like every time you think you've conquered something or you're somewhere where you need to be. Something else happens and you don't know what to do,’ she told 10 News. Highway help: Mrs Carver and her family hope that the billboards will lead to more donations to help pay for medical costs and to finding a new kidney for her . Lifelong illness: Devon Carver, pictured with her husband and son David, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a small child . Operation: Devon Carver, picture with a friend during a fundraiser, recently had all her toes and parts of her feet amputated to save her life . Over 100,000 people in the United States are on the waiting list for an organ. More than 30,000 operations are carried out each year but despite an increase in donations in recent years, it cannot keep up with the demand. Every day 18 Americans die waiting for an organ. Under current legislation an organ donation can only be carried out with the consent of the donator or immediate family. Mrs Carver hopes that the billboards will attract a matching organ donor and financial aid for her treatments. She estimates that $20,000 alone is needed for her foot prosthetics. ‘We need so much more than what we have. So much more than what we have. And we will take anything we can,’ she said. Unfortunately, even if a donor was to step forward today, Mrs Carver will have to wait a further three months on full dialysis until she has made full recovery from the operations to her feet. To find out more about how you can help, visit savedevon.com.	Mother-of-one has put up billboards in order to find a suitable organ donor . Devon Carver has complete kidney failure as a result of diabetes type 1 . Two transplants have failed and she urgently needs a new kidney .
Keywords: <keyword>1989 TIANANMEN</keyword>, <keyword>BEIJING FACING</keyword>, <keyword>GUANGCHENG AFFAIR</keyword>, <keyword>CHEN STATUS</keyword>, <keyword>KOREA FAILED</keyword>, <keyword>SUPPORT ASSAD</keyword>, <keyword>WASHINGTON APPROACH</keyword>, <keyword>BILATERAL CONFLICT</keyword>, <keyword>APPARENT LEAKS</keyword>, <keyword>HOUSE ARREST</keyword> (CNN) -- Washington and Beijing may be facing the most tense and delicate moment in their bilateral relationship since the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. The reported escape from house arrest of dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng and his apparent flight to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, while not yet officially confirmed, would greatly complicate the Obama administration's efforts to keep relations on an even keel in a year already fraught with bilateral irritants. Both leaderships want stability in the relationship, given the confluence of a U.S. presidential election and the once-in-a-decade leadership transition in Beijing scheduled for this fall. But this desire has been put to the test. There have been tiffs over China's early support for the Assad regime in Syria and North Korea's failed satellite launch and presumed follow-on nuclear test. And there was the bungled attempt by the erstwhile security chief of a senior Chinese Politburo member to seek refuge in a U.S. diplomatic facility on the eve of a visit to Washington by China's putative next leader. And now this. On many levels, the parallels to 1989 are striking. After the June 4 bloody crackdown on student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, another famous Chinese dissident, Fang Lizhi, became a living symbol of the bilateral conflict over human rights by spending a year in the U.S. Embassy before finally being allowed to leave the country. Today's top Chinese leadership, though not yet as deeply divided as its 1989 antecedent, is struggling to maintain unity following the purge of one of its rising Politburo stars for his connections to the security chief's botched flight and lurid allegations of the murder of a British national. Recent apparent leaks and counter-leaks to the Western media detailing leadership infighting underscore the charged political atmosphere in Beijing as party heavyweights jockey for advantage in the wake of the scandal. Another wrinkle now is the absence of a revolutionary-credentialed paramount leader — manifest in the personage of Deng Xiaoping in 1989 — to arbitrate among the competing leadership constituencies. Add to this cauldron the scheduled arrival in Beijing next week of a Cabinet-level U.S. delegation — led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner — for the fourth round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED). If Chen is holed up in the U.S. Embassy, it is hard to fathom how the two sides will stay focused on the many pressing geostrategic and economic challenges in the relationship -- especially as they will undoubtedly face a frenzy among accompanying media over Chen's status. Moreover, the Chinese leadership certainly will view the visit through the prism of another pivotal moment in the Tiananmen drama, the state visit to China of then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which emboldened the demonstrators and deepened divisions among the leadership. Of course a game changer from 1989, and one that seems to constantly surprise the Chinese leadership, is the power of social media and the Internet. Despite a large contingent of foreign media in Beijing to cover Gorbachev's visit in 1989, the regime still was largely able to pull the plug on the world's ability to witness the ensuing massacre in real time. It is learning in recent weeks that such control is virtually impossible now. But this challenge can be a two-way street. If media accounts are accurate that Chen Guangcheng entered the U.S. Embassy on Thursday evening, then U.S. diplomats had less than 24 hours between his arrival and the story's explosion on the Internet. This hardly left sufficient time to seek instructions from Washington and to approach Chinese officials about the possibility of orchestrating a face-saving way to end the potential standoff. The problem is made worse by the likelihood that many in the Chinese elite will assume the United States deliberately leaked the information to embarrass the Chinese government on the eve of the S&ED. The Chinese Communist Party's liberal wing also is trying to exploit the downfall of its Politburo archenemy to revive its long-diminished fortunes and push for a new wave of economic and political change. Their hard-line opponents, however, will see an opportunity in the Chen Guangcheng affair to blunt any reformist tide. Coming on the same day the White House will have tweaked Beijing's neuralgia about Taiwan by advising Congress that it will take a second look at potential sales of new fighter aircraft to the island. The news about Chen completes the circle for those eager to paint the United States as bent on stifling China's rise. In the past, such cries of "hostile foreign forces" meddling in China's internal affairs frequently have taken the wind out of the reformists' sail. Against this backdrop, the stage is set for a sudden increase in bilateral tension. Initially presumed to be largely inconsequential, next week's S&ED meetings may prove the most critical test of U.S.-China relations the Obama administration has faced to date. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Christopher Johnson.	Christopher Johnson: D.C., China face tense moment over dissident's apparent flight to U.S. protection . He says it has echoes of Tiananmen Square era; reflects nations' human rights differences . He says recent tiffs have tested nations' ties; incident comes on eve of U.S.-China talks . Johnson: China's internal conflicts, rise of internet, help make situation fraught .
Keywords: <keyword>DAUGHTER ROSIE</keyword>, <keyword>WORKING MOTHER</keyword>, <keyword>PRESENTER LORRAINE</keyword>, <keyword>DOYENNE BREAKFAST</keyword>, <keyword>TV LIFE</keyword>, <keyword>RUTH</keyword>, <keyword>CAREER MISSED</keyword>, <keyword>SITTING DELAYED</keyword>, <keyword>NORMAL UPBRINGING</keyword>, <keyword>CONSUMED GLASWEGIAN</keyword> By . Ruth Styles . PUBLISHED: . 04:18 EST, 2 September 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 08:14 EST, 2 September 2013 . She's the ultimate safe pair of hands, the calm, cool doyenne of breakfast TV but life hasn't always been as effortless as it might appear for presenter Lorraine Kelly. The 53-year-old has revealed that her incredible success has come at a cost. So consumed was the Glaswegian TV star by her career, she missed out on precious moments with daughter Rosie and says that at times she was 'desperate' to be with her. 'I did suffer terribly from "working mother guilt" especially when Rosie was little,' the mother-of-one told Woman & Home magazine. Lorraine has revealed she felt terrible about leaving her daughter at home while she worked . 'I remember sitting on delayed trains, desperate to be back at home with her. Although I've always turned up for work and never asked for time off. 'The only time I did was when Rosie was two and a half and playing Mary in the school nativity. My radio bosses at the time said I couldn't go but I took it off anyway and have never regretted it.' Although she was able to take the occasional day off, Lorraine spent most of Rosie's early years establishing a hugely successful TV career, that has included stints on TV-am, GMTV, ITV Breakfast and Daybreak. At the same time, Lorraine was also dealing with the aftermath of a devastating miscarriage that saw her rushed to hospital, dangerously ill, when Rosie was just five years old. As a result, she and Rosie, who is now 19 and appears with her mother in the October issue of Woman & Home, share an extraordinarily close bond. Lorraine in action, giving Chancellor George Osborne a grilling on ITV breakfast show, Daybreak . Lorraine, pictured with Rosie, was awarded an OBE during a Holyroodhouse ceremony last year . Read the full interview in the October issue of Woman & Home, out tomorrow . Not that Rosie, like most teenagers, has any qualms about teasing her mother. 'My mum's no domestic goddess – she can't even cook an egg,' she reveals. 'But she is wonderful at cheering me up and being bonkers in the nicest possible way!' 'Her most annoying habit is she . dances around the kitchen with her hips swaying, singing away, not . knowing the correct song lyrics. I have to leave the room!' Despite her lack of cooking and singing skills, Lorraine's dedication to giving Rosie a happy, stable childhood has manifested in other ways, including avoiding red carpet events in order to make sure her daughter's life remained stable. 'I want to give Rosie as "normal" an upbringing as possible, so try to avoid red carpet events and star studded parties,' says Lorraine. 'When she was growing up I was just 'Rosie's Mum'. No one took a second glance at the school gates and that's how it should be.' For more details and the full interview see Woman & Home's October issue, on sale September 3, or womanandhome.com.	The mother-of-one was speaking in an interview with Woman & Home . Revealed she suffered a miscarriage when daughter Rosie was five . Rosie says Lorraine is no 'domestic goddess' but good at cheering her up .
Keywords: <keyword>BOY SENTENCED</keyword>, <keyword>MURDERS TEEN</keyword>, <keyword>AGE SHOT</keyword>, <keyword>CUSTODY 19</keyword>, <keyword>LEE MURDERS</keyword>, <keyword>KILLING 12</keyword>, <keyword>PROSECUTORS SAY</keyword>, <keyword>SHERIFF LARRY</keyword>, <keyword>NORTHEAST TEXAS</keyword>, <keyword>BIOLOGICAL BROTHER</keyword> A 13-year-old Northeast Texas boy has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing his 12-year-old biological brother and their adoptive father. The boy, from Cass County, whose name has not been released because of his age, shot both family members. He pleaded guilty at a January 9 hearing to two counts of capital murder according to Cass County District Attorney Randal Lee. A 13-year-old Northeast Texas boy has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing his 12-year-old biological brother and their adoptive father. The boy, from Cass County, whose name has not been released because of his age, shot both family members at their home (pictured) The case dates back to last summer, and is described by Lee as: 'pretty cold-blooded', and 'right up there with some of the adult murders I've seen', The Longview News-Journal reported. The teen will remain in juvenile custody until he's 19, when he'll be transferred to an adult prison. Cass County Sheriff Larry Rowe said he was satisfied with the guilty plea. However, he added that local law enforcement struggle to understand laws that could allow the boy out of prison much earlier than an adult who committed the same crime. Cass County Sheriff Larry Rowe said he was satisfied with the guilty plea . A plea bargain lowered the sentencing to 25 years from a maximum of 40 years. Members of the teen's family are reportedly on board with the deal and gave victim impact statements at the January 9 hearing. Many in the small town are questioning what an appropriate punishment is for such a horrific crime. 'We don't understand in law enforcement why someone 13 years old can do that and possibly be out of jail by the time they're 30,' Rowe told the Longview News-Journal. The plea bargain was worked out before District Attorney Lee took office on January 1, 2015. Police were first called to the victims' home near Hughes Springs at 10:42 p.m. on June 27, 2014, after a 911 call by the 13-year-old. They found two bodies – 32-year-old Damon Robison, and his adopted 12-year-old son – who were found with gunshot wounds near the kitchen of the property. Police found a semiautomatic pistol at the scene. There were no signs of a break-in and nothing appeared to be missing. The 13-year-old boy was reported to be uninjured. The adoptive mother of the two boys, Donna Robison, their biological grandmother, was away at work at the time of the shooting. Her husband was a mechanic at Pittsburg Tractor. The boys' birth mother is named as Sarah Curto of Naples, Texas. At the time officials were unclear as to what the circumstances were that had led to the shooting. The surviving boy was detained for questioning, but released. He was rearrested on October 1 after police located witnesses who told them that he had admitted to the killings. Immediately after the two murders the teen reportedly tried to manipulate the crime scene by cutting his own arm with a knife and then placing the knife in his adoptive father's hand, said Lee. The teen then told police that Robison attacked him and his brother, and that he shot Robison while defending himself. Prosecutors say the teen had planned to only kill his father, but his brother walked in, and he killed him too. Given the boy's age, Lee found the two murders as disturbing in their calculation and premeditation as anything he had seen in his legal career. 'It’s just horrendous,' he said.	The teen intended to kill his adoptive father, Damon Robison, but also shot his 12-year-old brother who walked in on the crime . In an attempt to cover up the crime he reportedly manipulated the scene, cut himself, and placed a knife in Robison's hand . He claimed that his father had attacked both him and his brother and that he shot Robison in self defense . The teen was arrested on October 1 after police located witnesses that told them he had admitted to the killings . A family-backed plea bargain saw his maximum sentence cut from 40 years to 25 years . He will be incarcerated at a juvenile facility until he is 19, then he will be moved to an adult prison for the remainder of his sentence .
