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(cnn)bayern munich recorded a comfortable 2 0 win against borussia monchengladbach at borussia park on friday as the bundesliga resumed after its annual winter break after being soundly beaten 3 0 by red bull salzburg in a friendly match last weekend, pep guardiola had called for his side put the passion back in their play, and they duly delivered against the league's third place side any nerves traveling bayern fans were feeling were quickly eased as mario gotze scored in the seventh minute, hitting a low first time shot home from thomas muller's cut back despite dominating possession for the rest of the half, bayern failed to find another opening but they soon had their noses further in front after the break granit xhaka's blatant handball in the 52nd minute earned the visitors a spot kick with thomas muller stepping up to send marc andre ter stegen the wrong way and double their advantage gladbach immediately set about trying to repair the damage patrick herrmann hit the post with an effort in the 63rd minute before being played in by raffael two minutes later only scuff his shot but it was bayern who continued to dominate proceedings hogging two thirds of possession for the majority of the match in the final ten minutes, guardiola brought on arjen robben who returned to action following a six week layoff after gashing his knee in december the win takes bayern to 47 points, ten points clear of second place leverkusen sami hyypia's side travel to freiburg on saturday while fourth place borussia dortmund will leapfrog monchengladbach if they beat augsburg at the westfalenstadion

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washington (cnn)a day after new jersey banned executions, newly released figures show that capital punishment dropped this year to a 13 year low the supreme court will hold oral arguments january 7 about the constitutionality of lethal injection protocols forty two people have been put to death this year, according to the death penalty information center (dpic), a washington based group that opposes the practice that figure is down 57 percent from what it was in 1999, when 98 inmates were executed next year's figures are expected to drop further the supreme court is to hold oral arguments january 7 about whether lethal injection protocols in 36 of the 37 states with the death penalty are constitutional see how the rates have dropped » the justices placed a moratorium on executions in late september, when they decided to review a kentucky case about whether the three drug lethal 'cocktail' of chemicals represents 'cruel and unusual punishment,' since it may cause excruciating pain to inmates unable to express discomfort stays of executions have been issued in several states until the larger constitutional issues are addressed if the high court finds the procedures unconstitutional, it could take years before death penalty states would meet legal standards necessary to resume lethal injection and even if the method is declared acceptable, it would be months before new execution dates could be set ten states carried out executions this year outside the south, arizona, south dakota, indiana, and ohio together subjected six men to lethal injection learn about states' death penalty policies and statistics » texas continues to lead the nation, with 62 percent of executions nationwide this year overall, 86 percent this year were in the south no more executions are scheduled this year 'the death penalty has been in a period of decline for many years,' said richard dieter, executive director of dpic 'two thousand seven will be known as the year executions came to a temporary halt and as the year of concrete legislation reconsidering the death penalty' death penalty supporters acknowledge that states outside the south have been reluctant to impose the punishment, even in the face of rising big city crime rates 'i think the main problem is that the death penalty is not being imposed often enough in those urban jurisdictions,' said kent scheidegger of the sacramento based criminal justice legal foundation 'i think people of the cities are not getting the quality of justice that people elsewhere receive i think we need to build support for the death penalty and need to impose it more regularly where it is warranted' new jersey's legislature voted last week to outlaw the death penaltythe first state to do so in 42 yearsand gov jon corzine signed the measure into law monday at the same time, he commuted the sentences of the eight men on the state's death row the move was largely symbolic, since no executions have occurred there since 1963 similar bills in nebraska, new mexico and montana failed this year in the legislature state lawmakers in maryland, colorado, north carolina, tennessee and california are also considering abolishing the death penalty, but no bills have been introduced the supreme court on january 4 will decide whether to review an appeal from louisiana inmate patrick kennedy, sentenced to death in 2003 for raping his 8 year old stepdaughter the state's high court upheld the punishment as appropriate the justices in 1976 banned capital punishment for rape, but 19 years later, louisiana passed a law allowing execution for the sexual violation of a child under 12 state lawmakers distinguished the earlier high court case as pertaining only to 'adult women' e mail to a friend

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moscow, russiazenit saint petersburg have clinched their first russian title in the post soviet union era with a hard fought 1 0 victory at ramenskoye on sunday zenit captain anatoly timoshuk kisses the russian premier league trophy after their victory at ramenskoye the win means zenit finish top of the table with 61 points, two points ahead of second placed spartak moscow, who beat city rivals dynamo 2 1 cksa moscow finished third on 53 points zenit went ahead in the 15th minute when radek sirl's shot from the edge of the box deflected off a ramenskoye defender and beat goalkeeper antonin kinski after the interval, the hosts poured forward seeking an equalizer and created several chancesbut zenit held firm to secure their first championship since 1984 and make a hero out of dutch coach dick advocaat nine times champions spartak took the lead midway through the first half russian international striker roman pavyuchenko netted the opening goal in the 24th minute with a powerful shot from the edge of the six yard box after a mix up in the dynamo defence brazilian striker soares welliton made it 2 0 seven minutes after halftime, heading home pavlyuchenko's precise cross dynamo reduced the arrears in the 71st minute, when spartak midfielder radoslav kovac scored an own goal meanwhile, rostov and krasnodar were relegated fronm the premier league e mail to a friend

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zenit saint petersburg clinch the russian premier league title on sunday they secure the title ahead of spartak moscow after a 1 0 win at ramenskoye the title success is zenit's first since 1984 and the first in the post soviet era

glasgow, scotlandscottish premier league leaders celtic suffered another setback in their bid for a third successive title after being held 1 1 by managerless hibernian on saturday david murphy's goals have earned hibernian four points against the auld firm this season gordon strachan's team head the table by three points from glasgow rivals rangers, who have three games in hand ahead of sunday's trip to aberdeen visiting hibernian, whose manager john collins surprisingly resigned on thursday citing a lack of financial backing from the edinburgh side's board, took the lead in the 20th minute through left back david murphy the englishman played a one two with abdessalam benjelloun before crashing a shot from the edge of the box past goalkeeper mark brown and in off the crossbar murphy's only other goal this season came in hibs' 1 0 win at rangers on october 6 brown did well to keep out merouane zemmama's audacious shot from just inside the celtic half soon after, and also tipped over brian kerr's looping header three minutes after half time substitute jiri jarosik rescued celtic from a first home spl defeat this season in the 78th minute after being teed up by jan vennegoor of hesselink, who then headed against the post with two minutes to play hibernian held on despite having to play the final few minutes with 10 men, after benjelloun was stretchered off with their three substitutes already used the victory lifted the visitors up into fifth place, while celtic have taken just six points from the last five games strachan, who confirmed he is hoping to sign brazilian defender coelho next month, said: 'we need to cut out the silly mistakes because if you look at some of the goals we have let in away from home this season, they are silly mistakes 'we could have definitely done something with every one of them i'm happy with the number of chance we've made in the last few weeks, but unhappy with individual mistakes 'it's not been great to look at, and we need to cut it out we have honest lads walking in to the dressing room and saying, 'that was my fault' 'i said to them, 'it's very commendable lads but we can't keep doing this' there has been a lot going right for us, but one or two things going wrong we have to deal with that, and then i will look forward to the rest of the season' third placed motherwell missed the chance to move above rangers after being beaten 3 0 at home by falkirk, who climbed to ninth with two goals in the second half to michael higdon and then another from patrick clegg on 65 minutes fourth placed dundee united failed to take advantage, losing 2 1 at home to bottom club gretnawhose only two wins this season have come against the tangerines kenny deuchar put the visitors ahead in the 12th minute before striker noel hunt leveled on 29, and nicky deverdics scored the eventual winner for the borders outfit three minutes before half time inverness caledonian thistle followed up last weekend's shock 3 2 victory against celtic by also winning at hearts by the same scoreline the visitors led through russell duncan after 22 minutes and john rankin made it 2 0 with a 53rd minute penalty before christophe berra pulled one back on 62 and lithuanian striker andrius velicka leveled from the spot (90) however, graham bayne scored a dramatic injury time winner to lift caley into the top six in saturday's other game, second bottom st mirren drew 0 0 at home to fellow strugglers kilmarnock to be left seven points ahead of gretna e mail to a friend

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scottish league leaders celtic held 1 1 at home by managerless hibernian celtic now lead by three points, having taken just six from last five games second placed rangers have three games in hand ahead of trip to aberdeen

dallas, texas (cnn)if you turn to the bibleisaiah chapter 35, verse 8you will see a passage that in part says, 'a highway shall be there, and a road, and it shall be called the highway of holiness' churchgoers in six states have held prayer sessions along the side of interstate 35 now, is it possible that this 'highway' mentioned in chapter 35 is actually interstate 35 that runs through six us states, from southern texas to northern minnesota? some christians have faith that is indeed the case it was with that interesting belief in mind that we decided to head to texas, the southernmost state in the i 35 corridor, to do a story about a prayer campaign called 'light the highway' churchgoers in all six states recently finished 35 days of praying alongside interstate 35, but the prayers are still continuing some of the faithful believe that in order to fulfill the prophecy of i 35 being the 'holy' highway, it needs some intensive prayer first so we watched as about 25 fervent and enthusiastic christians prayed on the the interstate's shoulder in dallas they chanted loudly and vibrantly, making many people in the neighborhood wonder what was going on they prayed that adult businesses along the corridor would 'see the light' and perhaps close down they prayed for safety and freedom from crime for people who lived along the interstate they prayed that all americans would accept jesus into their lives watch believers offer prayers » the woman who came up with the concept of 'light the highway' is a texas minister named cindy jacobs she says she can't be sure interstate 35 really is what is mentioned in the bible but says she received a revelation to start this campaign after 'once again reading isaiah, chapter 35' jacobs also points out that perhaps there is a link between the area near this highway and tragedies that have happened in history, such as the bridge collapse on i 35 in minneapolis last august and the assassination of jfk 44 years ago near i 35 in dallas that's why prayer certainly can't hurt, she adds now, it's only fair to say most people, the religious and the non religious alike, don't buy any of this, but none more than the owners of some of the adult businesses along i 35 at an adult go go club, the owner tells us he resents people trying to impose their will on others and he says his club holds fundraisers, food drives and toy drives to help the community but on the side of the road, the prayerful aren't going to change their minds holy highways and nude clubs, they believe, are not a combination god has in mind e mail to a friend

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some see connection between the bible and interstate 35 believers pray by the side of the highway, which runs through six states i 35 runs from southern texas to northern minnesota

caracas, venezuela (cnn) the price of sin rose monday in venezuela where president hugo chavez is on a campaign to make venezuelans cut back on drinking and smoking 'everyone's shocked,' said leonora marino, owner of bodegon marino in valencia, venezuela, west of caracas on monday evening, she was still changing the prices in her store as her customers looked on and complained, she told a reporter alcohol is now 10 percent more expensive; cigarettes are 20 percent pricier 'really, it's difficult to buy at these prices,' she said, then joked, 'they say they're going to stop eating so that they can continue drinking' the venezuelan government is placing a higher tax on alcohol and cigarettes in an effort to cut consumption and prevent what it views as the social, economic and moral consequences of drinking and smoking, said jose vielma mora, superintendent of seniat, the government body that oversees the collection of taxes taxes on whiskey, brandy, cognac and other drinks that don't come from cane sugar have been raised $179 (3,838 bolivares) per liter, the government run bolivarian news agency said 'it's unfair because, in the end, the consumer is the one who pays,' said fernando fernandez, a liquor exporter chavez has described whiskey as a drink for rich people, not for revolutionaries 'we cannot be spending the international reserves of this country on whiskey,' he said the moves represent the first steps toward transforming each venezuelan into what chavez calls 'the new man' chavez has cited the life of revolutionary socialist icon ernesto 'che' guevara as an example of how to lead a more pure life in april, chavez told a graduating class of medical students in caracas, venezuela, that the level of consumption of alcohol in the country represents a threat to public health and ought to make residents feel ashamed, according to an abn report 'the vice causes much harm, not only to individuals, but to the collective health of the nation,' said chavez, who said the dangers result in an increase in car wrecks and domestic violence for his part, he has said he drinks too much coffee also effective monday, stores near schools, churches and cultural centers will not be granted licenses to sell alcohol taxes on cigarette imports have also increased, from 50 percent to 70 percent of the total price on the street, some people said they don't understand the motivations for the increase, but predicted their consumption would not change 'the venezuelan is not going to stop drinking or smoking,' said one person chavez also plans to increase taxes on luxury items such as hummers, which are imported privately and at great expense there is no hummer dealership in the country higher oil prices in recent years have translated into higher consumption in petroleum rich venezuela last year, car sales increased by about 70 percent, according to the cia world factbook but chavez, who was in cuba on monday visiting communist leader fidel castro, said he wants to focus less on material goals for venezuela's 27 million people, 38 percent of whom live in poverty e mail to a friend cnn's flor santamaria contributed to this story

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venezuelan government hikes taxes on alcohol and cigarettes monday ten percent price increase on alcohol and 20 percent increase on cigarettes stores near schools, churches and cultural centers cannot sell alcohol chavez plans to increase taxes on luxury goods, including hummers

new york (cnn) obesity is the no 1 health crisis in the united states, and the nation could be at risk without immediate action, former president clinton said at cnn's first fit nation summit cnn's dr sanjay gupta and former president clinton lead the discussion at the first fit nation summit 'we need to do something about it for our children, and for our country, because something like this could easily collapse our nation if we don't act now,' clinton said clinton and cnn's chief medical correspondent, dr sanjay gupta, gathered with experts from across the country wednesday to explore solutions to america's obesity crisis two thirds of adult americans are overweight or obese; the same is true for one third of us children, according to the centers for disease control and prevention obesity carries increased risk of myriad health problems, including hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and arthritis gupta, clinton and a panel of experts addressed such proposed solutions as healthy school lunches, elimination of trans fats, the need for healthier food in urban communities and the importance of supporting community based efforts to fight obesity watch gupta explain the solutions proposed at the fit nation summit » clinton, who's been tackling the obesity issue over the past few years with his alliance for a healthier generation, stressed the need to help educate people about the importance of a healthy diet and exercising together motivating americans, especially kids, won't be easy, clinton said 'they need to be handled with care kids need to know it's important, but [fitness] can't be boring,' he said 'there's no shame, there's no embarrassment we have to let them know it's all good, but you have to do it' michael jacobson, director of the center for science in the public interest and a strong advocate against trans fats in foods, stressed that the food and drug administration should ban trans fats altogether and stop leaving it up to local and state governments trans fats, at one time, thought to be good fat substitutes, over the years have been shown to raise ldl or bad cholesterol in people and lower their hdl, or good cholesterol 'they're just not good for our health, jacobson said however, dr robert eckel, former president of the american heart association, warned, 'although we support the removal of trans fats, our biggest concern is what they'll be replaced with we need to think about that, because there will be a substitute' the panel took questions from an audience of 150 peoplemostly obesity experts or those who work in industries that deal with obesity gupta was inspired to launch fit nation, an ongoing, multiplatform, grass roots initiative against obesity over the past three years, gupta and the cnn medical unit have crisscrossed the country, asking americans to take charge of their weight by exercising more and eating healthier this year, gupta traveled from michigan to california asking the public to pledge to add 1 million hours to their collective lives by getting off the couch and exercising since he began the tour in april, the campaign has surpassed its goal, with exercise pledges close to four times that amount gupta said he hopes that legislators and administrators who can make a difference in policy and perhaps change attitudes about obesity will hear the solutions discussed at the summit 'i''ve covered a lot of stories on obesity,' gupta said 'there's a battle going on, and we need to win the battle i've talked to people out there and many are just blasé 'this is our opportunity to make them care' e mail to a friend

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experts gather at cnn's first fit nation summit to propose obesity solutions former president clinton: without obesity solution, nation risks 'collapse' motivating youngsters, removing shame, embarrassment called key experts: removing trans fats, finding healthy replacements also critical

singapore (cnn)as part of a 'rebalancing' with asia, the united states will enhance military to military cooperation with china while also boosting the capabilities of its allies in the region, us defense secretary leon panetta said saturday panetta detailed the new defense strategy to a gathering of asia's military leaders, saying the majority of us warships would move to asia 'by 2020 the navy will reposture its forces from today's roughly 50 50 split from the pacific and atlantic to a 60 40 split in those oceans,' panetta said 'we will also investinvest in cyber, invest in space, invest in unmanned systems, invest in special forces operations,' he said 'we will invest in the newest technologies and we will invest in new technology to mobilize quickly, if necessary,' panetta said along with enhanced military cooperation, panetta emphasized diplomacy and a 'rules based order' that includes 'open and free commerce, and open access by all to their shared domains of sea and air'a current point of friction in the south china sea between china and regional nations panetta called for disputes to be resolved without coercion or the use of force north korea proclaims itself a nuclear state in new constitution the defense secretary was kicking off his eight day trip to asia, geared toward explaining the us strategy the so called us 'tilt' to asia includes beefing up the strength of its regional allies such as the philippines and vietnam 'we will play an essential role in promoting strong partnerships that strengthen the capabilities of the pacific nations to defend and secure themselves,' panetta said asked if helping the militaries of regional allies would raise the potential for conflict, panetta said, 'i don't think we should take the attitude that just because we improve their capabilities that we are asking for more trouble' panetta said the united states should 'do everything we can' to help those countries defend themselves, but at the same time, the us would 'encourage them to abide by an international set of rules and standards and order' why the chinese are flocking to us colleges the increased regional involvement by the united states has raised concerns about tensions with china and suggestions it represents a threat to china 'i reject that view entirely,' panetta said, calling the us shift 'fully compatible with the development and growth of china indeed, increased us involvement in this region will benefit china' panetta said the united states will work to improve communication with china with an aim to 'build trust' between the two nations looming over the discussions in singapore is the conflict between china and various regional nationssuch as the philippines, vietnam, brunei, malaysia and taiwanover the south china sea chen guangcheng discusses his next moves the south china sea, nicknamed 'the second persian gulf' because of its potential for massive oil and gas reserves, is also a key passageway for the world's oil and is home to enormously valuable fisheries a crisis in the area has the potential for major economic damage to the united states as well as one of the busiest sea lanes in the world, disputes in the south china sea could have a major impact on shipping by forcing costly rerouting according to estimates by the center for strategic and international studies, $53 trillion of trade passes each year through the south china sea; us trade accounts for $12 trillion former japanese leader: 'i felt fear' during nuclear crisis there have been several disputes recently, with concern that such incidents could spark military action speaking to the gathering by the international institute of strategic studies (asia), which included defense ministers and top military officials from 27 countries, panetta said the us supports the association of southeast asian nations' (asean's) development of a binding code of conduct for the south china sea area on the other side of the us asia strategy is an emphasis on building the us china relationship 'the key here is to try to strengthen mil to mil so that we can have greater transparencies and to take steps to confront mutual challenges,' panetta said he said the united states was 'clear eyed' about its relationship with china 'we're not naive about the relationship, and neither is china but we also both understand that there really is no other alternative but for both of us to engage' 'we have also agreed on the need to address responsible behavior in cyberspace and in outer space,' panetta added panetta said he plans to visit china sometime this summer the us decision to play a larger role in asia comes against the backdrop of rising military spending in that region while the us trims its own military in the face of massive deficits defense spending in asia has been projected to surpass europe's this year 'there is no doubt that it will continue to increase in the future,' panetta said to offset us budget realities, the united states will 'sharpen the technological edge of our forces,' panetta said he said the us military 'will be smaller, and it will be leaner, but it will be agile and flexible and quickly deployable and will employ cutting edge technology in the future' panetta detailed how the united states will spend its money with 'investments' in rapid deployment technology and in capabilities that will help the us deal with the realities of long distances in the pacific such as 'new aerial refueling tankers, a new bomber, an advanced maritime patrol and anti submarine warfare aircraft' under required budget cuts by congress, the department of defense must reduce the planned budget by nearly half a trillion dollars over the next decade despite financial constraints, panetta said, there is a 'detailed blueprint' for meeting regional goals and its fiscal responsibilities 'make no mistakein a steady, deliberate and sustainable way, the united states military is rebalancing and is bringing an enhanced capability to this vital region,' he said also present at the conference, us republican sen john mccain said us budget cuts will affect the outlined asia strategy 'at some point, and i think we are at that point, we will not be able to carry out the commitments,' mccain told reporters he said money for additional ships could be found by spending less on the redeployment of us marines out of okinawa, japan, and by getting the 'cost, waste and mismanagement' of weapons systems in the pentagon under control

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(cnn)get ready to hear a lot more from j cole the rapper, born jermaine cole, has been making waves latelyfrom rumors of an alleged sex tape with touring buddy rihanna that the singer has dismissed as nonsense to a guest verse on the video for beyonce's latest single, 'party' not too shabby for a guy who only a few years ago was graduating magna cum laude from st john's university in new york the up and coming artistwho was one of the first signed to jay z's roc nation labelrecently spoke with cnn about his album, 'cole world: the sideline story,' why he needs to watch his jump shot, and who he rocks on his playlist cnn: you've done a bunch of mixtapes and had a few false starts before 'cole world' finally was released how does it feel now that it's out, and the debut was so big? j cole: it's probably one of the best feelings i've had in a long time it's relief i've been carrying this since 2007, since right around when i was about to graduate college in school, everything was a blur: fun, then partying, then homework, then rinse and repeat then graduation hit me, and i was like, 'oh, snap' from that time in 2007, until right now, my life has been full of stress like you can't believe one moment after another of: 'i gotta get this record deal oh, jay z likes me, how do i get him to sign? he signed me! oh s**t, now i gotta put out an album i finished the albumnow i gotta drop a single!' the past three years have been filled with that stress for me, like i've been under a constant heavy weight, a heavy burden i don't jump out of bed every day and scream 'yeah!' but the relief is a great feeling i feel free, for the first time in a long time cnn: what's been your favorite night of the tour so far? cole: this has definitely been one of the best shows i've done so far, just in terms of my performance and the crowd, the energy i've had so many good shows on this tour so far like, legendary feeling shows, so many sold out dates toronto, vancouver, tampa, denver, la, phoenixso many of these places were showing me so much love being on tour after dropping the album and doing all these crazy shows has probably been one of the best periods in my life cnn: that brace on your foothow did that happen? was it a tour injury? cole: in orlando, the night before a show, i just wanted to play basketball i went to some 24 hour fitness center and got together some people for four on four i pulled out for a jump shot, but some dude stepped in front of me and jammed on my ankle the recovery time has been incredible though i don't even really need the brace anymore it's just for safety cnn: one thing that's been big on your mixtapes and 'cole world' is how you favor electronic, almost video game like beats and melodies where does that come from? cole: i don't know what it is it's not really a conscious thing, like i'm thinking my raps should sound like i'm in a video game i just really love that sound but yeah, if you listen to, say, 'lost ones,' you can definitely hear a video game synth type of sound i really dig that kind of production cnn: what's on your playlist when you're traveling from city to city? cole: now that i've got more free time, i'm getting my itunes right, getting some playlists together i'm all over the place one day, i'll be listening to a bunch of ray charles, the next day it's nothing but red hot chili peppers the next day it might be tupac all day tlc, eric clapton, it's all in there lately, i'll play what i'm working on before the show like, i'm working on a beat, and then i'll pause it before the show so that when i come back to the bus and hit play i can get right back into that energy cnn: how does it feel to be headlining your own tour now after opening for jay z and rihanna's tours? cole: there was a lot less pressure on me as an opener obviously in that situation, it's almost like you're there to steal fans from the headliner, steal a little bit of the spotlight and make them your fans, too when you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically it's a different kind of pressure, because you've got to deliver you've got to give these people what they paid for it's a different mind state, a different type of mentality, but it's honestly a pretty good problem to have, you know?

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rapper j cole among the first signed to jay z's label, roc nation the artist can most recently be seen rapping in the video for beyonce's 'party' j cole is headlining his own tour

(cnn)when he co founded harborside health center, the world's largest medicinal cannabis dispensary, located in oakland, california, five years ago, steve deangelo's goal was to provide a safe, comfortable, organized alternative to what he saw as a broken system in the state, professional thugs on one side, irresponsible stoners on the other 'both options were bad,' deangelo said 'on one hand, it was just amateurish on the other hand, it was still scary i wanted to put together a dispensary that would bring together the twin ideals of my life, which are a commitment to activism and a commitment to professionalism' the roots of activism began early with deangelo, who was a seventh grader in washington when he organized a vietnam war protest in the form of a gymnasium takeover by 16, he was out of school completely ('i was more equipped to educate myself than the teachers in high school were to teach me,' deangelo said), and working as a street activist over the years, he would busy himself as a record producer and talent booker in the music industry, graduate summa cum laude from the university of maryland and found a company called ecolution, which sold hemp clothing and accessories all over the united states and in 21 countries overseas deangelo said he was approached by half a dozen or more reality television producers after opening harborside, but citing their needs to 'create dramatic conflict and something sensational,' he refused to sign with any of them but when braverman productions approached, he sensed a shared understanding, and discovery channel's 'weed wars' was born deangelo spoke with cnn about his upbringing, what his show has accomplished and what he wants from this year's presidential election cnn: were you really born at 4:20 pm? steve deangelo: i was really born at 4:20 pm it's funny, i hadn't even known that until a couple years ago when one of my staff was reorganizing my files and happened to come across my birth certificate sure enough, it was 4:20 pm cnn: do you remember your first time smoking marijuana? deangelo: yes, i remember it vividly for sure i went to a friend's house after school, and i was ready for cannabis i had heard about it and i had read about it from the very beginning of my cannabis use, i was quite well educated i probably read two or three books about cannabis before i even consumed any my first experience was really revelatory for me i had a little smoke at my friend's house, and then walked home through a beautiful park that had this long creek for the first time in my life, i really became aware of myself as a creature of nature that was related to other creatures of nature i remember to this day how the sunlight was rippling down through the gaps and the leaves of the trees cnn: why did you drop out of high school at 16? deangelo: it was mainly politics i had been getting into issues at school because i was politically active i didn't feel that the school system was really educating me or preparing me to do the things i wanted to do in life then i felt that the educational system offered me a very narrow slice of knowledge and required a great degree of conformity i felt like i was being trained to become an obedient corporate drone, which was never something i wanted in my life i dropped out of high school on my 16th birthday when i was 17 and a half years old, i took the ged and passed it with flying colors so i actually had my high school diploma prior to my compatriots that remained in high school cnn: when were you approached by discovery channel about harborside? deangelo: about 13 months ago what happened was, as the debate over prop 19 heated up, there was a lot of media interest in the issue of cannabis we were approached by a series of producers of reality tv shows, about a half a dozen, maybe more each one wanted us to be featured in a reality tv show, but i could tell they all had the agenda of a reality show, and i was concerned that we would not be portrayed as we really are, but in some sensationalistic kind of way and then braverman productions came along, and i could tell from the first meeting with them that they had a different kind of intention, that they really did want to show us as we were, as we are i checked out their past work that they had done, i interviewed some of the people that they had worked with, i spent a lot of time with them personally just to get to know them when i became convinced that they were really truly committed to showing us and showing medical cannabis as it is, i decided i was comfortable doing the show with them cnn: do you feel like you've affected the cannabis law and public opinion with the show? deangelo: absolutely i know we've had a tremendously positive impact we've received hundreds of letters from people all over the country and were deeply moved by the show so many people wanted a second season, they crashed the facebook page of the discovery channel i got letters from a retired cop in ohio who talked about how if it was 28 years earlier he would have arrested us, but now after seeing the show had his eyes opened and was thinking about checking it out and becoming a patient himself we had a baptist minister from florida call up my publicist and have my publicist on the phone praying for me and my brother because he was so moved by the show cnn: you present your words carefully: 'cannabis' instead of 'marijuana,' 'wellness' instead of 'recreation' why is that? deangelo: first of all, as to cannabis versus marijuana, marijuana was a term that was popularized by prohibitionists, specifically william randolph hearst, who had a huge media campaign in the 1930s, an ultimately successful campaign, to make cannabis illegal and in that campaign, he wanted to identify cannabis with the other, the foreign, the mexican so there were all sorts of horror stories about mexican immigrants and african americans going crazy after they ingested the 'demon weed, marijuana,' which sounded very foreign to american ears, very exotic so i think that as we move to a place where we're leaving reefer madness behind and really taking a second, more scientific look at cannabis, it's appropriate to use the scientific terminology for the plant as for recreation, i don't believe that very many people really, truly use cannabis for recreationor anybody, really what is recreation? recreation is not something you can smoke or something you can swallow or something you can rub on your skin it's not a commodity it's an experience cnn: who decided on the name of the show? deangelo: that was all a discovery decision as well we had actually urged it to be called 'cannabis confidential' but as it turned out, ('weed wars') was completely appropriate when they first suggested the name to me, i was like, 'what are you talking about? we never call it 'weed' and it's not about a war' when you look at the show, there's not warfare going on in the show except that, after filming was completed, we had the obama administration reverse their policy on medical cannabis and the us attorneys in california, in fact, go to war against us and episode two of 'weed wars' really spent a lot of time describing that struggle, so i think that, looking backwards, the choice of the show title was actually remarkably prescient cnn: you bring up politics and i imagine the upcoming election has you approaching your fight in different ways which candidate is most in line with your views? deangelo: i have not decided who i'm going to vote for for president, but there's two things that i know for sure: i'm not going to vote for somebody that thinks i'm a criminal and wants to put me in prison, and i will vote for the person who i'm convinced will defend medicinal cannabis patients those are my two main metrics i haven't decided who i'm going to vote for yet, but i think that the president has endangered millions of votes that he would have otherwise gotten by allowing the us attorneys to conduct this campaign against cannabis my preferred outcome would be that the president does the right thing, keeps his original promise to the medicinal cannabis community, and ends this federal attack on patients that would allow me to wholeheartedly support the president for re election that's what i hope happens cnn: what happens if you're presented with two candidates who don't meet your two characteristics? deangelo: i'll be looking at the third parties i will not vote for someone that wants to put me in prison

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steve deangelo stars in the discovery channel reality series 'weed wars' the show is about harborside health center, the world's largest medicinal cannabis dispensary deangelo says he and his show have had a positive effects on the views about cannabis

(ewcom)after last weekend's record breaking pre valentine's day frame, hollywood is feeling hopeful about box office prospects during the upcoming holiday weekend, which will include four days of box office receipts we're likely headed another frame of four $20+ million grossespossibly even five! three new movies are hitting theatersaction sequel 'ghost rider: spirit of vengeance,' romantic comedy 'this means war,' and animated import 'the secret world of arrietty'but 'the vow' won't relinquish the top spot so easily here are my predictions for the four day holiday weekend: 1 'the vow'$30 million last weekend's romantic victor has played well throughout the weekit broke midweek records with its $116 million valentine's day hauland according to fandango, 'the vow' is still this weekend's number one choice, accounting for 17 percent of thursday's ticket salesthe most of any film ('ghost rider' accounted for just 5 percent) it seems that the poorly reviewed film has become something of an event film for womenit may not be totally well received, but people want to see it because their friends have 'the vow' may fall by about 25 30 percent over the long weekend and take in another $30 million 2 'ghost rider: spirit of vengeance'$295 million not many people thought that the original 'ghost rider,' which hit theaters over this very weekend in 2007, would earn a sequel that film grossed just $1158 million against its $110 production budget (a figure that does not include marketing costs), but apparently, its $2287 million global haul was enough for sony to greenlight a second film nicolas cage is back as the flame headed comic book character for 'spirit of vengeance,' which cost somewhere in the mid $70 million range to produce the presence of 3 d ticket prices should add a few million dollars to 'spirit's' opening, but because of the tepid reactions to the original 'ghost rider,' which opened with $52 million in its first four days, it's unlikely that this one will fare better the film might ride away with a bit less than $30 million 3 'safe house'$27 million the denzel washington/ryan reynolds action flick should ride its 'a ' cinemascore grade to a successful second weekend direct competition from 'ghost rider' may result in a slightly inflated 35 percent drop over four days, which would give 'safe house' a terrific $27 million 4 'journey 2: the mysterious island'$26 million more than any other film, 'journey' will benefit from the holiday weekend the 3 d sequel remains the top choice for families, many of whom will be eager to keep their youngsters busy over the extended weekend a tiny 5 percent drop would give the $79 million adventure a robust $26 million, lifting its total to $59 million after ten days 5 'this means war'$17 million reese witherspoon's last romantic comedy, 'how do you know,' was a critical disaster that crashed and burned at the box office, taking in a measly $302 million against a $120 million budget thankfully, 'this means war,' which features 'star trek's' chris pine and 'inception's' tom hardy alongside witherspoon, will fare better granted, the film's breakout potential has been severely reduced by the complete box office dominance of 'the vow,' which will steal away female audiences, but on a busy weekend, 'war' could still find a decent crowdit drew about $17 million on valentine's day sneaks fox spent $65 million on the action comedy, which will play in 3,189 theaters this weekend, and it seems headed for about $17 million way further down the chart, hayao miyazaki's latest, 'the secret world of arrietty,' which is being distributed by disney, will follow in the footsteps of his most recent entry, 'ponyo,' which earned $15 million in 2009 playing in 1,522 theaters, it may take in $5 million this weekend 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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'the vow' broke midweek records with its $116 million valentine's day haul more than any other film, 'journey 2' will benefit from the holiday weekend on a busy weekend, 'this means war' could still find a decent crowd

(ewcom)shame, indeed despite being one of the biggest breakout stars of 2011, thanks to his mesmerizing performance as a sex addict in the harrowing drama 'shame,' michael fassbender was surprisingly not called among the nominees for this year's academy awards long considered a shoo in for a best actor nominee, fassbender was edged out by first time nominee gary oldman for 'tinker tailor soldier spy' and dark horse nominee demiã¡n bichir for 'a better life' (ew's dave karger hoped oscar voters would take notice, and it seems like they most certainly did) but fassbender wasn't the only shocking snub in the best actor category ryan gosling was a triple threat in 2011 with his acclaimed turns in 'drive,' 'the ides of march,' and 'crazy stupid love' (though the latter would have been in the best supporting actor race) between breaking up street fights, being a good sport about your, uh, supporting actor, and of course, turning in great performances, fans of gosling and fassbender are no doubt wondering this morning, 'jeez, what's a guy have to do to get an oscar nomination?!' joining fassbender and gosling in the notable snubs in the acting races are golden globe and sag nominee leonardo dicaprio for 'j edgar' (best actor), gosling's 'drive' co star albert brooks (best supporting actor), and 'we need to talk about kevin's' tilda swinton, who lost her spot in the best actress race to 'the girl with the dragon tattoo's' rooney mara as if awards show perennials like dicaprio and swinton getting left out weren't surprising enough, there were plenty of other baffling snubs in other categories a golden globe nominee, will reiser's equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking autobiographical '50/50' was omitted from the best original screenplay race hollywood legend and three time oscar winner steven spielberg was snubbed from the best director category for 'war horse' while 'the adventures of tintin' won the globes' best animated feature trophy, it was no match for out of left field choices like 'a cat in paris' and 'chico & rita' and lest we remind 'harry potter' fans, the 'deathly hallows — part ii' was left out of all of the major categories 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 fassbender was edged out by first time nominee gary oldman joining fassbender and ryan gosling in the notable snubs is nominee leonardo dicaprio 'harry potter and the deathly hallowspart ii' was left out of all of the major categories

(rolling stone)while his next official album ripens in the blazing south florida sunshine, rick ross has delivered a delicious appetite whetter 'rich forever' is a mixtape that plays like an album, with blaring, heraldic production by the likes of boi 1da and up and comer beat billionaire, plus guest appearances by drake, nas and diddy themewise, 'rich forever' is business as usualwhich is to say, all business ross remains monomaniacally focused on monetary matters, spinning punch line after punch line about luxury cars, dripping jewels and high grade cocaine finest zinger: 'i got them keys in the crib/you wouldn't find 'em if you had the keys to the crib' best line about multitasking: 'fornicating/counting money with a f*** face' see the full article at rollingstonecom copyright © 2011 rolling stone

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'rich forever' is a mixtape that plays like an album themewise, 'rich forever' is business as usualwhich is to say, all business rick ross remains monomaniacally focused on monetary matters

(cnn)boeing has warned airlines to keep some 747 8 and 787 aircraft away from certain storms because of possible icing problems in engines the aircraft manufacturer sent a message to 'customers who operate some ge powered engines after instances of ice crystal icing that resulted in temporary diminished engine performance,' spokesman marc birtel said in a statement boeing said pilots should keep the planes at least 50 nautical miles from storms that may contain ice crystals until general electric can make improvements to the 'genx' engines only a small number of the engines have had a problem with ice crystals, the statement said boeing began delivering its 787 dreamliners in 2011 the model is billed as a super efficient, high technology airliner of the future, and it flew without major problems for a year but a battery fire forced the diversion of an all nippon airways flight in january 2013 the entire fleet of 50 planes was grounded for four months while boeing made repairs later, a united airlines dreamliner made an emergency landing in houston with brake problems and a fire broke out on an unoccupied ethiopian airlines dreamliner in london there also have been investigations into a faulty fuel pump indicator, an electric panel, a plane oven and emergency beacons cnn's tory dunnan and mike ahlers contributed to this report

