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(cnn)inspired by a cnn hero and want to help? you can make a tax deductible donation to any of the top 10 heroes through google the heroes' nonprofits will receive 100% of the funds, and all transaction fees will be waived to learn more about each nonprofit and their causes, here are the top 10 heroes in alphabetical order: eddie canales nonprofit: gridiron heroes what it does: provides emotional and financial support to high school football players who've sustained life changing spinal cord injuries eddie says: 'gridiron heroes is not about deterring anyone from playing football (but) these kids need help, and the families need help' exploring the issue: when a high school athlete gets seriously hurt, the pain isn't just physical there are also emotional and financial consequences donate to gridiron heroes taryn davis nonprofit: american widow project what it does: connects military widows online and in person, providing a network of support and inspiration taryn says: 'our main form of communication with our husbands (was) skype and facebook the internet it's a safe haven, in a way it lets (the widows participate) at their own pace it allows other women who maybe are kind of afraid to step forward (to) be like 'you know, they look like me' ' exploring the issue: it's not just widows who need support the changing landscape of the us military has created a tiny fraternity of men: the widowers of war donate to american widow project sal dimiceli nonprofit: the time is now to help what it does: provides personalized assistance, whether it be groceries, rent money or other necessities, to people who need help getting back on their feet sal says: 'with this recession right now, there are a lot of people in extreme desperate need people who are homeless, we'll help them get shelter; people who are hungry, we're going to feed them; people who have utilities off, we're going to turn them on; people that need transportation, we'll help fix their cars' exploring the issue: about 462 million americans are considered in poverty, 26 million more than last year donate to the time is now to help derreck kayongo nonprofit: global soap project what it does: collects partially used hotel soap in the united states, reprocesses it and then sends it abroad to save lives in impoverished countries derreck says: 'because of our work, this world is going to be a better place than we found itwith no soap being thrown away and with no child or woman or any vulnerable populous left without a bar of soap to fend off disease' exploring the issue: in developing countries around the world, millions of children lack access to soap and clean water donate to global soap project diane latiker nonprofit: kids off the block what it does: gives young people in chicago a place to hang out and learn valuable life skills so they can stay off the streets and away from rampant gang violence diane says: 'what i want people to know is that the work that i and so many others do can literally be the difference between life and death for a generation that seems to have lost all hope if i can make a change in a generation, then my community's going to get betterbecause they're going to be the ones that take it over' exploring the issue: in several cities around the world, streetwise 'interrupters' are trying to stop teen violence before it starts donate to kids off the block robin lim nonprofit: yayasan bumi sehat what it does: offers free prenatal care, birthing services and medical aid to low income women in indonesia robin says: 'because the cost of childbirth often exhausts the family's income, the poor and even the middle income people of the world find themselves in a downward spiral of suffering and loss, just when they should be celebrating the births of their babies' exploring the issue: many women in the developing world do not have access to contraception or maternal care donate to yayasan bumi sehat patrice millet nonprofit: fondaps youth soccer program what it does: provides free equipment, coaching and food to hundreds of poor haitian children and teaches them to become responsible citizens patrice says: 'when you live in the ghetto, you don't see the world outside i try to bring hope for them to show them that (their) life is not only the reality' exploring the issue: malnutrition is a major problem in haiti, but ready to use therapeutic foods are helping children recover faster donate to fondaps bruno serato nonprofit: caterina's club what it does: serves free pasta dinners to children, many of whom are poor and live in motels with their families bruno says: 'in america, in our own backyards, we have kids who go to bed hungry if we do something about it, we will have no hungry children in america' exploring the issue: food insecurity is spreading in america, and it's particularly hard on one group: children donate to caterina's club richard st denis nonprofit: world access project what it does: collects discarded wheelchairs from the us, refurbishes them and then sends them to people living with disabilities in rural mexico richard says: 'in many rural, impoverished, uneducated areas of mexico, people don't even know what a wheelchair is they don't know what their disability is or why they can't walk they have no hope, no expectation for the future, and no resources to change their situation' exploring the issue: wheelchairs aren't the only useful medical supplies being discarded in the united states donate to world access project amy stokes nonprofit: infinite family what it does: finds online mentors for south african teenagers, many of whom have lost their parents to hiv and aids amy says: 'we all learn best from each other, which is why growing up in families and communities of caring adults is so important more than 50 million children in sub saharan africa do not have this opportunity' exploring the issue: online mentoring is starting to grow as an 'effective and viable' alternative for young people, experts say donate to infinite family

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london, england (cnn)governments around the world continue to pump billions of dollars into financial markets, but there is still no telling whether the 'injections of liquidity' will be enough to prevent 'this sucker'to quote the president of the united statesfrom going down could 700 billion greenbacks be put to better use and kickstart a green revolution? to many people one of the more fascinating aspects of the unfolding spectacle has been the bewildering amounts of money made available by governments to avert financial catastrophe and no one knows yet whether it will all be worth it the same could be said of climate change no one really knows how bad it will get, but as the stern report concluded in 2006 doing nothing about it now is going to massively increase the costs of mitigation further down the line but the amounts being talked about and spent on climate initiatives by governments is dwarfed by the bailout package take, for example, a statement issued by the world bank at the end of september which revealed that 10 leading industrialized nationsincluding the united states, japan and the ukhave pledged a total of $61 billion to help 'climate investment funds' that's around $675 million per nation this sense of skewed priorities was recently put into perspective by rock star bono speaking at the clinton global initiative, the u2 front man made a damning comparison 'it's extraordinary to me that the united states can find $700 billion to save wall street and the entire g 8 can't find $25 billion dollars to save 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases,' he said so what would happen if governments ignored the un capitalist cries for mercy spilling out from wall street and put the money towards climate change instead? what would $700 billion buy? let us start at the margins of common sense you could buy 100 billion energy saving light bulbs at the other end of the scale, $700 billion would contribute a third of the cost towards a geo engineering project which imagines deflecting the sun's rays away from earth astronomer roger angel believes that the bill for his idea of a vast array of space mirrors would be around $2 trillion a slightly more plausible idea might be to oversee a comprehensive insulation program for 700 million homes or perhaps fund domestic solar panels a $10,000 photovoltaic solar array could be installed atop 70 million homes much of the responsibility for our future energy needs rests on the fortunes of large scale renewable solar and wind projects why not roll out a comprehensive program now? for example, the 40 megawatt waldpolenz solar park in bolanden, germany is due to be switched on in 2009 at a cost of $180 million the wall street bailout would pay for nearly 3,900 such solar farms if wind power was the only item on your shopping list then you could afford to build 3,700 farms similar to the 90 megawatt facility being built offshore at the kentish flats wind farm in the uk, which would collectively generate an impressive 330 gigawatts alternatively, nuclear energynow back from the dead and a big favorite with energy ministers worldwidewould see 175 new plants at $4 billion each but as gavin edwards, head of greenpeace's climate and energy campaign, points out: 'there are two sides of the coin in tackling climate change one is to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, the other is adaptation,' he told cnn using figures from the stern report, the ipcc and renewable energy industries edwards gave cnn his assessment of how greenpeace would spend the money 'if you put $30 billion a year towards protecting forests, then that could cut greenhouse gas emissions by one fifth,' he said 'another $20 billion per year is enough to spur an energy revolution and a massive uptake of green energy and approximately another $10 billion per year would make sure we are using energy much more efficiently 'that's about $60 billion right there for mitigating climate change' for adaptation, edwards put the figure at around $50 billion per year for saving lives in developing countries and continents such as africa 'so that's about $110 billion per year,' he said 'so if the us congress diverted money from the financial bailout we could have a really good head start on climate change in the next six years, if we applied the $700 billion in this way' read about greenpeace's energy revolution here an economist's view earlier this year, gary yohe, woodhouse/sysco professor of economics at wesleyan university in connecticut participated in bjorn lomborg's copenhagen consensus exercise where global issues are rigorously debated and then ranked in terms of importance yohe headed a team of three economists whose task it was to calculate a workable fiscal plan for global warming 'almost by coincidence,' yohe told cnn, '$700 billion is close to the discounted budget for the copenhagen consensus exercise $800 billion, actually' 'allocating $50 billion to research and development (r&d) on carbon friendly technology produced a discounted payback of nearly three times that amount 'adding reflections of aversion to risk, as well as optimally allocating effort over time, increased the payback to more than six times the investment' download gary yohe's challenge paper here but he cautions against spending $50 billion on r&d without economic incentives 'we would be wasting a lot of effort,' he said 'we should be thinking about risks and the degree to which you are reducing risks as you make these investments,' yohe said 'that's a reasonable question about the bailout as well $700 800 billion dollars wouldn't guarantee that you are going to avoid climate change nor does that figure guarantee you are going to avoid significant financial trouble but the benefits avoided are likely to be really quite substantial' yohe says that the $800 billion figure he drew up in his copenhagen consensus paper isn't necessarily the right number, but it would produce 'an extraordinary gain relative to doing nothing' he concludes that a mixture of adaptation and mitigation approaches coupled with greater research and development into greener technology would yield the best returns on the money allocated the bailout bill passed by the us senate now stands at $810 billionstrikingly similar to the budget yohe himself has been theorizing about when the dust settles on the financial crisis his analysis may well provide politicians with a useful framework from which to start developing a meaningful large scale climate change strategy but climate change is going to require a lot more than just plain hard cash 'this is going to sound north american centric,' yohe said 'but i think the world is looking for us leadership and if, in january, it picks up a leadership roleaccepting the notion that there is a void in leadershipthere will be a great deal of response' how would you spend $700 billion to combat climate change? let us know in the sound off box below

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how much would $700 billion help climate change mitigation and adaptation? greenpeace spokesman says $700 billion would 'give us a good head start' us economist says gains would be 'extraordinary' compared to doing nothing

(cnn)how much do you love your city? enough to write a love letter to it? so much that you'd tattoo that love letter on your body? the lexington tattoo project, which will leave hundreds of residents branded with an ode to their town, is the brainchild of artists kurt gohde and kremena todorova, professors at transylvania university in kentucky's second largest city 'for years to come, this is a commitment to lexington,' gohde said their fascination with tattooing as an art form started a few years ago when they co taught a class called 'creative disruption,' a course built around understandingand challengingthe cultural and social conventions that dictate our lives one of their most thought provoking assignments asked students to place temporary but realistic looking tattoos in a visible place on their body they were then asked to visit a business and apply for a job gohde and todorova said students came back with mixed responses; some felt like a conversation piece, others felt discriminated against gohde and todorova acted as canvasses along with their students; todorova chose to wear the fake tattoos off and on for two years 'what was interesting to us, as well, was how our gender would affect how we are perceived,' todorova said 'people were a lot more interested in my tattoos, but they looked at kurt like he was a criminal' decoding the workplace dress code this go round, they decided to take it one step further, using the words of a local poet for an installation of permanent tattoos to be inked on lexington residents poet bianca spriggs crafted a contrapuntal worka three part piece in which the reader can view the left column as one poem, the right column as another poem, and both columns together as a third poem the title: 'the of the universe: a love story' 'it didn't start off as a love letter,' spriggs confided 'i've been off and on in lexington for about 20 years like any relationship, you have your ups and downs with the city i tried not to think that people were going to have it tattooed on their body' spriggs enlisted social media to fill in the blank: 'lexington is the of the universe' some of the responses were poetic, others were downright bizarreread 'errant nipple hair' and 'b list cult movie' still, gohde and todorova found someone to agree to be inked with every phrase and punctuation mark in the 496 word poem (including the title) apparently this matters: face tattoos participants submitted their top three phrases and gohde and todorova narrowed it down from there; they say only about 15 20 people had to resubmit phrases because they weren't available anymore spriggs participated in the project, too, choosing the phrase 'gravitational pull' for a permanent spot on her left foot 'i got that one because every time i tried to leave lexington, something pulled me backas if my work here is not yet done,' said 31 year old spriggs in all, 248 participants will put their love for lexington in ink more than 60 people were first time tattoo recipients (including the professors themselves) the oldest participant is 65 tattoos and piercings: how young is too young? the tattoos were done by robert alleyne and jay armstrong at charmed life tattoo, gratis, thanks to local sponsors 'i loved the idea of a small part of the city that i call home coming together and using tattooing as the medium for the sake of a community art project,' said josh weinel, 36, a participant in the project weinel chose to put the phrase 'signal flare' along his left forearm it was his 25th tattoo weinel's twin brother, jason, also decided to participate in the project after learning about it from his brother opting for the phrase, 'the roadside attraction,' jason said the decision to partake was a no brainer 'i have left here many times, moving to cincinnati, chicago and naples, always ending up back home in lexington,' jason said 'i wanted to be a part of something that was local and also originalthis was it lexington is one of the few consistencies in my life and will call it home for a very long time' while tattoos have infiltrated popular culture, to some they will always remain taboo 'i think the stigma, at a very base level, is because the bible tells us not to,' gohde said much of the project's backlash comes from people quoting the book of leviticus: 'you shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: i am the lord' on the flip side, the artists say the project has galvanized pride in lexington 'what we hope for is to create a community of people who are connected to each other but also to lexington,' todorova said the lexington tattoo project will premiere in the fall with a short film that highlights each tattoo; it will also unveil a hidden image built within the circle patterns surrounding the tattoos the final tattoo will be completed in the coming weeks the poet's mother in law will get a tattoo that says 'by bianca spriggs' would you show pride for your hometown with a tattoo? 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(cnn)the us olympic committee says it is too late to remake uniforms that sport 'made in china' labels for the london games, though vowed team usa would march in clothing made in america during the opening of the 2014 winter games the announcement friday was an about face by the usoc a day after it defended the use of the ralph lauren designer uniform, which were widely condemned by lawmakers who questioned why the work was not given to the hard hit american textile industry 'we take seriously the concerns we've heard from members of congress and the american public regarding the us olympic team's opening and closing ceremonies uniforms,' scott blackmun, the usoc chief executive officer, said in a written statement 'with athletes having already arrived in london, and the apparel distribution process beginning this weekend, we are unfortunately not able to make a change for london we are absolutely committed, however, to working with our sponsors to ensure that the concerns voiced are addressed' what's really 'made in america' in the statement, blackmun said that ralph lauren would domestically manufacture the uniforms to be worn at the opening and closing of the winter games in sochi, russia, in two years ralph lauren's sponsorship as the official outfitter of the us olympic team began in 2008 and runs through 2020, according to usoc profiles of its sponsors the controversy cast a spotlight on the plight of the us textile industry, which has been hit hard in recent years by outsourcing and the economic downturn 'ralph lauren promises to lead the conversation within our industry and our government addressing the issue of increasing manufacturing in the united states and has committed to producing the opening and closing ceremony team usa uniforms in the united states that will be worn for the 2014 olympic games,' the fashion company said in statement released friday according to the us labor department, 10 years ago, there were more than 350,000 americans employed by apparel manufacturers last month, that number was 147,300 in testimony before congress last year, the american apparel and footwear association said that 98% of all apparel and 99% of all footwear sold in the united states are manufactured abroad the news the uniforms were made in china broke the same week house democrats introduced a 'make it in america' jobs bill, striking a raw nerve with some lawmakers senate majority leader harry reid, d nevada, said the usoc 'should be ashamed' and called for the uniforms to be 'burned' initially, usoc spokesman patrick sandusky took to twitter to describe the uproar as 'nonsense' in a statement on thursday, he said: 'unlike most olympic teams around the world, the us olympic team is privately funded and we're grateful for the support of our sponsors' public pressure, though, mounted with thousands taking to facebook and twitter to demand the uniforms be made in america the first indication the usoc was changing its position came early friday when rep steve israel and sen kirsten gillibrand, both democrats from new york, said they spoke with blackmun from our readers: forget uniforms, us olympians should 'go naked' the two lawmakers wrote a joint letter on thursday to the usoc urging it to make the uniforms in the united states 'just had a positive conversation re: uniforms with ceo of the @usolympic committee looking forward to hearing more soon,' israel said in a tweet a short time later, the usoc and ralph lauren issued statements israel said he happy to hear the olympic committee will require future uniforms be domestically manufactured 'but disappointed no us made uniforms in london,' he tweeted dara torres, a former american olympic swimmer who won 12 medals in a span of 20 years, said the ralph lauren uniformswith their blue berets and blazers and off white pants and skirtslooked great but would be better if they were produced domestically 'wearing the us uniform, going out there to represent the united states, it would be nice if it was actually made in the united states,' she told cnn the usoc is no stranger to controversy over its sponsorships, with questions being raised over why it opted last year to extend bp's sponsorship through the 2016 rio de janeiro games, following the gulf of mexico oil spill in 2010 it was questioned as early as the 2002 during the winter games in salt lake city about why american athletes donned berets made by roots, a canadian company headlines also were made this year in australia when it was revealed its uniforms for the olympics also were made in china the australian olympic committee responded to critics by saying it was not financially viable to make the outfits at home, according to local media reports some canadian lawmakers became irate in 2008, when it was learned that canadian uniforms for the olympics in beijing were made in china american companies have made olympic uniforms in the past, notably, reebok, levi's and champion for 2014, team usa uniforms 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the usoc says 'apparel distribution' for athletes begins this weekend the committee says uniforms will be made in america for the 2014 games rep steve israel says he is disappointed the uniforms will not be remade ralph lauren promises to lead the industry conversation on american manufacturing

(cnn)another africa cup of nations, another failure for the ivory coast's 'golden generation' but while didier drogba may never get the chance to lift the continent's coveted trophy, another african football superpower is on course to end its own long wait for success nigeria set up a semifinal clash with mali by beating the seemingly perennial tournament favorite ivorians 2 1 in rustenburg on sunday the 'super eagles' have not won the title since 1994, a year the team reached fifth in the world rankingsthe highest by any african nation since then nigeria has had to settle for three third placings between 2002 10, and didn't even qualify for last year's tournament it was a period of turmoil, as the country's president goodluck jonathan at first banned the national side for two years after a poor showing at the 2010 world cup before world ruling body fifa threatened even harsher sanctions, and the ruler backed down under the guidance of former international player stephen keshi, nigeria came through group c with a win and two draws this month and then beat a side that the coach called 'the top team on the continent' 'i want to thank god for this wonderful victory, and sincerely thank my players for everything they did today i hope we can keep going to the final,' the former togo and mali coach told reporters ahead of wednesday's semi in durban 'ivory coast are the top team on the continent with lots of quality, so we tried to speed up and try to catch out players like drogba and yaya toure 'i'm glad my team is progressing in every gamethere is great discipline in the team and i just hope we keep going that way' nigeria took the lead just before halftime when emmanuel emenike's free kick went straight through ivory coast goalkeeper boubacar barry for his third goal of the tournament in south africa cheick tiote leveled with a header from veteran captain drogba's free kick on the left, but sunday mba gave nigeria victory as he beat three men and unleashed a 20 yard shot that was deflected past barry the 24 year old is one of five nigeria based players in the 23 man squadnone from the country's top league featured in the 2008 or 2010 finals 'the boys showed character when i played for nigeria i had to fight, fight, fight and they did that today,' keshi said 'when the ivorians leveled we tried to defend and work out our tactics, and we scored again sunday came up with a beautiful, beautiful goal' ivory coast coach sabri lamouchi took responsibility for his team's surprise exit 'i put forward the team i judged to be the best to pose problems to a good nigeria side,' said the frenchman, who took over after last year's penalty shootout defeat in the final against zambia 'of course our aim was to win the title, and for certain players this could be their last chance so, yes, there is disappointment in the dressing room 'it's a great sadness for me as the players were working with one objectiveto win this nations cupbut it proved not to be enough' drogba and most of the elephants squad will now head back to europethe 34 year old will join his new turkish club galatasaray, where ivory coast teammate emmanuel eboue also plays two time african player of the year yaya toure will go back to england with his brother kolo to help manchester city's faltering premier league title defense meanwhile, burkina faso won the battle of first time quarterfinalists in sunday's other game, beating togo 1 0 after extra time at nelspruit jonathan ptroipa headed the only goal from a corner in the 105th minute to set up a clash with four time champion ghana at the same venue on wednesday

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nigeria into semifinals of africa cup of nations after beating ivory coast 2 1 on sunday late goal from sunday mba puts 'super eagles' into a last four clash with mali ivorians had been favored with star players such as didier drogba and yaya toure burkina faso beat togo 1 0 after extra time in last quarterfinal at nelspruit

beijing, china (cnn)fireworks, athletes and pageantry on a scale never before seen in the olympics opened the summer games in beijing on friday as the asian nation kicked off the biggest and most scrutinized games in history fans celebrate the opening ceremony of the 2008 olympic games in beijing, china, on friday chinese president hu jintao declared the olympics officially open, retired chinese gymnastics champion li ning was carried through the air to light the olympic cauldron, and pyrotechnics exploded throughout beijing as the crowd of 91,000 at national stadium cheered wildly it was a stunning display from the nation of 13 billion people some media observers believe that the opening ceremony may be the most watched television event in history ioc president jacques rogge spoke of china's long held ambition to host the olympics 'tonight, that dream comes true,' he said rogge mentioned the sichuan earthquake, saying the world was moved 'by the great courage and solidarity of the chinese people' emotion was high, as friday's opening ceremony not only officially started the summer games but was a symbolic expression of a nation seeking its place as a global superpower watch the excitement in beijing as the ceremony begins » the ceremony began at 8 pm local time (8 am et) on the eighth day of the eighth month of 2008in a country where eight is the luckiest number the opening was an artistic mix of performance and light depicting china's 5,000 years of history fireworks shot off across the chinese capital as thousands of drummers, acrobats, martial artists and dancers performed under a light display at the national stadium children representing each of the 56 ethnic groups in china marched out into the stadium, called the 'bird's nest' because of its notable appearance dancers merged with objects that depicted china's ancient silk road, its great wall and ancient imperial past acrobats swirled around a giant sphere, depicting china's ambitions in space watch why the olympics mean so much for the chinese » delegations from afghanistan, taiwan, north korea and the united states were welcomed by huge cheers but the loudest roars were saved for the chinese participants waves of emotion greeted china's delegation as it entered national stadium, led by flag bearer and basketball superstar yao ming us president bush was joined by russian prime minister vladimir putin and more than 100 heads of state, heads of government and sovereigns expected to attend, the international olympic committee said the joy in beijing was countered by grave news in europe as the opening ceremony was under way, georgia's president said that his country was under attack by russian tanks and warplanes while in beijing, bush and putin met to discuss the conflict earlier friday, the anticipation over the beijing olympics was unmistakable in china's capital city thousands were on hand early at beijing's tiananmen square to witness the traditional flag raising ceremony by soldiers of the chinese people's liberation army blog: anticipation was at fever pitch this version of the olympics brings with it controversy, discord that began in 2001 when the 2008 games were awarded to beijing criticism over china's policies on human rights for its citizens, its policies in tibet and the persistent pollution across the country have been the focus of much international scrutiny and media attention watch protests in germany over china's tibet policies » for some world leaders, the decision to attend was a tough call french president nicolas sarkozy threatened to boycott the games because of human rights abuses in tibet but later changed his mind 'it's inevitable that people from different countries may not see eye to eye,' hu said recently, 'so we should try to expand our common ground on the basis of mutual respect' political leaders do not attend olympic opening ceremonies as a matter of protocolbush is the first american president to attend them outside the united statesbut china seemed determined to have as many there as possible 'they want those leaders to confirm the fact that china has returned to great power, prominence in the world,' said david zweig, a political analyst at hong kong university of science and technology 'they really want to say to the people of china that we, the communist party of china, have done a great job' watch why china has invested so much in the olympics » as for the games, an estimated 10,000 athletes from 205 countries will compete in 28 events for about 300 gold medals the first medals will be awarded saturday, and china hoped to claim the first gold of the games see a timeline of moments to watch for » the olympics will offer plenty of drama china has put a priority on finishing first in the overall medal standings government officials have said they expect nothing less than a repeat gold medal from 110 meter hurdler liu xiang watch how pressure is building for the athletes » on sunday, swimming competition begins, along with us swimmer michael phelps' quest to win eight gold medals, more than any individual in a single games even if he fails, phelps could become the all time leader in gold medals also sunday, an early showdown in basketball as the us basketball team led by stars kobe bryant and lebron james faces host china and yao ming watch an exclusive cnn interview with yao » cnn's kevin drew and emily chang contributed to this story

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olympics opening is under way, marking beginning of summer games 2008 summer olympics is most expensive on record anticipation building grows who will light olympic cauldron more than 10,000 athletes to compete for about 300 gold medals

(cnn)tensions between india and pakistan flared sunday in the kashmir region, with at least one pakistani soldier killed in the violence, its military said but exactly what happened depends on the source according to the pakistani military, indian troops crossed the line of controlthe de facto border between india and pakistan in the disputed kashmir regionand attacked a military post 'pakistan army troops effectively responded and repulsed the attack successfully,' but one pakistani soldier was killed and another critically injured, the military said the indian defense ministry, however, said pakistani troops opened fire unprovoked on indian posts in the north uri sector of indian administered kashmir indian troops retaliated and forced pakistani troops to stop firing, the defense ministry said the ministry did not immediately report the number of casualties, but said three civilians were killed by pakistani shelling in the area last october the territory under dispute lies in india's kashmir valley, separated from pakistan by the 450 mile line of control the two south asian nuclear neighbors have had a bilateral ceasefire along the de facto border since november 2003 but the ceasefire has been violated repeatedly, with both sides accusing each other of offenses bilateral talks were temporarily suspended in 2008 following an attack by pakistani militants in mumbai, india's most populous city the negotiations resumed last year the conflict dates back to 1947 after britain relinquished control of the indian subcontinent, giving birth to india and pakistan read more: south asian rivals take baby steps to warmer relations kashmir was free to accede to either nation maharaja hari singh, the ruler of the kingdom at the time, initially chose to remain independent but eventually opted to join india, thereby handing key powers to the central government in new delhi in exchange, india guaranteed him military protection and vowed to hold a popular vote on the issue the south asian rivals have fought two of three wars over the territorial issuein 1947 and in 1965 a third conflict between india and pakistan erupted in 1999 after pakistani backed forces infiltrated indian controlled kashmir in the kargil area read more: 2 police officers killed in kashmir attacks islamabad has always maintained that majority muslim kashmir should have been a part of pakistan a united nations' resolution adopted after the first war called for a referendum allowing the people of kashmir to choose which country they wanted to join, but that vote for self determination has never been held pakistan wants that referendum to take place india claims that pakistan lends support to separatist groups fighting against government control and argues that a 1972 agreement mandates a resolution to the kashmir dispute through bilateral talks read more: pakistani taliban threaten to target india after execution of mumbai attacker mukhtar ahmad reported from srinagar, india; shaan khan reported from islamabad, pakistan cnn's nasir habib also contributed to this report

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orme, tennessee (cnn)the drought in the southeastern united states means more than just brown lawns to the folks in orme, tennessee water flows from their taps for just three hours each evening a 1961 firetruck loads up with water from a hydrant in alabama to haul back to orme, tennessee the mountain spring that supplies water to the town usually dries up at the end of summer, but just for a few days this year it dried up early, on august 1, and hasn't revived, leaving the town's 145 residents high and dry and relying on water trucked in from the next state every day at 6 pm, orme mayor tony reames turns a big valve to release water from the town's tank when he turns the crank again at 9 pm, taps in the town run dry 'when they cut it back on we jump for joy,' orme resident debbie cash said 'and then you only have it for three hours' three hours to do all the laundry, bathing, dishwashing and animal watering that has to be done watch how cash copes » the old mining town could be the canary in the coal mine for the rest of the region just 150 miles to the southeast, the 45 million people who live in and around atlanta, georgia, are nervously watching water levels go down at their major reservoir the drought has highlighted an ongoing struggle between georgia, alabama and florida over rights to water from the chattahoochee river 'all of these people that are on the river systems better take note, because once your streams and tributaries to the river start drying up, the river isn't far behind,' reames said see photos of a atlanta's shrinking lake lanier reservoir » volunteers take turns three days a week driving a tanker truck or orme's diesel belching 1961 fire truck to a hydrant near bridgeport, alabama, 2½ miles down the road making several round trips, they haul about 25,000 gallons of water back to orme each day bridgeport, which gets its water from the tennessee river, doesn't charge its neighbor stevenson and new hope, alabama, also help out, occasionally bringing trucks full of water to the hydrant, where it's transferred to the orme trucks see where orme has to go for water » but things are looking up in orme a pipeline from bridgeport is nearly complete, built with the help of a $378,000 grant from the federal government 'with this new water coming in, then we'll have it made,' cash said 'now we won't have to worry about it no more' in addition, an austin, texas, company called h2o guard is planning to donate water saving sink aerators, shower heads and toilet valves to everyone in orme on november 17, company spokesman robert easter said 'we think we're going to get another 90 gallons' savings per day per household,' easter said 'that'll make that little water tower in that town go from three hours to four hours without any change in anyone's habits' reames said residents have found creative ways to conserve, flushing toilets with condensation water from air conditioners and undrinkable water from swimming pools that were filled early in the summer it's a lesson for everyone 'cherish the water you got and be kind of careful with it,' cash said, 'because you never know if you will be out of water' e mail to a friend cnn's jim kavanagh contributed to this report

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(cnn)china has suspended exports of the aqua dots toys contaminated with a chemical that can convert to a powerful 'date rape' drug, the state run xinhua news agency reported saturday the toys have caused some children who swallowed the craft toys to vomit and lose consciousness china suspended exports of the aqua dots toys that contain a chemical that converts into a 'date rape' drug the agency said that the general administration of quality supervision, inspection, and quarantine (aqsiq) has ordered an investigation by quality control agencies and will release results as soon as they are available the aqsiq did not reveal the name of the toys' producer, xinhua said us safety officials voluntarily recalled about 42 million of the chinese made toys wednesday scientists have found the highly popular holiday toy contains a chemical that, once metabolized, converts into the toxic 'date rape' drug ghb (gamma hydroxy butyrate), scott wolfson, a spokesman with the us consumer product safety commission (cpsc), told cnn 'children who swallow the beads can become comatose, develop respiratory depression or have seizures,' a cpsc statement warned the arts and craft beads, which have been selling since april at major us retail stores under the name 'aqua dots,' have also been distributed in australia under the name 'bindeez beads' the bindeez toys were recalled tuesday by melbourne based moose enterprise pty ltd after three children in australia swallowed large quantities of the beads and were hospitalized 'i was so frightened because i thought she wasn't going to make it,' heather lehane told cnn affiliate network 7 of her 10 year old daughter, charlotte, who was hospitalized in australia after ingesting some of the beads in the united states, the washington based safety commission said it has in recent days received two reports detailing the severe effects of the digested beads, which are part of a craft kit aimed at kids 4 years and older the cpsc said a boy nearly 2 years old 'swallowed several dozen beads he became dizzy and vomited several times before slipping into a comatose state for a period of time' the commission said the toddler was hospitalized and has since 'fully recovered' the second incident involved a child who vomited, fell into a coma and was hospitalized for five days it was not immediately clear whether the child had made a full recovery toronto based toy distributor spin master ltd stopped shipping the aqua dots toys and asked retailers to pull them off their shelves, where they were previously sold for $17 to $30 anyone with aqua dots at home should return the product to the company, cpsc spokeswoman julie vallese said the toy had been named toy of the year in australia and recently crested wal mart's list of top 12 christmas toys wal mart on thursday listed the toys on its web site as 'out of stock online' and had removed them from their top toy list as well this latest recall is part of a larger batch of recalls of chinese made toys that have swept across the country last month alone, us government safety officials and retailers voluntarily recalled at least 69,000 chinese made toys over concerns of excessive amounts of lead paint, which can cause hazardous lead poisoning e mail to a friend cnn's janine brady, jason carroll, laura dolan, julie o'neill and leslie wiggins contributed to this report

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state run news agency: china orders an investigation by quality control agencies children who swallow the beads can become comatose or have seizures toys are sold as aqua dots in the us, as bindeez beads in australia three children were hospitalized in australia after swallowing large quantities

(cnn)tens of thousands of congolese refugees fled camps tuesday in the democratic republic of congo as rebel troops attacked government forces in the area, the un refugee agency said refugees move along a road tuesday in mugunga, near goma, in the democratic republic of congo a press release from the un high commissioner for refugees said it didn't appear rebels had targeted the camps, but it reported some were looted after camp residents, classified as internally displaced persons, fled roads to goma, about 10 miles from the camps, were crowded with refugees and local residents fleeing the fighting, the unhcr reported torrential rain made the movement even more difficult 'the main road toward sake was crowded with people; we had difficulties getting through,' unhcr field safety adviser pierre nazroo was quoted as saying in the agency's release 'internally displaced people are moving from site to site, direction goma' unhcr spokesman ron redmond said, 'they have been living in extremely difficult conditions anyway now they have nothing but what they can carry' redmond added, 'these are people in poor health; they are soaking wet because of the torrential downpours they need shelter, they need water, they need a lot of assistance so we're going to have to move quickly to get that help to them because a lot of them are already in a weakened state' while the congolese government accused troops under rebel general laurent nkunda of staging the attack, a nkunda spokesman denied the allegation, according to a report from the integrated regional information networks, a un affiliated news service the spokesman, bwambale kakolele, said rwandan hutu rebels who also operate in the area were behind the attack, that report said a spokesman for the un military mission in the congo said it was uncertain which group attacked the congo army outpost near the village of kishangazi, according to the un affiliated news service 'we think it could have been insurgents close to nkunda who attacked, but we cannot rule out the [rwandan rebels],' spokesman col pierre cherayron was quoted as saying the unhcr identified the affected camps as mugunga i, mugunga ii, lac vert and bulengo, saying about 28,000 had abandoned the first three camps and about 2,000 had left bulengo the unhcr said 375,000 congolese in north kivu province have been forced from their homes in the past year in the past two months alone, 160,000 have fled their homes amid the fighting between renegade troops and government forces, the agency said north kivu is in eastern congo near the borders of rwanda and uganda congolese president joseph kabila has tried to gain a cease fire with the rebels in the area under nkunda, but fighting continues as hard liners among the rebels and in the government have blocked reconciliation efforts, according to the international crisis group, an nongovernmental organization looking for solutions to conflicts e mail to a friend