Keywords: <keyword>LANKA CAPTAIN</keyword>, <keyword>ENGLISH CRICKETING</keyword>, <keyword>ENGLAND LOST</keyword>, <keyword>COOK ENDURED</keyword>, <keyword>ENDED BATTING</keyword>, <keyword>INDIA LOOKED</keyword>, <keyword>SANGAKKARA OUTPLAYED</keyword>, <keyword>CAUGHT CLEANLY</keyword>, <keyword>DISMISSING JAMES</keyword>, <keyword>HOSTS ONSLAUGHT</keyword> One of the most tumultuous years in English cricket history ended with another batting collapse and an admission from Alastair Cook that he could have ‘no complaints’ if the selectors sack him as one-day captain. England have lost yet another 50-over series – and they are losing their credibility. The sight of Cook standing his ground as he waited for the third umpire to confirm that Mahela Jayawardene had caught him cleanly at slip felt like a fitting coda to an often hapless tour. It was the desperate act of a captain ill-suited to a form of the game in which England – whose 89-run defeat here condemned them to a 5-2 loss – are in danger of being cast adrift. England's hapless players watch the presentations after the 87-run defeat by Sri Lanka in Colombo . Alastair Cook endured an awful tour with the bat and as captain (he only led England to one win in the series) Kumar Sangakkara waves as he walks off after his last ever one-day international on Sri Lankan soil . Sri Lanka's captain Angelo Mathews holds the series trophy after his side easily beat England . On Saturday, barring a late change of heart, the selectors will name Cook as their leader at next year’s World Cup. And if that is confirmed, the ECB will stand accused of sleep-walking their way to disaster. Cook insisted he retained his appetite for the job, even if he has not been able to produce the runs or the results. ‘We’ll find out in a couple of days’ time whether I will be doing it,’ he said. ‘I think we can surprise people at the World Cup, but we’re going to have to play better than we have here. ‘No one’s got any divine right to play for England at all, and my performances this year in the one-day game haven’t been good enough. I can’t have any complaints if the decision went against me. ‘It’s tough when you lose games of cricket and don’t score runs. But I’m still hungry to do it. Whether the selectors still think I’m the right man, we’ll wait and see.’ The details of this fifth and final defeat of the series do not make happy reading. Sri Lanka racked up 302 for six, thanks to 101 from Tillakaratne Dilshan and a 26-ball 54 from Thisara Perera. Then, with the exception of the excellent Joe Root, England made a predictable meal of their chase. Moeen Ali and Alex Hales fell early to aggressive shots, but Cook’s 32 in 49 deliveries made for painful watching. Almost lbw first ball, he was dropped at slip on one, and nearly bowled off an inside edge five runs later. A slog-sweep for six off Dilruwan Perera was a punchy retort, but Cook then got away with an edge off seamer Suranga Lakmal that flew between keeper and slip. Soon, another edge off Lakmal was snaffled by Jayawardene. Cook didn’t want to go. Of course he didn’t. But as he lingered, awaiting the inevitable judgement of Bruce Oxenford, he looked like the loneliest man in Colombo. Mahela Jayawardene plays a classic cover drive on his way to 28 from 31 deliveries . The veteran batsman gestures to the crowd after being clapped off during his final international in Sri Lanka . Kumar Sangakkara gets on the front foot and whacks one through the legside . Sri Lanka opener Tillekeratne Dilshan gets down on one knee to play his trademark 'Dilscoop' shot . The hosts' captain Angelo Mathews plays a reverse sweep as Sri Lanka head for a big score . Dilshan plays the ball through the offside (left) and salutes his century by pointing to the sky . Dilshan jumps for joy after reaching three figures in Colombo . Dinesh Chandimal hits a six as Sri Lanka pile on the runs in the final 10 overs of their innings . Thisara Perera was also part of the hosts' onslaught at the end, bludgeoning his way to 50 . For all managing director Paul Downton’s talk of the progress England have made this year from the lowest of bases – and in the case of a few players he has a point – they have lost eight of the 11 bilateral series played either partially or completely in 2014. And that doesn’t include the World Twenty20, where they were humiliated by the Netherlands. Only the 3-1 Test win over India can be looked back on with much pride. The rest has been middling to poor – and worse. This performance belonged in the last category. England will reason that they are closer to knowing their World Cup team than they were when they arrived in Sri Lanka: Moeen Ali, James Taylor, Root and Chris Woakes have all enhanced their reputations. But Eoin Morgan, out for four as he pre-meditated a sweep, is sinking fast, Jos Buttler looks tired, and Steven Finn had a quiet tour. Alex Hales has been messed around by the selectors. Moeen Ali is bowled by Dilshan from the first ball he faced in a woeful start by England . Alastair Cook watches as the ball goes through the covers as he tries to get England back on track . England captain Cook wears an anguished expression after being dismissed for 32 . Suranga Lakmal celebrates dismissing James Taylor during another dismal innings for England . Sangakkara successfully appeals for the wicket of Eoin Morgan, who was given out lbw after a review . Jos Buttler skies one on the offside but is caught on the cover boundary . Root top-scored for England, again doing well with the bat in a losing cause . Chris Woakes of England is bowled comprehensively by Dilruwan Perera as his stumps go flying . For Ian Bell and Harry Gurney it may be time to say goodbye, though Ben Stokes is young and talented enough to qualify for an au revoir. This, though, was no way to convince an increasingly sceptical English cricketing public that their team will have a prayer at the World Cup. Sri Lanka, energised by a crowd who were cheering on the final one-day appearances on home soil of Jayawardene and his fellow legend Kumar Sangakkara, outplayed England in every department. The pair even combined to take the last wicket: sentimentally thrown the ball by captain Angelo Mathews, Jayawardene had James Tredwell stumped by his old buddy. These sides will meet again during the World Cup at Wellington, where Sri Lanka will hope to capitalise on an 8-4 winning record against England in one-dayers this year. You wouldn’t bet against them. As Cook said: ‘It’s been a hell of a year.’	England lose one-day international series 5-2 after falling in Colombo . Tillekeratne Dilshan scored a hundred as Sri Lanka posted 302 for six . Joe Root top scorer for England with 80 as they were all out for 215 . Alastair Cook said he 'can’t have any complaints' if dropped as ODI captain . On Saturday, Cook is likely to be named England's World Cup skipper .
Keywords: <keyword>MURDERED MOTHER</keyword>, <keyword>KATHARINE HOOPER</keyword>, <keyword>OVERDOSE FOLLOWING</keyword>, <keyword>ALLEGEDLY SMOTHERED</keyword>, <keyword>RISK TOOK</keyword>, <keyword>AGENCIES ACCUSED</keyword>, <keyword>ASSAULTING FRIDAY</keyword>, <keyword>STATUS VULNERABLE</keyword>, <keyword>JOSHUA LEFT</keyword>, <keyword>CHILDREN FACES</keyword> By . Emine Sinmaz and Paul Bentley . PUBLISHED: . 18:13 EST, 14 July 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 10:31 EST, 15 July 2013 . Welfare agencies were accused last night of failing two young boys murdered by their mother after it emerged they were returned to her care despite her attempting suicide just weeks ago. Katherine Hooper, 24, was described by police as ‘high risk’ after she took an overdose following a furious row with the father of her children, who faces charges of assaulting her. Her sons Joshua, five, and Sam, two, were taken into care while she was monitored in hospital but they were sent back home to the ‘vulnerable and lost’ single mother when she was released two weeks later, friends said. Katherine Hooper, 24, was described by police as ¿high risk¿ after she took an overdose following a furious row with the father of her children, who faces charges of assaulting her . On Friday, she allegedly smothered the younger boy in his bed at their terrace home in Paignton, Devon, before taking his brother to a 100ft cliff on Dartmoor, putting him on her shoulders and leaping off in front of horrified day-trippers . On Friday, she allegedly smothered the younger boy in his bed at their terrace home in Paignton, Devon, before taking his brother to a 100ft cliff on Dartmoor, putting him on her shoulders and leaping off in front of horrified day-trippers. As friends left toys and flowers outside the family’s house, those closest to Miss Hooper said authorities must be held responsible for failing to prevent the tragedy. Janette Nolan, 53, a friend who lives nearby, said: ‘Social services should have been protecting her.‘She was lovely, innocent, caring and kind but seemed vulnerable and lost. I think she was frightened of her future as a single mother.’ Miss Hooper, whose mother died of cancer last year, was awaiting the trial next month of her estranged partner of seven years, 52-year-old Neil Patterson. Miss . Hooper, whose mother died of cancer last year, was awaiting the trial . next month of her estranged partner of seven years, 52-year-old Neil . Patterson . He is accused of attacking her on April 28 at their home. Shortly afterwards she took an overdose of pills before running away. Police launched a helicopter search and public appeal to find her, describing her as a ‘high-risk vulnerable person’, and she was discovered 24 hours later face down in a field suffering from hypothermia. Mr Patterson was subsequently served with a restraining order. Friends suggested Miss Hooper had no control over the family’s finances and was so desperately poor after losing a job as a chambermaid she offered her cat Leon to a neighbour because she could not afford to look after it. Joshua, five, (left) died after falling 100ft from the Dartmoor beauty spot, while a body thought to be that of Sam, two, (right) was found at Mrs Hooper's home in Paignton . The house in Paignton, Devon, where the body of the two-year-old was found . Police stood guard near the spot where the pair tragically plunged to their deaths . Sons: Joshua, five, (left) and Samuel, two, (right) are both believed to have been killed by their mother . Police outside the Paignton home of Katharine Hooper where the body of the two-year-old boy was found . Last night Miss Hooper’s brother Timothy, 31, said: ‘Katherine was a loving mum. ‘We know nothing. That’s probably the hardest part to come to terms with, trying to understand as a family what’s happened.’ Detectives confirmed the family had been known to various welfare agencies and that a serious case review would be started. Miss Hooper had been subject to an ‘intervention’ from the council, NHS and police because of her status as a vulnerable person. Sorry we are unable to accept comments for legal reasons.	Katherine Hooper, 24, was described as ‘high risk’ after she took overdose . It came after row with father of her children, who faces assault charges . Children were taken into care while she was . monitored in hospital . But they were sent back home to ‘vulnerable . and lost’ mother weeks later .
Keywords: <keyword>FLIGHT 1549</keyword>, <keyword>PASSENGERS DOWNED</keyword>, <keyword>LANDED HUDSON</keyword>, <keyword>FRED BERRETTA</keyword>, <keyword>PLANE WORRIED</keyword>, <keyword>WATER CRASH</keyword>, <keyword>CNN PILOT</keyword>, <keyword>SMOKE SUDDEN</keyword>, <keyword>AIRBUS A320</keyword>, <keyword>YORK WATCH</keyword> (CNN) -- Fred Berretta was aboard US Airways Flight 1549 bound for Charlotte, North Carolina, when he heard a loud bang and the plane shook. The New York Fire Department rescued passengers from the downed plane in the Hudson River. "We were still on ascent, and the engine blew out," he said. "The pilot turned around and made a line for the river." Passenger Alberto Panero said that immediately, he smelled smoke. "All of a sudden, the captain came on and said brace for a landing, and that's when we knew we were going down," he said. The Airbus A320, carrying Panero and more than 150 other passengers and crew, crash-landed in the Hudson River on Thursday after taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York. Watch Jeff Kolodjay describe the crash » . A New Jersey State Police source told CNN the pilot radioed to air traffic controllers that he had experienced a bird strike and declared an emergency. "We knew there wasn't a lot of time because we were quite close to the ground, and it felt as though the descent was somewhat rapid," said Berretta, who said he was sitting in seat 16A. Watch Berretta describe the landing » . As the plane headed down toward the river, the cabin was mostly silent, he said. "After he told us prepare for impact, it was pretty evident we were not going to make the runway." At first, it felt like the plane was gliding, Berretta said, as if no engines were working. "People started praying, and there was a lot of silence, and the realization that we were going in was really hard to take in at that moment," he said. As the plane started to go down, some passengers shouted to those in exit rows to be prepared to quickly open the doors. Berretta spent that time contemplating the chances of surviving a water crash. "I think that [it] certainly went through my mind that this probably very much could be it," he said. Then the plane hit the water. Panero said the impact felt like a car crash. Some said that as the plane hit, there were extremely loud noises. "The plane was jockeying about, spinning a bit," Berretta said. "Then all of a sudden, it was 'Get out, get out now,' " Panero said. Jeff Kolodjay was sitting in seat 22A right next to the engine believed to have caused the plane to go down. "The plane started filling with water pretty quick," he said. "It was scary. There was a lady with her baby on my left-hand shoulder, and she was crawling over the seats." Upon impact, passengers left behind their coats and luggage. They grabbed life vests and seat cushions and headed toward the exits. "It seemed like it lasted an eternity," Berretta said. When the plane began to sink, some passengers began to panic, Panero said. Watch Panero describe what he saw and heard » . "But there was a couple of people who kind of took charge and just started yelling to calm down, just to get everybody out," he said. "Once people realized that we were going to be OK, everybody kind of calmed down and just tried to get out of the plane to safety." Passengers began to group themselves on the wings to stay out of the frigid water. When they were safely out of the plane, Berretta said, there was one more moment of fear. "Our raft was tethered to the plane, and we worried we might go down with the plane," he said. "But we were able to get a knife off a rescue boat and cut the tether." More than anything, passengers wanted to thank the crew. As Berretta exited the plane, he said that besides a few passengers remaining, the crew and pilot stayed behind to make sure everyone was out. "I think the pilot, he did a great job," Berretta said. "I think it was as good of a landing as you can make in a river."	NEW: People were praying, telling exit row passengers to get ready to open doors . Plane passengers say pilot told them to "brace for a landing" Jeff Kolodjay: "The plane started filling with water pretty quick" Woman with baby tried to climb over seats to get out .