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(cnn)the man who new york police say shot to death three iranian musicians was kicked out of their indie rock band last year, surviving band members said wednesday ali akbar mohammadi rafie, 29, took his own life monday after shooting his former band mates in the brooklyn apartment where they lived and practiced, the new york police department said the dead included guitarist soroush farazmand, 27, whose rock band the yellow dogs was featured in a 2009 cnn report about iran's burgeoning underground rock scene farazmand's brother, arash, 28, a drummer with the free keys who later joined the yellow dogs, was also shot and killed at the same location a third man killed was iranian musician ali eskandarian, 35 new york police commissioner ray kelly told reporters that the gunman used a 308 caliber assault rifle, apparently to settle a 'dispute over money' between the bands the gunman shot and killed one of the victims through a window before entering the building in the east williamsburg neighborhood and shooting the others on the second and third floors, kelly said rafie shot himself on the roof after scuffling with at least one of two other people rafie came to the united states soon after joining the group in iran to replace a bass player who could not get a visa, members siavash 'obash' karampour and koory mirzeai said in a written statement sent to cnn on wednesday 'it became clear very quickly that he was not a natural fit within our group of friends, and his personal views conflicted with our approach to our art and to the world,' they said rafie was booted from the band several months later 'and in the 14 months since then, we've had no contact with him at all,' the statement said the loss of their fellow musicians left 'a gaping hole in our hearts,' they said 'for now it's impossible to even imagine a future without our friends, and no explanation can make sense or begin to justify what has happened to our lives' the survivors are 'in shock, awe, blinded with rage and paralyzed with grief,' they said 'ali eskandarian was nearly finished with his memoir, arash had just received political asylum from iran and soroush was hard at work on new yellow dogs material,' they said 'everything we had hoped and worked for was finally coming true the future was so incredibly bright the band will continue to make music, they said 'we will not let this disgusting brutality define us or become our story, but instead respond by creating music more passionately and with more intensity than ever before, embracing the freedom that we all dreamed would one day be ours back in iran and play to honor those who should be playing next to us' they are planning a memorial service for the three, which will be announced later, they said in the 2009 cnn report, members of yellow dogs described performing in an improvised, clandestine music studio to avoid the wrath of islamic authorities the band settled in east williamsburg after attention generated by the group's contribution to the soundtrack of a film called 'no one knows about persian cats,' a movie about iran's underground music scene that won an award at the cannes film festival 'the law has a problem with rock music so we can't play it,' karampour told cnn in 2009 iranian authorities viewed the band members as 'anarchists,' karampour told cnn 'they're like my brothers,' karampour said of the band members 'they're more close than my brothers' in the cnn story, yellow dog members described their brand of music as rock played with bad equipment and said it touched on subjects ranging from iranian oppression to american greed cnn's ray sanchez, reza sayah, nic robertson and azadeh ansari contributed to this report

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police: ali akbar mohammadi rafie took his own life after shooting former band mates 'he was not a natural fit within our group of friends,' surviving members say the yellow dogs were featured in a 2009 cnn report about iran's underground rock scene loss of their fellow musicians left 'a gaping hole in our hearts,' members say

(cnn)iranian president hassan rouhani vowed wednesday that his country will never develop nuclear weapons, telling nbc news that he is open to diplomatically resolving issues surrounding his country's controversial nuclear program 'we have never pursued or sought a nuclear bomb and we are not going to do so,' rouhani said later, he added, 'we have time and again said that, under no circumstances, would we seek any weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons nor will we ever' in an interview with nbc's ann curry, rouhani said thateven with supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei, a looming presence in iranian societyhe has 'full power and has complete authority' to make a deal with others on nuclear matters 'the problem won't be from our side,' the iranian president said 'we have sufficient political latitude to solve this problem' opposition to iran's atomic program, coupled with what critics see as tehran's intransigence in failing to cooperate with international officials, had led to harsh sanctions and stirred concerns that the dispute could devolve into a military conflict yet rouhani appeared relatively optimistic wednesday he spoke about getting a letter from us president barack obama after his recent election and inauguration, saying the us president congratulated him and raised certain issues rouhani said he wrote back offering iran's viewpoint, describing the tone of the exchange as 'positive and constructive' 'it could be subtle and tiny steps for a very important future,' the iranian president told nbc, according to video on the network's website 'i believe the leaders in all countries could think in their national interests and that they should not be under the influence of (interest) groups' report: iran takes key step in nuclear reactor construction even as it has resisted attempts to international regulators to assess its development, iran has long insisted its nuclear program's aim is to produce power, not weapons last month, rouhani said the united states and other nations 'need to recognize that our activities are totally peaceful and legal' if they do and there are 'negotiations without threats,' rouhani added, then 'the way for interaction is open' the 64 year old cleric, who is considered moderate, won the june elections with reformist backing after a campaign in which he stressed 'hope and prudence' a former nuclear negotiator himself, he vowed to reduce the high tension between iran and the outside world rouhani has military experience as well, having once commanded iranian air defenses and led three war and defense councils he was national security adviser for 13 years before his presidential predecessor, mahmoud ahmadinejad, took office in 2005 iranian human rights activist freed cnn's greg botelho contributed to this report

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iranian president hassan rouhani talks to nbc news about his nation's nuclear program rouhani says his government 'has complete authority' to reach a deal with the us, others he calls a recent exchange of letters with us president obama as 'positive and constructive' considered a moderate, rouhani was elected president earlier this year

(cnn)additional polio cases have been confirmed in two new areas in syria: near the capital of damascus and in northern aleppo, near turkey, the world health organization said tuesday in syria's first outbreak of the disease since 1999, 10 cases of polio were initially confirmed among children last month that number has now risen to 17, the who said in addition to 15 cases confirmed in deir ezzor province, 'two additional cases have been confirmed, one each in rural damascus and aleppo, confirming widespread circulation of the virus,' the who said in a statement it said the risk of further spread of the disease was considered high given the fighting, large scale movement of refugees and number of children who have not been fully immunized in the country last month, health officials launched a program to immunize 16 million syrian children against polio, measles, mumps and rubellain government and rebel held areas the response, which also includes neighboring countries, is expected to last at least six months, the who has said 'a surveillance alert has been issued for the region to actively search for additional potential cases in addition to implementing the recommended supplementary immunization activities with oral polio vaccine,' the who said about 22 million children under the age of 5 are being targeted in mass polio vaccination campaigns in the region, it said according to unicef, 500,000 children in syria have not been vaccinated against polio the highly infectious viral disease, which spreads via fecal oral transmission and contaminated food and water, primarily affects young children initial symptoms can include fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, neck stiffness, limb pain and, in a small number of cases, paralysis and death it can be prevented through immunization, but there is no cure the incidence of the disease has dropped by more than 99% since 1988 it remains endemic in three countriespakistan, nigeria and afghanistandown from more than 125 countries in 1988 public health can be among the first casualties of war, as resources are diverted from ensuring clean water supplies and intact sewer lines according to the united nations, more than 100,000 people have died in the syrian conflict, which began in march 2011 when government forces cracked down on peaceful protesters vaccination campaign against polio, other diseases, begins in mideast cnn's per nyberg contributed to this report

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world health organization: polio cases have spread to aleppo and rural damascus it says a total of 17 polio cases have been confirmed the risk of further spread is high, the who says

(cnn)david adjaye is one of the world's most highly acclaimed and sought after architects born in tanzania to ghanaian parents, africa has played an important role in his life and continues to provide inspiration for his projects around the globealthough he now lives and bases his practice in london 'tanzania is an incredible melting pot of cultures with sikhs, indians, muslims,' adjaye says 'living in east africa and sort of mixing with all these groups allowed me to sample many different spatial and cultural conditions very early on,' he adds graffiti for good some of adjaye's most notable structures include the nobel peace center in norway, the museum of contemporary art in denver, and the national museum of african american history and culture in washington dc secret life of urban africa but while his african roots remain a fond memory, he says that there is now much more that inspires himnot least his love of architecture around the world in the gallery above adjaye selects six of his favorite buildings, explaining why they hold a special appeal to him and what makes them so architecturally unique

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david adjaye is an architect born in tanzania although he lives and works in london, he says africa remains a source of inspiration he has recently designed buildings in the uk, italy and the united states

new york (cnn)the commuter train that jumped its tracks in the bronx was barreling into a curve at nearly three times the posted speed when it derailed, killing four passengers, federal safety officials said monday preliminary data from the event recorders aboard the train clocked it at 82 mph as it approached the 30 mph curve, where the hudson and harlem rivers converge, national transportation safety board member earl weener told reporters the data show the engineer cut the throttle and slammed on the brakes, but those moves came 'very late in the game,' weener said 'this is raw data off the event recorders, so it tells us what happened it doesn't tell us why it happened,' weener said investigators questioned the engineer, william rockefeller, and the rest of the train crew on monday rockefeller told investigators he applied the brakes, but the train didn't slow down, according to a law enforcement official who was at the scene and is familiar with the investigation but while the cause of the derailment has not yet been determined, investigators have seen no indication of brake problems, weener said all seven coaches and the locomotive came off the tracks in the sunday morning crash on new york's metro north hudson line in addition to the four dead, at least 67 more were hurt three remained in critical condition monday night, and 16 others were still hospitalized, hospitals told cnn the train's recorded speed is not only far faster than the rated speed for the curve where the derailment occurred, it's faster than the 70 mph posted for the section of track that led into the curve, weener said the force of the crash ripped apart the rails and a section of the track bed, leaving chunks of concrete strewn about the scene david schanoes, a former deputy chief of field operations for the metro north line, said the data is 'uncannily similar' to a july rail crash in spain that left 79 dead 'i would have to see all the data from the event recorder,' schanoes told cnn's erin burnett outfront 'but clearly, from what has been captured, the train was overspeeding, and the request for emergency brake application comes too late for the train to be able to negotiate the curvature' weener said authorities will be looking at the engineer's recent work history and will examine his mobile phone, which is now in the hands of authorities in the spanish crash, a court found the engineer had been on the phone with railway staff when the train derailed but a preliminary review has found no reason to believe rockefeller was using his phone at the time of sunday's derailment, a senior law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told cnn in a statement issued monday evening, new york gov andrew cuomo said the data 'makes clear that, as we suspected, extreme speed was a central cause of this crash' 'the lives that were lost yesterday are a stark reminder that protecting the safety of all new yorkers must be our top priority,' cuomo said 'when the investigation concludes, we will make sure that any responsible parties are held accountable my thoughts and prayers continue to be with the families of the victims of yesterday's crash' the hudson line carried 159 million people last year about 150 were aboard when the train derailed, authorities said us sen chuck schumer said the speed report 'sort of takes your breath away' 'for a train to be going 82 mph around that curve is just a frightening thought,' said schumer, d new york, who appeared at a news conference with weener 'the fact that it was going 82 mph even in the 70 mph zones before the curve started raises so many questions and is scary' schumer said the tracks appear to have been in good shape, and the preliminary indication is that signals were working properly'but it's premature to blame anyone or anything right now,' he added 'it was just smoke' the train was about 10 miles short of its destination, manhattan's grand central terminal, when it derailed on the approach to the spuyten duyvil station in the bronx despite the high speed, surviving passenger amanda swanson said she felt the wreck in slow motion 'i was nodding off, and the thing that woke me up was my own equilibrium,' swanson told cnn's anderson cooper 360 'i realized that my body was tilted very severely, and that woke me upand when i woke up and saw the entire cab of the train was tilted, i immediately woke up and realized that i was in the middle of a train crash' the windows of the coaches broke out and then, 'gravel came flying up in our faces,' said swanson, 26, who was on her way to work at a midtown manhattan restaurant she put her bag in front of her face to block the rubble as the car she was riding in flipped over and skidded to a stop with a thud 'i couldn't see anything,' she told cnn's new day 'it was just smoke' workers lifted the rail cars back onto the tracks on monday, and police determined no other bodies were trapped in the wreckage beth barret, who sent photos to cnn's ireport, called the scene 'very surreal and very scary' 'it was a scene straight out of a sci fi movie,' barret said cameras may have caught deadly derailment it's not the first time a train jumped the tracks on that turn a freight train derailed in the same curve in july, damaging about 1,500 feet of track, the metropolitan transit authority reported at the time mary schiavo, a former inspector general for the us department of transportation, said investigators should take a close look at the sharp curve 'it has been there forever, but the fact that we've had other accidents there means we have to look beyond just the fact that the train engineer said that brakes were not working,' she said 'we have to see if there's additional issues concerning that track' weener said the agency would look into whether there was any connection between the july derailment and sunday's crash, but both he and new york gov andrew cuomo discounted the possibility 'the curve has been here for many, many years, right, and trains take the curve every day, 365 days a year we've always had this configuration we didn't have accidents,' cuomo said sunday 'so there has to be another factor' authorities also are looking for video that may have captured the derailment, safety board spokesman keith holloway said railroad officials have said there were no video cameras aboard the train weener said security cameras from a nearby bridge captured the train's approach, but the image is small and obscured by a cloud of dust video technicians in washington will try to recover some usable imagery from the recording, he told cnn's 'the situation room' metro north railroad inspects its tracks twice a week, spokeswoman marjorie anders said the most recent inspection found the track was 'ok for normal operations' she said the train wasn't equipped with positive train controla high tech system designed to slow down or stop trains to prevent crashes caused by human error anders said the railroad conducted routine drug and alcohol tests on crew members but has not released the results rockefeller appeared coherent at the scene, and there was no indication he was intoxicated, said a high ranking law enforcement official who is part of the investigation anthony bottalico, general chairman of the union that represents rockefeller and the train's conductors, said the crew members are also eager to find out what caused the crash and 'make sure it doesn't ever happen again' 'hopefully over the next day or two, there will be some kind of idea or closure,' he said the victims the mta identified those killed as donna l smith, 54, of newburgh, new york; james g lovell, 58, of cold spring, new york; james m ferrari, 59, of montrose, new york; and so kisook ahn, 35, of queens, new york lovell did freelance audio and was headed into new york to work sunday morning, said dave merandy, a town council member in the hudson valley community of philipstown 'he loved his family and did what was necessary to keep things afloat with his family he was a great man,' merandy said one of the survivors suffered a spinal cord injury that could leave him paralyzed from the neck down, said dr david listman, director of the emergency department at st barnabas hospital in the bronx the man is the father of a 14 year old boy who was released from the hospital sunday 'it's hard to understand how they were sitting next to each other on the train, and the son walks away with minor bruises, and the father sustained such a severe injury,' listman said while patients with severe fractures could be released from the hospital monday, he said, they may require further treatment and mental health care after surviving the devastating accident 'for a lot of these people, the train was their way of commuting to work i think a lot of these people are going to have to contend with getting back to normal life,' he said 'i think that's going to be very difficult for them' train crash victim was 'pure goodness,' widow says cnn's alexandra field reported from new york cnn's matt smith, holly yan and catherine e shoichet reported from atlanta cnn's eden pontz, anneclaire stapleton, rene marsh, kate bolduan, wolf blitzer, polina marinova, lorenzo ferrigno, alexandra field, kristina sgueglia, jon auerbach, dana garrett, shimon prokupecz, mike m ahlers and haley draznin contributed to this report

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dubai, uae (cnn)a year long intense diplomatic push by british prime minister david cameron to advance his country's business interests in the united arab emirates may not yet deliver the contracts he was hoping for during his only international interview on his uae visit ahead of the official opening of the dubai air show on sunday, cameron told cnn the sale of up to 60 bae eurofighter typhoon for $10 billion does not have to close this week 'i'm very hopeful and we've made huge progress and we're looking at, not just at one particular deal, we're looking at a proper strategic defense partnership between our countries i'm very confident that is on track,' the prime minister said 'i'm hopeful for good announcements from airbus, real progress in terms of bae systems, lots of british companies here and also big investments being made by the emirates into britain' about 230,000 jobs, government officials suggest, are directly linked to aerospace before leaving, those officials said the prime minister held meetings with the prime minister of the uae and the ruler of dubai, sheikh mohammed bin rashid al maktoum and the crown prince of abu dhabi mohammed bin zayed al nahyan the typhoon is built by britain's bae, germany's eads and italy's finmeccanica, but the uk is the lead contractor in negotiations this is widely viewed as an all out effort to snatch it out of the grasp of french rival dassault and its jet fighter offering the rafale former french president nicolas sarkozy opened a naval air base in the uae in 2009, and there was a widespread belief it was france's contract to lose, but there was on going rumblings over pricing in the uae capital over the past two years, which re opened discussions for britain the british prime minister has not hid his desire to advance diplomatic and economic relations with the gulf states of the middle east to help secure contracts and therefore jobs back on british soil british officials here talk of a 'domino effect' if they can close the uae deal, since others would likely fall into place, as well on thursday, britain announced that the uae would be one of four gulf states to have its citizens enjoy the benefits of an electronic visa waiver scheme, which can be obtained 48 hours before traveling those two gestures follow a ringing endorsement by the british prime minister of dubai as a candidate city for the 2020 expo bid which will be decided this month this past week, his ambassador to the uae, dominic jermey, said britain is often been seen as the 'eighth emirate' the uae is a federation of seven emirates, with abu dhabi and dubai being the two largest, which was founded in 1971 while business development is being worked on, the so called p5+1 talks are scheduled to resume with iran on its nuclear program gulf states are skeptical that iran will abide by any terms to limit development of that sector cameron said sanctions are what brought iran to the negotiating table, and a deal should not happen prematurely when asked if sanctions could start to be lifted in the first quarter of next year 'britain led the way in europe putting in place those oil sanctions which i think have brought us to this place and my view is clear, there shouldn't be removal of sanctions unless there is a good deal' this year and next are crucial when it comes to strategic business interests, and this extends far beyond what britain is hoping to secure the two largest commercial carriers, dubai based emirates and abu dhabi based etihad are planning to unveil multibillion dollar plane orders as they experience rapid growth serving as a transport hub between europe, asia, africa and the americas ahead of the official opening of the air show, boeing released its current market outlook report suggesting that the region will need 2610 new airplanes over the next two decades, with a book value of over a half trillion dollars outside the aerospace sector, the uae has also accepted bids for tenders of its onshore oil and gas fields for the first time in three quarters of a century, production sharing agreements are expiring while past energy production was dominated by western led international oil companies working with abu dhabi's national oil company adnoc, the uae has let it be known countries which are major importers of its crude will be given equal weighting during this bidding process the uae is looking to expand its daily out of crude from 29 million barrels a day to 35 million by 2017 and sits on roughly 9% of the world's proven oil reserves

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durban, south africaindia's yuvraj singh smashed six sixes in one over as england crashed out of cricket's world twenty20 tournament in south africa on wednesday yuvraj singh smashes his sixth successive six off england fast bowler stuart broad paul collingwood's side were eliminated at the super eights stage after south africa earlier beat new zealand by six wickets in durban england then lost by 18 runs to the singh inspired indians, who kept their semifinal hopes alive ahead of thursday's must win clash with the hosts singh reached the fastest 50 in twenty20 history, needing just 12 deliveries, as india made 218 4 the left hander's six consecutive sixes in the 19th over bowled by stuart broad made him the first player to do so in twenty20 matches and just the fourth in all senior cricket south africa's herschelle gibbs performed the feat at the 50 over world cup in the west indies earlier this year, while sir garfield sobers and ravi shastri achieved it in first class matches singh's innings ended on 58from 16 ballswhen he hit a full toss from andrew flintoff to captain collingwood at long on from the penultimate delivery of the final over, in which he also cleared the boundary ropes once virender sehwag top scored with 68 off 52 balls, putting on 136 for the first wicket with gautam gambhir, who hit 58 off 41 deliveries broad ended with the embarrassing figures of 0 60 off his four overs, while fellow seamer chris tremlett took 2 45 in reply, england battled gamely but could only post 200 6 in their 20 overs opener vikram solanki top scored with 43 off 31 balls, and kevin pietersen hit 39 off 23 deliveries, but no one could match the fireworks provided by singh left arm seamer irfan pathan claimed figures of 3 37 off four overs, while rudra pratap singh took 2 28 if india can beat south africa, it would create a three way tie and require net run rates to decide the two teams going through the proteas have two wins from two group e outings after beating new zealand, who have completed their super eights fixtures with two victories and a defeat south africa restricted the black caps to 153 8 from their 20 overs on wednesday, then reached the target with five deliveries to spare as justin kemp made an unbeaten 89 kemp was named man of the match after smashing a six off the otherwise economical mark gillespie for the winning runs he belted six sixes and six fours in his 56 ball innings, having come to the crease in the fourth over with south africa reeling at 17 2 kemp added 28 in four overs with gibbs (19) before putting on another 65 in eight overs with mark boucher boucher departed for 23, caught by wicketkeeper brendon mccullum off gillespie, who ended with figures of 2 11 off 31 overs the experienced shaun pollock then joined kemp, and struck one six in his unbeaten 16 off 11 deliveries to help guide the proteas to their second victory the in form craig mcmillan top scored for the kiwis, hitting an unbeaten 48 off only 25 balls to follow up his blistering 57 in tuesday's five run win against england mccullum had put on 68 for the first wicket with lou vincent, scoring 38 before becoming the first of morne morkel's four victims morkel, who ended with figures of 4 17 off four overs, then removed ross taylor (1) two runs later and later bowled the dangerous jacob oram for a quickfire 15 he had shane bond caught by boucher, and then almost became the first twenty20 bowler to claim five wickets when his penultimate deliverywhich clean bowled gillespiewas declared a no ball by umpire billy doctrove e mail to a friend

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(cnn) the man arrested for the videotaped rape of a toddler in las vegas, nevada, will make his initial appearance in court friday, a clark county, nevada, court official told cnn tuesday authorities have not yet decided if chester arthur stiles will appear in person or via video link the judge will set a date for the arraignment at that hearing stiles, 37, was taken into custody monday night after a henderson, nevada, police officer pulled over the white buick century he was driving a former girlfriend of stiles' said that, before the arrest, she lived in fear after going to police to identify the suspect after seeing enhanced photos from the videotape on the local news 'i've had my share of nightmares,' elaine thomas told cnn's nancy grace thomas said she screamed when she recognized the photos on television and had no choice but to contact police about the man she had thought was a 'weapons enthusiast' with only a minor criminal record watch thomas say how she felt when she saw the photos » 'how could i not tell them who that man was? that little girl suffered unimaginable things, and i knew for a fact it was him,' thomas said the judge in the case will hold an administrative hearing wednesday, but stiles will not be present, clark county court spokesman michael sommermeyer said stiles was already being sought on an unrelated 2004 charge of felony lewdness with a child under 14, sommermeyer said, adding that authorities amended that earlier filing on october 4 to include 20 counts related to the videotaped rape, including sexual assault and attempted sexual assault jerry t donohue, the attorney for the girl's mother, told cnn that the child on the videotape was younger than 3 when the abuse occurred henderson police officer mike dye said he pulled over stiles' car monday night because it did not have a license plate and became suspicious when the driver gave him an expired california driver's license with a photo that did not look like him dye said he and another officer, mike gower, questioned stiles until he admitted his identity 'he finally told us, 'hey, i'm chester stiles i'm the guy you're looking for,'' dye said 'at that time, he said, 'i'm sick of running'' dye said stiles was calm and cooperative stiles, a resident of pahrump, nevada, was turned over to las vegas metropolitan police and booked into the jail in clark county, where he had been sought in connection with the videotape, which shows a girl being sexually assaulted the girl, who is now 7, was found last month after a nationwide search the tape was given to authorities by darren tuck, who told police he had found it in the desert five months before handing it over because of the delay, during which tuck allegedly showed the tape to others, he faces charges of exhibiting pornography and possession of child pornography he turned himself in to authorities in nye county, nevada, earlier this month professionals have evaluated the girl in the videotape since she was found, and she appears to be 'healthy and fine and happy,' her mother's attorney said this month the mother had not known her daughter had ever been victimized and was apparently oblivious to efforts to find her until late last month, donohue said 'a family friend called her and said, 'my god, you need to turn on the tv i believe that is your daughter,' ' donohue said donohue said the mother recognized stiles, a former animal trainer the alleged abuse most likely occurred while the mothera single woman working six days a weekwas at work, donohue said another former girlfriend of stiles', tina allen, said this month she thinks she is the reason stiles came in contact with the girl and is 'mortified' by the allegations against him 'he said he'd been in the navy and, you know, i was looking for a strong guy to represent to my sons what i thought they needed to be,' allen said allen said she took stiles to a crowded apartment where her son and daughter lived also living in the apartment were a family friend and her daughter, the alleged assault victim todd allen, tina allen's son, said he recognized his old apartment from scenes in the video e mail to a friend cnn's ed payne contributed to this report

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new: suspect's ex girlfriend: 'i've had my share of nightmares' chester arthur stiles to make his initial court appearance friday stiles, 37, arrested following a routine traffic stop suspect said 'i'm chester stiles i'm sick of running,' according to officer

mexico city, mexico (cnn)heavy rains and flooding have forced hundreds of thousands of people from homes in southern mexico's state of tabasco over the past four days, with nearly as many trapped by the rising waters, state officials said thursday officials say about 300,000 people are still trapped by the worst flooding in the region for 50 years the grijalva river pushed over its banks through the state capital of villahermosa on thursday, forcing government workers to evacuate and leaving up to 80 percent of the city flooded, gov andres granier's office told cnn about 700,000 people have seen their homes flooded, with about 300,000 of those still trapped there, granier's office reported one death had been blamed on the floods, which followed weeks of heavy rain in the largely swampy state tabasco borders guatemala to the south and the gulf of mexico to the north the associated press reported that thousands of people clung to rooftops, huddled inside waterlogged homes or hunkered down in shelters in an attempt to survive the worst flooding the region has seen in 50 years weather forecasters predicted more rain in the coming days the flooding was not related to tropical storm noel, which was pounding the caribbean the grijalva river, one of two large waterways ringing villahermosa, has risen 65 feet (2 meters) above its 'critical' level and gushed into the city's center, according to ap authorities said some of the rivers were continuing to rise president felipe calderon visited the area on wednesday and promised the federal government's full support non governmental organizations throughout the country asked people to donate non perishable goods or cash, ap said 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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(ewcom)2012 continued its box office winning streak this weekend, as kate beckinsale replaced herself at the top of the chart her new movie, 'underworld awakening,' a 3d fourth installment of the popular vampires vs werewolves franchise, debuted in first place with $254 million, good for a $8,252 per theater average 'awakening' improved upon the opening weekend of its predecessor, 2009′s 'underworld: rise of the lycans,' which started with $208 million (and did not feature beckinsale), but fell short of 2006′s 'underworld: evolution,' which kicked off its run with $269 million sony/screen gems paid $70 million to make the 3d action film, but if past 'underworld' performances are any indication, 'awakening,' which earned an 'a ' cinemascore grade, will have trouble recouping its costs the first 'underworld' earned 25 times its opening weekend (that's known as a mulitplier of 25) and finished with $518 million the second notched a 24 multiplier and earned $623 million the third only managed a 23 multiplier, a sure sign of sequel fatigue and frontloadedness, and grossed $458 million with kate beckinsale back in the picture, 'awakening' may find a larger total than 'lycans,' but with a very young audience (only 7 percent were 50 or older), it should continue the frontloaded trend and finish with about $56 million in second place, george lucas' passion project 'red tails,' a $58 million film starring terrence howard and cuba gooding jr that chronicles wwii's african american tuskegee airmen, took off with $191 million in its first three days the strong debut came out of 2,512 theaters, which gave 'red tails' a hefty $7,604 per theater average, the second best in the top 20 a few weeks ago, these high flying numbers seemed unlikely but in the week leading up to release, the film gained momentum over the past few days, youtube views for the trailer swelled, perhaps thanks to tyler perry's public endorsement of the film in a newsletter to his fans dated january 17, perry urged audiences to see 'red tails' 'i think we should pull together and get behind this movie,' he wrote 'not just african americans, but all of us' of course, that's not to undermine fox's marketing team, which clearly did its job and brought in a broad range of ages many films that play primarily to african american audiences (or really, any niche audience) drop quickly in their second weekperry's last three 'madea' films have fallen by an average of 60 percent in their second weekendsbut 'red tails' may avoid a similar fate the film increased by a whopping 40 percent from friday to saturday, a healthy sign that the film is playing well with families and shouldn't prove overly frontloaded furthermore, audiences enjoyed the film, issuing it an 'a' cinemascore grade, which will likely help it endure who knows where the film will end its flight, but after three days of results, 'red tails' seems early in its ascent kate beckinsale's other current release, 'contraband,' which topped the box office last week, dipped by 50 percent down to $121 million, giving the $25 million mark wahlberg action vehicle a sturdy $461 million ten day total it should finish in the $65 million range 'extremely loud and incredibly close' fared about as expected during its wide release into 2,630 theaters the 9/11 drama, adapted from jonathan safran foer's novel of the same name, found a lukewarm $105 million this weekend, yielding a mild $4,010 per theater average audiences generally liked the warner bros picture, giving it an 'a ' cinemascore grade, but unless 'extremely loud' garners a surprising slew of oscar nominations next week, it's doubtful that the film will climb to impressive numbers in 2006, another 9/11 themed film, 'united 93,' opened with a similar $115 million, and despite good reviews (much better than 'extremely loud's,' in fact), it only found $315 million overall a similar result seems likely in this case is sandra bullock the latest performer to fall prey to the best actress curse? as the legend goes, after an actress wins the coveted oscarbullock won in 2010 for her role in 'the blind side'her box office appeal actually decreases look at someone like charlize theron since winning the oscar in 2004, she has appeared in exactly one hit'hancock,' a movie which all but ignored her in its ads and among her other nine releases, the highest grossing one is, sadly, 'aeon flux' with $259 million i'm not going to put too much faith in the curse, but 'extremely loud' does mark bullock's least attended nationwide debut in 15 years and for hanks, the film is his second straight misfire since 'larry crowne,' which had to settle for $356 million difficult subject matter likely kept many audiences at bay steven soderbergh's 'haywire' started its run in fifth place, pulling in $9 million the film, which features former mma fighter gina carano, earned a dismal 'd+' cinemascore grade, despite strong critical reviews overall (another well reviewed action film, 'drive,' earned a similarly unenthusiastic 'c ' grade a few months back) relativity shelled out $23 million on the film, but 'haywire' will have to work hard to earn that number back at the box office (also, let's please ignore the inevitable discussion of whether women can open action movies at the box office and look at this week's number one film cool?) further down the chart, 'the artist,' which expanded from 216 theaters into 662 theaters (that's a 300+ percent uptick in locations) on the heels of its golden globe win for best picture, increased by a rather disappointing 99 percent after nine weeks, tons of awards, and a whole lot of press, the black and white film has earned $121 million against a $15 million budget perhaps people just don't want to see a silent movie 'the descendants,' meanwhile, is faring much better during awards season following george clooney's best actor win at the globes, the drama increased 17 percent to $25 million, despite losing 100 locations, and has grossed $513 million oh, and a little movie called 'the twilight saga: breaking dawnpart 1' surpassed the $700 million mark worldwide as well the vampire franchise has proven remarkably consistent 1 underworld awakening$254 million 2 red tails$191 million 3 contraband$122 million 4 extremely loud and incredibly close$105 million 5 haywire$90 million 6 beauty and the beast 3d$86 million 7 joyful noise$61 million 8 mission: impossibleghost protocol$55 million 9 sherlock holmes: a game of shadows$48 million 10 the girl with the dragon tattoo$38 million 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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(cnn)ringo starr walks into the hotel suite at the beverly hills hotel carrying a brown paper bag it's his sack lunch, and he's packed it himself he's also driven himself to the hotel and arrived aloneno entourage, no bodyguard, no assistant, no fuss it's fitting that cnn's interview with the iconic music star is taking place at an iconic hotel, which is like a second home to the former beatle this is where the fab four stayed when they first came to hollywood in 1964, no doubt trailed by dozens of screaming girls and photographers as they ushered in the british invasion looking at least a decade younger than his 71 years, starr settles into the corner of a couch and talks about celebrity then vs celebrity nowthis from the perspective of a man who has been famous for nearly 50 years 'i feel like it's harder now for the celebrities,' he tells cnn entertainment correspondent kareen wynter 'there was no one bigger than us, and we were put upon then, paul and i would go on holiday, or john and i would go on holidays, and we'd be fine now you can't go anywhere the celebrity of today is so documented that i think it's a lot harder now we had it easy we thought it was hard, but not compared to today' in 2012, his star hasn't waned it has just taken on a comfortable glow as one of two surviving beatles, people are treating him like a living treasureand these days, he and paul mccartney seem to be treasuring each other starr remains touched that macca showed up at his 70th birthday party at radio city music hall 'i had no idea he was coming,' he recalls 'he jumped up to do the beatle track, 'birthday' nobody told me that he snuck in, and that he rehearsed with the band' in recent weeks, starr has been busy promoting 'ringo 2012,' his 17th solo album he produced it himself and recorded it in los angeles with a number of his buddies, including producers don was and dave stewart and eagles guitarist joe walsh, who also happens to be his brother in law below is a portion of cnn's conversation with starr about his new cd, his relationship with mccartney and whether there will ever be a beatles reunion cnn's kareen wynter: what was your inspiration behind the new album? ringo starr: the inspiration behind the cd is that's what i do i love to play, i love to hang out with musicians and i like to make records, actually i like to write songs, and i like to collaborate with other writers it generally keeps me busy when i'm not doing that, i like to paint, i like to watch tv, i like to go to the cinema, i like to do all that stuff but i love hanging out with musicians and playing my drums cnn: what drives you after having such a long career? starr: you get up in the morning and you start the day i like to get up early, and i don't like to get up and get right at it i like to sort of work my way into the day, and then whatever comes along, i say 'yes' or 'no' to cnn: does anything shock you anymore? starr: nothing shocks me, nonot on tv it is how it is now it's a pity that a lot of the reality singing showssomebody gets a shot for a minute, and even the winner seldom lasts more than a year i played a lot of hours to get where i am, and it was a gradual build up so to go from nothing to the biggest thing in lifeyou can't handle it it was hard enough, and thank god, there were four of us to keep each other in some sort of reality we all went mad separately, but we had each other, and we all came through gradually so i think we were blessed that way cnn: you got me on, 'we all went mad separately' starr: well, we did, because we all had our moment, and then john or one of them would look at me and say, 'excuse me?!' and pull you back, you know? cnn: do you miss those days? four instead of two? starr: well, of course i miss them we were great friends, and we played a lot together, and we went through the madness together there were only four people who understood what we went through, and it's down to two now there is nothing i can do to change that i would like to be able to change it, but i don't have that power cnn: can you put the rumors to rest: will there be a beatles reunion at the 2012 olympics in london? starr: how can there be? oh no, i'll be here i'm already booked in america cnn: paul said you may want to do it starr: paul can do it cnn: but it's not the same without you starr: well, he is doing quite well without me he is doing ok cnn: you're part of the act starr: well, we had a great time at my birthday he surprised me in new york, and he jumped up to do the beatle track 'birthday,' and i was not going to miss that so i just ran to the drum kit, and that was fun we have played a couple of times together we did the david lynch show a couple of years ago, so we have done that but i will not be at the olympics i have to be very definite about that because they will say, 'oh, is he coming? isn't he coming?' no, i am not goingbut to all the athletes, 'peace and love!' cnn: what about in the future? starr: well, the door is open that paul and i might play together, but it is not like a reunion it is not going to be the beatles, you know? they have those crazy ideas that maybe we could use their children it is never going to happen cnn: what is your relationship with paul like? starr: it's good after all of the time, everybody has ups and downs so we have ups and downs, but it is very up right now i am so pleased for him and nancy we love nancy cnn: their wedding was beautiful what was it like seeing them walk through those chapel doors? starr: great it was great, and he seems really happy and that is good as i said, we love nancy, so i think it's a great moment for him cnn: how would you describe nancy? starr: very down to earth very easy she mixes right in and she loves music, so it can't be bad and, you know, she is a very beautiful woman regal is a great word regal nancy cnn: the beatles came up during a tumultuous time do you see any parallels between that period and what's happening today? starr: as we all know, the world is going through a change, especially in egypt and the arab countries america had to go through its change england has been through several changes france has been through a really big change so it is just part of life, and god bless them and it is great to see there is a lot of this (gives peace sign) going on in the world, and that is what it's about we would love to be able to say, 'ok, it's a peace and love takeover' but usually whoever is in power, as it seems, is injuring a lot of its own people cnn: you really represent your 'peace and love' theme what do you hear from young people when they approach you? starr: a lot of young people love 'peace and love' i mean, they would like it to be that way that is the way we all thought but a lot of work goes into it i just keep it going because it is a second in my life to think, 'peace and love' how great is that? so if you put all of those seconds together, then soon you have got some time and it will make a change cnn: what's next for you? starr: well, i think you tackle that as it comes along i am making records, i am going on tour, and then i am off to do whatever else i want to do so i have a very good life

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in recent weeks, ringo starr has been busy promoting 'ringo 2012,' his 17th solo album 'the inspiration behind the cd is that's what i do,' starr says starr says he and paul mccartney 'might play together, but it is not like a reunion'