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new: congo rebels blame rwandan hutus for attack, report says internally displaced congolese flee as rebels attack government troops torrential rain makes refugee movement difficult un refugee agency: some 375,000 have been forced from homes in past year

(livewire)voluble gary vaynerchuk, 31, the host of 'wine library tv,' an online video show, has been known to lick rocks, suck leather and eat dirt while on camera, all to illustrate the unique properties of wine 'wine library tv' host gary vaynerchuk discusses four spooky wine varieties for halloween show of a 'wild and gamey' red from rioja, spain, vaynerchuk says, 'hit a deer on the road throw a bunch of cherries on it take out your knife, cut the deer bite it that's the flavor profile' that kind of attitude appeals to people who are mystified by the arcane lexicon of traditional wine journals or turned off by what they perceive as elitist barriers across the internet, budding wine geeks are discovering a burgeoning number of web sites, blogs, bulletin boards and other outlets that preach the gospel of the grape in terms they can understand about 40,000 internet viewers many of them 20 somethingshave a daily appointment with 'wine library tv' the low budget video blog is produced five days a week from a nondescript office in the three level wine retail operation that vaynerchuk's family owns in springfield, new jersey vaynerchuk has a discerning nose and palate, and he doesn't dumb down his subject yet he stuffs his patter with sports and pop culture referencesand the kind of language a wine spectator critic would be unlikely to employ the mission of wine sites like 'wine library tv,' say several of the people behind these new outlets, is to demystify wine (and in some cases, sell it, too) using the language, attitude and new media that appeal to a young, tech savvy generation, they advocate trusting one's own palate rather than obeying powerful wine critics some of the sites also provide opportunities for average wine drinkers to share their opinions one site, savoreachglasscom, declares its dedication to 'exploring the spirit of wine for a new generation,' with reviews, online journals and essays that explain the finer points of winemaking all with attitude 'the (wine) establishment is about ratings and 'reputation,'' says the site's founder, tynan szvetecz, 29 'it's about collecting the 'good' stuff as defined by someone else's palate and tastes that bores a younger generation' 'we're not afraid to be smartasses,' he continues 'we make fun of ourselves, old world wine makers, new world wine makers, and anyone else we can get our hands on' in the us, interest in wine is exploding while consumption has leveled out in traditional wine producing countries such as france, italy and spain, especially among young people, it has trended upwards in the us for 15 straight years the us is projected to overtake no 2 italy by the end of 2007, according to the annual report the us wine market: impact databank review and forecast a leading industry trade publication many of the new converts to wine are the so called millennials, the under 30 age group coveted by beverage marketers and so comfortable online that they're also called igen, or the internet generation one of the wine web sites targeting a younger demographic is vinesugarcom, which features a blog called 'wine burps' 'we love wine but hate the elitism,' writes founder, ryan o'donnell 'after all, it's just grape juice' with rants about wine tasting fees, a feature spotlighting 'wine hotties' working at california wineries, as well as interactive maps that plot and rate wineries, vinesugarcom leaves little doubt about its target audience cellartrackercom, an online wine community, appeals to more established wine collectors the site provides free software designed by eric levine, a fortuitously named former microsoft software developer that allows wine enthusiasts to create an online inventory of their wines the 39,000 users (who count 6 million bottles in their virtual cellars) post reviews of their wines and access scores and other data via pdas and cell phones community tasting notes shed light on how cellar worthy wines are evolving, helping others decide when to crack open a treasured bottle corkdcom, another online community of wine fans, already had 40,000 users when vaynerchuk purchased the site last year the free service allows users to catalog and review wines instead of having 'friends' as on facebook, members identify 'drinking buddies' and check out what they're drinking in the growing presence of wine fans on the internetnewbies as well as connoisseursvaynerchuk sees a movement 'they're part of forums, they meet up (offline),' he says 'it's about bringing people together it's all that's right about wine' vaynerchuk should know the 300 plus shows he has taped in the past two years have developed a cult following of online fans, who call themselves 'vayniacs,' share wine tips and obsess about their hero on the site's forum on a recent rainy afternoon, vaynerchuk barreled, unrehearsed and unscripted, through a 20 minute show in a single take he wrapped up wine library tv episode no 337 with what has become his signature line 'you, with a little bit of me, we're changing the wine world, aren't we?' e mail to a friend lifewire provides original and syndicated lifestyle content to web publishers neil edward schlecht is a freelance writer based in litchfield county, connecticut and the author of more than a dozen travel guides

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'wine library tv' internet show has about 40,000 regular viewers show takes irreverent look at wine business wine consumption has risen in united states for last 15 years

amman, jordan (cnn)in the sunbathed schoolyard of the shmisani institute for girls in amman, jordan, principal sanaa abu harb makes an announcement over the speaker system iraqi students at the shmisani school in amman gather around a teacher one in 5 students there is iraqi 'all iraqi girls come outside now all iraqi girls iraqi girls only!' she repeats several times, making sure the message is clear and waving away jordanian pupils attracted by the commotion dozens of girls in green apron like uniforms pour out into the courtyard and cluster on the top level of a stone staircase overlooking a concrete playground harb wants the cnn crew to see how many iraqi refugee girls her school is accommodating this school year, she says, 145 students are iraqiroughly 20 percent of the students at this state funded institutionwith another 40 iraqi children on a waiting list watch iraqi girls describe a long way from home » the reason behind the jump in the number of iraqis at the school is a new government policy: for the first time since the start of the iraq war, jordan is allowing all iraqi childrenregardless of refugee statusto enroll in state funded schools simply, this means that even illegal refugees with no paperwork can send their kids to school with no questions asked the move is cementing a massive population shift in the middle east more than 22 million iraqis have fled the violence in their homeland, most of them seeking refuge in neighboring jordan and syria, according to humanitarian officials jordanian minister of education khalid touqan says he expects jordan to accommodate 40,000 to 50,000 iraqi students this year that's more than double the number of iraqi children enrolled in public school two years ago harb, on the front line of the phenomenon, says the influx is putting a strain on her school even with some un and us aid to jordan, there's still not enough money 'we need more teachers here, more resources, more buildings, more chairs for all iraqi students and our students,' she says in a nearby neighborhood, in the study room of the ahmed toukan school for boys, a handful of iraqi kids talk of their experience living far from home seated at a rectangular table covered with a red and white tablecloth, the boys tell stories of horror and displacement eighteen year old qutaiba lost five immediate family members before moving to jordan to try to live a normal life matter of factly and with a straight ahead stare, he repeats the number: 'five members' most of the boys and young men from iraq have missed several years of schoolup to a four year educational gap that will delay not only their high school graduation, but also their entry into the workforce all say, though, that they feel lucky to have gotten out, even if the violence in their country means always having to be on the move, ready to live far from home and away from loved ones 'it's not strange for me to be in the middle of people i don't know,' says eleventh grader ziad tarek al shamsi 'i had friends in iraq when i was small, i left them in america, i left them i came here, i left them' he pauses: 'but you have to miss your country' the united nations high commissioner for refugees estimates up to 250,000 school age iraqi children are in jordan many of them are enrolled in private institutions but as families run out of money they had when they left iraq, they turn to public schools even so, more than a month into the new academic year, fewer iraqi families than first anticipated enrolled their kids in schools this year according to the charity save the children, 21,000 iraqi children have so far enrolled in jordanian classrooms as a result, the government extended the deadline for student applications and cut down on the required paperwork for iraqi families the lower registration numbers were attributed in part to illegal refugees' fears of being identified through their children's school records regardless of what the final number will be this year, the population shift in the middle east is, according to unhcr head antonio guterres, the largest urban refugee situation in the world iraqi families are changing the social fabric of jordanian society about 10 percent of jordan's population is now made up of iraqi refugeesthe estimates range from 500,000 to 750,000 of them the schoolchildren are living examples of how the iraq war may permanently change the middle east 'iraqi children will be incorporated and integrated within our mainstream line of education,' says touqan, the education minister 'we will not run a parallel system of education' e mail to a friend

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jordan opens school doors to all iraqi children, regardless of refugee status principal says her school is 20 percent iraqi this year education minister: iraqi kids will be incorporated into 'mainstream' life one student says he lost five family members in iraq

(cnn)the anti regime demonstrations pulsating across syria have resulted in a security hunt for snipers and a wave of arrests saturday syrian security forces are searching for members of an 'armed group' that killed 'a number of citizens and security forces' in the damascus suburb of douma on friday, the syrian arab news agency reported on saturday sana cited an unidentified official source as saying that snipers from the group fired at civilians and security forces from rooftops this is disputed by activists and eyewitnesses who told cnn that government snipers fired shots at unarmed protesters and government forces beat demonstrators 'security forces are pursuing the members of the armed group that terrorized the citizens through firing randomly,' sana reported, citing the source who doesn't identify the group in question the syrian observatory for human rights said security forces in the volatile southern city of daraa and in homs arrested on saturday about 20 people who had demonstrated the day before protests on friday swept through syria, one of the latest arab countries to endure grassroots discontent at least 10 people, nine of them in douma, were killed on friday, according to human rights activists another person was killed in al sanameen near daraa sana reported that a girl was killed when the armed group opened fire on civilians in the city of homs along with the protests in douma, daraa, homs, and al sanameen, people also took to the streets in latakia, baniyas and kamishli on friday, activists told cnn before friday's fighting, dozens of people were killed in the last two weeks across syria, with many deaths reported in the southern city of daraa, where popular demonstrations started, and the coastal city of latakia, activists say demonstrators, say they are oppressed and have poor living conditions under the regime of president bashar al assad regime, and that they have been targeted for simply expressing themselves the syrian observatory for human rights is calling for 'authorities to release all prisoners of conscience in syrian prisons, and stop political practice of arbitrary detention against political opponents and civil society activists and human rights, and carry out all procedures to ensure that the citizens of their legitimate right to peaceful assembly and expression of opinion and not to restrict these rights' un secretary general ban ki moon said in a statement saturday he is 'deeply concerned' about the unrest in syria, 'where more civilian deaths have been reported during the latest popular demonstrations ban condemned the violence 'against peaceful demonstrations' and said syria should heed international human rights obligations he added his voice to demonstrators who are calling for change, saying 'there is no alternative to an immediate and inclusive dialogue on comprehensive reforms' activists are upset that al assad failed to announce the lifting of the country's state of emergency during a national tv address on wednesday and didn't properly address, in their view, complaints and concerns of people in the streets on thursday, however, syria said it will study the idea of lifting the country's state of emergency and promptly investigate the deaths of civilians and troops in daraa and latakia al assad ordered the supreme judicial council to form a committee that would conduct 'an immediate investigation in all cases that killed a number of civilians and military personnel' the committee exploring the lifting of the emergency law is expected to complete the study before april 25 it will be made up of senior lawyers, sana reported one of the key demands of the demonstrators who have taken to the streets in the country's major cities is the scrapping of the law, which has been in place since 1963 the emergency law allows the government to make preventive arrests and override constitutional and penal code statutes it also bars detainees who haven't been charged from filing court complaints or from having a lawyer present during interrogations cnn's joe sterling contributed to this report

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patuakhali, bangladesh (cnn) survivors of a storm that killed more than 3,000 people in the impoverished nation of bangladesh grieved and buried their loved ones monday as they waited for aid to arrive villagers grieve in patargata, around 125 miles south of dhaka, capital of bangladesh, monday the number of dead killed from cyclone sidrnow at 3,114is expected to rise yet further as the south asian nation continues to assess the damage the bangladesh red crescent fears the death toll could be 5,000perhaps even reaching as high as 10,000 in the fishing village of galachipa, in patuakhali district, dhalan mridha was grieving for family members who died in the cyclone after ignoring an alert issued by authorities 'nothing is going to happen that was our first thought and we went to bed just before midnight the winds came like hundreds of demons our small hut was swept away like a piece of paper, and we all ran for shelter,' mridha, a 45 year old farm worker, told the associated press on the way to a shelter, mridha lost contact with his wife, mother and two children the next morning he found their bodies the category 4 cyclone raked bangladesh's southwest coast on thursday with maximum sustained winds of 241 km/h (150 mph), destroying fishermen's hamlets and villages thousands are still missing, while an estimated 280,000 others are unable to return to their homes which were wiped out by the storm many grieving families are now burying loved ones in single graves as no male members are available to dig them most houses in the region are made of flimsy materials such as bamboo and corrugated iron, and had no chance of withstanding the storm's powerful winds in addition, the storm struck area is criss crossed by a huge river delta which surged as sidr pushed through, wiping out many villages and littering the river's shores with debris watch as people are left to fend for themselves » low lying bangladesh is already prone to flooding which has wiped out the country's rice productiona major food staple for the impoverished country improved warning systems and shelters have kept the number of deaths far lower than the disastrous cyclones in the region of 1970 and 1991, when the tolls were in the hundreds of thousands bangladesh president iajuddin ahmed visited the devastated region sunday, handing out some aid to the crowds of people before members of the international media it was seen largely a token effort as hundreds were left empty handed and furious security officials struggled to hold back the crowd see dramatic photos of storm survivors » sidr has already ruined bangladesh's rice harvest, but the international community is rallying to make sure the country does not suffer as acutely as it has in the past nearly a million people died after massive floods wiped out the country's rice production in 1974 international aid organizations promised initial packages of $25 million during a meeting with bangladesh agencies monday, the un's world food program said the united states has offered more than $2 million as an initial contribution for emergency relief, and sent two us navy carriers to help in recovery operations in addition, the us agency for international development (usaid) is airlifting in relief supplies and an 18 person department of defense medical team is in bangladesh helping the estimated 15,000 injured by the storm bangladesh's government held an emergency cabinet meeting saturday to assess the disaster and discuss recovery issues, bangladeshi government spokesman fahim munaim told cnn officials fear the scope of the destruction may be much more extensive since there are remote areas where conditions cannot yet be determined munaim said nearly a third of bangladesh's 64 districts were affected by the cyclone, most of those along the southern coast the bangladeshi military is working to provide shelter for the many people who have been displaced international aid groupsincluding save the children, world vision, and the red crescent, which already have offices in bangladeshare deploying resources to the cyclone stricken region butlike the governmentthey have found it nearly impossible to reach the more remote areas to assess conditions roads to remote areas are either blocked by massive trees fallen by the storm, or so severely damaged that it is impossible for vehicles to use clearing could take weeks in the remote areas because it must be done by handthere are no chainsaws and modern machinery to speed up the process along the broken road that leads into kolapara, the body of an 8 year old girl called rummie was carefully carried away for burial overwhelmed with sadness, her mother khadija was steadied by a relative 'i am feeling too much pain in my heart,' she said 'i have lost my daughter, so i am a victim of the cyclone as well' e mail to a friend cnn's dan rivers contributed to this report

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survivors of cyclone sidr in bangladesh waiting for aid to arrive red crescent society official says deaths could rise to 5,000 10,000 bangladeshi president distributes aid; angry survivors go empty handed thousands remain missing; estimated 280,000 homeless

washington (cnn)the public corruption and bribery convictions of former alabama gov don siegelman and healthsouth ceo and founder richard scrushy will stand after the supreme court rejected their separate appeals monday the men were convicted in a political payback scheme a jury found the governor had named scrushy to a state regulatory board in exchange for $500,000 in campaign donations after years of litigation, the justices in an unsigned order allowed the criminal convictions to stand the specific question was whether a campaign contribution can constitute bribery if the contribution was not made in 'explicit' exchange for a promise of an official act lawyers for the defendants said it cannot in their failed appeal to the high court the justice department said the men acted with 'corrupt intent,' and that the onetime democratic governor and an aide tried to hide the campaign cash in a secret bank account the governor had begun a campaign in 1999 to set up a state lottery, and soon after named the powerful ceo to alabama's certificates of need review board the lottery effort failed, and scrushy was charged with helping cover the debt from the lottery campaign with the half million dollars, partly in return for favorable treatment in government contracts birmingham, alabama based healthsouth corp is one of the largest health care rehabilitation service companies scrushy was eventually forced out after the trial and subsequent lawsuits from investors and shareholders siegelman and scrushy were convicted in 2006, a year after scrushy was individually acquitted in a separate federal fraud probe involving his company scrushy and siegelman eventually received about seven years each behind bars, and were fined scrushy remains in federal custody in texas, but was recently sent to a halfway house in the state siegelman was released four years ago on bail, pending appeal related 'honest services' fraud charges were eventually tossed out after the supreme court, in a separate case, narrowed the scope of the law, concluding the prosecution tactic was being misused as a 'catch all' statute, added to an indictment when evidence of serious criminal conduct may have been thin dozens of top business and government leaders had been accused of improperly withholding their 'honest services' from constituents and shareholders, a violation of federal law dealing with fiduciary responsibilities the high court had allowed the unrelated conviction of enron exec jeffrey skilling to stand, but limited when 'honest services' charges could be used against business executives and politicians the current scrushy/siegelman appeals were based solely on the related public corruption convictions the cases are siegelman v us (11 955); scrushy v us (11 972)

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(rolling stone)michael jackson's blockbuster album 'bad' will be reissued in a deluxe edition on september 18 to mark the record's 25th anniversary the set, titled 'bad 25,' will features three cds, a dvd and two booklets the dvd will include jackson's personal video recording of his performance at wembley stadium in london on july 16, 1988 the video will be the first full concert performance from the bad tour to be commercially released, and will be seen without cuts, exactly as it played out on stage before an audience of 72,000 fans, including princess diana a cd featuring professionally recorded audio from the wembley concert will also be included, along with a remastered version of the original 'bad' album a third cd will feature previously unreleased demos of songs that did not make it to the album, along with new remixes of material from 'bad' a standard edition of the 'bad' reissue will also be released, including the remastered album and unreleased material, but omitting the wembley performance see the full article at rollingstonecom copyright © 2011 rolling stone

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michael jackson's 'bad' will be reissued in a deluxe edition on september 18 the set, titled 'bad 25,' will features three cds, a dvd and two booklets it is the record's 25th anniversary

freetown, sierra leone (cnn)millions of people will breathe a sigh of relief that charles taylor has finally been held to account for the years of violence, misery and suffering that he brought to the people of west africa taylor, a former president of liberia, was found guilty after a lengthy trial by a special court sitting in the hague for aiding and abetting rebels during the bloody conflict in sierra leone between 1996 and 2002 the violence in sierra leone shocked the world as thousands of civilians were caught up in the fighting limbs were hacked off as punishment, mass killings and gang rape were common and thousands of children were forced to fight or become sex slaves the survivors still struggle with the mental and physical scars of their ordeals incredibly, despite the tens of thousands of cases of documented atrocities, only 13 people have been held to account for these crimes and, under a 1999 amnesty agreement drawn up in a desperate bid to end the fighting, taylor may be the last to stand trial for what happened everyone elsehis commanders and lieutenants and fighters on all sidesremain free to go about their lives as if nothing happened taylor's conviction brings some measure of justice to the people of sierra leone, but it is only the first step in a long journey back to normalcy for the people years after the end of the war, people are still grappling with the challenges and the legacies of the violence since the truth and reconciliation commission published its report in 2004, only a limited number of recommendations on reparations have been implemented without a long term, sustainable plan and sufficient funds to assist survivors to rebuild their lives, many are begging in the streets for a living failing to prosecute the perpetrators of crimes under international law gives the impression that they will not have to face the consequences of their actions it ignores the distress of the victims and creates a risk of further violations the failure to address impunity weakens state institutions, denies human values and debases the whole of humanity prosecutions serve to clarify the truth about what happened, establish accountability for human rights abuses and contribute to building confidence in the rule of law without them, victims are left to suffer without official acknowledgment of the crimes committed against them or assistance to rebuild their lives although the initial prosecutions of taylor and his cronies were restricted to those individuals considered to bear the 'greatest responsibility' for crimes under international law, the government of sierra leone authorities must now move to hold others to account it must rescind the 1999 amnesty and strengthen and build an independent criminal justice system so that further investigations and prosecutions can be made justice needs to go hand in hand with peace in neighboring liberia, similar violence between 1989 1996 and 1999 2003 saw countless attacks on civilians resulting in death, disfigurement and displacement as in sierra leone, government and armed opposition groups used rape and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls as deliberate strategies, as a weapon of war and to instil terror women of all ages were victims, including very young girls and older women it is estimated that as much as 60 70% of the population suffered some form of sexual violence during the conflict by the end of the war in liberia, more than 20,000 children were believed to be involved in the conflict both boys and girls were abducted and forced to fight, carry ammunition, prepare food or go to the front line in many cases, child soldiers were forced to carry out killings, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, looting and abducted and forcibly recruiting other children currently, there are no plans for liberian authorities to investigate the crimes under international law committed during the 14 year conflict instead, the people in liberia are expected to forgive and forget the past and just move on but, like the people of sierra leone, the victims of past human rights violations in liberia have the right to know the truth, obtain justice and be granted full reparations for what they suffered with similar investigations now under way involving grave crimes committed in northern uganda, darfur and the democratic republic of congo, taylor's conviction sends a signal that authorities are finally moving to end impunity, establish the rule of law, promote and encourage respect for human rights and restore and maintain international peace and security but official moves to hold perpetrators to account must be transparent, comprehensive and fair they must remember and involve the thousands of victims and they must ensure that justice is done otherwise, those who committed some of the most egregious crimes imaginable are getting away with murder the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of brima sheriff

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during sierra leone fighting, limbs were hacked off as punishment brima sheriff says survivors still struggle with mental and physical scars he says taylor's conviction sends signal authorities moving to end impunity moves to hold perpetrators to account must be transparent and fair, he says

(cnn)egypt's major archaeological sites, monuments and museums were under the protection of the country's army on monday, according to the nation's supreme council of antiquities however, unease persisted among egyptologists and archaeologists, who fear some of the nation's priceless treasures may fall victim to looters or vandals, amid unrest and uprisings fueled by what protesters see as a lack of economic opportunity, widespread poverty and pervasive corruption egypt is 'the greatest open air museum in the world,' said peter der manuelian, the philip j king professor of egyptology at harvard university he said he and his colleagues are 'trying to stay on top of (the situation) as best we can,' given spotty internet service in egypt friday night, a group of 'criminals' entered the cairo museum using a fire department staircase, zahi hawass, secretary general of the supreme council of antiquities, told cnn early sunday once inside the museum, they went to the late period gallery, hawass wrote 'when they found no gold, they broke 13 vitrines (glass showcases) and threw the antiquities on the floor' the intruders then went back to the gallery housing artifacts from king tutankhamun's tomb, where they opened one showcase, broke a statue of king tut on a panther and threw it to the ground, he wrote a group also entered the museum gift shop and stole jewelry, hawass wrote in a blog post sunday a group of 'tourist police officers' had stayed at the museum overnight, as they were unable to leave after the curfew took effect 'these officers, and many young egyptians who were also there, helped to stop more people from entering the museum' during the protests, hawass wrote in the blog postwhich he faxed to italy so colleagues there could post it on his website in the absence of internet in egypt hawass told cnn early sunday there were nine suspects, but in the blog post he said there were 10 one of them asked the people guarding the museum for water, he said, but 'they took his hands and tied him to the door that led to the gift shop so he could not escape,' according to the post hawass told cnn that when the suspects were apprehended, authorities found the remains of two mummies and some small artifacts with them however, he said sunday, everything that had been damaged can be restored it may be that egyptian citizens' national pride in their heritage works to the advantage of its treasures, experts said a picture was posted on twitter of a 'human chain' surrounding the cairo museum, although it was unclear when the chain was formed in many ways, der manuelian said, that national pride is a tribute to hawass' efforts in raising awareness and restoring pride in egyptian culture 'you may be seeing the direct result' of his efforts, he said 'the egyptian people are absolutely wonderful,' said jan summers duffy, an egyptologist at the college of idaho and curator at the orma j smith museum of natural history she said she believes they can be counted on to defend museums and archaeological sites 'with 80 million people in a country that suffers from poverty and rising food prices you have to expect that some people are going to be desperate and look for any means necessary to try to improve their lot,' said kara cooney, assistant professor of egyptian art and architecture at the university of california, los angeles, and host of the discovery channel's 'out of egypt' but, she said, for every one of those, there are a thousand egyptians who will defend ancient treasures 'the people who are best able to protect these monuments are already there on the ground,' she said ' i just have to hope and trust that they're able to do what they can' cooney said she had heard, but hadn't been able to confirm, that authorities used a mosque's loudspeaker to successfully urge citizens to come to the aid of the temple complex at karnak and defend it from looters on monday, hawass said all sites in northern egypt, including alexandria, were under the control of the army museums, he said, are also safe, along with major tourist sites in giza and saqqara near cairo, and luxor and aswan farther south so far, 'only small things' have occurred, he saidfor instance, a storage magazine was entered in the sinai area and some objects were taken in that incident, hawass wrote, a 'large group, armed with guns and a truck' entered a site where antiquities from the port said museum are stored and took some objects 'other groups attempted to enter the coptic museum, royal jewelry museum, national museum of alexandria, and el manial museum,' he wrote 'my heart is broken and my blood is boiling,' he wrote in the sunday post 'i feel that everything i have done in the last nine years has been destroyed in one day, but all the inspectors, young archaeologists and administrators are calling me from museums all over egypt to tell me that they will give their life to protect our antiquities many young egyptians are in the streets trying to stop the criminals' despite hawass' assurances, egyptologists said they are concerned both about damage that has not yet been discovered and about what the future might hold for egypt's artifacts der manuelian said he had heard that when egyptian police disappeared from streets over the weekend, some sites were left unguarded there are hundreds of storage magazines around the country, which had previously been under the protection of egyptian police, cooney said now, it is unclear whoif anyoneis protecting them reports of the incident at the cairo museum were 'heartbreaking,' said summers duffy, who spent the summer working on a project in luxor involving the uncovering of tombs she said she had heard 'it was basically quiet' in luxor, 'but that's for now we expect things may change' the valley of the kings and other important archaeological sites are located there, she said summers duffy said she is 'on facebook all the time' trying to make contact with egyptologists and archaeologists she knows, to see if they remain at certain sites some have fled the unrest, she said 'this has been my life's work,' she said ' we don't know what the future will hold i hope at least some things can be preserved' facebook, cooney said, is 'invaluable' as egyptologists try to share information der manuelian said most of his work is done at giza, and he expects the site there will be well protected there is a 'high security wall' surrounding it, he said, and its proximity to cairo may result in better protection he said he is more worried about the outlying sites 'some of these monuments are big, so it's easy (for a criminal) to duck behind something' he recalled incidents of artifacts and monuments being destroyed in iraq, saying his heart went out to colleagues who made those artifacts their field of studyand wondered then how it might feel if it were egypt's artifacts in danger he had hoped he would never find out worries are compounded, cooney said, by the lack of reliable informationexperts have no way of knowing whether information is solid or if they are hearing a rumor 'some things have turned out not to be true,' she said der manuelian said he had heard that sites in abusir and saqqara had been broken into abusir is a pyramid field on the left bank of the nile, north of saqqara, where many 5th dynasty pharaohs chose to site their burial monuments saqqara, one of egypt's oldest burial sites, has several royal pyramids however, hawass said monday that while padlocks for tombs at saqqara were opened, nothing had been taken, damaged or disturbed work at some sites is continuing despite the unrest, cooney said, but colleagues at other sites have been asked to leave by egyptian police hawass said he has faith in both the egyptian people and troops he told cnn that when he left the cairo museumafter rushing there saturday morning following the curfew being lifted'all the people in the streets were asking me, 'is the cairo museum safe? we need to protect the museum'' 'a very small number of people tried to break, steal and rob,' he wrote in his blog post 'sadly, one criminal voice is louder than one hundred voices of peace the egyptian people are calling for freedom, not destruction'

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egyptian official: the army is protecting sites and museums experts believe egyptians' national pride will help protect valuable artifacts but egyptologists don't know what the future will hold citizens helped apprehend looters at the cairo museum

(rolling stone)the voice, indeed javier colon, the inaugural winner of nbc's hit talent contest 'the voice,' has several pop star assets pretty face, megawatt smile, rakishly angled trilby but it's his pure toned tenor voice, sitting cozily between an old fashioned soul croon and a mayer mraz style sensitive dude simper, that sets him apart 'the voice' finale: america crowns javier colon 'come through for you' is thoroughly catchy, from 'life is getting better' to 'stand up,' with guest vocals from his 'voice' mentor (and audible model) adam levine photos: 'the voice' tour kickoff the music is pro forma radio pop; the lyrics lean towards insipid inspiration ('good things come in spades/to those who wait') but it's hard to be cynical about music this pleasantly well sung video: javier colon sings coldplay copyright © 2011 rolling stone

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javier colon was the inaugural winner of nbc's hit talent contest 'the voice' his pure toned tenor voice sets him apart 'come through for you' features guest vocals from his 'voice' mentor adam levine

cairo (cnn)egyptians exulted wednesday over the detention of their ailing former president and his two sons in a probe exploring the killing of protesters in cairo's tahrir square, the center of the country's dramatic uprising earlier this year former president hosni mubarak and his sons, gamal and alaa, were taken into 15 day detainment tuesday in connection with the protesters' deaths, according to ahmed hemeida with the justice ministry mubarak has decried accusations of his responsibility in the deaths, saying the probe is aimed at tarnishing his reputation and that of his family the detention and questioning of the former authoritarian leader is unprecedented in the modern arab world saddam hussein, iraq's late leader, was captured by us troops and put on trial after his regime was toppled more than eight years agobut mubarak's case is different because his detention didn't involve the west in contrast to hussein's case, the government made the arrest amid domestic demands that mubarak be held people on the street in cairo saw the arrest as a positive sign one smiling taxi driver stopped in traffic, crossed his wrists in front of himself as if he was handcuffed and yelled 'mubarak 'cuffed!'' in arabic mahmoud amreya, who cooks chicken and beef shawarma sandwiches over a hot grill, beamed 'i am very happy,' he said ahmed abdulsalem, an accountant in a coffee shop, said egypt 'has taken a big step forward' with people regaining their dignity 'in the previous regime corruption gave way to more corruption, and it was survival of the fittest,' he said 'corruption the country was spiraling downwards from bad to worse, in all cases what we are living today is much better than what it was under the oppressive regime' the developments came a day after the former presidentwho earlier was summoned for questioning on corruption allegationswas admitted to a hospital in the red sea resort of sharm el sheikh after complaining to his doctor he felt unwell egyptian state television reported mubarak suffered a heart attack during questioning over possible corruption charges egypt's health minister later said mubarak's condition was stable enough to allow prosecutors to resume questioning at the hospital, according to the state owned al ahram newspaper a man who said he was the head doctor from a ministry of justice team assisting with mubarak's questioning said late wednesday the former leader had heart palpitations and was able to walk with assistance the doctor, dr ahmed el sabaaei, told egypt's opposition al hayat el youm tv that mubarak was still at sharm el sheikh international hospital in stable condition however, alla mahmoud, an interior ministry spokesman, told cnn that mubarak was flown by helicopter to a hospital in cairo on wednesday the younger mubaraks have been transferred to cairo's tora prison, hemeida said mubarak and his family were believed to have been living on his estate in the red sea resort of sharm el sheikh since february 11, when he stepped down and handed power to the military in response to accusations that his family had grown wealthy at the expense of the egyptian people, mubarak, in a brief audio message aired sunday, promised he and his family would account for everything they own he said he agreed to allow the prosecutor to contact governments around the world to take 'proper legal steps' to reveal whether he or his family own any property or real estate outside egypt mubarak was brought to cairo for questioning last month, and egypt's attorney general issued an order to freeze the assets of him and his family, and prohibited them from leaving the country mubarak had back surgery in germany in 2004 and returned for more surgery there in march 2010 it was widely reported the 2010 operation was to have his gall bladder removed, but el sabaaei said mubarak had actually been suffering from prostate cancer and went to germany to have his prostate removed mubarak had largely withdrawn from public view in recent years, until this year's uprising prompted him to make televised speeches he ruled egypt for nearly three decades before his regime was toppled by a groundswell of popular protests that began january 25 on the street, meanwhile, mohamed gafar, a taxi driver, said that because of mubarak's detention he is seeing a wellspring of joy from his perch, what he called 'happiness beyond imagination' 'the man that used to put people in prison is now behind bars' he said 'they were the rulers of the country and today, with god's will, where are they? in prison in prison oppression has an end every oppressor has an end' cnn's samson desta, caroline faraj, ivan watson and journalist mohamed fadel fahmy contributed to this report