Keywords: <keyword>SAFETY VIDEO</keyword>, <keyword>ZEALAND FLIGHTS</keyword>, <keyword>ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT</keyword>, <keyword>ISLANDS SCENERY</keyword>, <keyword>PARADISE PRODUCED</keyword>, <keyword>PRAISED AIR</keyword>, <keyword>FILMED COOK</keyword>, <keyword>TUESDAY VIRAL</keyword>, <keyword>RISK EMBRACING</keyword>, <keyword>WATCH HOBBIT</keyword> (CNN) -- Air New Zealand's latest in-flight safety video, released Tuesday, is already another viral hit but is encountering some turbulence over its use of several bikini-clad Sports Illustrated models. View the video here . Previous versions of the video -- starring anything from Hobbits to Bear Grylls to New Zealand's all conquering All Blacks rugby team -- have revolutionized the on-board safety message airlines deliver to passengers. The most recent effort though is being criticized by some as neither ground-breaking nor as creative, after the airline teamed up with Sports Illustrated magazine to produce what it's calling "the world's most beautiful safety video." The "Safety in Paradise" video, which rolls out on Air New Zealand flights at the end of February, is beautifully shot and certainly cheerful and fun. It was filmed in the Cook Islands -- home to several stunning beaches -- and coincides with the 50th anniversary of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit franchise. Earlier videos have been witty, clever and quirky but the paradise video combines a far less subtle use of eye-catching material -- using four of the planet's most beautiful, and scantily clad women, to deliver information to passengers. The models include Ariel Meredith, Chrissy Teigen, Hannah Davis and Jessica Gomes. Christie Brinkley makes a cameo. "It seems that suddenly they are saying that my sexuality is all that matters about me," one critic, Massey University lecturer and feminist commentator Deborah Russell told the Sydney Morning Herald. Social media reaction to the video was predictably mixed, though the majority of commenters on Facebook and Twitter appeared to support the video -- and the women in it. Many praised Air New Zealand for using beautiful women to promote the Cook Islands and complimented the airline on its marketing prowess, given the mass of media attention now being given to the safety video. From the negative corner, while some commented they were appalled Air New Zealand would be so sexist, others said the Sports Illustrated version just isn't all that clever -- a disappointing follow up to the airline's creative safety videos of the past. "No no no no no! What a giant step backwards for the representation of women by NZ," commented Facebook user Claire Jongenelen on Air New Zealand's official page. "I am so embarrassed and disappointed, as a young NZ woman who travels for business and leisure with Air NZ. This isn't the beauty of the Cook Islands. The beauty of the Cook Islands is the scenery and its (truly) beautiful inhabitants. I'm actually a little disgusted." (We've posted several comments from social media at the base of this story) Air New Zealand spokesperson Andrew Aitken refuted those comments. "We have been careful to ensure 'Safety in Paradise' has been produced in a way that is tasteful," he said. The carrier, taking fun seriously, quickly established a reputation for edgy safety videos -- part of the company strategy, Air New Zealand CEO Christopher Luxon told CNN. "We know that we actually get our customers watching and interpreting and internalizing our safety messages, better than I would argue anyone else, because we get their attention with the video ... We've had 12 million people watch our Hobbit safety video on YouTube and you sit there and go, that's quite an incredible thing. But it's another small example of just how we think that we can deliver the table stakes of a great airline but actually do it with a twist and with some personality along the way," Luxon told CNN in an interview recorded late January for CNN's business feature series, Executive Innovator. That interview was conducted before the safety video was released. "We'll have inflight safety videos that people love or people hate. But at the end of the day it's about taking risk and embracing risk intelligently. And that's what we've trying to do across the whole of the business as a result." Previous safety video "episodes" include "Safety Old School Style," featuring Betty White and other octogenarians, "The Bear Essential of Safety," with Bear Grylls and "Mile High Madness with Richard Simmons," in which a sequin-shirted, short-shorted Simmons gaily encourages passengers to "grab, click and pull!" The latter has racked up nearly 3 million views on YouTube. The latest "Safety in Paradise: video includes: . - Ariel Meredith checking herself in a mirror having donned her oxygen mask. - Local men sneaking a look at a pouting, frolicking Jessica Gomes while demonstrating how to "brace." - A three-second glimpse of a muscly male pool cleaner (seemingly in case the ladies were feeling neglected). The "making of" video already has 540,000 views on YouTube, while the "Safety in Paradies" video, released Tuesday, has more than 120,000 at the time of writing. Below are some of the reactions sourced from social media. Tell us what you think of the video in the comments -- fun, or sexist? - .	'Safety in Paradise' released February 11, already has 120,000+ YouTube views . It features models Ariel Meredith, Chrissy Teigen, Hannah Davis and Jessica Gomes . Air New Zealand says it has been done "tastefully"
Keywords: <keyword>SOCIAL FEEDBACK</keyword>, <keyword>FACEBOOK USAGE</keyword>, <keyword>NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS</keyword>, <keyword>SOCIAL GAINS</keyword>, <keyword>BRAINS USE</keyword>, <keyword>DISCOVERED REWARD</keyword>, <keyword>AFFECT REPUTATION</keyword>, <keyword>FOOD MONEY</keyword>, <keyword>NETWORKING SITE</keyword>, <keyword>LIKELY PERSON</keyword> By . Emma Innes . PUBLISHED: . 15:27 EST, 29 August 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 15:27 EST, 29 August 2013 . It's always nice to get a 'like' when you post a status or photograph on Facebook, but research has revealed that the brains of those who use the social networking site the most are more affected by the feedback they receive than less regular users. Scientists have discovered that reward circuits in the brain linked to food, money, sex and reputation can predict how likely a person is to use Facebook. Researchers found that those whose nucleus accumbens in the brain responded most strongly to positive feedback were the same people who used the social networking site most intently. Reward circuits in the brain linked to food, money, sex and reputation can predict how likely a person is to use Facebook, according to a new study . The nucleus accumbens is a ‘small but critical’ part of the brain which processes rewards. Dr Dar Meshi, of Germany’s Freie University, looked at the activity in this part of the brain in 31 people and compared the results to the people’s Facebook usage. Dr Meshi said: ‘As human beings, we evolved to care about our reputation. In today’s world, one way we’re able to manage our reputation is by using social media websites like Facebook.’ Facebook was chosen for the study because interactions on the website are carried out in view of the user’s friends, and the public, and can affect their reputation. People whose nucleus accumbens structure in the brain responds most strongly to positive feedback are most likely to use Facebook intently . ‘Liking’ someone is positive social feedback, and can be considered related to their reputation. Participants completed a questionnaire to show how many friends they had and how many minutes they spent on Facebook. They also participated in a video interview, and were then told whether people thought highly of them. Researchers recorded functional neuroimaging (fMRI) of the participants’ brains during these procedures. Results showed that participants who received positive feedback about themselves produced stronger activation of the nucleus accumbens than when they saw the positive feedback that another person received. The strength of this difference corresponded to participants’ reported intensity of Facebook use. Dr Meshi said: ‘Our study reveals that the processing of social gains in reputation in the left nucleus accumbens predicts the intensity of Facebook use across individuals. ‘These findings expand upon our present knowledge of nucleus accumbens function as it relates to complex human behaviour.’ Dr Meshi said it was not known if the results showed that positive social feedback drives people to interact on social media, or if sustained use of social media changes the way positive social feedback is processed by the brain. The report was published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.	Reward circuits in the brain predict how likely a person is to use Facebook . People whose nucleus accumbens structure in the . brain respond most strongly to positive feedback use . the social networking site most intently . It isn't known if positive social feedback drives people to interact on social media, . or if use of social media changes the way positive social . feedback is processed by the brain .
Keywords: <keyword>AGE HAPPIER</keyword>, <keyword>HEALTH 60S</keyword>, <keyword>FEEL DECADES</keyword>, <keyword>NATION HAPPINESS</keyword>, <keyword>WELLBEING GENERALLY</keyword>, <keyword>HEALTH DETERIORATE</keyword>, <keyword>REACH RETIREMENT</keyword>, <keyword>65S SAY</keyword>, <keyword>TREND TEENS</keyword>, <keyword>NATIONAL STATISTICS</keyword> By . Chris Brooke . PUBLISHED: . 18:37 EST, 19 June 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 06:45 EST, 20 June 2013 . It is, logically, the stage of life at which we expect our health will deteriorate the most - and with no turning back. But in reality, the over-65s say they feel decades younger and are also enjoying a new lease of life. Official research measuring the nation’s ‘happiness’ found those who have reached retirement age are happier about their own health than they have been for years. All smiles: Official research measuring the nation's 'happiness' found those who have reached retirement age are happier about their own health than they have been for years . It may be the feeling of freedom that comes with no longer having to work, but the over-65s are almost as satisfied with their health as they were in their late 30s, according to the figures. The Office for National Statistics found people’s sense of health and wellbeing are generally on a ‘downward trend’ from their teens until late middle age, before receiving a welcome bounce in their 60s. And it appeared that even the 70s are a far happier time than the miserable slog of the 40s and 50s. As part of a wider study of 40,000 households in 2010 to 2011, people were asked to rate how satisfied they were with their overall health. They were also asked if any conditions limit their everyday activities. Happy days: Pensions expert Dr Ros Altmann said there will be a 'strand where people would have expected they wouldn't have good health in their 60s and are pleasantly surprised to find they do' Overall, two-thirds said they were satisfied with their health. Unsurprisingly, those aged 16 to 24 gave their health a high 75 per cent rating. This dropped to 70 per cent for those in their late 20s and early 30s. 'The social narrative is you reach retirement and you are decrepit or infirm or you are going to get ill, but now most people find that isn’t the case' Dr Ros Altmann, pensions expert . By the late 30s it falls to 69 per cent and continues through middle age to just over 60 per cent by the age of 59. Then comes a sudden improvement as life seems to become a lot rosier. The satisfaction rating increases to 67 per cent among people aged from 65 to 70. Pensions expert Dr Ros Altmann said: ‘The social narrative is you reach retirement and you are decrepit or infirm or you are going to get ill, but now most people find that isn’t the case. ‘In terms of health, there will be a strand where people would have expected they wouldn’t have good health in their 60s and are pleasantly surprised to find they do.’	Over-65s are almost as satisfied with health as they were in their late 30s . Sense of wellbeing on 'downward trend' from teens until late middle age . But then receives bounce in their 60s, Office for National Statistics finds .
Keywords: <keyword>GRAFFITI ALLOWED</keyword>, <keyword>ARTIST BANKSY</keyword>, <keyword>DEFINITION ART</keyword>, <keyword>DEFACING DEFINITION</keyword>, <keyword>WALL BROOKLYN</keyword>, <keyword>SOMEBODY PROPERTY</keyword>, <keyword>BUILDINGS BRISTOL</keyword>, <keyword>MAYOR NEW</keyword>, <keyword>WORK MISGUIDED</keyword>, <keyword>MESSAGE DECLARING</keyword> By . Tara Brady . PUBLISHED: . 03:33 EST, 17 October 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 05:47 EST, 17 October 2013 . Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg has said Banksy's work is not art and should not be allowed . The mayor of New York has said work created by British artist Banksy is graffiti and should not be allowed. The mysterious British artist is staging a month-long 'residency' in New York City carrying out a project called Better Out Than In. However, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said defacing people's property is not his definition of art. Speaking at a press conference, he said: 'I'll leave it up to our Department of Cultural Affairs. 'But look graffiti does ruin people's property and it's a sign of decay and loss of control. 'Nobody's a bigger supporter of the arts than I am. I just think there are some places for art and there are som places (not for) art. 'You running up to somebody's property or public property and defacing it is not my definition of art. 'Or it may be art, but it should not be permitted. 'And I think that’s exactly what the law says.' Banksy, a pseudonym for the elusive artist who first emerged in the streets of Bristol and whose real identity is unknown, has become a coveted contemporary painter in the art world, known for his trademark spray-paint stencils on buildings that offer social commentary. His artwork can sell for six figure sums. He surprised even the most ardent fans earlier this week by secretly selling his authentic artworks near Central Park for just $60 each on Saturday. The artwork stand opened about midday with an inventory value estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . People gather to look at new artwork by British graffiti artist Banksy at Lower Manhattan in New York . One of his most recent imprints on the city is an image of the Twin Towers, painted on a TriBeCa wall in black paint and adorned with a bright orange flower . A man takes a picture of Banksy's latest piece of work in New York - the Twin Towers accompanied with an orange flower . Each small to medium-sized canvas is worth at least $30,000. Yet over seven hours, just three people bought eight canvases - a total haul of $420. The first sale was at 3.30pm to a woman who bought two canvases for her children - and she managed to wrangle a 50 per cent discount. Half an hour later, a New Zealand woman purchased some art. Video shows the vendor embracing her warmly and kissing her cheek. At 5.30pm, a Chicago man stopped saying he wanted art for his new house: 'I just need something for the walls.' He left with four original Banksys. The disinterested-looking vendor shut up shop at 6.30pm. Each day during his Better Out Than In residency, Banksy has posted a snapshot of his latest project and includes the location for fans to check out. The work varies from simple stencils to large, detailed murals. But four pieces of work have so far been destroyed by vandals. Ruined: A Banksy artwork which was destroyed by vandals last week . Omar NYC: Omar NYC is another graffiti artist who isn't thrilled Banksy is in New York this month . Rat: The vandal who tagged this Banksy piece left the message, 'We don't need no more rats!' The latest hit were a stencil on the side of a building in Woodside, Queens, and a car that was part of an installation on Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side. The Ludlow Street piece includes an actual car parked in front of a wall covered in horses wearing what appear to be night-vision goggles. On Friday, a beaver stenciled on a wall in Brooklyn by the elusive artist also was damaged. The piece, which depicted a beaver leaning up against a railing, was covered with spray paint that read 'we don't need no more rats!' in red capital letters. The beaver's face also had been chipped off. Popular: Banksy's signature humour is at home on the streets of New York and his graffiti has attracted a swarm of attention . Original: This was Banksy's Ludlow Street installation before it was damaged by vandals . The vandalism was signed 'Math,' likely the name of another graffiti artist. Earlier this month, rival graffiti artist 'Omar NYC' spray-painted over a Banksy piece in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Banksy's work getting vandalised is no surprise; other graffiti artists - often jealous of his notoriety - will deface his work, many in misguided attempt to make a name for themselves. One of his most recent imprints on the city is an image of the Twin Towers, painted on a TriBeCa wall in black paint and adorned with a bright orange flower. On Tuesday, a man tweeted several photos along with the message declaring: 'I found Banksy.' Turf: A graffiti artist called 'Problem Child' says this Banksy piece was done on 'his territory' Twitter user @DjJonHenry posted four photographs online showing a group of men and two trucks used for Banksy’s recent Sirens Of The Lambs and Waterfall mobile works of art. Henry said the photographs were taken at a warehouse in the Red Hook area of Brooklyn and that he approached the men after recognising the vehicles from Banksy’s on-going month-long residency. The men refused to answer when Henry . asked where Banksy is, although he tweeted that he thought the man on . top of the truck might be him since as he was directing the others and . spoke with an English accent. The photographs were taken by twitter user @DjJonHenry/Twitter who believes that the man on top of the van could be Banksy because he spoke with an English accent . After his rather provocative declaration to having found Banksy, Henry then backtracked on his claims after receiving a deluge of negative tweets from fans of the street artist who accused him of trying to jeopardize the remainder of Banksy's month-long show. Although the artist has never confirmed his identity, his real name is believed to be Robin Gunningham and he is from Bristol, England. Previously photographs purporting to show Banksy were taken in Santa Monica in 2011 and East London in 2007. Banksy, whose work has been painted on the sides of buildings around Bristol, London and other cities, has always insisted he will never reveal his true identity.	Mysterious British artist is staging a month-long residency in New York . Mayor Michael Bloomberg says defacing people's property is 'not art' One of his most recent imprints is an image of the Twin Towers adorned with a bright orange flower .
Keywords: <keyword>ROBBERIES BROWN</keyword>, <keyword>SHOPLIFTING SUSPECT</keyword>, <keyword>TEENAGER CAUGHT</keyword>, <keyword>SEMINOLE COUNTY</keyword>, <keyword>OFFICERS RECEIVE</keyword>, <keyword>TARGET CASSELBURY</keyword>, <keyword>PLAYSTATION CONTROLLERS</keyword>, <keyword>FILA SWEATSHIRT</keyword>, <keyword>670 WORTH</keyword>, <keyword>OFFS MOTHERS</keyword> When a Florida mom was browsing her Facebook, she came across a post from the local police department, trying to identify a shoplifting suspect. She saw the teenager had been caught on camera stealing $670 worth of Playstation controllers from a Target in Casselbury. Then on closer inspection, she realized it was her own son. She then marched into 18-year-old Joel Brown's room at 1am on Wednesday, woke him up and called the police. CCTV footage: Joel Brown's mother was browsing Facebook when she noticed her son was the robbery suspect police were looking to identify in Casselbury, Florida . Sgt. Chris Pamatian told WESH-TV: 'She didn't wait till morning. She took care of it right then.' Officers then arrived and found him wearing the same FILA sweatshirt he was wearing during the alleged robberies. Brown was then arrested. Police said they recovered five of the controllers, but several had already been sold to area GameStop stores. Brown is being held at the Seminole County Jail on a $2,000 bond. He has been charged with retail theft and shoplifting. Pamatian said it was unusual for officers to receive tip-offs from mothers. Caught: She walked into the 18-year-old's room at 1am on Wednesday and called the police straight away. Officers then arrested him after they arrived and found him wearing the same Fila sweatshirt (mugshot right) Recovery: Police said they retrieved five of the controllers stolen from the Target, but several had already been sold to GameStop stores in the area .	Joel Brown's mother was browsing social media in Casselbury, Florida . She then noticed her son was pictured in an appeal as a robbery suspect . The woman stormed into his room at 1am and called police immediately . They arrived and found him wearing the same sweatshirt . Youngster was charged with retail theft and booked into a county jail .