(cnn)trust falls? rap sessions? giggle weed? i don't know what tools of the trade paul rudd and director david wain share to dream up the kind of inspired nutso stuff rudd has done in smart funny raunchy winners like 'wet hot american summer' and 'role models' but whatever it is, the two are in a grooveand backed up by some blissed out creative co conspirators'in wanderlust' the setup is sturdy rudd and costar jennifer aniston play george and linda, sharp edged manhattanites who can barely afford their tiny living quartersknown as a 'micro loft,' in realtor speakeven when george brings home a salary from his hated corporate job (linda, still looking for her career métier, fails to sell hbo on a super depressing documentary about penguins with cancer) then george loses that hated job the broke couple needs to flee nyc so they hit the road, resigned to accepting shelter and abuse from george's gloriously obnoxious 'successful' brother down in atlanta, a prize pig played to the snout by wanderlust coscreenwriter/producer and fellow wain regular ken marino ('role models') kate walsh nude on mag cover but somewhere on the road south, george and linda stumble upon a kind of hippie dippy brigadoon, a past its prime shangri la, an anachronistic macraméd commune called elysium the place preaches peace and free love and beverages made of twigs, and is populated by crackpots just charismatic enough to seduce a pair of blackberry addicts like george and linda none is more appealing — and full of crapthan the alpha male called seth, played with goofy gusto by justin theroux what happens in elysium doesn't stay in elysium: the alternative lifestyle begins to change the personality dna of our essentially straight arrow visitors and that's exactly the sweet spot where wain ian comedyrooted in craziness that breaches the walls of 'normal'lets rudd shine the actor is so clean cut cute, yet so fearlessly capable of rolling in happy raunch 'downton abbey': top pbs rating since '09 actually, every actor who gets the joke shines, even when the story occasionally bumbles and bobbles its momentum (ah, the shackles of the ho hum happy romantic ending) it's a thrill to see sexy malin akerman ('the proposal'), 'six feet under's' peachy lauren ambrose, priceless kathryn hahn (so memorable an adversary for rudd in 'our idiot brother'), and elder statesman alan alda bond over hippie clichés and, no small thing, it's a pleasure to see aniston thrive in her comedy zone, secure in the knowledge that for every inch of propriety she's willing to cede, paul rudd is ready to get 10 times as crazy for a grateful nation a 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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rudd and costar jennifer aniston play george and linda in 'wanderlust' aniston thrives in her comedy zone and rudd gets 10 times as crazy for a grateful nation every actor who gets the joke shines, even when the story bumbles and bobbles its momentum

(rolling stone)abba have announced plans to reissue their final album, 'the visitors,' with a previously unreleased song on april 23 'from a twinkling star to a passing angel,' a demo recorded around the time 'the visitors' was released in 1981, will be the first new abba recording released since the box set 'thank you for the music' was issued in 1994 the new version of 'the visitors' will also include six previously released bonus tracks and a dvd featuring rare and unreleased footage from the swedish pop band's archives, including their last ever live performance on the bbc's 'late late breakfast show' in december of 1982 abba disbanded in 1982 and have since refused to reunite the band even declined to get back together for their induction in the rock & roll hall of fame in 2010 see the full article at rollingstonecom copyright © 2011 rolling stone

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'from a twinkling star to a passing angel,' will be the first new abba recording released the new version of 'the visitors' will also include six previously released tracks abba disbanded in 1982 and have since refused to reunite

(cnn)the wife of new york yankees baseball star alex rodriguez filed for divorce monday morning in florida's miami dade county family court lawyers representing cynthia rodriguez say she has officially filed for divorce from yankees slugger a rod the divorce filing said the marriage is 'irretrievably broken because of the husband's extra marital affairs and other marital misconduct' 'alex has emotionally abandoned his wife and children and has left her with no choice but to divorce him,' the petition said cynthia and alex rodriguez have two daughters together, natasha and ella the split comes less than three months after the birth of the couple's second daughter, according to the associated press national newspapers and gossip magazines recently have covered the troubled marriage between alex rodriguez, one of professional baseball's highest paid stars, and his wife for weeks, chronicling rumors that both were having affairs reports have linked alex rodriguez, nicknamed a rod, with pop icon madonna and cynthia with rock star lenny kravitz both madonna and kravitz are denying the reports madonna's representative released a statement to cnn on monday denying the rumors 'i know alex rodriguez through guy oseary, who manages both of us i brought my kids to a yankee game i am not romantically involved in any way with alex,' the statement said representatives for kravitz also released a statement monday saying that he was helping cynthia rodriguez get through the grief of her failed marriage but was not romantically involved with her 'there is absolutely no affair between cynthia rodriguez and myself this is unequivocally 100% not true,' the statement read 'cynthia is a friend and is here with the godfather of her baby, who is also alex's trainer, his wife and their baby girl she came here to escape from everything happening in new york city i opened my home to her as a friend, and i find it extremely hurtful that i am now being referred to as an adulterer' last year, the slugger was photographed out at night with a former las vegas stripper, sparking headlines like 'stray rod' in the new york post rodriguez has been a lightning rod for praise and criticism during his 14 year professional baseball career he has been an all star many times and has hit more than 500 home runs rodriguez also landed the most lucrative contract in baseball history with a $250 million plus 10 year salary with the texas rangers in 2001, which was extended by the yankees he was widely criticized for opting out of that contract during the 2007 world series the slugger later inked a new 10 year deal worth $275 million the divorce filing also stated that 'the husband has the fiscal capacity to continue his high style of living, but the wife does not' cynthia rodriguez asked for alimony and child support in the petition but did not specify a dollar figure see more about expensive celebrity divorces » the divorce petition states that the couple entered into a prenuptial agreement in 2002 and asked for an investigation to determine if the agreement is still valid on sunday, alex rodriguez hit his 536th homer, tying yankee hall of famer mickey mantle for having the 13th most homers ever

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documents cite 'husband's extra marital affairs and other marital misconduct' document: 'alex has emotionally abandoned his wife and children' cynthia and alex rodriguez have two daughters together divorce filing comes after speculation about a split between slugger, wife

london, england (cnn) after four years and 11 rounds of hard negotiation, the introduction of the 'open skies' agreement in march was greeted with a sigh of relief this was not just from airlines, but also their passengers if talks in the second phase fail, the entire open skies deal could be torn up the deal that allows airlines to fly anywhere in the european union to anywhere in the united states and vice versa promised to increase competition between carriers and possibly cut ticket prices but the relief could be short lived on thursday, the eu and the us began talks in ljubljana, slovenia for the second phase of the deal this time round there's an even tougher set of issues on the table and if an agreement is not reached by 2011, either side can pull the plug on the whole deal such a move could be crucial for airlines that have already invested hundreds of millions of dollars in preparation for reduced restrictions carriers have added and increased frequency of services, with some paying as much $60 million to get their hands on limited heathrow slots british airways will also launch a new business only airline following the deal between either paris or brussels and new york's jfk airport this summer one issue the stage two talks will address is cabitage, or rights for european airlines to operate domestic american routes european critics have said the current deal offers greater advantage to us carriers by allowing them to operate within the eu an american airline can, for example, fly from new york to london, where they could pick up passengers and then fly to germany but as john byerly, us deputy assistant secretary of state for transportation affairs and chief negotiator for open skies, explains to cnn, this is a red herring in terms of importance in aviation law 'not one us airline has taken advantage of the right because it doesn't make commercial sense,' he says 'the aircraft that's right for transatlantic flights is ill suited for operation within the highly contested european union market' what's more, adds kieran daly, editor of air transport intelligence, there isn't a simple quid pro quo in terms of cabitage as he explains, the eu is not a single market in the same way that the us is, and the travel patterns on both sides of the atlantic are different 'nobody is really sure what the equivalent right would be in europe for the american carriers,' he says a more important, and arguably more contentious, issue is around ownership and control us laws currently cap international ownership to 25 percent of voting stock, and prohibit 'actual control' by foreign citizens if these restrictions are removed it could pave the way for transatlantic airline mergers steve ridgway, ceo of virgin atlantic airways expresses his frustration that airlines are the only companies that cannot be owned by foreign buyers in the us 'an airline is no different to a car company or a telephone company,' he says 'as long as there are proper competition rules in place, and dominance is not allowed, why does there have to be artificial restriction?' last august, virgin completed a five year battle to start a low cost service, virgin america, in the united states the british company won regulatory approval by agreeing to distance ownership from the virgin group in effect, the virgin brand is licensed to an american owned company but ridgway wants more 'it took five years for us not own an airline,' he points out yet despite virgin's expansion into ventures such as virgin america as well as virgin blue in australia and v australia, the carrier has not yet decided to follow british airways' lead by launching services from other european capitals following the removal of restrictions under open skies and considering how tempting a madrid to miami, or paris to los angeles route could be to a non flag carrying carrier such as virgin atlantic, this is significant ridgway says a time will come for such routes 'we need the right aircraft, we need the right market conditions, and we need to make sure that we are fighting the right battle here in our home ground because this is where our strength is,' he says but the other reason for hesitancy comes down to a lack of confidence for phase two of negotiations, he adds byerly doesn't deny the difficulties and political hurdles negotiators face opening up ownership to foreign companies has implications for homeland security, he explains 'we rely on us airlines to transport our troops and military cargo in time of war of emergency' they must also tread carefully with airline labor unions 'there are serious concerns about how to maintain a level playing field if you've got two unions, one in europe and one in the united states, working for an airline,' he says but signs are that the us is willing to keep an open mind on tuesday, united states surprised eu negotiators by proposing to drop investment restrictions for airlines for more than 60 countries senior airline executives have also voiced encouragement for an easing of ownership restrictions jeff smisek, president of continental airlines told cnn: 'anything that would open up a freer flow of capital between the european union and united states would be a positive influence' as byerly said, the us is willing to envisage a positive outcome from the outset 'we're committed to working in very good faith and with a lot of energy in the second stage of negotiations to try and reach an agreement that is mutually beneficial that's our goal'

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the eu and us have begun talks for phase ii of the open skies air transport deal the hot issue to be debated revolves around ownership rights of us airlines if talks fail, either side has power to pull the plug on the whole agreement

london, england (cnn)britain's competition watchdog has ordered airport operator baa to sell three of its seven airports, including two in london baa must sell gatwick airport first baa must sell gatwick and stansted airports in london and either edinburgh or glasgow airports in scotland within two years, the competition commission said thursday in publishing its decision thursday, the commission said the sale of the airports will encourage competition 'where today there is no competition at all' baa owns seven airports in the united kingdom, including london's heathrow, gatwick and stansted the competition commission says there are competition problems at all seven airports, with adverse consequences for passengers and airlines finding new owners for the three airports will result in lower prices and improved customer service, said christopher clarke, chairman of the study all three must have separate buyers, the commission said 'the precise pace and the precise ways in which the benefits from such competition will emerge may be uncertain, but we are confident that the benefits will build over time, driven by the momentum of the development of competition, and will be significant,' clarke said in london, for instance, baa's ownership of three airports prevents them from building more capacity and keeps prices high, the commission said 'the intensity of price competition may initially be limited by current capacity constraints and price controls, but these constraints are themselves at least in part the result of common ownership,' the commission said baa said it acknowledged the need to change but did not agree with all of the commission's findings 'we believe the commission's analysis is flawed and its remedies may be impractical in current economic conditions,' baa said in a statement, adding it needs more time to consider the report before responding further carrier virgin atlantic, a longtime critic of baa's ownership of the airports, welcomed the commission's decision 'it will undoubtedly benefit consumers,' said airline spokesman paul charles 'better airport facilities in the uk and lower prices will be the result the important next step is to ensure that there is adequate oversight of the divestment process' baa must sell the airports in sequence, beginning with gatwickwhich went up for sale in septemberthen stansted and then either edinburgh or glasgow, the commission said the competition commission is an independent public group that investigates mergers, markets and regulated industries the office of fair trading, a government department, asked the commission to look into airport competition in march 2007 the once state owned baa, which used to be known as the british airports authority, was privatized in 1986 and floated on the stock market in 1987 it is now owned by spanish property group ferrovial

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uk airport operator baa told to sell 3 of its 7 airports, including two in london britain's competition watchdog said sale of airports will encourage competition baa must sell airports in sequence, beginning with gatwick then stansted

(ewcom)robin roberts has returned to the set of 'good morning america'but isn't making her tv return just yet she arrived at the times square studio at 5 am, abc reports, for her first in a series of dry runs before returning to her anchor role 'my doctors want me to see how many people i actually come in contact with how my body reacts to the stimulation, that's code word for stress, of being in the studio environment,' she explained 'my skin is very sensitive and so we have to see how it reacts to the studio lights my vision is still a little blurry from the treatment all of this is getting better day by day so that is the next step' lance armstrong nixed 'dwts' offer this is the next phase of recovery for roberts, who had a bone marrow transplant in september to treat myelodysplastic syndrome, and has been off the air since the end of august last week, roberts said in a video interview with the 'gma' team that she hopes to be back in the anchor chair sometime in february 'i have a date in mind that is very important to me,' she said 'but i will ultimately listen to what my doctors say and what they recommend' see the original 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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united nations (cnn)the united nations is calling on nato to do more to stop the afghan opium trade after a new survey showed how the drug dominates afghanistan's economy afghan villagers tend to opium poppies in taliban controlled helmand province in april 2007 the report from the un's office on drugs and crime shows the export value of this year's poppy harvest stood at around $4 billion, a 29 per cent increase over 2006 despite afghan security forces' efforts to curb the trade, 660 tons of heroin and morphine were trafficked out of the country in 2007, the report said opium is derived from poppies, and the data on cultivation was collected by examining satellite images and by assessments on the ground the report said opium has accounted for more than half of afghanistan's gross domestic product in 2007 investorwordscom defines gdp as the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time, usually a calendar year according to the un survey, about a quarter of the earnings from opium go to farmers the rest goes to district officials who collect taxes on the crop, to drug traffickers and to the insurgents and warlords who control the trade antonio maria costa, executive director of the un office on drugs and crime, urged nato to take a more active role in countering the spread of the drug trade, which has increased dramatically since the american led invasion to remove the hard line islamist government of the taliban in october 2001 'since drugs are funding the insurgency, nato has a self interest in supporting afghan forces in destroying drug labs, markets and convoys,' costa said in a written statement to coincide with the release of the survey 'destroy the drug trade and you cut off the taliban's main funding source' james appathurai, a nato spokesman, said coalition forces were equally concerned by the rapid growth in the narcotics trade 'we share the un's concerns,' appathurai told cnn 'drugs not only poison people, but they poison economies and governments, and it is in everyone's interest to stop this proliferation' he said nato forces were providing assistance to afghan police through training and transport but he said there were no plans to deploy coalition troops to intervene directly 'the issue of whether we can do more is certainly a live discussion for nato, but at the moment this is a matter for the afghan government,' appathurai said farming of opium poppies has been almost eradicated in the north and west of the country, appathurai said however, he said, in the lawless southern provinces and especially in the taliban stronghold of helmand, poppy production was going on largely unchecked according to the report, un observers have noticed a proliferation of heroin labs in neighboring countries and along trafficking routes costa said the labs are dependent on precursor chemicals, like acetic anhydride, that must be smuggled into the region he called for tighter controls in chemical producing countries and stronger intelligence sharing between afghanistan and its neighbors 'drug trafficking is a transnational threat, and therefore national initiatives have their limitations,' the un drug chief said appathurai said the most effective way to curb the drug trade was tackling the insurgency head on he also said it was important to provide alternative work for poor afghan farmers to encourage them to give up opium production 'you cannot have eradication in isolation if we don't give them the support to produce alternative crops, then by wiping out their opium fields, you are only creating enemies for the future,' he said e mail to a friend

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madrid, spaindavid nalbandian battled back to stun world no 1 roger federer with a 1 6 6 3 6 3 victory in the final of the madrid masters on sunday david nalbandian celebrates after upsetting roger federer in the madrid masters final the argentine, ranked 25th in the world, repeated his 2005 upset win over the swiss star in that year's season ending masters cupalso an indoor event defending champion federer, playing in his first tournament since winning the us open six weeks ago, made 38 unforced errors nalbandian became only the third playerand the second this year after novak djokovic in montreal in augustto beat the world's top three players en route to winning a title german legend boris becker was the first to perform the feat 13 years ago nalbandian ousted second ranked rafael nadal in the quarterfinals and then serbian djokovic in saturday's semis the 25 year old, who lost in the madrid final in 2004, claimed his first triumph on the atp tour since may, 2006, on clay in portugal he spent a year without a coach, but has revived his career since teaming up with hernan gumy 'i'm extremely contented to beat the world number one,' nalbandian said 'roger and i have a long history and i think that influenced the match 'it was an extremely hard first set but i tightened the teeth and i began to play more strongly things came out fine, i played incredible, and that of course that helps' federer added: 'he served well, i was quite surprised with how well he served 'he came back strong and played well in the end 'he was a better player all in all i was struggling after the first set to play aggressively, for some reason he played tough and didn't miss any more i couldn't play way i wanted to it was a pity, he played a great tournament' e mail to a friend

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david nalbandian won madrid masters after beating top seed roger federer the argentine triumphed 1 6 6 3 6 3 against the swiss defending champion he became third man to beat world's three top players en route to a title

buenos aires, argentinajuan roman riquelme scored twice as argentina beat bolivia 3 0 to notch a third successive victory in the south american qualifiers for the 2010 world cup on saturday juan roman riquelme celebrates after scoring his first goal in argentina's win against bolivia the midfielder followed up his brace of spectacular free kicks in the opening 2 0 victory against chile to help put his country five points clear of second placed brazil, who play peru in lima on sunday riquelme again shrugged off his lack of club action with villarreal, where he has fallen out with the spanish side's management, to net twice in the second spell after sergio aguero gave the home side a first half lead the 19 year old scored his first goal at international level five minutes before the interval after starting in a three man attack with carlos tevez and lionel messi he headed home after martin demichelis nodded a cross from manchester united striker tevez back across goal riquelme added the second 11 minutes after the break with a dipping free kick which beat carlos arias from 25 yards, having been superbly denied by the keeper's one handed effort shortly beforehand and he finished off the scoring in the 73rd minute with a cool sidefoot finish after being set up by messi to cap off a match in which captain javier zanetti made a record breaking 116th appearance for argentina argentina next travel to colombia on tuesday, when winless bolivia have an away clash with venezuela in other south american qualifiers, colombia beat venezuela 1 0, and paraguay routed ecuador 5 1 ecuador coach luis fernando suarez, a colombian, quit after his team's loss saying: 'i have taken the irrevocable decision to resign' e mail to a friend

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argentina beat bolivia 3 0 in south american qualifier for 2010 world cup juan roman riquelme nets twice as argentina win third successive match ecuador coach luis fernando suarez quits after 5 1 loss against paraguay

washington (cnn)democratic presidential candidates on wednesday criticized president bush's plan to withdraw roughly 30,000 troops from iraq by next summer, with sen hillary clinton labeling it 'too little, too late' sen hillary clinton listens as gen david petraeus testifies before the senate armed services committee in an open letter to bush, clinton said the troop withdrawal 'is simply too little, too late, and unacceptable to this congress, and to the american people who have made clear their strong desire to bring our troops home, and end this war' bush on thursday is expected to endorse the recommendations of gen david petraeus that the troop levels in iraq be lowered to 130,000 by july, down from the 'surge' level of 160,000 'as commander in chief, you have the authority and ability to greatly accelerate the redeployment of us forces from iraq, and to bring so many more troops home so much faster,' the new york democrat said 'i strongly urge you to choose this course of action' in an interview wednesday with cnn, one of clinton's chief rivals for the 2008 nomination, sen barack obama of illinois, said the president is returning to an earlier, failed policy 'we now are still in the same position as we essentially were in june 2006,' he said 'we are in the same levels of violence; we are at the same levels of dysfunctional when it comes to the government in iraq, and the american people at some point have a right to ask from their leadership in washington and from the president: when is enough enough?' watch '08 dems weigh in on war in iraq » obama presented a new plan for iraq on wednesday afternoon in clinton, iowa it calls for an immediate drawdown of combat operations at a pace of one or two brigades every month, to be completed by the end of next year, according to excerpts released before his speech a brigade comprises between 3,000 and 5,000 soldiers obama recommended a new constitutional convention for iraq, a new regional diplomatic effort and steps to confront the country's humanitarian crisis 'let me be clear: there is no military solution in iraq, and there never was the best way to protect our security and to pressure iraq's leaders to resolve their civil war is to immediately begin to remove our combat troops,' obama said in his speech presidential candidate john edwards, who has been pressing congressional democrats to take a more confrontational stance against president bush, called for an immediate withdrawal of 40,000 to 50,000 troops in a prepared statement, edwards, a democrat from north carolina, said obama, clinton and republican sen john warner of virginia, who recently called for a withdrawal to begin by christmas, have 'a moral responsibility to use every tool available to them, including a filibuster, to force the president to change course' edwards also called obama's plan for troop withdrawal a copy of the president's plan 'sen obama would withdraw only one to two combat brigades a month between now and the end of next year,' said edwards, 'which for the next several months could essentially mimic the president's own plans to withdraw 30,000 troops by next summer' in a statement, sen christopher dodd, d connecticut, said wednesday that it was useless to debate tactics when 'the underlying policy is a complete failure' 'i call on my colleagues to do what needs to be done to end our involvement in this civil war and help restore our national security by clearly and directly declaring that they will not support any iraq measure without a firm, enforceable deadline tied to funding for the completion of redeployment of troops from iraq,' dodd said democrats lack the votes in congress to force the president to bring the troops home and are seeking a compromise position congressional democratic leaders are meeting with republican lawmakers, who want a change in war policy but are unwilling to cut funding or set a timeline for withdrawal privately, congressional democrats concede that the next president probably will inherit at least a deployment of 100,000 troops in iraq the democratic presidential candidates, particularly the five in congress, face pressure from liberal groups such as moveonorg demanding that they directly confront the president obama said it was unlikely he would vote for any legislation that does not include a definite withdrawal deadline 'you know, we are going to have to evaluate what's available, but it appears clear to me that the president is not willing to compromise, short of congress forcing him to accept a shorter timetable, and, absent that, we are essentially engaging in a bunch of symbolic action there,' obama told cnn 'what we need is a clear message from the congress that it is time for us to change course, and it's time for us to do that,' he said e mail to a friend cnn's john king, dana bash, scott anderson and xuan thai contributed to this report

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atlanta, georgia (cnn)it is an irony of contemporary art museum management: sometimes the museum that creates an exhibition doesn't get to premiere it in a treatment of a bridgeman art library photo, the high shows visitors jules arnout's 'view of the grand gallery' this is the case this week, as atlanta's high museum of art couples its public opening of a second year of louvre fueled shows from paris, france, with an exhibition about influences on the impressionists 'inspiring impressionism' is organized by the denver art museum it opened tuesday at the high, to run there through january 2008 with the backing of northern trust, the show will then travel to denver february 23 to may 25, 2008, and then on to the seattle art museum from june 19 to september 21, 2008 why not start in denver? that museum this fall is host to pieces seen in the first year of the three year louvre atlanta series of exhibitions like priceless dominos falling, these shows roll around the country and the world, globalization dictating galas, super sensitive custom shipping companies probably among the biggest winners see a gallery of images from 'inspiring impressionism' at the high museum of art » another unintended effect may be shadowing of one important outing by another it should be interesting to learn whether showing 'inspiring impressionism' at the high on the same time frame as the second year of louvre atlanta pays off do all the boats in monet's 'autumn on the seine, argenteuil' float? smart museum goers will see it all 'the louvre and the ancient world' and the companion show 'the eye of josephine,' after all, look at some of the oldest treasures in the louvre's vast holdings see a gallery of some of the highlights of the louvre atlanta shows » the fit is comfortable, in a way, the impressionist movement of the turn of the last century finding its main proponents in french artists the emphasis here, however, is on what older works may have moved and motivated such artists as claude monet, pierre auguste renoir and paul cézanne one very distinctive connection from the louvre atlanta opener of last year is a section of this new show that looks at the tradition of modern era artists learning by studying the work of masters at the louvre, bartolomé esteban murillo's 'the beggar boy' of around 1650 being one of the most copied canvases in western art's modern history from the outset, visitors to 'inspiring impressionism' are reminded of the louvre treasures all around them at the high: the impressionism show's entry gallery is flanked by a handsome photographic treatment of louis jules arnout's 'view of the grand gallery at the louvre' from between 1850 and 1870 in that original painting and color lithograph that followed, arnout captured the bustle of artists working and visitors promenading in the louvre's chief exhibition space that runs along the seine in paris in fact, even older era echoes of this same concept are encountered on looking at louvre atlanta's 'the tiber' marble from the first century ad, you're reminded that michelangelo himself was aware of that piece, influenced by it, presumably inspired by it so a surprise symmetry takes shape at the high this fall, as visitors contemplate dialogues between museums (the louvre, the high, denver, seattle), the viewers of art in europe and the united states, and the artists themselves in france, in the us and elsewhere high director michael shapiro calls these synchronicities 'visual evidence of connections' his colleagues timothy standring of denver and ann dumas of london, england, have held up their end of this conversational eyeful with timely contributions, glimpses of old world craft from titian and velasquez to fragonard and rubensand the 'moderns' who saw beyond them to a new age of aesthetic debate don't miss some of the comments and writings of various artists, used as part of the display of the show at the high degas may have said it most honestly: 'no art is less spontaneous than mine what i do is the result of refection and the study of the old masters' joining northern trust corporation in funding the exhibition are the national endowment for the humanities, and support is also provided by an indemnity from the federal council on the arts and the humanities e mail to a friend

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kiev, ukraineserbian central defender nemanja vidic has convinced manchester united manager sir alex ferguson that he should play in tuesday's champions league clash away to dynamo kiev vidic clashes with roma goalkeeper gianluca curci during the uefa champions league group f match the former spartak moscow player sat out saturday's 4 1 victory at aston villa after suffering concussion during the premier league win over wigan immediately before the international break however, he has made a good recovery and will now partner rio ferdinand in the heart of the united defense injury plagued french striker louis saha definitely misses the tie with a long term knee problem and fellow casualties gary neville and owen hargreaves also stayed behind england striker wayne rooney, who scored twice against villa and was also on target in england's euro 2008 defeat against russia in moscow last week, will partner carlos tevez in attack a third successive victory after 1 0 wins against sporting lisbon and roma would virtually guarantee united a place in the knock out stage united flew to kiev a day earlier than normal, taking their own chefs and dieticians with them 'the travel is always the biggest worry in these situations,' said ferguson 'ukraine is further away than most other journeys around europe' senegal defender pape diakhate, guinea forward ismael bangoura and ukraine midfielder taras mykhalyk are expected to return for dynamo, but former tottenham forward serhiy rebrov is an absentee dynamo warmed up for tuesday night with a 1 0 win over strugglers zakarpattia on saturday in the ukrainian championship but kiev are bottom of group f after losing their first two games2 0 at roma and 2 1 at home to sporting glasgow rangers are without jean claude darcheville and brahim hemdani for their formidable home clash against barcelona on tuesday darcheville is still struggling with a hamstring problem while hemdani misses the group e tie in glasgow with a groin problem that kept him out of the weekend's 3 0 win against celtic uefa cup favorites bayern munich will probably have to do without midfielder franck ribery for their group game against red star belgrade on thursday the french international hurt his thigh in saturday's 2 1 win at bochum that saw bayern extend their lead at the top of the bundesliga e mail to a friend

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washington (cnn)some democrats appear to be wavering on a highly contentious house resolution labeling turkey's treatment of armenians in world war i as genocide a kc 135 tanker lands at incirlik air base in southern turkey in 2003 turkey, a longtime us ally and nato partner, was incensed by the resolution calling the killing of armenians by ottoman turks genocide and threatened to block access to incirlik air base after the resolution passed a house committee vote the base, in southern turkey near syria, is a major resupply center for us operations in iraq and elsewhere in the mideast and asia the pentagon is preparing to set up new supply routes for troops in iraq if turkey cuts off us access to the strategically important incirlik, military officials said tuesday ankara acknowledges the killings of armenians during world war i but vehemently objects to the 'genocide' label the house foreign affairs committee last week adopted the nonbinding resolution house speaker nancy pelosi said she would bring the measure to a vote of the full house sometime next month but the bush administration urged congress to drop the issue, and some leading democrats urged pelosi not to bring it to the floor majority leader steny hoyer signaled tuesday that the vote might be put off 'i said i thought we would bring this up prior to us leaving here,' said hoyer of maryland 'i have not changed on that, although i would be less than candid to say that there are a number of people who are revisiting their own positions we will have to determine where everybody is' democratic rep ike skelton, the chairman of the house armed services committee, announced his opposition to the resolution last week and democratic reps alcee hastings of florida and john tanner of tennessee, both members of the us house delegation to nato, urged pelosi to reconsider in a letter released tuesday 'more than half of the cargo flown into iraq and afghanistan comes through incirlik air base, and this base would be a key component of any plans for redeployment of our troops in the future,' they wrote lt gen carter ham, the director of operations for the joint chiefs of staff, said pentagon planners are looking at 'a broad range of options' to keep food, fuel and ammunition flowing to us troops in iraq if turkey blocks incirlik 'we're confident that we'll find ways to do that,' ham told reporters at the pentagon 'there's likely to be some increased cost and some other implications for that, and obviously we'd prefer to maintain the access that we have' defense secretary robert gates echoed lawmakers' concerns last week 'about 70 percent of all air cargo going into iraq goes through turkey about a third of the fuel that they consume goes through turkey or comes from turkey,' gates said he also said that 95 percent of the mine resistant ambush protective vehicles, or mraps, being deployed in iraq are flown through turkey the vehicles are built to withstand roadside bombs see incirlik's key location » the us military issued a 'warning order' a few days ago to ensure that alternative air crews, planes, fuel and routes are lined up if turkey stops or restricts us access to incirlik, a source said jordan and kuwait are among the alternatives the united states is considering some fear pursuit of the resolution would also embolden the turks to attack kurdish rebels in northern iraq which could further complicate iraqi stability, us officials said incirlik offers 10,000 and 9,000 foot runways and 57 hardened aircraft shelters, according globalsecurityorg, a source of background information about military issues globalsecurity said incirlik has become a hub for cargo shipments to iraq, taking over for rhein main air base in germany because it is closer to iraq, reducing the strain on troops and aircraft e mail to a friend cnn's barbara starr and deirdre walsh contributed to this report

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london, englandmilan goalkeeper dida has been cleared to play in next month's champions league match at shakhtar donetsk after partially winning his appeal to uefa against a two match ban dida has had one game of his two match ban suspended for a year following an appeal to uefa brazilian dida was also fined 60,000 swiss francs by european football's ruling body following an incident involving a supporter during the champions clash against celtic in scotland on october 3 the 34 year old brazilian was initially banned for two games for his theatrics following a celtic fan's encroachment onto the pitch during the 2 1 defeat at celtic park 'following monday's appeals hearing, dida is suspended for two matches, but one of the matches will now be deferred for a probationary period of one year,' said a stement on uefa's web site dida sits out the home tie against shakhtar on wednesday after an inquiry based on article 5, paragraph 1 of the uefa disciplinary regulations (principles of conduct), under which 'member associations, clubs, as well as their players, officials and members, shall conduct themselves according to the principles of loyalty, integrity and sportsmanship' however, dida will only serve the second match of his ban if he commits a similar offensea theatrical over reaction during the next 12 months, freeing him for the trip to ukraine uefa said that their appeals body 'took note that dida expressed his sincere regrets as regards his conduct during the match' ac milan vice president adriano galliani was satisfied with uefa's decision 'i believe it is fairi was against the two game suspension but one seems ok 'dida has made a mistake but his error did not hinder anyone, not celtic, nor any player,' said galliani e mail to a friend

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milan goalkeeper dida is partially successful against two match uefa ban dida misses wednesday's home champions league tie against shakhtar second game of ban suspended for one year freeing him for return in ukraine

johannesburg, south africa (cnn)reggae legend lucky dube, one of south africa's most famous musicians, was killed in an attempted car jacking as he dropped his children off at a relative's house, his record label said friday reggae star lucky dube was much loved by his fellow south africans dube, 43, was killed in johannesburg around 8 pm local time thursday after someone tried to steal his car, gallo record company said in a statement police said he was shot the statement said dube attempted to escape but died almost instantly from his wounds dube was much loved by his fellow south africans, and his death cast a shadow over festivities ahead of south africa's highly anticipated appearance in the rugby world cup final with england this weekend news of his death was the headline in many friday newspapers, knocking the world cup off the front pages for the first time in days callers to talk radio stations suggested the springboks wear black armbands in remembrance of dube when they take to the field saturday in paris gallo records called the death 'senseless and random,' and it was not clear whether dube's attackers knew who he was south africa is one of the most dangerous societies in the world figures from the south african police service show that from april 2006 to march 2007, more than 19,000 south africans were murdered, more than 52,600 people were raped, and nearly 13,600 people were carjacked 'it's very sad,' said mark sutherland, london bureau chief for billboard magazine 'he's a big loss to the south african music business (he was) one of their most successful artists and certainly one of their leading reggae artists' sutherland said dube was an extremely respected musician who toured extensively around the world dube had just returned from a tour of the united states that stretched from california to new york his record company said dube leaves 'a great void' in the music industry after a 25 year career dube recorded 22 albums in zulu, english and afrikaans born outside johannesburg in 1964, dube was named 'lucky' by his mother because he was the first child to be born after several failed pregnancies dube started singing in 1982, joining a band playing mbaqanga, or traditional zulu music it was only later that he began recording reggae tracks as a solo singer, but the genre was to dominate and define the remainder of his career ivor haarburger, the chief exectutive of gallo music group, said he was deeply saddened by the loss 'lucky was not just an extraordinary artist, he was a personal friend,' haarburger said 'it's so sad to lose such a great friend and so tragically' dube is survived by his wife, zanele, and his seven children: bongi, nonkululeko, thokozani, laura, siyanda, philani and three month old melokuhle e mail to a friend cnn correspondent robin curnow contributed to this report

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south african reggae legend lucky dube killed in attempted hijacking dube, 43, killed thursday in johannesburg after hijacker tried to steal his car death casts shadow over south africa's preparations for rugby world cup final

(cnn)federal emergency management agency officials know the agency's performance in the california wildfires will be watched closely for comparisons to its failures in hurricane katrina a volunteer distributes donated food and supplies to evacueestuesday at san diego's qualcomm stadium fema director david paulison promised on tuesday 'a different type of response than the federal government put together for katrina' paulison said katrina 'was a wake up call' and that 'this is a new fema' president bush signed a federal disaster declaration wednesday, freeing up federal funds for families affected by the wildfires in seven counties in southern california 'i will continue to make sure that our efforts are coordinated, that we are responding to the needs of people, but most importantly i want the people in southern california to know that americans all across this land care deeply about them,' he said the action follows an emergency declaration by bush on tuesday morning for the counties of los angeles, orange, riverside, san bernardino, san diego, santa barbara, and ventura he said he's 'looking forward' to his visit to the region on thursday according to a statement from the white house, the federal disaster declaration will allow for federal aid that 'can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster' fema and other relief and rescue services face significantly different challenges in the fire zone than they did on the gulf coast in 2005 for example, the fires aren't covering every square foot of the region, as katrina did the devastation in california is intense but not universal during and immediately after katrina, the destruction was so complete that relief personnel and supplieseven the us armycould not get within miles of the disaster's epicenter, new orleans' lower ninth ward, for several days by contrast, roads in southern california have remained open for residents to get out and help to get in without delay residents there are generally more affluent and are able to use their own vehicles to escape, whereas many of katrina's victims were poor and had no means of transportation victims in california are not stranded on rooftops without food or drinkable water, but are able travel the relatively short distances to safe places one of those safe places is san diego's qualcomm stadium, which is not endangered by the fires fema and other relief agencies are able to stage supplies and meet victims' needs in an organized way new orleans' superdome, on the other hand, sitting in the center of the disaster zone, was severely damaged by hurricane winds and threatened by rising water what had been a shelter devolved into a trap katrina also wiped out the gulf coast's communications infrastructure, crippling the coordination of relief effortseven for the military homeland security secretary michael chertoff acknowledged tuesday that the government's response machinery had benefited from the katrina experience 'i think there's no question that [there were] a couple of the lessons from katrina which we have put into effect here,' chertoff said 'first of all, planning and preparation in advance for these kinds of challenges, so that we have worked together and planned together with the defense department and with state authorities well in advance of the crisis that's been a big help here,' chertoff said 'second, we have really flooded the zone as quickly as possible by staging assets to deal both with the firefighting issue and with the response issue,' chertoff said chertoff said federal officials began discussing over the weekend the need to have fema ready, 'and as we saw the evacuation issue becoming more prominent, and the number of people seeking shelter becoming more prominent, we sprang into action yesterday 'so we've been monitoring the situation continuously the president's been on top of it we've been on top of it and we're going to continue to stay ahead of this as far as we can' chertoff said tuesday that he hadn't waited for the paperwork to be signed before staging assistance 'we have been moving cots, blankets, other supplies into the area of san diego so that we can handle any necessity for additional sheltering capacity,' he said 'we've also moved air assets to be poised to take flight when we do have the opportunity to deal with the fire, once the winds begin to die down' people left homeless by the fires can already go online to apply for federal help at wwwfemagov, paulison said watch paulison discuss the 'new fema' » he denied suggestions similar to those made in the aftermath of katrina that the federal response was hampered because national guard equipment was in short supply because of the iraq war 'i just haven't seen that,' he said the us military has sent aircraft to help fight the fires, including 11 defense department helicopters equipped with water buckets and six c 130 aircraft able to drop water and flame retardant more than 17,000 national guardsmen have been made available; 550 marines were ready for deployment from camp pendleton, north of san diego; and 12 defense department firefighting teams, were engaged e mail to a friend