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mubarak and two sons are being held for questioning in the killing of protesters the questioning of mubarak on corruption allegations already had begun, the military says egyptian state television reports mubarak had a heart attack mubarak stepped down on february 11

(ewcom)though 'all my children' and 'one life to live' are history, 'general hospital'for nowis firmly ensconced in abc's daytime lineup but since ratings aren't as strong as they used to bethe show's averaging a 11 rating among adults women 18 49, down 21 percent from last yearand given how katie couric's syndicated talk show is coming to abc stations this fall, it's still possible that the good people of port charles may lose their home in daytime but it could have a future in primetime: ew has confirmed that abc entertainment chief paul lee is pondering one scenario that would allow the soap to air as an evening summer series not a bad thought, right? granted, it's not exactly a new idea: cbs used to air primetime specials of 'the young and the restless' that averaged anywhere from 115 million to 137 million but those aired in the '90s, when there was far less competition for eyeballs even then, the network realized they weren't exactly bringing the house down so it stopped airing them after 1998 it may be hard for abc to pull off financially at a reported $200,000 per episode, a primetime episode of 'gh' is still a lot cheaper to make rather than an original for a scripted show (which can ring in at well over $1 million) a move to summer nights would certainly buy abc some good will with daytime fans, who are still reeling over the cancellations of 'amc' and 'oltl'especially since a plan to continue them online was quashed late last year there's always the chance that 'gh' would stay put, but that's looking unlikely back when katie couric's talk show deal with abc disney was announced, the company also said it would be giving the last hour of daytime back to its affiliates in september 2012 that's the hour currently occupied by 'general hospital,' which airs either at 2 pm or 3 pm across the country once it gives that fourth hour back to the stations, abc will only have three to fill but four shows to do it with'the view,' 'general hospital,' 'the chew' and 'the revolution' (couric will be airing on the abc owned and operated stations) there's a chance that oneor bothof the latter programs will fail, which means 'gh' could continue to have a spot on the lineup but lifestyle shows, unlike soaps, are more relevant and profitable for one, they are cheaper to make two, they can spawn side businesses like cookbooks the same can't be said for the aging daytime soap genre see the full article at ewcom click here to try 2 risk free issues of entertainment weekly © 2011 entertainment weekly and time inc all rights reserved

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'general hospital' is averaging a 11 rating among adults, down 21 percent from last year a primetime episode of 'gh' is still a lot cheaper to make rather than an original but lifestyle shows, unlike soaps, are more relevant and profitable

(cnn)a yemeni oil tanker hijacked in the gulf of aden was freed monday and 11 somali pirates were arrested, yemen's official news agency said 11 pirates were arrested by yemeni security forces in an operation to free the oil tanker three marines were wounded in the operation conducted by yemeni forces, according to the saba news agency the tanker was seized sunday on its way to aden, saba said aden is a port city in southwestern yemen meanwhile, two pirates were killed and one injured when yemeni troops freed three other ships sunday, saba reported four pirates were also arrested in the operation, it added piracy has become a major problem in recent years in the waters off somalia, which has not had an effective government since 1991 despite the introduction of international naval patrols in the region, pirates have continued to attack commercial vessels and collect large ransoms, running into millions of dollars, from shipping companies attacks on ships in the gulf of aden and off somalia's coast accounted for 61 of the 102 attacks during the first quarter of this year that compares with six incidents for the same period in 2008, said the international maritime bureau, which issues regular reports on piracy worldwide the european union and several nations, including the united states, have naval forces in the region to protect vessels against pirate attacks the head of eu naval forces in the waters off somalia said recently that restoring long term stability to somalia will be what ultimately stops the attacks rear adm philip jones said: 'it'll be a long period of time before that's successful, and we must be ready to secure the seas until that's in place'

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oil tanker was seized sunday on its way to yemeni port of aden three yemeni marines were wounded, two pirates killed in the operation piracy is a major problem in the waters off somalia somalia has not had a stable government in place since 1991

(cnn)a conference of islamic prosecutors in iran worked wednesday to draft an indictment against israeli leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity and war crimes in gaza palestinian women walk past a building destroyed during israel's campaign in gaza the charges stem from israel's late december offensive into gaza against hamas militants the israeli military has been accused of using excessive and indiscriminate force in civilian areas israel is 'a regime that only understands the language of violence and force,' iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad said at the gathering, in calling for the prosecution of israeli 'criminals' 'i am confident that there will come a day when all zionist criminals will be brought to justice,' he said on the second day of the conference in tehran, the capital of iran the iranian president regularly rails against israel and has called for the jewish state's elimination yigal palmor, a spokesman for the israeli foreign ministry, said: 'the day when this conference will start dealing with human rights in the countries that are members of this organization will be the day that their claims concerning israel will be deserved to be heard, not before people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, let alone commit suicide bombings' 'the accusations themselves are nothing more than the hysterical, hostile coverage of the media in these countries and not based on solid facts,' he continued human rights watch, in a report released last month, said there was evidence that israel committed war crimes in gaza by firing white phosphorus shells over densely populated areas israel has rejected that claim israel also has said that the offensive was to defend against repeated rocket attacks by palestinians the israel defense forces said on wednesday its forces 'operated in accordance with international law' during recent fighting in gaza, but said there were a few incidents in which 'intelligence or operational errors' occurred this is the conclusion of probes that emerged from operation cast lead, in which israel was broadly criticized for its actions in gaza phosphorus shells can be used to create a smokescreen for troops in creating the diversion, the element ignites when exposed to oxygen and can cause severe burns the israeli offensive was launched december 27 and ended january 17 with a cease fire of the 1,453 people estimated killed in the conflict, 1,440 were palestinian, including 431 children, a un report recently said thirteen israelis diedthree civilians and six soldiers were killed by hamas, and four soldiers were killed by friendly firethe report said a spokesman for the israeli prime minister called the un report an example of the 'one sided and unfair' attitude of the un human rights council, which had requested it the two days of meetings in the iranian capital have included more than 200 senior judicial officials from the organization of the islamic conferencean association of 56 states the organization might ask the un international court of justice to charge israeli leaders with crimes against humanity and war crimes in gaza the court would not be obligated to act

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islamic prosecutors draft indictment against israeli leaders over gaza offensive iranian president ahmadinejad says 'zionist criminals' should face justice human rights watch says evidence israel committed war crimes israeli spokesman says claims are 'hysterical, hostile not based on solid facts

(rolling stone)hip hop has never produced anything quite like drakea guy with a jay z ego and a charlie brown soul the canadian singer rapper introduced his melancholy player persona on 2010's platinum 'thank me later,' spooling out alarmingly mellow confessional brags over synth streaked tracks that suggested someone had spiked his cristal with nyquil and truth serum 'famous like a drug that i've taken too much of,' he rapped, and somehow made you sympathetic to all his stardom is hard meditations so, how's he feeling these days? the cover of 'take care' says it all: drake sits forlornly in the depths of a mansion he could've bought from 1970s jimmy page, slung over a golden goblet of $50 a glass painkiller dude probably had sex two minutes ago, but he looks like his dog just got run over by a garbage truck the music is grandiose, full of big names and weighty referencesfrom the drunk dial epic 'marvin's room' to the n'awlins hip hop tribute 'practice' to cameos from andrã© 3000, nicki minaj, lil wayne and stevie wonder where 'thank me later' was airy and spare, 'take care' truly goes for it with luxe, expansive production: on 'cameras,' beatmaking prodigy lex luger provides diamond bright high hat clicks, low end vroom and soulful background vocals as drake struggles to convince his girl he's not cheating on her after she sees him in a magazine with another woman; on 'lord knows,' just blaze laces a shake the sky mix of gospel choir, gauzy r&b sample and stomping beat, and rick ross swoops in for a hilarious freestyle: 'villa on the water with the wonderful views/only fat ni**a in the sauna with jews' there's even a funky thank you letter to drake's mom drake's 'take care': a track by track breakdown mostly, drake stretches out over languid, austerely plush tracks that blur hip hop, r&b and downtempo dance music 'over my dead body' opens the album with a dreamweave of cascading pianos and plaintive backing vocals from canadian singer chantal kreviazuk: 'i was drinking at the palms last night/and ended up losing everything that i came with,' he raps in his finest just woke up voice it's what drake does best, collapsing many moodsarrogance, sadness, tenderness and self pityinto one vast, squish souled emotion on the elegant title track, jamie smith of uk band the xx lays down house music pianos, ice sheets of guitar and a sample from recently deceased r&b radical gil scott heron as drake and rihanna do their laid back, realist appraisal of the love game: 'when you're ready, just say you're ready,' he reassures is it going to work out? maybe but like most hopeless romantics, drake favors the illusion of infinite promise over the reality anyway the 30 best albums of 2010: drake, 'thank me later' 'we live in a generation of not being in love,' he says over stevie wonder's harmonica on 'doing it wrong' it's as close as 'take care' gets to a message for our times but deep down you wonder if he'd have it any other way after all, in a fully requited world, who'd need drake? copyright © 2011 rolling stone

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'take care' is what drake does best: collapsing many moods onto one vast emotion like most hopeless romantics, he favors the illusion of infinite promise over the reality the canadian singer rapper introduced his melancholy player persona on 2010's platinum 'thank me later'

hong kong (cnn)growing levels of conflict, terrorism, and the toppling of regimes in the middle east and north africa, as well as political violence in east africa, are driving a rise in political instability worldwide, according to research by uk risk analysis firm, maplecroft released on thursday since 2010, one in ten of the countries surveyed have experienced a significant increase in the level of short term political risk these risks include governments asserting control over natural resources, regimes being ousted by popular uprisings and the expropriation of foreign investors' assets the findings form part of the latest maplecroft political risk atlas, which uses 52 indicators to help companies monitor political issues affecting the business environment in 197 countries since 2010, syria has deteriorated the most it now ranks second compared with a 44th place ranking in 2010 somalia topped the rankings afghanistan, sudan and the democratic republic of the congo also ranked in the top five egypt has been downgraded to 'extreme risk' for the first time as a result of violence following the ousting of former president mohamed morsy and an increase in terrorist attacks in the sinai peninsula, the report said maplecroft warned that syria, egypt and libya are 'now so bad' that they will be 'mired in exceptionally high levels of dynamic political risk for years to come' a fall in political violence in the philippines, india and uganda has contributed to these countries experiencing the biggest reduction in short term political risk over the past four years improvements in the level of governance has also helped to lower risk levels in malaysia and israel in the same period social unrest the report said there is a higher chance for social unrest to exacerbate political instability in bangladesh, belarus, china, kazakhstan, saudi arabia and vietnam 'this is due to the erosion of democratic freedoms, increasing crackdowns on political position and the brutality by security forces towards protesters, compounded by rising food prices and worsening working conditions,' maplecroft said in a statement another concern for foreign investors is that there has been a major increase in oppression by governments worldwide 'this erosion of political freedoms is central to driving the wider risk of unrest and instability in the medium to long term,' said charlotte ingham, senior political risk analyst at maplecroft in the short term, foreign investors face a heightened risk of becoming complicit with the actions of these oppressive regimes, which poses a threat to a company's reputation, the think tank said empowered youth instability increases as the gap grows between political freedoms and social gains, such as education and computer literacy among young people in 2010, prior to the the arab spring, libya, tunisia, iran, syria and egypt were among the countries with the biggest divide between political freedoms and social gains maplecroft predicts that the growing imbalance between social gains and political freedoms in bahrain, azerbaijan and south africa will heighten the risk of instability in those countries in 2014 and beyond although china is categorized as 'extreme risk' in maplecroft's ranking of oppressive regimes, the speed of the country's governance reforms is likely to be sufficient to limit the chances of widespread social unrest that could lead to a 'jasmine' revolution, according to the think tank but china's increased scrutiny of foreign business practices has created compliance challenges for companies operating there, the report added maplecroft cautioned that vietnam's crackdown on social media and freedom of speech amid growing opposition may undermine the stability of the government in the long term poland has experienced a significant increase in the level of political freedoms over the past four years, according to maplecroft, and now displays a 'near perfect balance' between the level of political freedoms and social gains, which reduces the likelihood of protests and disputes over labor conditions political violence east african countries saw the biggest increase in the risk of political violence, including terrorism, poor governance, and regimes vulnerable to popular uprisings somalia, sudan and south sudan scored in the 'extreme risk' category, while kenya and ethiopia are 'high risk' eritrea, tanzania and mozambique also saw a change in their risk category three years after the arab spring, more than 60% of countries in the middle east and north africa region have seen a significant rise in political violence, demonstrating the long term political risks associated with forced regime change, the report said in the west, the impact of the global financial crisis continues to be seen in high levels of unemployment and underemployment this, combined with austerity measures, has contributed to growing inequality and stalling or declining living standards, according to maplecroft political landscapes both in europe and the united states have become increasingly fragmented and polarized as populist parties flourished in response to growing voter dissatisfaction with established political parties over these issues

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glasgow, scotlandworld champions italy clinched qualification for euro 2008 after goals in the first and last minutes gave them a pulsating 2 1 victory at hampden parkkilling off scotland's hopes of reaching the finals luca toni celebrates his early goal as italy won 2 1 in scotland to clinch qualification from group b luca toni shot italy in front but scotland recovered to dominate and barry ferguson bundled home a 65th minute leveller however, christian panucci headed an injury time winner after a controversial decision to award italy a free kick the result also means france have sealed qualification, along with italy, from group b without playing a game in a match played in torrential rain, italy enjoyed the best possible start by taking the lead after just 70 seconds gianluca zambrotta spotted antonio di natale unmarked in the box, and picked him out with a throw in as scotland were caught napping di natale swept the ball into the path of toni who delicately flicked into the top left corner from six meters out the home side almost conceded a second goal 60 seconds later this time, toni turned provider and his cut back was met by mauro camoranesi who fired over from close range toni then shrugged off two challenges before drawing a decent save from craig gordon with a well struck effort that the goalkeeper did well to block at the near post at the other end, scotland were denied the opportunity to haul themselves back into the match when a thunderous drive from lee mcculloch appeared to be handled by zambrotta inside the area but penalty claims were ignored spurred on by a sense of injustice, the hosts cranked up the pressure on their visitors ferguson fired over from a james mcfadden corner, before alan hutton nodded agonisingly wide of the upright following another perfect delivery from the everton man scotland then produced some wonderful passing football, which culminated in a tight angled drive from ferguson, but gianluigi buffon dived low to smother then came another scare for the home side gordon was forced to pull a save out of the top drawer to deny a point blank effort from massimo ambrosini, before di natale rifled the rebound into the back of the net the assistant referee raised his flag for offside but television replays suggested the official may have called it wrong only last gasp defending from the italians prevented the scots from grabbing a morale boosting leveller on the stroke of half time david weir rose above everyone else in a packed box to meet ferguson's corner and his header appeared to be heading for the top corner before andrea pirlo somehow managed to nod off the line a free kick in a dangerous area provided italy with the chance to start the second half as emphatically as they had started the first when paul hartley hauled down camoranesi just outside the box pirlo seized on the chance and looped the ball over the wall but, despite a reputation as a dead ball specialist, his effort was easily dealt with by gordon instead, it was scotland who found the back of the net as hampden erupted with 65 minutes gone mcfadden's free kick deflected into the path of mcculloch in front of goal he was denied by buffon, but the rebound fell kindly to ferguson and the captain gratefully rifled home from close range with just over 15 minutes to go, scott brown was withdrawn for kenny miller as scotland went for broke the derby striker quickly began to cause the italians problems and delivered a wonderful diagonal cross to the feet of mcfadden but he fired wide when it looked easier score scotland's impossible dream ended in the cruellest possible way when italy snatched a last minute goal to secure their own qualification for euro 2008 hutton appeared to be barged over in front of the corner flag but the referee inexplicably awarded the free kick the other way and panucci rose to meet pirlo's cross and nod home the winner italy coach roberto donadoni said: 'we knew it was going to be a physical match given the atmosphere 'but through their character and desire, the lads were fantastic they worked so hard, they deserve this qualifying for euro 2008 is amazing it's something positive after all that happened last week (the death of the lazio fan)' captain fabio cannavaro: 'this was a victory won with the heart it was difficult to play in this stadium, with that atmosphere it was like a cauldron 'we played really well and managed to win we showed once again that we are a strong and compact team and when we need to win we do everything to show that we are the world champions 'in italy we play a high level of football, we've won the champions league and the world cup but unfortunately at this moment we are being noticed for something else' e mail to a friend

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(cnn)authorities in azerbaijan recently uncovered a radical islamic terror plot against the us embassy in the capital, baku, prompting the facility to close its doors to the public monday, azerbaijan and us officials told cnn the bibi heybat mosque, just outside the capital baku as a precaution, britain also shut its embassy in baku to the public on monday 'following security concerns nearby,' britain's foreign office said the terror plot was unraveled after a weekend raid outside baku that netted several suspected members of the radical group, two us officials who asked not to be identified and a spokesman for azerbaijan's national security ministry told cnn us state department spokesman sean mccormack stressed that the details 'are still unfolding,' and the threat 'may or may not be' linked to the saturday raid 'there were some specific and credible threat information concerning the embassy and plans by militants to in some way do harm to individuals in and around the us embassy there,' mccormack said, noting that no specific individuals were targeted several days ago, an azerbaijani army officer who had connections to a radical islamic group seized four assault rifles, a machine gun and 20 hand grenades from his military unit and hid them in the outskirts of baku, the ministry spokesman and us officials said government security forces tracked down the group and arrested several members during a sweep on saturday in the village of mastaga, about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of baku, the spokesman said one suspected member of the militant group resisted arrest and was killed in the sweep, the spokesman said several others are still at large, he added he said the terror plot also targeted azerbaijani government buildings the us embassy in baku issued a warden message warning americans in azerbaijan to take precautions 'while there is no information at this time that other american or western interests in azerbaijan are being targeted, the us embassy encourages americans to maintain a high level of vigilance and take appropriate steps to bolster their own personal security,' it said azerbaijan is a former soviet republic that borders the caspian sea, and lies just north of iran mccormack said us authorities are working closely with their counterparts in baku and will determine when normal embassy operations will resume he said he expects the embassy to limit its operations on tuesday, as well e mail to a friend cnn's igor malakhov in moscow, zain verjee in washington and roger clark in london contributed to this report

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paris, franceworld number three novak djokovic crashed out of the paris masters after being trounced in his opening match by veteran frenchman fabrice santoro on wednesday fabrice santoro returns the ball during his shock second round victory against novak djokovic the 34 year old santoro, who beat world no 5 andy roddick at the lyon grand prix last week, again rose to the occasion in front of his home fans as he stormed to a 6 3 6 2 second round victory against the serb it was the first time the two players had met, with djokovic making his first outing since losing to david nalbandian in the semifinals of the madrid masters two weeks ago djokovic, like the american roddick, has already qualified for the season ending masters cup and will now have extra time to prepare for the event in shanghai starting next month the 20 year old said he was struggling following dental surgery to remove two wisdom teeth 'i couldn't give my 100 percent, not even 30 percent of my possibilities,' djokobvic said 'he deserved to win i'm still on medications i didn't practise for a whole week, i only started practising two days ago physically, i'm not feeling at all good' the result is a boost for rising british star andy murray, who earlier kept alive his hopes of an unexpected place at the masters cup by winning his first match in paris and was expected to face djokovic the 20 year old, who has missed three months this season due to a wrist injury, beat jarkko nieminen of finland 7 6 (7 5) 6 3 to progress into the third round the 15th seed is seeking to overtake tommy haas, who holds the eighth and final place ahead of the showpiece event in shanghai murray, who trails the german by just three points, has not beaten djokovic in three meetings so far but he has never played his unseeded next opponent santoro ninth seed haas, who has struggled with illness and injury this year, will play djokovic's compatriot janko tipsarevic in the second round murray, who won his second title this year at the st petersburg open last sunday, made a confident start against nieminen and showed little sign of the stiff back he suffered after a minor car crash on monday he held his serve to love against a player who was beaten in the final of the swiss indoors event by roger federer last weekend, but then struggled for his best form as the first set went to a tiebreak the scot was broken just one point after having a winner overturned following an on court appeal, but he leveled immediately and then broke nieminen again to win a third successive game before serving out for victory defending champin and fourth seed nikolay davydenko, one of six players to have already qualified for shanghai, beat argentina's juan del potro 7 6 (7 3) 6 1 in his opening match on wednesday the russian, fined for 'lack of effort' after his defeat by croatian qualifier marian cilic in st petersburg, will next face marcos baghdatis of cyprus in round three after baghdatis shocked 13th seed ivan ljubicic ivo karlovic broke roger federer's serve for the first time in his life, but the top seed and world number one progressed in a late match on wednesday croatian karlovic, the tallest man in tennis at 208 metres, went down 6 4 4 6 6 3 as federer played for the first time at the bercy event since 2003 federer had gone 67 service games over four previous matches without a loss before karlovic ended his duck to claim their second set but the swiss top seed got straight back in harness, breaking to start the final set and rolling ahead against a man he had just beaten days earlier in the basel semifinals world numbet two rafael nadal also reached the third round after thrashing italy's filippo volandri 6 3 6 1 the spaniard will next play stanislas wawrinka of switzerland, who won by the same scoreline against 16th seed juan ignacio chela of argentina e mail to a friend

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(instyle)after years in the bronze age, when sun kissed cheeks and gloss reigned supreme, fall's return to glamour means that lipstick is making a major comeback lipstick outsold gloss by $76 million last year, and beauty companies are racing to launch new formulas that are more wearable than ever so pucker up we'll show you how to apply lipstick perfectly, along with the most flattering shades for day and night for foolproof application, stick with sheer, subdued shades in the morning and save deep, bold colors (which require more time and precision) for night daytime equation 1 condition and protect with a balm that contains sunscreen, like softlips raspberry with green tea spf 20 'dab some on immediately after getting out of the shower, when your lips are still a little moist,' suggests hollywood pro kara yoshimoto bua the smoother your lips, the more perfect your lipstick will look 2 choose a soft shade such as rose or nude that you can apply straight from the tube a hydrating formula ensures a smooth coat of color try neutrogena moistureshine soothing lipsheers in fresh rose 3 blot, reapply and blot again to remove excess oils and create a stain, says bua 'the color looks more natural and lasts longer' instead of tissues, use lint free blotting papers, like boscia fresh blotting linens ($10) nighttime equation 1 exfoliate before applying a bold hue like red or burgundy sally hansen gentle peel for rough lips ($10; at drugstores) uses fruit enzymes to remove dry patches 2 create a base with a gel based primer that fills in fine lines around the mouth and helps lipstick go on more smoothly one to try: olay regenerist lip treatment ($19; at drugstores) 3 define the borders of your mouth with a pencil to prevent color from bleeding, says robin fredriksz, who gave barrymore her deep fuchsia lip to avoid an unnaturally dark outline, use a shade that's lighter than your lipstick, like revlon colorstay lip liner in plum ($8; at drugstores) 4 brush on color for more control try: shu uemura kolinsky portable extra lipbrush ($35) with isadora perfect moisture lipstick in bordeaux red ($11) makeup artists' favorites just like us, cosmetics pros use the same lipsticks again and again from the just right daytime rose to the classic evening red, here are some of their all time go to picks for day and night carmindy's neutral picks for day are designed to 'enhance your natural lip color' for night she recommends dark berry or true red for all skin tones her clients: heidi klum and jamie lynn sigler day shades: benefit silky finish in candy store, $16; givenchy rouge interdit in secret pink, $26 night colors: nars in scarlet empress, $23; revlon super lustrous in love that red, $8; at drugstores aj crimson likes a subtle pink or sheer beige for all skin tones during the day for night he recommends bright red for fair complexions and a deep purple for darker ones his clients: missy elliot and amerie day shades: chanel rouge hydrabase in pink sugar, $25; laura mercier in candy pink, ($22) night colors: maybelline moisture extreme in royal red, $7; at drugstores; mac in cyber, ($14) melissa silver uses fuchsia on cool skin tones and peachy nude on warm ones for day for night, she says, 'anyone can wear plum or sheer red' her clients: renée zellweger and cindy crawford day shades: clinique colour surge butter shine in fresh watermelon, $14; lancôme le rouge absolu in nectariche, $25 night colors: mac in spice it up!, $14; sonia kashuk in sheer cherry blossom, $8 e mail to a friend get a free trial issue of instyle click here! copyright © 2007 time inc all rights reserved

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gloss taking backseat to bold colors in lipsticks exfoliate lips before applying a bold hue melissa silver: 'anyone can wear plum or sheer red' at night aj crimson likes subtle pink or sheer beige for all skin tones for day

reuters is a global information company providing material tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets its information is trusted and drives decision making across the globe in october 1851 paul julius reuter, a german born immigrant, opened an office in the city of london which transmitted stock market quotations between london and paris via the new calais dover cable 18 months earlier he had used pigeons to fly stock prices between aachen and brussels, a service which operated for a year until the gap in the telegraph link was closed reuters, as the agency soon became known, eventually extended its service to other european countries it also expanded the content to include general and economic news from all around the world in 1865 reuters was first in europe with news of president lincoln's assassination in the united states as overland telegraph and undersea cable facilities developed, the business expanded beyond europe to include the far east in 1872 and south america in 1874 in 1883 reuters began to use a 'column printer' to transmit messages electrically to london newspapers and in 1923 pioneered the use of radio to transmit news internationally in 1927 it brought in the teleprinter to distribute news to london newspapers today reuters has over 16,900 staff in over 94 countries across the globe, and is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, with 196 bureaux serving approximately 131 countries in 2006 reuters filed over two and a half million news items, including 656,500 alerts, from 209 countries around the world, published in 18 languages although reuters is best known as the world's largest international multimedia news agency, more than 90% of its revenue derives from its financial services business some 370,000 financial market professionals working in the equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, money, commodities and energy markets around the world use reuters products the company supplies newstext, graphics, video and picturesto media organizations across the globe it also provides news to businesses outside the financial services sector, as well as direct to consumers e mail to a friend

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reuters was founded in 1851 by julius reuter, transmitting market quotations the company was first in europe with news of president lincoln's assassination today reuters has 196 bureaux serving approximately 131 countries

(cnn)penguins can do the most ordinary or the most sinister of things, and still come across as cute so you can just imagine the mushy effect on your insides upon seeing this little group of african penguins (also called jackass penguins, no joke) waddling around dressed in tiny penguin sized christmas outfits at everland amusement park in yongin, south korea some dressed like santa, some like christmas trees, they walked, marched and melted the hearts of every squealing, dslr toting onlooker twice a day since the beginning of december zookeepers lead them around the zoo, also dressed for the occasion while their march was slated to go on twice a day every day until christmas, the schedule has been unexpectedly cut short due to the drops in temperature in south korea 'today was the last day,' said everland's media spokesperson kim in chul 'as they are african penguins they are not used to the cold weather so we wanted to make sure they didn't fall ill' and what's the park's response to the daily mail's headline wondering if the march was 'cute or cruel?' 'it's exercise for the penguins and they are in a very safe environment with keepers they trust, so we don't believe it should be considered cruel in any way,' said kim

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(cnn)every year the holidays bring cold weather, family gatherings, gift giving, and of course, the perennial debate over the constitution and christmas recently, a long island school district drew criticism following a performance that removed the holier lyrics from the traditional christmas song 'silent night' some parents objected when the fifth grade choir at the school in kings park, new york, left out phrases such as 'christ the savior' the school superintendent said the principal and choir director removed the references to avoid 'offense to people of other faith,' according to newsday but regardless of the reason, would it be legal for a school choir to perform 'silent night' in its traditional form? to enter the fray we have to understand some of the basics about the often uncertain relationship between the first amendment and public schools first, let's dispel the myths: the first amendment does not ban all mention of any religion in public schools as the supreme court has noted, 'total separation (between church and state) is not possible in an absolute sense' after all, when our kids study world history, they are often studying religion wars, civilizations, exploration, and human culture have always been motivated in part by some form of dogma to filter religion out of history leaves something that cannot, in good faith, still be called history and while some christmas music consists of light hearted fare, other pieces are authored by handel or bach, and have undeniable value in a musical curriculum religion has always been a part of our civilization; the constitution and our courts recognize this instead, the establishment clause only prohibits the 'advancement' or the 'inhibition' of religion by the state of course, that's a distinction that's much easier to describe than it is to identify in real life when does a school cross the line into advancing or inhibiting religion? in 1971 the united states supreme court decided lemon v kurtzman and formulated the 'lemon test,' which is a three pronged evaluation of the constitutionality of legislation concerning religion a court will consider the following: 1 the government's action must have a secular (non religious) purpose 2 the government's action cannot have the principal or primary effect of (a) advancing religion, or (b) inhibiting religion it would be impossible to develop a public school curriculum that did not in some way affect the religious or nonreligious sensibilities of some of the students or their parents therefore, the test is not 'any effect' rather, the courts will look to the 'principal or primary' effect 3 the government's action cannot 'excessively entangle' itself with religionthat is, it cannot intrude into, participate in, or supervise religious affairs so how does this apply to singing christmas carols in school? fortunately, the courts have squarely dealt with that issue, in the context of you guessed it 'silent night' in perhaps the first case to deal specifically with christmas music, an atheist father challenged the sioux falls, south dakota, school board's use of 'silent night' (and other songs) in the school's christmas program the eighth circuit court of appealsone of the last stops before the supreme courtapplied the lemon test in florey v sioux falls school district, and held that both the study and performance of religious songs, including christmas carols, are constitutional if their purpose is the 'advancement of the students' knowledge of society's cultural and religious heritage, as well as the provision of an opportunity for students to perform a full range of music, poetry and drama that is likely to be of interest to the students and their audience' the court also reiterated that: 'it is unquestioned that public school students may be taught about the customs and cultural heritage of the united states and other countries' and that schools may 'allow the presentation of material that, although of religious origin, has taken on an independent meaning' after florey, it appears that the establishment clause does not prevent the singing of christmas carols with religious origins by public school choirs, though the line seems very thin for example, if instead of singing 'silent night,' the kids were made to take a quiz testing them on the religious facts undergirding the song: q: in the song silent night, who is the 'saviour'? a: jesus christ! then the school likely crosses into administration of religious training, which is the domain of family and church, not schools if nothing else though, it certainly appears that 'silent night,' though much more religious than 'jingle bells,' or 'white christmas,' is a street legal public school choir song so it appears that schools may include even religious christmas carols in their curriculum without violating the constitution but, can a school go the other direction, and prohibit all christmas carols from the curriculum? at least one federal court has held that they can in stratechuk v board of educ, south orange maplewood school dist, the third circuit court of appeals held that a school district's policy to bar performance of religious holiday music at seasonal shows, while allowing it to be taught in class, had a legitimate secular purpose of avoiding potential establishment clause problems, and was not 'hostile' to religion so schools appear to have broad discretion to include or prohibit christmas carols, as long as they don't run afoul of the lemon test navigating the constitutional perils of religion in school is not easyindeed, every year the holiday season brings with it an establishment clause debate the courts and schools will continue to struggle with defining permissible non secular content at least there are some less contentious holiday traditions that we can always count on: egg nog, gift returns, and bad decisions at office parties happy holidays indeed the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of danny cevallos

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danny cevallos: a new york school district edited lyrics of 'silent night' he says courts have delved into issue of singing christmas carols in schools first amendment doesn't bar all religion from schools, but courts have set guidelines, he says cevallos: 'silent night' is fine for a school choir in most cases

(cnn)six of the seven college students killed in a massive house fire sunday morning in ocean isle beach, north carolina, attended the university of south carolina, a university official said sunday 'this is a very sad day for the university of south carolina family,' dennis a pruitt, the vice president for student affairs, told reporters the seventh fatality is believed to be a clemson university student, he said the six survivorswho were treated and released from brunswick community hospitalare also usc students, he said pruitt said the bodies were being sent to chapel hill, north carolina, for identification watch home video showing the house in flames » 'it is difficult to ascertain exactly who was in the house and who was not,' pruitt said, explaining that several area houses were filled with college students visiting for the weekend newspaper deliveryman tim burns was aghast when he first saw the inferno early sunday morning he tried to approach the door but the flames were too intense, he told the associated press 'when i was going up to the entryway, you could hear the windows above me explode,' burns said 'when i knew the flames had taken over, i don't think i've ever felt as helpless in my life' the usc students were affiliated with the delta delta delta sorority and the sigma alpha epsilon fraternity, pruitt said, although he stressed that the weekend was not an official greek function 'it just so happens, as on many university campuses, that certain sororities and certain fraternities hang around together,' he said one person described as 'unaccounted for' was later confirmed dead, ocean isle beach mayor debbie smith told cnn 'we suffered a terrible tragedy at ocean isle this morning,' smith said in a news conference 'nothing like this has ever happened at ocean isle beach, and we hope it never will again' she said officials had not yet contacted all the victims' families, and that they were not yet releasing their names the mayor said one of the 13 people in the house was related to the house's owner smith said the house was fully 'engulfed' in flames around 7 am when the fire department arrived on the scene, about five minutes after the fire department was notified she said the house had working smoke detectors, ap reported officials are investigating the cause of the fire, smith said 'we ran down the street to get away,' nick cain told the ap the university of north carolina student was staying at a house about 100 feet away some of his friends had met several people staying at the house that burned down 'the ash and the smoke were coming down on us we were just trying to get away,' cain told the ap ocean isle beach is a popular resort destination along the southern coast of north carolina the 7 mile long island's year round population is about 425, while the summer season population is about 25,000, according to the town's web site e mail to a friend