Keywords: <keyword>HENDERSON BELIEVES</keyword>, <keyword>LIVERPOOL STUTTERING</keyword>, <keyword>COUTINHO READY</keyword>, <keyword>MIDFIELDER JORDAN</keyword>, <keyword>SKRTEL LOOKED</keyword>, <keyword>CREATE CHANCES</keyword>, <keyword>OPENING CHAMPIONS</keyword>, <keyword>BOSS BRENDAN</keyword>, <keyword>CRITICISING KNOW</keyword>, <keyword>RUN FORM</keyword> Midfielder Jordan Henderson is desperate to hit back at Liverpool's critics after an indifferent run of form. He sees the Bernabeu as an ideal place to put in a performance and win back the doubters. Liverpool face Real Madrid on Tuesday evening having won just one of their opening three Champions League games. VIDEO Scroll down to see Rodgers say there is more to Real Madrid than Cristiano Ronaldo . Liverpool have made a stuttering start in the Premier League this season . Real are on a fine run of form, winning 11 on the trot, while Liverpool are stuttering in the Premier League sitting in seventh place. But Henderson believes Tuesday could be a turning point. He said: 'We have got people criticising us, we know we are not at our best but this is a great opportunity to show that we are a top side. Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers (right) and Jordan Henderson during a press conference on Monday . Jordan Henderson takes part in a training session ahead at Santiago Bernabeu on Monday . 'We just need to be a bit more ruthless in the final third. We need to be more ruthless and more creative. We are working hard to create chances. 'We feel we are coming to a brilliant stadium and we want to put on a performance.' Henderson is also insistent than Steven Gerrard will be a Liverpool star for years to come. He added: 'He is a massive player for us he is our captain, our leader, role model. Hopefully he will be a big player for many years to come.' Mario Balotelli (left) and Martin Skrtel looked relaxed and positive during training . Liverpool duo Raheem Sterling (front) and Philippe Coutinho get ready for Real Madrid .	Jordan Henderson is desperate to hit back at Liverpool's critics . Real Madrid are on a fine run of form, winning 11 on the trot . Henderson backs Steven Gerrard to play for Liverpool for 'years to come'
Keywords: <keyword>NIGELLA LAWSON</keyword>, <keyword>HUMILIATED NIGELLA</keyword>, <keyword>LEFT FRANCESCA</keyword>, <keyword>ALLEGATIONS DRUG</keyword>, <keyword>MEALS ALLEGED</keyword>, <keyword>COURT MISS</keyword>, <keyword>HUSBAND GUILTY</keyword>, <keyword>GRILLO SISTERS</keyword>, <keyword>INVESTIGATION FRESH</keyword>, <keyword>FACED RIDICULOUS</keyword> By . Neil Sears . A humiliated Nigella Lawson last night lashed out over her ‘malicious’ treatment in court. As her two former housekeepers were cleared of a £685,000 credit card fraud, she said she had been ‘vilified’ and could not forgive the court process. Miss Lawson described allegations of her drug taking as a ‘ridiculous sideshow’, and said she found her time as a witness deeply disturbing. Last night huge question marks hung over the 53-year-old celebrity cook’s career, after the end of a dramatic trial in which details of her alleged secret drug abuse, disastrous marriage and chaotic lifestyle were laid bare. Scroll down for video . Fury: Nigella Lawson, pictured leaving Isleworth Crown Court after she gave evidence, has lashed out at drugtaking allegations against her which she called a 'ridiculous sideshow' orchestrated by her ex-husband . The jury found Italian sisters Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo not guilty. The pair said they had effectively been permitted to spend money as they wished in return for keeping quiet about Miss Lawson’s use of drugs. Last night Miss Lawson said the trial was part of a campaign by her 70-year-old ex-husband, the multi-millionaire Charles Saatchi to ‘destroy her’ with malicious and false allegations. In an extraordinary statement, she hit out furiously at the judicial system, saying her experience as a witness had made her feel as if she was the one on trial. She said it had been harrowing to see her children ‘subjected to extreme allegations in court without any real protection or representation’, adding: ‘For this I cannot forgive the court process.’ And she again accused her ex-husband of a ‘sustained background campaign deliberately designed to destroy my reputation.’ Maliciously villified: Nigella Lawson's full statement, which attacked the court system and her former husband . Not guilty: The TV cook accused her ex-husband of a campaign 'deliberately designed to destroy my reputation' as former aides Elisabetta Grillo (left) and Francesca Grillo (right) were cleared of a £680,000 credit card fraud . Harrowing: A furious Nigella said after the trial ended her children had been 'subjected to extreme allegations in court without any real protection or representation', adding: 'For this I cannot forgive the court process' Miss Lawson said: ‘Over the three-week trial, the jury was faced with a ridiculous sideshow of false allegations about drug use which made focus on the actual criminal trial impossible. I did my civic duty, only to be maliciously vilified without the right to respond.’ She had never wanted to talk about her traumatic divorce, she said, and remained concerned ‘about a campaign to circulate false allegations carried out over the course of this summer’. Miss Lawson, pictured leaving court, accused her ex-husband Charles Saatchi of 'intimate terrorism' Over two days of humiliating evidence, Miss Lawson was forced to deny she was a drug addict after confessing to having snorted cocaine and smoking cannabis. Her former housekeepers, who admitted lavishing huge sums of money on themselves at her expense, had claimed that drugs were rife in the household, that she had taken cocaine nearly every day and that she had even allowed her children to smoke cannabis. They said Miss Lawson had let them spend what they liked in return for keeping her cocaine addiction and heavy cannabis use a secret from her ‘shouty’ and frightening husband. Miss Lawson categorically denied she was a habitual drug user – but her attempts to play down her drug use and preserve her wholesome image were effectively rejected by the jury’s verdict yesterday. There were cries of ‘C’e un dio’ – ‘There is a God’ – from the two women’s defence lawyers as the verdict was returned. The decision threatens to destroy Miss Lawson’s hopes of becoming a major television star in America. The cook is currently appearing on US TV show The Taste – but the country takes a notoriously tough line on allowing those accused of drugs offences even to cross its borders. And Miss Lawson also faces the prospect of further legal action in the UK. The police yesterday said they had no immediate plans to take action against Miss Lawson over her admitted cocaine and cannabis use and alleged use of cannabis with her children. But in a statement, they said they would not rule out launching a new investigation if fresh evidence emerged. And Mr Saatchi has previously threatened to sue his ex-wife for £500,000, saying it would be her fault if the Grillos escaped jail because she was ‘so off her head on drugs’. Mobbed: Miss Lawson said the allegations of her drugtaking had overshadowed the trial of Italian sisters Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, pictured surrounded by security as they left Isleworth Crown Court today . The trial at Isleworth Crown Court, which came after the couple reported the Grillo sisters to police in the summer of 2012, exposed the intimate lives of Miss Lawson and Mr Saatchi to full public view. Mr Saatchi’s preference for burnt toast, eggs and frappuccinos over his wife’s delicious meals, his alleged shouting and expletive-filled rages, and Miss Lawson’s claim that he grabbed her by the throat out of jealousy simply because she talked of longing for grandchildren were all heard by the court. Miss Lawson also spoke at her relief at finally being free of the ‘brutal’ Mr Saatchi, whom she accused of ‘intimate terrorism.’ The escalating claims led Anthony Metzer QC, defence barrister for Elisabetta Grillo – known as Lisa – to claim the famous couple were abusing the court process to settle scores over their divorce. While the housekeepers eventually walked free from court, they still face potential civil action from Mr Saatchi to recover the money they spent. Many of their designer clothes have been seized to be sold. Their elder sister, Anna Grillo, last night spoke from the family home in Calabria, Italy of her relief that ‘the nightmare is finally over.’ Through sobs, she said: ‘It is thanks to God that people in Britain have finally seen the truth. The girls have never done anything to hurt Nigella and Charles. ‘They cared for their children like they were their own family, always, and this is how they were repaid.’	Question marks hang over the 53-year-old cook's career after dramatic trial . Extraordinary statement lashed out at the court system and her ex-husband . 'I did my civic duty, only to be maliciously vilified without right to respond' Former aides Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo acquitted of £685,000 fraud . They said Miss Lawson let them spend the money for silence on drug use . She hit back: 'Not one witness claimed to see me take drugs'
Keywords: <keyword>DICKSON DEATH</keyword>, <keyword>DEGREE MURDER</keyword>, <keyword>WEBCAM COURT</keyword>, <keyword>ALLEGEDLY KNOCKED</keyword>, <keyword>CUSTODY TORONTO</keyword>, <keyword>HURT QIAN</keyword>, <keyword>MAN SUSPECTED</keyword>, <keyword>LIU POLICE</keyword>, <keyword>STUDENT SEEN</keyword>, <keyword>CTV TROUBLE</keyword> (CNN) -- A Canadian man suspected of killing a university student who was last seen alive via webcam made his first court appearance on Thursday, officials said. Brian Dickson, 29, remains in custody after Toronto police arrested him Wednesday afternoon and charged him with the first-degree murder of a 23-year-old exchange student from Beijing. His next court appearance is set for April 26, said Brendan Crawley, a spokesperson for the ministry of the attorney general's office. Crawley described Dickson's court appearance Thursday as "procedural" but he would not elaborate. Authorities have not said how they tied Dickson to the death of the student, Qian Liu. Police said early last Friday, Liu was talking via webcam to a male friend in China when a man allegedly knocked on the door of her Toronto apartment, asking to use her phone. The online witness said he saw Liu and the unknown man struggle for a time before the attacker turned off her laptop, police said. "The man tried to hurt (Qian Liu)" the witness told CNN affiliate CTV. "She was resisting and saying 'No, no, please don't.' At that time my mind went blank. And I was cursing him from my webcam." "I was so far away I couldn't reach her," he added. "I felt helpless and I couldn't calm down." Ten hours later, police arrived at the basement apartment to find Liu's body, naked from the waist down. Her laptop was missing. There were no obvious signs of sexual assault or severe physical trauma, and police have said they were awaiting toxicology reports. Liu's father, Liu Jianhui, told CNN affiliate CTV that he had trouble believing the incident. "At the beginning I did not believe it was true," he said. "She was a very hardworking, outstanding girl." This is not the first time a crime has been captured by webcam. In the most notorious incident, Meleanie Hain of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was shot dead in 2009 while talking to a friend via webcam. The friend was looking away when he heard a shot and a scream, police said. Upon looking back at the screen, the friend saw Hain's husband firing a handgun at where his wife had been, authorities said. Police later found both Hain and her husband dead in their home.	NEW: A man suspected of killing a university student makes his first court appearance . Long-distance witness: "I was cursing him from my webcam" A friend in China sees the woman attacked in her Toronto apartment . Police later find Qian Liu dead in the apartment .
Keywords: <keyword>THEFT ISLAMIC</keyword>, <keyword>ADDICTION ALI</keyword>, <keyword>STEALING ADDICTION</keyword>, <keyword>PUNISHMENT HANDS</keyword>, <keyword>KLEPTOMANIA ADDICTION</keyword>, <keyword>PRACTICED EGYPT</keyword>, <keyword>AZZAZY EXECUTION</keyword>, <keyword>AMPUTATION REPEATED</keyword>, <keyword>MAN SLICED</keyword>, <keyword>AFIFI UNABLE</keyword> An Egyptian man has sliced off both his hands by placing them in the path of a speeding train to overcome his stealing addiction. Ali Afifi, 28, was apparently so appalled by his habitual crimes that he took his punishment into his own hands. The young man, apparently guided by the rules of Sharia law, severed both his hands in his self-inflicted purgatory. Desperate measure: Ali Afifi began stealing by taking sandwiches for friends but soon developed kleptomania - an addiction to stealing . Self-inflicted punishment: Egyptian Ali Afifi, 28, severed both his hands under a train to fight his addiction of stealing . His decision was likely to have been drawn from the Islamic teaching of Sharia law - the principles, rules and subsequent punishments that inform every element of life for those who practice Islam. Mr Afifi said his stealing 'disease' started at a young age, first taking his friend's lunches at primary school. It then escalated to items in shops and until recently he was taking people's mobile phones and gold jewellery. He said he used to give the money he made from the thefts to children and poor families. But Mr Afifi was unable to cope with the guilt and decided to cut off his hands to put an end to his compulsive behaviour. He said he wants to help his local town, improve the buildings and build a youth centre. He also wants to marry but doubts an Egyptian woman would take him because of his history of theft. The Islamic legal system deals with many issues addressed in secular law as well as informing daily decisions of a personal and mundane matter, including hygiene, fasting, prayer, diet, politics, sexual intercourse and marital rules. Interpretation of the law by Muslims varies between cultures, but it is accepted in some countries that repeated stealing is punishable by cutting off the hand. In Islamic divine law, stealing is one of the most serious crimes and punishable by amputation . The 28-year-old, from Tanta, north east Egypt, was apparently so appalled at his own crimes he punished himself guided by Sharia law . Normally, a person caught stealing would be summoned to a Sharia court where Islamic jurists would issue guidance on an issue. But . for Mr Afifi, from the central Nile delta region of Tanta, Egypt, he . decided he knew what his fate should be, according to the 'divine law'. According to Sharia law, stealing is considered one of the most serious crimes as specified by the Quran. A Sharia court may issue a punishment of some kind of injury to the hand to someone caught stealing for the first time, such as slowly driving a car wheel over the hand. In countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and northern Nigeria, amputation for repeated stealing is still practiced. In Egypt, however, the courts have not permitted judicial amputation for many years. Last year, however, under the new Muslim Brotherhood government, MP Adel Azzazy, from the Salafi-oriented Nour Party, proposed a bill to reintroduce amputations for certain crimes. He called for the application of 'Heraba' - extreme punishments for crimes including overt robbery, murder, forcible taking of property with a weapon and vandalising public facilities. Guilt: Ali Afifi chose to carry out his own punishment for his repeated stealing . Sharia law insists that thieves lose a hand, which prompted Afifi to take such drastic action . The penalties according to Azzazy’s bill were execution in the case of murder, or cutting one arm and one leg from opposite sides of the culprit’s body in the cases of robbery and forcible taking of property. If the taking of possessions is accompanied by murder, the penalty would be death or crucifixion, to be determined by the judge. The bill, according to the Egypt Independent, also stipulated imprisonment for intimidating citizens, and that the prison sentence will end when the felon repents. The penalties would only be imposed on adult, mentally-stable wrongdoers, who either committed the crimes or assisted in carrying them out, according to the bill. Mr Afifi, who lives in Tanta, in Egypt's northern Delta region, now has two stumps where his hands and wrists once were .	So appalled by his crimes, Ali Afifi, 28, apparently decided to punish himself . The Egyptian severed both hands on the tracks of a speeding train . Islamic Sharia law states hands are cut off for repeated stealing offences . Amputation is not practiced in Egypt but some MPs have called for its return .