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(cnn)the late chris benoit idolized the dynamite kid, who was half of a professional wrestling team famous in the 1980s for spectacular high flying, acrobatic moves chris benoit strangled his wife and suffocated his son before hanging himself in june the dynamite kid and his partner, davey boy smith, were known as the british bulldogs they were quick, agile and muscular, and in 1986 they won the world wrestling federation tag team championship young benoit dreamed of wrestling like the dynamite kid, whose real name is tom billington at the beginning of his career, benoit adopted the dynamite nickname and copied his idol's signature moves in june, benoit murdered his wife and young son before hanging himself investigators found testosterone, painkillers and anti anxiety drugs in chris benoit's body, georgia's chief medical examiner said a month later when asked about benoit's double murder suicide, billington told cnn, 'it can make you aggressive, the steroids but personally i wouldn't, you know, kill no bleeding kid, or wife either' billington now lives in a public housing apartment outside manchester, england he has lost the use of his legs a pin sticks out from one of his toes billington blames his wrestling life for doing this to himwrestling and the fact that he ignored doctors who told him to stop the punishment to his body and from the steroids, he said billington told cnn that the steroids came from doctors, from friends, even from steroids meant for horses he took them all, took a terrible pounding in the ring, and like his partner (who died at age 39 in 2002), began taking extensive amounts of painkillers benoit's death has refocused a media spotlight on the organization for which he wrestled, now known as world wrestling entertainment, and the man who has ruled wrestling for years, chairman of the board vince mcmahon mcmahon, appearing with linda mcmahon, his wife and wwe ceo, told cnn: 'nothing from the wwe, under any set of circumstances had anything to do with chris benoit murdering his family how did we know chris benoit would turn into a monster' read a full transcript of the mcmahons interview vince mcmahon defended the organization, saying its drug testing policy was not just for show 'our policy stacks up just as well as anyone else's in sport, although again emphasizing we are entertainment, and no one in entertainment, no one has this kind of wellness policy,' mcmahon said critics say mcmahon pushes his stars and non stars, works them too many nights per year and has encouraged the large physiques prevalent in modern wrestling they say mcmahon only looks at his employees as commodities, pawns in a huge business his businesses are quite successful about 16 million people a week tune into wwe tv shows two of their cable programs'raw' and 'friday night smackdown'are weekly ratings giants pay per view specials generate an average of $100 million per year when asked about the high number of former wrestlers who had died before they turned 50 years old, vince mcmahon said each person in the wwe bore responsibility for their own livesespecially outside the arena 'if someone passes through our organization, it is not our responsibility for someone's personal activities,' he said he also said there isn't 'any organization in the world, be it entertainment or be it sport, that can tell you that they are totally drug free' watch as a wwe wrestler says the perception of steroid use is wrong » the mcmahons said the wwe is taking steps toward improving its oversight of its athletes since the newest wwe drug screening program began in february 2006, more than 30 of the organization's wrestlers have been suspended, including two since cnn's interview with the mcmahons david blackwho helped the nfl develop its drug program and now runs tests for the wwesays twice that number have tested positive and been given a warning but dr gary wadler, a world renowned expert in the study of drugs and athletes, says the wwe is not doing enough 'it certainly falls far, far short of where it needs to be,' he said 'and there is a gold standard, and i measure all these sporting and entertainment activities against this gold standard and [the wwe is] miles apart' wadler, a longtime critic of mcmahon, was referring to the us anti doping agency in colorado springs, colorado us athletes training for the olympics are randomly tested and, if caught just once, face a two year suspension from competition if caught a second time, they can be banned for life black's programs test wrestlers four times a year the first is a 'baseline' test, according to the wwe black then tests for 'nonmedical' uses, meaning that if an athlete has a prescription, he is cleared 'it's just a loophole that in my mind guts the entire program,' said travis tygart, who heads the us anti doping agency mcmahon denies that his wrestlers are pushed to use steroids he says the average wrestler is lighter than in recent years watch one of the new wwe stars talk about being 'straight edge' » 'there's an expression in our business, that here is where you make your money it's your face, it's what you do with it,' he said 'it's your personality, it's what you do with it it's your delivery, your elocution it's storyline, it's things, all those things that are theatrical as well as athletic in the ring' e mail to a friend cnn's drew griffin contributed to this report

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(cnn)a brazilian cameraman died in a rio de janeiro slum while covering a police raid targeting organized drug militias, police said sunday gelson domingos da silva, 46, worked for band tv, a cnn affiliate he was filming a large scale incursion by a brazilian special operations unit (bope) into a 'favela,' the portuguese word for shantytown, or slum, when he was shot in the chest, rio de janeiro police said in a statement 'the military police deeply regrets the death of cameraman, gelson domingos da silva, while expressing the most sincere sympathy to the family and all media professionals,' police said according to a band tv press release, da silva was covering the operation in the antares favela, west of rio, as an 'embedded' photographer with rio police da silva was wearing a bullet proof vest certified by the brazilian armed forces, often used by band employees during these types of assignments, band tv said he was taken to a local emergency hospital but did not survive the gunshot wounds, band tv reported rio de janeiro police said the operation began early sunday morning after intelligence reports indicated that drug lords and heavily armed groups were gathering at that site police said four alleged drug dealers were killed in the operation, and weapons and drugs were seized dramatic images of da silva's last moments are being shown in brazilian media, reminding brazilians of how dangerous it has become for journalists to cover the drug war the committee to protect journalists has 'documented an alarming rise in lethal violence (against journalists) in brazil in 2011,' the group said on its website 'four other brazilian journalists have been killed this year, and a blogger shot and wounded,' cpj reported 'while brazilian authorities have had success in prosecuting journalist murders, winning several convictions in recent years, the country still sees persistent anti press violence the october 2010 murder of a muckraking radio reporter became the country's fifth unsolved case in the past decade,' cpj reported cnn's marilia brocchetto contributed to this report

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(cnn)costume designer mark bridges can create eras with fabric for 'boogie nights' and 'blow,' he evoked the 1970s 'the fighter' showcased the early '90s 'there will be blood' went back to gritty early 20th century california, and '8 mile,' 'punch drunk love' and 'the italian job' offered a range of contemporary looks befitting their localesand characters with 'the artist,' a black and white silent film, bridges brings back that golden hollywood ageboth the peak of its glamour and pit of its shabbiness he earned an oscar nomination for his workhis first, perhaps surprising given his work on some of the most notable films of the past 15 years he spoke with cnn about how his job combines the best of all worlds, and what (or 'who,' for those who prefer the favored oscar pre show word) he'll be wearing on the red carpet the following has been edited and condensed from the original transcript cnn: i understand you have a fondness for silent era pictures mark bridges: ever since i was young i have book reports from when i was in fifth grade or seventh grade on silent movies my mother used to take us to revival houses because i was interested in it, so it's always been a lifelong interest of mine and it combines with my vocation, and i was really, really excited with the possibility of doing this film cnn: how did you go about getting the look of the time? bridges: without the color to communicate the language of telling the story, i was trying to tell the story through textures, whether it be lamã©, sequins and beads for hollywood, or very flat rough textured wools to communicate down on your heels, or the elegance of satin lapels for evening wear, or the shimmer of a beautiful nightgown it became a story of textures telling the story cnn: how did working with director michel hazanavicius compare with working with paul thomas anderson (who directed 'boogie nights,' 'there will be blood' and 'punch drunk love') or david o russell (who directed 'the fighter')? bridges: i don't see any difference, because my position remains the same: they give me the material, and i propose a way to contribute to the visuals of the story same thing when i read one of paul's original scripts i read it, we discuss it, then i go out and try to figure out what language of clothing are we making this story it's always about how do i reveal this character, how do i reveal this moment through the character's external appearance cnn: actors say that it's getting into costume that allows them to become another person it's like a personality change bridges: it's interesting when that happens in a fitting room we start out with me and an actor, and then with the right combination of clothes or a talk about how a moment might be played or illustrated, suddenly there's this third person there who wasn't there when we started, and then we know we're on to something cnn: how did you get into the business? bridges: i was always involved in theater and drama as a child, i loved movies, i always drew, i always loved fabric, i loved clothes, i loved color, i loved telling a story so it's an amalgam of everything i enjoy, and it happens to be called costume designer cnn: what are you going to wear? bridges: i'm going to wear a single breasted, peak lapel brooks brothers tuxedo, which is very throwback to the period, and a custom tuxedo shirt from anto of beverly hills

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(cnn)here we go again this week, israeli palestinian negotiations will begin in israel and the west bank having participated in my own fair share of these kinds of negotiations over the years, i wouldn't presume to discount secretary of state john kerry's effort but i also wouldn't get my hopes up in 2001, secretary of state colin powell assigned me to assist gen anthony zinni, who had just been given a mission impossible: negotiate a cease fire between yasser arafat and ariel sharon in the middle of the second intifada i asked zinni straight out why he wanted to risk ruining a brilliant career on a goal he couldn't possibly achieve he replied that he loved hopeless causes in that case, i told him, he'd come to the right place will these be the 'star trek' negotiations and go where no man or woman has ever gone before? it's hard to say but here are five signs that might offer clues as to whether there's life (or not) on planet arab israeli negotiations opinion: americans, stay open to both sides in mideast talks 1 will the two sides maintain radio silence? so far, kerry has done what no other us official has ever accomplished: he's gotten the two sides who have a pathological history of leaking to essentially shut up that's either because there's something meaningful to protect, or alternatively, there's nothing really there there, and that's worth hiding i suspect it's the former so watch the leaks from both sides if the substance of what's being discussed is being backgrounded to embarrass, pressure or undermine the negotiators, the negotiations are in serious trouble because this process depends on things kerry has heard from each side that they can't say publicly yet or won't say to one another, radio silence is criticalfor now 2 are folks writing things down? the famous hollywood mogul samuel goldwyn was right: an oral agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on oral exchanges and verbal commitments can be starting points but serious negotiation requires stuff on paper more than this, every negotiation needs a way to organize the effort, and an agreement must be reduced to a text ideally, the united states would control that textas jimmy carter did at camp david or as james baker did with the terms of reference and invitations to the madrid peace conference but the key question is whether the negotiators are working on language that will actually fill in the agreement and what kind of agreement are they working toward: borders/security first or an accord on the basic principles on all the issues? if the parties aren't crystal clear on where they're heading, then any road will get them thereand that's a recipe for drift and disaster the same is true for showing maps borders of a palestinian state are a key element in these negotiations if you hear that one side or the other won't produce them, start looking for a new conflict to mediate 3 what's happening away from the negotiating table? there was a time that we believed we could insulate the talks at the table from the environment outside that was called oslo, and the process failed there must be some correlation that's why kerry has tried to get each side to stop doing negative things for a period of timesix to nine months israelis are supposed to do a phased release of palestinian prisoners and limit settlement activity palestinians are supposed to stand down from efforts to bring the issue of statehood to the united nations or press their claims against israel in international bodies, and stop incitement too already, both sides are unhappy with nonobservance of these actions a certain amount of dysfunctional behavior from both sides is built into the reality that one is the occupier and one the occupied but given how little the israeli and palestinian publics seem to have invested in these talks, everything possible must be done to demonstrate that life on the ground is changing too and we're not off to a good start 4 watch what the tough guys say israeli palestinian negotiations are as much about domestic politics as anything else and watching those in each camp react to what's going on in the negotiations is important a certain amount of bluster from each side is expected but one way to gauge the seriousness of what's happening is to look at how worried the opponents of the peace process are the palestinians public is deeply skeptical of these talks and hamas for sure will oppose them so will members of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's likud party more important will be the reaction of the two newbies in israel in politics and in the coalition: naftali bennet and yair lapid pay careful attention to bennet, whose right wing views count, and who will try mightily to make sure he knows what's being offered at the table if he's relaxed and silent, you can bet the negotiations are remaining in pretty safe territory from benjamin netanyahu's perspectiveor he's being frozen out either way, watch out, signs of trouble may be brewing at home for the prime minister 5 what's the us doing? the odds against a conflict ending accord that addresses all the issues are pretty long it will require major moves from palestinian authority head mahmoud abbas and netanyahu and traveling to a place they've never been before but it will also require the us to be in the middle of the mix right now, kerry describes the us role as a facilitator, a term that has very little meaning (it's the one we used to describe the american approach at the july 2000 camp david summit) if this is going to work, both kerry, and at the right time, obama, will have to be all over these talks like a cheap suit middle east peace is hard and if the us wants an agreementassuming the two sides dothey'll have to push, shove and use ample amounts of vinegar and honey to get a deal, including developing formal proposals to bridge the gaps on tough issues such as jerusalem and those us positions need to be fair and reflect the needs of both sides does the president want it that badly? if he does, a high level, pretty high risk leaders' summit is in his future stay tuned we may just have a chance this year to find out the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of aaron david miller

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grand rapids, michigan (cnn)til death do us part on my wedding day, i will not be saying that sentence not that i'm not in it to win iti amonly that if two people are told they can never leave, how do they know the other really wants to stay? marriage is hard enough without the specter of death being the only way out hanging over our heads to me, it's just another fire and brimstone tactic absentmindedly handed down from generation to generation just to get people to stay in line or give them comfort that once they kiss, they will always be there for each other but it's a lot harder than that and sometimes things don't work out recognizing that doesn't threaten the relationship, it just means you're paying attention and in a country with a healthy divorce rate and prenuptial agreementswhich are essentially plan bs before the ink on plan a is even dryi think it's safe to assume there are a lot of examples of things not working out to pay attention to this is one of the areas where the evangelical church needs to grow mostlearning how to minister to a society that can no longer be scared straight the fearmongering has been undermined by hypocrisy, and the younger generations now find themselves in the enviable position of marrying and staying married because they want to, not because they're afraid not to a recent pew study found that the number of americans 18 and older who are married dropped from 72% in 1960 to 57% in 2000 to 51% today combine that with the declining divorce rate, people getting married later in life and with seven in 10 millennials saying it's ok to have premarital sex (according to public religion research institute), and what you have is a generation that is totally over having their sex lives managed by people they're not having sex with now some religious conservatives would deem this perfect storm humanism and proclaim that the very fabric of society is fraying they need to say these things because, well, this new found empowerment threatens a business model that is based on fear but church attendance has not been declining since the 1970s because people are shacking up it's because the church as a whole has become stagnant while the society it's based in continues to evolve couple that with the disconnect between how we're told to live our lives and the lives being led by those doing the telling, and you can see why we're just less religious as a country at some point, church leaders are going to have to figure out how to minister to a congregation that is not waiting to have sex and not afraid to say it not ashamed to say it that's going to be hard to do but necessary if it wants to stay relevant it's not as if people are falling in love less, not if the 13% jump in one year in the number of unmarried couples living together is any indication so what is the church planning to do when the threat of hell no longer works? when people exchange 'til death do us part' with 'you wanna move in?', it may feel less pious, less certain and less concrete, but it's ultimately more tangible because it is based in the here and now, not in a future which may or may not arrive no one, with maybe the exception of kim kardashian, enters a marriage with the intent of getting a divorce but there are now people entering relationships with no intentions of getting married and their relationship is not less valid, their love is not less real, their future is not less certain the church has to figure out a way to talk about relationships and marriage the way it is framed today, without all of the threats or risk being left behind the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of lz granderson

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(cnn)tuesday's deadly suicide attack targeting afghan shia just didn't fit the pattern of what had come before in this troubled country the police formed the usual cordon at the attack sitethis time a shrine in kabul sirens pierced the odd moment of eerie silence, but the police chief's face was contorted with fury and confusion, like he'd seen something new and troublingeven after decades of conflict here yes, the insurgency has specialized in hitting targets right in the city center, often meters away from key institutions yes, they are aimed for effect but mass casualty attacks like we used to see in 2009 are rare these days the insurgents prefer to hit strategic targetsunless their roadside bombs are maiming civilians elsewhere and no, the shia simply weren't targets before sectarianism was seldom an issue here: afghanistan has lacked the sunni shia divide in iraq that helped to keep saddam in power but made his fall so bloody it has been spared the brand of sunni extremism in pakistan, where ruthless attacks on shia are a shocking part of the fabric the question of who did it was quickly answered but unsatisfactorily the interior ministry here points its finger at the taliban, despite an effusive denial from spokesman zabiullah mujahid it's arguable that an offshoot of the lashkar e janghvi movement, which reportedly rang in a claim from pakistan, is capable of mounting a sophisticated, targeted and vicious attack in the very heart of kabul without some assistance if they are responsible, it does require some explanation as to how a small, rogue group of extremistswhich has links to al qaeda and the pakistan talibancould suddenly develop the capacity to penetrate the capital of a neighboring state and are pakistani extremists really operating freely inside afghanistan now? whether the culprits turn out to be the pakistan based haqqani networkthe group blamed for recent high profile and sophisticated attacks in the capitalthe lashkar e janghvi al almi, or another complex part of afghanistan's insurgency, fractured and complicated after 10 years, many afghans place the blame at one source: pakistan that's the 'address' that kabul thinks the taliban now resides under that's who they blame for most of the ills here, despite simultaneously hoping they will come to the negotiating table and help but we should not rush to attribute blame for one reason: the advent of pakistani extremists trying to foment sectarian violence in afghanistan at this late stage in the war is a prospect too terrifying to behold

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(mental floss)everyone goes through a rebellious phase and, if you're lucky, you'll be able to look back on those years and laugh if you're less lucky, you spent those years on a reality show, so for the rest of time, millions of strangers can look back on them and laugh instead in modern times, cats frolic among the ruins of ancient rome but, hey, it could be worse you could be responsible for the fall of western civilization, just like justa grata honoria, the roman princess whose wild ways and (literally) naked ambition set off a chain reaction that culminated in the destruction of the roman empire barely regal smart, conniving, and ruthless, honoria possessed all the attributes befitting a roman emperor, except for that pesky y chromosome as a young girl, she watched as her dimwitted six year old brother, valentinian iii, was crowned emperor of the western roman empire, while she was set aside to await a suitable marriage hardly content to lead a quiet and chaste life, honoria rebelled with aplomb, sleeping her way through the royal court while still in her teens although her after hours habits caused quite the scandal, they failed to satiate her need for attention and power, so honoria set her eyes on the throne employing her ample charms, she seduced her brother's royal chamberlain, eugenius, and together, they plotted to murder valentinian and seize power but, alas, their scheme was soon exposed eugenius was executed, and honoria was sent to a convent in constantinople life as a nun was a fate worse than death for honoria, but even that couldn't quell her ambition she spent her years at the nunnery plotting one escape attempt after another finally, out of sheer desperation, she turned to sources outside the empire her savior would have to be powerful enough to defy valentinian and risk open war with rome only one man fit that description: attila, king of the huns attila the hubby honoria got the barbarian's attention with a mutually beneficial proposal: if attila would rescue her, she would marry him, and he would get half of the western empire as her dowry of course, honoria was in no position to rightfully offer any portion of the roman empire but she was betting that after marrying her, attila would conquer the whole empire, and she'd become queen to boot attila had secretly been planning a move against rome for years, and honoria's letter gave him the perfect opportunity to strike wasting no time, he told valentinian that he planned to marry honoria, and demanded the dowry he'd been promised naturally, valentinian refused, and attila used his status as a 'wronged husband' to invade roman territory in 451 ce the hun armies quickly swept through the empire, destroying everything in their path, and eventually they arrived in rome like all the other cities before it, rome would also have been annihilated were it not for the famine and disease that devastated the huns during the invasion rome survived attila's assault with the unlikely help of another nomadic enemy tribe, the visigoths, but the western empire never recovered within a generation, the armies of the goths, franks, and huns had overrun the area the princess bride ultimately, honoria became neither roman empress nor a hun queen attila never rescued her, and she was eventually sent back to rome and left to her brother's justice not wanting to cause a scandal by having her executed, and unwilling to send her back into exile where she could scheme again, valentinian settled on a suitable third option after years of struggle, honoria finally suffered the fate she had been dreading all along: she was married off to an elderly roman senator, and the rest of her life went unrecorded by history 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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(cnn)remember the celtic tiger? it was billed as a dream for ireland; emigration slowed as tech giants like apple, dell and intel set up manufacturing plants on the outskirts of dublin they were attracted by a young, well educated english speaking island in the heart of the euro zone other foreign firms set up call centers and back office operations, attracted by a corporate tax rate at 10% (now 125%) dublin buzzed and property prices shot up banks were encouraged to loan money to the fast growing building sector and everyone was flipping houses as prices soared then it spread to the rest of the country as tax breaks led to housing estates being built in remote parts of the country, miles from services and jobs these loans were then bundled up and used by the bankers and builders to invest in property overseas everyone seemed happy we know what happened next by november 2010 the government went cap in hand to europe and the imf for an 85 billion euro ($117 billion) bailout as the country took on all the debt of collapsing banks with that came massive austerity; about 20% of the country's gdp has painfully been cutthrough budget cuts such as social welfare reductions, pension freezes, tax rises three years on where is ireland now? the answer lies in dublin as the city led the bust, it's clear that the capital is leading the recovery on the back of social media and i am promised it's different this time once empty buildings and warehouses in the docklands are filling up with the next generation of young well educated irish graduates working at the next generation of american tech namesgoogle, facebook, twitter, trip advisor, ancestry there are also japanese, chinese and german tech firms setting up here, attracted by the language skills they can't find at home the cloud has come to dublin and is enveloping the silicon docks there certainly is an argument that some of these firms are attracted by more than a multilingual young employment pool even with a rock bottom corporate tax rate, some of the firms use tax efficiencies to not even pay that on their european sales but looking beyond that, having these firms growing in dublin has led to a score of much smaller, indigenous start ups riding on the back of the bigger boys who set the tone and they can be right next store thanks to plenty of cheap office spacespace none could have affording five years ago this simply did not happen when the likes of dell was assembling pcs on the outskirts now, next to them are also the incubators, private equity firms, coffee shops and hip new hotels that all seem to be needed for this kind of area to thrive so, where greece and spain have surely lost credibility in the eyes of the business community, ireland has actually gained traction it's benefited so much from the changes, that forbes magazine just named ireland as the best place in the world to do businessa first for ireland it may not sound ideal for employees, but forbes pointed out that real wages fell 17% during the height of the crisis, and with unemployment near 13%, there is a large pool of well educated young people looking for work add to that the controversial 125% corporate tax rate, and forbes wrote 'ireland still maintains an extremely pro business environment' what about the rest of the country? the recovery is far from reaching everywhere emigration from villages has soared as many small firms, built on the back of construction, collapsed others that may have focused on exports led industries that suffered when europe and the usa went through the economic crisis social welfare payments have been slashed, and contributions to charities have been slashed too, seen as a 'perfect storm' for the poor as one charity told me of course the unemployment rate falls when people leave charities say the long term unemployed aren't about to get these social media jobs, nor even the ancillary jobs in the bars and hotels so, the government is using groups like 'connect ireland' to tempt more companies to the areas outside dublin and cork but many mortgages are under water, house prices are only now beginning to go higher, and the government will continue to slash budgets in 2014 now it also has to attract investors to buy its bonds on the open market so the country can start to pay back that 85b euro loan it has to achieve all this without a healthy bank sector and with unemployment still in double digits look around dublin and you can see the changebuilding cranes are popping up, shops and pubs are buzzing and traffic jams are back it's unlikely to spread to the rest of the country anytime soon, if ever, and it's unlikely to ever be labeled the 'celtic tiger' again shall we call it the celtic cloud?

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(cnn)the us coast guard is searching off the coast of puerto rico for a canadian who witnesses say jumped off a cruise ship saturday night the fbi is investigating why tien phuoc nguyen, 26, jumped overboard while on a cruise with his family, a coast guard news release said sunday adventure of the seas, a royal caribbean international cruise ship, was about 15 miles east of mona island, puerto rico, when nguyen jumped into the water, the coast guard said a coast guard mh 65 dolphin helicopter and the coast guard cutter cushing were sent to the area to search late saturday the cruise ship, which was sailing to san juan, immediately turned around to search for the missing passenger, a statement from royal caribbean international said 'a review of the ship's closed circuit camera footage observed the guest going overboard,' the cruise line said 'the location of the ship at the time the guest went overboard was marked on the ship's global positioning system and the ship, along with the coast guard, conducted a search for the missing guest' the cruise to san juan resumed sunday morning, leaving the search to the coast guard, the statement said the adventure of the seas was near the end of a weeklong cruise that began in san juan cnn's janet digiacomo contributed to this report

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(cnn)as a writer, one of my most important responsibilities is listening i try to do so with an open mind, so i can hear the voices of the characters whose stories i will tell when i wrote about afghan women in my second novel, i thought about the brave women i had met in kabul and about their stories their voices came to me in hushed whispers at times they woke me in the night with the urgency of what they had to say i am indebted to those women, because without them, my novels would lack authenticity and would also be far less likely to resonate with readers supporting women's rights in afghanistan is largely about listening a recent report from international aid organization oxfam summarizes it best: the voices of women in afghanistan must be heard if a lasting peace is to be achieved and 'the international community is to fulfill its agenda of setting afghanistan on its own feet' in recent years, women have made incredible gains in afghanistan the end of taliban rule has meant a new afghanistan, with more opportunities for women millions of girls are back in school women are working, particularly in kabul, as professionals in a wide range of fields afghanistan has a female provincial governor; there are women serving in parliament, the ministry of public health, the ministry of women's affairs and the afghanistan independent human rights commission only the hardest cynic would dismiss these accomplishments as insignificant yet far too many women in afghanistan are still denied a place at the tabledenied the right to speak for themselves oxfam's report illustrates how war and unrest, illiteracy, poverty and gender discrimination have made it nearly impossible for the vast majority of women in afghanistan to contribute to the global dialogue about the future of their homeland without them, the gains that have been made in recent years for half of afghanistan's most brilliant resources remain at risk when i was a boy living in kabul, i had a different experience a different political environment meant women were respectedtheir intelligence and accomplishments greatly valued my mother was a teacher and school administrator she was known on campus for her confidence and effective leadership my aunt was a professor at kabul university she inspired young men and women to be creative and poetic, furthering afghanistan's rich cultural and artistic legacy my cousin was a physician men and women alike relied on her skill, strength and kindness the women i have met in afghanistan in recent years are equally talented though most have been denied education, survive without access to even basic health care and often lack even rudimentary shelter, they are determined, resilient, resourceful and optimistic they have a truly indomitable spirit and are the real backbones of families and communities if aghanistan is to exist once again as a peaceful and thriving nation, it must make women's rights one of the cornerstones of national reconstruction any peace negotiations with insurgent groups must ensure that afghan women are able to exercise their rights and participate in every facet of afghan society without fear of retribution they must be given political, social and economic power to help usher in and sustain the country's long term redevelopment most importantly, afghan women must be allowed the opportunity to be heard as the international conference on afghanistan approaches in bonn, germany, world leaders must insist that women not only participate in the afghan delegation but that all discussions around peace and reconciliation include how women will be involved afghan women's voices are an indispensable resource and without them, the story of peace and prosperity cannot be told the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of khaled hosseini

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(ewcom)it's remarkable how strong the charlie brown specials continue to perform in the ratings, year after year 'a charlie brown thanksgiving' is not the most popular entry in the beloved animated franchise (both 'a charlie brown christmas' and it's the 'great pumpkin, charlie brown' deliver bigger numbers) yet the program still managed to hold its own against cbs' 'survivor' and fox's 'the x factor' (in fact, the special edged out factor in total viewers, see below) plus,'a charlie brown thanksgiving' delivered its biggest audience in four years — 81 million viewers and a 22 rating in the adult demo, up 22 percent from last year pretty spry for a 39 year old repeat, huh? as for the rest of the programs last night, well only the most masochistic of tv showrunners and network executives even look at ratings during a holiday week (which is to say, pretty much all of them) everything slipped from last week, with cbs' 'csi' dropping the least (only 8 percent) and nbc's 'law & order: svu' falling the most (down 24 percent) if you're wondering what to watch today, check out our guide to all the thanksgiving weekend tv marathons that networks have planned ew daily poll: what will you do on black friday? here's your full chart, repeats marked with an 'r': rank in demo adults 18 49 rating total viewers (+000) fox 8 10p x factor #4t 22 7,177 abc 8 9p charlie brown r #4t 22 8,092 9:00p modern fmly r #6 17 5,833 9:30p suburgatry r #9t 11 3,828 10 11p private prctc #12 10 3,682 cbs 8 9p survivor #2t 23 9,360 9 10p criminal #1 27 11,470 10 11p csi #2t 23 10,668 nbc 8:00p whitney #9t 11 3,937 8:30p guys kids #9t 11 3,503 9 10p law&o:svu #8 13 5,194 10 11p chicago fire #7 14 5,431 see 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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london, england (cnn)football dignitaries gathered in sheffield, northern england, on wednesday to kick off the 150th birthday celebrations of sheffield fcthe sport's oldest club fifa chief blatter was among those in sheffield to kick off the 150th birthday celebrations of football's oldest club guests of honor at a service at sheffield cathedral included sepp blatter, president of football world governing body fifa, and massimo moratti, president of italian giants inter milan who are scheduled to play a friendly against sheffield fc next month other guests attending a dinner in the club's honor included real madrid president ramon calderon and england and manchester united legend bobby charlton pelewidely recognized as the greatest footballer ever to play the gameis also due in town next month to attend sheffield fc's clash with inter blatter was unveiling a bust of the club's co founder william prestone of two cricket fans who founded sheffield fc, then known simply as sheffield club, on october 24, 1857 after deciding they needed a new sport to keep them active during the winter many more football clubs soon sprung up and by 1862 there were said to be 15 in and around the sheffield area the football associationwhich codified the basic rules of the modern gamewas established in london the following year sheffield fc was instrumental in developing set rules for the game the club studied existing rules and laid down a code of laws, which formed the foundation of the first commonly accepted set of rules for the sport, according to the sheffield fc web site the team was also responsible for several innovations in the gameincluding heading, which was unheard of until 1875, when sheffield traveled to london for a game according to the team's web site, the sight of the sheffield players using their foreheads in addition to their feet reduced the london crowd to hysterics other innovations attributed to the team include the solid crossbar on the goal, corner kicks, free kicks for fouls, and playing a match under floodlights despite its celebrated place in the history of the world's most popular sport, sheffield fc has never played at a professional level the club currently competes in the unibond league's first division south, seven divisions beneath the english premier league the city of sheffield has two professional clubsunited and wednesdaywho both currently play in english football's second tier, the coca cola championship sheffield fc's proudest achievement on the pitch came in 1904 when the team beat ealing 3 1 to win the fa amateur cup in front of 6,000 people but 100 years later in 2004, blatter presented sheffield fc with fifa's 'order of merit'an honor previously awarded only to the nine time european champions real madrid e mail to a friend

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marjah, afghanistan (cnn)authorities raised the afghan flag over the battle scarred enclave of marjah on thursday, a ceremony symbolizing the presence of the afghan government in the taliban stronghold the red, black and green banner was hoisted over an area where us and other troops have been fighting the taliban in operation moshtarakthe biggest offensive of the war a few hundred people watched the event, attended by helmand gov gulab mangal, other provincial and local officials, and military officials 'i think we're feeling pretty good about the control of the populated areas, the infrastructure,' said brig gen larry nicholson, commander of us marines in southern afghanistan about 15,000 nato led and afghan forces hope to oust the taliban and restore afghan government control to the region in the southern afghan province of helmand they are working to persuade citizens to turn their allegiance away from the militants and toward the afghan government more afghanistan coverage on afghanistan crossroads blog viewing the ceremony with hope, curiosity and skepticism, one local in the crowd said he doesn't trust the afghan government or its security forces asked if he thought change will come, abdul qader accused the afghan government of corruption 'if the foreigners do it, things will change if the afghans are in charge, there is no way' another citizen, mohammad sardar, said the taliban brought the people security, but not proper services such as schools and roads he said that while he still fears foreign forces, he hopes they can bring about change qader said the foreigners won't be able to get rid of the taliban completely, but the militants 'will put their heads down and fade away on the condition that help is brought, roads are built and security is achieved' the event took place as nato's international security assistance force reported trends that show security is improving and signs of stability are emerging in the region the offensive has been under way for 13 days and is expected to continue for at least another two to three weeks nicholson said there is still 'some fighting to dopotentially in some areas that we haven't gotten into' isaf said in a news release thursday that security is improving and signs of stability have been emerging despite 'occasional' clashes between militants and soldiers haji zahir, deputy district governor of nad ali, told 200 people in marjah at a shura, or community council, that security conditions have improved and that more afghan national police were to be posted there, isaf said he 'promised to ensure the opening of shops and clinics, and personally oversaw the distribution of rice, beans, cooking oil and sugar to the gathering' the nato led command said new shops have opened at marjah bazaars, with telephones, computers and other electronics available it said there has been a 'significant increase in the number of local residents returning to the area' and 'a decrease in the number of residents registering as internally displaced persons' cnn's atia abawi contributed to this report

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(rolling stone)lenny kravitz chose a life of rock and soul a long time ago and until recently was never tempted by the movies 'in the last 22 years, while i was making my music, i was offered a lot of films,' kravitz tells rolling stone 'i just didn't find the roles very interestinga lot of clichã©d type of stuff and really obvious things i didn't want to make films because i can there's no point in that' that changed in a big way with his first feature film role in the 2009 drama 'precious,' and now with a key role in next month's 'the hunger games' based on the hugely popular novel of the same name, the new film is set in post apocalyptic north america, where teenage gladiators are chosen to battle to the death in annual televised games kravitz plays cinna, stylist and confidant to the rebellious katniss everdeen (played by jennifer lawrence), the central figure in the book and movie 'i always figured it would come back into my life,' kravitz says of acting 'i was an actor when i was a kid when i realized music was my thing, i just gave it up i put blinders on, just focused on music it's come back now and i really am enjoying it' kravitz took the role after meeting with director gary ross ('pleasantville') and reading the first book of the best selling trilogy by suzanne collins 'i thought it was really good storytelling,' kravitz says 'i'm very much into stories the character was interesting i like gary's previous work and i said, yeah, let's go' in 'the hunger games,' his character creates a series of striking outfits for the young warrior, which isn't exactly a stretch for the stylish rocker 'he's very streamlined, he's very quiet,' kravitz says of cinna 'he knows what he's doing he's confident he's got a big heart i just liked the way he movedvery smooth' as a musician, kravitz is used to being in total control of his workwriting, performing and producingand that control reflects on him as an artist 'it's about me, as it should be,' he says 'but in this case, it's got nothing to do with me it's about a director's vision, a character, and i really like that' the film opens on march 23 up next for kravitz is 'negrophilia,' the funk album he interrupted to record last year's 'black and white america' music remains his central concern, but he now also considers himself a working actor 'i'm just waiting for the right roles to come in,' he says 'thank god i have a day job' see the full article at rollingstonecom copyright © 2011 rolling stone

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(cnn student news)january 13, 2012 media literacy question of the day what might a journalist look for when visiting the scene of a natural disaster years after the disaster happened? * * know your newsthe following questions relate to events that were covered this week on cnn student news write your answers in the space provided click here for a pdf version of this newsquiz 1 what kind of animal is believed to be the world's smallest vertebrate? * * 2 what state, also known as the granite state, held the first us presidential primary of 2012? * * 3 what country experienced protests this week after a fuel subsidy was removed? * * 4 what us city is waiting for a shipment of fuel that's traveling on a russian tanker through sea ice? * * 5 what us national statistic now roughly equals the us national debt, which is currently more than $15 trillion? * * 6 what us city is hosting the annual international consumer electronics show? * * 7 in what country, led by president bashar al assad, did anti government and pro government groups recently hold rallies? * * 8 a ship that had wrecked last october recently split in two off the coast of what country? * * 9 which international organization met for the first time this week in 1946? * * 10 what country experienced a devastating earthquake two years ago on january 12? * *

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bonn, germany (cnn)ten years ago, afghan leaders met outside bonn, germany, to lay out a road map to establish and sustain afghanistan's government after the fall of the taliban on monday, the nation's president for the last seven years, hamid karzai, will once again preside over a conference in the west german city to chart his nation's future yet this time, as opposed to just un representatives facilitating the 2001 conference for a group of afghan exiles and leaders, members of 85 delegations from various countries and 15 international organizations will join afghans in the discussions their goal is to take stock of accomplishments and assess continued challenges in afghanistan over the past decade, as well as to plot a partnership with the kabul government amid plans to withdraw all foreign combat troops from the country by 2014 there has, admittedly, been notable progress in recent years afghanistan's economy has grown, albeit it at a slow rate despite reported corruption, afghanistan has moved away from the repressive extremist rule of the taliban and toward a more democratic political system, in which afghans vote for their leaders and the status of womenstrictly controlled under the talibanhas improved with a constitutional commitment guaranteeing equality, and 3 million girls are now in school but the international community knows many of these gains hang by a thread as it was in 2001, afghanistan is still one of the world's poorest and corrupt nations even as international troops seek to wind down their involvement, the country faces a resilient taliban insurgency, political instability and economic turmoil attendees at this bonn conference are expected to address prospects for long term aid for afghanistan that could well include a promise of substantial resources from the international community, given concerns afghanistan's economic stability may suffer after international troops leave and funding levels dwindle karzai is officially in charge of the conference, seeking to demonstrate ownership over his nation's own affairs afghan officials are expected to make extensive presentations on plans to assume responsibility of security from nato led forces over the next three years and efforts to forge a political settlement with the taliban, which some see as key to establishing security across the country yet even with afghanistan's ambitious plans to become self sufficient in political and security matters, few expect it will be truly independentespecially economicallybeyond the 2014 transition world bank and american analyses state that the security situation will be pivotal to afghanistan's ability to grow its economy they estimate the withdrawal of troops and a resulting loss of foreign aid could reduce afghanistan's growth rate by 50% or moresomething the world bank warned could cause the afghan economy to collapse the us has introduced its own plan, developed in coordination with the afghan government, to shore up the afghan economy washington hopes that increasing investment in afghanistan's private sector and developing the country's agricultural and mining sectors will help the nation become less reliant on the united states us officials acknowledge that it will be difficult for afghanistan to make more progress economically, unless the governance and security situations improve there are also other challenges, like the fact afghanistan still ranks among the world's lowest literacy and health ratesfactors that make it difficult to find skilled laborers need to fuel industry another problem is the state of afghanistan's infrastructure one focus is to integrate afghanistan's economy with its neighbors in south and central asia, thus bolstering afghanistan's self sufficiency to that end, the united states has introduced the new silk road initiative to promote afghanistan as a hub for the free movement of goods, services, capital and people in the region the elephant in the room at bonnor, more accurately, not in the roomwill be neighboring pakistan islamabad opted not to send any representatives to the conference last week in reaction to november 27 cross border strike by nato that killed 24 of its soldiers it has also closed nato supply lines into afghanistan in retaliation for the attack pakistan is viewed as a critical player in the region, because of its perceived relationships with the taliban and other insurgency groupssome of whom are based within pakistani borders, from where they launch attacks on afghan and foreign troops pakistan's government, itself, has argued for a larger role in regional efforts to stabilize the country and broker peace with the taliban washington had hoped the bonn conference would produce momentum for peace talks with the taliban, but reconciliation efforts have stalled since the september assassination of burhanuddin rabbani, a former afghan president who was his government's chief negotiator in talks with insurgents those efforts have been further stymied by pakistan's decision not to go to germany us secretary of state hillary clinton, who arrived in bonn on sunday night, has called pakistan's decision to drop out of the conference 'regrettable' and even called pakistani prime minister yousaf raza gilani to ask his government to reconsider still, us officialsat least publiclyrefuse to admit pakistan will play spoiler either at the bonn conference or in the larger us led plans to stabilize afghanistan and bring forces home