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london (cnn)after violent december storms put a damper on many people's holiday season, this january was the wettest on record for parts of england met office figures for january 1 28 show that southeast and central southern england had more than twice the usual amount of rain a whopping 1752 millimeters (nearly 7 inches) of rain fell in that periodeasily submerging the previous record of 1582 millimeters, set in january 1988 final figures for the month have not yet been released, but the totals are expected to go up, since the rain has kept on coming down in many areas meanwhile, southwest england and south wales had their fifth wettest january since records began in 1910, according to the met office, and some areas have suffered dire flooding the torrential rain has left villages on the somerset levels, a low lying area of southwest england, under water for almost a month the situation is so bad that the government's emergency committee, known as cobra, has met to discuss what to do cameron: 'not acceptable' british prime minister david cameron acknowledged friday in a piece written for the western daily press, a newspaper published in southwest england, that the government had been slow to act 'like everybody across the country i feel enormous sympathy for the people who live on the somerset levels and are suffering from the devastating impact of the flooding,' he wrote 'i know that a great deal of work has been done to try and alleviate the situation but it is not acceptable for people to have to live like this almost four weeks laterand i am not ruling out any option to get this problem sorted out' military planners have been sent in to work with local authorities, he said, and a 24 hour pumping operation is now running to try to drain off the excess water from the somerset levels local residents have complained that the environment agency has neglected to dredge rivers over past years, exacerbating the risk of flooding but the environment agency said in an online statement tuesday that 'increased dredging of rivers on the somerset levels would not have prevented the recent widespread flooding because of the sheer volume of rainfall' as many as 40 homes and 65 square kilometers of land (25 square miles) are flooded, the agency said local and national newspapers have shown dramatic images of inundated homes, submerged fields and impassable roads, with some residentsand emergency respondersforced to use boats to get around flood warnings, flights affected the sodden month of january may now be over, but the bad weather persists this weekend the environment agency has warned that high tides and gale force winds could bring more flooding in some coastal areas, and nine severe flood warnings are in place at the same time, continued rain may cause river flooding in parts of southern england where the ground is saturated and water levels are already high, the agency said stormy, gale force winds in ireland have also affected some flights at dublin airport passengers are advised to check their flight status before traveling, the airport said saturday the irish met office warned that coastal flooding is also likely saturday for coastal counties in the country's west and south, thanks to the high winds, extremely high seas and very high spring tides cnn's per nyberg contributed to this report

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southeast and central southern england had more than twice the usual rainfall in january rainfall there in the first 28 days of january was the highest since records began in 1910 parts of southwest england have been under water for nearly a month the bad weather continues, with a number of flood warnings issued this weekend

washington (cnn)attacks are down 75 percent in recent months in a perilous stretch of neighborhoods in northeastern baghdad, prompting a us military officer to proclaim monday that security there is 'dramatically improving' concerned citizens have helped troops improve security in parts of baghdad, a military official says people line the streets, cars congest them, trash collectors and other city workers have returned, local leaders are holding community meetings again and 'markets have come back like gangbusters,' said army col don farris, commander of 2nd brigade combat team, 82nd airborne division he added that the largely sunni al qaeda in iraq presence has been 'crushed' since the beginning of may however, there are still dangers, most notably the threats posed by iranian backed shiite militants, farris said speaking to pentagon reporters via video link from baghdad, farris cited several factors he said contributed to the improving security situation among them is the 'surge,' the additional us troops deployed earlier this year watch how old rivalries have been posing problems » also helping improve the security situation are the cease fire by radical shiite cleric muqtada al sadr's mehdi army and the development of a program that employs 'concerned local citizens' to assist us and iraqi forces, farris said some of those citizens are members of local sunni 'awakening councils,' comprised of former militantsoften armedwho create neighborhood watch groups to root out the insurgent elements in an area especially in the last six weeks, farris said, civic and religious leaders have seen outsiders operating in the area and troops have made arrests, two iranian operatives among them 'from my foxhole, in our sector, it is working,' he said of the improving security in the area 'i can only speak to what i see in my sector and i am encouraged' farris' sectorwhich includes the sunni dominated district of adhamiya and sadr city, the shiite slum where militants have demonstrated a strong presencehas seen a 'remarkable turnaround,' he said many of the communities in his area have been wracked with sectarian warfare and terrorized by insurgents and death squads despite improvements in the security situation, farris warned that 'we still have a lot of work to do' because there doesn't appear to be any sign that shiite extremists with links to iran are halting their activities farris said troops also are still finding explosively formed penetrators, which are often delivered or manufactured by iran nine such bombs were found in late october, he said there are intelligence reports indicating weapons and money are still flowing into sadr city, he said there are also problems returning refugees and displaced people to their homes in the area, farris said, because 'essential services' like water and electricity are not yet up to snuff though a 'trickle' of families has returned home and many are asking when they can return, farris said he believes residents will return en masse only when basic services are in better shape paul folmsbee, a state department provincial reconstruction team leader, said at the same news conference that his personnel was handling development issues involving law, governance, economic development and essential services farris' monday remarks echo a string of similar assertions made by us and iraqi military officials over recent weeks the military officials say they are seeing signs of sunni shiite reconciliation at a press conference earlier monday in baghdad, brig gen ed cardon, deputy commander for support of multi national division center, discussed a 'definite period of progress' in his region on the southern baghdad outskirts e mail to a friend

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official: streets bustling, workers returning, markets 'back like gangbusters' troop surge, citizens groups, mehdi army cease fire all help security situation iranian weapons, fighters still posing problems in northeastern baghdad commander says more families will return when basic services fully restored

(ewcom)a 'mad men' actor is going to abc's 'pan am'he doesn't even need to change decades! darren pettie has had a recurring role on the amc drama as the son of a cigarette mogul who was secretly gay (and recently had an arc on the cw's 'ringer') now pettie has signed up for a recurring part on 'pan am' playing an airline captain who's considered the 'ultimate sky god' he's a heroic former wwii pilot named vince broyles, a charmer with a dark side due to his acclaimed military service, he's allowed to commandeer 'pan am' aircraft for his personal use expect pettie to struggle for alpha male status with capt dean lowrey (mike vogel) later this season see the full article at ewcom click here to try 2 risk free issues of entertainment weekly © 2011 entertainment weekly and time inc all rights reserved

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(ewcom)by now, the 'twilight' movies' soundtracks are their own micro environments, nurturing new acts and extending the lives of old ones in an indie centric bio dome though artists as sonically diverse as death cab for cutie, bon iver, and muse have all gotten powerful boosts after feeding off 'twilight's' main vein, the albums' moods are as monochromatic as bella's permanently gray tinted pacific northwest wonderland ''jar of hearts'' songstress christina perri's fantastically opulent ''a thousand years'' sets the tone for 'the twilight saga: breaking dawnpart 1': stark acoustic strums, cascading strings, and a piercing croon expressing undying adoration when angst rockers sleeping at last attempt to hit the same notes on ''turning page,'' though, it only drives home how effective perri's witchy confidence is lindsay lohan exits jail after four hours don't let the inclusion of a bruno mars song (the prettily woozy ''it will rain'') fool you into thinking that 'dawn' is a leap into pop crossover diversity if anything, this is the narrowest 'twilight' soundtrack yet: even when the volume shifts from quiet to slightly less quiet, these weepy tunes about eternity and erotic mythical beasts grow wearisome justin bieber oks paternity test: report biting detourslike the noisettes' gospel punk rave up ''sister rosetta,'' the belle brigade's swamp blues ''i didn't mean it,'' and theophilus london's twitchy ''neighbors''add thrilling heat that too quickly dissipates if 'breaking dawn' were a group's fourth album, it would be the stuck in a rut release that nearly breaks up the band luckily, the blaze of glory retirement album 'part 2' is waiting in the wings b see full article at ewcom click here to try 2 risk free issues of entertainment weekly © 2011 entertainment weekly and time inc all rights reserved

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christina perri's ''a thousand years'' sets the tone for 'the twilight saga: breaking dawnpart 1' don't let the inclusion of a bruno mars song fool you into thinking 'dawn' is a leap into pop crossover diversity these weepy tunes about eternity and erotic mythical beasts grow wearisome

tehran, iran (cnn)a well known iranian filmmaker has written an open letter calling for the release of journalist roxana saberi in a letter, iranian filmmaker bahman ghobadi blames himself for urging roxana saberi to stay in iran bahman ghobadi said he kept quiet about the arrest and conviction of the iranian american journalist at the request of her family after saberi was convicted last weekend and sentenced to an eight year prison sentence, he said he felt he had to do something he told cnn that saberi, whom he described as his fiancee, is caught in a 'game of politics' in his letter, which has been posted by the international campaign for human rights in iran, ghobadi blames himself for urging saberi to stay in iran despite her desire to leave also, he writes, 'my letter is a desperate call to all statesmen and to all those who can do something to help' 'from the other side of the ocean, the americans have protested against her imprisonment, because she is an american citizen,' he writes 'but i say no, she is iranian, and she loves iran i beg you, let her go! i beg you not to throw her in the midst of your political games! she is too weak and too pure to take part in your games let me be present at her trial, sit next to her wise father and gentle mother, and testify she is without guilt or reproach' the 40 year old filmmaker said that saberi was planning to leave the country, but he kept her from leaving until his latest filmwhich will be shown at this year's cannes film festivalwas completed ghobadi won the 2000 golden camera award at the cannes festival for his feature film, 'a time for drunken horses' saberi, 31, was sentenced saturday to eight years in prison after a one day trial that was closed to the public the decision prompted sharp denunciations from president barack obama, as well as other us and international officials iranian officials initially said saberi was held for buying a bottle of wine the foreign ministry later said she was detained for reporting without proper accreditation on april 9, word emerged that saberi had been charged with espionage saberi's lawyer has said he will appeal the verdict judiciary chief ayatollah hashemi shahroudi has ordered the head of tehran's justice department to make sure the appeals process is quick and fair ghobadi wrote that he is 'optimistic about her release, and i firmly hope the verdict will be canceled in the next stage of the trial' 'my iranian girl with japanese eyes and an american id, is in jail shame on me! shame on us!' cnn's igor krotov and shirzad bozorghmehr contributed to this report

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iranian filmmaker bahman ghobadi writes letter calling for release of jailed journalist filmmaker says fiancee roxana saberi is caught in a 'game of politics' journalist 'is without guilt or reproach,' filmmaker's letter says 'shame on me! shame on us!' the letter concludes

(cnn)officials are searching for the driver of a white truck seen on santiago canyon road on sunday, near the time the santiago fire started, orange county authorities said friday chief chip prather holds a photo of a white truck similar to the one seen on santiago canyon road 'these people are not suspects at this time,' orange county fire authority chief chip prather said 'they are persons of interest who were seen near the fire in a vehicle like this' the vehicle is a white, 1998 to 2004 ford f150 pickup with chrome tubular running boards prather said the information came from a lead called into the investigation's tip line a $250,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for the blaze watch how residents feel about arsonist » the santiago fire, now 27,000 acres and still burning, was deliberately set, officials said thursday several mandatory evacuations remain in place for the santiago fire, which has destroyed 14 homes and various other structures late friday afternoon, the blaze moved into silverado canyon, authorities said sheriff's deputies were evacuating residents in the fire's path watch the santiago flames rage » authorities also suspect arson in the rosa fire in san diego county, which burned more than 400 acres before being fully contained there was no information on the investigation elsewhere, the los angeles county district attorney's office filed arson charges friday against a 41 year old sun valley man who witnesses said set a fire in the west hills neighborhood and walked away catalino pineda is one of five people who have been arrested in arson investigations this week, but none of them has been linked to the major wildfires raging across southern california pineda was arrested wednesday after witnesses said they saw him lighting a fire on a hillside, police said the fire was quickly extinguished the witnesses followed pineda to a nearby restaurant and called police, who arrested him pineda was expected to be arraigned in van nuys superior court friday, deputy district attorney steven frankland said he is charged with one count of arson of a structure or forest pineda is being held on $75,000 bail and faces up to six years in prison if convicted in san bernardino, east of los angeles, john rund, of hesperia, was arrested wednesday on arson charges after a witness reported seeing him in brush near the starting point of a fire tuesday, the sheriff's department said that fire was quickly put out by passers by investigators are trying to determine if rund, 48, may have ties to other wildfires he is being held on $750,000 bail the san bernardino county district attorney's office on thursday filed arson charges against anthony riperti, 47, of redlands a statement from the office did not say when or where riperti is accused of setting a fire he is being held on $250,000 bail in san diego county, the sheriff's department this week arrested an adult and a juvenile allegedly seen by an anonymous tipster starting a fire in vista in the northern part of the county in a written statement, the sheriff's department identified the adult as gorgonio nava the vista fire department extinguished the blaze before it grew out of control, the statement said investigators have determined that the grass valley fire in san bernardino county was not caused by arson, and a preliminary investigation into the cause of the 11,675 acre slide fire seems to indicate arson was not a factor, sheriff's spokeswoman cindy beaver said more than 1,600 homes have been destroyed in the past week by southern california wildfires e mail to a friend

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(cnn)the partnership started as a single shop on oxford street in london, opened in 1864 by john lewis today the partnership is an organization with bases throughout the uk, with supermarkets and department stores, employing approximately 67,100 people all 67,100 permanent staff are partners who own 26 john lewis department stores, 183 waitrose supermarkets, an online and catalogue business, john lewis direct a direct services company greenbee, three production units and a farm every partner receives the same scale of bonus, based on a fixed percentage of their annual wage the bonus for 2006 was 18% equivalent to 9 weeks pay, which was rolled out for every employee chairman sir stuart hampson retired at the end of march 2007, his successor is charlie mayfield hampson's salary for january 26, 2006 to january 26, 2007 was $166 million which included the partnership bonus of $250,000 john lewis' consolidated revenue for the last financial year was $114 billion e mail to a friend

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(cnn)the company was founded in 1985 by seven communications industry veteransfranklin antonio, adelia coffman, andrew cohen, klein gilhousen, irwin jacobs, andrew viterbi and harvey white one of qualcomm's first products was omnitracs, introduced in 1988, which is currently the largest satellite based commercial mobile system for the transportation industry today, qualcomm's patent portfolio includes approximately 6,100 united states patents and patent applications for cdma and related technologies more than 130 telecommunications equipment manufacturers worldwide have licensed qualcomm's essential cdma patents qualcomm is among the members of the s&p 500 index, fortune 500, and a winner of the us department of labor's' secretary of labor's opportunity award' the company has been listed among fortune's '100 best companies to work for in america' for nine years in a row and the magazine's list of' most admired companies' qualcomm's annual revenue for 2006 was $753 billion, with a net income of $247 billion e mail to a friend

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the company has become a huge name in communications in just 20 years qualcomm has a portfolio of approximately 6,100 us patents fortune lists the company as one of the 100 best places to work in the us

(mental floss)they say a lot of artistic expression is motivated by self loathing but not for these folks! long before the material girl ordered papa to stop preaching, these six puffed up virtuosos knew darn well how to strike a pose alfred hitchcock didn't leave people in suspense about how he felt about actors here's to the creative types who managed to raise egotism to an art form alfred hitchcock hitchcock was, without question, one of the towering geniuses of cinema and, like many greats, he wasn't exactly the best collaborator hitchcock was particularly trying for screenwriters, who felt he never properly credited them for their work but he was notoriously hard on actors he was once quoted as saying, 'actors are cattle'a quip that stirred up a huge outcry (actors can be so touchy) in response, he issued this correction: 'i have been misquoted what i really said is, 'actors should be treated as cattle'' although it began accidentally (when he was short an actor for the film 'the lodger'), hitchcock soon made it his egotistical trademark to appear in his own films, amassing a total of 37 cameos throughout his career ayn rand the egotist's egotist, author ayn rand (born alissa zinovievna rosenbaum) is the patron saint of thinking you're better than everybody else her most famous novels, the fountainhead and atlas shrugged, are massive dramatizations of objectivism, her self spun oscar the grouch philosophy for success objectivism champions ego and accomplishment, shuns all religion as folly, and condemns any form of charity or altruism as counterproductive to society rand's novels often focus on protagonists (invariably men) who are shunned by others because of their genius, but then persevere over the foolishness of morons to prove said genius and emerge triumphant not surprisingly, she saw humility as a weakness and regarded laughing at yourself as 'spitting in your own face' so, just how much did rand believe in her own philosophy? let's just say a lot with signature modesty, she ranked herself as the philosophical equal of aristotle and thomas aquinas orson welles when you create a cinematic masterpiece such as 'citizen kane' at the ripe old age of 25, you're bound to get a big head but welles was convinced of his own importance much earlier than that in fact, 'citizen kane' might have been sparked by nothing more than a bruised ego after all, it's said he devised the film as a withering exposé of newspaper mogul william randolph hearst because hearst slighted welles at a dinner party of course, after the unparalleled success of 'citizen kane,' welles's arrogant side didn't get any less subtle do yourself a favor: track down a recording of welles' outtakes for a tv commercial for frozen peas you'll hear everything you need to know about the filmmaker's oversized ego a classic quote goes: 'in the depths of your ignorance, what is it you want?' frank lloyd wright as the brains behind the robie house, fallingwater, taliesin west, the guggenheim, and countless other design benchmarks, frank lloyd wright is arguably the genius of 20th century architecture and, boy, did he know it! wright was notorious for believing he was superior to mere mortals in fact, the architectural egomaniac frequently acted as though the ruleseven those of geography and climatedid not apply to him but when you're wright, you're right in 1935, department store magnate stanley marcus (of neiman marcus fame) commissioned the architect to design his dallas home, but the project quickly went sour wright's avant garde floor plan included 'sleeping porches' that required his client to sleep outdoors year round in addition, marcus' small bedroom 'cubicles' came equipped with almost no closet space when stanley respectfully explained that (a) temperatures during summer nights in dallas often exceed 80 degrees and (b) a high fashion tastemaker might need bigger closets, wright threw a series of tantrums fortunately for the voyeur in us all, said tantrums usually took place in letter form preserved and occasionally displayed at the dallas museum of art, they make for delicious reading salvador dalí 'every morning when i awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being salvador dalí' yup, he actually said that everything about the legendary surrealist painter (he of the melting clocks)from his whacked out paintings to his curled up mustachewas designed to shock, destroy convention, cause scandal, and stir controversy criticized for choosing to live under general franco's fascist government in spain, dalí defended his position by stating that he didn't care about others so long as he could be king not exactly a man of the people if he wasn't getting enough attention, he was known to walk the streets of new york city clanging a hand bell of course, this is also the guy who once said, 'the thought of not being recognized [is] unbearable' need another telling quote? 'at the age of 6 years, i wanted to be a chef at the age of 7, i wanted to be napoleon my ambitions have continued to grow at the same rate ever since' apparently, so did his ego al jolson plenty of performers this side of gallagher have been labeled 'the world's greatest entertainer' but al jolson really, really believed it the vaudeville singer, actor, dancer, and comedian was born asa yoelson in seredzius, lithuania, in what was then part of imperial russia as a performer, he was known for hijacking the action in the middle of shows, ad libbing, or just stopping to talk to the audience during a 1911 performance of the critically hated 'paris is a paradise for coons' (title not edited for political correctness), jolson stopped and asked the audience if they'd rather hear him sing than see the rest of the play the crowd roared with applause, and jolson ditched the whole program and took over from that moment on, no one else could share the stage with him unlike some of the egomaniacs on this list, however, jolson can be forgiven somewhat for his arrogance according to most contemporary accounts, he actually was the greatest in the world but, despite the enormity of his contributions to stage and screen, jolson's legacy has become a political hot potato because of his use of stage blackface (considered highly offensive now, but pretty common at the time) e mail to a friend for more mental floss articles, visit mentalflosscom entire contents of this article copyright, mental floss llc all rights reserved

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paris, franceac milan's brazilian midfielder kaka has been named european player of the year, lifting france football's ballon d'or award kaka has already claimed all of the game's major prizes his success comes two years after his fellow countryman, barcelona's ronaldinho, claimed the award the 25 year old kaka was a major factor in ac milan's triumphant champions league campaign the runner up was manchester united's portuguese winger cristiano ronaldo with barcelona's argentinian midfielder lionel messi finishing third 'this is very special for me it culminates an astonishing year for me,' kaka said 'it's the top prize around and the only way to win something like this is to play for a team like ac milan it's great to be part of a team that wins' at 25 years old, he has already won all the game's major prizes, individually and collectively he was part of brazil's 2002 world cup winning squad, although he was limited to just 19 minutes as a substitute against costa rica he was top scorer in last season's champions league, helping milan to avenge their loss to liverpool in the 2005 final he won the italian domestic title in his first season at milan having joined from brazilians sao paulo for$ 85 million, a sum that milan president silvio berlusconi then described as peanuts e mail to a friend

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(cnn)bupa is an international health and care company with bases on three continents and more than eight million customers bupa began as the british united provident association in 1947 to preserve freedom of choice in health care it believed that with a national health service being introduced a year later, there would still be a need for a complimentary service enabling people from all walks of life to afford the benefits of choice in where, when and by whom they were treated led by the growing public demand for health care and a lack of quality private accommodation bupa initiated the nuffield homes charitable trust later renamed nuffield hospitals bupa's biggest and original business is health insurance in the uk, both for individuals and corporations that want to look after the health of their employees more than half of the uk's top companies are bupa customers the company's uk care homes offer specialist care to residents who include the elderly, the mentally ill, young people with physical or learning disabilities and people with conditions such as parkinson's and huntington's diseases bupa is a leading healthcare company in the uk, spain, australia, ireland, hong kong, thailand, malta and saudi arabia bupa international supplies health cover to expatriates in over 180 countries sanitas, the bupa business in spain, has one million insured customers who have access to a network of 18,000 medical professionals and 450 medical centres e mail to a friend

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bupa was founded in 1947 in response to plans to establish the nhs the company's biggest base is in the uk but has customers in three continents bupa care homes cater for a number of conditions, including parkinson's

(rolling stone)rihanna has signed on to be the executive producer of a new fashion competition show being developed for british television the show, which does not yet have a title, is set to debut on the sky living channel in britain it will be hosted by girls aloud singer nicola roberts and include appearances by rihanna herself, though it is unclear how frequently the pop star will be on the show 'i've always had a great love of fashion it's a constant source of inspiration in my life, and is a big reason why i've grown into the person and artist i am today,' the singer said in a statement on sky living's website 'i have been very fortunate to work with some truly amazing designers and stylists throughout my career, and they have been instrumental in making sure my creative vision reaches the stage i am excited to follow the journey of our aspiring contestants and see how their individuality influences their efforts during the course of the show' the show, which will presumably bear some resemblance to 'project runway' in terms of format, will culminate with a final challenge in which the remaining designers must create a unique stage outfit for rihanna's performance at the wireless festival in hyde park, england, in july see the full article at rollingstonecom copyright © 2011 rolling stone

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(cnn)all americans who presented themselves at the united nations camp in bor, south sudan, were evacuated safely sunday amid deadly violence in the country, the state department said a state department official said about 15 americans were flown out us personnel are working to confirm that no other us citizens remain in bor in need of evacuation, a state department official said 'this morning, the united statesin coordination with the united nations and in consultation with the south sudanese governmentsafely evacuated american citizens from bor, south sudan,' state department spokeswoman jen psaki said in a statement 'us citizens and citizens from our partner nations were flown from bor to juba on un and us civilian helicopters the united states and the united nations, which has the lead for securing bor airport in south sudan, took steps to ensure fighting factions were aware these flights were a humanitarian mission' 'the us government is doing everything possible to ensure the safety and security of united states citizens in south sudan we are working with our allies around the world to connect with and evacuate us citizens as quickly and safely as possible,' psaki said the united nations moved noncritical staff out of south sudan's capital, juba, across the border into uganda on sunday, as the violence spread inside the world's newest country un civilian staff were moved from a compound in the flashpoint town of bor to juba on saturday, the same day a us mission to airlift americans out was aborted when the aircraft came under fire us president barack obama said in a letter to congressional leaders sunday that 46 us service members took part in the mission, and he noted he 'may take further action to support the security of us citizens, personnel and property, including our embassy, in south sudan' four us troops were wounded in the attack in bor and were expected to be moved to the us military hospital at landstuhl, germany, a senior us official told cnn earlier sunday one of the injured 'went through some pretty serious surgery' after being taken to nairobi, kenya, for wounds from the gunshots fired at the aircraft all four have been able to speak to their families thousands displaced hundreds of people have been killed in a week of fighting, which has spread from juba to oil fields farther north south sudanese president salva kiir blamed soldiers loyal to his former vice president, riek machar, for starting the violence up to 40,000 civilians have taken refuge in united nations bases in the country, secretary general ban ki moon said sunday 'there are many more thousands of people who are very much in fear and vulnerable, and at this time, the priority of the united nations is to (protect) the lives of civilians,' ban told a news conference in the philippines the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs estimates some 62,000 people have been displaced in total, with five of south sudan's ten states affected by the violence the un has said some 20 people were killed during an attack thursday by about 2,000 armed youths on a un peacekeeping base in jonglei state two indian peacekeepers were also killed after the attack, the assailants fled with arms, ammunition and other supplies, the un said 'we will not be intimidated' in a statement sunday, the un said it had made the decision to relocate noncritical staff from juba to entebbe, uganda, as 'a precautionary measure to reduce pressures on its limited resources,' while still providing assistance and shelter to more than 20,000 civilians who have gathered at its compounds in the capital the un mission in south sudan is planning to reinforce its military presence in bor and pariang, the organization said plans are also under way to relocate all noncritical staff from the un compound near bentiu in unity state, and reinforcements will also be sent in 'we are not abandoning south sudan we are here to stay, and will carry on in our collective resolve to work with and for the people of south sudan,' un envoy hilde f johnson said in the statement 'to anyone who wants to threaten us, attack us or put obstacles in our way, our message remains loud and clear: we will not be intimidated' ban said the un would 'transfer our assets from other peacekeeping missions,' such as the one in the democratic republic of congo and other areas, to the troubled country 'we also seeking support from other key countries who can provide the necessary assets,' he said 'we are in shortage of capacity when the united nations compound was overrun by 2,000 armed elements, we were having difficulties' echoing calls from western governments, ban urged an end to the violence and called on kiir and machar 'to come to the table and find a political way out of this crisis' 'they are responsible to the people of south sudan to end the crisis and find the political means of addressing their differences,' he said ban said he had dispatched a special representative to juba to work with the un envoy in the city washington is also sending an envoy tensions have been high in south sudan since july, when kiir dismissed machar and the rest of the cabinet the move inflamed tensions between kiir's dinka community and machar's nuer community south sudan formally split from sudan in 2011 after a referendum, following decades of conflict numerous armed groups remain active in the oil rich country cnn's anna maja rappard and tom watlkins contributed to this report

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(cnn)the owner of a north carolina beach house where seven college students died in a weekend fire said monday that his family's 'lives were just changed forever' by the tragedy chip auman said his 18 year old daughter survived the fire but was hospitalized and in stable condition because of complications from smoke inhalation 'the thought of losing a child is unimaginable to me, and as a father my heart goes out to the families that lost a loved one in this situation,' he said auman said the situation was 'hard to fathom' 'there's just no words to describe what we've been going through,' he said, asking for prayers for survivors and the families of those who died 'we're numb, we're confused, we're heartbroken' two college campuses mourned monday six university of south carolina students and a clemson university student died in the fire early sunday morning in ocean isle beach, north carolina six other south carolina students were able to get out of the house in time the six were treated and released from nearby brunswick community hospital, but auman's daughter was hospitalized again in hartsville, south carolina authorities from the state bureau of investigation and the federal bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives are leading the investigation into the cause of the fire ocean isle beach mayor debbie smith said the house was 'engulfed' in flames when the fire department arrived on the scene, about five minutes after being notified the flames shot into the sky and ultimately left little more than portions of the framing fire officials do not believe foul play was involved watch a neighbor's video, fears of fast burning fire » dennis a pruitt, the vice president for student affairs for the university of south carolina, said investigators have said it would be tuesday or wednesday before the identities of the victims are confirmed publicly it could be as much as a month until investigators know the cause of the fire, pruitt said the university did not cancel classes on monday, but pruitt said arrangements had been made for those who need to go home or stay out of class at the 28,000 student campus pruitt said meetings had been held sunday with members of delta delta delta sorority and sigma alpha epsilon fraternity the south carolina students were affiliated with those houses, he said, although he stressed that the weekend was not an official greek function he also said counselors and ministers were available to help students deal with the loss of their classmates the university president, dr andrew sorenson, contacted the families of those who died in the fire to express the condolences and support of the university community jay laura, student president of the usc chapter of sigma alpha epsilon, said the campus would pull together after the tragedy 'if any place can come together to help in the healing process and the aftermath of an event like this, it is south carolina,' laura said at a monday afternoon press conference fire survivor tripp wylie, a 20 year old south carolina sophomore, said he jumped out of a third story window into a canal to escape the flames and was unable to get back in to help his friends 'i could see a buddy of mine off to the left who had gotten out he was just yelling at me to jump and stuff,' wylie told cnn affiliate wyff 'the smoke was pouring out, couldn't really breathe, so i had to make a quick decision [i] just kind of leaned out the window and luckily i jumped far enough to make it into the canal' neighbors flocked to see the fire as firefighters battled and ultimately got the blaze under control see the scenes of devastation » george smith, who lives across the street from the house, said he heard sirens between 6:30 and 7 am and went outside to see 'the whole sky lit up' 'the whole house was completely engulfed in flames, up to about 20 feet,' he said 'i have never seen [a fire] move so fast' george smith said the house's occupants were 'partying in there yesterday and into the night' after about 10:30 pm saturday they quieted down, he said linda sing said she was walking her dog when she saw the fiery destruction she noted that firefighters had saved an adjacent house by spraying it down with water 'we knew there were people in there, but we hoped and prayed they'd gotten out,' sing said 'this is the worst thing i've ever seen we've had hurricanes, but this is worse' ocean isle beach is a popular resort destination along north carolina's southern coast the year round population of the 7 mile long island is about 425, but it swells to about 25,000 during the summer season, according to the town's web site e mail to a friend

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london, england (cnn)the head of britain's intelligence services has warned that children as young as 15 are becoming involved in terrorist related activity jonathan evans, the chief of mi5, also said that at least 2,000 people in britain pose a threat to the country's security because of their support for al qaeda inspired terrorism 'as i speak, terrorists are methodically and intentionally targeting young people and children in this country they are radicalising, indoctrinating and grooming young, vulnerable people to carry out acts of terrorism,' he told a gathering of newspaper editors in manchester evans said the figure of 2,000an increase of 400 since november 2006only included those the intelligence services knew about and that the actual number could be double he said there had been 200 terrorist convictions in britain since the september 11 attacks the mi5 head added that over recent years much of the command and inspiration for attack planning in the uk had come from al qaeda's remaining core leadership in the tribal areas of pakistan however, he said in the last 12 months terrorist plots on british soil were increasingly inspired by al qaeda cadres in other countries, including in iraq and east africa 'there is no doubt now that al qaeda in iraq aspires to promote terrorist attacks outside iraq there is no doubt that there is training activity and terrorist planning in east africaparticularly in somaliawhich is focused on the uk,' he told the society of editors meeting according to evans, there had been 'no decrease' in the number of russian covert intelligence officers operating in britain since the end of the cold war he said that resources that could be devoted to counter terrorism were instead being used to protect britain against spying by russia, china and others 'a number of countries continue to devote considerable time and energy trying to steal our sensitive technology on civilian and military projects and trying to obtain political and economic intelligence at our expense,' he said e mail to a friend

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san diego, california (cnn)you must know what's really driving the immigration debate it's the culture, stupid ruben navarrette jr: some opponents of immigration, even the legal kind, fear changes in local culture immigration restrictionistsand by that, i mean those who want to limit all immigration, even the legal kindlike to pretend they're so high minded yet they can't help themselves they always take the low road and harken back to the nativism that greeted earlier waves of immigrants the restrictionists insist that what bothers them are merely practical concerns: that our borders aren't secure, that so many immigrants are coming into the country illegally, and that the new arrivals are burdening schools and draining social services once they get here really? if that's the extent of it, then why does the conversation quickly turn to the impactboth real and perceivedthat immigrants have on american culture through everything from taco trucks to spanish language billboards that seems to be the issue in north dakota, where, according to a recent article in usa today, towns facing tough economic times are nonetheless resisting a cultural transfusion that could save them in cooperstown, the locals opposed efforts to bring in a hog plant and a dairy, because those kind of dirty and hard jobs are likely to attract guess who? american kids who work at starbucks? nope the article quotes orville tranby, a local community leader in cooperstown, who says that some residents have told him 'face to face' that such facilities might attract hispanic immigrants who could change the local culture you'll find the same fear in lewisburg, tennessee not long ago, an employee at a local library came up with the radical idea of a bilingual story time where children could hear tales read to them in spanish townspeople wanted no part of that they demanded that all books purchased by the library, or even donated, be in english only these stories are ridiculous, but they're also helpful they illustrate what some people are really concerned about with immigration, and it goes well beyond words like 'legal' or 'illegal' it's the perception that the country is becoming more hispanic, that spanish is replacing english, that hispanic immigrants are weakening american identity, and that main street is turning into little mexico a leader of the vigilante minuteman movement moronically called it the 'colonization' of the united states this sort of rhetoric is all about fearthat those who thrive in the dominant culture are losing their primacy, that the mainstream is being polluted by foreigners, and that our children are going to live in a world where they're going to have to work a lot harder to keep up it conjures up the alarm bells that benjamin franklin set off about german immigrants in the late 18th century, who he insisted could never adopt the culture of the english, but would 'swarm into our settlements, and by herding together establish their language and manners to the exclusion of ours' it popped up in the mid 19th century amid worries that chinese immigrants were 'unassimilable,' which led to congress approving the explicitly named chinese exclusion act of 1882 and it helped welcome the 20th century when massachusetts sen henry cabot lodge warned that immigrants (read: the irish) were diluting 'the quality of (us) citizenship' and others complained that italian immigrants were uneducated, low skilled, apt to send all their money to their home country and prone to criminal activity where have we heard that before? and when will we hear it again? after all, hispanics may be the latest group to find themselves in a culture war with nativists but they won't be the last ruben navarrette jr is a member of the editorial board of the san diego union tribune and a nationally syndicated columnist you can read his column here the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer e mail to a friend