Keywords: <keyword>UTAH FATAL</keyword>, <keyword>LOST KEYS</keyword>, <keyword>DISCOVERED BOBERG</keyword>, <keyword>POSSIBLE FROSTBITE</keyword>, <keyword>JEEP WRANGER</keyword>, <keyword>ALCOHOL WILDERNESS</keyword>, <keyword>SNEJANA FARBEROV</keyword>, <keyword>DEPUTIES SEARCHED</keyword>, <keyword>SHOE LYING</keyword>, <keyword>BREATHING 200</keyword> By . Snejana Farberov . A 20-year-old woman found dead in Utah earlier this week had succumbed to the freezing temperatures after her car keys went missing in the woods during a night of drinking, police revealed Friday. Hadley Boberg, 20, and a male friend she was with were up in Provo Canyon, elevation 7,420 feet, Wednesday night apparently drinking alcohol and doing some hiking, authorities said. When they set off to return to their Jeep, they realized they didn't have the keys, The Utah County Sheriff's office said in a news release. Tragic death: Hadley Boberg, 20, froze to death after a night of drinking in Provo Canyon, Utah . Fatal mishap: Boberg and her friend lost the keys to her black Jeep Wranger, and she died while looking for them . As they rummaged through the oak brush . and trees, temperatures dipped well below freezing. They never found . the keys or made it back to the Jeep. At some point, Boberg lost consciousness and never woke up, authorities said. Authorities . found her body Thursday morning after her parents reported her missing. They also found the 21-year-old man wandering barefoot and dazed in the . area. The . friend was evasive and seemed confused during interviews with . detectives. That, coupled with the scratches and cuts he had led them to . initially label it a suspicious death. So close: Boberg was unconscious and not breathing when she was found about 200 yards away from her Jeep . But . an autopsy report showed the cause of death was alcohol and exposure to . the cold, and authorities now believe it was a tragic accident. Investigators found several empty bottles of alcohol in the area. Weather records indicated it likely was about 17 degrees in the canyon the night Boberg died. Boberg told friends she was going for . a drive in Hobble Creek Canyon but never returned home. Deputies . searched other nearby canyons before discovering her car and body around . 10:30am Thursday. Utah County sheriff's deputies . discovered Boberg at Provo Canyon elevation, 7,420 feet, where she had spent the night lying on the snow-covered ground in 17-degree weather . A deputy found the young woman's prized Jeep Wrangler near the Big Springs trail in South Fork, Provo Canyon. Boberg was unconscious and not breathing when she was found about 200 yards away from her Jeep. She only had one shoe one, with the other lying nearby. Her friend was found barefoot and confused, suffering possible frostbite and has been admitted to hospital for observation. Police . said as the inebriated friends crawled on the ground searching for the . keys, the pair became wet from the snow. At some point, the 20-year-old . victim laid down or possiblly tripped and fell. According . to her Facebook page, Boberg was a Mormon. The Church of Jesus Christ . of Latter Day Saints prohibits its members from consuming alcohol. Wilderness area: Boberg's body and her car were found in South Fork, Provo Canyon .	Hadley Boberg, 20, was reported missing Wednesday night . Her body was found Thursday morning at Provo County, about 200 yards from her Jeep . Outside Boberg's car, a male acquaintance, 21, was found . Autopsy showed Boberg died from combination of alcohol consumption and exposure to 17-degree weather . Her Facebook page indicates Boberg was a member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which prohibits alcohol consumption .
Keywords: <keyword>FOUNDERS BOOKER</keyword>, <keyword>RICHARDSON LEAVING</keyword>, <keyword>ZUCKER JOIN</keyword>, <keyword>AOL VIDEO</keyword>, <keyword>VALLEY COMPANY</keyword>, <keyword>WAYWIRE REPORTED</keyword>, <keyword>FOLLOWED TWITTER</keyword>, <keyword>ROSS REPORTEDLY</keyword>, <keyword>CNN MONEY</keyword>, <keyword>2013 CORY</keyword> By . Meghan Keneally . PUBLISHED: . 13:39 EST, 19 August 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 13:40 EST, 19 August 2013 . Cory Booker's internet start up faces another high-profile departure as it has been revealed that the company's CEO is leaving the flailing video aggregation site. It was previously rumored that founding member Nathan Richardson was being interviewed for a possible board position on another company but they initially said that such a position 'would not impact' his work with Booker's company, called Waywire. Now it has been reported that Richardson is leaving the day-to-day operations of the company, just as a handful of staffers and the teenage son of CNN head Jeff Zucker all departed before him. Moving on: Nathan Richardson (left) is now leaving the company he founded with Cory Booker (right) TechCrunch reported that Richardson, who was founded Waywire along with Booker and Silicon Valley consultant Sarah Ross, is leaving and though his new job has not been confirmed, initial speculation connects him to AOL. The video aggregation company is said to be losing cash quickly and it is supposedly being kept alive through early November so that it's closure doesn't hurt Booker's chances at winning the New Jersey Senate race. The latest news about the floundering company comes weeks after it was revealed that the 15-year-old son of CNN president Jeff Zucker had a position on the company's advisory board and had stock options in the company. The teenager resigned just hours later, and it now is clear that he is not the first person to leave the company. Running for office: After a slew of highly-publicized departures, there is speculation that the company is only staying afloat to keep it open while Booker runs for Senate . It was known that the small company had a round of layoffs in the spring, but now The New York Post reported that eight people left in April. 'When the company moved its focus from original production to curation, the production team was impacted. Several were given the option of changed, curation-focused roles with the company; they declined,' a spokeswoman told The Post. Booker did his best on last week to calm the fires without actually revealing any more details after a debate last week. Her idea: Sarah Ross is said to be the one who approached Jeff Zucker's son Andrew (seen with his father at left in 2009) to be a member of the advisory board of Cory Booker's start-up Waywire. He has since resigned . Connected: Sarah Ross, seen here talking with Booker and trailed by Mark Zuckerberg, is well known in Silicon Valley . 'This company is in its infancy. Of . course it has changed its business model. It’s going through changes,' he said of the internal overhaul at Waywire. 'I’m a part of an ownership group and we’ve concluded not to discuss that.' The . other parts of the ownership group are Mr Richardson and Sarah Ross, who admitted to being the one to suggest Zucker . join the board because the teenager is apparently known for his insight . into popular trends among teens. Ms . Ross then had a conversation with both Jeff and Andrew Zucker and they . agreed to have the now-15-year-old sign on to Waywire's advisory board . and receive a 'de minimus' amount of stock options in return. An . unidentified source told CNN Money that Booker himself was 'not . involved at all' with the decision, and Ms Ross herself admitted at an . early stage that the politician would not be a part of the day-to-day . operations of the start up. Promoting the brand: If Booker wins, he will have to resign from the board of Waywire and stop promoting it from his well-followed Twitter feed . The . New York Times reported that even in the nascent phase, it was clear . among the founders that Booker would be a more public role. When . the launched the company, Ms Ross reportedly said to Booker: 'You know . what? You should do it, found the company. Obviously you don’t have to . be involved — you’ve got a full-time job. But found the company.’ Unlike . many of the other boldface names connected to Waywire, like Oprah . Winfrey and Google's Eric Schmidt, it does not seem as if the elder . Zucker actually has any financial stake in the company. Very little has previously been revealed about the start-up, which was officially created in May 2012. Booker . reportedly came up with the idea for the company, whose mission is to . effectively become a different iteration of YouTube where the work of . up-and-coming students is highlighted, while meeting with Ms Ross and Mr . Richardson. He said it was . easy to raise the $1.75million worth of seed money for the venture . 'because of the power of the idea'. He said nothing of his rising power . on the national political stage. For . Booker's part, he may not be able to be involved in the company much . longer. If he wins the Senate race in November, he will be forced to . withdraw from Waywire's board.	Cory Booker helped found a video aggregation start up site called Waywire . Booker is now running for the empty New Jersey Senate spot and insiders say it is staying open so that it doesn't hurt his election chances .
Keywords: <keyword>CIRCUS TIGER</keyword>, <keyword>BEIJING ZOO</keyword>, <keyword>GIRL MAULED</keyword>, <keyword>ANIMALS RUMOURS</keyword>, <keyword>LEHEDU AMUSEMENT</keyword>, <keyword>PULLED CAGE</keyword>, <keyword>HORRIFIED PARK</keyword>, <keyword>NIU KILLED</keyword>, <keyword>CHONGQING MUNICIPALITY</keyword>, <keyword>YOUNGSTER VISITING</keyword> An eight-year-old girl was mauled to death by a circus tiger after it pulled her into its enclosure at an amusement park in China. Juan Niu was killed after sneaking away from her family to get a closer look at the tigers in a circus, and being pulled into their cage and mauled. The youngster was visiting relatives in China's south-western Chongqing Municipality with her family when they decided to visit a local amusement park after seeing posters for their new circus attraction. Pictured, tigers performing in the circus at Leheledu Amusement Park, in Chongqing city, in China . The circus tiger mauled the little girl after she entered a closed animal training site at Lehedu Amusement Park in China. Pictured, a caged Siberian tiger from China's Heilongjiang province at Beijing zoo . Leheledu Amusement Park managers had hired a travelling circus to entertain visitors and had set up temporary holding pens for the animals. She had easily walked up to the cage and managed to slip through the bars, at which point she was pounced upon by a tiger and mauled in front of horrified park visitors. Although animal trainers were quickly at the scene and pulled the child free of the animal, she was barely alive and was declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. The incident last week did not initially make the news after park managers offered the family compensation and promised to increase security around the animals. However, after rumours started circulating the park was forced to admit the tragedy had happened. Spokesman Manchu Hung said: 'Nothing terrible like this has ever happened before and we take the safety of our visitors very seriously. 'We will pay all compensation necessary to the family and will make sure it's not possible for anything similar to ever happen again.' A park spokesman said safety measures would be improved to prevent another incident. Pictured, the circus . A Shanghai Zoo keeper was mauled to death by this rare South China tiger last year after entering its enclosure, pictured, to clean . Last month, a nine-year-old boy had his arm torn off by a bear at a zoo in China's Henan province after he jumped past the guard rail and reached inside the cage to feed the animal. In December last year, a keeper at Shanghai zoo was mauled to death by a tiger after he entered its enclosure to clean it. Colleagues of the 56-year-old man said he went into the nine-year-old male south China tiger's enclosure and 'did not come out again'.	Juan Niu left her family to take a closer look at tigers at the theme park . She was pronounced dead in hospital after suffering severe injuries in attack . Park reached a settlement with victim's family and pledged to improve safety .
Keywords: <keyword>THIAGO ALCANTARA</keyword>, <keyword>LUCKLESS BAYERN</keyword>, <keyword>INJURIES LATEST</keyword>, <keyword>MARC BARTRA</keyword>, <keyword>RETURN KNEE</keyword>, <keyword>SPAIN PREVENTED</keyword>, <keyword>CELEBRATING OKTOBERFEST</keyword>, <keyword>INSTAGRAM WISHING</keyword>, <keyword>FRUSTRATED CONTINUE</keyword>, <keyword>EXACTLY LONG</keyword> Luckless Bayern Munich midfielder Thiago Alcantara has suffered a new setback in his attempt to return from a knee injury that had kept him out since March. The 23-year-old has partially torn ligaments in his right knee - the one he initially injured - in training and requires surgery to rectify the problem. 'What can I say? Obviously I am deeply disappointed and frustrated. Why always me? But I will not give up. I will continue to fight,' Alcantara said in a statement. Thiago Alcantara (far left) won the European Under 21 Championship with Spain in 2013 . Alcantara was pictured celebrating Oktoberfest with his girlfriend Julia Vargas . The midfielder has five caps for Spain but was prevented from adding to that in the World Cup this year, when a return to training in May proved too soon and only aggravated the initial problem. He has received support from former Barcelona team-mate Marc Bartra, who posted a picture of the duo on Instagram with the message 'You'll come back, like you always do. Optimism and much encouragement @Thiago6! Hug.' It is not known exactly how long Alcantara's new injury will rule him out for. The midfielder joined former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich in July last year, turning down a switch to Manchester United. But it seems Alcantara is set for another season that will be disrupted by injuries after his latest setback. Former Barcelona team-mate Marc Bartra posted this picture via Instagram, wishing Alcantara a quick return .	Thiago Alcantara injures knee ligaments again training with Bayern Munich . He had just returned from knee injury which had kept him out since March . The 23-year-old midfielder requires surgery on partially torn ligaments .
Keywords: <keyword>SUSPECTED RIPPER</keyword>, <keyword>CRIME WRITER</keyword>, <keyword>ROYAL CONSPIRACY</keyword>, <keyword>ARTIST WALTER</keyword>, <keyword>THEORY SICKERT</keyword>, <keyword>UNEARTHING EVIDENCE</keyword>, <keyword>SOURCES JACK</keyword>, <keyword>CORNWELL ARGUES</keyword>, <keyword>DRUITT DORSET</keyword>, <keyword>CAPTURE SERIAL</keyword> Culprit? Artist Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper, a crime writer is suggesting . Crime writer Patricia Cornwell is promising to publish new research on the identity of Jack the Ripper which she claims will help to solve the mystery. The best-selling author believes she has 'cracked' the case by unearthing evidence that confirms Walter Sickert, an influential artist, as the prime suspect. Fans of the painter were critical of her first book for pointing the finger at the painter, but she has spent the last 11 years working to prove her theory. She says she has a lot more detail and predicts people will be surprised by evidence she has unearthed linking Sickert with the royal family. 'I feel that I have cracked it,' she said. 'I believe it’s Sickert, and I believe it now more than ever.' Furthermore, Ms Cornwell, 47, says the . artist had links to the royal family - perhaps backing some kind of royal . conspiracy in relation to the crimes. The bestselling author has been working with former Scotland Yard commander John Grieve to look through a selection of letters, held at The National Archives in Kew, allegedly sent to police by the killer. While she admits her evidence is only circumstantial, Ms Cornwell argues it hard to accept it is merely a coincidence watermarks on some of the letters match paper used by Sickert. 'Will we ever prove it? No — how can you? 'It’s a completely circumstantial case with the only real science that we can count on after all these years being the forensic analysis, which is really hard to feel is coincidental when you keep seeing water marks on paper that Jack the Ripper and Sickert had in common.' The author acknowledged that even if the artist wrote some of the letters, it does not mean Sickert was the killer. However, she added: 'In court, a jury might struggle with that. They are very confessional and violent letters.' The writer has spent millions of pounds investigating the unidentified killer - who killed at least five prostitutes in Whitechapel in the late 1880s. Investigation: Ms Cornwell, pictured, says watermarks found of letters allegedly sent by the Ripper to police shared the same watermark as paper used by the artist . The dedicated investigator even purchased Sickert’s desk, plus 32 of his paintings to have them tested for DNA. According to The Evening Standard,she plans on printing her new findings next year. She added: 'I have a lot more detail including more information on what I call the ‘royal conspiracy’. 'For a start — Sir William Gull was Queen Victoria’s surgeon. There have been rumours that Sir William Gull was helping to get rid of these prostitutes. Suffice to say there has been evidence that has turned up to say that Sir William was Sickert’s family physician.' Ms Cornwell's 2002 book on the topic, Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed, first included her theory that Sickert was the Ripper. The controversial book caused outrage in the art world and also among 'Ripperologists' - who did not agree with her methods or conclusions. Ms Cornwell recently won a court battle against company she had hired to handle her finances - with a court awarding her £30 million. Patricia Cornwell’s new novel Dust is out now. Notorious: A poster for the capture of the serial killer . Numerous individuals have been accused of being the serial killer. At the time, police suspected the Ripper must have been a butcher, due to the way his victims were killed and the fact they were discovered near to the dockyards, where meat was brought into the city. There are several alleged links between the killer and royals. First is Sir William Withey Gull, the royal physician. Many have accused him of helping get rid of the prostitutes' bodies, while others claim he was the Ripper himself. Another book named Queen Victoria's surgeon Sir John Williams as the infamous killer. He had a surgery in Whitechapel at the time. Another theory links the murders with Queen Victoria's grandson, Prince Albert Victor, also known as the Duke of Clarence. At one point, cotton merchant James Maybrick was the number one suspect, following the publication of some of his diary which appeared to suggest he was the killer. However the extracts are widely believed to be forged. Other suspects include Montague John Druitt, a Dorset-born barrister. He committed suicide in the Thames shortly after last murder. George Chapman, otherwise known as Seweryn Kłosowski, poisoned three of his wives and was hanged in 1903. Another suspected by polive was Aaron Kosminski. He was admitted to Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum and died there. Dr Thomas Neill Cream, poisoned four London prostitutes with strychnine and was hanged. Some of the more bizarre links include Lewis Carroll, author of the Alice in Wonderland books, who taught at Christ Church until 1881 - which was at the forefront of the Ripper Murder scenery. According to some sources Jack was actually a Jill - a theory posed by an inspector on the case at the time. Winston Churchill's father - Lord Randolph Churchill - has also been named as a potential suspect.	Writer spent 11 years and millions of pounds researching Jack the Ripper . Says artist Walter Sickert, who has links to royalty, is the culprit . Killer's letters shared watermark with artist's paper, she claims . Queen Victoria's surgeon - accused of disposing bodies of victims - was Sickert's family doctor, she says evidence suggests .
