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Forest Fires

The practice of law can be compared to walking through a beautiful forest filled with beautiful trees. Occasionally, as you are strolling along, you notice that one of the trees is on fire and you jump into action to "put out the fire." You then continue to stroll along in the glorious forest of the law. Every time you see a fire, you go ahead and put it out to maintain the integrity of the forest.

Then, there are days like today, where, you walk into the forest of the law and every tree is burning mercilessly and the burning branches of the burning trees are falling on you repeatedly and you fall down and roll down a hill breaking each of your bones.

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Anna's no match for Oxford

Anna Kournikova

Diva demands: Anna Kournikova

When the Oxford Union asked former tennis star and model Anna Kournikova if she would speak at their Summer Ball they were delighted when the stunning, if petulant, Russian blonde agreed.

But delight turned to despair after the 27-year-old's 'demands' for attending were received by student organisers.

For I can reveal that her 'fee' for accommodation, chauffeur-driven cars for her and her two assistants and first-class flights would cost more than £2,500.

Now the Union has ruled out hosting the woman dubbed 'Costly Kournikova'. They are looking for another speaker when they hold their £39-a-head Garden of Eden Ball later this month.

Kournikova, who lives with millionaire singer Enrique Iglesias in Miami, may have been unaware that many celebrities traditionally speak at the Union for nothing more than the promise of a free dinner and drinks.

Last week the guest speaker, Hollywood star Martin Sheen, waived his fee  -  but the Union agreed to pay £1,400 for his air travel from Los Angeles.

Every year, the Union budgets around £4,000 for 20 speakers a term, but Kournikova's demands shocked students. 'Her demands were like some diva's,' one student tells me.

'She knew it was a student event she had been invited to, then said she would have to charge expenses like she was opening a new resort for Donald Trump.

'You could almost understand travelling with one assistant  -  but two? That is just ridiculous.'

Last year, former men's tennis player Justin Gimelstob aimed a volley of abuse at Kournikova. Asked if he found her attractive, he told a U.S. radio show: 'I have no attraction to her because she's such a douche.'

Oxford Union president Corey Dixon says: 'The estimate of the costs of Miss Kournikova's visit to the Union was in excess of £2,500. We felt that it would be fiscally irresponsible to spend this amount on a single event.'

Marks & Spencer boss Sir Stuart Rose is taking the furore over the surcharge on the price of big bras on the chin. 'I put my hands up,' he tells me at the Daily Mail's Inspirational Women Of The Year awards.

'A year or so ago, I had Jeremy Paxman on the blower complaining about the lacklustre performance of his underpants and then I boobed over the pricing of women's bras. Without giving too much away about my own choice of undergarments, Paxman's issue went straight to the top of my agenda, knowing, as a man, the importance of a good pant.

'Bras, on the other hand... well, I listened to complaints and have corrected the matter.'

Not the image Freud painted

Artist Lucian Freud is best known romantically for his lothario-like pursuit of the ladies, and for the rumours that he has fathered up to 40 children by various different partners. Now, a new book paints a different picture of one of his alleged early relationships  -  with a man.

In his biography of licentious Old Etonian painter Adrian Ryan, Rather A Rum Life, writer Julian Machin says the two artists enjoyed a particularly intimate friendship after meeting during World War II.

Artist: Lucian Freud

Artist: Lucian Freud

'They had met in the nightlife of the Chelsea pubs and, with [fellow artist] John Minton, enjoyed a relaxed and easy intimacy which outlasted the duration of the war,' Machin says. 'Corrobaratively vague' was [Picasso expert] John Richardson's verdict on talking to Lucian about his deeper relations with Adrian.

Freud's late brother Clement  -  famously estranged from Lucian  -  shared an appreciation of Adrian's aesthetics, noting: 'I'm not gay, but Adrian was one of
the most fanciable of the beautiful people in Soho, with his fluffy hair and
beautiful eyes.'

A model boyfriend? Not quite...

What with a drugs scandal, being threatened with disinheritance from her family's £800 million fortune and losing her boyfriend, Princess Caroline's son Pierre Casiraghi, 2008 wasn't a great year for punk model Alice Dellal. But, on the romantic front, things are looking up.

New love: Alice Dellal

New love: Alice Dellal

Alice, granddaughter of gambling figure 'Black' Jack Dellal, is dating tattooed gallery owner Ross Tanner.

'It's early days, but things are going well,' she says. 'We're not going to live together any time soon, though.'

Alice, 22, who was last year pictured with what was alleged to be a wrap of cocaine, has just moved into a flat in Notting Hill and tells me: 'I like living on my own.'

Tanner, 27, is a walking work of art whose tattoos include the words 'sink' and 'swim' on his fingers.

Quite what Alice's parents  -  property tycoon Guy and former Valentino model Andrea  -  make of her beau remains to be seen. On the internet social networking site Facebook, Tanner lists his 'activities' as 'drink, fight, f***' and says his favourite film is blue movie Debbie Does Dallas.