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navarrette: opponents see hispanic immigrants as weakening us identity one town demanded all library books be in english, navarrette says hispanics the latest to find themselves at center of culture war

rome, italymauro camoranesi scored with 13 minutes left to earn juventus a 1 1 home draw with serie a leaders inter milan on sunday julio cruz is mobbed by team mates after giving inter the lead in their 1 1 draw at juventus camoranesi picked up a headed knock down from substitute vincenzo iaquinta before seeing his shot deflect off defender walter samuel to leave goalkeeper julio cesar helpless inter took a first half lead when argentine striker julio cruz broke juve's offside trap and latched onto brazilian midfielder cesar's through ball before firing past gianluigi buffon the result means inter retain their unbeaten record this season, despite injury problems that saw the likes of patrick vieira, francesco toldo, marco materazzi and dejan stankovic ruled out the defending champions are now two points clear of fiorentina at the top of the table, with roma a point further behind and juventus in fourth place earlier in the day, roma missed out on the chance to close the gap on inter when a late collapse saw them throw away a two goal lead to draw 2 2 at empoli first half goals from french winger ludovic giuly and matteo brighi had put the visiting romans in charge and for more than an hour they looked set to cruise to victory but with 23 minutes remaining ighli vannucchi reduced the deficit and sebastian giovinco snatched an injury time equaliser to deny luciano spaletti's injury depleted team siena snatched a share of the spoils from parma in a 2 2 draw as daniele galloppa scored in the last minute while napoli needed an injury time goal from striker ezequiel lavezzi to deny rock bottom reggina their first win of the season, forcing them to settle for a 1 1 draw in the south e mail to a friend

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a mauro camoranesi goal earns juventus a 1 1 draw with leaders inter milan argentine striker julio cruz had given injury hit inter the lead in the first half the result maintains inter's unbeaten record and moves them two points clear

(cnn) one australian soldier, three civilians and taliban militants were killed early friday during heavy fighting in southern afghanistan, according to information from australian and nato officials four australian troops have now died in the conflict in afghanistan the incident occurred in tarin kowt in uruzgan province, where taliban militants killed an australian commando, the australian defence ministry said the 26 year old commandopvt luke worsley of sydneyserved with the special operations task group this is the fourth australian troop to die in the afghan conflict 'the action in which private worsley died only concluded in the last few hours and was characterized by heavy, close quarter fighting the sotg was conducting an operation to clear an identified taliban bomb making facility in uruzgan province, when the soldier was hit by small arms fire,' chief of the defence force air chief marshal angus houston said nato's international security assistance force said 'a significant number of taliban insurgents were killed or captured as part of the operation taliban insurgents initiated the firefight which lasted several hours' gen carlos branco, isaf spokesman, said it is not known how the civilians, two women and a child, died 'however, we do know that the insurgents fired upon isaf soldiers from the compound in which the afghan civilians (two women and one child) were found after the fight isaf makes all effort to prevent losses of innocent civilian lives' e mail to a friend

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taliban militants kill australian commando in southern afghanistan he was shot during operation to clear taliban bomb making facility in uruzgan this is the fourth australian soldier to die in the conflict in afghanistan several militants killed and a coalition troop injured in other fighting in southeast

helsinki, finland (cnn)an 18 year old authorities say shot eight people inside his high school in southern finland, before turning the gun on himself, has died, police said an image from a video posted on youtube by 'sturmgeist89' the shooting appeared to have been planned out in graphic videos posted on internet file sharing site youtube at a news conference this afternoon, police confirmed the dead numbered two girls, five boys and the school's headmistress at jokela high in tuusula, a quiet town around 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of helsinki ten other people were taken to a hospital with minor injuries the shooter, whom police identified as pekka eric auvinen, died at toolo hospital, authorities said police said he took his own life it was the first school shooting in finland since 1989, when a 14 year old student shot and killed two others in the coastal town of rauma, the finnish news agency stt reported police said auvinen is from tuusula and who acted alone he had no previous criminal record and had never threatened anyone from the school before, they added auvinen published a manifesto online demanding war on the 'weak minded masses' and pledged to die for his cause watch auvinen fire weapons in video from his web page » youtube appeared to have removed 89 videos linked to his account, many of them featuring nazi imagery, shortly after the incident finnish media reported someone posted a message two weeks ago on the web site, warning of a bloodbath at the school a video posted earlier wednesday, by 'sturmgeist89,' was titled 'jokela high school massacre 11/7/2007' 'sturmgeist89' identified himself as auvinen, and said he chose the name 'sturmgeist' because it means 'storm spirit' in german the video showed a picture of the school, which then disintegrated to reveal two images of auvinen against a red background, pointing a gun at the screen the clip is accompanied by the song 'stray bullet' from rock band kmfdm eric harris and dylan klebold, the students behind the 1999 columbine high school massacre, also cited that group's lyrics another short video clip, called 'just testing my gun,' showed auvinen loading and cocking a handgun he fired and hit several pieces of fruit in a wooded area; the camera then showed a close up of the destroyed fruit, and then a full screen shot of him again he waved at the camera and then walked out of view the site indicated that the youth appeared to be fascinated with killing as well as video footage of the columbine school shootings, it also included clips of the 1993 waco siege in the united states, the 1995 sarin gas attack in tokyo, and bombs falling on baghdad during the 2003 invasion many showed victims being wheeled away or people running for their lives throughout all of this, the single word 'die' constantly flashed across the screen other video clips included nazi war criminal footage in the rambling text posted on the site, auvinen said that he is 'a cynical existentialist, anti human humanist, anti social social darwinist, realistic idealist and god like atheist 'i am prepared to fight and die for my cause,' he wrote 'i, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who i see unfit, disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection' the police said at this afternoon's press conference that they had been fired at when they arrived at the school at 1145 pm local time (945 am gmt) they described the scene as chaotic, with some of the 460 students, ranging in age from 12 to 18, breaking windows in an attempt to escape when the police's special swat unit entered the high school they found the gunman unconscious and in critical condition in the lower lobby of the building with a gunshot wound to his head police assume he tried to take his own life as no officers fired at him several bodies were also found in the same location, where the shooting is believed to have begun, they added they could not confirm comments by some students that auvinen was firing through doors police also said that the gun auvinen used, which was fully licensed, had been purchased less than a month ago on october 19 the legal age limit to own a gun in finland is 18, which auvinen passed in june of this year he had a recommendation from a shooting club when he obtained the gun, police added, and practised sharp shooting as a hobby at a shooting range finland, which enjoys a strong tradition of hunting, has a high proportion of gun ownership, with two million firearms owned in a nation of only five million the associated press reported comments from kim kiuru, one of the school's teachers, on radio station yle kiuru described how the headmistress used the public address system around noon to tell pupils to stay in classrooms he said he locked his classroom door, then waited in the corridor for more news 'after that i saw the gunman running with what appeared to be a small caliber handgun in his hand through the doors towards me, after which i escaped to the corridor downstairs and ran in the opposite direction, ' kiuru said the agency reported kiuru as saying that he saw a woman's body as he fled the school, before telling his pupils to leave the building through the windows e mail to a friend copyright 2007 cnn all rights reservedthis material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed associated press contributed to this report

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new: teen gunman is dead, finnish police say eight people, including headmistress, shot at finnish school, say police firearm bought legally last month, shooting began in school's lower lobby shooting appeared to have been planned in series of youtube videos

london, englandfrance coach raymond domenech has again omitted striker david trezeguet from his squad for this month's friendly against morocco and the euro 2008 qualifier against the ukraine happier times: david trezeguet celebrates after scoring for juventus against torino trezeguet has scored scored 10 goals in 11 serie a matches for juventus this seasonincluding two hat tricksbut has failed to win his way back into the 24 man party the 29 year old, who last played for france in the 1 0 home defeat by scotland in september, was furious after being dropped for the games against lithuania and the faroe islands he played no part as domenech's team overtook the scots at the top of group b with comfortable victories last month the coach said: 'david is having a great start to the season with juventus, but he's in competition for a place if we qualify, the euro 2008 will be in eight months a lot of things can happen in between 'i hope david will help juventus win the italian league title and that he will be at the euro 2008 with us, and that he will find his form again for france' domenech has again included young lyon forward hatem ben arfa, who made his debut as a substitute against the faroes and scored the final goal in a 6 0 victory ben arfa is joined in the squad by club mate karim benzema, while bolton's nicholas anelka is also among the forwards named despite still recovering from an injury captain patrick vieira is ruled out due to injury, but the inter milan midfielder will join up with the squad anyway 'a player of patrick's dimension is going to be missed, but we just have to accept it and get on with it pat should be coming to see us because he's a leader, and he's the captain,' domenech added france face the moroccans on november 16 and then travel to the ukraine on november 21 domenech's team will qualify for the finals if italy beat scotland at hampden on november 17 if the glasgow game ends in a draw, france will need at least a point in kiev to book their ticket france squad: goalkeepers: m landreau (paris st germain), s frey (fiorentina), u rame (bordeaux) defenders: e abidal (barcelona, p evra (manchester united), w gallas (arsenal), b sagna (arsenal), l thuram (barcelona), s squillaci (lyon), f clerc (lyon) midfielders: a diarra (bordeaux), l diarra (arsenal), m flamini (arsenal), c makelele (chelsea), j rothen (psg), j toulalan (lyon), s nasri (marseille) strikers: n anelka (bolton), h ben arfa (lyon), k benzema (lyon), s govou (lyon), t henry (barcelona), f malouda (chelsea), f ribery (bayern munich) e mail to a friend

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david trezeguet omitted from france squad to play morocco and the ukraine the juventus striker last played for his country in the 1 0 defeat by scotland he was dropped for the wins against lithuania and the faroe islands

los angeles (cnn)'black spartacus heart attack machine' is the first single off tom morello's new solo album, and it's an ode to his guitar that's not surprising for the rage against the machine axeman, who was once no 26 on rolling stone's list of the '100 greatest guitarists of all time' 'i got this new steel string,' he explains, holding up his black acoustic with a bit of pride 'mick jones of the clash referred to his main guitar as a 'heart attack machine,' and it's black, so i called it 'black spartacus' ' when asked if he might one day write a real love song, as opposed to one for his guitar, morello rolls his eyes 'why do people keep asking me that?' he says before launching into an overtly sexual jam, worthy of a '70s porno flick 'try making babies to that!' in the next room, ben harper chuckles 'that guy's made plenty of baby making songs,' morello says harper laughs again he knows it's true the two musicians have an easy friendship for years, they've supported each other's charitable endeavors and activist causeswhich inadvertently led to their first duet, the gospel tinged 'save the hammer for the man' it's a track on 'world wide rebel songs,' morello's fourth record under the guise of his nightwatchman alter ego 'we were playing a show in chicago for some union issue, and some of the other musicians on the bill were grousing about not getting paid,' morello says 'one of the other musicians canceled the show because he had to return to his vineyard we were on the phone kind of moaning about this, and ben said, 'tom, you let me know if you want me to put the hammer down' and i said, 'ben, save the hammer for the man' and we're like, 'hold on one day, that must be a song!' ' morello says he and harper have a lot in common, 'from the ethnicity of our parents to quite a number of things' both hail from white moms and black dads 'we like to consider ourselves the biracial, punk rock everly brothers,' morello says in the home studio where the pair recorded 'save the hammer for the man,' the 47 year old singer songwriter spoke with cnn about 'world wide rebel songs' and how events in his childhood shaped his political activism cnn: 'world wide rebel songs' has a broader focus than your previous albums the nightwatchman has gone global tom morello: i was not looking into a crystal ball when writing the songs for 'world wide rebel songs' i wrote the songs about a year and a half ago, and yet worldwide events have caught up with themfrom the maquiladoras of tijuana (plants that export manufactured goods), to the unrest in europe and north africa it's a record with a global focus, and it's part folk record and part rock record cnn: you pick up the electric guitar, which you really haven't done as the nightwatchman morello: this is the first nightwatchman record where i really play a lot of electric guitar about three years ago, i played an electric version of bruce springsteen's 'the ghost of tom joad' with bruce on stage, and it was the first time i'd ever sung with an electric guitar in my hands i realized i could do what i do best as an electric guitar player without sacrificing the integrity of the political, folk music singer songwriterism that i enjoy very much cnn: are you getting more comfortable as a singer these days? morello: it's a matter of playing hundreds and hundreds of gigs, and recording four records of my material some of my favorite singers have been johnny cash or leonard cohenpeople who may not be able to hit a high 'c' on the piano, but whose voices contain the gravitas that makes the music feel like they mean it cnn: this is a really autobiographical album, isn't it? morello: while the events it speaks of are on a global level, it's also the most personal nightwatchman record, as well i deal in some parts of the record with my kenyan heritage music, i think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there and if it's true and it rhymes, i'll put it on the record cnn: there's a song on this record, 'facing mount kenya,' that seems quite personal, given your family's history in kenya morello: my parents met in kenya my father is african, is kenyan the kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement my great uncle was jomo kenyatta, kenya's first president, who led the movement to oust the british from kenya i didn't grow up with my kenyan family i grew up in a small, conservative suburb of chicago the song 'facing mount kenya' explores the pride in that country and the distance from it as well cnn: what was it like growing up biracial in a small illinois town? morello: i literally integrated the small town of libertyville, illinois i was the first person of color to reside within its borders, which was confirmed when the real estate agent had to go door to door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was ok for this interracial familymy mom is white and i was a 1 year old half african kidto live in the apartment building the sales pitch was, 'well, look, he's not an american negro he's a very exotic african,' and that was something that the neighbors were like, 'oh, that's very interesting!'until i got old enough to date their daughters cnn: were there any incidents of racism you can talk about? morello: people often ask how i became political, or when i became political when you're the only black kid growing up in an all white town, you find your politics on the first playground that you go onto in some ways, it was an idyllic place to grow upbut when i was 13, there was a noose in my family's garage there was some name calling throughout you know, race is not an issue that is settled to this day in the northern suburbs, certainly in the 1970s, it was a hot button cnn: you graduated from harvard then all of a sudden, you were a rock star morello: the first nightwatchman album is called 'one man revolution' it's not a misnamed album i was the only black kid in an all white town then i was the only radical student in a conservative high school then i was the only rock 'n' roll guitar player at harvard university then i was the only dude with a harvard diploma in a hollywood rock 'n' roll band so in some ways, there's always been a sense of aloneness but where i really felt the greatest connectionoutside of close knit familyis playing this nightwatchman music, and in playing it live this is a place where i feel not disconnected in any way, but very, very connected, and it's a place that feels like home

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(cnn)polygamist sect leader warren jeffs tried to hang himself earlier this year while he was in jail awaiting trial, according to court documents unsealed by a utah judge on tuesday sect leader warren jeffs arrives in court to hear the verdict against him september 25 in st george, utah jeffs, the leader and so called prophet of the 10,000 member fundamentalist church of jesus christ of latter day saints, is now awaiting sentencing after being convicted on two counts of being an accomplice to rape the documents, released by fifth district judge james shumate at the request of the media, also indicate that jeffs confessed to 'immorality' with a 'sister' and a daughter more than 30 years ago among the documents is a competency report on jeffs completed in april, in which social worker eric nielsen wrote that throughout the month of january, jeffs refused food and drink and developed ulcers on his knees from kneeling in prayer for hours on january 28, the report said, he attempted to hang himself in his cell in the days following the suicide attempt, while he was on suicide watch, jeffs on separate occasions threw himself against the wall and banged his head on the wall jail transcripts show that jeffs' suicide attempt came three days after a visit with his brother, nephi, in which he said, 'i am not the prophet i never was the prophet, and i have been deceived by the powers of evil i ask for everyone's forgiveness' jeffs also told his brother: 'farewell forever' the day before that, jeffs told a follower in a phone conversation that he was 'covered with immorality with a sister and a daughter when i was younger' in the flds, members call adult women 'sister,' and jeffs' meaning was unclear jeffs' defense attorneys, who argued against the release of the documents, said in a motion opposing the unsealing of the statements that jeffs recanted them the following month defense attorneys claim jeffs' medical condition influenced his state of mind when the statements were made they presented shumate with a letter from another jeffs attorney, arguing that the statements' release could influence an arizona jury when jeffs stands trial in that state jeffs, 51, was convicted in september of being an accomplice to rape he was accused of using his religious influence over his followers to coerce a 14 year old girl into marriage to her 19 year old cousin he faces a sentence of up to life in prison when he is sentenced november 20 the fldswhich is not affiliated with the mainstream mormon churchis based in the side by side border towns of hildale, utah, and colorado city, arizona jeffs, a former school headmaster, is the son of the sect's previous president and 'prophet,' rulon jeffs, who died in 2002 jeffs was on the fbi's 10 most wanted fugitives list when he was arrested in august 2006 outside las vegas, nevada critics say that inside the flds, marriages are arranged for girls as young as 13, and competition for brides may be reduced by exiling male teens and young men if male followers are excommunicated, critics claim, wives and children can be reassigned during jeffs' trial, defense attorneys claimed authorities were persecuting jeffs because of his religious beliefs, including practicing polygamy as the way to heaven if jeffs disavowed being the prophet of the flds, it could cause upheaval within the secretive sect however, two of his followers who spoke to cnnalthough flds members usually do not talk to reporterssaid they do not believe he made the statements 'he is a perfectly priestly man,' said a woman who identified herself as cathy 'he is a man of god, and we will always love him once a prophet, always a prophet' her husband, patrick, told cnn, 'it's hogwash i don't believe it i will always consider him my prophet' e mail to a friend cnn's gary tuchman contributed to this report

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(ewcom)people constantly debate whether the phrase, 'all publicity is good publicity,' actually has any credence, but in the case of lana del rey, the saying has proven itself true after nearly six months of feverish online debateher name! her lips! her backstory!the divisive songstress, whose poorly received performance on 'snl' launched a thousand blog posts, lands high on this week's chart her debut album 'born to die' debuted at no 2 on the billboard 200, selling a solid 77,000 (if not spectacular, considering its marketing budget) copies impressively, del rey accomplished this feat without a single bona fide 'hit' to her name although her recent video for 'born to die' has amassed over 19 million views, she has only charted one song domestically: 'video games,' and that only reached no 91 on the hot 100 understandably, 74 percent of her album sales were digital downloads adele, of course, topped the chart once again, logging her 19th week in first place thanks to massive grammy buzz, the blockbuster album moved another 122,000 copies, which means '21' has now sold over 100,000 units in 35 separate weeks yahoo's paul grein notes that this is the first time an album has done this since creed's 'human clay,' which logged 49 weeks of sales above 100,000 from 1999 to 2001 if adele wins album of the year at the grammys on sunday (as she is expected to), '21' should easily blaze past the 7 million mark the only other debuts in the top 10 were leonard cohen's 'old ideas,' which sold 41,000, and fred hammond's gospel album 'god, love and romance,' which sold 26,000 check out the top 10 below: 1 adele, '21'122,000 2 lana del rey, 'born to die'77,000 3 leonard cohen, 'old ideas'41,000 4 various artists, '2012 grammy nominees'34,000 5 kidz bop kids, 'kidz bop 21'30,000 6 drake, 'take care'30,000 7 tim mcgraw, 'emotional traffic'29,000 8 fred hammond, 'god, love and romance'26,000 9 lmfao, 'sorry for party rocking'22,000 10 rihanna, 'talk that talk'22,000 see the full article at ewcom click here to try 2 risk free issues of entertainment weekly © 2011 entertainment weekly and time inc all rights reserved

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lana del rey lands high on this week's chart her debut album 'born to die' debuted at no 2 on the billboard 200, selling a solid 77,000 copies impressively, del rey accomplished this feat without a single bona fide 'hit'

shanghai, chinachampionship leader lewis hamilton spun out of the chinese grand prix to send the world title race to a cliffhanger finale in brazil on october 21 a disconsolate lewis hamilton leaves his car after spinning into the gravel trap in shanghai rookie hamilton can still clinch the crown with third place in the closing race, but saw his 12 point lead cut to four by mclaren team mate fernando alonso in shanghai the spaniard finished second behind ferrari's kimi raikkonen, who also kept his title hopes alive by moving within seven points of hamilton the young briton started the race in pole position and at one stage led raikkonen by more than eight seconds as he again showed superb skills in the wet conditions however, the 22 year old stayed out on the drying track too long in his wet tires, which deteriorated at an alarming rate to let finland's raikkonen take the lead and when hamiltonwho won in japan last week to give himself the chance of clinching the title this weekendfinally headed toward the pit lane, he spun out onto the gravel to end his chances with 25 laps to go raikkonen and alonso both switched to dry tires on the 32nd of the 56 laps, with the finn going on to win by by 98 seconds for his fifth victory this seasonone more than both hamilton and alonso raikkone's team mate felipe massa was third, while fourth place was claimed by toro rosso's sebastien vettel, who was last week reprimanded for causing an accident in japan behind the safety car while hamilton was cleared of any wrongdoing britain's jenson button was fifth in a honda ahead of vettel's team mate vitantonio liuzzi, while germany's nick heidfeld was seventh for bmw sauber and david coulthard of scotland took the final point for red bull hamilton was still confident he could bounce back after suffering his first retirement of the season 'i'm sorry for the team but i can still do it, don't worry,' he said 'when i got out of the car i was just gutted because it was my first mistake all year, and to do it on the way into the pits was not something i usually do 'you cannot go through life without making mistakes but i am over it and we look forward to brazil the team will be working hard to make sure the car is quick enough there, and we still have points in the bag 'we were having a great race and we didn't know if it was going to rain or not the tyres were getting worse and worse and you could almost see the canvas underneath when i came into the pits it was like ice, i couldn't do anything about it' mclaren boss ron dennis refused to blame his driver or his team for the spin off 'it's too extreme to say anyone made a mistake in this it has been a very competitive season between our drivers and it will go on for another grand prix,' dennis said 'i don't think we did anything dramatically wrong and neither did lewis but the circuit was considerably drier than the pit lane entrance that's what made the difference 'it was easy to say that we could have stopped earlier, but would it have made a difference? all the top teamsferrari and ourselveswere trying to get through the rain and straight onto a dry tire' alonso, who qualified for the race in fourth, is seeking to become the third driver to win three world titles 'the result was good today and the eight points are a help for sure,' he said 'i think the championship will still be very difficult because i know it will not be easy to take four points from lewis 'i need something dramatic if i want to win with a normal race it will be impossible' raikkonen added: 'we are back in the championship and it will be interesting in the final race 'hopefully the car is good and it will be a battle all weekend it is not just up to us though, we saw today that anything can happen, but we are back in the championship' e mail to a friend

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lewis hamilton fails to clinch world title after spinning out of the chinese gp briton's lead cut to four points by mclaren team mate fernando alonso alonso finished second in shanghai behind ferrari's kimi raikkonen

(cnn)i've seen the future and it's amazing what i'm about to describe has to be seen to be believed no more tiny monitors and jerky pictures telepresence is designed to capture the gestures and expressions of human communication i'd gone to the uk offices of cisco to report on the latest innovation in the field of video conferencing, 'telepresence' my expectations weren't high, but what i saw was so exciting that i bored friends, family and colleagues with talk of it for days afterwards imagine thisa plush, soothingly lit and acoustically treated room containing what looks like an oval shaped meeting table and eight executive chairs a man is seated on one side of the table and as i'm ushered to a seat opposite he raises a hand in greeting and introduces himself but as i adjust to my surroundings i begin to realize that all is not as it seems the man on the opposite side of the table is in fact thousands of miles away in california what i'm sitting at is, in fact, half a table pressed against three high definition plasma screens what i'm seeing is an optical illusion the clever positioning of cameras and microphones coupled with the high quality image and sound, plus the fact that there is no delay whatsoever makes it utterly convincing i can see the hands on his wristwatch and the whites of his eyes and he is seeing the same quality image of me in his almost identical room on the other side of the world the effect is so convincing that i constantly have to remind myself that we're not in the same room see the 'telepresence' system in action, and hear more about the potential positive impact it will have on business and the environment in this month's cnn business traveller

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this month business traveller reports on the latest innovation in video conferencing telepresence from cisco creates lifelike, in person teleconference experiences

london, england (cnn)british airways has agreed to buy l'avion, the french all business class carrier and plans to integrate the airline into its recently launched subsidiary, openskies l'avion was launched in january 2009 and employs 77 staff in paris the $108 million (£54 million) deal marks the departure of the last stand alone all business airline following the demise of maxjet, eos and silverjet over the last six months openskies, launched on june 19 between paris orly and new york jfk, already operated a codeshare agreement with l'avion that flies out of orly to newark, new york following integration, openskies will increase the frequency of its orly jfk service to three daily flights openskies currently operates one boeing 757 with 24 flat bed berths in business class, 28 seats in premium economy and 30 in economy l'avion, launched in january 2007, flies two boeing 757s with 90 business class seats ba is yet to decide whether l'avion planes will be changed to a three class layout 'l'avion is a successful airline that has built up a premium business between orly and new york in a relatively short period of time,' said british airways' chief executive, willie walsh in a statement 'it has many synergies with openskies and buying it provides openskies with a larger schedule and an established customer base in the paris new york market' christophe bejach, co founder and chairman of l'avion, said he was happy with the deal 'this transaction will strengthen our current base and enable the combined airline to grow faster and stronger' completion of the deal is expected this month and, if approved, full integration will take place in early 2009

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british airways has bought french all business carrier l'avion for £54 million the airline will be integrated into its eu us openskies subsidiary if approved, full integration is expected in early 2009

(ewcom)bob dylan never wrote any songs about body glitter or throwing up in the closet so one may wonder why ke$ha appears on amnesty international's new benefit disc 'chimes of freedom,' a 76 track collection of dylan covers that also features adele (''make you feel my love''), maroon 5 (''i shall be released''), and yes, miley cyrus (''you're gonna make me lonesome when you go''), among others but on her stripped down ''don't think twice, it's all right,'' ke$ha gets the song's heartbreak right; you can actually hear her sobbing between verses if there's ever a reason to believe the girl's capable of deeper feelings than ''vaguely hungover,'' this is it to quote from the 1964 dylan song that gives this comp its name, bob has always been a champion of ''the countless confused, accused, misused, strung out ones, an' worse'' so it makes sense that the best covers here come from the misfits (ke$ha), the punks (check out rise against's raging ''ballad of hollis brown''), the outsiders (mexican pop star ximena sariã±ana's excellent ''i want you''), and the radicals (''with god on our side'' finds somali born toronto rapper k'naan challenging american hawkishness as only a canadian can) aretha franklin calls off engagement the savviest musicians here flip dylan's messages for their own aims, just as dylan reappropriated protest songs by civil rights heroes celtic rock stalwarts flogging molly take on ''the times they are a changin' ''which itself was inspired by irish drinking songsand reclaim it for dublin sinã©ad o'connor recasts 1981's born again ''property of jesus'' as a fiery church reform anthem and carly simon smartly plays ''just like a woman'' as a feminist ballad when she sings ''you break just like a little girl,'' it sounds like she's telling dylan to man up there's just one problem that leaves 60 something more songs, and an unholy amount of strummy strummy strum (though you can buy digital tracks individually, and an edited two disc version is available for $1495 at starbucks) diana krall, billy bragg, pete townshend, and other major talents opt for straight, folky readings of songs that beg for a reggaeton arrangement or a brostep remixanything to update the same classics we've heard a bajillion times before true, ziggy marley and michael franti bring some freshness, but even they can't resist those bland open mic at the fair trade coffee shop guitars where's the prankster spirit that got dylan booed at newport? apologies to brett dennen and dierks bentley, whose respective rootsy spins on ''you ain't goin' nowhere'' and ''seã±or'' are lovely, but after listening to your trillionth fingerpicking solo, it's easy to think, ''dylan went electric for this?'' tracy morgan taken to hospital in utah by contrast, kronos quartet and philip glass sound almost revolutionary on their gorgeous, avant classical ''don't think twice, it's all right,'' the only song that appears twice here it takes major innovation (and some musical saw interludes) to create a wholly original take on an artist who reinvents his own songs every time he plays live and maybe that's why covering dylan seems so hard: at a time when every subway busker thinks he's the bard, the only man who's really the ''new bob dylan'' is dylan himself b see full article at ewcom click here to try 2 risk free issues of entertainment weekly © 2011 entertainment weekly and time inc all rights reserved

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covering dylan seems so hard: the only man who's really the ''new dylan'' is dylan himself on ke$ha's stripped down ''don't think twice, it's all right,'' she gets the song's heartbreak right carly simon smartly plays ''just like a woman'' as a feminist ballad the savviest musicians here flip dylan's messages for their own aims

new york (cnn)a long line of hospital staff wraps around the corridor outside a small conference room in new york to catch a glimpse of the precious cargo a worker looks at the mummified skull of king tut in november 2007 inside are the three frail bodies in open wooden crates causing all the commotion another bodya prince no lessis a few rooms down in a computer tomography scanner the bodies are part of the brooklyn museum's collection of 11 egyptian mummies, transported to the north shore university hospital to be scanned the goal: find out who they are, how they might have died and establish a chronology of advances in ancient egypt's mummification techniques the process is not necessarily new egyptian mummies have been exposed to radiographic study since 1896 and ct scans, which conducts imaging by sections, for more than two decades perhaps the most famous of them, king tutankhamun (c 1355 346 bc), was scanned in 2005 right outside the vault that holds his sarcophagus the scan resulted in more than 17,000 images that were analyzed by an international team of radiologists, pathologists and anatomists, led by the world renowned zahi hawass, the secretary general of egypt's supreme council of antiquities the scope and ability of ct scan technology are proving invaluable in learning more about the funeral rituals of ancient egyptians and the mummies themselves whereas conventional x rays cannot clearly distinguish soft tissue from bone and can see only two planes, ct scanning can differentiate among the various types of bone and soft tissue, and reconstruct three dimensional images that 'show fine detail inside coronary arteries down to 06 millimeters' said amgad makaryus, director of cardiac ct and magnetic resonance imaging at north shore, providing a better chance at diagnosis and differentiation among diseases 'ct has proved to be exceptionally well suited for studying the fragile, wrapped figures of egyptian mummies, especially those still contained within their decorated plasterlike shells, or cartonnages,' according to an article by a team of eight researchers, led by derek nh notman, published in the american journal of roentgenology ct scanning is fast and non invasive, makaryus agrees a scan of one of the four bodies brought to north shore quickly revealed that the mummy named lady hor was actually a man the body never had to leave its cartonnage for the procedure in the case of king tut, initial x rays of his mummy decades ago showed fragments of bone inside his skull, causing speculation that he might have been killed by a blow to the back of the head the scan immediately revealed that his skull was intact; and the team found no other indication of foul play, according to its report 'king tut is the icon of egyptian history, but he is only one of thousands of mummies we can study through ct scans, we can, in a way, bring the dead back to life,' hawass told national geographic magazine in another famous case, a ct scan helped identify the mummy of the pharaoh ramses i (1293 1291 bc) in 2000 it had been bought from a canadian museum by the michael c carlos museum in atlanta, georgia dr heidi hoffman, a former radiology resident at emory now practicing in chicago, illinois, and part of the team of scientists who analyzed the pharaoh's body, was able to observe a type of bone erosion, and 'coalescence of air cells can be seen in cases of chronic mastoiditis,' an inflammatory condition usually due to chronic ear infections though easily treatable with antibiotics today, the pharaoh's untreated ear infection could have spread and caused his death at north shore, jesse chusid, director of imaging informatics at the department of radiology, said the 64 slice ct scanner takes 06 mm thick sectional scans and combines and magnifies them to provide extraordinary detail curators of the brooklyn museum reached out to north shore for the first time in 2007, to scan demetrios, a 2,000 year old mummy, before he was to join a traveling exhibit called 'to live forever: egyptian treasures from the brooklyn museum,' opening at the chrysler museum in norfolk, virginia, in october demetrios is called a 'red shroud mummy' because of unusual red pigment in his linen shroud another red shroud mummy is in the j paul getty museum in los angeles, california there, ct scans revealed the remains of a mummified ibis, a bird sacred to egyptians, wrapped inside curators of the brooklyn museum wanted to find out whether demetrios had his own ibis, thought to be a sacrifice to the god toth, whose head was an ibis demetrios did not have one still, dr lawrence boxt of north shore university hospital told the new york times in 2007 that demetrios either 'had an easy life or was carried around a lot he certainly didn't do much heavy lifting during his lifetime' the same was true for the mummy of the royal prince count of thebes, pa seba khai en ipet edward bleiberg, curator of egyptian, classical and ancient middle eastern art at the brooklyn museum, said initial findings of his scan reaffirmed his high status: a small incision to the side of the abdomen to remove the organs, while carefully leaving the heart in place, then filling the body with embalming liquidsall indicated a high quality mummification process why the heart? in ancient egypt, the heart was considered the thinking organthe center of the soul and the source of knowledge, bleiberg said 'the heart knows what a person thinks and feels,' he said 'it is supposed to be left in place during mummification so that it could be weighed against the feather of truth in the final judgment' the images produced on the latest mummies at north shore will have to be studied for months before researchers gain new insight into ancient egyptian funeral practices in the meantime, some revelations brought to light by the scans beg more questions yet: pa seba khai en ipet seems to have a tube lodged inside him, running from his mouth through his esophagus and into the top of his chest bleiberg said he and makaryus are pretty certain that was not the cause of death, and that it was inserted post mortem purpose? that might be lost to the ages