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(cnn)the us and european union will begin talks later this year on a multi trillion dollar free trade pact to boost economic growth president barack obama and eu leaders are hoping agreement to reduce trade barriers will support millions of jobs on both sides of the atlantic speaking at a press conference in brussels, trade commissioner karel de gucht said the eu and the us would strive to open negotiations by the end of june 'this undertaking won't be easy ideally, we'd like to complete this work in about two years from now,' de gucht said read more: eu leaders agree historic cut in long term budget if finalized, the dealdubbed the transatlantic trade and investment partnershipwould be the biggest bilateral trade agreement ever negotiated as two of the world's most important trade partners, business between the us and the eu already exceeds $2 billion a day and $5 trillion annually this accounts for one third of global trade flows, according to the eu and the us chamber of commerce watch more: deepening us, eu trade relations the negotiations come as governments seek new ways to rekindle growth without adding to already inflated national debts while central banks have pumped trillions of dollars into the global economy commission president jose manuel barroso described the pact as a 'game changer' and said it 'is a boost to our economies that does not cost a cent of taxpayer money' the eu estimates the partnership could increase the 27 nation bloc's annual economic output by 05% us president barack obama announced the launch of talks in his state of the union address yesterday he said of the partnership: 'trade that is free and fair across the atlantic supports millions of good paying american jobs' obama added: 'it is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of america's economic growtha rising, thriving middle class' the us and eu have been focusing on bilateral deals with trading partners as it became clear that talks at the world trade organization on a global dealthe doha roundwere making little progress de gucht said the deal would center on dismantling any remaining trade tariffs while tackling regulatory and certification barriers the us chamber of commerce has calculated that the removal of all tariffs could add $180 billion to combined eu us gross domestic product over five years eliminating half the non tariff barriers to trade could add a further 3% to gdp for both the eu and the us barroso added that tariffs must be cut wherever it makes sense and is possible he said: ''for these negotiations to succeed, we needabove allpolitical will: a desire to make our rules and regulations compatible'

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(cnn)british researchers say a new drug could effectively halt the progression of alzheimer's disease, offering hope to millions the pioneering researcha joint initiative between the university of aberdeen in the uk and singapore based taurx therapeuticswas announced this week at the alzheimer's association international conference on alzheimer's disease (icad 2008) in chicago the productrembertmis the first drug to act on the 'tangles' discovered by alois alzheimer over a century ago tangles are made up of the protein, tau, which forms inside nerve cells in the brain according to aberdeen university, the drug works by dissolving these tau fibers to prevent a build up of tangles which destroy nerve cells and neurons critical for memory trials were carried out on 321 people with mild and moderate alzheimer's disease in the uk and singapore patients with mild to moderate alzheimer's disease were given either 30, 60 or 100mg of the drug or a placebo the 60mg dose produced the most pronounced effect, with those with both mild and moderate alzheimer's experiencing an 81 percent reduction in mental decline after 50 weeks those on rember did not experience a significant decline in their mental function over 19 months, while those on placebo got worse brain imaging data also showed that the drug had its biggest effect in the memory critical parts of the brain where the tangle density is highest in a statement on the university's web site, professor claude wischik, chairman of taurx therapeutics and professor of psychiatric geratology and old age psychiatry at the university of aberdeen's institute of medical sciences, who led the research, said: 'this is an unprecedented result in the treatment of alzheimer's disease 'we have demonstrated for the first time that it may possible to arrest the progression of this disease by targeting the tangles which are highly correlated with the disease' professor clive ballard, head of research at the alzheimer's society, told the british press association: 'this is a major new development in the fight against dementia 'it suggests the drug could be over twice as affective as any treatment that is currently available' if further trials prove successful, the drug could be available by 2012

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announced at alzheimer's association international conference in chicago rembertm is first drug to act on the 'tangles' discovered by alois alzheimer tangles destroy nerve cells and neurons critical for memory if further trials prove successful, the drug could be available by 2012

(cnn)the 2022 world cup in qatar has an unlikely backerzahir belounis despite being stuck in qatar for two years in an ordeal that he says left him contemplating a hunger strike and suicide, the freed footballer insists the middle eastern nation deserves to stage arguably the world's top sporting event world governing body fifa's decision to award the 2022 contest to qatar three years ago has generated controversy both over what time of the year it will be held and the way migrant workers, largely responsible for the tournament's infrastructure, are treated 'they deserve it,' the french algerian told cnn on friday the 'people are working very hard for it a lot of qatari friends were sad at my situation 'i enjoyed my time there the people who tried to destroy my life, i will not forgive them, but i will forever cherish the people who helped me my life in qatar was great, but the last two years were a disaster' a relieved and exhausted belounis, who was embroiled in a pay dispute with club el jaish, returned home to paris on thursday with his wife and two daughters after the 33 year old was finally granted an exit visa but instead of saying qatar should be stripped of holding the world cup because of its controversial employment lawsespecially the kafala system, which effectively means foreign employees can't leave the country without their employer's permissionbelounis indeed backed the emirate's right to host the competition an amnesty international report released last week claimed the abuse of migrant workers in qatar was an issue and even sepp blatter has described working conditions there as 'unacceptable'although the fifa president is adamant the world cup in nine years won't be moved to another country 'world cup organizers were sad' about his predicament, said belounis 'i can't say bad things against qataris or qatar, just against the club,' he added in reference to his dispute with el jaish as well as endorsing qatar as world cup host, belounis said there was little wrong with the employment laws in placeas long as they were correctly followed 'there are rules if people respect them, everything will be fine,' he said 'i believe qatar will grow up in a very good way i don't think i helped them to grow now we know that there are a lot of people that are abused 'it's not the state of qatar or the government there is a company that brings the workers the company has to respect the rules i'm sad to see the workers abused, but it's not the organizers or the government' belounis, a striker, credited his wife for being 'stronger' than him during his nightmare when he admitted to crying 'every day, like a baby' as belounis' fight to leave qatar is over, so it also seems, is his playing career 'i think it's finished for me,' he said 'i think a team, as a symbolic thing, they (might) want me to train for them my psychology is very bad right now 'i didn't take any medication but i will see if i have the power to train the fight was so intense' the last few months might have made belounis a cause celebre, but he believes he won't be headline news for very much longer 'in one or two weeks, everyone will forget about me,' he said 'i have to focus on my life, have a normal life, find a job, to restart my life and enjoy my family' the qatari foreign ministry and qatari football association (qfa) didn't reply to cnn's queries earlier this week seeking comment but in october, the qfa told cnn that 'as in any other football association in the world, there will unfortunately always be contractual disputes between clubs and players/coaches' it added: 'it is also relevant to emphasize that up to now the player has not taken any action in front of the competent judicial bodies of fifa' the qfa said further that belounis received full compensation in relation to a claim he made for compensation from another club, al markhiya 'however, in the alleged case of el jaish club, zahir belounis did not contact qfa, although he had experienced the efficiency of doing so when his request was legitimate,' it said

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zahir belounis says qatar deserves to host the world cup in 2022 belounis was stuck in qatar for two years over a pay dispute but returned to france this week he says the people in qatar are 'working very hard' to stage the tournament belounis suspects that his playing career is over as his 'psychology is very bad'

cairo (cnn)cairo braced for a third day of protests despite stifling heat monday, as egyptians vent anger over the trials of former top officials accused of ordering demonstrators killed during last year's revolution former president hosni mubarak and his interior minister habib el adly were sentenced to life in prison, while six top interior ministry officials were cleared of the charges protesters flooded into cairo's tahrir square, the symbolic heart of egypt's revolution, in the wake of the verdict, outraged at the clearing of the ministry officials and angry that mubarak escaped the death penalty the protesters chanted 'down with scaf,' the military council that has ruled the country since mubarak was toppled last year, and shouted that the court ruling was illegitimate there were smaller protests on sunday, and vows to continue demonstrations on monday protesters rally after egypt's hosni mubarak is sentenced to life in prison mubarak and his two sons, gamal and alaa mubarak, were cleared of corruption charges on saturday, but the sons now face two other sets of charges on sunday, prosecutors announced the two are charged with money laundering last week, they were charged with insider trading, accused of making a profit of 2 billion egyptian poundsabout $331 millionthrough the practice on the egyptian stock market hosni mubarak has previously accused authorities of tarnishing his reputation and that of his family he has said he and his children did not violate any laws five of mubarak's aides have been freed; gamal and alaa mubarak remain in prison adel saeed, spokesman for the general prosecutor's office, said last week the two sons would remain in prison for the insider trading case it was not immediately clear what impact the new charges of money laundering, would have on how long the two remain behind bars many egyptians taking part in sunday's protests expressed anger that former strongman mubarak, 84, had escaped the death penalty a cartoon published after the verdict showed mubarak's scowling head in prison while his body, hands dripping with blood and labeled 'mubarak's regime,' walked away waving a sheet of paper saying 'innocent' the muslim brotherhood called for more protests on sunday mubarak was immediately transferred to a prison in southern cairo to serve his sentence, and a prosecutor said the former president, who attended court on a gurney, would be moved to the prison hospital the former president's lawyer, fareed el deeb, said there were many holes in the judge's decision and that he was already preparing to appeal the mubarak verdict protesters in the square waved egyptian flags as they demanded justice for those killed and injured during last year's demonstrations at least 61 people were injured saturday in protests throughout egypt, following the verdict, state tv reported ireport: egyptians protest current regime about 840 people died and more than 6,000 others were injured in last year's 18 day uprising, according to amnesty international 'i'm asking the help of the people who gather in tahrir square to get justice for my son,' pleaded one woman on the street in cairo 'i need justice for my son my son did not commit any crime how come the sons of mubarak are set free?' the cairo courtroom erupted in chaos saturday after the judge announced his decisions it appeared the entire gallery of men dressed in suits began shouting and stood on their chairs fists flew and at least one man suffered a bleeding gash to his chin 'we want honesty!' they shouted 'revolution till victory!' a strongman's fall from grace the echoing cheers outside the police academy where the trial was held turned to angry shouts as people first heard mubarak's sentence, then heard that all of mubarak's senior advisers and his two sons were acquitted the mostly anti mubarak crowd threw rocks at police, smashed cars and cursed the ruling military council the sentence delivered by judge ahmed refaat was the final chapter of mubarak's iron rule of egypt that ended in february 2011 he said it offered people relief after living 'in 30 years of dark without any hope' 'the verdicts are insults to the egyptian people and the judicial system it's a festival of innocent verdicts to el adly's aides who killed and tortured free citizens for years,' said rami shath, a member of the egyptian revolution alliance human rights watch said the verdict sends a message to egypt's future leaders that they are not above the law, though it said the acquittals give 'a green light to future police abuse' amnesty international described the verdict as 'a significant step towards combating long standing impunity in egypt' but it too said the ruling leaves many waiting for full justice arab leaders: where are they now? david scheffer, an american lawyer and diplomat who served as the first us ambassador at large for war crimes issues, said the trial was significant for the arab world even if it could have been run better 'while i want to emphasize the problems with the trial itself, it's also important to recognize that the egyptian judicial system has held a leader accountable for very serious crimes that occurred during the uprising in egypt,' scheffer told cnn 'in the very heart of the arab world, where this has not occurred before in a civilian court, a leader has actually been brought to justice, a leader who has been present in the courtroom has brought to some level of justice by a domestic court for gross human rights abuses' timeline of mubarak's ascent and fall from power the white house had no comment on mubarak's sentence the trial has been a spectacle few egyptians thought they would see, with mubarak on the gurney and locked in a defendant's cage the verdict follows friday's expiration of a notorious emergency law that had been in effect since shortly after mubarak came to power in october 1981 and gave police sweeping powers cnn's saad abedine and mohamed fadel fahmy contributed to this report

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demonstrators vow to continue protests despite stifling heat in cairo prosecutors charge mubarak's sons with money laundering five of mubarak's aides have been freed; his sons remain in prison hundreds of people gather in tahrir square after mubarak escapes the death penalty

beijing (cnn)even as china is softening its one child policy, one if its most renowned film directors is finding himself in trouble for violating the nation's infamous family planning law zhang yimou, an oscar nominee, is in the eye of a controversy after admitting to having three children with his wife chen ting he now faces stiff fineand harsh public criticismsfor breaking china's family planning rules china's stringent family planning rules limit most urban couples to one child and most rural couples to two, with few exceptions ironically for zhang, his troubles come as china announced in november the decision to loosen the policy by allowing couples to have two children even if just one of them is an only child last weekend, the standing committee of the national people's congress, china's legislature, formally adopted the new rules even so, the new rules apparently will not help extricate zhang, known for movies such as 'red sorghum,' 'raise the red lantern,' and 'hero,' from his current troubles he also directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 beijing olympics contrite, zhang, 62, apologized in an open letter for his 'excessive children' 'as a film director, it takes a lot of efforts and good movies for people to remember you, but having excessive children had ruined it all,' he said, according to xinhua, china's state news agency 'i sincerely apologize to everyone on my 'excessive children' case i admit it's my mistake and i won't blame others for it' 'i will learn my lessons, and i'm willing to cooperate with any investigation from family planning commission,' zhang said local officials decide the amount of the fine in jiangsu province, where zhang's case is under investigation, couples who have two 'beyond the quota' children may be fined five to eight times the annual income of the couples combined if so, zhang is potentially liable to pay a hefty fine 'the case is still under investigation,' a staff at wuxi's binhe family planning bureau told cnn 'we will announce the result once we have all information ready' zhang's breach of the policy has set off a firestorm, especially among netizens who resent how the rich and famous in china flout rules and policies jinqiut wrote on sina weibo, china's twitter like microblogging service: 'celebrities should abide laws and rules as common people' but the filmmaker has defenders too 'he will raise his children, which has nothing to do with other people,' wrote another 'he doesn't have to apologize he didn't steal others' children he can afford to raise children and at least his children won't endure hardships' zhang is no stranger to controversy as one of the most inventive and admired filmmakers in china, zhang has won numerous awards in china and overseas long before his directorial debut of his film, 'red sorghum' in 1987, he was already widely admired for his stunning camera work one of his earlier films, 'raise the red lantern' was nominated for a oscar as the best foreign film in 1992, but it failed to pass the censors in china and was initially banned from local cinemas censors sensitive to zhang's subtle metaphors banned some of his films from local cinemas, if only briefly most of his films focused on the oppressiveness of conservatism opinion: china is not ending its human rights abuses like most of his contemporaries who grew up during the cultural revolution, zhang spent three years in the countryside undergoing 'ideological remolding' he later worked as a janitor in a textile factory in the late 1970s, he taught himself photography and enrolled in the prestigious beijing film academy cnn's feng ke and susan wang contributed to this report

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famous chinese filmmaker zhang yimou apologizes for a breach of china's one child policy zhang and his wife admitted to having two sons and a daughter zhang: 'i sincerely apologize to everyone on my 'excessive children' case' his case is under investigation and is potentially liable to pay a hefty fine

cairo (cnn)hosni mubarak's fall from power a year ago stunned the worldthree decades of iron clad rule ended in 17 days by an unexpected groundswell of popular protests a banner headline in the al ahram newspaper said: 'the people have toppled the regime' but in the year that followed, egyptians increasingly realized that what they ousted was one man, not the military that stood behind him and they grew bitterly frustrated at what they perceive as the slow pace of change saturday brought another reminder of the powers that be in egypt as america's top military officer was in cairo to meet with his egyptian counterparts on the table for discussion was the fate of 16 americans who are among 43 foreigners working for civil society institutions who are to be tried in egypt for receiving illegal foreign funding and possibly the fate of us military aid, conditioned now on the progress of egypt's transition to democracy the united states viewed the legal proceedings against the foreigners as a crackdown, another sign that autocracy has hardly departed egypt many egyptians would probably agree on the first anniversary of mubarak's departure, the plan was to voice their frustration, though saturday came and went without the ceremony that was anticipated on such a day activists kicked off a general strike, hoping for the kind of large protests that made tahrir square a familiar name but the demonstrations were scattered and light 'a year later, nothing has changed we have been facing the same regime, if worse,' prominent activist gigi ibrahim told cnn on saturday ibrahim said farmers, students and workers will help 'settle this revolution once and for all' 'many people don't know what actually toppled mubarak was the last three days of those 17 days when large numbers of workers in different sectors went on strike,' she said from cairo the egypt revolutionaries' alliance, comprised of democratic and secular political groups, called for the immediate dismantling of the interim government and immediate presidential elections it also demanded the dismissal of the prosecutor general, and a purge and overhaul of the interior ministry that came to be despised during last year's revolt and again last week as anger mounted over a deadly stampede at a soccer match the alliance said a committee should be formed to to investigate any crimes by egypt's new rulers while revolutionary tribunals should try former regime figures meanwhile saturday, an american student was arrested with an australian journalist and their female translator in the city of mahalla, north of cairo, for inciting people to join the general strike and handing them money for doing so, a spokesman for the egyptian ministry of interior told cnn spokesman alaa mahmoud said they were transferred to a general prosecutor for an investigation an official spokesman for the us embassy said it was in touch with the male student the arrests came as human rights watch decried what it called a disturbing assault on free expression 'violations of the right to freedom of expression have included military trials of protesters and bloggers, interrogations of journalists and activists for criticizing the military, the suspension of new satellite television licenses, and the closure of an outlet of al jazeera television,' the global monitoring group said it cited cases of notable people who have 'faced charges of insulting religion under vague and arbitrary laws dating from the mubarak administration' and another case in which a pro democracy activist was sentenced to a year behind bars for handing out leaflets 'actions like these were hallmarks of mubarak's 30 year rule, but they also have been used repeatedly in the year since the (supreme armed forces council) assumed control,' human rights watch said the revolutionaries' alliance, however, was not deterred the next step, said member rami shaath, will be civil disobedience don't pay taxes or government bills the armed forces council came down hard on the strike, saying it 'serves those interests of parties aiming for the destruction of egypt and is a tool brought to egypt from abroad' council leaders lt gen sami enan and field marshal hussein tantawi, meanwhile, sat down for talks with chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, us gen martin dempsey dempsey's spokesman, col dave lapan, said they discussed a wide range of issues, including the investigation of nongovernmental organizations in the country and an announcement that 43 foreigners working for such groups, including 16 americans, would face prosecution egyptian authorities carried out 17 raids on the offices of 10 organizations, including the us based freedom house, national democratic institute and the international republican institute among those going to court is sam lahood, the son of us transportation secretary ray lahood the egyptians said the pro democracy organizations had received illegal foreign financing and were operating without a proper license but some of the groups had been tacitly operating for some time in egypt without permission, even under mubarak washington threatened to cut off the $13 billion in military assistance it gives egypt every year in doing so, the united states escalated the crisis that is now testing its alliance with its arab ally lapan gave no details of the meetings outside, unease reigned on the streets of cairo and beyond the egyptians served as role models for their libyan neighbors they look now to a syria in flames and flickers of discontent elsewhere and can take heart that they played a role in inspiring people to stand up for freedom but a year since their own revolution was declared victorious, the euphoria has dimmed the general strike is open ended more may take to the streets sunday, which unlike saturday is a working day in the muslim world organizers have not given up hope they are optimistic that momentum will build as long as a military regime rules egypt cnn's ben wedeman and journalist mohamed fadel fahmy contributed to this report

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kabul, afghanistan (cnn)afghan president hamid karzai's office contacted the us ambassador to afghanistan about reports the ambassador warned against sending more us troops to the country, a karzai spokesman told cnn thursday two us officials confirmed to cnn that ambassador karl eikenberry sent two cables to washington expressing reservations about troop increases amid uncertainty over karzai's government one official, who spoke on condition of not being identified because of the sensitive nature of the cables, said the two communications 'expressed concern and reservations about troop increases in afghanistan' until more is known about karzai's government after his recent re election separately, a senior us official also confirmed the existence of two eikenberry classified cables the official said eikenberry expressed reservations about troop increases because of lingering concerns about karzai and uncertainties about the government he is going to put in place the second official also asked not to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the cables in kabul, eikenberry's office would not confirm to karzai's office the reports about the cables, karzai spokesman seyemic herawi said herawi said karzai will not comment on the reports without more information from the us embassy should more troops be sent to afghanistan? share your thoughts eikenberry previously expressed worry about corruption in karzai's government and its ability to partner with the united states to fight the taliban a senior state department official told cnn that president obama's administration has questions about karzai's behavior, suggesting it has been inconsistent asked for an official response on reports of the cables, the us embassy in kabul said it does not comment on private messages, but did confirm that there had been correspondence between eikenberry and the president in washington, state department spokesman ian kelly declined to comment thursday on eikenberry's communications 'we are not going to get into the details of this kind of advice,' kelly said 'this is a privileged channel of communication they have the right to receive this advice in a confidential way,' kelly said 'ambassador eikenberry has been providing this kind of advice and analysis to the president and secretary since he arrived,' he said 'the president really deserves the right to be able to gather all of this information from all of the different principals, people involved in the shaping of this policy' earlier, white house spokesman tommy vietor said, 'we won't discuss classified documents publicly, but, as we have said for months, success in afghanistan depends on having a true partner in the afghan government' initial reports of cables sent by eikenberry appeared in the new york times, washington post and los angeles times all three newspapers attributed the reports to senior us officials, without identifying them the developments came as obama told his war council wednesday that the us troop commitment to afghanistan is not open ended, and then asked for revisions to options he previously received for sending more troops, a senior administration official told cnn the war councilcomprising top cabinet, pentagon and administration officialsmet with obama for the eighth time to discuss a request by the top us commander in afghanistan for up to 40,000 more troops the meeting lasted more than two hours, according to the senior administration official 'the president and his team discussed the length of time that it would take to implement the options he's been presented,' the senior official said 'the president believes that we need to make clear to the afghan government that our commitment is not open ended after years of substantial investments by the american people, governance in afghanistan must improve in a reasonable period of time to ensure a successful transition to our afghan partner' in particular, obama pushed for revisions in proposed plans for troop increases to clarify how and when us troops would turn over responsibility to the afghan government, the official said earlier, a senior administration official and a us military official independently told cnn that one option presented to obama calls for sending about 34,000 more us troops to afghanistan, in addition to the 68,000 already committed to the country the military official said the plan would send three us army brigades, totaling about 15,000 troops; a marine brigade of about 8,000 troops; a headquarters element of about 7,000 troops; and 4,000 to 5,000 support troops the combat brigades would be brought in gradually, in three month intervals, according to the military official the troops would be spread across the country, mainly focusing in the south and southeast, where much of the fighting is, according to the military official the option has been a favorite at the pentagon in recent weeks, the official added that is only one option, the senior administration official emphasized three other options, the official said, would be 'different mixes,' or 'different components of it' despite reports to the contrary, obama has not decided the number of us troops he will send to afghanistan, white house officials said such reports are 'absolutely false,' press secretary robert gibbs said and anyone who suggests otherwise, 'doesn't have, in all honesty, the slightest idea what they're talking about' republican members of the senate armed services committee urged obama in a letter sent wednesdayveterans dayto agree to the request for additional troops by us military leaders in afghanistan the letter, signed by 10 republican committee members, said success in afghanistan will require enabling local leaders to govern and secure their country without substantial international assistance cnn 's barbara starr, elise labott, suzanne malveaux, mike mount, chris lawrence and tom cohen contributed to this report

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state department says what ambassador tells president is confidential hamid karzai aides question us ambassador's advice to obama ambassador reportedly warns obama against sending more troops to afghanistan ambassador has expressed concerns about karzai government in past

(cnn)snow is no surprise in the northeast and northern plains states in winter but a blizzard? that's something differentand dangerous that's especially a concern when it threatens new york city, with more than 8 million residents and legions of visitors perhaps still stumbling home from times square after the big apple dropped on new year's eve as of wednesday night, new york city was under a winter storm warning, just like many other densely populated communities in parts of eight states a stone's throw away in neighboring long islandincluding in nassau county, which borders new yorkthe national weather service has issued a blizzard warning from 6 pm thursday through 1 pm friday because of a forecast marked by 8 to 10 inches of snow, wind chills dipping to 10 below zero and sustained winds up to 35 mph and gusting 10 mph stronger than that 'falling and blowing snow with strong winds and poor visibilities are likely,' the weather service said 'this will lead to whiteout conditions making travel extremely dangerous do not travel' even if it doesn't officially get socked with a blizzardwhich meteorologists define as three hours or longer of 35 mph winds or more and considerable snownew york city should come close its forecast calls for about 9 inches of snow, subzero wind chills and winds regularly blowing between 21 and 26 mph, which could test newly inaugurated mayor bill de blasio by sheer numbers, other cities are predicted to have it worse albany, new york, could shudder at lows of 11 below and some 14 inches of snow boston's temperatures alone (not just the wind chill) should be minus 3 on friday night, by which time the hub should have 5 to 11 inches of flakes on the ground two days ahead of time, due to the storm, the city called off school for friday citing likely 'near blizzard' conditions thursday night into late friday morning, the massachusetts emergency management agency warned that 1 to 2 feet of fluffy, drifting snow could accumulate in some pockets and that there could be moderate coastal flooding the combination of everythingespecially the extreme cold and strong windshas homeless shelters at the ready, knowing there may be more people needing their help crossroads rhode island, for example, expects a number of people will end up sleeping on its floors over the coming days 'our main emphasis is getting people inside where it is safer and warmer,' said jennifer harris, a spokeswoman for the pine street inn shelter system in boston, where a snow emergency has been declared ' pine street inn is making sure to have extra staff and food and water we are geared up to provide to a greater number of people' already, wintry weather was hitting parts of the midwest on wednesday night in the form of snow in kansas, missouri and illinois the weather contributed to nearly 600 flight cancellations in and out of chicago's o'hare international airportmore than half the total for all the united states, according to airline tracking website flightawareand it should get worse, with 5 to 9 inches of snow forecast for thursday and parts of the northern united states should get even colder, somehow, as the week rolls along green bay's beloved packers will welcome the san francisco 49ers to wisconsin, where low temperatures could bottom out sunday night around at minus 17 it will be relatively balmy sunday in cincinnati, ohio, but potentially a lot wetter with snow and rain possible when the city's bengals host the san diego chargers in another nfl playoff match up of course, while the players might not have a choice, fans don't have to brave the cold for either game the big worries are for those who travel in the coming days authorities in new york, for example, say they may shut down the long island expressway if whiteout conditions make driving along the east west highway too perilous kevin willims isn't taking any chances, nor is he predicting a world ending storm the new yorker said that he plans to sit tight and let mother nature do her thing 'there's not much you can do,' said willims 'when it's snowing and these streets lock up, there's really no where you can go, so it's best to just stay in' cnn's lorenzo ferrigno contributed to this report

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new: boston declares a snow emergency because of coming snow long island faces a blizzard warning; nyc may get 10 inches of snow, sub zero wind chills much of new england is also bracing for a powerful winter storm temperatures will be below zero in many locations, in addition to strong winds

(cnn)passengers on a russian polar expedition ship off antarctica are getting a whiter christmas than they probably wanted the mv akademik shokalskiy, with 74 people aboard, got trapped in ice and is waiting for other ships with ice breaking capabilities to reach it, the australian maritime safety authority said wednesday a british rescue coordination center received a satellite distress signal on christmas morning from the russian flagged ship and contacted the australian authority, which handles the southern ocean region where the vessel was stuck, an amsa statement said it pinpointed the trapped ship's location as 100 nautical miles east of the french base dumont d'urville, about 1,500 nautical miles south of hobart, tasmania three icebreakers were headed to help the russian vessel, the amsa statement said, adding that none were expected to reach it before friday expeditions online, a polar booking agent for the mv akademik shokalskiy, said on its website that the ship got stuck 'part way through her australasian antarctic expedition towards mawson's hut at cape denison' 'according to reports, nobody is in present danger and three nearby icebreakers are being sent to assist,' the expeditions online website said it described the ship as 'a fully ice strengthened expedition vessel' for working in polar regions 'this class of vessel is world renowned for polar exploration, because of its strength, maneuverability and small passenger numbers,' the company's website said cnn's kevin wang contributed to this report

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polar expedition ship with 74 aboard sends a christmas distress signal three icebreakers are heading for the trapped vessel the ship is stuck near antarctica, 1,500 nautical miles south of tasmania the australian maritime safety authority is coordinating the rescue

(realsimplecom)why shoes are called 'pumps' and other strange but true stories behind the clothes and accessories you know and love so, how did the trend for pointed toe shoes start? manolo who? long before they ever made an appearance on the tv show 'sex and the city,' pointed shoes were favored by polish nobles, who introduced the fashion to england on a diplomatic visit in the 1300s the shoes, dubbed 'crackowes' or 'poulaines'after kraków, polandwere so long that a chain running from the toe to the knee was often required to keep them from dragging in 1363 the english attempted to rein in the look by law, assigning shoe spans to social classes commoners could sport footwear with toes of up to six inches, while those in the royal ranks were allowed a full two feet in length who invented the sports bra? in 1977 university of vermont student lisa lindahl was running 30 miles a weekand her bra wasn't holding up with the help of two classmates, lindahl sewed together two jock straps andpresto!the sports bra was born the coeds founded the company jogbra a year later, garnering eternal gratitude from exercise loving women everywhere almost 40,000 sports bras are now sold annually real simple: best bras for every figure is there a real mary jane behind mary jane shoes? not quite: the most widely held theory is that the single strapped footwear was named for a character in 'buster brown,' a children's comic strip that was popular in the early 1900s mary jane was either buster brown's sweetheart or sister, depending on which source you consult what's the connection between shakespeare and raincoats? gabardine, a water repellent fabric invented by burberry, got its first mention from shakespeare the bard used the word in the merchant of venice to refer to a coarse cloak worn as protection from storms during world war i, british officers on the front lines kept warm and dry in a uniform coat made of the materialthe original burberry trench who was the first person known to have pierced ears? no one knows who originated the style, but there's evidence that as early as 2500 bc sumerian women wore pierced earringsgold half moon hoops and guys tired of defending their diamond studs can rest easy: men have been wearing earrings since ancient egypt, where the jewelry was introduced in 1500 bc real simple: best way to clean jewelry what was the inspiration for lilly pulitzer's colorful printed dresses? bored palm beach socialite lilly pulitzer opened a juice stand in 1959 to pass the time, but she found one drawback: the citrus concoctions discolored her clothes she instructed her dressmaker to create a uniform that would camouflage the bright stains, and the 'lilly' designsleeveless cotton shifts in vibrant printswas born the style was an instant hit with customers, who soon began placing more orders for dresses than juice how did pumps, stilettos, and sneakers get their names? the term pump first popped up in 1550 in england, where male servants sported the style it is said that the noise they made while wearing the loose fitting shoes resembled the sound of a water pump the word sneaker entered the language in the 1870s; the rubber soles made the shoes quiet and therefore 'sneaky' the modern usage of stiletto, a renaissance era italian word for an assassin's narrow bladed knife, made its debut in 1953 the word turned out to be especially appropriate, because the shoes' pointy heels were murder on wooden floors when did folks start toting around umbrellas? for thousands of years, in such places as egypt, china, japan, mesopotamia, and india, umbrellas were used exclusively to shade the heads of dignitaries from the broiling sun (when it rained, the well to do stayed dry in covered carriages and sedan chairs) umbrellas weren't employed in inclement weather until the late 17th and early 18th centuries and another hundred years passed before advances in manufacturing made them lightweight, portable, and available to average joes have bikinis always been so popular? hardly! named for the nuclear testing site bikini atoll, the suits first appeared in 1946, but american women thought them immodest not until the 1960s were they accepted, possibly helped by the hit song 'itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini' were french cuffs really created for the battlefield? it is said that the cuffs were designed to be used as handkerchiefs in combat but, in fact, french royalty invented the style in the 1500s, when flowing sleeves were the rage; nobles would tie their sleeves back with fasteners amusingly, the competitive english tried to take credit for the fashion, which to this day they refer to only as 'double cuffs' have women always carried purses? once upon a time, ladies stored their essentials in a little waist sack tied under their clothing (sort of an early ancestor of the fanny pack) and accessible through slits in their skirts around 1800, thinner, silkier fabrics and slimmer cuts came into vogue, and women could no longer hide the bulging sacks around their midsections the solution? they began carrying their belongings in small pocketbooks instead why is underwear nicknamed 'drawers'? in the 16th century, drawers became a common term for both men's and women's underpants made of linen, the items were no frills and looked more or less interchangeable (this being well before victoria ever had a secret; decorative lace trim started appearing on the garments only in the middle of the 19th century) most likely, underwear earned this distinctly unsexy epithet because it describes the way that people put on their unmentionablesdrawing them up and over the lower part of the body real simple: get your lingerie in order e mail to a friend get a free trial issue of real simple click here ! copyright 2007 time inc all rights reserved

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barcelona, englandronaldinho has been recalled to the barcelona squad for tuesday's champions league match against rangers in glasgow ronaldinho was dropped from the barcelona squad on saturday for returning late from international duty the brazilian was omitted from the squad that lost 3 1 to villarreal on saturday after returning late from international duty, but he has been named in an 18 man party for the trip to scotland barca will be without deco for that match though, after the portuguese suffered a thigh injury against villarreal that will keep him sidelined for around five weeks also missing are samuel eto'o, yaya toure, gianluca zambrotta, edmilson and rafael marquez as the catalans travel to scotland in a battle between the two sides with 100 per cent records in group e barcelona squad: valdes, jorquera; puyol, thuram, sylvinho, oleguer, abidal, milito; iniesta, ronaldinho, messi, xavi, giovani, crosas; henry, ezquerro, gudjohnsen, bojan e mail to a friend