Actress Diana Quick has disclosed the effects of an accident which blighted her career at the height of her popularity. The Brideshead Revisited star, who recently parted from long-term love Bill Nighy, was visiting her then boyfriend Albert Finney in Hollywood.

To the bemusement of guests at a lunch for the Oldie magazine, she recalled: 'I was only 31. I was walking along the street with my hands in my pockets. I fainted. My chin hit the pavement and I lost 16 of my teeth. As the daughter of a dentist, there was some irony. I had perfect teeth and I'd lost half of them.'

After listening to his actor friend John Standing perform the songs of Noel Coward, languid man-about-town Nicky Haslam gamely offered to sing Cole Porter for a paying audience, too.

Now, three months later and the interior designer is preparing to clear his throat for a five-night 'season' at Bellamy's, Gavin Rankin's Mayfair restaurant, where Standing also sang for his supper.

Haslam, one of London's best-connected men, is being accompanied on the piano by former Radio 3 presenter Paul Guinery.

The £85-a-head cabaret next month is bound to sell out, with Haslam spicing up his repertoire with anecdotes about Porter and his own louche life.

The event has been organised by the Duke of Marlborough's brother, Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill, who is fast becoming impresario to the aristocracy.

Just a month after turning 50, Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson insists she won't be looking to the surgeon's knife to hold back the years.

Asked if her well-preserved looks had been due to any artificial help, she says: 'I'm not fiddling about with myself, if that's what you mean.'

She tells Source Magazine: 'We're in this awful, youth-driven thing now where everybody needs to look 30 at 60 and you go: "Don't you get it? This is the law of diminishing returns."

'The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.' Quite.

Happy news for our controversial former man in Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. The ex-diplomat and his former belly-dancer partner Nadira have had a baby son, Cameron, born at Chelsea and Westminster hospital yesterday.

An ebullient Murray, 50, who has two children by a previous marriage, was sacked by the Foreign Office after blowing the whistle on state-sponsored brutality in the Central Asian republic. He exclaims: 'Wonder! Cameron and Nadira are both
doing fine.'


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Traditional English garden is last hope for threatened exotic flower

Last updated at 02:00 20 September 2006

Traditionally a lover of the Mediterranean heat, the cyclamen will soon be more at home in the English country garden.

Rising temperatures will make it impossible for the elegant plant to survive in the Southern European and North African countries where it usually flourishes, experts fear.

Faced with extinction within just 50 years, the cyclamen's best hope of survival is the cooler gardens of the UK and other parts of Northern Europe.

The warning comes from Reading University scientists who studied the effect of rising temperatures on 21 species of cyclamen.

The flowers, which range in colour from white to deep red, are happiest in the dry summers and wet winters of Mediterranean countries, with some species requiring a mix of conditions only found in a very small area.

However, even a small rise in temperature could wipe out many species, making a move further north their only hope of survival.

Plant scientist Chris Yesson said: "Many of those species are considered to be at high risk because of climate change."

A natural shift north is unlikely, because the cyclamen's large seeds are distributed not by the wind or birds, but by ants which are unable to carry them large distances.

The vast expanse of the also Mediterranean provides a huge barrier to the plant which is best-known for its graceful nodding flowers and striking heart-shaped leaves.

The result is that the cyclamen's only hope could be the humble gardener.

Writing in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, the Mr Yesson said: "Many cyclamen species are at high risk from the changing climate and none will remain unaffected.

"Over the next 50 years, we can expect a northwards shift in climatic suitability for the cyclamen.

"Many species face the possibility of their current climate changing so much that their current distribution will be outside their current observed climate tolerance

"There are, however, still reasons for hope, the garden use of several cyclamen species in more northern areas of Europe has facilitated the establishment of some cyclamen species well outside their native ranges.

"This provides a novel means of dispersal to, and colonisation of, potentially suitable future environments."

Despite its love of warmth, several hardy species of cyclamen are already capable of surviving in the British climate.

While cyclamen is most commonly associated with the winter garden, the availability of different varieties means it is possible, with a bit of planning, to enjoy year-round blooms.

And rising temperatures - an increase of around one degree over the last 30 years - means some of the more exotic species are already thriving in the UK.

In the meantime, gardeners are urged to do their bit to save the plant from extinction.

Arthur Nicholls, of the Cyclamen Society, said: "I love snowdrops but they only give you a little lift in January and February. Cyclamen give you joy all year round."


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Jack Straw told he cannot block release of most dangerous criminals because it infringes their human rights

Last updated at 16:49 16 April 2008

A human rights ruling yesterday stripped away the Government's power to block the release of some of the most dangerous armed robbers, rapists and paedophiles.

The landmark court judgement leaves the Justice Secretary with no remaining say over when any criminal can be released from jail.

It completes a dramatic shift of power from ministers to the courts and Parole Board.

Last night, the Appeal Court ruling - which could apply to hundreds of hardened criminals in coming years - was attacked by former Conservative Home Office minister Ann Widdecombe.