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radiologists at ny hospital analyze egyptian mummies ct testing allow radiologists to study mummies without doing damaging procedures recent ct scan reveals egyptian mummy named lady hor was actually a man

(rolling stone)the fx television series 'sons of anarchy' is known for its brutal depiction of biker life in the fictional town of charming, california, but another hallmark of the series is its clever use of independent music its new soundtrack, 'songs of anarchy,' explores the program's use of up and coming artists to convey the gritty reality of the motorcycle club's members and those closest to them 'i think sometimes of the music as a character in and of itself,' music supervisor bob thiele, jr tells rolling stone 'the songs become the narrative they're moving the story and functioning emotionally like some of the characters would' thiele is a member of what he calls the sons' 'house band,' the forest rangers, who play on the majority of 'songs of anarchy' and have appeared in a few episodes 'sons' actress katey sagal sings on four of the album's tracks, and kills singer and 'soa' fan alison mosshart joins the forest rangers on a cover of louis armstrong's 'what a wonderful world' despite music's major presence on the show, producers have waited four seasons to release a soundtrack 'halfway through season two, we knew there was a soundtrack somewhere, but fox is a big company and they had a little show called 'glee,'' says thiele 'it's hard to measure up to that' adds fellow 'soa' music supervisor michelle kuznetsky, 'i think that now is the right time, exactly' and perhaps it is: season four is the highest rated one yet for the series the finale airs december 6 at 10pm et on fx see the full article at rollingstonecom copyright © 2011 rolling stone

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'songs of anarchy,' explores 'sons of anarchy's' use of up and coming artists forest rangers, who play on the majority of 'songs of anarchy,' have appeared in episodes 'soa' fan alison mosshart joins the forest rangers on a cover of 'what a wonderful world'

(rolling stone)winner of the week: the big chart story this week is rapper mac miller, whose independent debut 'blue slide park' sold 144,000 copies and hit number one on the billboard album charts but we're more intrigued by the latest single action from katy perrylast friday, she put out the video for 'the one that got away,' the sixth single from 'teenage dream,' and it's killer perry, in old lady makeup, sits on her bed staring into space as she flashes back to the 'younger' perry in a goofy romance with actor diego luna the whole thing ends tragically with the perfect closing: johnny cash singing 'you are my sunshine' from his 2003 album 'unearthed iii: redemption songs' anyway, the video premiered on 'the ellen degeneres show' and has since hit more than 124 million views what's extraordinary is that even before that, radio was picking it up, boosting the single 38 spots up the ultimate chart, from 63 to 25 look for this one to have serious longevity, given perry's hit history this year and the video boost loser of the week: justin bieber his 'under the mistletoe' dropped from number one to number six this week, shedding 54 percent (97,000 total this week) on the flip side, michael bublé's 'christmas' surged from number eight to number two, selling 123,000 copies and gaining 38 percent in sales bublé is clearly on the verge of dominating christmas season lucky for him, holiday albums are traditional sales phenomena, as opposed to downloadsbublé is just number seven on this week's itunes chart, and bieber didn't place at all why? our guess is that most people still have cd players in their living rooms, where they decorate trees and such, and probably haven't gotten around to syncing old school hi fis with itunes and spotify thus, holiday music is somewhat invulnerable to music piracy, which is why record companies love to release as much of it as possible during this time of year as to why bublé and not bieber? no idea a hearty wobble dee wobble dee wop to you, too: and finally, a word about a**** detroit rapper big sean's 'dance (a**)' is one of the most hilariously, gloriously cynical videos we've seen in a long timeit's all bling, booze and scantily clad ladies, plus the word 'a**' repeated like a mantra and superimposed in various languages the remix video contains a lengthy cameo from nicki minaj, who gamely shakes her own you know what (squeezed into union jack shorts, among other things) and actually elevates the video for a few seconds with her bug eyed power rapping it's up to 105 million views on youtube and ultimate chart ranks it number 14, up from number 29 the previous week we don't expect it to hit bottom (sorry) soon see the full article at rollingstonecom copyright © 2011 rolling stone

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katy perry's 'the one that got away' video has hit more than 124 million views justin bieber's 'under the mistletoe' dropped from number one to number six michael bublé's 'christmas' surged from number eight to number two

(ewcom)talk about touchdown casting! after closing out his guest spot on 'parenthood' in the fall, michael b jordan is headed back to the small screen for a guest spot in 'house's' 14th episode, playing a blind patient, the studio confirms to ew jordan spilled the news earlier today via twitter, but it appears he may have done so prematurely the tweet has since disappeared from his feed, and later, he tweeted, 'my bad @foxbroadcasting' and 'now i know never to tweet before the studio approves hahha #socialnetworkisinsane' jordan previously starred on 'friday night lights' as quarterback vince howard 'house,' currently in its 8th season, returns january 9, with a two hour episode see the full article at ewcom click here to try 2 risk free issues of entertainment weekly © 2011 entertainment weekly and time inc all rights reserved

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michael b jordan is headed back to the small screen for a guest spot in 'house' jordan spilled the news earlier today via twitter he will be playing a blind patient, the studio says

(cnn)britain's electronic intelligence agency monitored delegates' phones and tried to capture their passwords during an economic summit held there in 2009, the guardian newspaper reported sunday the targets included british allies such as turkey and south africa, the newspaper reported the guardian cited documents provided by edward snowden, the american computer analyst now spilling secrets of the us intelligence community the latest report was published on the eve of another economic summit hosted by the british governmentthe group of eight economic summit in northern ireland according to the newspaper, the documents show that the british signals intelligence agency gchq used 'ground breaking intelligence capabilities' to intercept calls made by members of the larger g 20 conference delegations at meetings in london analysts received round the clock summaries of calls that were being made, and gchq set up internet cafes for delegates in hopes of intercepting e mails and capturing keystrokes, the guardian reported one briefing slide explained that would give intelligence agencies the ability to read delegates' e mails 'before/as they do,' providing 'sustained intelligence options against them even after conference has finished' bigger threat: snowden or nsa? gchq is britain's equivalent of the national security agency, the highly secretive us communications intelligence service the guardian reported that the nsa had attempted to eavesdrop on then russian president dmitry medvedev during the conference as his phone calls passed through satellite links to moscow and briefed its british counterparts on the effects snowden, 29, worked for the nsa through a private contractor firm until may, when he decamped to hong kong he went public a week ago as the source of articles by the guardian and the washington post, saying the nsa's efforts posed 'an existential threat to democracy' shawn turner, a spokesman for the office of the director of national intelligence, said sunday he was aware of the guardian's latest report but declined to comment on it 'what we should be focused on is how irresponsible and egregious these recent leaks are,' he told cnn 'it's impossible to know exactly how much damage is being done by these disclosures, but they will have an effect on our counterterrorism efforts' snowden's revelations about the nsa's collection of millions of records from us telecommunications and technology firms have led to a furious debate within the united states about the scale and scope of surveillance programs that date to the days after the 2001 al qaeda attacks on new york and washington defenders say the programsapproved by congress after a warrantless surveillance effort under the bush administration was revealed in 2005have protected american lives by helping agents break up terrorism plots cheney defends nsa, calls obama's credibility 'nonexistent' retired gen michael hayden, a former nsa director, told cnn's fareed zakaria gps that what the agency collects are 'essentially billing records' that detail the time, duration and number of a phone call the records are added to a database that agents can query in cases involving a terror investigation overseas, and agents can't eavesdrop on americans' calls without an order from a secret court that handles intelligence matters, he said if a phone number related to that investigation has links to a domestic phone number, 'we've got to go back to the court,' he said but critics such as sen mark udall, a member of the senate intelligence committee, had raised questions about the scale of the program even before snowden's leak udall told nbc's 'meet the press' on sunday that he doesn't believe the program is making americans any safer, 'and i think it's ultimately, perhaps, a violation of the fourth amendment' 'i think we owe it to the american people to have a fulsome debate in the open about the extent of these programs,' said udall, d colorado 'you have a law that's been interpreted secretly by a secret court that then issues secret orders to generate a secret program i just don't think this is an american approach to a world in which we have great threats' but president barack obama does not feel that he has violated the privacy of any american, his chief of staff, denis mcdonough, told cbs' 'face the nation' mcdonough said the president will discuss the need to 'find the right balance, especially in this new situation where we find ourselves with all of us reliant on internet, on e mail, on texting' shortly after the stories broke, obama publicly defended the nsa programs as 'modest encroachments on privacy' that help prevent terrorism cnn's jessica yellin contributed to this report

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(cnn)as part of an effort to share the best practices of modern business among organizations across the globe, cnn is talking to some of the world's top executives in line with this, cnn will be hosting three events looking at modern strategies in today's business arena the first of these master classes will be based at the china europe international business school in shanghai and will be aired november 10 and 11 one of the guests at the event will be howard schultz, chairman of the international coffee shop chain starbucks he will be part of a live discussion at the master class and will take questions that you, the cnn audience, put to him as the head of a coffee empire that now boasts over 12,000 stores and recorded revenues in 2006 of $78 billion, schultz is well equipped to tackle questions on the best ways to succeed in today's business world the cnn boardroom master classes will take place in the homes of the world's largest stock marketsshanghai, new york and london it airs on november10 at 2115 and november 11 at 0115 & 1615 hkt e mail to a friend

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(cnn)this week mme speaks to the man charged with boosting growth in the kingdom of bahrain: sheikh mohammed bin isa al khalifa sheikh mohammed is concerned the nuclear dispute with iran is deterring potential investors as chief executive of the economic development board, one of sheikh mohammed's main tasks is to ensure bahrain stays ahead of its competitors the government's pushing ahead with economic reforms to reduce the kingdom's dependence on oil but with crude prices near $100 a barrel, john defterios asked whether the appetite for change had diminished sm: the reforms are being done for aspirational reasons rather than necessity, so we are trying to enter the post oil area because we want to and therefore, because of this aspirational aspect, trying to get to as opposed to people pushing us somewhere we don't want to go jd: how do you redefine bahrain's role? traditionally it's been a financial center, but you have qatar, saudi arabia, dubai even abu dhabi emerging in financial services how you redefine it to sustain a lead? sm: the rising tide lifts a lot of places and as the region is booming and growing, financial services are growing throughout the region bahrain's strengths have been and will continue to be its human capital, the people that have led the financial sector and the long standing regulations that have been established in bahrain jd: strategically and a geopolitical question here: the crown prince came out and declared what iran's intentions really arein his viewfor a nuclear policy, and called for greater diplomacy right ahead of a visit by the president of iran to the country what's the motivation here? sm: we feel that the distraction caused by the iranian nuclear issue is holding investment back in the region as a whole, and increasing the security threat of the region nobody is debating the right to peaceful nuclear power, but we all have that need and we all need a peaceful resolution to this jd: historically, iran has even made claims against bahrain, what do you do now moving forward now? do you bring russia, china, the united states and the european union closer together, in terms of where we should be going in the future? sm: we've resolved our historical issue with iran, and we are well beyond that, but going forward this is such a important issue affecting security worldwide, that we feel it is important and at a level high enough that we need all powers involved because it does affect everybody jd: can the gcc (gulf cooperation council) become much tighter as an organization to have a voice in that process; as opposed to speaking from the sidelines and hoping that the major powers move forward? sm: absolutely, i mean, the gcc is speaking with a unified voice the kingdom of saudi arabia came out with a proposal for providing nuclear fuel from an independent authority; this was completely backed from the gcc we are all moving forward and are willing to play a beneficial role to resolve this issue meet the sheikh: sheikh mohammed bin isa al khalifa is chief executive of the economic development board, the organization responsible for stimulating and supporting growth of the bahraini economy he was appointed in june 2005, following 10 years working directly for his highness sheikh salman bin hamad al khalifa, crown prince, commander in chief of the bahrain defense force and chairman of the economic development board from 1995 to 1999, he was director of the crown prince's office in 1999, he was appointed head of the court and also deputy head of the crown prince's international scholarship program during this time, sheikh mohammed was heavily involved with the crown prince's initiatives to liberalize the telecommunications sector and with labor market and economic reforms a keen motor sports enthusiast, sheikh mohammed was deputy board chairman of the bahrain international circuit and is a former vice president of the bahrain motor club, now known as the bahrain motor federation sheikh mohammed, who is married with two sons and one daughter, was born on april 14, 1969 in 1992, he received a bachelor's degree in economic theory from the american university, washington dc two years later, he received a post graduate diploma in business studies from the london school of economics (source: bahrain economic development board) e mail to a friend

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sheikh mohammed bin isa al khalifa steers bahrain's economic growth says bahrain's strength is its 'human capital' in the finance sector calls on world to unite to resolve nuclear dispute with iran

algiers, algeria (cnn)rescuers are sifting through the rubble of the united nations headquarters in algiers hoping to find survivors after a powerful bomb ripped off the building's facade and leveled nearby un offices rescuers and bomb experts search for survivors in the rubble of a destroyed building it was one of two suspected car bombs that struck algiers within 10 minutes of each other the death toll is unclear: the official government count is at least 26, but hospital sources in algiers told cnn affiliate bfm tv that 76 people were killed in the two blasts a statement from the united nations said 45 people were reported killed algerian interior minister noureddine yazid zerhouni blamed a militant islamic group with ties to al qaeda for the attacks, which also targeted a building housing algeria's constitutional council and supreme court in a posting on an islamist web site, the group al qaeda islamic maghreb claimed responsibility cnn could not immediately corroborate that claim, but the web site is known to carry messages, claims and videos from al qaeda and other militant groups in the posting, the bombers were identified as sheikh ibrahim abu othman and abdel rahman abu abdel nasser al asimi it said two trucks were filled with 'no less than 800 kg (1,763 pounds) of explosives' the group called the operation 'another successful conquest and a second epic that the knights of faith have dictated with their blood, defending the wounded islamic nation and in defiance to the crusaders and their agents, the slaves of america and the sons of france' at least 10 un staffers were among those killed, according to un spokeswoman marie okabe the offices of the un high commissioner for refugeeslocated across the street from the un headquarterswere leveled by a blast that struck about 9:30 am (3:30 am et) tuesday 'our offices are basically destroyed now, nothing works,' unhcr spokesman ron redmond said from its geneva headquarters watch his full interview he said rescuers are working into the night trying to get to the trapped un workers 'it's a very serious situation still with the un in algiers,' he said in a strongly worded statement, un secretary general ban ki moon condemned what he called 'an abjectly cowardly strike against civilian officials serving humanity's highest ideals under the un banner' 'the perpetrators of these crimes will not escape the strongest possible condemnationand ultimate punishmentby algerian authorities and the international community,' ban said in the written statement he said he has sent senior advisers and other top un officials to head to algiers to assist in the investigation and rescue effort most of those killed in the coordinated attacks were victims of the first suspected car bombing near the constitutional councilwhich oversees electionsand supreme court in the algiers neighborhood of ben aknoun, according to the state run algeria press agency that blast struck a bus outside the targeted building, killing many of those on board, the news agency reported one man said he heard the first blast then the second exploded in front of him 'i saw the trees falling and the glass shattering in front of me i had to run away from the car,' he said zerhouni said the attack was the work of the salafist group for preaching and combat (gspc), the same group that took responsibility for an attack in april in downtown algiers that killed 33 people that group also uses the name al qaeda islamic maghreb after merging with al qaeda earlier this year it abandoned small scale attacks in favor of headline grabbing blasts after it joined with al qaeda cnn international security correspondent paula newton said the merger combined the expertise of algerian guerrillas with the operational ability of al qaeda in north africa, enabling the group to penetrate the usually extensive security in high profile areas of algiers she said the group's goal is to destabilize countries like algeria, morocco and tunisia, which it sees as enemies of the islamic state zerhouni said police interrogations of gspc members arrested in the wake of the april attack revealed that algeria's constitutional council and supreme court were on a list of gspc targets algeria, which has a population of 33 million, is still recovering from more than a decade of violence that began after the military government called a halt to elections which an islamist party was poised to win tens of thousands of people died in the unrest although the country has remained relatively peaceful, recent terrorist attacks have raised fears of a slide back to violence e mail to a friend

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two bombs explode in algerian capital near government and un buildings algeria blames group linked to al qaeda official death toll is 26, but some sources say as high as 76 un officials say five of its staff killed and 14 missing

madrid, spainlionel messi scored for the sixth game in a row as barcelona defeated big spending atletico madrid 3 0 to stay in touch with primera liga leaders real madrid messi (left) is congratulated by ronaldinho after scoring again in barcelona's 3 0 win over atletico madrid barcelona had thumped atletico 6 0 on their own ground last season and the visitors were out for revengebut conceded twice in four minutes after 15 minutes, italian goalkeeper christian abbiati let a routine messi cross slip out of his hands and deco rolled home into the empty net four minutes later messi played a great one two with ronaldinho and rifled a shot past abbiati for his sixth goal of the season and xavi added a third late on 'it was a deserved victory against a rival that we have had problems with in the past,' explained barca coach frank rijkaard 'we scored twice in quick succession and then we controlled the match using aggression and with the team attacking and defending as a unit' 'conceding two early goals inside four minutes is not easy to turn around especially against barcelona,' admitted atletico coach javier aguirre it was barcelona's fourth straight league win but they still trail real madrid by two points after the champions beat recreativo huleva 2 0 dutch international ruud van nistelrooy, the league's top scorer last season, scored on 72 minutes before gonzalo higuain netted in the final minute to keep real at the summit luck deserted them when wesley sneijder hit the post but van nistelrooy scored in the final quarter hour before higuain struck to keep them two points clear at the top real have made their best start since 1991 but coach bernd schuster's rotation policy has been questioned with the german chopping and changing his team 'it was an important victory because it is the final match before we go away on international duty,' said dutch winger arjen robben 'we are now top for the next two weeks and can build on that when we return' villarreal, now four points behind real, lost for only the second time in 15 matches with a 3 2 reverse against osasuna sevilla, third last season, are in a crisis after losing their fourth league game in a row with a goal from riki handing deportivo la coruna a surprise 1 0 win sevilla have just six points from their first six matches and are 13 points behind real levante's abel resino became the first spanish league coach to be sacked this season, after their 3 0 home loss to real zaragoza the 47 year old resino, a former goalkeeper at atletico madrid, joined levante in january as a replacement for juan ramon lopez caro the valencia based club are bottom of the table with only a point from seven matches e mail to a friend

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lionel messi scores for the sixth game in a row as barca defeat atletico 3 0 real madrid stay top of the primera liga table after defeating recreativo 2 0 sevilla's crisis continues as they lose their four league match in succession

london, england (cnn)there are some circuits that are cornerstones of the formula 1 calendar: the monacos and silverstones whose every twist and turn are known intimately by the drivers and engineers then there are the newer circuitsmalaysia and bahrain, for instancebut even these have become familiar to the drivers and their backroom boffins fuji speedway employees pose behind a scale model of the new circuit and in front of an overhead view next week they have something completely new to contend with: a track that has yet to see a single f1 team put in a single lap the japan grand prix is to return to the fuji speedway, a circuit that hasn't seen an f1 race since 1977 (though now with a substantially different track layout) the fuji circuit will be familiar to fans of classic arcade games the old fuji speedway was the setting for the 1982 arcade game pole position (released by namco in japan and atari in the rest of the world) the most notable aspect of the circuit is the vision of mount fuji, japan's tallest mountain, looming in the distance though the move to this picturesque location is not without its controversies the suzuka trackwhich had held japanese grands prix between 1987 and 2006had been popular with drivers and fans alike, but for this year and the next the japanese grand prix will be held at fuji however an announcement by formula one management (fom) this month revealed that suzuka will return to the calendar for 2009on the condition that the circuit makes some approved modificationswith the location of the japanese grand prix alternating yearly between fuji and suzuka after that behind the scenes is a political battlegroundboth circuits are owned by car manufacturers with f1 connectionshonda owns suzuka, toyota owns fuji toyota is a relative newcomer to f1 but, having this year surpassed general motors as the world's number one automobile manufacturer, and reputedly having the best funded team in the paddock (a position that hasn't been reflected in sporting success), it is not without clout the redesign of the fuji track was carried out by hermann tilke in 2003 tilke, a german architect redesigned a number of f1 circuits in the 1990s and has since designed many new grand prix tracks including malaysia, istanbul, bahrain and shanghai, and the tracks for 2008's debut grands prix in singapore and valencia so how do f1 teams prepare for a new circuit such as fuji without data from previous races to fall back on? the answer lies with computer simulation computer aided design (cad) is as much a part of the design of a circuit these days as it is a part of the design of the high tech cars every bend, every straight and every camber is fastidiously analyzed on screen before an ounce of dirt is shifted on the ground itself despite never having raced on the circuit, the teams have been testing their cars on a virtual fuji speedway for some time bmw sauber's simulation experts received cad data from the japanese race organizers late last year and when their cars arrive at fuji for testing next week, their race set up should be close to optimum the circuit was analyzed and broken up into between 500 and 800 segments the radius of each individual segment was measured, allowing the engineers to exactly calculate the optimum racing line (the route around the circuit that covers the shortest possible distance) then the effects of factors such as gradients and inclines were calculated the slightest change in angle of a gradient can have significant effects on the downforce and aerodynamic profile of a car 'in order to avoid losing precious time during the race weekend, we need to have as accurate as possible a picture of downforce levels, gearbox ratios and brake specification in advance,' says willy rampf, technical director of the bmw sauber f1 team dieter glass, chief race and test engineer with toyota f1 explains: 'you start to determine what downforce level gives the best lap time on the new circuit once you know that, you look into which gear ratios suit the track with the given level of downforce, before you get into more detailed simulations of different set up solutions 'getting a bit closer to the weekend, you start running race simulations in order to predict the optimum race strategy this prediction takes into account estimates of relevant characteristics of the new track, like the degradation of the two bridgestone tire compounds and the effect the fuel has on lap time if you have more fuel in the car, this affects your lap time, but we can accurately predict how much time is lost with every extra kilogram of fuel carried' one peculiarity of the fuji circuit is the exceptionally long main straight, which at 1475 km (0916 miles) will allow for higher than average straight line speeds but, after the straight the track is relatively twisty the teams have to find a balance between getting the most speed into the straight, and the best grip decelerating into the bends 'you have some very slow corners which require good mechanical grip,' says glass, 'and as always you want good grip in general, but you have to balance that with the long straight, where you need low enough downforce to get a level of drag which allows you to have a good top speed' the testing may be virtual, but the teams hope that these virtual figures are a hair's breadth away from real world eventualities: 'our aim is to ensure that the lap times and top speed calculated using the simulation software do not vary by more than one percent from the actual values,' says rampf not that everything can be predicted: 'i think we are quite accurate but the ultimate response to that is very difficult to say for sure because it very much depends on what happens in the race,' continues glass 'many incidents can happen, which then have a positive or an adverse affect on strategy' e mail to a friend

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re designed fuji speedway to host its first japanese grand prix since 1977 suzuka to alternate with fuji from 2009 computer models used to prepare teams for the unfamiliar circuit

nyon, switzerlandceltic have been fined $50,800 by uefa and ac milan's dida has been banned for two matches after the incident which saw a pitch invading supporter approach the brazilian goalkeeper in last week's champions league match at celtic park dida's theatrical over reaction has resulted in uefa suspending him for two matches the incident occurred when the scottish side beat milan 2 1 in glasgow a fan ran onto the field in the 90th minute, soon after the home side scored their winning goal, and made what appeared to be minimal contact with dida the milan goalkeeper turned to chase the supporter before dropping to the ground he was carried off the field on a stretcher and replaced dida's theatrical over reaction has cost him severelybut celtic may choose not to complain about their own punishment, with half of their fine suspended for two years uefa did have the power to change the result of the match, although that was always unlikely uefa's control and disciplinary body found celtic guilty of charges of 'lack of organisation and improper conduct of supporters', while dida was found to have breached uefa's 'principles of loyalty, integrity and sportsmanship' milan have pledged to appeal against the punishment, which as it stands means he will miss the club's champions league games against shakhtar donetsk 'it's a suspension that is absolutely excessive,' said milan lawyer leandro cantamessa 'it seems to us a very, very unbalanced sentence it turns dida into the protagonist of the incident, whereas the protagonist was someone else, and that's not right from a logical point of view' celtic acted swiftly to punish the 27 year old supporter, who turned himself in and has since admitted a breach of the peace in court and will be sentenced next month the club banned the fan for life from all their matches, home and away celtic chief executive peter lawwell said: 'as a club we feel this penalty is proportionate to the incident in question and a fair outcome' e mail to a friend

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ac milan's brazilian goalkeeper dida is suspended by uefa for two matches dida was banned for his over reacting to being touched by a celtic supporter celtic have been fined $50,800 for allowing the fan to run onto the field of play

washington (cnn)the white house is blasting congressional democrats for not sending a bill that would fund veterans' care programs to the president's desk by veterans day the white house's dana perino accused democrats of holding veterans care funding hostage 'there's absolutely no reason that the veterans' bill could not have been signed by the president today, except for the political games that the democrats decided to play with it,' white house press secretary dana perino said sunday in crawford, texas congressional democrats had attached legislation funding veterans programs to a $1507 billion bill that also funded a number of domestic priorities, including health, labor and education democrats also added $37 billion to what the president budgeted for veterans programs the labor health education bill would increase funding by more than $10 billion over last year's funding for those programs the president has threatened to veto the bill because of the added spending the house passed a health labor education bill 269 142 last week with the veterans funding attached, but the senate later voted to strip out the veterans funding and send the health labor education bill to the president perino accused the democrats of 'trying to hold hostage our veterans to extra domestic spending or increases in taxes' 'the president wants clean legislation, a clean bill to fund the veterans,' perino said on saturday, the democratic congressional leadership sent a letter to president bush saying they welcomed a dialogue on spending, sayings disagreements over funding levels 'have never been so great that we cannot reach agreement on a spending plan that meets the needs of the american people' 'key to this dialogue, however, is some willingness on your part to actually find common ground,' house speaker nancy pelosi, d california, and senate majority leader harry reid, d nevada, said in the letter the leadership said last year's congress, which was still under republican control, had never passed a separate bill funding veterans programs congress also sent to the president legislation that would fund veterans care at the levels requested by the president through december 14, the leadership said the current funding level 'is still below the $39 billion extra that we passed,' said nadeam elshami, spokesman pelosi 'we are committed to getting the extra funding that the congress already voted on the president's desk for his signature' the leadership blamed republican members of congress for stalling the funding for the veterans programs by blocking its inclusion in the larger spending bill perino, though, said the democrats could still send a separate bill to the president funding the veterans program that passed both chambers of congress 'the democrats decided not to send the president this bill,' perino said 'that has to be laid at their feet' e mail to a friend cnn's deirdre walsh contributed to this report

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white house accuses democrats of holding hostage funding for veterans care funding was attached to large health labor education bill white house says it wants a clean bill that only funds veterans programs democrats call on white house to engage in a dialogue on spending levels

(cnn)muddy but unhurt, three university of texas students emerged from a cramped cave complex in austin, texas, after a day long search sunday a rescuer at the entrance to airman's cave in austin, texas, sunday lt matt cox, an austin fire department spokesman, said the studentstwo women and one manwere reported missing early sunday after a trip into airman's cave, about four miles south of the university's campus they were found about halfway down the 12,000 foot long cave, which has few spaces big enough for an adult to stand upright and is explored primarily by experienced spelunkers the students were located shortly before 5 pm (6 pm et), about 30 hours after they entered their names were not released sunday night a friend called 911 to report them missing at 5 am the group had told friends to call 911 if they were not back by midnight sunday, according to austin travis county emergency medical services earlier reports that four students were in the cave were incorrect, cox said authorities did not know sunday evening why the students were in the cave for so long but cox said it would have been easy even for experienced cavers to get lost in airman's, which he compared to the roots of a tree 'there are so many ways to go,' he said e mail to a friend

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three austin cave explorers are safe and are out of the cave, officials said the university of texas students went into airman's cave saturday the 12,000 foot long cave complex has tight twists and turns unclear exactly how the students lost their way, but cave is complex, official said

washington (cnn)us first lady laura bushin a rare foray into foreign policycalled on myanmar's military junta to 'step aside,' give up the 'terror campaigns' against its people and allow for a democratic myanmar in a commentary published in wednesday's wall street journal us first lady laura bush said the junta 'should step aside to make way for a unified burma' 'gen than shwe and his deputies are a friendless regime,' bush said 'they should step aside to make way for a unified burma [myanmar] governed by legitimate leaders 'the rest of the armed forces should not fear this transitionthere is room for a professional military in a democratic burma,' bush said, in keeping with the us policy of still using myanmar's former name in wednesday's commentary, bush called on myanmar's military leaders to release aun sung suu kyi and other opposition leaders so they can meet with and plan for a transition to democracy 'meanwhile, the world watchesand waits,' bush warns 'we know that gen than shwe and his deputies have the advantage of violent force but ms suu kyi and other opposition leaders have moral legitimacy, the support of the burmese people and the support of the world 'the regime's position grows weaker by the day the generals' choice is clear: the time for a free burma is now' the humanitarian rights situation in myanmar has been a cause for the first lady in the past few months as the crisis there worsened myanmar state media has reported that 2,000 people were detained during the demonstrations and the crackdown against themunder an emergency law imposed on september 25 banning assembly of more than five peopleand that 700 of those people have been released the official death toll from myanmar's leadership is at 10, but there are reports that hundreds were killed and thousands arrested in the wake of the demonstrations that peaked late september, which were led by myanmar's buddhist monks on tuesday morning, bush received a phone call from un secretary general ban ki moon to update her on the efforts of his special envoy to myanmar, ibrahim gambari a representative of the secretary general said the call was a follow up to a conversation they had weeks ago gambari met last week with the military junta leadership as well as with nobel peace prize winner suu kyi, who is under house arrest in yangon the us ambassador to the united nations, zalmay khalilzad, told reporters that laura bush and her husband's administration believe that there is a 'need to start preparing for transition' for myanmar 'we believe it is very important that progress be made and prisoners be released and conditions for aun sung suu kyi be improved [so] that she can prepare for participation for negotiations for a transition,' he said e mail to a friend