Keywords: <keyword>OUTBREAK BALMORAL</keyword>, <keyword>GASTRIC ILLNESSES</keyword>, <keyword>CRUISE PASSENGERS</keyword>, <keyword>QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS</keyword>, <keyword>HOURS NOROVIRUS</keyword>, <keyword>BUG BELIEVED</keyword>, <keyword>PORT SOUTHAMPTON</keyword>, <keyword>OLSEN APPROVED</keyword>, <keyword>GEL PRECAUTIONS</keyword>, <keyword>SCHEDULED RETURN</keyword> Passengers have been struck down by an outbreak of gastric illness and confined to their cabins for the second time this month on a luxury ship operated by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines. It is not known how many passengers have been hit by the vomiting bug on the MV Balmoral, which is sailing to its home port in Southampton. Fred Olsen Cruise Lines confirmed staff are attempting to contain an ‘extremely contagious gastric illness’, just days after the ship underwent a ‘deep clean’ in response to an earlier outbreak. Passengers who have been struck down by the bug on the MV Balmoral are being confined to their cabins . A relative of a passenger who is currently on board the Balmoral said quarantine restrictions have been imposed at least twice during the 13-night return journey from Southampton to the Azores and Madeira. The relative told MailOnline Travel at least one swimming pool and casino tables were made off-limits to those on the vessel. It left the UK on May 11 and is scheduled to return on Sunday on a voyage priced from approximately £1,000 per person. The ship, which has a capacity of 1,350, is scheduled to depart the same day on a seven-night cruise to Amsterdam and Antwerp. A spokeswoman for Fred Olsen Cruise Lines told MailOnline Travel: ‘It is very frustrating that, even though we went to great lengths to “deep clean” and sanitise the ship before this cruise set sail, a number of guests have been affected by gastric illness. ‘The number of guests affected is smaller than on the previous sailing, but it is very disappointing that any guests should have their cruise holiday impacted in this unfortunate way. The Balmoral is nearing the end of a 13-night return journey from Southampton to the Azores and Madeira . ‘As always, we are doing all that we can to contain the spread of this extremely contagious gastric illness, in line with Fred Olsen's approved prevention and control plan. The spokeswoman said guests who are ill are required to remain in their cabins, with complimentary room service and entertainment, to minimise contact with other guests. It is not the first time Fred Olsen cruise passengers have been hit by gastric illnesses. Between October 2009 and May 2010, 130 passengers fell ill on its cruise liner Boudicca, a sister ship of that involved in the latest incident. In 2014, the company paid out £280,000 compensation to those affected. In March and April 2011, 12 passengers sailing around the Mediterranean became ill, again on Boudicca, with some later given £10,000 payouts. Then in 2013, the company reported an outbreak of 'a gastroenteritis-type illness' on Boudicca after it left Belfast for a 10-night 'Scandinavian Cities Cruise'. In that case, 72 passengers were affected. This was followed by an outbreak on the Balmoral earlier this month as it sailed to the Norwegian fjords. A law firm said it has been contacted by passengers to investigate the cause of their illness. She added: ‘The gastro-enteritis virus is spread very easily by contact with surfaces and from person-to-person, and all Fred Olsen guests are made aware of the importance of meticulous hygiene at all times.’ Earlier this month it was estimated hundreds of passengers were hit by a vomiting bug – believed to be norovirus – that forced Fred Olsen to cut short an eight-day cruise to the Norwegian fjords. The earlier outbreak on the ship – which was carrying 1,163 passengers at the time – was so bad it returned to its home port a day early to be ‘systematically sanitised’ ahead of its trip to the Azores and Madeira. Some of those who fell ill with diarrhoea, stomach cramps and fever have instructed a law firm to investigate the cause of their illness. Fred Olsen Cruise Lines believed the illness was brought onto the ship, as the first case was reported within hours of its departure from Southampton on May 3, and it takes 12 to 48 hours for norovirus symptoms to appear. The company said it asks guests complete a medical questionnaire before each voyage, and reminds them to use sanitising hand gel and take other precautions on board. It also said frequent cleaning of all areas of the ship is carried out. The spokeswoman said: ‘At Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, the health, safety and well-being of all our guests and crew is paramount, and we believe that our systems for preventing the spread of illness on board our ships are amongst the best within the industry.’	The 1,350-passenger ship is currently sailing back to Southampton . It is nearing the end of its 13-night journey to the Azores and Madeira . An unknown number of passengers has taken ill on board the ship . Fred Olsen said ill passengers are required to remain in their cabins . Ship was sanitised after guests fell ill on a cruise to Norway's fjords .
Keywords: <keyword>WIFE NEILUM</keyword>, <keyword>APPEARED DOCTOR</keyword>, <keyword>WALKER SEEN</keyword>, <keyword>FILMS JOHN</keyword>, <keyword>BBC SOAP</keyword>, <keyword>BIRMINGHAM PAIR</keyword>, <keyword>RAQIA</keyword>, <keyword>INCLUDING CASUALTY</keyword>, <keyword>PEOPLE VE</keyword>, <keyword>PEOPLE RECEPTION</keyword> By . Anna Edwards . PUBLISHED: . 11:04 EST, 13 December 2013 . \| . UPDATED: . 13:46 EST, 13 December 2013 . Two of Britain's most prolific TV extras finally got to take centre stage when they got married five years after meeting - on the set of a BBC soap. John Walker, 41, and Neilum Ragia-Walker, 37, have individually appeared over 2,500 times on the nation's best-loved dramas, soaps and comedies. The pair even played husband and wife during their first on-screen appearance together in 2008 after John picked pretty Neilum to play his other half in BBC's Doctors. John Walker and Neilum Raqia-Walker have now featured on screen as a couple an impressive 150 times on 40 different shows . John and his wife Neilum will be a familiar sight to many viewers. They have appeared on many TV shows, including Casualty in 2012 . The couple have become such a regular feature on Midsomer Murders that show bosses gave them a recurring role as a police duo . And since meeting on the set they have now featured on screen as a couple an impressive 150 times on 40 different shows. They have popped up in the background of some of TV's most iconic programmes including Casualty, The Bill, and Coronation Street. And the telly addict couple have become such a regular feature on Midsomer Murders that show bosses gave them a recurring role as a police duo. They have also appeared together on Shameless, Casualty, Misfits and Gavin and Stacey. But the pair finally took centre stage last month when they tied the knot at stately Aston Hall near their home in Dudley, West Midlands. John Walker and Neilum Raqia-Walker on their wedding day at Aston Hall, Birmingham . The pair, seen here on Casualty, have also appeared together on Shameless, Misfits and Gavin and Stacey . Neilum recalled how John even predicted he would marry his leading lady when they first met - although she took some convincing . John revealed it was co-star Suranne Jones who nudged him towards finally tying the knot when he appeared in detective drama Scott and Bailey. He said: 'She would get on at me constantly for not actually having a wedding date set. 'Whenever I saw her she would ask 'have you got a date yet, John?' and the answer was always 'no'. 'So I suppose it was her that got me to finally get off my bum and set things in motion for the big day. 'Sadly she wasn't able to make the wedding but she did write us a lovely letter which was a really lovely surprise on the day. 'The wedding was fantastic, there were about 120 people at the reception and 250 at the evening do. 'There were lots of people we've worked with during our time as extras, some people came from very far away which was really touching. John won Neilum over and the pair were together for five years before they tied the knot . John, who works full time as a Tesco counter manager, has been a TV extra for 15 years and worked alongside David Tennant . 'Extras have to eat last on set so at the wedding reception there were lots of jokes about whether or not the guests were allowed to queue up. 'It's been absolutely fantastic, I still can't believe we're a married couple, although we've played one so many times maybe I shouldn't be surprised.' Neilum recalled how John even predicted he would marry his leading lady when they first met - although she took some convincing. She said: ''We spent all day filming and at the end of the day he said that one day he would marry me. 'I actually thought he was quite a strange man.' But John won Neilum over and the pair were together for five years before they tied the knot. Neilum even joked that the November 15 ceremony - attended by many TV colleagues - was like being at work. She added: 'There were lots of other extras there who are our friends, it was almost like being on set again.' John Walker, seen here in Shameless, believes he has clocked up 70 hours on screen the equivalent to 35 feature-length films . John Walker, with Larry Lamb from Gavin and Stacey, has even written a book about his experiences . John, who works full time as a Tesco counter manager, has been a TV extra for 15 years and worked alongside acting legends David Jason, Julie Walters, Daniel Radcliffe and Jack Black during his illustrious 'acting' career. At the height of his work he appeared as a doctor in Hollyoaks, Coronation Street and Emmerdale - all in the same week. And last night (Fri) John made his film debut in 'Dead Time' on the Horror Channel, which he also produced. The supermarket worker reckons he has clocked up 70 hours on screen - equivalent to 35 feature-length films - and has even written a book about his experiences. He added: 'It's a great chance to get away from real life, have some fun and see some of the stars. 'I love seeing myself in the background of the nations favourite programmes.'	John Walker and Neilum Ragia-Walker have individually appeared over 2,500 times on popular shows including Casualty and Shameless . The pair played husband and wife during their first on-screen appearance together in 2008 on the set of Doctors . John's co-star Suranne Jones nudged him towards finally tying the knot when he appeared in detective drama Scott and Bailey .
Keywords: <keyword>BRITISH DIPLOMAT</keyword>, <keyword>EYE MUGGED</keyword>, <keyword>FERGUSSON LEFT</keyword>, <keyword>CEMETERY GEORGE</keyword>, <keyword>ATTACKED BERMUDA</keyword>, <keyword>BALLANTRAE SUFFERED</keyword>, <keyword>GROUND MR</keyword>, <keyword>GOVERNOR</keyword>, <keyword>MARGARET DINNER</keyword>, <keyword>POLICE BELIEVE</keyword> Recovering: British diplomat George Fergusson, 56, with wife Margaret at their south London home after he lost an eye in the attack . A senior diplomat has been left blind in one eye after being mugged while taking a shortcut through a London cemetery. George Fergusson, who is about to become the new governor of Bermuda, was on his way to meet his wife Margaret at a dinner party when the hooded attacker struck. Police believe the Old Etonian was targeted because he was using his BlackBerry smartphone to check his host’s address. Mr Fergusson was walking through . Hammersmith Cemetery in West London when the mugger ran up from behind. As the diplomat turned round, he was punched in the eye with such force . that he was knocked to the ground. The 56-year-old, a former high . commissioner to New Zealand and governor of Pitcairn, managed to hold on . to the BlackBerry in the ensuing struggle and seconds later the mugger . fled, having managed to take only a small quantity of cash. Dazed and bleeding heavily from his . left eye socket, Mr Fergusson managed to stagger to his feet and . telephone his wife, a senior official at the British Council, to excuse . his absence from the party before walking into the nearby Charing Cross . hospital. He was transferred to the Western Eye . Hospital in London, but despite specialists’ efforts, he has now . permanently lost his vision in the left eye. Brutal: Senior diplomat George Fergusson has been blinded in his left eye after a vicious mugging . A spokesman for the Foreign and . Commonwealth Office said Mr Fergusson had left hospital yesterday . morning and was now recovering from his ordeal at home in Lambeth, South . London. She said the attack at 7.30pm on . Friday evening had left Mr Fergusson considerably shaken but said he . still planned to take up his post in Bermuda in May. Knocked to the ground: Mr Fergusson (not pictured) was searching for the address of the party on his BlackBerry while walking through Hammersmith Cemetery (above) when he was punched in the face . Yesterday his wife told friends: ‘The . attacker thumped him straight in the eye, knocked him to the ground and . knocked him around a bit.’ Oxford-educated Mr Fergusson, who . earns £143,000 a year, is from a grand Scottish family with a proud . record in both the British Army and the diplomatic service. Brutal: The 56-year-old was left dazed and bleeding from his left eye as the attacker made of with a small amount of cash, but managed to stagger to nearby Charing Cross hospital . The family, whose motto is ‘All the . sweeter for having undergone bitterness’, has already suffered more than . its share of tragedy. In 2005, their son Alexander, 20, was killed when . he was hit by a taxi while pushing his bicycle across a bus lane in . London’s Piccadilly. In 1979 he lost his mother Laura, a . sister-in-law of the actress Joyce Grenfell, when gales blew a tree on . to the car she was travelling in near her home in Scotland. A year later, just two months before . Mr Fergusson’s wedding to Margaret, with whom he also has three . daughters, his father Lord Ballantrae suffered a stroke and died. Scotland Yard said it was satisfied that robbery was the only motive. Last night it said that a man aged 29 . had been arrested on suspicion of robbery and was detained in a West . London police station. Attacked: Bermuda governor George Fergusson has held a number of high ranking diplomat posts over the years - including being high commissioner to New Zealand and Samoa . Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.	Bermuda governor George Fergusson knocked to ground in daylight attack . Father-of-three was making his way to a dinner party when punched in eye . Old Etonian, 56, underwent surgery, but it was too late to save his left eye . A 29-year-old man in arrested in connection with the attack .