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joplin, missouri (cnn)the tornado that struck joplin, missouri, sunday killed 124 people, authorities said tuesday, in what was the deadliest single us tornado since modern record keeping began 61 years ago an estimated 750 people have been treated at area hospitals, said joplin city manager mark rohr, who told residents of the tornado ravaged town to be prepared in case a new wave of destructive storms strikes a tornado warning was issued, then canceled, tuesday night for joplin the storm involved likely will pass well north of the city, said forecasters they predicted joplin could still get hit by strong wind gusts of more than 70 miles per hour on a brighter note, rescue workers pulled two more people alive from the rubble within the last 24 hours, rohr said also tuesday, forecasters raised their assessment of the sunday storm, ranking it at the top of the scale used to rate tornadoes the national weather service has determined the twister packed top winds of more than 200 mph, making it a 5 on the enhanced fujita scale, said bill davis, the meteorologist who reviewed the damage davis said the tornado left 'about six miles of total destruction' in its wake examinations of some of the buildings destroyed or damaged convinced forecasters to raise the designation, he said roughly 8,000 structures within the city of joplin were damaged, rohr said, citing a federal emergency management agency report a previous estimate had put the number of buildings damaged or destroyed at 2,000 among the dead in joplin were 10 residents and a staff member at a nursing home, a company official said two other staffers at greenbriar nursing home are in critical condition at a hospital, said the home's vice president, bill mitchell of the other 79 residents of the home, all but one are accounted for, he said only rubble remains and survivors have been moved to temporary housing or are with family members 'it just looks like a war zone,' said eddie atwood in a cnn ireport from the scene from where he stood, atwood said, 'you could see all the way to the horizon because all the houses and all the trees were just leveled' 'i was walking down main street everything was so razed over, it was disorienting because some of the streetsyou couldn't even tell where you were at after living in joplin all my life it was like living in the twilight zone' joplin is not in the clear yet as far as weather goes: the national weather service warned there is a chance of another tornado outbreakwith the peak time ending at midnight tuesdayover a wide swath including parts of texas, oklahoma, arkansas, nebraska and missouri already tuesday evening, at least four people were killed and many more injured when a deadly string of tornadoes and thunderstorms cut through central oklahoma, officials said joplin police chief lane roberts said the city was imposing a curfew tuesday night in areas struck by the tornado to head off the threat of looting 'the sole function is to reduce the opportunity for people to loot and steal, and we're hoping the folks who live in that area will cooperate with us,' he said president barack obama announced he will visit the region on sunday 'we are going to do absolutely everything we can to make sure they recover,' he said during a visit to london obama added that he will let people know 'the whole country is going to be behind them' 'we are here for you we're going to stay by you,' obama said richard serino, the second highest ranking official at the federal emergency management agency, said monday that obama had issued a disaster declarationexpediting the dispersal of federal resources to the areawhile vowing that 'we are going to be here for the long haul' city manager rohr told reporters tuesday that more than 40 agencies were on the ground in the southwest missouri city, and two first responders were struck by lightning monday as they braved relentless rain and high wind searching for survivors 'one, fortunately, walked away from it; the other one's still in the hospital, last i heard,' joplin emergency management director keith stammer said on cnn's 'american morning' about 1,500 people are still unaccounted for but 'when we open up the area and start letting them come back in that number of unaccounted for will start to dwindle,' stammer said many of those 1,500 have scattered because of tornado damage and communication problems joplin fire chief mitch randles said the second search and rescue effort basically follows the tornado's path 'we're searching every structure that's been damaged or destroyed in a more in depth manner,' he said 'the third search is going to be similar to that and then the fourth search through will be with the search and rescue dogs' authorities encouraged people to use the website safeandwellorg, operated by the red cross, for updates on loved ones some residents said the tornado struck suddenly 'it all happened so fast,' rachael neff said on cnn's 'american morning' tuesday 'it seemed like forever but it happened very fast' 'we had a few minutes' warning i've never taken any of the warnings seriously but something snapped in me and i put blankets and pillows in the bathroom we were running to the bathroom you could hear the home shaking, everything busting out' neff, her fiance, zac bronson, and her toddler prayed, screamed and survived 'we've had a tremendous support system our employers, friends and family have been more than helpful and we move on and rebuild we just start another life we started a new life,' bronson said by monday night, officials found 17 people alive but many, including will norton, remain missing the 18 year old was driving home from his high school graduation sunday when the tornado destroyed the hummer h3 he and his father were in 'we were in a separate car we were about 30 seconds in front of them, one block,' norton's sister, sara, told cnn 'my dad called and he said, 'open the garage door' and then i just heard him say, 'pull over, will pull over' and then they started flipping' 'my dad saidwhen my dad gained consciousness, he said that he saw my brotherhis seat belt snapped and he was ejected through the sunroof,' she added the family has been tracking a 'help find will norton' facebook page and pursuing leads on his whereabouts norton's aunt, tracey, said the family received a tip that the teen was listed on a local hospital's emergency room rosterbut she's not sure where he is now 'they transferred him, but we're not sure where he was transferred,' the aunt said 'when he was transferred, he was alive we don't know anything other than that' the tornado that carved through the city of about 50,000 on sunday is the deadliest to hit american soil since the national weather service began keeping records 61 years ago the national weather service notes seven deadlier twisters, but says those took place 'before the years of comprehensive damage surveys,' so they may have been the result of multiple tornadoes but the weather service does say that the great tri state tornado of 1925, which tore across southeast missouri, southern illinois and southwest indiana, killed 695 people'a record for a single tornado' a 1953 twister in flint, michigan, killed 116 people, according to the weather service last month, two fatal twisters struck alabama one hit hackleburg and the town of phil campbell, killing 78 people, and another struck tuscaloosa and birmingham, killing 61 with crews still sifting through rubble, the death toll could continue to climb 'i think the more time that goes by, the more i feel sick about it,' sarah hale, a lifelong joplin resident, said tuesday 'these people are cold and sick and stuck as the days go on, and the death toll goes up, how many funerals are we going to go to?' joplin mayor mike woolston said monday night that his community hasn't given up 'we hope that there are people alive we have a number of apartment buildings, complexes that are almost completely flattened so we anticipate finding more people, and hopefully we'll get there in time to find them alive,' he said the tornado chewed through a densely populated area of the city, eliminating a high school and making a direct hit on one of the two hospitals in the city woolston pledged not to let the tornado ruin his city 'this is just not the type of community that's going to let a little f 4 tornado kick our ass so we will rebuild, and we will recover' cnn's chuck johnston, joe sutton, greg botelho, holly yan, marlena baldacci, mike pearson, jessica jordan, sean morris and barbara starr contributed to this report

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tehran, iran (cnn)security forces wielding clubs and firing weapons beat back hundreds of would be demonstrators who had flocked to a square in the capital on wednesday to continue protests against an election they have denounced as fraudulent, witnesses told cnn hard line iranian students mock british, us and israeli flags outside the british embassy in tehran on tuesday 'they were waiting for us,' one source said 'they all have guns and riot uniforms it was like a mouse trap' another witness told cnn that hundreds of people were chased by security forces and clubbed about a mile from the square they were among the more than half a dozen witnesses who told cnn that security forces outnumbering protesters used overwhelming force to crush a planned demonstration in baharestan square, in front of the parliament building the witnesses said police charged against the demonstrators, striking them with batons, beating women and old men and firing weapons into the air in order to disperse them the melee extended beyond the square, according to one woman, who told cnn that she was traveling toward baharestan with her friends as evening approached 'to express our opposition to these killings these days and demanding freedom 'but the black clad police, they stopped everyone they emptied buses that were taking people there and let the private cars go on and then, all of a sudden, some 500 people with clubs of wood, they came out of the hedayat mosque and they poured into the streets and they started beating everyone' people were heard yelling 'death to the dictatorship, death to ahmadinejad, death to khamanei and death to basiji,' she said government run press tv gave a starkly different account, saying only about 200 protesters had gathered in front of the parliament and 50 others in a nearby squareall were dispersed by security forces 'a heavy presence of police prevented violence in the area,' press tv said watch an ahmadinejad supporter describe the protests » at the nearby bank of melli hospital, a person who answered the phone said no one had been admitted as a result of any clashes the number of demonstrators who ventured into the streets of tehran appeared to have fallen since sunday, said cnn's reza sayah, who flew wednesday to the united states from tehran he said exhaustion after eight consecutive days of massive protests may have combined with fear of government reprisals to limit the number of protesters the key to what happens next, he said, depends on what role is assumed by mir hossein moussavi, whose supporters say was robbed of a victory in the june 12 elections wednesday's protests came as iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad met in tehran with a delegation from belarus in his first official meeting since the disputed june 12 election triggered widespread unrest the official results of the election gave the incumbent president a landslide victory, but his challengers have declared it was rigged and are seeking a new vote ahmadinejad's claim of victory got renewed support from ayatollah ali khamenei, iran's supreme leader, who endorsed the results and reiterated wednesday that the government will not back down demonstrators must follow the law, he said according to official figures, 17 people have been killed in clashes with government forces over the past 11 days anti government demonstrators have taken to the streets in at least four cities outside tehran but cnn has received unconfirmed reports of as many as 150 deaths related to the popular uprising the government's response to it appears to have hardened in recent days cnn has received numerous accounts of night time roundups by government forces of opposition activists and international journalists from their homes some tehran residents said they were too afraid to talk about the political crisis over the phone to anyone in the united states or europe many protesters debated whether to venture into the streets 'i am not going outside my house at all,' a 21 year old college student from tehran said 'the streets are too dangerous, and just so very busy with police ahhhh, when will our lives get back to normal?' worried the government was monitoring their phone conversations, some residents said the internet was the best way to transmit information however, the spotty connection made it difficult to rely on the web 'it's beyond fear,' said a woman who arrived at a us airport from iran, but still did not want her name used for fear for her safety 'the situation is more like terror' watch arrivals describe the situation » khamenei urged parliamentarians wednesday to tolerate the voices of the opposition, government run press tv reported khamenei made the remarks to a group of lawmakers in tehran, press tv said but khamenei added that the islamic establishment and people 'will never give in to coercive demands with regards to iran's presidential elections,' press tv said the newscast added that a spokesman for the guardian council, which oversees elections, had declared that 'no major irregularities took place' in the elections though 'minor irregularities' were found, they were not significant enough to change the results, the council spokesman said, according to press tv iran's ambassador to mexico defended his country's actions, saying wednesday that the anti government protesters represent but a small minority of the nation 'the minority can't impose their opinion on the majority,' mohammad hassan ghadiri told cnn en español 'they can't impose a dictatorship saying that the majority is not going to govern' there are acceptable ways of addressing electoral fraud, if any occurred, he said 'but they go out on the street, they attack buses, they attack banks; that affects the security of the country' asked why the government has made it impossible for nearly all international journalists to report from iran, he accused the media of not accurately reporting events 'in tehran, there were much bigger demonstrations in favor of the government that you didn't report about,' he said asked about the shooting of 26 year old neda agha soltan, whose death, captured on video, has become emblematic of the crackdown on protesters, he said, 'it is not clear who killed whom' 'terrorists' were among the demonstrators, he said 'some armed people have attacked police naturally, we have to respond' 'we do not beat up our people and we do not kill them,' he said in a separate interview with cnn international iran said the agha soltan might have been shot by 'mistake,' the state run islamic republic news agency reported wednesday the report said the investigation into the death of agha soltan is continuing, 'but according to the evidence so far, it could be said that she was killed by mistake the marksmen had mistaken her for the sister of one of the monafeghin who had been executed in the province of mazandaran some time ago' monafeghin refers to the people's mujahedin organization of iran, which promotes a marxist government for iran and has waged a campaign against the fundamentalist islamic tehran governmentincluding bombings that killed politicians, judges and cabinet members meanwhile, iranian authorities said they have arrested several foreign nationals, some with british passports, in connection with the country's post election unrest intelligence minister gholamhossein mohseni ezhei told reporters that some people with links to the west and israel had planned a series of bombings in iran ahead of the june 12 election, the government funded press tv reported wednesday 'england is among the countries that fan the flames with their heavy propaganda, which is against all diplomatic norms,' mohseni ezhei was quoted as saying by the semi official fars news agency 'and the bbc farsi has also played a major role also, a number of people carrying british passports have played a role in the recent disturbances' watch a report on iran's history with the west » the british foreign office said it was looking into the claims earlier wednesday, press tv said police raided a building in central tehran used as a 'headquarters' to foment post election unrest the television station, citing unnamed sources, said the building was used by campaign staffers of opposition leader mir hossein moussavi and evidence indicated that 'foreign elements' were behind the planning, press tv said the iranian government has long blamed other countries, especially britain, for 'meddling' in its affairs but has offered no proof tehran said wednesday it was temporarily recalling its ambassador from london, another move in escalating tit for tat gestures between the governments on tuesday, britain expelled two iranian diplomats a day earlier, iran told two british diplomats to leave the difficulty in getting information has been compounded by a government clampdown on representatives of the international news media, who have been banned from covering protests that has led some news outlets including cnn to rely on information from people who are disseminating information via social networking web sites according to reporters without borders, 36 journalists have been arrested, 26 of them iranian, since the election and 'many others' are missing

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(cnet)just how reliant are you on the internet? more women would give up sex rather than go without internet access, according to a new survey nearly half of the women questioned by harris interactive said they'd be willing to forgo sex for two weeks, rather than give up their internet access, according to a study released monday by intel, which commissioned the survey while 46 percent of the women surveyed were willing to engage in abstinence versus losing their internet, only 30 percent of the men surveyed were willing to do likewise the us survey, which queried 2,119 adults last month, found that the gap grew even wider for both men and woman who were 18 to 34 years old for woman, the percentage of those willing to skip the sheets in favor of the web rose to 49 percent, while it climbed to 39 percent for men and for women 35 to 44 years old, the figure jumped to 52 percent (results as of monday from cnet's related online poll showed that 305 percent of respondents would give up sex for one year, while 261 percent would do without internet access for a year almost 40 percent of voters didn't want to sacrifice either) these figures were just some of the tidbits that came out of the intel's broader commissioned study on americans' reliance on the internet in today's economy though not as sexy but equally interesting, the survey also found that 87 percent of respondents said the internet saves them money specifically, 84 percent of those surveyed found the internet saved them money by comparing prices online and searching out the best deals, while 65 percent said it aided them in finding coupons, discounts, and special promotions and tv, which has been losing its share of eyeball time to the internet over the years, found that the majority of adults would be willing to forgo two weeks of watching tv versus losing one week on the internet of course when it comes to tv, perhaps size matters, at least according to a different survey earlier this year of britons conducted by electronics retailer comet almost half of the men polled said they would give up sex for six months in return for a 50 inch plasma tv, according to reuters that compared with just over a third of women who were willing to make the same sacrifice for the big screen television © 2009 cbs interactive inc all rights reserved cnet, cnetcom and the cnet logo are registered trademarks of cbs interactive inc used by permission

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survey: nearly half of women would forgo sex rather than give up internet access more women than men would be willing to give up sex, the survey found the survey, commissioned by intel, queried 2,119 adults in the us last month most adults also would forgo two weeks of tv over one week of internet use

(cnn)the suspect in norway's july 22 terror attacks has told police he had plans to attack other targets, norwegian police said saturday anders behring breivik was interrogated friday for the second time since his arrest, which followed the bombing of oslo government buildings in which eight people died and a shooting rampage on an island which killed 69 police declined to say what the other targets were they also offered no comment when asked about reports that norway's royal palace and the labour party headquarters were targets the new details emerged during an interrogation of the suspect that lasted almost 10 hours, police attorney pal frederick hjort kraby told reporters breivik was 'more than willing to co operate' with officers questioning him, and was calm and willing to explain himself, kraby said the first part of the interview focused on going back over what he had told police the first time he was questioned, a week ago, kraby said then police questioned him about his movements in the government area of central oslo before, during and after the bomb blast there, the attorney said his answers will be checked against footage from video cameras in the area, kraby added, as police seek to make sure he was not working with anyone else individuals who have been in contact with the suspect will also be of interest to police, the lawyer said his mother has been formally interviewed breivik is expected to be interviewed many more times in the weeks ahead, with investigators likely to ask more questions rather than just letting him talk, kraby said breivik is being kept in solitary confinement at ila prison, near oslo, which held prisoners of the nazis during world war ii his sole contacts are with his lawyer and prison staffers who take food to him breivik has admitted carrying out the bombing in oslo, in which eight people died, and the shootings on utoya, his lawyer and a judge have said he has also pleaded not guilty in court the attack on utoya targeted members of the labour party's youth movement as they attended a summer camp on friday, norwegian authorities completed the identification of the dead, releasing the names of all 77 their ages ranged from 14 to 61, with an average age of 21 earlier friday, prime minister jens stoltenberg, other political leaders and relatives of the victims attended a memorial service organized by the labour party youth movement to commemorate those killed and wounded

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denver, colorado (cnn)the last place kathy archuleta could have ever imagined she'd spend the first night of the democratic national convention in denver, colorado, was at a happy hour sponsored by the republican party clinton supporters chat at the rnc sponsored hillary happy hour monday night in denver, colorado but the 54 year old democrat joined several other hillary clinton supporters, along with volunteers and officials from john mccain's campaign, at a happy hour for hillary the event, sponsored by the republican national committee and approved by the mccain campaign, was a chance for mccain and clinton supporters to come together for one cause: their opposition to barack obama's candidacy 'four years ago, if you said we'd be at a hillary happy hour at the dnc, i would have called you crazy but today is a great opportunity for people who agree that sen barack obama doesn't have the experience to be president of the united states,' said mccain campaign regional communications director tom kise as michelle obama was delivering her 'one nation' unity speech on the convention floor several blocks away, more than 100 people gathered at the paramount café in downtown denver in a side room, both groups of supporters discussed politics, sports and the convention while sipping cocktails and munching on tacos and a cheese spread but there was nothing unified for these clinton supporters who walked across the aisle or, in this case, the cafe monday night archuleta, who hails from denver, has been a registered democrat all her lifeuntil now 'i'm a registered republican for the first time in my voting life,' archuleta said 'no obama for me i'm voting for john mccain' 'he reminds me of what the jimmy carter era was like if they think jimmy carter had it bad, just wait if obama gets into the white house that will be bad news in so many ways,' she added obama's relative lack of experience in national politicslong seen as his achilles heelwas something that clinton supporters, republicans and independents attending the happy hour rallied behind 'his lack of experience has been demonstrated so painfully every time he opens his mouth just about you cannot have good judgment without experience; that's how you get it,' said 58 year old marnie delano of new york adam edwards, a 20 year old clinton supporter, said that although the new york senator 'was the stronger candidate,' voters may have 'just discredited her because of some imagined baggage she carried from her husband's administration' leland kritt, a mccain supporter who made his way to denver from los angeles, california, said obama's message of 'change' is simply flawed 'the simple fact remains, change will occur anyway, no matter who the president is for every man, woman and child, change will happen question is: who is best able to handle that change?' the 51 year old republican said the mccain campaign has been aggressively courting clinton's voters in recent days, especially after obama announced delaware sen joseph biden as his running mate saturday shortly after the announcement, the arizona senator's campaign released a tv ad in several swing states that used video of biden criticizing obama as too inexperienced to be president and just as the democrats' convention was getting started in denver, both the mccain campaign and the republican national committee unveiled four tv ads geared toward clinton supporters the most recent mccain ad involves the famous hillary clinton '3 am' spot and will be aired during the convention the 30 second spot uses footage from clinton's original ad and declares, 'hillary's right' the ad, set to run in key battleground states and specifically in denver this week, also goes a step further than the new york senator's original ad, explicitly detailing the national security threats america faces clinton, speaking to member of the new york delegation in denver on monday, said she was opposed to republicans using her words against obama meanwhile, a cnn/opinion research corp poll taken august 23 24 found that 56 percent of registered voters have a favorable opinion of hillary clinton, with 40 percent having an unfavorable view the margin of error was plus or minus 45 percentage points ireportcom: are you in denver? so while clinton's die hard supporters are in denver in full force, the poll showed that her negative approval rating is very high among registered voters nationwide but there is some bad news for obama the poll showed that 66 percent of clinton supportersregistered democrats who want clinton as the nomineeare now backing obama that's down from 75 percent in the end of june twenty seven percent of them now say they'll support mccain, up from 16 percent in late june and nowhere was that statistic more prevalent than at the rnc sponsored happy hour for hillary clinton supporters turned mccain converts at the event were not just angry at obama's campaign; they're furious with the democratic party's nomination process this year 'the dnc really pushed [barack obama] on us now they've left us with two choices: somebody who has no substance or a republican,' said jessi cleaver, 35, of new york 'and these are terrible choices, and they worked hard to select this candidate we're watching the dnc pick this candidate for us' it's a point mitt marr agreed with 'we're taking a stand and not backing down it's 'we the people,' not 'we the dnc' we are standing up for what is right i know in my heart,' said the woman from sugar land, texas, who would give her age only as 50 something as the convention heats up and tensions remain high over how to make sure clinton's 18 million or so votes are counted, supporters will rally by her side, even if their pick in november is her enemy

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the republican party held a happy hour for hillary clinton backers in denver some clinton backers say obama lacks experience necessary to be president only two thirds of the new york senator's supporters are backing obama, poll finds john mccain's campaign has been actively courting clinton backers

washington (cnn)promises are an inherent part of campaigning but in a time where distrust of government is at an all time high, 2012 republican candidates are using promises of action on day 1 of their administrations to convince voters of the seriousness of the problems facing the nation and their seriousness about taking immediate action to fix them for the most part, the campaigns have focused on using executive orders as a means to do something on the first day former house speaker newt gingrich outlines on his website the content of the executive order he would sign in his first day in office he promises to eliminate all white house 'czar' positions, reauthorize a policy to stop 'taxpayer dollars from being used to fund or promote abortions in foreign countries' and to move the us embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem, among other things gingrich says all of these would be done using executive ordersand promises they will all be online by october former massachusetts gov mitt romney has also been specific with what he would do through executive orders, laying out a plan for five of them to be signed on his first day in the white house romney pledges to 'return maximum possibly authority to states,' in regard to health care and 'immediately initiate the elimination of obama era regulations that unduly burden the economy' additionally, romney has said he would use an executive order to direct the department of the interior to increase the number of drilling permits issued in the united states there is a certain level of vagueness, however, from both gingrich and romney about their plans in january, gingrich promised a crowd in tampa to 'repeal every obama attack on religion' additionally, romney does not say how he will return power to the states or what level of scrutiny these new drilling permits will receive 'these types of promises can be very specific,' said jeffrey toobin, cnn senior legal analyst 'this is a good thing if you believe the politicians should make accountable promises' first day use of executive orders has become the norm in modern politics 'most presidents have a list of executive orders that they want to have ready for signature on the first day of office,' toobin said on january 21, 2009, president barack obama issued two executive orders and three presidential memorandums aimed at government transparency and ethics in his first full day in office the new president froze the salaries of his senior aides, demanded the government disclose more information and authorized new limits on lobbyists' access to lawmakers texas congressman ron paul has said in interviews that the country's problems are currently too large to be fixed in one day, but he has said he would start with foreign policy and 'bring the troops home,' so they can spend their money here former sen rick santorum of pennsylvania said in july that his first action as president would be to 'sign an executive order to repeal obamacare' additionally, santorum has outlined executive orders to reverse regulations on business and reinstitute the mexico city policy to stop taxpayer funding or promotion of abortions overseas for all candidates, it is important to note that an executive order cannot overrule a law passed by the senate and house and signed by a former president therefore, though a candidate may want to abolish the affordable care act with the stroke of a pen, it would take a full fledged bill to do that and that stipulation has not been overlooked by some campaigns 'i will ask members of congress to stay in session on january 3rd, i will ask them first repeal obamacare,' gingrich said at a florida event in january 'i will also ask them to stay in session and repeal the dodd frank bill, which is killing banks third — i will ask them to repeal the sarbanes oxley bill,' which was enacted in the wake of the enron, worldcom and other corporate scandals in conjunction with his first day executive orders, gingrich says that by the time obama 'arrives back in chicago,' the gingrich administration would have dismantled 40% of obama's government not to be outdone, romney has pledged, via congressional bill, to reduce the corporate income tax by 25% and would cut non security discretionary spending by 5% additionally he would 'consolidate the sprawl of federal retraining programs and return funding and responsibility for these programs to the states' all of these promises begs the questionis there even enough time on day 1 to get this much done? in short, yes, says anita mcbride, former adviser to president george w bush and chief of staff to first lady laura bush but mcbride cautioned about how busy inauguration day can be it takes an effective transition team to make consequential first day orders a reality, said mcbride mcbride, who helped with multiple transitions while working for three presidents, says the day starts with an early morning briefing on national security that lays out the responsibilities that fall on the then president elect once he is sworn in following that, the president elect has coffee with the sitting president then there are the more notable eventsthe inauguration speech, lunch in the capitol and the parade down pennsylvania avenue it isn't all pomp and circumstance, however after being sworn in, the president will have an opportunity to tend to critical business 'there is a room at the capitol that is behind the cloak room on the house floor that is used only on the day that presidents are inaugurated,' mcbride said 'what happens immediately after being sworn in is the president signs cabinet appointments that have to happen right away' mcbride went on to say that if a transition team had prepared the executive orders, this would be the perfect time for the new president to make his first decisions in office so could a president sign five bills and pass five executive orders in a day? 'it is perfectly within reason,' concluded toobin 'it just depends on how motivated they are to do these things' 'this is the next four to eight years of their lifethey have to do it all,' said mcbride 'absolutely it is possible'

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campaigns focus on using executive orders as a means to do something on the first day gingrich promises to eliminate all white house 'czar' positions on his first day romney wants to start the elimination of obama era rules that hurt the economy former presidential adviser says it is possible to get many orders, bills signed on day 1

atlanta, georgia (cnn)i was 14 at the time lebanon's civil war was in full flood one afternoon the shells began raining down on our neighborhood in beirut a lebanese woman and her son run through west beirut in 1989 during fighting between rival forces we ran from school screaming forget the book bags, classmates, homework just run out of breath, my knees giving way, it seemed to take forever to reach our local sheltera dark humid room at the back of our apartment block the memory of that terrifying afternoon recededuntil recently after more than a decade of relative peace and reconstruction, the bombings and assassinations have returned to beirut every time i hear of a new explosion, i think of a frightened child sitting in darkness in 1988, i watched the last throes of lebanon's civil war firsthandand like millions of lebanese, sad, frustrated and often fearful see a timeline of lebanon's recent history » now i watch from another continent, but i find those same emotions resurfacing the conspiracies, the car bombs, the threatening rhetoric and political deadlock are eerily familiar the actors are like shadows from a long gone past they are grayer perhaps those who have avoided assassination but the cast in lebanon's tragedy has changed little in two decades then, as now, a presidential election is the setting, and the struggle where religion and clan play the main roles threatens to set lebanon back 20 years see bios of lebanon's major players » in 1988, the president's term was coming to an end and the warring factions were unable to agree on a new candidate militias prevented parliament members from reaching the assembly building compromise was nowhere in sight the west had abandoned lebanon to the manipulation of its neighbors syria had its choice for president; israel had its own alliesa foil for growing muslim radicalism the country was awash with weapons in his last act as president, amin gemayel named fellow christian and army chief michel aoun as prime minister at a stroke, he shattered the convention that a muslim hold that position muslims refused to serve in the cabinet and the country ended up with two governments aoun famously declared: 'i am prime minister and six ministers in one' aoun's 'war of liberation' against syria turned into defeat then, he turned on fellow christians of the lebanese forces in the 'war of elimination' when that failed, the syrians drove aoun to take refuge at the french embassy in august 1990, i came to cnn as a world report panelist i tried to explain lebanon's chaos, the bewildering array of factions and the horrors of civil war for ordinary civilians i had seen people killed in front of me; children orphaned in seconds, parents burying their infants in oversize white coffins so when i was offered the opportunity to stay at cnn, i gratefully accepted the chance to escape the anarchy but almost as i left, the civil war was being laid to rest the various factions had fought each other to a standstill; arab governments, supported by the west, helped negotiate a new constitutional framework overseen by syrian influence peace came to lebanon, but it would be five years before i returned in 1995, i went back and was stunned i kept looking around for checkpoints manned by militants i couldn't believe that i could go anywhere without being harassed or kidnapped by one faction or another no longer did identitychristian, muslim or druzedefine where lebanese could go people mixed freely in chic coffee shops and smoked the hubble bubble, laughing at the same jokes it was as if lebanon's divisions had been wiped away by some magic eraser downtown beirut, once rocked by explosions and pitted with bullet holes, was rocking to lebanese pop music the dusty sandbags had given way to boutiques carrying the latest european fashions and deluxe hotels lovers had returned to beirut's corniche, overlooking the mediterranean, for romantic strolls at sunset but the agreement that ended the civil war was more a truce than a real settlementand was overseen by a 'pax syriana' as anti syrian sentiment grew, so did political tensions on valentine's day 2005, the corniche was once again rocked by an explosion former prime minister rafik hariri was killed the symbolism left me speechless on the day of love, lebanon was thrown back into its most hateful history it had been widely expected that hariri would run for office again and demand the withdrawal of syrian troops suspicion fell on damascus, which vehemently denied involvement on march 14, martyrs' square became a human sea of demonstrators: muslims, druze and christians alike, demanding the 'truth' but hariri's death also exposed the fault lines that had broken lebanon a generation previously even after it withdrew its troops, syria still had allies in lebanon one was hezbollah, accused of the suicide attacks that had killed scores of us marines in beirut more than 20 years previously another was gen michel aoun; now back from exile, the same michel aoun who had defied syria in 1989, but who now made common cause with hezbollah against his fellow christians earlier this year i visited martyrs' square the spirit of the cedar revolution had evaporated the place looked like a morgue anti government hezbollah squatters had brought life there to a standstill as i passed through, business owners stood silent in the sun and shook their heads at me in despair i wondered if they sensed my disappointment, my pain at watching beirut bleed again lebanon's political actors now find themselves re enacting scenes from the final act of the civil war 19 years ago once again, the term of the president is approaching its end; there is no agreement on his successor suspicion and fear are the political currency of the day and the questions haunts me: will the country's brief renaissance that so amazed me in 1995 be snuffed out by the old curse of sectarian rivalries? e mail to a friend cnn's joe sterling, david ariosto, saad abedine and tracy doueiry contributed to this report

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san diego, california (cnn)firefighters in southern california are facing wind whipped walls of flame from 15 wildfires that have scorched more than 400,000 acres and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes firefighters battle the witch fire tuesday in the del dios area of escondido, california the blazes have killed one person and injured at least 70 more firefighters were aided by resources from mexico, the state and federal governments and even inmates from california's prisons san diego fire department battalion chief bruce cartelli described scenes of 'utter devastation' with hundreds of homes lost and 'many hundreds' of others damaged 'it's probably the worst significant event in my career of 36 years,' he said 'it will not end until it reaches the ocean or the winds turn around,' cartelli said meteorologists suggested that santa ana winds, which have fueled the wildfires with some gusts approaching 100 mph, could die down wednesday afternoon 'we are still facing some very serious fires,' homeland security secretary michael chertoff said after an aerial tour of the affected area 'the weather has made it very difficult for the air assets to get up and fight the fires if the weather cooperates, maybe we can turn the tide tomorrow' officials have evacuated nearly 350,000 homes in san diego county alone, where the worst of the fires are blazing using us census bureau numbers from the 2000 census, that could mean as many as 950,000 were affected by the fires watch evacuees shaken, firefighters battling » in san diego county, at least half a million residents had been ordered to find refuge in shelters, schools and stadiums as fires pushed into new areas among the evacuees as more than 4,000 military personnel from several bases in the area with the winds pushing them across the area, the fires spread quickly, forcing some residents to flee in the middle of the night 'my wife woke me up like 12 o'clock, screaming and yelling that the flames were coming down,' said johnny villanueva of spring valley, who fled with his wife and daughter to san diego's qualcomm stadium, which is serving as a shelter to more than 12,000 evacuees 'we just loaded up the car really quick and came down here slept in our vehicles' his wife, elizabeth, added, 'i saw on the mountain on fire, and said, 'oh my god, my family let's go' with qualcomm stadium being used by the evacuees, the san diego chargers planned to practice at the arizona cardinals' stadium in glendale for next weekend's game lake arrowhead resident michelle dresser, who owns a business and was chased from her home by a wildfire last year, said she was waiting until the last minute to leave she spent the night in her store, partly to help customers and neighbors 'it is crazy we are surrounded by fire on both sides,' she said asked by cnn where she would go, she replied, 'i have to find someplace to accept two dogs, two cats and a turtle' watch people staying with pets at refuge » animals are allowed in qualcomm stadium, a nearby field and del mar fairgrounds and racetrack president bush is scheduled to visit the area on thursday, the white house said chertoff arrived in san diego tuesday afternoon for a 'first hand look' at the devastation 'i wanted to see for myself, first of all, how the shelter situation is in san diego, what the fires look like up close,' chertoff told cnn the secretary said that the federal response to the wildfires is 'phenomenally better' than the response to hurricane katrina in 2005, 'because we have been preparing and planning and training together for the last 2 ½ years' 'unlike in katrina we have now built the process and we've rehearsed it, so when we take the field, the team already knows what we need to do,' he said see photos of the fires » and the scene at qualcomm stadium on tuesday did seem to live up to chertoff's expectations as volunteers cheerily handed out chairs, food and water thirty four firefighters have been injured, authorities said gov arnold schwarzenegger said he was 'heartbroken' after touring the lake arrowhead area, where the grass valley and slide fires have burned 5,000 acres and destroyed more than 200 homes 'this is a tragedy, what is happening in california,' he told reporters the combination of dry terrain, searing heat and hammering winds had created 'the perfect storm for fire,' the governor said schwarzenegger said about 7,000 firefighters were battling the blazes, including 2,300 inmates from california's department of corrections and rehabilitation san diego mayor jerry sanders said the mayor of tijuana, mexico, had sent four fire engines and their crews to help out, and the governor of baja california had offered help chertoff said cots, blankets, water and other supplies have been moved where they are needed, and more are coming the federal emergency management agency delivered 25,000 cots to qualcomm early tuesday at least 150 national guard members are assigned to provide security at the stadium see where the fires are burning » of san diego county's 10 major fires, the witch fire in the north, which has grown to 200,000 acres, is the priority because of its significant threat to structures, said ron lane, the county's director of emergency services the harris fire had burned more than 70,000 acres by mid morning in northern los angeles county, the ranch, buckweed, and magic fires have charred more than 93,000 acres and fire officials fear they could merge 'we want to keep these fires as small as we can,' said capt barry parker of the ventura county fire department the 54,500 acre ranch fire was only two miles away from the 1,200 acre magic fire the blazes are straddling the la ventura county line asked if he had enough resources, parker said, 'we truly don't' 'we're using a limited amount of resources to go in and fight these fires,' he said 'we've got about 600 people on the ranch fire; we normally would have about 1,500 'so we have to be absolutely surgical in how we plan and how we tactically use our fire equipment because we just simply don't have enough fire engines in the state of california to battle these blazes' in san diego county, a utility spokesman said a 500,000 volt transmission line was damaged when the harris fire expanded, and it will be out of service until at least wednesday other transmission lines have been destroyed sanders said mexico's federal electrical commission was providing power to the area's grid to help make up for the losses california also received extensive offers of manpower and equipment from the military a total of 550 marines were ready for deployment from camp pendleton, north of san diego, and 67 defense department employees12 firefighting teamsalready were engaged eleven defense department helicopters equipped with water buckets and more than 17,000 national guardsmen were available, along with six c 130 aircraft able to drop water and flame retardant on the flames but aerial attacks on the fires have been limited by the fierce santa ana winds the red cross and other groups also were in the wings they and some other groups were waiting for the flames to die down before bringing in their volunteers the red cross has set up 11 shelters in the area and housed 3,000 people monday night more were expected tuesday a firefighter at rancho bernardo in san diego county showed distress 'every one of us out here feels like these homes are our own we know what it's like to see people's faces when they've lost everything it's devastating to see so much of this all at once' e mail to a friend cnn's thelma gutierrez and dan simon contributed to this report

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no end 'until it reaches the ocean or the winds turn around,' official says nearly 350,000 homes in san diego county evacuated; 70 people injured flames have charred 700,000 acres, more than 1,000 homes not 'enough fire engines in the state of california,' ventura county official says

(cnn)if you thought it was difficult managing your own money in 2007, consider the pressure of the task when you're dealing with $18 trillion of client assets sallie krawcheck has made fortune's list of the world's most powerful women every year since 2002 that's what sallie krawcheck does as chairman and chief executive of citi global wealth management she joined the banking industry as a research analyst, but quickly rose through the ranks, gaining a reputation for honesty and integrity along the way dubbed the 'mrs clean' of wall street, ms krawcheck was credited with restoring investors' faith in analyst reports while head of retail brokerage firm smith barney she joined citigroup in 2002, and spent some time as chief financial officer before taking up her current role in march 2007 sallie krawcheck has been a regular entrant on fortune's list of the world's most powerful women in businessin 2007, she made number 12 john defterios caught up with ms krawcheck in dubai he asked her for her views on the movement of capital outside the g8 (canada, france, germany, italy, japan, russia, the united kingdom and the united states) sallie krawcheck (sk): i think what's happening right now, it's fascinating because in the united states and in developed europe we're having a liquidity crunchsomeone might argue a liquidity crisis and in fact, we are awash with liquidity in the middle east and in asia as well, so there's really a bifurcation that's occurring in the world and if you think about, oil doesn't even have to stay at the 90 plus dollar level it is; even at levels in the 70's, 60's, 50's, 40's, a tremendous amount of liquidity is being generated in these markets which is really being put back into the market yes, the investments are going up globally, but the governments here really are investing back in the infrastructure and the economies of this region and so over time, you're really going to see i think continue to see a shift in economic activity on a relative basis from the more developed economies here to the middle east as well as to asia john defterios (jd): it's coming almost as a perfect storm; we have a sub prime crisis, a 20 percent fall in the dollar in the last two years in this window of time, is there a danger that the financial capitals build outside of wall street and it undermines its role? (sk): i think there is no doubt that new york is losing its status as a financial capital of the world if you think about some years ago, if you think about the internet bubble for example, where it was new york and california wasn't it? and you look at a whole range of reasons for it, and the sub prime crisis perhaps, the decline of the dollar perhaps but you have overlapping regulators in the united states, you have very high taxes in the united states, you have a very litigious environment in the united states, and you have the emerging markets coming up, so capital is being raised outside of the united states these things, some of which are negative for the united states, some of which are positive for the other regions, is accelerating a shift that was underway from new york, to london, to hong kong, to singapore, and potentially to dubai as well (jd): some of the wealth funds are now on the radar of both wall street and capitol hill in washington you can't have your cake and eat it too you can't say i want some of that liquidity but i only want part of that liquidity what is the result of that do you think? can you over regulate the sovereign funds? (sk): oh, i think you can over regulate the sovereign funds i think the same question can be asked of the private equity funds and the hedge funds as well; where in a lot of countries the regulators have been struggling with the issue of 'here are very important drivers of global markets and global liquidity' and the concern is if, gee these are going to be important going forward, we want to have these involved in our economy and our markets, but if we regulate this alone that money will skitter away to another marketto a market outside the united states or europe for example (jd): it's fascinating because if you look at qatar or egypt or shanghai, the stock markets have almost had like a one way path; there's been some correction here in the middle east but what are we likely to see here, stair steps up the ladder with some corrections along the way, or an implosion because of the rapid gains? (sk): i think you've got to separate the idea of what's going on in the real economies and what's going on in the market places they move together, but sometimes they separate, they diverge, and they can diverge for a long period of time if you look at economic growth potential of the middle east, of asia, of latin america, we feel very bullish about this and i was making the point earlier today, china has been growing at 11 or 12 percent, not for one year or two years, but literally for 30 years for 30 years it's been growing at that kind of rate and really can continue as far as the eye can see so, say the same thing for the middle east, the growth even at a lower oil price can be significant, but can be high single digit or double digit for some foreseeable period going forward (jd): is wall street, or for that matter, london or any other financial center ready for a womanfor example in your case, 14 trillion dollars of assets (sk): 18 thank you (jd): to run one of the major money center banks of the world? i'm sure you're feeling this pressure even though you're young by international standards are we ready for a woman to take over a money center bank? (sk): well it looks like the united states may be ready for a woman to take over as president so i think if we're ready to potentially have a woman run the country, i think we are getting ready as a country, to potentially have a woman run a money center bank now, you know, the board wouldn't ask and i wouldn't accept, but if you look across wall street, there are a few women who are putting themselves in positions to be successors the next time there are ceo's who move along, and i think it's a very exciting development for the industry and for the country have your say email us at mme@cnncom, or send an i report e mail to a friend