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laura bush calls on myanmar junta to 'step aside,' allow for a democracy military leaders must give up the 'terror campaigns' against its people, she says junta should release aun sung suu kyi and other opposition leaders, she says her rare foray into foreign policy was published in the wall street journal

new albany, indiana (cnn)president bush vetoed a $600 billion spending bill tuesday, accusing democratic leaders of wasting money and plotting tax increases, then took his budget fight with congress on the road congress should cut spending 'and send me a responsible measure that i can sign into law,' president bush said 'the majority was elected on a pledge of fiscal responsibility, but so far, it's acting like a teenager with a new credit card,' he said in a speech in new albany, indiana the billwhich bush said was laden with $10 billion in 'pork'would have funded the departments of labor, education, and health and human services it also would have funded projects such as a prison museum, a sailing school and a program to teach portuguese 'congress needs to cut out that pork, reduce the spending and send me a responsible measure that i can sign into law,' the president said watch a report on the veto » while polls show bush's popularity remains at near record lows, congress ranks even lower as a whole the president has taken numerous opportunities to mock the spending habits of the democratic leadership and force confrontations over the appropriations bills needed to fund the government for the 2008 budget year, which began october 1 the bill bush vetoed tuesday includes about $150 billion to run those departments and more than $450 billion in mandatory spending on medicare and medicaid, the federal health care programs for the elderly and poor, according to the house appropriations committee the committee's chairman, rep david obey, called bush's veto 'not responsible and not credible' 'this is a bipartisan bill supported by over 50 republicans,' obey, d wisconsin, said in a statement issued after the veto 'there has been virtually no criticism of its contents it is clear the only reason the president vetoed this bill is pure politics' bush said democrats are supporting $22 billion in additional spending beyond his budget proposals this year and $205 billion over five yearsmoney he said would ultimately be raised by tax increases 'when the bill for all that spending comes due, congress is going to turn to the working people, to the small business owners and the entrepreneurs,' he said tuesday's veto is the fifth cast since democrats took control of congress in 2006 congress has overridden one of those, voting last week to authorize $23 billion in water projects nationwide over the president's objections democrats will schedule another override vote this week, an aide to house majority leader steny hoyer said but antonia ferrier, spokeswoman for house republican whip roy blunt, said bush's gop allies are confident they will be able to sustain the veto bush signed a $470 billion pentagon spending bill that covers the defense department's normal operations, but democrats split $50 billion in spending for the wars in iraq and afghanistan off into a 'bridge fund' to which they plan to attach demands for bush to withdraw us combat troops the measure sets up another confrontation with the white house bush also demanded congress reform the alternative minimum taxa measure originally aimed at preventing the wealthy from evading taxes, but one that increasingly affects middle class earnerswithout raising additional revenue he said a plan proposed by rep charles rangel, the democratic chairman of the house ways and means committee, to eliminate the tax was unacceptable 'preventing a tax increase in one area should not be an excuse for raising taxes in other areas,' he said 'congress should eliminate the tax increases in the bill and send the amt relief to my desk as soon as possible' the elimination of the tax would cause an estimated $800 billion to be lost over 10 years to replace that, rangel's bill would add a 4 percent surtax on individual incomes over $100,000, after deductions, and close corporate tax loopholes the bill also would cut rates for many individual and corporate taxpayers republicans have already started calling it 'the mother of all tax increases' 'with all the other pressures on our economy, raising taxes is one of the most unwise things congress could possibly do,' bush said bush acknowledged the difficulties americans face from high fuel prices, a 'challenged' housing market and 'uncertainty' in financial markets stemming from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market'but as we have seen in recent years, this economy is resilient, and that's important for the american people to understand' e mail to a friend cnn's deirdre walsh contributed to this report

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bush says most of congress 'acting like a teenager with a new credit card' bill would have funded agencies, but also a prison museum, sailing school house panel chairman: bush's veto 'not responsible and not credible' democrats to schedule override vote, but bush gop allies confident about veto

paris, francefrance lock sebastien chabal has been cited for a dangerous tackle on england's simon shaw during saturday's world cup semifinal in paris simon shaw offloads despite being tackled by raphael ibanez, left, and sebastien chabal the sale sharks forward will face a disciplinary hearing on monday after his tackle on opposite second rower shaw was noted by citing commissioner dennis wheelahan chabal started the match on the substitutes' bench, but was brought on in the 26th minute to replace the injured fabien pelous during hosts france's 14 9 defeat if he is suspended, then chabal will miss friday's third and fourth place play off match at the parc des princes meanwhile, france coach bernard laporte said that the defeat was tougher to take than england's 24 7 win in the 2003 semifinals 'in 2003, they were better then us in fact they were better than everyone,' said laporte, who is leaving his role to take up the post of junior sports minister in the french government 'they were like the new zealand of this tournament the favorite, except they went all the way this time it's harder because yesterday it was 50 50' meanwhile, englandseeking to become the first nation to defend the world cup titlerevealed that star kicker jonny wilkinson again had problems with the match balls during the semifinal the fly half, who voiced his concerns after struggling with the boot against australia, rejected a ball before kicking a vital three pointer against france 'we didn't say it last week but a non match ball got onto the field in marseille which jonny kicked,' director of rugby rob andrew said 'he didn't think about it while he was kicking it 'the match balls are marked, numbered one to six last night they had 'world cup semi final england vs france' written on them on match night, jonny was vigilant when kicking for goal that they were actually match balls he was kicking 'the practice balls lose pressure and shape the whole issue last week, the organizers accepted all six match balls should be used by both sides on the thursday before game' e mail to a friend

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france lock sebastien chabal cited for a dangerous tackle on simon shaw chabal faces disciplinary hearing on monday after incident against england sale forward will miss the third and fourth place play off is he is suspended

denver, coloradoa colorado man terrorized by threats after testifying against his daughter's abusive boyfriend says he has spent $10,000 on a security system, hired a bodyguard for his son's wedding and never leaves home without a 45 caliber handgun strapped to his chest keith reynolds was convicted for witness intimidation after threatening witnesses in his domestic assault case the man, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the case, says the state did nothing to protect him after the 1999 conviction of keith reynolds for domestic abuseeven after prosecutors told him a hit had been put on his family a report in the denver post pointed out major problems protecting witnesses in the state of colorado paul logli, chairman of national district attorneys association, told congress this year that witness intimidation has become 'almost epidemic,' according to the denver post when asked if prosecutors had made the family aware of colorado's witness protection program, the witness in the reynolds case said, 'all they told us was maybe we should move' 'i'm pretty sure i told one of themeither him or his wifeabout the program i can't remember if i gave them all the details' the prosecutor assigned to the case, who didn't want to be named, told cnn after reynolds' conviction, the witness and his wife saw strange cars parked outside their home they received phone calls during which the only sound on the other end of the line was a gun being cocked the couple received a death threat from reynolds himself through the mail watch witness describe fear of being targeted » reynolds was then sentenced to ten years in a maximum security prison for witness intimidation however, it is likely he'll be released within five years no national statistics on crimes against witnesses exist, and minimal research has been conducted on the subject the latest national institute of justice survey on recordconducted more than a decade agoshows that more than half of big city prosecutors consider witness intimidation a major problem colorado has $50,000 allocated to its witness protection budget in contrast, the city of denver spent almost $100,000 on landscaping last year the state, on average, spends about $1,000 per witness that figure supposedly includes moving expenses, rent, and furniture the federal program spends in excess of $40 million per year on witness protection one possible reason for the disparity is that witnesses in state cases do not get new identities, as do federal witnesses 'it's not designed to be a long term relocation at the public's expense; it's a way to ensure the immediate safety of the witnesses,' according to peter weir, executive director of the colorado department of public safety colorado's witness protection program is a 'joke,' according to the rev leon kelly, founder and executive director of the open door youth gang alternatives kelly says the state doesn't provide enough incentive for witnesses to come forward more than a decade ago, a young man named darryl givens asked kelly for advice while deciding whether to testify in a murder case or face prison givens chose to testify a few months later, he was shot twice in the head by men he considered friends that day continues to haunt kelly rhonda fields says failures in the witness protection program may have contributed to her son's murder javad fields was a college graduate who was engaged to be married he had plans to move east when a fourth of july barbecue in 2004 in changed all that he witnessed the murder of his best friend and subsequently testified against three men suspected in the killing javad fields and his fiancee were gunned down while driving along a suburban street in aurora, colorado the couple, both 22, died instantly rhonda fields says her son was never told about a witness protection program she confronted prosecutors after his murder fields told cnn, 'i asked them what happened why weren't any measures taken to safeguard his life? and i was told he never asked for any protection' javad's mother does not think it was her son's responsibility to ask for protection 'i think it's the authorities' responsibility to notify witnesses of the dangers that are involved with being a witness,' she said field's case illustrates glaring weaknesses in the witness protection program prosecutors filed an order for protection requesting javad fields' personal information be kept secret, but it wasn't signed by a judge until one year later, after defense lawyers had already given the suspects fields' personal information, along with crucial trial documents 'i felt like the da's office used my son to win their case but did not take the proper measures to safeguard his life,' rhonda fields told cnn district attorney carol chambers maintains the program has improved she says a notice about witness protection is now attached to every subpoena, ensuring witnesses are aware of their options that didn't start, however, until two years after javad fields was killed e mail to a friend

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some witnesses say colorado does nothing to protect them one witness spent over 10,000 dollars on security after being terrorized community activist says colorado's witness protection program is 'a joke'

london, england (cnn)previously unseen footage of diana, princess of wales, taken just hours before she was killed in a car crash, has been shown to the jury at the inquest into her death the footage showed diana and dodi step into an elevator at the ritz hotel images taken from a security camera at the ritz hotel in paris show the 36 year old smiling as she and her lover dodi fayed step into an elevator and later walk out of the hotel further footage shows fayed visiting a jeweler's shop, images that could lend support to claims that he was buying an engagement ring earlier, a british coroner at the inquest said tt may never be known for certain whether princess diana was pregnant when she died in the paris car crash lord justice scott baker told the jury at the inquest into the deaths of the princess and her lover dodi fayed that scientific evidence might be unable to demonstrate 'one way or the other' whether she was in the early stages of pregnancy but he said they would hear 'intimate' details of her personal life watch footage of diana's last hours » baker told the 11 members of the jurysix women and five mendiana may have been on the contraceptive pill and that evidence she was poised to get engaged to dodi on the night she died was contradictory on tuesday the judge, who is acting as coroner in the case, told the jury that a famous image taken in summer 1997 showing diana wearing a swimsuit could not be proof she was pregnant with dodi's child as she had not started a relationship with him at that stage the jury is set to hear 'scene setting' evidence, including cctv and a tourist video the inquest to establish cause of death is expected to be a six month process fayed's father, mohammed al fayed, has contended from the start that diana and his son were murdered because the royal family 'could not accept that an egyptian muslim could eventually be step father to the future king of england,' referring to diana's son prince william 'i'm hoping for justice,' al fayed said outside court 'at last, we're going to have a jury from ordinary people and i hope to reach the decision which i believe that my son and princess diana have been murdered by the royal family' baker told the jury of al fayed's allegations, but again reminded them that they were responsible for deciding the facts of the case, but not to assign blame or guilt 'you have to decide four important, but limited factual questions: who the deceased were, when they came by their deaths, where they came by their deaths and how they came by their deaths,' baker said, according to inquest transcripts 'the first three questions are unlikely to give rise to any difficulty the fourth is a rather wider question and is directed towards the means by which they died' diana, 36, and 42 year old dodi fayed were killed on august 31, 1997 when the mercedes benz they were traveling in hit a pillar in the pont de l'alma tunnel in paris they were being pursued at the time by the paparazzi after leaving the ritz hotel driver henri paul, who was also killed, was drunk and driving at high speed bodyguard trevor rees jones was the sole survivor next week, the jury is scheduled to travel to paris to see the crash site, along the river seine they are also expected to hear testimony from the paparazzi who were present after the accident in its evidence section, the web site for the inquest has posted previously unpublished pictures taken by paparazzi of the limo before and immediately after the accident one is a closeuplooking into the front of the vehiclethat shows diana, fayed, paul and rees jones minutes before the crash e mail to a friend

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new: jury shown new footage of diana taken hours before her death diana and dodi fayed inquest jury to hear 'scene setting' evidence on tuesday coroner outlined controversial claims, published new images court will make final decision on what happened in car crash 10 years ago

washington (cnn)republicans reacted with surprise and recrimination sunday to blistering criticism of the iraq war from former coalition commander retired lt gen ricardo sanchez lawmakers lashed back at retired gen ricardo sanchez on sunday after he criticized the war effort on friday, sanchez, who was coalition commander in 2003 and 2004, called the iraq war 'a nightmare with no end in sight' he said the bush administration, the state department and congress all share blame speaking with military reporters in virginia, sanchez also said such dereliction of duty by a military officer would mean immediate dismissal or court martial, but the politicians have not been held accountable 'i'm astounded, really,' south carolina republican sen lindsey graham on cnn's 'late edition' with wolf blitzer on sunday graham, who recently returned from baghdad, said he and gop presidential candidate sen john mccain had visited sanchez several times in 2003 and 2004 'every time we talked to gen sanchez, we got pushbackwe have enough troops; guard and reserves aren't being strained,' graham said he added that sanchez's own record in iraq is blemished: abu ghraib 'got out of control under his watch the war in general got out of control under his watch' but graham said that 'finally,' with the commitment of nearly 30,000 additional us troops since january, 'we are getting it right' sanchez told reporters that american political leaders have cost american lives on the battlefield with their 'lust for power' sanchez said it had been his duty to obey orders and not object publicly while on active duty, but that he has an obligation to speak out now that he has retired 'while the politicians espouse a rhetoric designed to preserve their reputations and their political power, our soldiers die,' he said that brought a tart response from mccain, the ranking republican on the senate armed services committee 'i wish that he had given us the benefit of that knowledge at the time,' mccain told cbs's 'face the nation' he said sanchez should have spoken out at the timeor resignedbut 'unfortunately, that doesn't happen very often' one of the reasons few speak out, he said, is evidenced by what happened to former army chief of staff gen eric shinseki, mccain said shinseki was sidelined after telling congress that hundreds of thousands of troops would be needed to occupy iraq sen mitch mcconnell, a republican from kentucky, told abc's 'this week' that sanchez is simply wrong 'my definition of winning is a stable country and an ally in the war on terror,' he said 'i think we're making significant progress toward that end' but, he added, 'i think the central government in iraq has been an embarrassment they've not been able to produce any of the kind of political compromises that we had hoped for' graham said he hopes the government of prime minister nuri al maliki will 'step up to the plate and do something meaningful by the end of the year' if that does not happen, he said, 'it will be incumbent upon us, as a nation, to devise a new political strategy to find a way forward or create a stable iraq' that brought a blistering response from zbigniew brzezinski, national security adviser under president carter 'what is this? this is a colony,' he said 'that's the heart and essence of the difficulties we encounter' even those iraqis who were happy to see saddam hussein toppled from power more than four years ago are not happy with the continuing us presence, brzezinski said though some countries are willing to go along with the united states, 'no one in the world really supports our policy in iraq,' he said in his friday speech, sanchez added that the 'surge' of us troops into iraq represents 'a desperate attempt by the administration that has not accepted the political and economic realities of this war' national security council spokeswoman kate starr did not address the comment instead, she said, 'we appreciate his service to the country as gen petraeus and ambassador crocker said, there's more work to be done but progress is being made in iraq and that's what we're focused on now' gen david petraeus is the us top commander in iraq ryan crocker is the us ambassador to iraq e mail to a friend

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(cnn)just days after admitting he had smoked crack cocaine, toronto mayor rob ford found himself trying to explain more bizarre behavior a video obtained by the toronto star and released thursday shows the embattled mayor staggering around and making violent threats about some unknown person 'i'm going to kill that (expletive) guy i'm telling you it's first degree murder he dies or i die, brother,' ford is heard saying in the video toronto mayor admits crack cocaine use, won't step down ford makes large motions with his hands in the video as he explains what he will do: 'when he's down, i'll rip his (expletive) throat out' and 'i'll poke his eyes out' and 'i'll make sure that (expletive) is dead' ford responded to the video shortly after it was released, saying that he was drunk at the time 'all i can do is reassure the people that i don't know what to say,' ford told reporters 'it's extremely embarrassing the whole world is going to see it i don't have a problem with that' he added, 'obviously i was extremely, extremely inebriated that's all i have to say' he's not teflon, but to 'ford nation,' toronto mayor is still their man the context surrounding the short video is not known in it, the mayor makes reference to someone calling him and his brothers liars despite the controversy, ford is clinging to office, confounding critics and delighting supporters who say he's done plenty of good for the city despite headlines around the world that have splashed a bit of mud on the image of the gleaming lakeside city that's arguably the cultural center of english speaking canada cnn's mariano castillo, stephanie gallman and michael pearson contributed to this report

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(cnn)a complicated love triangle is playing out on television this one isn't taking place on soap operas, but instead in commercials from at&t and verizon wireless about apple's iphone at&t will begin running a new ad on national tv during prime time friday night, a spokesman said the commercial shows a businessman using an iphone and touts the ability to be on a call and search the web simultaneously the company has posted the ad to youtube, a video it's calling answer this comes in response to the upcoming release of verizon's iphone 4 on thursday some analysts say the largest us network partnering with apple could lure many defectors from at&t, which was previously the exclusive carrier for the iphone in interviews and on commercials, at&t is defending the loss of iphone exclusivity by boasting of competitive advantages, including talk and surf and international use apple and at&t have previously run commercials focused on the former feature verizon wireless has already begun running ad campaigns to promote the new phone the company began accepting preorders from current customers thursday, and those supplies have already been exhausted the most recent ad features verizon's glasses wearing mascot answering an iphone, saying, 'yes, i can hear you now' it's an overt play on criticisms of at&t's network meanwhile, apple, ever the cordial and promiscuous lover, is running a commercial called waltz, which shows the two carriers' phones side by side doing the same tasks apple's conclusion: 'two is better than one'

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at&t will begin running an ad touting the advantages of the iphone on its network verizon wireless has already ramped up advertising about the reliability of its network meanwhile, apple's stance is that 'two is better than one'

(cnn)the body of a man found last weekend in a mangrove area near miami is that of a 42 year old passenger who fell two days earlier from a small plane, florida authorities said tuesday the miami dade county medical examiner department identified the body as gerardo nales, of key biscayne the body was discovered saturday at 10:30 am, he said authorities had been looking for the key biscayne man since a pilot's mayday distress call sent them scrambling 'i have a door ajar,' said the pilot of the single engine piper pa 46 aircraft, 'and a passenger that fell down' nales, the only other person aboard, 'opened the back door and he just fell down the plane,' the pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic controllers the pilot, whose name has not been released, said he was flying thursday afternoon at an altitude of 1,800 feet about two miles from shore when the incident occurred a police spokeswoman said saturday after the body was found that it was unclear whether nales accidentally fell out of the plane or deliberately jumped homicide detectives are involved, as they are in all death investigations, miami dade police spokeswoman sgt robin pinkard said last week the private plane went on to land safely at kendall tamiami executive airport, the federal aviation administration said passenger killed in vintage plane crash cnn's john branch and catherine e shoichet contributed to this report

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the body was found saturday morning in a mangrove area near miami medical examiner confirms body is that of 42 year old gerardo nales pilot tells authorities his passenger fell out at 1,800 feet

(cnn)australian rocker chrissy amphlett, the divinyls lead singer whose group scored an international hit with the sexually charged 'i touch myself' in the early 1990s, died sunday after a battle with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, her husband said she was 53 'chrissy's light burns so very brightly,' her husband, former divinyls drummer charley drayton, said in a statement 'hers was a life of passion and creativity; she always lived it to the fullest with her force of character and vocal strength, she paved the way for strong, sexy, outspoken women' in 1991, the divinyls' 'i touch myself' reached no 1 in australia and no 4 on the united states' billboard hot 100 chart the group, which formed in australia in the early 1980s, was inducted into the australian recording industry association's hall of fame in 2006 amphlett, who lived in new york with her husband, announced in 2010 that she had breast cancer, several years after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis she said in an interview that her family made the diagnoses easier 'it's unfair, but life is not faireven rock stars get breast cancer,' she told the sydney morning herald 'but there have been many girls before me who have dealt with it successfully it's easy to feel sorry for me but i feel sorry for people who are suffering it alone' people we lost in 2013: the lives they lived

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amphlett was the lead singer for the australian band the divinyls the band's 'i touch myself' reached no 1 in australia, no 4 in united states in 1991 amphlett fought multiple sclerosis, breast cancer

(rolling stone)when mötley crüe announced late last year they'd be taking up temporary residency in las vegas at the hard rock hotel's joint, it was one of those ideas that seemed so perfect the only question was, 'what took so long?' this was, after all, a band whose celebration of the rock & roll lifestyle has been immoralized in a book and may still make it to film so, what better place to lay down rootseven for just a few weeksthan in a town nicknamed sin city? as they hyped the residency, crüe promised not just the usual exploits but to take the pyro and girls, girls, girls to new levels of excess when it kicked off this past weekend, the debauchery was no greater than usualwomen on stage several times throughout the show, aerialists and lots of confetti and pyro, but no more craziness than a typical crüe show after saturday's show, drummer tommy lee told rolling stone the band is still working out the logistics 'we're doing production s**t right up until doors open, f****** crazy,' lee said 'but it's getting better it's gonna be sick in another show or two' the band has decided to push their creativity and musicality there were, of course, many of the expected hits, from 'live wire,' 'wild side' and 'shout at the devil' to 'kickstart my heart,' 'dr feelgood' and the closing 'home sweet home,' which began with lee on a piano that descended from the ceiling frontman vince neil had his own peter pan moment, sailing over the crowd during the song but there were also unexpected moments, including a brief acoustic set in the middle of the show that found them all huddled together in a similar manner to u2's stripped down concert interludes for the saturday night performance, the crüe turned three songs, starting with 'on with the show' and wrapping with 'don't go away mad (just go away),' into acoustic numbers 'doing the acoustic thing for us is something we've been wanting to do forever,' lee said another new aspect of the performance was the inclusion of a narrator, genocide, who worked his way through the crowd and stage, introducing the band members and providing occasional levity between songs it's another new feature lee was excited about 'being able to work the room with genocide, our mc, we've never done anything like that in an arena, having people pop up here and there,' lee said the quartet is using the stay at the joint to live out some performance fantasies 'we're able to place things strategically in the best place in the room, which we wouldn't really be able to do in arenas,' lee says 'being in one place for a while, we're able to really figure out how to use this building it's been fun, interesting' the joint shows run through february 19, but lee hopes the band can take lessons from the residency with them on the road 'now we kind of know what we're getting into here hopefully this'll set up something else in a bigger venue, a different place,' he says 'you just never know' see the full article at rollingstonecom copyright © 2011 rolling stone

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(rolling stone)in the three years since coldplay's last album, the world's problems have gotten a little more urgent a cratering economy, riots from tahrir to tottenham, the prolonged ubiquity of the kardashiansthese are things that can't be solved with a lullaby, even from the biggest band to emerge in the 21st century chris martin knows this but coldplay's fifth albumand most ambitious yetsuggests martin cares too much not to at least try to help coldplay recently entered their second decade togetherthe same point springsteen made 'born in the usa' and u2 made 'achtung baby'so it comes as no surprise they'd want a zeitgeist y, big statement album of their own on 'mylo xyloto,' the choruses are bigger, the textures grander, the optimism more optimistic it's a bear hug record for a bear market world aided again by brian eno, coldplay are still dabbling in the kind of cool weird artiness they truly went for on 2008's 'viva la vida' but where that album sometimes seemed like a self conscious attempt to diversify their sound, with a world music vibe and u2 style sound effects, this time coldplay have integrated the 'enoxification' (as they call it) into their own down the middle core: check out the cascading choral vocals that augment martin's soaring refrain on 'paradise' prominent elements prop up the sonic cathedrals: jonny buckland's guitar, which is riffier and more muscular than ever, and euro house synths that wouldn't sound out of place at a nightclub in ibiza martin says 'mylo xyloto' was inspired by 1970s new york graffiti and the nazi resistance movement known as the white roseit's probably no coincidence both were about young people embracing art in times of turmoil here, coldplay rage in their own lovably goofy way on the rave tinged 'every teardrop is a waterfall,' martin imagines a revolution powered by dancing kids 'hurts like heaven' might be the first coldplay tune to which you can bust something resembling a move the lyrics seem to be about fighting the man'don't let 'em take control!'but martin sounds ebullient over a sproingy new wave beat explicit political statements aren't really martin's thing; he's in the uplift business 'mylo xyloto' suggests he's fully embraced his role as a not terribly cool guy who's good at preaching perseverance, in a voice that's warm and milky like afternoon tea by the time he croons, 'don't let it break your heart!' over 'where the streets have no name' style guitar sparkle near the album's end, you can't help but think he's an inspiration peddler who believes what he's belting oddly enough, the best moments are darker ones 'princess of china' is a ballad about loss and regret, co starring rihanna it's a partnership that probably came together over champagne brunch at jay z's, but its synth fuzz groove is offhandedly seductive it's followed by 'up in flames,' a minimalist slow jam martin sings nakedly about how breakups can feel like the end of the world, or maybe it's about the actual end of the world either way, as end times lullabies go, it's pretty sweet see the full article at rollingstonecom copyright © 2011 rolling stone

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on 'mylo xyloto,' the choruses are bigger, the optimism more optimistic cascading choral vocals augment martin's soaring refrain on 'paradise' 'mylo xyloto' was inspired by 1970s new york graffiti

(cnn)the rebel battalions and commanders battling syrian president bashar al assad's regime are signing a 'code of conduct' pledging to refrain from torture and other human rights abuses, an opposition group said wednesday more than two dozen free syrian army officials have signed the documents, just days after an uproar over reports that a unit called the tawheed brigade claimed responsibility for executing pro regime members of the berri clan in aleppo, the opposition local coordination committees of syria said rafif jouejati, the lcc english language spokeswoman, said some of the content in the code had been in development for months by human rights experts and the lcc and fsa but the work was accelerated in the wake of the executions last week, she said the al assad regime has been widely condemned for torture and other human rights abuses but as the rebel army has evolved, reports have surfaced of mistreatment by rebel fighters as well, including cnn's own reporting on a rebel run prison last week the reported executions last week highlighted fears that rebels are intent on revenge killings and sectarian retribution 'as the ranks of the free syrian army expand and its brave fighters fight a national, multi front battle, there has become a need for rules to govern their work these rules must combine the spirit of the national duty they carry out today in facing the aggressor, bashar al assad and his regime, and moving towards the regime's ouster and the interests of justice and military discipline,' the lcc said read more: syria timelinefrom uprising to civil war the code says the rebel army will use weapons 'to overthrow the criminal regime that has been imposed upon us,' but at the same time, it pledges to 'refrain from any behavior or practice that would undermine the principles of our revolution: the principles of freedom, citizenship, and dignity 'i will respect human rights in accordance with our legal principles, our tolerant religious principles, and the international laws governing human rightsthe very human rights for which we struggle today and which we intend to implement in the future syria,' the code said the pledge calls for shunning 'any form of torture, rape, mutilation, or degradation,' preserving prisoners' rights, rejecting 'physical torture or murder of prisoners or informants,' and says army members should 'not participate in any public execution' also, fighters who take the pledge vowed not to issue 'any executive orders, particularly with regard to death or corporal punishment' and promised to heed the legal system to determine guilt or innocence of people 'any person who takes up arms in the name of the regime, regardless of their rank, should be arrested and remain in the custody of the free syrian army in the event that an individual is arrested, and it is determined that the individual was working for the regime, voluntarily or for payment, to supply information about revolutionary activists, that individual shall be considered a prisoner and treated in accordance with laws governing prisoners of war,' the code said the code says people should use their arms only to defend people in the fight they shouldn't use weapons against activists or civilians, no matter what their opinions are, and not use weaponry against any syrian citizens it calls for shunning 'theft or looting on the pretext' of 'helping to finance the armed struggle' and taking people hostage for ransom it also calls 'for a pledge not to exercise reprisals on the basis of ethnicity, sect, religion, or any other basis, and to refrain from any abusive practices, in word or in deed, against any component of the syrian people' the fighters also have to pledge to surrender their weaponry to a 'transitional authority, which will manage the country's affairs during the transitional period after the fall of the regime' people who violate the code also agree to submit to a fair trial 'under the supervision of the free syrian army's leadership and monitored by an independent judiciary body' the lcc said 'these ethics and principles represent the essence of our revolution and its moral and national foundation' there are nearly 30 'initial signatories,' including lt col muhannad ahmad al talaa, commander of the military council of deir ezzor, col qassim saad eddin, commander of the military council in homs, and capt ali shakerdi of the al amjad battalion in aleppo

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(cnn)most people would struggle to place it on a map, but socotra is one of the world's last unspoiled island chainsan archipelago off the coast of yemen that has wildlife so diverse it has been described as the galapagos of the indian ocean its isolation lends socotra a bucolic serenity and has blessed it with an array of unique animals and plants a third of socotra's 825 plant species, 90% of its reptile species and 95% of its land snail species do not occur anywhere else in the world, according to unesco, which added the archipelago to its world heritage list for its natural beauty german photographer claudius schulze had been fascinated by socotra since reading about it in a magazine, but he was led there by an old proverb 'i had a project that didn't work out and we have a proverb in germany about being 'ready for the island' if you are exhaustedso i thought it was time to go to socotra,' he said 'i started looking up flights and applying for a visa straight away' when schulze, 27, finally made it there he was captivated by both the scenery and the people he met 'it blew my mind it's incredibly amazing and other wordly,' he said 'the landscape is bizarre, with mountains, valleys that cut 600 meters into the landscape, moon like desert plains and huge sand dunes and endemic plants that are completely different from anything i've seen' the archipelago has four islands, of which one is uninhabited and two others have only 450 and 100 residents respectively schulze visited only the main island, also called socotra, which covers an area of 3,625 square kilometers he has published a book of photographs and the story of his travels, called 'socotra, an island' the tribal bedouin people of socotra live mostly from goat herding, date plantations and fishing the population of the islands is estimated at 44,000, according to the socotra governance and biodiversity project (sgbp) however, schulze said there appeared to be far fewer people, with official figures including many who now live elsewhere although the official language is arabic, most people speak an unwritten socotri language of pre islamic origin, according to the sgbp also on inside the middle east: qatar's first female olympians schulze received hospitality from the bedouin people of socotra, staying in their homes and eating with them, but said he was never quite able to bridge the cultural divide he felt 'i discovered i was alien to the people and they were alien to me,' he said 'they were extremely hospitable, they welcomed me in their houses and i had tea with the village elders, but there was an invisible world of extreme cultural difference' schulze said he also witnessed the devastating impact of industrial fishing on the island's small boats 'i was a guest of fishermen on the coast and there were days when they didn't catch anything so there was nothing to eat but yesterday's bread,' he said 'they are often victim of pirate european fishing trawlers illegally depleting their stocks, because neither yemen nor (nearby) somalia has effective coast guard to stop them 'i realized for the first time what overfishing means it's not about running out of tuna in 10 years' time, it means people will starve now because they don't get their daily fish' also on inside the middle east: auctions celebrate art of the islamic world he visited socotra three times over a year, each time for three weeks, in order to see it in different seasons schulze has been unable to return to socotra with his finished book, and a lack of a postal system makes it impossible to send it there however, he has presented the book to members of the friends of socotra, an international group composed mainly of scientists interested in the unique biodiversity and culture of the islands in addition to its endemic plants, reptiles and snails, socotra has 192 species of land and sea birds, including many threatened species, and diverse marine life, according to unesco the sgbp says the local population has developed strong traditional rules to protect the island's natural resources because of its isolated position and history of self sufficiency schulze's book is available through his website and at selected bookshops listed on the site

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socotra, off the coast of yemen, has been described as the galapagos of the india ocean photographer claudius schulze visited in search of adventure and exploration he has produced a photography book of his travels in socotra

(cnn)it's easy to understand why comedians like jim carrey, mike myers, and sacha baron cohen have flirted with adapting james thurber's 1939 new yorker story about a timid man with a vibrant fantasy life not only has cgi made it relatively simple to turn walter mitty's daydreams into technicolor tapestries of digital eye candy, it's also the kind of emotionally textured role that can be a springboard out of the banana peel slapstick ghetto ben stiller's no stranger to such clown crying on the inside gambits (see: 'permanent midnight' and 'greenberg') but his new film, 'the secret life of walter mitty,' despite all of its visual razzle dazzle, never locates the beating heart of its hero stiller, who also directed, plays mitty as an absentminded, socially awkward nebbish who works in the photo department at life magazine the irony, of course, is that even though he works at a place called life, he hasn't lived instead, he retreats into his head and imagines himself a dashing mountain climber or a hot blooded casanova stiller and screenwriter steven conrad have given thurber's story a 21st century twist by setting the film in our era of corporate downsizing life is about to cease publishing, and for its final cover the editors have chosen a shot from their globe trotting photojournalist star, sean o'connell (sean penn) then mitty misplaces the negative and with the encouragement of a co worker he's sweet on (kristen wiig), he embarks on a quest to find o'connell, leading him to greenland and the himalayas as stiller's mitty crisscrosses the planet, he slowly transforms into the action hero he's always been in his fantasies while stunning sequences show him skate boarding away from an erupting volcano and fighting off a great white shark, the character never becomes more than a fuzzy conceit at the risk of psycho analyzing a film that's already too deep inside its own head, stiller seems to lack the confidence as a dramatic actor to fully commit to the emotional potential of his story too often he aims at our funny bones when he should be targeting our heartstrings in the end, walter mitty is a film about acting out our dreams but stiller never quite shows us the soul of his dreamer b see the original story at ewcom click here to try 2 risk free issues of entertainment weekly © 2011 entertainment weekly and time inc all rights reserved

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ben stiller plays the title character in 'the secret life of walter mitty' the movie is an adaptation of a 1939 james thurber story while there are some visually stunning sequences, the film never quite comes to life