Keywords: <keyword>TIBBETTS SCHOOL</keyword>, <keyword>SCHOOL CHARGED</keyword>, <keyword>CONDUCT OFFENSES</keyword>, <keyword>INVESTIGATION VICKSBURG</keyword>, <keyword>COMPUTER CHILD</keyword>, <keyword>MALE STUDENT</keyword>, <keyword>13 YEARS</keyword>, <keyword>SECOND DEGREE</keyword>, <keyword>GREG TRUSTED</keyword>, <keyword>MINOR GLAES</keyword> By . Rachel Quigley . PUBLISHED: . 15:48 EST, 30 October 2012 . \| . UPDATED: . 15:57 EST, 30 October 2012 . Greg Tibbetts, principal of Vicksberg Middle School. He has been charged with second degree criminal sexual conduct and several offences related to using a computer to posses or distribute sexually abusive material . A middle school principal has been charged with sexually abusing a male student over a period of three years starting when he was 13 years old. Greg Tibbetts - who has been the principal of Vicksburg Middle School for the last nine years - was charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct and several offenses related to using a computer to possess or distribute sexually abusive material. Vicksburg Superintendent Charles Glaes told the Kalamazoo Gazette that the boy was a 13-year-old student at Tibbetts' school when the alleged abuse began in 2010. It allegedly continued until earlier this year when he was 16. Tibbetts, 42, was placed on leave in late September. The boy is now a student at Vicksburg High School now, Glaes said. Tibbetts is facing one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, five counts of using a computer with child sexually abusive material, five counts of possessing child sexually abusive material, one count of using a computer to solicit another to commit distribution of child sexually abusive material, and a count of exhibiting sexually abusive material to a minor. Glaes told Michigan Live that the investigation took him and other Vicksburg officials by total shock. 'Greg has been a very trusted and very capable administrator,' he said. 'When we were first notified by law enforcement about this, I said that if there was anyone who was the least likely candidate for something like this, it was Greg Tibbetts. But these are terribly serious charges.' A letter was sent on Monday to parents with children in Vicksburg Community Schools telling them counselors would be available for any students affected 'to deal with concerns and emotional issues students might have regarding the investigation'. Vicksburg Middle School. A letter was sent on Monday to parents with children in Vicksburg Community Schools telling them counselors would be available for any students affected . Sorry we are unable to accept comments for legal reasons.	Greg Tibbetts has been principal of Vicksberg Middle School for the past nine years . He has been charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct .
Keywords: <keyword>VICTOR MATFIELD</keyword>, <keyword>SPRINGBOK LOCK</keyword>, <keyword>RUGBY ENDING</keyword>, <keyword>TOLD SPORTSMAIL</keyword>, <keyword>AFRICA CAPPED</keyword>, <keyword>YESTERDAY SOUTH</keyword>, <keyword>CLASSIC BERMUDA</keyword>, <keyword>RETIREMENT CHANCE</keyword>, <keyword>DIDN KNOW</keyword>, <keyword>DEFINITELY SCARED</keyword> Victor Matfield received a phone call after arriving in London on Sunday which brought home to him how times have changed since he eased out retirement a year ago – in Bermuda, of all places. The iconic Springbok lock is enjoying a new lease of life in Test rugby, after ending his playing career in 2011, only to subsequently have a change of heart. On Saturday, he will face England in the QBE series at Twickenham, having become South Africa’s most-capped player – which seemed a distant prospect when he was making a guest appearance on the veterans’ circuit. Twelve months ago, 37-year-old Matfield was having fun in the sun – helping his country win the World Rugby Classic in Bermuda, via victory against the Classic Lions in the final. It was all part of the grand plan to return to the elite level of the game. That was the first, tentative step in the process. Springbok lock Victor Matfield retired in 2011, only to have a change of heart . ‘I went to Bermuda at the end of last year,’ he told Sportsmail on Monday. ‘By then I actually knew that I was going to play again so I almost felt like I would go there and see if my body was feeling right for it. I had been mountain-biking quite a bit so I had gone down to 99kg and I was skinny! ‘I went over and it was much slower, but it was pretty physical because most of the boys are 10-15kgs heavier than they should be! So the collisions were still really tough and it was just good to get back into it, see how my body felt and it felt alright. ‘What was nice was that I was the only guy there who was really in shape. All the other guys would have stints of about 20 minutes and come off, but I would play every minute of every game. There were a couple of beers after each game – and before each game too! Matfield will face England in the QBE series at Twickenham on Saturday . South Africa may look to parachute Patrick Lambie in at fly-half to face England at Twickenham on Saturday ahead of fast-rising star Handre Pollard. Meanwhile, Springboks attack coordinator and forwards coach Johann van Graan has singled out England’s scrum-half as one of their chief threats: ‘Twickenham is a place we love to play. We’re facing world-class players; we’ve a lot of respect for Danny Care.’ ‘We won the tournament, which made it even better. I got a call from the guys at the airport yesterday – the South African boys who were on their way there for this year’s tournament. They were missing me!’ While those former Boks are once again enjoying the laid-back charms of the Bermuda tournament, Matfield finds himself back at the sharp end of his profession – ready for a fifth personal appearance at Twickenham. He had finished playing in 2011 and did some TV punditry, as well as coaching with his provincial team, the Pretoria-based Blue Bulls. He had embraced retirement. But, behind the scenes, he was being coaxed into a return by his long-term mentor, Heyneke Meyer, the former Bulls and – briefly – Leicester coach, who had taken charge of the South Africa team after the last World Cup. ‘I always thought I would have loved to play under Heyneke in a Springbok team,’ said Matfield. ‘Then I retired in 2011 and when I did, I didn’t know who was going to be the coach. When he got the job, the first call he made was to me, to ask me to come out of retirement. He wanted me to come back in, to captain the side as well.’ At first, he resisted Meyer’s advances, but eventually, Matfield agreed to come out of retirement on the basis that he would play on until next year’s World Cup. There were other former Bulls coaches now working within the Boks’ set-up and the renowned second row thought to himself: ‘These guys can win the World Cup.’ He had misgivings though – fears even. ‘I was very happy retired and my wife was very happy as well, so it was something I had to discuss with her,’ he said. ‘When I retired, that was a big part of it, thinking, “I’ve had my stint, it’s time to get back to my family”, so when Heyneke asked me, the biggest thing I had to be sure was that my family would be alright if I did this for another two years. ‘Physically, fitness-wise, I always knew I would be fine. Lineout-wise, I was also confident because I was still involved with it, coaching the Bulls. I was going up against the guys and I found it pretty easy to win the lineouts against the current players, so I was happy with that. ‘But the physical contact was what I was scared of. Being older and after being out of it for two years – I had gone down to 99kg and I normally played at about 108, so I had to bulk up again. So I was definitely scared. ‘I also didn’t want to just come back, play two or three games and think, “Damn, I’m not going to make it”, not even make the Bok team and then just fade away. So there was a lot of pressure on me and I was a bit worried.’ Veteran Matfield is South Africa’s most-capped player after 117 appearances . Ultimately, Matfield’s concerns proved unfounded. Once he had withstood the ferocity of a heavily scrutinised Bulls comeback against South African rivals the Sharks in Durban early this year, he soon returned to the old routine and discovered that his body coped more effectively than it had done before his career hiatus. ‘I am definitely in much better nick than I was in 2011,’ he said. ‘I couldn’t get up in the mornings and I couldn’t walk down my stairs at home – I had to hold on. I think the two-year break helped my body a lot. Before that, I was just buggered! My body had seized up.’ Once he was up to speed again, a path back into the Springboks team opened up for him as other contenders in his position all succumbed to injury. ‘I was the only one left,’ he joked. His return soon led to him surpassing John Smit as his country’s most-capped player and later in the Rugby Championship he was at the heart of South Africa’s first win over the All Blacks since 2011. When news of his comeback went public, Matfield sensed a 50-50 split in media opinion at home. By the end of his first season back in the southern hemisphere’ s showpiece Test event, he had quelled any trace of resistance to his return. The sceptics had been silenced. Matfield insists the 2015 World Cup will be his swansong . Being a Bok again has meant being reunited with his long-term lock accomplice, the arch enforcer – Bakkies Botha. Matfield has savoured the reunion, both of them have; enjoying the notion that they are defying the passing of time. ‘It’s so funny, I knew I was going to come back last year and all of a sudden I saw that Bakkies was back in the squad for the end-of-year tour,’ he said. ‘I couldn’t believe it was real that the two of us were going to play together again. Every time we get on the bus, we sit at the back there and Bakkies says to me, “We’re still here. We’re still here. They can’t get rid of us!”.’ Yet, for Matfield, the end is in sight, for a second and final time. Whatever happens against England on Saturday, on the rest of this tour and over the next 10 months, the 2015 World Cup will be his swansong – no doubt at all. ‘The World Cup will be my last time playing,’ he said. ‘I have already signed a two-year deal with the Bulls for coaching. Everything is in place and this time there definitely won’t be any comeback out of retirement. No chance!’ When that time comes, Matfield will know what to do. Bermuda beckons.	Victor Matfield came out of retirement a year ago . He will make his 118th appearance against England on Saturday . The 37-year-old says he will hang up his boots after 2015 World Cup .
Keywords: <keyword>CATCH ALLIGATORS</keyword>, <keyword>SAID FISHING</keyword>, <keyword>LINE GATOR</keyword>, <keyword>SIZE HUNTED</keyword>, <keyword>BOCKMAN YOUNGER</keyword>, <keyword>MISSISSIPPI CLUE</keyword>, <keyword>BOAT TRACTOR</keyword>, <keyword>OLD UPS</keyword>, <keyword>OFFICIALS ESTIMATED</keyword>, <keyword>MEN EQUIPPED</keyword> (CNN) -- When Dustin Bockman, his younger brother Ryan and their friend Cole Landers put their 17-foot boat into the Big Black River last weekend about 20 minutes from where they live in Vicksburg, Mississippi, they had no clue that they would soon be caught up in an hours-long battle against a record-setting alligator. "We put the boat in at 8 o'clock on Saturday night and we got back to the dock with the alligator about 9:30 a.m. Sunday," the 27-year-old UPS driver told CNN in a telephone interview. It was a long night. Bockman had been one of 920 people picked from 27,000 applicants to participate in the state's 10-day alligator season. His selection and his $100 license gave him the right to catch two alligators -- one of any size, and a medium-size one. Though they'd never hunted alligators before, the men were well equipped: a bright light to illuminate their quarry's eyes, which typically sit just above the surface of the water, a crossbow attached to a 150-pound fishing line, a deep-sea fishing pole with a snagging hook, a shotgun, Mountain Dew and root beer. During the first few hours, they saw plenty of alligators, but passed them by. "I wanted to get an alligator 10 feet or better," he said. Texas teen bags state-record-sized alligator . About 1 a.m., they found one that fit the bill. "We didn't realize how big it was, we just knew it was big," he said. Under the rules of the lottery, hunters are not allowed to shoot alligators in open water, he said. "You have to get a line on them." That wasn't easy. Each time they approached the alligator, he submerged, only to pop up a few minutes later dozens of yards away. Finally, after about two hours, Bockman -- an experienced hunter -- shot him with the crossbow, striking him in the back. The line was attached to a homemade buoy -- made with a 3-liter water jug containing bells and glow sticks "so when it took off you could hear and see it at nighttime." A few minutes later, they got a second line on the gator with the fishing pole, and the animal took off, sinking to the river bottom and sitting -- for up to 20 minutes at a time -- as the three men tried repeatedly to pull him to the surface. "It was like trying to pull up a tree." Finally, another two hours later, success: "My buddy grabbed the boat fishing line and pulled him to the top," Bockman said. But by then, the fishing line had caught around a tree, so they cut it. That meant their only connection to the alligator was the buoy line. Another 90 minutes or so later, they used the buoy line to pull the alligator to the surface and tried to cover his head with a snare. "It's like a noose -- you put it around his neck and, when you pull it up, it tightens up." But the animal's head was about two feet long and bigger than the snare could accommodate. "When we pulled it tight, he went to fighting, then broke the bow fishing line. All we had was the snare," which was not firmly in place. At that, Bockman stuck the barrel of his Remington 1100 20-gauge shotgun into the water, aimed it at the soft spot on the back of the animal's head and pulled the trigger. In an instant, the longtime hunter learned a lesson in physics. "The gun barrel peeled back like a banana peel," he said. "The gas can't escape at the end of the barrel (under water). I didn't know that before, but now I do. It was pretty crazy. I thought they'd gave me the wrong bullets." It was still useable, however, and two more shots finished the job, which left them with another challenge. Knee-deep in mud, the three men tried to load their catch into the War Eagle boat, but discovered after much pulling and pushing that they couldn't, so they called for reinforcements. "We just pulled him over to a sandbar and waited for daylight so we could call some people to help us load him." On Sunday morning, two of their friends arrived and helped them pull the alligator into the boat. It was only then that they realized they had bagged a big one. But they had forgotten to bring a tape measure, so they were reduced to guessing its size. "We didn't realize until we took him back to my buddy's house and took him out of the boat with a tractor and put a tape measure on him that we needed to go get him weighed for a state record," he said. Here are the official measurements: 13 feet 4.5 inches long, 727.0 pounds. Its belly girth measured 67 inches and its tail measured 45.5 inches in girth. Officials estimated its age at 50 to 60 years. Their catch beat out the state's previous record winner in the weight category, which had been set just an hour earlier by a hunting party led by Beth Trammell of Madison, Mississippi. That gator's 723.5 pounds and 13 feet, 5.5 inches had broken the previous weight record of 697.5 pounds. The current length record is 13 feet 6.5 inches, set by an alligator taken on the Pascagoula River in 2008. Bockman has stored his prize catch in a deer processor's walk-in cooler. He plans to keep some of the meat, give away most of it to friends, then get the hide tanned, mount the head and the mushroomed gun barrel on a plaque and display it to his friends. But he has no illusions that his record will last long. "They could break my record tonight," he said. "There's bigger alligators out there." And he need not worry about the restriction on size. Bockman's brother Ryan also won the lottery, granting him the right to bag an even bigger animal when they go out again later this week. In Florida, gator takes bite out of crime -- and man .	Each time they approached, the alligator submerged, Dustin Bockman says . "The gun barrel peeled back like a banana peel" The snare wasn't big enough to cover the animal's head . "There's bigger alligators out there," Bockman says .