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mme speaks with sallie krawcheck, boss of citi global wealth management ranked by fortune magazine as world's 12th most powerful woman in 2007 manages client assets worth $18 trillion, formerly bank's cfo tells mme: 'we're very bullish' on economic potential of the middle east

orange county, california (cnn)one of the larger fires in southern california was deliberately started by someone with apparent knowledge of arson, a fire official said thursday firefighter luke perisin sets a backfire wednesday against the santiago fire in live oak canyon, california the santiago fire in orange county was started in two places along a little traveled road, according to chief chip prather of the county's fire authority the fire, which has burned more than 25,000 acres, was started in brush just off santiago canyon road, not close to homes it spread rapidly, indicating the arsonist had some knowledge of winds and other factors 'it is a confirmed arson there was evidence found at the scene that is the purpose of our early declaration of it being an arson caused fire,' prather said he would not describe the evidence watch how the evidence points to arson » prather said officials originally thought the fire had three points of origin instead of two the santiago fire's points of origin are considered crime scenes, said jim amornino, a spokesman for the orange county sheriff's department the reward for information leading to an arrest has increased to $250,000$50,000 each from the governor's office, the us agency of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, and the fbi, prather said kfi radio has chipped in another $100,000, the sheriff's department said the state established a toll free arson tip line at 800 540 7085 gov arnold schwarzenegger said anyone convicted of arson would be dealt with harshly if a suspect is to be found, 'it's going to be by a clue from the public,' said county sheriff mike corona about 1,100 firefighters were working on controlling the santiago fire, which has destroyed at least 22 structures, according to orange county fire battalion chief kris concepcion the california department of forestry and fire protection said the fire was only 30 percent contained thursday morning after being 50 percent contained the day before watch the santiago flames rage » the motive of the santiago fire's arsonist was a mystery to concepcion 'that's the part that i really can't figure out, to tell you the truth,' he told cnn 'that individual knew on sunday when this fire started that we had, really, the perfect storm, if you will we had the heavy santa ana winds, we had the low relative humidities, we had the high temperatures 'and then for someone to even think about doing something as reprehensible as starting a fire where they knew the fire would grow as rapidly as it wouldtraveling about three, 3½ miles in about an houris just really absolutely unconscionable,' he said the smaller rosa fire in riverside county, 100 percent contained at 411 acres thursday morning, was also probably arson, state officials said meanwhile, los angeles fire department investigators are looking into whether a man who was arrested on suspicion of arson in the san fernando valley may have had a role in any of the ongoing blazes, an la police spokeswoman said catalino pineda, 41, was arrested wednesday, officer kate lopez told cnn witnesses told police they saw him lighting a fire on a hillside in the west hills area of san fernandonorthwest of los angelesthen walking away, lopez said pineda was already on probation for 'making excessive false emergency reports' to police at the time of the arrest, lopez said his bail has been set at $75,000, she said the fire he allegedly set was brought under control, but now authorities want to find out if he had any role in the other wildfires in san bernardino county, john alfred rund, 48, was arrested tuesday evening and charged with setting a small fire along a rural roadside near victorville rund was to be arraigned thursday morning in victorville he was being held in lieu of $750,000 bail the county's district attorney's office on thursday also 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 and will be arraigned later thursday the san diego county sheriff's department also arrested an adult and a juvenile accused by an anonymous tipster of 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 10,152 acre slide fire seems to indicate arson was not a factor, sheriff's spokeswoman cindy beaver said e mail to a friend

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santiago fire deliberately started in two places, official says santiago fire grows to 25,000 acres la authorities investigate man arrested for suspected arson blaze has destroyed 22 structures

baghdad, iraq (cnn)after months of tough negotiations and intense political wrangling, iraqi lawmakers thursday approved the us iraqi security agreement, a pact that allows the presence of american troops in iraq for three more years iraqis in a coffee shop watch the iraqi parliament on television on thursday the votewhich now needs unanimous ratification from the country's three member presidency councilcomes after a compromise on a reform package that sunni arab politicians demanded in return for their backing of the agreement there were 198 lawmakers from the 275 member parliament present for the vote; 149 of them voted for the security pact, which is to replace a un mandate that expires at the end of year the proposal, reached after months of negotiations between iraqi and us representatives, sets june 30, 2009, as the deadline for us combat troops to withdraw from all iraqi cities and towns the date for all us troops to leave iraq would be december 31, 2011 the agreementwhich stresses respect for iraqi sovereignty'requests the temporary assistance' of us forces, but severely restricts their role it says that all military operations are to be carried out with the agreement of iraq and must be 'fully coordinated' with iraqis a joint military operations coordination committee would oversee military operations iraq has the 'primary right to exercise jurisdiction' over us forces 'for grave premeditated felonies,' the agreement says suspects would be held by us forces but must be available to iraqi authorities for investigation or trial iraq also would have the 'primary right to exercise jurisdiction' over us contractors and their employees also, it says, 'iraqi land, sea and air shouldn't be used as a launching or transit point for attacks against other countries' parliament also passed another us iraqi bilateral pact called the strategic framework agreement, along with the reform legislation lawmakers also ok'd a referendum on the progress of the security agreement to be held by the end of july us ambassador to iraq ryan c crocker and gen ray odierno, the top us military official in iraq, issued a statement welcoming the passage of the security pact and the strategic framework agreementwhich covers a wide range of bilateral cooperation efforts the two congratulated the lawmakers and said they look forward to the security pact's ratification by the presidency council 'taken together, these two agreements formalize a strong and equal partnership between the united states and iraq,' their statement said 'they provide the means to secure the significant security gains we have achieved together and to deter future aggression 'they establish a framework for cooperation in the fields of defense, political relations, economics, trade, culture, education, the rule of law, health, the environment and science and technology' sunni arabs were not against the historic security agreement, but they were concerned about shiite prime minister nuri al maliki having too much power when the agreement goes into effect they wanted legislation that would underscore their constitutional interests and rights although there apparently were enough votes to approve the security pact even without the compromise, al maliki's government, as well as shiite and kurdish leaders, wanted to work out the political reform deal with the sunni arabs so there could be national unity on the security pact asked why the political reform agreement was so important, alaa makki, a sunni parliament member, said, 'it gave a message that there will be no dictatorship in iraq in the coming period and the iraqi people will say the final word' the compromise virtually assures the security agreement's ratification by iraq's presidency council, which consists of kurdish president jalal talabani, shiite vice president adel abdul mehdi and sunni vice president tariq al hashimi lawmakers loyal to shiite cleric muqtada al sadr and others had been staunch opponents of the security pact but there was overwhelming support for the measure from other quarters the sadrists made loud protests against the agreement during the brief parliament session cnn's jomana karadsheh and arwa damon contributed to this report

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(cnn)national security agency leaker edward snowden spoke out against mass government surveillance in a televised address on wednesday 'together we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance and remind the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying,' snowden said in channel 4's annual alternative christmas message to british viewers it follows queen elizabeth ii's traditional christmas broadcast channel 4's alternative address tradition, begun in 1993, has included addresses from mahmoud ahmadinejad, then the iranian president; ali g, a character played by comedian sacha baron cohen; an injured afghan war veteran; and a survivor of the september 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in 2004, the cartoon character marge from 'the simpsons' gave the greeting snowden, a former nsa contractor, is living in asylum in russia after leaking us surveillance secrets to the news media earlier this year he is wanted in the united states on espionage charges in his brief message, snowden asserted that the types of surveillance imagined in george orwell's '1984' are 'nothing compared to what we have available today' 'we have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go think about what this means for the privacy of the average person,' he said 'a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all' 'the conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it,' he said 5 takeaways from edward snowden's washington post interview

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nsa leaker edward snowden delivers christmas message on british tv channel 4 has broadcast alternative to queen's traditional message since 1993 snowden: 'a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all'

(cnn)barcelona star andres iniesta unwrapped an early christmas present monday as he inked a new deal with the spanish football club the 29 year old added an extension to his current deal that will see him stay with his boyhood club until the end of june 2018 'today is a magical day!' iniesta wrote on his twitter page 'my life and my club thank you for the love you have given me since i arrived at 12 years old' iniesta, regarded as one of the global game's most gifted and versatile players, was first spotted by barcelona scouts in 1996 he soon left his home to train with the barcelona youth academy and made his debut for the first team in 2002 since then iniesta has become one of barcelona's stars as part of a side that has won six spanish league titles, lifted spain's copa del rey twice and won the european champions league title three times a key international player, he also scored the only goal in a tense 2010 world cup final to give spain a narrow victory over the netherlands the 29 year old brought along his parents and daughter valeria to help him celebrate the start of a new era with barcelona as he signed the deal at the club's offices barcelona said in a statement on its website: 'iniesta was due to end his contract in 2015 this extension until 2018 means the fc barcelona midfielder will have spent more than half of his life on the club's books 'from 2017/18, his contract will be automatically extended provided he has appeared in a certain number of matches over the course of the season just ended' switzerland future planning the main protagonists in international football may be focused on next year's world cup but switzerland is already planning for life after brazil with coach ottmar hitzfeld bowing out after the world cup, the world no 8 team has named lazio manager vladimir petkovic as his successor the swiss football association said in a statement that the 50 year old would take over on 1 july 2014 but that if he guided switzerland to the 2016 euros his deal would continue until the end of the european championships petkovic, who describes himself as a swiss bosnian croat, began his career in the former state of yugoslavia as an attacking midfielder before continuing his playing career in switzerland, where he also turned to coaching many of switzerland's squad also come from the country's balkan migrant community petkovic, who has been in charge of italian club lazio since 2012, said of his new appointment: 'it has never been easy for anyone to follow ottmar hitzfeld 'it will not be easy for me, but i am absolutely convinced of the potential of the players and the team this quality will also help me i firmly believe that we can succeed together'

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andres iniesta agrees a new deal with spanish soccer club barcelona until 2018 the 29 year old midfield star joined the spanish club when he was just 12 iniesta said signing the new deal was a 'magical day' swtizerland announce vladimir petkovic as its new manager from july 2014

(cnn)when maria sharapova underwent shoulder surgery five years ago, many thought her tennis career wouldn't last but there is now a good chance the four time grand slam winner will play into her 30s before fully turning her attention to her numerous business interests 'i think she's going to play another four to five years and through the rio olympics (in 2016) if she stays healthy and hungry,' her long time agent and close friend max eisenbud told cnn's open court sharapova's motivation has never been an issue in the past, and the russianwho turned 26 last weekis now fully fit that, however, wasn't the case in 2008, when the shoulder injury ruled her out for nine months and cast doubt on sharapova's professional career, which began on the day she turned 14 she had been experiencing discomfort in her rightand servingshoulder, with initial tests leading doctors to believe inflammation was the cause when the pain intensified after a win at a tournament in montreal in july 2008, she underwent an mri that revealed two small tears in the tendon of her shoulder so began the long process of rehabilitation, surgery, another stint of rehab and dealing with another injury, a bone bruise it was a difficult time for sharapova 'the shoulder, it's a huge part of the tennis game,' she told open court 'the serve is huge and my game is all about being aggressive and powerful strokes, so when you're out of the game nine months, when you don't have too many examples of athletes coming back after such an injury, of course you have doubters' sharapova never lost faith that she would recover, but she would have to wait another three years before reaching another grand slam final, losing at wimbledon in 2011 thankfully for sharapova, no such serious injuries have reoccurred, although she was troubled by an ankle problem later that year 'i had to work through a lot of things, and more mentally as well because i always thought that during those months that i was away, everyone was working and everyone was training and everyone was playing so it kind of felt like i was left behind a little bit,' she said eisenbud's pronouncement about sharapova's future comes as a boost to the women's tennis tour due to sharapova's enormous star power and fan base, which increased when she won the french open last june to cap her comeback and become just the 10th woman to capture all four majors forbes lists sharapova was last year named by forbes as the world's 71st most powerful celebrity she was the highest ranked female athlete on the list, ahead of serena williams, despite the american now owning 11 more grand slam titles sharapova is, according to forbes, the world's highest paid female athlete, pulling in almost $28 millionmore than her career prize moneyover a 12 month period that ended last july sponsors including samsung, evian, nike, tiffany & co, head, cole haan and, most recently, porsche help pad sharapova's wallet the florida based russian has also launched sugarpova, her own premium candy line, in the us and plans on expanding to china, japan, india and england but sharapova remains adamant that success on the court is her first priority the rest will follow 'do i want my candy to sell? do i want my partnership to continue for many years? of course i do,' sharapova said 'that's a no brainer but at the end of the day all the things that have come to me, that i've been able to be a part of, is because i'm a tennis player, not because i'm a model or because of acting the core of what i have is my tennis' her results in 2013 confirm sharapova's drive known as one of tennis' toughest competitors and hardest workers, she has showed no signs of slowing down the power baseliner has reached at least the semifinals in all four of her tournaments and almost completed a rare double at the bnp paribas open in indian wells and miami's sony open she won the title in california in march but was defeated by williams in the finale in florida two weeks later her poor record against williams might add to her hunger williams beat sharapova for the 11th straight time, although sharapova won a set off the world no 1 for the first time in five years missing gold sharapova lacks an olympic gold medal, too, having been crushed by williams in the gold medal match at london 2012 and missing 2008 in beijing with the shoulder injury 'i always feel like i can be better and when i do step on the court, i feel a certain power with what i'm doing,' sharapova said 'i feel strong and i feel like i'm good at what i do 'i want to keep working, and i want to keep getting better because you can't stand still everyone's working i'm sure everyone's getting stronger and getting faster and hitting the ball harder you have to do it as well' sharapova begins her clay court swing as defending champion in stuttgart this week before competing at the madrid open and italian open in rome ahead of her title defense at roland garros, which starts may 26 her titles in stuttgart and rome in 2012 served as the springboard to her success in paris, where sharapova downed italian sara errani in the final having come back from the abyss that her career threatening injury presented, sharapova savored the successespecially after being written off by many critics while she was rebuilding her career, suffering some morale sapping defeats 'losing is never easy, especially when you've achieved so much great success and having lifted beautiful trophies,' she said 'and especially when you hear it from people that, you know, they sit there and comment on what you're doing and they don't comment on the work that you put in before something like that, before getting to the stage of a match in front of thousands of people 'but it makes you so much stronger, and i've looked back and, you know, the people i felt had that connection with me, i've certainly spoken with them about it and especially had a few words with them after the french open 'but it's sport it's normal i think the world revolves around comments and opinions, and i have absolutely nothing against it'

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having overcome a shoulder injury, maria sharapova plans on playing for 4 5 more years she won her first major post surgery at last year's french open to complete her collection russian says she enjoyed proving her doubters wrong by returning from injury she competes on tour while balancing business interests, including candy line

(cnn)piers morgan likes to talk the talk but how did the cnn anchor fare when he had to walk the walk and face a cricket ball coming towards him at 150 kilometers an hour? morgan, who likes to tweet from the lip, has been one of england's most outspoken critics over the past few weeks following the team's embarrassing capitulation against australia in the fiercely contested ashes series and from the cosy surroundings of his us home, morgan took to twitter to criticize england's wretched batting in the first three ashes testsmatches in which australia cruised to victory but on friday in melbourne, where england are playing australia in the fourth test, morgan got a taste of what the touring batsmen have had to contend with over the last few weeks, though none of them were dumped onto their backsideunlike the cnn anchor facing former australian fast bowler brett lee, a man who took 310 wickets in 76 tests, morgan was pummeled during a six ball blast with lee not holding back, morgan gave the appearance of a rabbit caught in the headlights as he backed away from nearly every delivery watch morgan's ordeal on youtube on four occasions the englishman was hit on the body, while he was also clean bowled by lee much to the amusement of the watching crowd of 2,000, which included australian cricketers mitchell johnson and peter siddle 'he got hurt but he didn't get maimed, so that's a positive step,' lee told the sydney morning herald 'you have to give full credit to the guyhe's going to be really sore tomorrow 'but he kept on going, so you have to take your hat off to the guy 'the biggest smile around the ground was from mitchell johnson i think i looked over at mitch and he gave me a wink, he was quite chuffed' if the 48 year old morgan was bloodied, he remained unbowed after his bruising experience 'it's made me reassess what you need out here on an ashes tour and that is courage, fortitude and a churchillian spirit of never giving in despite overwhelming odds,' he said cnn digital writer chris murphy plays amateur cricket with morgan, so what was his analysis of his teammate's performance? 'having played cricket with piers on numerous occasions, it's well known he has two shots: a forward defense and a heave to the leg side,' said murphy 'sadly, he wasn't able to exhibit either 'charging down the wicket at someone bowling nearly 150 kph isn't brave, it's just plain stupid but piers deserves full marks for the guts he showed in the face of a relentless barrage from brett lee 'the sight of any batsman backing away from his stumps is a sign he's troubled by the pace of the bowler, but in this case it was probably a wise idea to prevent his chin being shattered 'a still head, straight bat and balance are the fundamentals of battingsadly for piers, none of those elements were on show in melbourne thankfully though, he is still alive to tell the tale' the england players who were the subject of morgan's twitter angst did at least return to form friday to take control of the fourth test at the mcg their nemesis johnson took five wickets to leave england 255 all out, but the visitors hit back to have the home side reeling on 167 for nine at stumps and facing the prospect of defeat after three earlier easy victories in south africa, fast bowler dale steyn put on a display that lee at his best would be proud of, taking six wickets for 100 runs as india were all out for 334 in their first innings in durban retiring legend jacques kallis became only the second man in test history to take 200 catches during the course of the second day

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cnn anchor piers morgan went head to head with australian bowler brett lee morgan left flat on his backside at melbourne cricket ground the 48 year old anchor hit four times in six deliveries england fight back in fourth test to take control on second day

(cnn)seen the ball drop in new york's times square? caught the fireworks over sydney harbour? there are plenty of other ways to ring in the new year byron bay, australia among the first places in australia to see the sun rise, byron bay in new south wales hosts one of the country's largest parties on new year's eve this year, for the first time, the three day falls music & arts festival will take over the town from december 31 to january 3, which means tunes from mgmt, grizzly bear, the roots and vampire weekend away from the north byron parklands, festivities will feature family friendly activities from 9 pm, plus an early morning event on main beach on the first day of the new year if you don't have a ticket to falls, aren't a local or don't have a hotel booked, you won't get in the mayor is planning to 'lock' everyone else out in order to 'curb alcohol fueled violence and destruction of property in the town' good times apparently await those who have prepared in advance the falls music & arts festival goa, india balmy weather, beaches, al fresco bars and restaurantsindia's smallest state is one of its biggest party centers goan celebrations kick off on december 27 with the three day sunburn music festivalheadliners include pete tong, markus schultz and afrojak, among other djs parties on new year's eve range from masquerade balls to beach raves if you don't mind crowds, anjuna beach has dance performances, goan folk music and plenty of feni (a local liquor), while the sunset party at querim beach's nightclub kitty su takes things outdoors with some of the country's top music acts on the sand at the hill top event, near vagator beach, a globetrotting roster of trance musicians will entertain revelers well into new year's day sunburn goa hill top festival goa prague, czech republic prague locals love their fireworks, so much so that many contribute their own to the new year's eve festivities around town the official show explodes over the old town square and wenceslas square at midnight; the best vantage points are from the charles bridge, petřín hill and near prague castle vltava river cruises are free from crowds and provide czech beer and live jazz january 1 is particularly poignant to prague locals as it marks the day the czech republic was created after the breakup of czechoslovakia in 1993 a special fireworks display will be held at letná park on the day, kicking off at 6 pm to ensure that families with young children can attend harbin, china new year's eve festivities don't get much cooler than those held in the northern chinese city of harbin not far from the russian border, the city gets temperatures well below freezing in winter, perfect for the annual ice and snow sculpture festival celebrating 30 years, the festival sees larger than life ice sculptures crafted around town, lit either by lasers or with traditional lanterns visitors can walk on icy replicas of the great wall, check out st basil's cathedral or stare at a replica eiffel tower before fireworks light up the night sky another icy tradition takes place when swimmers jump into the city's songhua river harbin ice and snow sculpture festival niagara falls, canada billed as canada's largest free new year's eve extravaganza, the december 31 concert at queen victoria park in niagara falls is expected to draw more than 40,000 people kicking off at 730 pm and held against the epic backdrop of niagara falls, which straddles the american and canadian border, this year's event features music from the sam roberts band and serena ryder, with demi lovato headlining the party includes food stalls, entertainers and two fireworks displays, at 845 pm and midnight you can continue the noise on the first day of 2014 with a journey behind the falls tour, allowing you to stand in the mist where the mighty horseshoe falls tumbles from a height of 13 stories, traveling at 65 kilometers per hour niagara falls festival reykjavik, iceland december 31 sees crowds converge on 10 bonfires lit around iceland's capital before revelers make their way to hallgrimskirkja church, a dramatic 73 meter high building designed to resemble the country's lava flows perlan (the pearl), a hemispherical building atop öskjuhlíð hill with a winter garden and dining areas, provides a more panoramic view of town fireworks are sold throughout the city, which means that explosions can be heard from the moment the sky darkens the intensity builds toward midnight, when a spectacular choreographed display lights the city the festival of lights can often continue on new year's day when tourists head off in search of the aurora borealis cruise ship, various if you can't decide on one destination, a cruise offers a roster of ports all cruise lines ring in the new year with pomp and ceremony, but a few go the extra mile crystal cruises hosts a balloon drop in the atrium of its two ships, followed by a ship wide countdown at midnight, with champagne on new year's day, celebrations continue with a boozy brunch on december 31, crystal symphony will be docked in sydney harbour, under the bridge, so you're guaranteed a dazzling introduction to 2014 norwegian cruise line ships will have fireworks and a captain's countdown from the bridge 'the pride of america' is scheduled to arrive next to hawaii's volcanoes on the first day of 2014 weather permitting, the oceania cruises' fleet will hold new year's eve soirees on their decks, as well as parties throughout the ships passengers can look forward to live music, noisemakers, party hats and plenty of bubbles crystal cruises norwegian cruise line oceania cruises whistler, british columbia the canadian winter sports resort town is hosting a youth dance and nye kids' countdown in millennium place, with fire spinners, dancers, circus entertainers, live music and a giant bubble wrap stomp and balloon drop at 9 pm at the fire and ice show, whistler's best skiers and riders jump through blazing rings of fire as guests dance into the new year a dazzling display of lights and sounds will ring in the new year fireworks are best viewed from skier's plaza located at the base of whistler mountain, or from the skating rink at whistler olympic plaza whistler new year's eve walt disney world, florida most evenings at walt disney world near orlando go off with a bang, but the entertainment on new year's eve is particularly spectacular the attractionhome to four theme parks, two water parks and 24 themed resortsfills up fast, so it's wise to arrive early most of the theme parks welcome visitors an hour earlier than normal and stay open until 1 or 2 am on new year's day the magic kingdom offerings include the electrical parade at 7 pm and 9 pm, the holiday wishes fireworks at 8:30 pm and fantasy in the sky fireworks at 11:50 pm epcot will have shows at 6:30 pm and 11:40 pm, plus djs throughout the evening at the future world fountain stage hollywood studios will showcase fireworks and special effects at midnight with the theme 'mulch, sweat and shears'a series of four concerts walt disney world chiang mai, thailand the northern thai city of chiang mai officially celebrates loi krathong (the festival of lights) in the 12th lunar month (this year, november), but the dazzling extravaganza is repeated in part on new year's eve locals and visitors gather on thapae road (closed to traffic from dusk) around the thapae gate, where food stalls line the street and musicians and dancers entertain even before the sun disappears, paper lanterns are released into the sky things are more subdued, but equally illuminating, at the city's buddhist temples candle lit shrines at wat phan tao, among others, set the scene for more paper lanterns floating into the night sky, with fireworks at midnight at ping river, visitors can also watch floating lanterns being released onto the waterway

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australia's byron bay hosts one of the country's largest parties on new year's eve january 1 marks the day czech republic was created after the 1993 breakup of czechoslovakia paper lanterns filled with wishes are released into the sky in chiang mai

(cnn)for more than three decades, concorde represented the pinnacle of business travelthe ultimate status symbol for the jetset executive considered a marvel of aviation technology, the distinctive droop nosed aircraft traveled at twice the speed of sound, flying from london to new york in about three and a half hourshalf the time of commercial airliners but even before an air france concorde crashed in 2000, killing all 100 passengers and nine crew members on board, the luster was beginning to wane battling high operating costs and low passenger numbers, air france and british airways grounded their small, aging fleet a mere three years later but the dream of supersonic flight has not disappeared aviation manufacturers such as boeing, lockheed martin and aerion are working on supersonic technologywith the latter predicting it could have a supersonic business jet in service as early as 2020 industry expert joe lissenden, the director of aerospace and defense consulting in the americas for ihs jane's, says it's likely that a next generation supersonic commercial aircraft will emerge high demand from passengers, historic profitability on the routes and significant technological improvements have combined to make supersonic flight all the more viable, he said read also: the air fare too good to be true for lissenden, the one challenge that remains is fuel cost 'faster flights consume fuel faster which makes the flight more expensive,' he said 'but this is a premium route, and premium prices will be charged' crucial to the efforts to restore supersonic aircraft to the skies is the work of national aerospace programs such as nasa and japan's jaxa peter coen is the supersonics research project manager for nasa's fundamental aeronautics program while the agency is not working on a specific supersonic aircraft, he said, 'we are working on technologies we feel represent barriers to bringing back successful supersonic aircraft' those barriers include high atmosphere emissions, noise produced when taking off and landing, and the sonic boomthe sound associated with the shockwaves created when objects travel faster than the speed of sound, which has prevented supersonic aircraft from flying overland routes see also: air force's hypersonic test fails coen said his division was concentrated on addressing the sonic boom issue first, because 'if you don't have overland supersonic flight, there's never going to be a market for the supersonic aircraft' nasa has been collaborating with boeing and lockheed martin on systems level design studies, with each manufacturer producing models that have been subjected to wind tunnel testing to gauge their effectiveness coen said phase one testing had successfully validated the basic design techniques reshaping the aircraft, the designsboeing's two jet configuration with engines mounted above the wing, and lockheed martin's tri jet configuration, with two engines below the wing and a third mounted in the tailhad been proven to significantly reduce the sonic boom to a 'thump,' dropping the noise from concorde levels to close to what is considered the level of acceptability coen said he expected to see a next generation 'son of concorde' in the marketplace by around 2030, while a supersonic business jet 'could happen sooner' 'the boom is the barrier and if we can get past that, i think we'll see people giving supersonic flight a lot more serious consideration,' he said the japan aerospace exploration agency (jaxa) also hopes to develop a supersonic passenger aircraft that is quiet, economical and environmentally friendly, and expects to achieved it some time this century spokesman masahisa honda said that while the agency currently had no aircraft in specific development, along current projections it predicted a supersonic business jet to enter the market some time after 2015 read also: 'hidden' airline chargesdirty tricks or customer choice? one of the frontrunners to do so is the aerion sbj, an 8 12 passenger business jet 'it will herald a return to supersonic civil flight without concorde's environmental and economic drawbacks,' said aerion spokesman adam konowe he said development of a joint venture with aircraft manufacturers to produce the sbj had been slowed by the recession, but once a deal was struck he anticipated a six year development program to bring the aircraft to market 'we believe the sbj will be certified, and enter service around the end of the decade2020,' he said but not everyone is convinced that a return to supersonic passenger flight is just around the corner chris seymour, head of market analysis with aviation experts ascend, was skeptical that there would be much progress before at least 2030 'i think there's so many issues to be considered that i certainly can't see it happening in the next 20 years,' he said seymour believes that although technological barriers will likely be overcome, the key factor in whether it will become a reality is whether a market exists that is prepared to pay a premium for the ultimate status symbol in business travelparticularly in an air travel market that is focused on low prices 'will you have enough passengers willing to pay higher fares to fly more quickly?' he said 'if you look at concorde, that wasn't the case it came along at a time when the 747 also came in, which carried more people for lower fares that's where the market was' peter warth, director of complete aviation solutions, also believes that a return to supersonic flight is further off than some are making out 'there seems to be multiple technological and commercial obstacles that will need to be cleared,' he said but he conceded: 'i'm sure that when the original plans for concorde, the a380 and the 787 dreamliner were announced, the same questions about whether it could be achieved were asked but they eventually delivered i think time will tell'

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juba, south sudan (cnn)a large group of youths from an ethnic militia loyal to former south sudanese vice president riek machar is marching for the city of bor, just days after it was retaken by the government amid heavy fighting, officials said col phillip aguer, spokesman for the sudan people's liberation army, estimated 20,000 ethnic nuer from the so called white army were headed for the city, raising fears of more violence the un mission in south sudan said sunday it is 'extremely concerned' about the report, but it could not confirm the size or location of the marchers 'south sudan does not need another escalation of the crisis involving armed youth, pitching communities against communities,' said hilde f johnson, the un special representative of the secretary general the un mission warned that the involvement of armed youths 'would add a volatile and unpredictable ingredient into the precarious security situation currently prevailing in the country' the youthsknown for the white powder they use to cover their skin as an insect repellantdo not have formal military training and, if not under direct orders, can act without discipline information minister michael makuei said saturday that rebel leader machar had gone to ethnic nuer neighborhoods in uror to mobilize the youths multiple media outlets reported machar denied the youths are acting under his orders cnn has not been able to contact machar's representatives the same group is believed responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians from the murle ethnic group in 2011 and 2012 machar is a longtime rival of president salva kiir the men are from two different tribal clans kiir is from the dinka tribe, machar from the neur kiir accused machar of trying to stage a coup its' a claim machar has denied fighting broke out between kiir's government and supporters of machar on december 15 in the capital city of juba it quickly spread across the country, with reports of mass killings lent credence by mass graves kiir's soldiers regained control of bor last week in a bloody battle for the city a growing chorus of international agencies is calling for an end to the hostilities east african leaders on friday gave the warring factions four days to lay down their arms if they don't, the leaders of the intergovernmental authority on development warned they'll 'take action' to stop the conflict that the united nations says has killed more than 1,000 and forced some 121,000 from their homes the warning came the same day the united nations said the first of 5,500 additional peacekeepers had arrived in the country the humanitarian crisis here is worsening, with at least 122,000 displaced since the fighting began roughly 63,000 have sought refuge in un bases in the country, according to the world body those on the un base in juba are scared to venture outside, even though many have homes within walking distance james gajaak, the de facto community leader at the juba un camp, told cnn's arwa damon that when he first arrived with his family, he went three days without food and water 'so my brother went back to the house to collect water,' he said, recalling how later he received a phone call 'they tell me, 'your brother is dead; come collect the dead body so that you can bury him' ' doctors from the relief group doctors without borders are concerned over the increasing volume of people within the confined space of the camps christine bimansha is one of many doctors providing medical care at two unmiss sites for doctors without borders (medecins sans frontieres) she said in an msf field report sunday that she is concerned about sanitation conditions and the potential spread of disease 'water and sanitation is the biggest problem the displaced people are facingthey don't have access to water or to enough latrines if the water and sanitation conditions at the unmiss camp remain the same, the situation will get worseif people don't have water and we have an explosion of diseases like cholera, then that will be a big outbreak and a big problem measles is also a significant threat and an outbreak would be difficult to stop in such overcrowded conditions' south sudan's neighbors threaten to step in to end fighting cnn's antonia mortensen reported from juba, south sudan neda farshbaf reported from atlanta cnn's sarah aarthun contributed to this report

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youths from an ethnic militia are marching for bor, days after the government retook the city the youths are loyal to rebel leader riek machar machar denies reports they are acting under his orders the un says it is 'extremely concerned' by the reports

san diego, california (cnn)conditions that created what california gov arnold schwarzenegger dubbed 'the perfect storm for fire' eased wednesday, helping firefighters gain ground against devastating southern california wildfires a plane drops fire retardant on the fourth day of a wildfire pushed by winds through pauma valley, california winds that gusted as much as 101 mph on sunday dropped to about 30 mph wednesday evening meanwhile, the dry santa ana winds that have fanned the flames, changed direction and began blowing inland from the pacific ocean, increasing the humidity and easing the burden on almost 8,900 firefighters in the area but the destruction was taking its toll on the men and women on the front lines of the fires 'it hurts us to have those homes lost it hurts us to have those injuries and it is frustrating for us to watch our community be devastated by this,' said firefighter andy menshek as conditions improved, officials allowed people to return to communities that had been off limits because of intense flames and dense smoke 'it was home,' said mark davis, whose two story rancho bernardo house burned to the ground 'it was us we had been there 28 years, and it had a lot of our flavor' the change in the weather also meant that firefighting aircraftgrounded for most of the week by the windscould finally fly california department of forestry and fire protection capt scott mclean called the droning sound of aircraft the 'sound of joy' 'their drops are hitting their mark because the wind is not there,' he said the rate of burning had slowed significantly by wednesday still, the fire damage increased to 434,543 acres, said gov arnold schwarzenegger watch schwarzenegger give a progress report » that amounted to 679 square miles, or about 10 times the size of washington, dc by wednesday evening, the largest firethe witch in northern san diego countywas 10 percent contained it burned about 196,000 acres before combining with the smaller poomacha blaze seven fires among the 22 counted wednesday were contained see where the fires are burning » others, such as the buckweed fire in los angeles county, were as much as 94 percent contained one large fire was a suspected arson the fbi and the orange county fire authority are investigating the santiago fire that has burned more than 19,000 acres all three of its points of origin have been declared crime scenes, said jim amornino, a spokesman for the orange county sheriff's department a $70,000 reward is being offered for any information leading to the arrest of those responsible for setting the fire the blaze was about 50 percent contained after destroying 17 structures watch the raging flames of the santiago fire » the smaller rosa fire in riverside county, 70 percent contained at just over 400 acres, was also a probably arson, state officials said as the fire danger eased, residents were allowed to return to several neighborhoods surrounding san diego: del mar highlands, encinitas, solana beach, carmel valley, chula vista and otay mesa helicopters were back in the air over the lake arrowhead, california, area after all air activity had been suspended because of extremely smoky skies in nearby running springs, cnn's ted rowlands stood in the midst of charred, smoldering rubble strewn with potentially deadly power lines 'it will be a while before these people will come back when they do come back, unfortunately they'll have this pretty much to look at,' he said wednesday watch rowlands describe a major battle with the flames » about 500 homes were lost in the mountainous region in san bernardino county east of los angeles see photos of the fires » 'yesterday we couldn't be here, because just this little flame and smoldering pieces of wood would be thrown by the intense winds now you can see the flames just basically burning themselves out,' said rowlands the fires have already destroyed 1,664 structuresincluding 1,436 homesand they still threaten 25,000 more, schwarzenegger said wednesday the blazes have killed three people and left 40 hurt, he said the governor will fly over the area thursday with president bush, who signed a major disaster declaration wednesday watch bush emphasize the need to be responsive » it'll speed federal dollars to people whose property losses aren't covered by insurance and will help local and state agencies pay for the emergency response the cost of homes destroyed by the wildfires is likely to top $1 billion in san diego county alone, an emergency official said federal help keeps arriving as officials promise a response based on lessons learned from hurricane katrina people left homeless by the fires can go online to apply for federal help at femagov, he said there were 76,000 people staying in the 42 shelters opened in san diego county wednesday morning, according to san diego emergency spokeswoman lynda pfieffer qualcomm stadiumhome to the nfl's san diego chargershoused 11,000 evacuees at the peak of the disaster, but that number dropped to 5,000 wednesday morning watch how evacuees are being taken care of at the stadium » e mail to a friend cnn's kate bolduan contributed to this report

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khartoum, sudan (cnn)a sudanese court found a british teacher guilty of insulting religion and sentenced her to 15 days in prison thursday for allowing a teddy bear to be named 'mohammed,' british authorities and her lawyer reported an undated amateur photo of gillian gibbons, who has been found guilty of insulting religion gillian gibbons also faces deportation from sudan after her prison term, her lawyer told cnn he said that he was 'very disappointed' with the verdict and that gibbons planned to appeal gibbons was not convicted of two other charges brought against herinciting hatred and showing contempt for religious beliefs, her lawyer said gibbons, 54, was arrested sunday after she asked her class of 7 year olds in khartoum to name the stuffed animal as part of a school project, the british foreign office said she had faced charges under article 125 of sudan's constitution, the law relating to insulting religion and inciting hatred although there is no ban in the quran on images of allah or the prophet mohammed, islam's founder, likenesses are considered highly offensive by muslims watch latest developments in the case » appearing somber and dazed, gibbons arrived at the central courthouse in khartoum for her closed hearing early thursday a staff member from the british embassy in khartoum and defense lawyers attended the hearing with her the courthouse was heavily guarded by police, who kept journalistsand, for a while, even one of her attorneysaway gibbons could have faced a sentence of 40 lashes, a fine, or a jail term of up to a year, according to the foreign office, which expressed britain's dissatisfaction with the verdict 'we are extremely disappointed that the charges against gillian gibbons were not dismissed,' foreign secretary david miliband said in a statement issued shortly after the verdict was announced 'as i said this morning, our clear view is that this is an innocent misunderstanding by a dedicated teacher our priority now is to ensure ms gibbons' welfare, and we will continue to provide consular assistance to her i have called in the sudanese ambassador, omer siddig, this evening to explain the decision and discuss next steps' watch a report on reactions to the verdict » the foreign office said gibbons would be given credit for the four days since her arrest, meaning that the she has 11 days remaining on her sentence earlier, miliband had met with siddig, who was summoned to the foreign office in london 'i explained to him that we were very concerned by the case we believe that this was an innocent misunderstanding,' miliband said in a statement released thursday after the meeting 'the sudanese ambassador undertook to ensure our concerns were relayed to khartoum at the highest level he also said he would reflect back to khartoum the real respect for the islamic religion in this country,' the statement added on the first floor of the courthouse, around 25 police linked arms and forced journalists and british officials away from the court entrance police detained some journalists, and confiscated a camera belonging to a freelance cnn cameraman four vans filled with riot police were waiting outside the courthouse, but there were no signs of street disturbances or protests staff from gibbons' school, including robert boulos, the head of unity high school, were present the staff members refused to comment on their colleague's predicament on wednesday, boulos said he was 'horrified' when he found out that the complaint about the naming of the bear came from a member of his own staffnot from a parent, as originally thought defense counsel later confirmed that the complaint came from sarah khawad, a secretary at the school gibbons has been working at the schoolpopular with wealthy sudanese and expatriatessince august, after leaving her position as deputy head teacher at a primary school in liverpool, england, this summer, boulos said he said gibbons asked the children to pick their favorite name for the new class mascot, which she was using to aid lessons about animals and their habitats e mail to a friend journalist andrew heavens contributed to this report 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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british teacher in sudan found guilty of insulting religion gillian gibbons, 54, arrested after her class named teddy bear 'mohammed' gibbons was not convicted of two other charges brought against her uk consular staff, gibbons' defense team initially refused access to the court