(cnn)there are all sorts of ways to celebrate a successful harvest in us of course, people commemorate the season's bounty by giving thanks, overdosing on roast turkey, and turning on the tv to watch an endless parade of cartoon characters float about the streets of new york but today's thanksgiving is not the only harvest festival on the cultural calendar no matter the time of year, or place, a bounty of vegetables is often all it takes to get people singing, dancing, cow racingeven parading around giant phalluses to get in the spirit, we've reaped some of the world's most vibrant harvest festivals honen matsuri, japan to some, a procession led by a 600 pound wooden penis may seem a strange way to welcome the spring, but in the small town of komaki, it's only natural honen matsuri, or the fertility festival, is held every year on march 15, and while the plethora of phalluses on display have made the event a popular go to for tittering tourists, it is actually a shinto ritual meant to ensure a bountiful harvest in the coming months read more: the world's weirdest food festivals the main phallus is carved from a single cedar tree in the winter and brought to the local tagata shrine for purification during the festival, it is paraded by a troupe of shinto priests in the lead up to the main event, stalls serve up unending cups of saki to the crowd, and vendors hawk penis shaped candies the celebration ends with priests throwing out handfuls of mochi, or rice cakes, to anyone gathered in the shrine's courtyarda practice meant to bring good luck for the following year costermonger's harvest festival, england for 125 years, the london harvest festival has had a troupe of shimmering mascots the pearly kings and queensdeemed britain's 'second royal family'are renown for their dark suits emblazoned with hundreds of mother of pearl buttons, a tradition started by henry croft, an orphan turned street sweeper he first got the idea from costermongers, or street hawkers, who used to line the seams of their pants with pearl buttons found on the street he took it a step further and coated his whole suittop hat and all naturally, it wasn't long before he was a popular london fixture; he used his notoriety to raise money for various charities each borough of london has its own pearly kind and queen, and as a whole, the group functions mainly as a charitable organization according to doreen golding, the pearly queen of old kent road and bow bells, charity and harvest go hand in hand read more: solstice? it's all about sex! 'it doesn't matter what faith you are at the end of the year, when all the crops are gathered and have been given to people in the community, it's typical to then give them out to all the homeless people who haven't got any food,' she says like croft, the 'pearlies' use their fame to fund raise crop over, barbados in 1780, barbados was one of the biggest sugar producers in the world today, that honor goes to brazil, but the caribbean country still celebrates the sugar harvest with a month long festival in july, known as crop over pic o de cropa kind of 'american idol' for calypso musicis one of the festival's most popular events, where finalists are judged for their savvy lyrics, content, melody and diction like brazil's carnival, the costumes help make the event (that, and copious amounts of rum), and prizes are given out for the most outrageous concoctions at the festival's end blessing of the sea, greece and cyprus in greek orthodox communities, the prelude to the harvest coincides with a staple on the religious calendarepiphany day (january 6) to celebrate the baptism of christ, and to curry blessing for the coming season, the local bishop leads a procession to the nearest body of water, where he tosses a crucifix into the sea volunteers (mainly young men) leap in after it and compete to be the first to catch it whoever rescues the cross from the sea will supposedly be granted good luck in the upcoming year after the waters are blessed, some folks wash their produce in the harbor in hopes of a bountiful autumn harvest read more: so you think you know christmas? rice harvest, indonesia in west sumatra, minangkabau farmers have found a particularly daredevil means of celebrating the end of the rice season; they cow surf riding a wooden plank, and grasping the tails of two harnessed bulls, these farmer turned jockeys careen through the mud as part of the centuries old sport of pacu jawi the tradition is meant to show the strength of the bulls, many of which are later sold at auction

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in komaki, japan, shinto priests try for a strong harvest by blessing a 600 pound wooden penis london's harvest festival is manned by the pearly kings and queenswho wear suits embroidered with pearl buttons barbados celebrates the end of the sugar harvest with a giant party, and calypso sing off

beirut (cnn)when all american jennifer grout first stepped on stage to audition, nobody could have anticipated how this 23 year old from massachusetts would take the middle east by storm now, she may very well win 'arabs got talent,' one of the biggest televised talent contests in the region during her debut appearance, she looked so out of place that many thought she'd flop altogether 'it was nerve wracking,' grout said, 'because i came on stage and i didn't understand' the show's judges were questioning her in arabic, and grout had great difficulty following, making for some very awkward moments but then she started strumming her oud, a traditional arabic musical instrument, and the mood began to shift she belted out a classic arabic song that's when her life changed the american novice had chosen to cover an egyptian diva, legendary songstress umm kulthoum, so revered throughout the region that many arabic singers would be too intimidated to make such an attempt 'when i'm performing, i'm in a different element,' grout said 'so at that point, i wasn't scared' to everyone's surprise, her rendition of the classic 'baeed annak (far from you)' was a huge hit 'when i finished, everyone was just shocked,' explained grout 'actually, when the judges were giving their comments after my performance, i didn't understand them, either' she wasn't the only one confused fans of the show wondered how a young foreigner who barely spoke arabic could sing it so well 'her voice just spoke to me' it was just three years ago when grout, who'd spent most of her life studying classical music and opera, first encountered another grand dame of arabic music she was studying at mcgill university in montreal at the time 'i came across an article online about the famous lebanese singer fairouz, and i was just really mesmerized by her singing,' she remembers 'it was like nothing i had heard before' once she discovered umm kulthoum, her attention turned eastward 'well, her music is the best, and her voice just spoke to me,' grout said admiringly 'her music is just so deep, and it touches my soul' she began studying arabic and learning how to play the oud after college, she moved to morocco, where she learned local berber music and began performing in marrakesh's jemaa el fnaa square now, life is completely different with her appearances on 'arabs got talent,' grout's become very popularbut she hasn't only made fans critics have slammed her, asking why an american should be allowed to compete on a reality show for arabs her performance of syrian singer asmahan's 'ya toyour (oh birds)' got her through to the finals famous lebanese singer najwa karam, one of the show's judges and a supporter of grout's, faced criticism when she voted for the american over an arab group of contestants break with tradition some have even suggested grout, the first non arab contestant to compete on the show, isn't even really american, latching on to her very distinct accent in an attempt to prove it she laughs off such claims 'ever since i was younger, i've had a different way of speaking,' she said 'i remember when i was a kid growing up in boston, my parents had a vermont accent i actually tried to pick up a boston accent at one point because i thought it was cool and then i came home, and my parents were like, 'why are you speaking like that?' ' grout says she's taking it all in her stride 'i like my accent i like the fact that it's unique, and i think it's narrow minded to believe that just because you're from a certain place, you have to speak a certain way because people learn and people change and people travel, and things about them change all the time why does that not include accents?' grout has become a sensation by singing the most unexpected of songs it's not just that she chose traditional songs, it's also that she broke with tradition when doing so at a time when more and more middle eastern musicians are borrowing western sounds and styles, this american decided to cross musical cultures and defy cultural expectations 'i'm really happy because this music is so special for me, but it doesn't really get much acknowledgment in the west,' she said 'and i feel like i'm bringing a new audience and almost giving the music the justice it deserves' the finals take place saturday night in beirut, broadcast live by the mbc network the winner will be announced on the same nightcould it be the singer from massachusetts?

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jennifer grout has won over many fans with her renditions of classic arabic songs she is through to the finals of middle east tv reality show 'arabs got talent' the 23 year old from massachusetts barely speaks arabic but can sing it very well 'when i finished, everyone was just shocked,' she says of her debut performance

(cnn)the loss of native tropical forests accounts for more than 10% of the carbon emissions responsible for the changing climate, receiving much deserved attention at the recent un climate change conference in warsaw when forests are cleared and burned, the carbon contained in the trees and other vegetationroughly half of their dry weightis released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas contributing to global warming most of the carbon dioxide emissions caused by human activity come from fossil fuels but native tropical forests average about 150 tons of carbon per hectare, and millions of hectares are cleared and burned every year over the past decade, governments and industry have responded to growing pressure to reverse deforestation, sometimes committing to reducing it to zero but with few exceptions, we've lacked the tools to assess accountability this changed when science magazine published a groundbreaking analysis of annual deforestation on the entire planet between 2000 and 2012 with the help of google earth and using advanced computing techniques, university of maryland professor matthew hansen and his colleagues analyzed unprecedented amounts of satellite imagery at a 30 meter scale their work allows anyone with a computer, tablet or smartphone and a decent internet connection to see clearly where the world's forests are growing and where they are being destroyed go to global forest change and click on different regions use the pulldown menu to see the state of forests all over the world from 2000 to 2012, using several measurements go to the damage locations like the swath of the alabama tornado, siberian forest fires, palm oil plantations in borneo, and many more distant regions are close at hand, the range of forests becomes easy to grasp, and the speed at which many of the forests are vanishing grows far more difficult to ignore more than 60 governments have signed on to the world wildlife fund's pledge to achieve 'zero net deforestation' by 2020 the pledge specifically excludes offsetting native forest loss with tree plantations, although regrowing forests on abandoned lands can be subtracted from any 'gross' deforestation with the new digitized maps and data available online, civil society watchdogs can and should hold governments accountable for making progress toward their targets similar zero deforestation pledges have been made by corporate leaders, including the board of the consumer goods forum, a mammoth private sector consortium that includes hundreds of companies with combined revenues of more than $3 trillion annually most tropical deforestation is driven by growing global demand for agricultural commodities like beef, soya, palm oil and paper members of the consortium have promised to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains for those products ensuring the transparent flow of information from analyses like the one published in science last week will be essential to keeping the private sector accountable it is now possible to track what's happening in the remote regions of brazil, indonesia or africa (pdf) or in the forests of the russian far east for the past 25 years, we've had this kind of data only for the brazilian amazon every year when the brazilian space agency releases its numbers, scrutiny ensues in brazil and internationally few governments have possessed the combination of information and candor about their forests that the brazilians have exhibited for the amazon and until 2012, as reported in science, the trend had been looking good in brazil but on the same as this new report in science was published, the brazilian government announced dispiriting news from the sidelines of un climate talks in warsaw: deforestation in the latin american nation had reached 5,843 square kilometers (2,256 square miles) between august 1, 2012, and july 31, 2013, up from 4,751 a year ago environment minister izabella teixeira called this increase unacceptable and said the government would not tolerate any rise in illegal deforestation, calling it a crime already, the issue has become fodder for next year's presidential election teixeira and brazilian president dilma rousseff are accountable to their national climate change policy, passed by the brazilian national congress in 2009 that law included a target for reducing amazon deforestation to 3,900 square kilometers by 2020, an 80% drop from the average rate of forest loss from 1996 to 2005 many developing countries simply lack sufficient knowledge of their forests, and many use questionable accounting practices in indonesia, the ministry of forestry has insisted that no deforestation happens when plantations for pulp and paper production replace native forests following that logic, you could completely replace some of the most biodiverse, carbon rich ecosystems on earth with monoculture acacia farms and brand them as 'zero deforestation' when we say that knowledge is power, we mean that people with access to knowledge have power and those without it are powerless transparency is the democratization of that critical access without it, governments and corporations are unaccountable overall, hansen and his colleagues report that the deforestation trend in the tropics is worsening brazil's success at reducing forest loss through 2012 was more than offset by increased losses in indonesia, malaysia, paraguay, bolivia, zambia, angola and elsewhere these and other results and their interpretations will surely be scrutinized and may be improved upon, because they are freely accessible in digital form while government and corporate leaders increasingly profess the virtues of transparency and accountability, the translation of their words into practice has often lagged but with our new access to digital information, gaps between words and deeds can and should be quickly exposed, even in the most remote regions of the planet this is good news for all of us concerned about the forests, the people who depend on them and global climate change the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of daniel j zarin

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daniel zarin: loss of native tropical forests accounts for 10% of carbon emissions zarin: we have never been able to track how much and where trees are disappearing zarian: a new online interactive shows exactly where forests are vanishing and how fast countries now can be held accountable, he says, for 'zero deforestation' pledges

(cnn)us secretary of state john kerry is sending a special envoy to south sudan following an escalation of violence in the world's newest nation ambassador donald booth, the special envoy to sudan and south sudan, headed to the area friday 'now is the time for south sudan's leaders to rein in armed groups under their control, immediately cease attacks on civilians, and end the chain of retributive violence between different ethnic and political groups,' kerry said in a statement 'the violence must stop, the dialogue must intensify' also on friday, national security adviser susan rice recorded an audio message to the people to south sudan 'i ask each of you to make the choice for peacemake the choice for a unified and cohesive south sudan,' she said 'make this choice for yourselves and your children' attackers killed two indian army peacekeepers in south sudan and wounded a third one in the chest, the united nations said friday at least two of the 30 civilians who took refuge at the united nations' akobo base were killed in the attack thursday, said joseph contreras, the un spokesman for south sudan it could have been as many as 20 who died in that attack un officials estimated their remains will be taken to the capital of juba deadly clashes have raged south sudan for days after a reported coup attempt in the capital over the weekend president salva kiir blamed soldiers loyal to his former vice president, riek machar, for starting the violence casualties are in the hundreds, including soldiers, the government said the government of neighboring kenya will send troops into south sudan to help evacuate 1,600 kenyan citizens, presidential spokesman manoah esipisu said an official from south sudan's ruling party, who has just left the country, said the us is not doing enough 'there was a lot of presence of troops in the city there was a lot of injured, displaced people gunshots heard every two minutes, a lot is at stake, a lot needs to be done,' said choul laam, chief of staff for the secretary general of the ruling splm party 'president barack obama made a statement and is dispatching a special envoy to the area i believe that's not enough a lot of dialogue needs to be taking place a lot of convincing needs to be taking place' obama sent 45 service members to south sudan to support us personnel and the american embassy 'in 2011, millions of south sudanese voted to forge a new nation, founded on the promise of a more peaceful and prosperous future for all of south sudan's people,' obama said in a prepared statement 'in recent years, against great odds, south sudan has made great progress toward breaking the cycle of violence that characterized much of its history 'today, that future is at risk south sudan stands at the precipice recent fighting threatens to plunge south sudan back into the dark days of its past,' the president said tensions have been high in south sudan since kiir dismissed his entire cabinet, including machar, in july the move inflamed deep tensions between kiir's dinka community and machar's nuer community un officials have said they are worried the recent fighting is based on ethnic divisions, but the government has disputed that assertion eleven people have been arrested in connection with the foiled coup cnn's zain verjee and clare hayes contributed to this report

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kerry dispatches special envoy donald booth to south sudan fighting grows after a reported coup attempt in juba over the weekend unknown assailants attack a un base in world's newest nation two civilians who took refuge at the base are also killed

(ewcom)after nine seasons, cbs has announced the series finale date for its beloved sitcom 'how i met your mother' the hit show will conclude with a special one hour series finale on monday, march 31 at 8 pm immediately following 'mother's' end, cbs will premiere its new comedy 'friends with better lives,' about six friends at very different stages in their lives, at 9 pm, after which 'friends' will move to its regular monday time slot on april 7 and thanks to cbs' new monday lineup, '2 broke girls' will move to mondays at 8 pm starting april 14 'sleepy hollow,' 'how i met your mother,' 'revolution,' 'supernatural': find out what's next in the spoiler room the full monday rundown is below: monday, march 31 8:00 9:00 pm 'how i met your mother' (one hour series finale) 9:00 9:30 pm 'friends with better lives' (special premiere) 9:30 10:00 pm 'mom' 10:00 11:00 pm 'intelligence' 'how i met your mother' spin off gets pilot pick up monday, april 7 8:00 8:30 pm 'the big bang theory' 8:30 9:00 pm 'friends with better lives' (time period premiere) 9:00 pm to conclusion ncaa men's basketball championship monday, effective april 14 8:00 8:30 pm '2 broke girls' (new time period) 8:30 9:00 pm 'friends with better lives' 9:00 9:30 pm 'mike & molly' 9:30 10:00 pm 'mom' 10:00 11:00 pm 'intelligence' see the original story at ewcom click here to try 2 risk free issues of entertainment weekly © 2011 entertainment weekly and time inc all rights reserved

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cbs has announced a series finale date for 'how i met your mother' the show will end its nine season run on march 31 immediately following 'mother's' end, cbs will introduce a new comedy

(ewcom)news already broke this week that ricky martin was going to appear on 'glee' this winter as mckinley high's new spanish teacher but now ew has even more exciting news for latin music fans: a source exclusively tells ew that pop superstar gloria estefan is currently in negotiations to play [spoiler alert!!!] santana's mother! last night, we met santana's grandmother, who did not approve of her granddaughter's lesbian lifestyle but we haven't heard from her parents, who santana claimed were supportive of their daughter's coming out gleeks should expect to see gloria in the same episode as martin in january our source tells us that the entire cast is 'really really big fans of hers and we love her music and her husband's music' in fact, the plan is for the episode is to feature some of estefan's own music as well as some other bilingual tunes see the full article at ewcom click here to try 2 risk free issues of entertainment weekly © 2011 entertainment weekly and time inc all rights reserved

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st petersburg, florida (cnn)the acrimony from the republican campaign trail carried over quickly into the cnn/youtube gop presidential debate wednesday the debate marked the first time the candidates had faced off on the same stage in over a month with five weeks to go until the first contest of the 2008 nominating season, the republican candidates engaged in a free for all, trying to differentiate their views on immigration, the iraq war, abortion, gun control and even whether they believed every word in the bible was true unlike previous debates in which the candidates focused most of their attacks on democratic front runner hillary clinton, wednesday night's attacks were launched at each other former new york mayor rudy giuliani and former massachusetts gov mitt romney traded jabs over illegal immigration, something they have been arguing about on the trail for the past month romney attacked giuliani's record, saying that as mayor, he promoted illegal immigration and giuliani shot back, accusing romney of having a 'sanctuary mansion' at his own home watch the debate format produce raw moments » 'in his case, there were six sanctuary cities he did nothing about them there was a sanctuary mansionat his own home, illegal immigrants were being employed,' giuliani said romney denied giuliani's allegation, and the two raised their voices as they tried to talk over each other in his quest to appeal to the hard line immigration wing of the party, romney also turned some of his fire on the same topic toward former arkansas gov mike huckabee, who has been rising in the polls rep tom tancredo, who has anchored his candidacy on securing the borders and cracking down on illegal immigration, seemed delighted with the give and take, saying the other candidates were trying to 'out tancredo' him huckabee drew one of the night's largest cheers when he said that one of the agencies he would abolish to control federal spending was the internal revenue service 'most people in this country are more afraid of an audit than they are of a mugging, and there's a reason why,' he said sen john mccain, freshly back from a visit to iraq over thanksgiving and the most hawkish of the candidates, and rep ron paul, the most anti war of the candidates, tangled on two occasions over the iraq war did youtubers get their questions answered? » asked which government programs they would cut, paul said bringing the troops home from iraq would save 'a trillion dollars' mccain said: 'it's that kind of isolationism that caused world war ii,' which drew some hoots from the crowd watch mccain, paul spar on iraq » paul replied: 'the real question you have to ask is why do i get the most money from active duty officers and military personnel?' a retired brigadier general, keith kerr, who is gay, asked candidates if they thought us military personnel were professional enough to work with gay and lesbian troops cnn later learned that a june media release from the campaign of democratic front runner clinton listed kerr as a member of its steering committee for gay and lesbian supporters watch kerr deny that the clinton campaign influenced his question » david bohrman, cnn senior vice president and executive producer of the debate, said, 'we regret this incident cnn would not have used the general's question had we known that he was connected to any presidential candidate' political ticker kerr told cnn after the debate that he has not worked for the clinton campaign and was representing no one other than himself kerr also said he is a member of the log cabin republicans, a national gay and lesbian republican grass roots organization prior to the debate, cnn had verified kerr's military background and that he had not contributed money to any presidential candidate in a section of the debate about gun ownership rights, three of the gop presidential hopefuls said they do not own guns: mccain, giuliani and romney former tennessee sen fred thompson quipped, 'i own a couple of gunsbut i'm not going to tell you what they are or where they are' watch the candidates address gun control » the debate turned personal when a viewer, holding the bible, asked: 'do you believe every word of this book? and i mean specifically, this book that i am holding in my hand' huckabee, a baptist minister, said, 'sure, i believe the bible is exactly what it is' giuliani said he believes the bible, but not 'literally true in every respect' after that, romney stammered a bit when moderator anderson cooper asked him if he believed every word watch the candidates get personal about the bible » 'yeah, the bible is the word of god i might interpret the word differently than you interpret the word, but i read the bible and i believe the bible is the word of god,' romney said when asked about abortion, romney said he was wrong in favoring a woman's right to choosehis position when he was elected governor of massachusetts 'if people in this country are looking for someone who's never made a mistake on a policy issue and is not willing to admit they're ever wrong, they're going to have to find somebody else on abortion, i was wrong,' he said his remarks came in response to the 30 second video produced for the debate by thompson's campaign, which included a clip of romney expressing support for roe vs wade during a 1994 debate against sen ted kennedy when asked what women and doctors should be charged with if abortion was to become illegal, paul said it was not an issue for the president or the federal government 'we don't need a federal abortion police, that's the last thing we need,' paul said he added that the issue should be left to the states and courts and not federal authorities on the issues of taxes, thompson said he'd 'never met a tax he liked' 'i've got a tax cut bill on the table but i don't do pledges to anybody but the american people,' he said his response was met by a 'go, fred, go!' from a member of the audience on the issue of trade with china, rep duncan hunter said china is 'cheating on trade and it's in the interest of the united states to stop china's cheating buy american this christmas seasonthat might keep your neighbor from losing his job' the candidates fielded video questions submitted by the public via the youtube web site, just as democratic white house candidates did in july the debate was the first time the gop candidates had faced off on the same stage in over a month cnn's political team viewed nearly 5,000 videos for the gop debateabout 2,000 more than they saw for the democrats' debate e mail to a friend

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baghdad, iraq (cnn)none of the 1,000 plus iraqi detainees freed in recent weeks have broken a pledge not to return to the insurgency, according to the marine general who oversees the us detention centers in iraq a us military panel reviews a detainee's case at camp cropper near baghdad speaking in arabic, maj gen doug stone on wednesday reassured iraqis about how the 25,000 detaineesmostly sunnisare treated after being taken into custody on suspicion of involvement in the insurgency stone described the detention system as 'open and transparent,' saying it makes the detainees better citizens and helps break the cycle of violence and poverty in the country stone said detainees get free medical care equal to what he gets as a general, food and water made to islamic standards, educational opportunities, jobs skills and contact with families the us detention centersat camp bucca near the southern port city of basra and in camp cropper near baghdadare political sore points for sunnis, who make up 83 percent of the detainees held the main sunni political coalitionthe iraqi accord frontcited the centers as one reason for quitting the government during the summer last month, the us led coalition launched operation lion's paw in which between 50 and 70 detainees would be released daily during the islamic holy month of ramadan after taking a pledge not to rejoin the insurgency against the shiite led government 'this pledge is an iraqi pledge, a pledge before an iraqi judge, frequently with a family member present,' stone said 'i am pleased to tell you that in the more 1,000 that have gone through this program and taken the pledge, not one has returned to threaten iraqi or coalition forces' stone said the releases would continue at the same pace beyond ramadan stone's description seems a far cry from the abu ghraib prison operated by the us military in the first years after the invasion that prison was closed down and razed in the wake of an international scandal over prisoner abuse 'there are no secrets that go on in detention,' stone said 'our facilities are open to inspection by any agency that we in the federal government believe is credible these agencies are welcomed because they are windows for the world' see what life's like inside camp cropper's walls » by the time of their release, 'detainees grow in terms of working in an inter sectarian environment,' he said each detainee has a chance to take classes up to a sixth grade level, and high school classes are being planned, stone said about one thirdor 8,000are in school, with 7,000 having passed the fifth grade level, he said the 860 detainees who are 17 or younger are all in school, stone said the average stay for a detainee is 300 days, but some have been detained for two years or longer, he said a review board interviews detainees to decide if they are a threat to security, he said if they are deemed not to be, they are offered freedom in exchange for taking the pledge only 280 detainees are foreigners, mostly from syria, egypt, iran, sudan and saudi arabia, he said other developments

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(cnn)the tennessee supreme court on wednesday refused to modify or overturn a lower court's ruling allowing mary winkler, convicted of killing her minister husband, visitation rights with the couple's three daughters holding baby brianna, mary winkler stands next to matthew in the foreground are mary alice and patricia charles and diane winkler, parents of slain minister matthew winkler, had asked the court to intervene and either revoke mary winkler's visitation rights or allow them to proceed only under supervision of a counselor the childrenpatricia, mary alice and briannahave been living with their grandparents since their mother was arrested last year winkler has not seen the children in 15 months, said kay farese turner, her attorney she said her client was 'absolutely elated about the news and believes this will be her best christmas ever' turner said she believes the visit may come before christmas a jury convicted winkler earlier this year of voluntary manslaughter in the shotgun death of matthew winklernot the first degree murder conviction prosecutors had wanted she said the slaying came after years of abuse, including physical violence and being forced to dress 'slutty' for undesirable sex acts winkler received a three year sentence, but a judge required her to serve only 210 days, gave her credit for the five months she had already served and allowed her to serve the remaining 60 days in a mental health facility she was released in august at the time of their father's death in march 2006, patricia was 8, mary alice was 6 and brianna was 1 charles and diane winkler have moved to terminate mary winkler's rights and have filed a $2 million wrongful death suit against her for their son's slaying the termination issue has not been decided in court turner said the court may want to determine what, if any, bond winkler has with her children before making a decision attempts by cnn to contact attorneys for the winklers were not immediately successful wednesday in september, a lower court granted winkler visitation with her daughters pending the outcome of the custody battle the court specified the visits be supervised by a guardian ad litem appointed to represent the children's interests and supervised by members of the couple winkler is living with or by her sister a subsequent appeal by the grandparents was denied, leading to their supreme court appeal the winklers said if their former daughter in law got visitation with the children at all, it should be under the supervision of a professional counselor at a september hearing, according to court documents, they said the children 'exhibit fear and confusion' toward their mother 'and her role in their father's death' one expert, in testimony, quoted patricia as saying her mother had killed her father and, 'i don't know if she will kill me i want to ask her if she would do that to me it scares me, kind of; if she did, well, i guess i would see my father' the winklers also said that after telephone calls with their mother, the children experienced 'urination accidents, sleeping problems, graphic nightmares and sleepwalking' they said the lower court erred by failing to appoint the guardian ad litem until after the september hearing turner, however, said she believes terminating winkler's parental rights would not be in the children's best interest 'she has a faith rarely seen, and she loves those children,' turner said after matthew winkler's death, winkler fled with the girls to the alabama coast, where she was arrested she said during a september appearance on the 'oprah winfrey show' that she never expected to get away with killing her husband, but that she fled to be with her daughters and 'have some good times' e mail to a friend cnn's rusty dornin contributed to this report

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mary winkler convicted earlier this year of shooting her husband to death winkler served time and was released; the couple had three children the children live with their grandparents, who oppose visitation winkler has not seen her children in 15 months

lahore, pakistan (cnn)two pakistani television networks that transmit from dubai in united arab emirates were ordered off the air friday at the request of pakistani president pervez musharraf, officials from the networks said pakistan's president, gen pervez musharraf, has been under pressure to lift a state of emergency geo tv and ary digital offer a variety of programming, including news, entertainment, sports and music both networks had been banned from pakistan's cable television systemalong with other networks, including cnn and bbcsince musharraf declared a state of emergency on november 3 this latest action prevents the two pakistani networks from broadcasting worldwide via satellite 'this was basically our window to the world, geo president imran aslan said 'in pakistan, we've been shut down since the 3rd' the action was not wholly unexpected, but surprising nevertheless, aslan said 'we uplink from dubai, never having had a license to uplink from pakistan,' he said 'dubai is a media city which seemed to be a haven and a sanctuary' aslan said network officials have been in discussions with pakistani government officials and 'it seemed very obvious that they were going to do this we were ready for it to a certain extent' 'eventually they decided to put their feet on the pipe, as it were' the government has made numerous demands of the network, although none of them official, aslan said 'it's done through intermediaries,' he said '[dulling] down the content, not having certain anchors, some of the hosts of our programs and talk shows' musharraf's emergency order put several restrictions on the media, preventing journalists from expressing opinions prejudicial to 'the ideology or integrity of pakistan' journalists are also restricted from covering suicide bombings and militant activity and could face three year jail terms if they 'ridicule' members of the government or armed forces almost a dozen journalists have been arrested musharraf has denied that his restrictions bar criticism, saying they only ask for responsibility in reporting but last week, pakistan expelled three print journalists for using language in an editorial that a pakistani official called offensive to musharraf the editorial criticized musharraf and the united states and britain for continuing to support him while many pakistani journalists have protested the restrictions, some smaller television channels have complied with the government's restrictions geo and ary have refused 'it seems most of the other channels have kowtowed in order to survive,' aslan said musharraf has said the emergency order improves stability and will foster peaceful parliamentary elections, which he has said he would like to see take place before january 9 the exact date will be set by pakistan's election commission opposition leaders have accused musharraf of declaring emergency rule to keep his hold on power and avoid an expected court ruling that would have nullified his election victory in october e mail to a friend

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new: geo tv president: 'it seemed very obvious that they were going to do this' order comes on the request of pakistani president pervez musharraf geo tv and ary digital offer varied programming, including news both networks transmit from the united arab emirates

jacksonville, florida (cnn) four people were killed and several injured after an explosion wednesday at a chemical plant sent a thick plume of smoke over a section of jacksonville, authorities said a thick plume of smoke rises wednesday at a chemical plant in jacksonville, florida 'literally, it's a hellish inferno there is no other way to describe it,' said fire department spokesman tom francis fourteen people were hospitalized after the blast at the t2 lab on faye road, in an industrial area on the waterfront in north jacksonville, francis said officials initially ordered an evacuation of nearby businesses, but by 4 pm the order had been lifted after tests of the air found no toxicity, francis said firefighters were still battling hot spots, and the effort will be going on for 'quite some time,' he said see an i report account about the blast » six of those injured were transported to shands hospital in jacksonville, hospital spokeswoman kelly brockmeier said a shands official said the hospital incident command system had been activatedsomething done to put the staff in high alert in anticipation of trauma patients a woman who answered the t2 lab's 24 hour facility emergency phone said the plant manufactures ecotane, a gasoline additive that reduces tailpipe emissions, according to the laboratory's web site see a map of the site of the explosion » the billowing black smoke could be seen from the city's downtown, said florida times union reporter bridget murphy murphy said she talked to several workers as they walked out of the area, and they were 'shaken to the core' 'they described a hissing noise and then a sound wave,' she said antonio padrigan was trying to get in touch with his son, who works in a plant in the area, but was having no luck reaching him on his cell phone 'he was shook up when he called me, but i can't get through to him anymore,' padrigan said 'i don't know if he's in the hospital or what' cnn i reporters jonathan payne and his son calvin, 16, shot pictures of the explosion they felt the blast shake their home, about 15 minutes away, and went to see what was going on carlton higginbotham, 63, was working at home on townsend boulevard in jacksonville when a loud boom shook his house, he said 'it was a gunshot type explosion; it wasn't a rumble,' he said higginbotham, an insurance salesman, and his neighbor ran outside and noticed thick smoke billowing from the other side of the st johns river, which separates his neighborhood from the site of the blast 'the cloud that came out of it was white, some would say mushroom shaped,' higginbotham said 'it was followed by dark, dark smoke' e mail to a friend

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new: fire department spokesman: 14 have been taken to area hospitals firefighters still fighting hot spots wednesday afternoon, official says 'it's a hellish inferno,' he tells reporters

(cnn)nasser al ansari is the ceo of qatari diar, a state owned real estate investment company famous for its purchase of london's chelsea barracks, qatari diar was established in 2004 by the qatar investment authority, to support qatar's growing economy and to co ordinate the country's real estate development priorities it is now valued at $1 billion with 18 projects underway al ansari is a graduate from the university of miami and was responsible for high profile projects such as new doha international airport and the promotion of private sector investment through public sector privatization before being appointed as ceo of qatari diar, al ansari was at the office of the first deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs as technical advisor he joins us on mme to talk about the vision for qatar, how qatari diar fits into it and its investments outside gulf in morocco, sudan, syria, egypt and europe with oil prices hitting $88 this week, john defterios begins by asking nasser al ansari about the differences he sees now compared to the 1970s when oil prices were also high any lessons learned? nasser al ansari: i believe so in the 1970s, local government here did not deal in a very sophisticated way with this wealth but now we are fortunate with a high level of education and the reformations in government policies in this region we now understand how to utilize this wealth and economical growth jd: i don't think most people know that you sit on one of the largest natural gas fields in the world and will likely be the largest exporter by 2010 this must give you great cushion to expand the qatari diar model na: although we have this and we are fortunate with this, qatar has adopted a policy to diversify its portfolio from its natural resources to other investment opportunities and one of them is qatari diar we are investing a lot in real estate, not just in qatar but worldwide jd: in fact very close in the neighborhood as well it's almost foreign policy strategy to invest in the poorer countries in the region is this to help the neighborhood develop alongside qatar? na: i think with the knowledge and know how that we have gained in this area of expertise, we would like to export it to other countries to help their economical reformations; to try to create business opportunities for their local businessmen and to create job opportunities for the people in that particular country jd: it's quite a radical departure say from the international monetary fund or world bank giving loans or grants for development this is turning the world upside down in your region, it is not? na: yes, i would like to assure you at qatari diar we are not in the business of lending jd: you want a hard return na: we want return but we always think of the people when we are investing in these countries i mean we want to make sure that the investment we are making is there for the long term qatari diar has a policy: it's a long term policy not short term jd: give me some insight on why qatari diar feels as comfortable in london with chelsea barracks as in cuba, for example, with some of the projects you're undertaking what makes you think you can pull that off? na: i think with the expertise that we have and with the strength that we have, we would like to showcase the strength of the people of qatar and we want to pull the flag of the state of qatar even across the atlantic and we are determined to do so we are a small country but with big ideas e mail to a friend

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nasser al ansari is ceo of qatari diar, qatar's state owned investment group its global projects are part of nation's attempt to diversify investment portfolio investment also aims to bring expertise and jobs to neighboring countries