Keywords: <keyword>WRIGHT BROTHERS</keyword>, <keyword>CREATION AIRFIELDS</keyword>, <keyword>FIELD WILBUR</keyword>, <keyword>DAYTON AVIATION</keyword>, <keyword>FLYING MAGIC</keyword>, <keyword>MIDWESTERN DIRT</keyword>, <keyword>FENCE POSTS</keyword>, <keyword>NATURE WASN</keyword>, <keyword>EXPLORING HUFFMAN</keyword>, <keyword>FIRSTS REALLY</keyword> An old wooden shack and rows of tilted fence posts: In a way, this deserted little patch of Midwestern dirt was the starting point for every airport in the world. On a cold winter's day I scan a snowy, lonely field north of Dayton, Ohio. Not sure exactly where I am, I wonder for a minute if I'm lost. A National Park Service sign makes it clear what I'm looking at: "The first airport. Exploring Huffman Prairie Flying Field." Wait. Back up. I don't think I knew about that. Like millions of other Americans, I was taught that the Wright brothers worked their flying magic in a place called Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Then it hit me: What I'd stumbled onto was the Wrights' outdoor laboratory -- where they took powered flight to the next level. This 84-acre pasture is where Mrs. Wright's boys let themselves screw up. By learning from each misstep, they were able to develop "a practical and usable machine," said park ranger Robert Petersen. "This is the Holy Grail," he said. "This is literally where aviation gets its start." Related: Were the Wright brothers really first? After the brothers made history at Kitty Hawk, they schlepped more than 600 miles back to Dayton with a contraption that could fly 852 feet in 59 seconds. That was cool and all — but folks were wondering: Could an improved aircraft do more? Could it transport people from city to city? Maybe. Could it help defend democracy in a world war? Perhaps. The brothers and their employees had their work cut out for them. Between 1904 and 1916, according to Petersen and the National Park Service, a series of aviation firsts took place at Huffman Prairie: . -- First controlled turn . -- First circle . -- First controlled bank . -- First figure-eight . -- The "world's first permanent flight school," was established here, said Petersen. -- Among the first students was Henry "Hap" Arnold, who would become the only five-star general in the history of the U.S. Air Force. -- Another student was Calbraith Perry Rodgers -- who in 1911 became the first pilot to fly coast to coast. -- The first "cargo flight," took place out of Huffman Prairie, said Petersen. As publicity for a retail shop, a Wright aircraft flew several bolts of cloth to Columbus, about 55 miles away. "So, yeah," Petersen said. "It is the world's first airport." Hold on now. Other experts aren't so sure about that word, "airport." "That's not really an airport," said historian Deborah Douglas, curator of Science and Technology at the MIT Museum. "An airport has to do two things: get airplanes in and out of the sky safely and it has to transfer people and goods from one mode of transportation to another. If you're not doing those things, then I'd say you're not really an airport." No other place, as far as I can tell, calls itself the "first airport." College Park Airport, a tiny facility outside Washington, D.C., has a good shot at the claim, said Douglas. However, it avoids the controversy by simply calling itself the "oldest continually operating airport in the world." "If someone says 'first airport in America,' you could argue Kitty Hawk," said Chelsea Dorman, program coordinator at the College Park Aviation Museum. "But we've been flying here since 1909 and that's our distinction." Related story: Were the Wright brothers really first? Another airport, Pearson Field, which serves southwestern Washington state, says it started four years before College Park, in 1905, as a landing facility for a blimp. But its website calls it "one of the oldest operating fields in the U.S." The actual word "airport" wasn't used until 1919, when a newspaper coined it to describe Atlantic City, New Jersey's Bader Field, which opened in 1910. Now closed, Bader was "the first municipal airport in the U.S. for both land and seaplanes," according to the Federal Aviation Administration. "For academic historians, we find that 'firsts' are really, really hard to establish," Douglas says with a laugh. "They're hard to know." Related: World's most terrifying airport . Whatever the case, by the end of the first decade of the 20th century, America needed more landing and takeoff locations to support U.S. air mail deliveries. That spurred the creation of airfields in New York and Philadelphia. Across the Atlantic, European aviators were establishing prototype airports, too. Spurred by World War I, cities there eventually established London's Croydon Airport, Berlin's Templehoff and Le Bourget in Paris. Back in Ohio, the Wrights faced a few surprising challenges. The landowner allowed the Wrights to use the field under the condition that they moved the horses and cows out of the way first, said Petersen. "Sometimes there were issues." Another problem: how to get airborne. The plane's engines weren't much more powerful than engines for riding lawn mowers. Nature wasn't always cooperative either. Ohio winds aren't quite as gusty as the beaches of Kitty Hawk. Solution: Use a catapult. Here's how it worked: The plane sat at one end of a 240-foot-long wooden rail atop a wheeled trolley. Ropes and pulleys connected the trolley to a 1,600-pound weight suspended from a 20-foot-tall wooden derrick. With the plane's engines revving, the weight was dropped, propelling the craft down the rail and -- one hoped -- into the air. "This becomes the forerunner of catapult systems used to launch planes from aircraft carriers today," Petersen said. A replica of the catapult derrick stands at the site, along with a replica of the Wrights' hangar, built on the exact spot of the original. Because Huffman Prairie is part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, it has remained virtually untouched by real estate development, said Loyola University Chicago history professor Elizabeth Fraterrigo, who researched and wrote a paper on the property for the park service. (PDF) "You can really get a sense of what it was like for the Wright brothers to work there," she said. "You can think about what they accomplished at that place, and really feel a connection to it." The field is among five Dayton-area sites that make up the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Park, including the Wright family mansion and one of the Wrights' bicycle shops. Eventually, Huffman Prairie was swallowed up by two nearby military installations: Patterson Field and Wilbur Wright Field. Later, the two merging facilities became Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which has contributed to research and development of groundbreaking advances, including pressurized plane cabins, cockpit navigation instruments and night-vision technology. Amazing to think that it all sprouted from the exploits of two brothers, their bicycle shop and this hallowed piece of farmland.	Most know about Kitty Hawk, but the Wrights perfected their planes in Ohio . National Park Service touts Huffman Prairie Flying Field as the "first airport" Many historic aviation firsts took place at Huffman Prairie, located north of Dayton . Oldest airports include Maryland's College Park, Pearson Field in Washington state .
Keywords: <keyword>PADDY WOODHALL</keyword>, <keyword>DIED ALLEGED</keyword>, <keyword>DEER LEAP</keyword>, <keyword>DAVIES LEFT</keyword>, <keyword>FRIDAY DEVASTATED</keyword>, <keyword>FEELING MURDER</keyword>, <keyword>GIRLFRIEND FATHER</keyword>, <keyword>FACEBOOK VICTIM</keyword>, <keyword>SAID SUNNY</keyword>, <keyword>DISTURBANCE GARDEN</keyword> By . Leon Watson . The girlfriend of a father who died after an alleged fight at a pub led emotional tributes today as police launched a murder investigation. Paddy Woodhall, 27, was taken to hospital after the disturbance in the garden of The Deer's Leap in Kingstanding, West Midlands, at about 7.50pm on Friday. He died in hospital on Saturday evening. Paddy Woodhall (right) has been named by family and friends the man who died on Saturday evening after a fight on Friday. His devastated girlfriend, Stacey Davies (left), paid tribute to him . Police arrested two men, aged 22 and 27, at the pub on Friday. Two other men, also in their 20s, were also arrested the following day. All remain in custody today. Tributes have been posted on Facebook to the victim, who was originally from Tamworth, Staffordshire, and was father to a young child. His girlfriend Stacey Davies, a hairdresser, said: 'Actually can't believe it. Words jus can't describe ow I'm feeling! A murder investigation has been launched after a man died after being assaulted during disorder at The Deer's Leap public house, West Midlands . 'The most lovely, loyal man has been taken away from me, his family and his lil boy! 'I will always love u Paddy Woodhall, don't no wot I'm gana do without u I really don't! Always n foreva xxxxxxxxx' Cousin Claire Boyle posted: 'My beautiful cousin. Word's can't describe how I'm feeling. Gonna miss you loads. Rest in paradise Paddy.' And Sally Palmer said: 'Paddy, what a lovely guy. Gone too soon under tragic circumstances. RIP.' Detective Inspector Gary Plant, from West Midlands Police CID, appealed for witnesses and said: 'It was a sunny Bank Holiday afternoon and we know the pub was busy with drinkers all day. 'The disorder broke out in the middle of the evening and there would have been a number of people who have information about what happened.' Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.	Paddy Woodhall, 27, was taken to hospital but later died . Police arrested two men, aged 22 and 27, at the pub on Friday . Two other men, also in their 20s, were also arrested yesterday .
Keywords: <keyword>LONDON OLYMPICS</keyword>, <keyword>LONDON CLATTERING</keyword>, <keyword>WORRIED GERMANS</keyword>, <keyword>PREPARATIONS GAMES</keyword>, <keyword>SITUATION HEATHROW</keyword>, <keyword>SIZED DISASTER</keyword>, <keyword>FIASCO WEATHER</keyword>, <keyword>GAMES CLATTERING</keyword>, <keyword>HOST SOGGY</keyword>, <keyword>2012 UPDATED</keyword> By . Allan Hall In Berlin . PUBLISHED: . 04:57 EST, 18 July 2012 . \| . UPDATED: . 11:26 EST, 18 July 2012 . They have a reputation for faultless efficiency and planning events with meticulous detail. So perhaps we should be worried that Germans already believe London 2012 will be an 'Olympic-sized disaster'. Germany's leading news magazine has launched an attack on Britain’s preparations for the Olympics, poking fun at facilities and warning that the Games are destined to go down in history as a gigantic 'soggy mess'. Provocative: A German magazine article has poked fun at Britain's preparations for the Games, warning we can expect an 'Olympic-sized disaster' Venue: An aerial photograph of the Olympic stadium in Stratford, east London. Germans say it will host a 'soggy mess' The article in Der Spiegel trashes numerous aspects about the Games, from the 'clattering' Tube system that will transport most spectators to Olympic venues to pavements that are 'too narrow' and a passport control situation at Heathrow bordering on chaotic. 'London and the Olympic Games are clearly not made for each other,' it said. 'Visitors will need determination and, most of all, patience to reach the venues at all. And, for the locals, it all can’t end soon enough.' Controversial: The article appeared in this edition of Der Spiegel, Germany's leading news magazine . The article claims that the Olympics, which will run from July 27 to August 12, will be an 'arduous obstacle course for everyone'. 'Starting this week, the world’s biggest financial centre will be gripped by a special condition usually only seen in wartime,' it reads. 'Its 7.8million inhabitants are about to be joined by an average of 1million additional visitors per day. 'The already overloaded public-transportation system will be burdened with an additional 3 million fares per day. 'A total of 109 miles of the city’s streets will be closed off to normal traffic. 'Almost twice as many soldiers as Britain has in Afghanistan, a helicopter carrier and special forces units armed to the teeth will make the city look like it’s under siege.' The Germans, whose last efforts at . hosting the Olympic Games saw Israeli athletes murdered in Munich in a . security fiasco in 1972, then criticise an aspect beyond our control - the weather. It reads: 'And then there’s England’s classic bad weather, which has some wondering whether the Summer Games will turn into a fiasco. 'The weather has been cold, wet and gloomy since the spring, with last month proving to be the wettest June on record. 'The meteorologists’ Olympic forecasts are nothing short of dismal: rain, rain and, yes, more rain. And it won’t just be falling on the athletes, but also on the most highest-priced seats in the Olympic Stadium. 3 The number of times London has held the Olympic Games (1908, 1948 and 2012) 30 New bridges built inside the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London . 200 Number of buildings that had to be demolished to accommodate the site . 587 Acreage of Olympic Park . 3,000 Square footage of world's biggest McDonald's - just 200 yards from stadium . 200,000 Total workforce needed . 700,000 Total capacity for all venues . 4billion People expected to watch the Opening Ceremony . 9.3billion cost in pounds sterling of staging the Games . 'Optimistic planners decided not to cover those seats, unlike the rest of them.' The long and rambling article takes aim at many features of British life, even making fun of child obesity. 'And the children? They haven’t become athletes, either,' it states. 'On the contrary, the boys and girls of the British Isles are among the fattest in the European Union. 'London’s poor East End now has an Olympic Park and the largest shopping centre in the EU -- but it’s still poor.' The . article finishes: 'Though London has many natural gifts, they aren’t of . the kind that makes it ideal to host such a major event. 'And because Great Britain is both a . debt-ridden and democratic country, it wasn’t possible to radically . reshape London for the event, as the Chinese did with Beijing in 2008. 'The . 2012 London Olympics will probably end up looking like the host city . itself: a little chaotic, a little infuriating, never perfect, but with a . lot of room for improvisation, charm and talent. 'Those who live there will be delighted, of course, but only once it’s over.' 'Under siege': Two soldiers pass the Olympic stadium. The article comments on the large numbers of Armed Forces personnel on duty at the Games . Lampooned: Germans have made fun of London's 'clattering' Tube system, which will take the majority of visitors to Olympic venues . Getting ready: A carpenter checks the track at the velodrome in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London . Renna Jarvalt carries the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between Hythe and Sandgate, in Kent . Poking fun: The article claims that, for Londoners, the Games can't end soon enough .	Leading German news magazine pokes fun at London's Olympic planning . Der Spiegel: 'Visitors will need determination to reach the venues at all' Games will be an 'arduous obstacle for everyone', magazine claims .
Keywords: <keyword>MURRAY PLAYING</keyword>, <keyword>STAR ANDY</keyword>, <keyword>WORLD TENNIS</keyword>, <keyword>PERTH GB</keyword>, <keyword>CALENDAR SCOT</keyword>, <keyword>FLY HALF</keyword>, <keyword>PHYSIO BED</keyword>, <keyword>WARMS</keyword>, <keyword>MAKE SURE</keyword>, <keyword>SELFIE INSTAGRAM</keyword> Andy Murray has a season-defining fortnight ahead of him; the month of January will certainly go some way to teeing up the rest of the year. It is one of the most important starts to a calendar the Scot's ever encountered - and he's putting in the hard work to make sure he doesn't come up short, although he appears to have turned into Danny Cipriani given his latest Instagram picture. This snap looks rather like the fly-half - but the star on the physio bed is someone who has excelled far more in their field. Tennis star Andy Murray posted this selfie on Instagram ahead of Great Britain's clash against Australia . The Scot is playing alongside Heather Watson at the Hopman Cup in Perth before the Australian Open . The selfie looked as if it had been taken by England and Sale Sharks fly-half Danny Cipriani . Murray is the man ironing out any potential problems before the Australian Open in Melbourne, which starts a week on Monday. The Scot, who was knocked out in the quarter-finals Down Under this time 12 months ago, warms up for Great Britain this week. Murray is playing alongside Heather Watson at the Hopman Cup in Perth, with GB having won once and lost once thus far. The pair take on hosts Australia on Friday before Murray travels east for the first Grand Slam of the year. He has enjoyed a good start to season, winning the Mubadala World Tennis Championships exhibition event in Abu Dhabi last week, albeit opponent Novak Djokovic was forced to withdraw before the final due to illness. Murray was knocked out of the quarter-finals of the Australian Open this time last year . Murray won the Mubadala World Tennis Championships exhibition event in Abu Dhabi last week .	Andy Murray competing for Great Britain at the Hopman Cup . Heather Watson partners Scot in the doubles Down Under . Murray is looking to improve on last year's Australian Open quarter-final .

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