(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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(cnn)venezuelan president hugo chavez said wednesday he is cutting all ties with colombia as long as alvaro uribe remains its president colombian president alvaro uribe withdrew his support for the venezuelan leader's mediation efforts with the farc 'i say before the world, while president uribe is president of colombia, i will not have any type of relation with him or with the government of colombia,' chavez said in an address broadcast on national television 'i can't, i can't, i can't' chavez noted that uribe had asked him to help secure the release of hundreds of hostages being held by the leftist rebel group armed revolutionary front of colombia (farc) and the national liberation army (eln) 'i went with my heart in my hand, and i was ready,' chavez told a group of supporters in the southwestern state of tachira 'i was prepared to go to the most dangerous forest in the country to help' but last thursday, uribe ended chavez's participation, citing his direct communication with uribe's top general, a move that uribe said broke protocol 'when we were at the point of succeeding, uribe comes and, without telling me anything, he didn't even call me on the phone or send me an emissary, just sent me a letter saying he was ending my mission,' chavez said 'that was a kick' without being specific, chavez accused uribe of having lied 'that's real ugly,' he said chavez also accused uribe of having bowed to pressure from washington 'to get rid of chavez' but the firebrand venezuelan president, who has called us president george w bush 'the devil,' said his arms are open to the colombian people e mail to a friend

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madison, wisconsin (cnn)in the canon of political cliches, 'it all comes down to turnout' is among the most tired but in the case of the polarizing and closely watched wisconsin recall election, the maxim happens to ring true public polling, internal polling and campaign strategists all tell the same story: republican gov scott walker is clinging to a tiny lead over his democratic opponent, milwaukee mayor tom barrett, heading into tuesday's vote and the number of undecided voters has dwindled to almost zero, strategists in both parties say, meaning that the only mission left for both sides is to get their rabid supporters to the polls 'our sole focus right now is on our grassroots get out the vote effort,' said ben sparks, a spokesman for the wisconsin republican party the final blitz began over the weekend 'we are wisconsin,' an umbrella group funded by labor unions and the democratic governors association, said it contacted nearly 750,000 voters over the weekend, with the goal of touching 14 million people with phone calls or door knocks by the close of polls tuesday meanwhile, the state gop and the republican national committee, which are coordinating some of their efforts with the walker campaign, boasted monday that they have identified and contacted 4 million voters since januarya number that has national republicans speculating that they can put the state in play for mitt romney in november the recall fight has its roots in walker's successful push in early 2011 to strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights in an effort to close an ugly budget shortfall the push sparked a bitter partisan battle between walker and democrats in the state legislature, and set off a wave of historic protests from union members inside and outside the state capitol in madison after walker signed the controversial budget bill in march 2011, labor organizers subsequently managed to collect 900,000 certified signatures to trigger a recall and are now among those leading the final get out the vote push on monday, at a madison area branch of the american federation of state, county and municipal employees (afscme), barrett supporters spent the day popping in to pick up fliers for door to door voter contact efforts the union is also paying for cab rides to the polls on tuesday randy case, a retiree from cross plains, was among those who dropped by the afscme office to help he said walker deserves to be removed from office because he trampled on wisconsin's cherished tradition of fair play in state government 'this is a friendly state,' case said 'people get along here, and i think in our government, that has meant we elect people who work across the aisle and listen to other side and that has just been absent with this current administration it's 'my way or the highway,' which is simply not a wisconsin value it's not how we govern ourselves' walker argues that his reforms are working, pointing to a projected budget surplus and a modest uptick in jobs since he took office last year democrats have tried to poke holes in those numbers, but according to recent poll from marquette university law school, a slight majority of voters approve of walker's performance in madison the milwaukee journal sentinel, barrett's hometown paper, also came to walker's defense with a helpful messaging point last week, writing in an editorial that the governor deserves to finish his term walker is not the only republican facing a recall tuesday lt gov rebecca kleefisch is on the ballot against democrat mahlon mitchell, a fitchburg firefighter dubbed 'm&m' by some of his supporters the undercard also features four of the republican state senators who helped walker pass his budget reforms just one gop loss in those recall races would flip control of the state senate back to democrats, at least until the next election in november but the marquee race is between walker and barrett, a rematch of the 2010 governor's race in that historically republican year, walker edged barrett in their original matchup by 5 points different dynamics are at work on tuesday, though, giving democrats some hope even though walker is considered the narrow favorite while the anti walker fervor may have waned since protests consumed the state capitol grounds in early 2011, insiders here predict that turnout on both sides is likely to be higher than it was for the original walker barrett race but even in the race's eleventh hour, strategists in both parties are struggling to figure out whether turnout will be closer to 2008 levels, when nearly 70% of eligible wisconsin voters participated in the presidential election, or 2010, when voter turnout dropped to 49% democrats are hoping for the 2008 model almost 3 million people voted in that election, and the state went heavily for barack obama 'it was a low turnout in 2010 and a high turnout in 2008,' said former wisconsin sen russ feingold, who spent monday traveling the state rallying democrats 'if we get anywhere near 2008 or even halfway there, we are going to win, because those folks are more likely to vote for tom barrett' but unlike 2008, when republican turnout underwhelmed, wisconsin voters on both sides are now engaged at a level not seen in recent memory 'we have an example of hatfields and mccoys going on in this state like we have never seen,' said brian nemoir, a milwaukee based republican strategist 'people are hyper engaged, as much in support for their own candidate as in disgust for the opponent' handmade signs are nearly as prevalent as official ones some locals say they have resorted to lowering their voices in public when discussing the recall to avoid setting off arguments with strangers the marquette university poll revealed that 26% of all voters have slapped a bumper sticker on their car or planted a sign in their lawn the same survey found that a third of voters have simply stopped talking politics with someone they know because the race is so heated and this is all in a state with a historical reputation for collegiality and midwestern politeness a flood of campaign money, much of it from out of state interest groups and most of it benefiting republicans, is partially responsible for the hothouse political climate about $64 million has been spent on the race since november 2011, an analysis from the center for public integrity found that's a new state record, shattering the previous record of $374 million spent during the 2010 governor's race beginning last fall, walker seized on a loophole in wisconsin law that allows incumbents in recall elections to raise unlimited sums walker outraised his opponent by an almost 8 1 margin, collecting $305 million to barrett's $4 million roughly two thirds of walker's contributions came from out of state, the center for public integrity reported, while only a quarter of barrett's funds originated from outside wisconsin beyond the individual campaigns, independent groups have played a major role in the race, helping saturate television and radio airwaves with negative advertising the republican governors association, for instance, has spent more than $8 million on walker's behalf, most it on television ads working against walker are unions like afscme, the american federation of teachers, the national education association and the service employees international union, which have also steered millions of dollars to the state in their efforts to unseat the governor

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(cnn)convicted russian arms dealer viktor bout was sentenced thursday to 25 years behind bars by a federal judge in new york 'i am not guilty,' bout said through a translator 'i never intended to kill anyone i never intended to sell any arms to anyone god knows this is the truth' last year bout, who was dubbed 'the merchant of death' by his accusers, was convicted on four counts of conspiracy to kill americans, acquire and export anti aircraft missiles and provide material support to a terrorist organization he had faced the possibility of life in prison 'viktor bout has been international arms trafficking enemy number one for many years, arming some of the most violent conflicts around the globe,' said preet bharara, the us attorney in manhattan 'he was finally brought to justice in an american court for agreeing to provide a staggering number of military grade weapons to an avowed terrorist organization committed to killing americans' bout's wife, alla, said after the hearing that her husband 'said few words' in reaction to the sentence 'the war is not lost yet,' alla bout said, speaking in russian she said she and her husband could see each other once a week and 'yesterday we had a very serious conversation regarding him speaking in courtthere was a very long speech written viktor together with his defense decided that he did not have anyone to prove himself to in that courtroom or accept his guilt or say anything else regarding the reliability of this case because he did not accept this case from the beginning as a lawful case, starting from the process in thailand to his extradition to united states' at the trial, the prosecution said that during a 2008 sting operation by us drug enforcement agents in thailand, bout believed he was selling weapons to colombian guerrillas his lawyer, albert dayan, filed a letter last week asking judge shira a scheindlin, who presided over the trial and who set bout's sentence, to set aside the guilty verdict dayan urged the judge not to 'become an unwilling party' in what he called a 'wrongful prosecution' for 'purely political reasons' he argued that the conviction is a 'product of malice' and that bout has been an 'object of private politics' coming from washington the lawyer claimed that bout was picked out by the united states government and lured into a crime manufactured by the us drug enforcement administration, in which the agency played 'the role of judge, jury and executioner ' in his claim, dayan insisted that bout did not intend to sell any arms to the agents, that he had not sold any arms for several years and that the only thing he wanted to sell were two cargo airplanes, worth $5 million dayan stood by the claim that dea officers baited his client into illegal activities 'i do not profess, i do not argue that he's an angel, but he is innocent of these charges,' dayan wrote 'i felt it was my duty to speak out and let the world know' according to a federal indictment, bout was suspected of creating front companies that used his planes to deliver food and medical supplies, as well as arms after a sting operation in 2008, he was arrested in thailand and in 2010 was extradited to the united states following a protracted court proceeding he was convicted in november after a three week trial in new york before his arrest, the dea had struggled to draw bout out of his russian homeland, which is long thought to have sheltered and defended him undercover agents met with bout's associates the world over, from curacao to copenhagen, in an attempt to set up a meeting with their target, according to the indictment the russian businessman also has been accused of assembling a fleet of cargo planes to traffic military grade weapons to conflict zones around the world since the 1990s allegations of trafficking activities in liberia prompted us authorities to freeze his american assets in 2004 and prohibited us transactions with him, according to the indictment bout has maintained that he operated legitimate businesses and had acted as a mere logistics provider his exact age is unclear, but he is believed to be in his late 40s or 50s, with his age in dispute because of different passports and documents the us attorney's office said it had no confirmed age critics have accused bout of providing arms to rebels in several countries and fueling bloody conflicts in places such as liberia and sierra leone in 2000, then british foreign office official peter hain branded him 'africa's chief merchant of death' at a time when bout is believed to have supplied arms to officials in sierra leone, a former british colony then embroiled in civil war cnn's michael tang and julia talanova contributed to this report

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viktor bout is sentenced to 25 years in prison bout was convicted last year on four counts stemming from weapons deals his lawyer wanted the conviction overturned and said the prosecution was 'political'

oslo, norway (cnn)the numbers tell a small part of the story: eight dead in a bomb blast the names that police have released so far reveal a little more anne lise holter, 51 tove ashill knutsen, 56 hanna m orvik endresen, 61 kai hauge, 32 but a 16 minute video shot in the immediate aftermath of the explosion in oslo, norway, brings home the horror of what happened there on july 22 in a completely different way it's not so much the sight of papers fluttering out of the shattered windows of office buildings, or even the red cables sticking out of the ripped concrete pavement it's the sounds the whimpering of a woman near tears moments after the bomb blast the constant crunch of broken glass underfoot the urgency in the voices of passersby trying to help the wounded the insistent alarm bell ringing a three second warning, pausing as if for breath, and ringing again and again and again and again and again and finally, the siren of a single ambulance, long after the explosion that smashed norway's calm the video was shot by johan christian tandberg, who was driving through a tunnel under the government building that was the target of the attack when the bomb went off authorities have charged anders behring breivik, an apparent right wing extremist with a hatred of muslims and multi culturalism, with setting off the bomb he's also charged in the shooting deaths of 68 people at a labour party youth camp on utoya island, where he eventually surrendered to police his lawyer says he admits carrying out the attacks people all over norway sat in front of their televisions and cried when they heard the next day how many people had died, and they are still crying, tandberg told cnn thursday what he saw when he came out of the tunnel last week 'looked like a war zone,' he said, adding that he immediately thought of the september 11, 2001, terror attacks in the united states he grabbed a camera and started filming on the spot the resulting video shows central oslo littered with street signs ripped out of the ground by the blast, insulation torn from buildings, and people wandering in shock he follows a man though a damaged building, looking for wounded people but finding only offices in complete disarray, furniture tossed around and ceiling panels hanging down back on the streets, at least one person is seen with a cut on his leg, and several people cluster around another casualty all the faces in the video are blurred an emergency services worker makes an urgent sounding call into a radio smoke rises over a building in the near distance tree branches litter the ground a woman weeps and the alarm bell rings and rings and rings

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johan christian tandberg was at the scene when a bomb went off he grabbed a camera and started filming tandberg says the 9/11 attacks were the first thing he thought of the sounds of alarm bells and broken glass crunching underfoot punctuate the video apparent right wing extremist anders breivik is charged with the bombing and mass shooting that killed 76

(cnn)the latest in a series of beleaguered carnival cruises made its way back to port early sunday, capping a harrowing week for passengers aboard several troubled ships the carnival legend arrived in tampa, florida, hours ahead of schedule sunday morning after propulsion system problems hampered its sailing speed the company had to cancel a scheduled stop on grand cayman because of the technical difficulty but carnival cruise lines said the legend is still scheduled to head out for its next voyage on time sunday afternoon while technicians continue working on the repairs 'the ship is expected to operate its normal itinerary with the exception of one portgrand caymanwhich is being replaced by costa maya,' carnival said in a statement 'any guests wishing not to proceed based on the change to one port of call have been given the option of canceling and receiving a full refund' the company stressed that all safety systems, steering and hotel services were functioning normally but dismayed vacationers from the legend's previous voyage vented their frustration 'passengers are now really pissed off,' passenger rob bonenfant said via e mail before the ship's arrival 'mood on the ship is getting worse among passengers, captain is giving limited information' senator proposes cruise 'bill of rights' the legend's malfunction is the latest in a growing list of woes for the travel company in the past month, three other carnival cruise ships have reported problems one us lawmaker said sunday that the recent cruise incidents prompted him to propose a 'cruise ship passenger bill of rights' sen charles schumer, d new york, said he was asking the cruise industry to voluntarily sign on to a list of guidelines, including the right to backup power if generators fail and the right to disembark a docked ship 'if basic provisions cannot adequately be provided on board' he also called on the international maritime organization to investigate whether cruise lines are following existing guidelines, and whether existing standards are being enforced by countries where cruise ships that serve us passengers are based 'cruise ships, in large part operating outside the bounds of united states enforcement, have become the wild west of the travel industry, and it's time to rein them in before anyone else gets hurt,' schumer said in a statement 'this bill of rights, based on work we've done with the airline industry, will ensure that passengers aren't forced to live in third world conditions or put their lives at risk when they go on vacation' carnival dream: stuck in the caribbean the carnival dream lost power and some toilets stopped working temporarily last week, and for a while no one was allowed to get off the vessel docked at philipsburg, st maarten, in the eastern caribbean gregg stark, who was traveling with his wife and two young children on the dream, said conditions on the ship were deplorable 'there's human waste all over the floor in some of the bathrooms and they're overflowingand in the state rooms,' he said last week 'the elevators have not been working' another passenger, jonathan evans, said passengers were kept on the ship 'despite the fact that we have no way to use the restrooms on board' but carnival told cnn that based on conversations with the ship's management, a look at service logs 'and extensive physical monitoring of all public areas, including restrooms, throughout the night, we can confirm that only one public restroom was taken offline for cleaning based on toilet overflow and there was a total of one request for cleaning of a guest cabin bathroom' carnival said the ship's emergency diesel generator failed, but the cruise line disputed notions of a widespread system failure 'the ship's power plant, propulsion and hotel systems are fully operational aside from some periodic interruptions to restroom and elevator service for a few hours tuesday night, at no time have any of the ship's systems and services not been functional,' carnival said in its statement the company said it was flying the more than 4,000 passengers and will give them discounts by late saturday, most of the passengers had left st maarten by air once all passengers leave the ship, the dream's crew will sail back to port canaveral on sunday, the company said the ship's next voyage has been canceled passenger david howard said he thought conditions were fine aboard the dream, but said he was frustrated with how his family and other passengers were treated and by the 'lack of communication' howard said he and his family weren't told until 1:45 am friday they had to get off the ship by 7:30 am, so they had to rush to pack in the middle of the night a message from the captain dream passengers received a letter from the captain, according to a passenger who e mailed a photo of the correspondence to cnn capt massimo marino told passengers they would be booked on flights to orlando or another destination passengers with cars at port canaveral would be bused from orlando to the facility about an hour away 'we sincerely apologize for the disappointment this unexpected change has caused and regret we were unable to provide you with the fun and memorable cruise vacation we had in store for you,' he wrote the letter also offers passengers a three day refund and a half price cruise in the future crisis communication expert tom donahue said carnival may be making the right operational decisions but the frequency and effectiveness of communications to passengerswho have no other information sourceare what influences the passengers' perspective carnival elation like the carnival legend, the carnival elation suffered problems with its azipod, a crucial part for steering and propelling a vessel a tug boat trailing the ship as it travels on the mississippi river is 'purely a precautionary measure,' the company said memories of the defeated triumph in the most publicized case, an engine room fire last month left the carnival triumph crippled and adrift in the gulf of mexico with more than 4,200 people aboard that scheduled four day cruise stretched into eight days as tugs pulled the vessel into port in alabama food was scarce, passengers sweltered in the heat with no air conditioning, toilets overflowed, and human waste ran down the walls in some parts of the ship, passengers reported a class action lawsuit against carnival corp followed the triumph is still being repaired at a shipyard in mobile, alabama, carnival spokeswoman joyce oliva said last week, carnival announced it was conducting 'a comprehensive review' of all 23 of its ships after the fire that crippled triumph carnival president and ceo gerry cahill said the investigation will focus on the prevention, detection and suppression of fires, engine room redundancies and what additional hotel facilities might be provided and might run off the emergency generators 'we are now focused on the lessons we can learn from the incident and also what additional operational redundancies might be available,' cahill said last week another ship, the carnival splendor, had a fire in 2010 due to 'a catastrophic failure of a diesel generator,' he said not doomed despite all the recent problems, donahue doesn't see any long term negative effects for carnival or its competitors 'i don't necessarily see (last) week's events, or even combined with the triumph event, as casting a pall on the cruise industry,' he said, noting that several colleagues and friends who have recently gone on cruises, including on carnival, enjoyed their vacations 'people generally accept that complex pieces of equipment can encounter challenges that's not the hurdle i don't think anybody considering the cruise would be unforgiving of an unforeseen event, because those types of events occur with complex systems people are far less forgiving (when) communications around the events seem to be lacking' cnn's mark morgenstein, dave alsup, chuck johnston, tina burnside, marlena baldacci and catherine e shoichet contributed to this report

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(cnn)it was the 2013 politifact 'lie of the year,' our president's now infamous line: 'if you like your health care plan, you can keep it' now all americans are realizing what catholics have known from the beginning: president barack obama is a master of deception lest people forget, passage of the affordable care act happened in part because obama struck a deal with a single catholic holdout: bart stupak, d michigan stupak agreed to vote for the bill in exchange for an executive order protecting conscience rights and preserving the hyde amendment's ban on the use of federal funds for abortion stupak had insisted on an amendment instead, he took the president's word the president turned around and stuck in the knife: he used the aca to mandate that all employers, regardless of religious objection, pay for and provide what many of us in the anti abortion movement consider abortion drugs in their health care plans now, those mandates go into effect for most religiously affiliated charities in just a few days, on january 1 supreme court to take up obamacare contraception case this came after the president assured catholics in his commencement address at notre dame that he would 'honor the conscience of those that disagree with abortion and draft a sensible conscience clause' and after assuring congress that 'under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience protections will remain in place' in speaking to america's pre eminent catholic university, it was as if the president was speaking to american catholics everywhere yet it's now clear that the promised separate accounts for abortion coverage funded by separate abortion premiums billed directly to the insured were not what they appeared to be, and the president is facing one of the largest religious liberty lawsuits in american history the lawsuit now boasts more than 200 plaintiffs, one recent addition of note being the little sisters of the poor, an order of nuns that cares for the impoverished and dying elderly cases from the for profit sector have already reached the supreme court, and in just a few days, the mandate goes into effect for religious charities in the words of stupak, 'i am perplexed and disappointed that, having negotiated the executive order with the president, not only does that hhs mandate violate the executive order, but it also violates statutory law i think it is illegal' splice and dice it how you like some say obamacare mandates and subsidizes abortion coverage with taxpayer dollars under the provisions of the affordable care act, abortion drugs such as ru 486, or mifeprex, are not covered or mandated however, drugs known as 'morning after' or 'week after' pills that delay ovulation — such as plan b and 'ella'— are covered under obamacare some of these forms of contraceptionin particular 'ella' or ulipristal acetatecarry fda labels that include a warning that they can destroy embryos by rendering the endometrium inhospitable it is these drugs that are in debate in the hobby lobby case and others before the supreme court, as objectors consider the destruction of an embryo to be an abortion some american catholics feel that the president deceived the most high ranking catholic in america, cardinal timothy dolan, then the president of the united states conference of catholic bishops in a now infamous meeting at the white house, the president promised dolan that he would respect the conscience rights of catholics and their institutions and would not force them to cover things such as abortifacientsa drug or substance that can induce an abortionand that the administration would change its policy with regard to religious institutions dolan has made it clear that he felt misled what many american catholics don't know is that the president told the same untruth to the previous pope himself according to a vatican insider, the president assured pope benedict xvi in 2009 that constitutional religious liberty protections for american catholics would remain strong in his first breath when visiting the vatican since then, dolan has become the face of catholic opposition to the mandate under his bold shepherding, the entire conference of catholic bishops has held firm in defending the conscience rights of religious employers he has led the catholic church in america through one of the most appalling and puzzling periods of deception and legal harassment since the first amendment became the law of the land as archbishop joseph kurtz of louisville steps into his shoes, he has the daunting task of trying to negotiate religious liberty with a leader who excels in equivocation right as the mandate finally takes effect for scores of catholic and other religious charities facing enormous fines for refusing to comply so this new year's day, as americans put away the glitter and the tinsel, perhaps people will finally realize what some catholics have been saying all along: our president threw quite a party, but it's over and now the truth sets in the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of ashley mcguire

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editor's note: ann curley is the assignment manager for the cnn medical news unit she has been a type i diabetic for 40 years this is her story of life with diabetes ann curley uses a pump attached to a catheter in her body to monitor glucose levels and administer insulin (cnn)when i was 7 years old, my mom took me to the doctor because i had lost a lot of weight, despite a voracious appetite my family had just moved from the san francisco bay area to pasadena, california, and this visit to the doctor's office was my introduction to a man who would come to have a huge impact on my life his name was dr robert deputy, and he was the pediatrician who diagnosed me with diabetes he spoke to me directly, rather than to my mother, and he asked me questions: did i feel thirsty? did i need to urinate during the night? the answer to both questions was yes he asked for a urine sample and the result was immediate dr deputy told me and my mother that my body wasn't processing sugar properly i had diabetes that is how my 40 year journey with diabetes began i was checked into a hospital to learn how to test my urine for sugar, give myself injections of insulin, follow a diabetic diet and control my diabetes i spent several days in the hospital learning how to manage my disease, and then they sent me home dr deputy would call our house each afternoon to check on me and see how i was doing much to my parents' chagrinand to my delighthe wanted me to be self sufficient and responsible for monitoring myself i refused to let my parents give me injections or test my urine this demand for self sufficiency turned out to be one of my best life lessons, and not just for managing my diabetes while some diabetics may feel their disease is a burden, i feel that being diagnosed with diabetes was a blessing in disguise it forced our family to eat healthily, and it taught me about good nutritionsomething i practice every day i know carbohydrate counts in most foods, and i understand dietary concepts that most people don't even care about being active is also a way to burn off high blood sugar, so when my urine tested positive for glucose, my older sister robin was in charge of exercising me we had countless jump rope contests, bike rides and roller skating excursions, keeping me and my three sisters active and fit and i felt like a little mad scientist, using a test tube with drops of water, urine and fizzy tablets to see if there was sugar in my urine fortunately, over time, technology improved first, test strips were developed that could be dipped in urine to reveal whether sugar was present in it but the truth is, testing urine for sugar was a primitive method by the time sugar gets into the urine, it's a signal that the body doesn't have enough insulin to process sugar and the urine test didn't give an actual number for the amount of sugar in the urine it simply gave a color reading that corresponded with a range of how much sugar was present in the urine inaccurate was really an understatement when you talk about urine testing home blood glucose testing kits became available in the early 1980s, and they were a huge move toward precise control and management of diabetes with the kit, the diabetic uses a device to poke a finger and produce a drop of blood the blood is placed on a test strip that fits into a device that produces a reading of the blood glucose within seconds while i initially balked at the idea of pricking my finger several times a day, now i can't imagine not doing it in order to monitor what my blood sugar is doing the 1980s also saw the advent of the insulin pump this device is the size of a pager and contains a reservoir filled with insulin the reservoir connects to a tube that infuses the insulin into the body with a tiny plastic shunt so rather than taking multiple injections to mimic the body's insulin patterns, the pump drips insulin into the body to keep blood sugars constant, then gives extra amounts with meals another life altering development in diabetes, which i have discovered in the last year, is the continuous glucose monitor, or cgm this is a small device inserted into the tissueusually the abdomen, hip or legand it has a tiny sensor that reads the glucose level of the body's fluids the data is transmitted to a receiver, and patients can see a constant reading of their blood sugar levels i have participated in clinical trials for three different cgm devices, and i found them all to be quite accurate some sensors transmit data directly to an insulin pump, so you can use the reading to adjust and fine tune the amount of insulin being pumped into the body the patient still has to test his or her blood sugar to confirm the sensor is properly calibrated, but it's amazing to be able to see constant readings and graphs of what your blood sugar is doing and better manage blood sugars cgm technology is a step toward the ultimate goal of controlling type i diabetes using what's called a 'closed loop system' this means diabetics someday will be able to wear a pump that gathers data from a sensor so precise that the pump can be programmed to act on its own and make adjustments all by itself the current systems are 'open looped,' meaning the diabetic controls when the doses are given the goal is to eventually create a pump that is more like a robotic delivery system, and all the patient has to do is wear it once that technology is perfected, this type of device would be implanted, which would be the next best thing to not having diabetes i mentioned to my sister robin that i had tracked down dr deputy for this article she told me something i didn't know when i was 7 forty years ago, before the advent of all of the cool diabetes technology such as insulin pumps, continuous glucose monitors and blood sugar testing, parents were given a fairly grim prediction for how their child would fare dr deputy told my parents that i would probably only live to the age of 20 or 30, which apparentlybut not surprisinglyhad the whole family freaked out i spoke with dr deputy, who recently retired from his pediatric practice, and he seemed to remember me when i asked him about his dismal prognosis for my survival, he said sadly, 'at that time, that was what we told parents back then everything changes with timediabetes, leukemiatechnology has changed with the pump and the equipment' i think he was relieved that his prognosis was wrong i know that i certainly am in fact, i am hoping to live another 40 years! e mail to a friend

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cardiff, walesformer wales and british lions center ray gravell has died of a suspected heart attack aged 56, the welsh rugby union (wru) has announced gravell won 23 caps for wales and played on the lions tour of south africa in 1980 gravell had been on holiday with his family in the spanish mediterranean island of mallorca at the time a wru statement praised gravell as being 'a man who epitomized the passion, flair and dignity of his beloved welsh nation' gravell made his debut for wales against france in 1975, three years after helping his club side llanelli to their famous win over the touring all blacks in all he made 23 appearances for what was then a dominant wales side, winning grand slams in 1976 and 1978, and played all four tests on the lions' tour of south africa in 1980 after retiring as a player in 1985, gravell became president of llanelli rfc and the llanelli scarlets he also pursued a career as an actor and a respected rugby broadcaster earlier this year, gravell had his right leg amputated below the knee following complications linked with his diabetes but he had been recovering well wru chief executive roger lewis said: 'we are all in total shock because ray was so full of life even through the difficult health problems he suffered recently 'he was a wonderful ambassador for rugby and for wales and a great example of how the game can bring out the best in a man 'as a player, he always gave a huge amount of respect to his opponents but never gave an inch of ground to anyone he faced on the field of play 'it is a measure of the man that he forged rugby friendships which lasted long after his playing days up until the present day' e mail to a friend

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former wales and british lions center ray gravell has died aged 56 he was on holiday with his family in mallorca after retiring he worked as an actor and broadcaster

columbia, south carolina (cnn) democratic sen barack obama kicked off a series of local outreach gospel concerts friday in charleston, south carolina, that unexpectedly came back to bite his campaign democratic presidential hopeful barack obama is competing for the black vote with hillary clinton the concerts were meant to boost black voters' support for his presidential nominee bidthe kind of events that would normally fly under the national radar the ensuing controversy highlighted that obama's desire to unite disparate voting blocsespecially religious votersunder his umbrella of 'change' is not without some serious pitfalls when the campaign announced the lineups for the three city 'embrace the change!' gospel tour last week, one name stood out to gay bloggers: donnie mcclurkin the grammy award winning singer is on record as saying homosexuality is a choice, and that he was 'once involved with those desires and those thoughts' but was able to get past them through prayer to say the least, neither of those arguments is very popular in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community john aravosis, a prominent gay blogger and co founder of the web site americablog, led the charge against the obama campaign, writing that the illinois democrat was 'sucking up to anti gay bigots' and 'giving them a stage' when the story bubbled up into the mainstream media, it took the obama campaign by surprise obama's efforts in the palmetto state have overwhelmingly targeted african american churchgoers in a bid to win over black voters in south carolina from rival sen hillary clinton the campaign has vigorously promoted the candidate's faith, launching '40 days of faith and family' in september, which used bible study groups to tap into the black electorate campaigners have run three radio ads, one of which called obama a 'christian family man,' that aired on gospel stations across the state earlier this month, obama spoke at an evangelical church in the traditionally conservative city of greenville, where he demonstrated a casual familiarity with christian vocabulary, telling the crowd, to much applause, that 'i am confident that we can create a kingdom right here on earth' after that appearance, the obama campaign told cnn that republicans no longer had a choke hold on issues of faith and values 'i think that what you're seeing is a breaking down of the sharp divisions that existed maybe during the '90s,' obama said 'at least in politics, the perception was that the democrats were fearful of talking about faith, and on the other hand you had the republicans who had a particular brand of faith that oftentimes seemed intolerant or pushed people away' but on tuesday, obama was forced to confront the uncomfortable truth that some christians and gays are a little more than just strange bedfellows, especially among blacks obama issued a statement saying, 'i strongly disagree with reverend [donnie] mcclurkin's views and will continue to fight for these rights as president of the united states,' and argued that it is important to confront homophobia among religious african americans a september poll of african americans in south carolina by winthrop university and etv showed that 62 percent of those surveyed said that 'sex between two adults of the same sex' is 'strongly unacceptable' obama held a conference call wednesday with joe solomonese, president of the human rights campaign, and announced that the rev andy sidden, an openly gay south carolina pastor, will appear at the same event as mcclurkin on sunday in columbia solomonese was not completely assuaged 'i spoke with senator barack obama today and expressed to him our community's disappointment for his decision to continue to remain associated with reverend mcclurkin, an anti gay preacher who states the need to 'break the curse of homosexuality,'' he said in a statement 'there is no gospel in donnie mcclurkin's message for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their allies that's a message that certainly doesn't belong on any presidential candidate's stage' the state newspaper in columbia reported friday that obama organized a conference call thursday night with gay and lesbian leaders after the call, the south carolina gay and lesbian pride movement announced it will hold a protest vigil outside sunday's concert in columbia privately, obama aides say they believe obama is a candidate of real, transformational change, and that uproars like the mcclurkin controversy are necessary speed bumps on the road to bringing people with opposing viewpoints together to air their differences will obama's refusal to kick mcclurkin off the concert bill hurt him? like many political squabbles, despite the national story, it depends how much the controversy resonates with voters in those crucial early states: iowa, new hampshire, nevada and south carolina and in south carolina, where african americans make up about half of democratic primary goers, voters might not have a problem with mcclurkin at all e mail to a friend

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madrid, spainatletico madrid recovered from their painful recent defeat by barcelona to crush european rivals real zaragoza 4 0 in the primera liga on sunday luis garcia celebrates his first atletico madrid goal in their superb 4 0 victory over real zaragoza luis garcia's first goal for the club, a double from argentine maxi rodriguez and a diego forlan strike clinched a comfortable win as atletico moved up to sixth in the table it was also sweet revenge for atletico as zaragoza beat them home and away last season to beat them to sixth place and the final uefa cup spot atletico went ahead in the 10th minute when forlan picked out a precise pass for garcia who made no mistake with a calm side footed finish forlan then got on the scoresheet himself with a first time lob on 34 minutes for his third goal of the season, before rodriguez stole the show with two more goals getafe registered their first win of the season with a 2 0 victory over murcia substitute kepa, who was later sent off, opened the scoring in the 54th minute and francisco casero added a second five minutes later to clinch the points elsewhere last season's second division champions valladolid continue to struggle in the top flight, crashing to a 2 1 defeat against athletic bilbao artiz aduriz scored twice for bilbao after eight and 31 minutes to leave valladolid second from bottom with promoted levante, who have a meagre one point, propping up the table e mail to a friend

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tripoli, libya (cnn)rebels pushed thursday northward on three fronts toward the coastal cities of al zawiya, aziziya and sorman, with their ultimate goal being tripoli, rebel field commander adel al zintani told cnn six rebels died and dozens more were wounded in fighting wednesday and thursday, he said he predicted that the fighters would reach the coastal road that leads to the capital city within days zawiya is strategically important because the coastal road through the city is the main supply line from the tunisian border to areas held by libyan leader moammar gadhafi regime officials were not available thursday evening for comment fighting was continuing around misrata, where rebel spokesman mohamed ibrahim said the main hospital reported four rebels killed and 54 wounded meanwhile, in new york, a spokesperson for ban ki moon said the un secretary general 'is deeply concerned by reports of the unacceptably large number of civilian casualties as a result of the conflict in libya' ban is urging 'all libyan parties' to engage with his special envoy, abdel elah al khatib, 'and respond concretely and positively to the ideas presented to them, in order to end the bloodshed in the country,' the spokesperson said his remarks came three days after allegations that a nato strike in the village of majer near zlitan wound up killing 85 civilians 33 children, 32 women and 20 men the tripoli government called it 'a massaacre' of civilians; nato has said its warplanes struck two farms used as a staging point for gadhafi's forces 'this is a legitimate target and by striking it, nato has reduced pro gadhafi forces capabilities to threaten and attack civilians,' said col roland lavoie, a spokesman for the nato operation 'we do not have evidence of civilian casualties at this stage, although casualties among military personnel, including mercenaries, are very likely due to the nature of the target' but, on tuesday, officials from the government in tripoli escorted international journalists to a mass funeral in majer, and to the site where the government and residents said the nato airstrike killed civilians journalists saw the bodies of children and women among the dead and wounded at the site of the attack it was impossible for cnn to confirm the extent of the casualties a spokesman for the tripoli government, musa ibrahim, called it 'a crime beyond imagination' for weeks, nato warplanes have been bombing zlitan on a daily basis meanwhile, rebels have been pressing toward zlitan's eastern gates from the nearby opposition held port of misrata speaking to journalists in majer on tuesday, ibrahim accused nato of bombing majer to clear the way for rebels to advance on the gadhafi controlled city of zlitan, a few kilometers north maj gen nick pope, spokesman for the british ministry of defence, said thursday that british aircraft have been in action in recent days 'as part of nato's mission to protect civilians at risk of attack from col gadhafi's former regime' the latest operations included british aircraft carrying out precision airstrikes on several sites in and around zlitan, pope said in a statement the report of civilian deaths stirred anger in washington 'if such reports are true, it further highlights the increased risks to civilians that has occurred as a result of military intervention in libya and is further evidence that continued bombing by nato is an inappropriate tool to protect civilians or force moammar gadhafi from power,' wrote rep dennis kucinich in a letter to ban 'how can they continue to cause the deaths of innocent civilians under the color of international law and not be held accountable?' the ohio democrat continued the changing nature of who controls what in libya was underscored thursday by events in washington, where the libyan embassy officially reopened under the control of the transitional national council 'this is a message that gadhafi can no more rule libya,' said ali aujali, who was accredited thursday as head of the libyan mission aujuli said he talked thursday with state department officials about the obama administration's efforts to help the tnc gain access to some $30 billion in frozen libyan assets the state department had ordered the embassy closed in march and expelled diplomats loyal to gadhafi aujali had resigned his post as the gadhafi regime's ambassador to the united states in february and has since represented the opposition in washington the united states on july 15 recognized the rebel movement based in benghazi as libya's rightful government cnn's jomana karadsheh, elise labott, joe vaccarello, yasmin amer and kareem khadder contributed to this report

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