She warned it could further dent public faith in the criminal justice system.

The case was brought by "ruthless and dangerous" armed robber Wayne Thomas Black - who is serving a 24-year jail term for a string of horrifying crimes.

He once escaped from a prison van, armed with a razor lodged in a toothbrush, en route from the Old Bailey.

Black was also involved in a carefully-planned robbery in 1993 of a pawnbrokers' shop in Golders Green, North London.

A member of the shop's staff and her mother were handcuffed, blindfolded and held hostage overnight in their home before the £200,000 raid.

In July 1995, Black was handed a 20-year jail term for false imprisonment, kidnapping, conspiracy to kidnap and robbery.

In January 1996, he was given another four years for the prison van break. He was at liberty for 12 days before being recaptured in his home town of Southend.

In May 2006, the Parole Board recommended Black's release on licence.

But the Home Secretary, whose role in such matters has now been taken over by the Justice Secretary, refused to comply, saying the 39-year-old still posed too great a risk of re-offending.

Yesterday, the court ruled that it was a breach of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights for a Government minister alone - rather than a court - to reach such a decision. Lord Justice Latham said: "The inescapable logic is that a prisoner serving a determinate sentence is entitled to have the lawfulness of his detention determined, not merely speedily, but by a court".

He concluded: "I would grant a declaration of incompatibility under the Human Rights Act."

The result is that Justice Secretary Jack Straw will no longer be able to overrule any Parole Board decision to release an inmate even if he still believes they are dangerous.

The judgment applies to criminals sentenced to 15 years or more, but not life.

Ministers had already lost the power to decide when lifers should be released following a human rights defeat in Europe in May 2002.

There are around 150 Parole Board hearings a year for prisoners serving 15 years or more, of which between 30 and 50 result in a positive recommendation for release.

Each year, around five of these have their release rejected by the Secretary of State.

These convicts - among the most dangerous in the UK - would now go free.

Critics warned of an outcry if any of those who benefit go on to commit a heinous crime.

Miss Widdecombe said: "The Home Secretary or the Justice Secretary should remain responsible for the release of long serving prisoners.

"The public expect to feel confident in the justice system and cannot reasonably hold to account if the Secretary of State has no power."

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "We note the Court's judgment and will be actively considering whether to seek permission to appeal to the House of Lords.

"No prisoner will be immediately released as a result of this judgment."

Black can be kept in jail because his sentence has yet to reach the point when release takes place.

Christine Glenn, chief executive of the Parole Board, said: "I welcome this decision. I think we should be a court."


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'Several more' refugee camps planned for Calais

The French are planning a network of refugee camps near the Channel Tunnel, it emerged last night.

The plan was revealed by cabinet minister Elisabeth Guigou, who said new camps were needed to cope with thousands of migrants flocking to the area.

The proposal would create even more bases for would-be asylum seekers to launch assaults on UK-bound trains.

The move puts immense pressure on Home Secretary David Blunkett, who has already called for the closure of the existing Red Cross centre at Sangatte, near the tunnel entrance.

Earlier this week it was revealed that the French were planning a second camp to ease pressure on Sangatte, which was meant to house 650 but now has almost 1,700.

Mr Blunkett reacted by arranging a meeting next week with his French counterpart Daniel Vaillant to protest at the plan.

But yesterday Mme Guigou, France's labour and solidarity minister, dropped a bombshell by insisting even more centres would be needed.

'There will be several shelters,' she said after a cabinet meeting in Paris. 'We must be able to ensure decent housing conditions for these people who are in our territory.'

Foreign Office sources tried to play down her remarks, claiming Mr Vaillant and French Premier Lionel Jospin were opposing her.

But it would take a major U-turn for France to start giving Britain effective help in stemming the asylum tide. Tories immediately condemned the Guigou plan.

Home affairs spokesman David Lidington said: 'Unless Mme Guigou means the French government is finally prepared to take responsibility for the asylum-seekers in France then this is totally unacceptable.

'If she means more warehouses around the tunnel, that will simply encourage more illegal immigrants to try their luck in the UK.

'The only people who will be celebrating are the gangsters responsible for the traffic in human beings.'

He added: 'Tony Blair's attitude is deplorable. He seems more concerned with sucking up to the French prime minister than doing his duty by the British people.'

In recent weeks crowds of more than 100 illegal immigrants have mounted mass assaults on security fencing around the Eurotunnel freight train yard.

Once inside, they try to climb aboard slow-moving trains heading for the UK. They know that, if they can reach British soil and claim asylum, they cannot be deported until their case has been fully processed, which can take years.

Mme Guigou is the driving force behind plans for a second camp in the grounds of a psychiatric hospital at Bailleul, 20 miles from the tunnel.

Last night a source close to Mr Blunkett said of her latest remarks: 'She has been saying this for some days. But it is in opposition to what Vaillant wants and all our intelligence is that Vaillant has squared his position with prime minister Jospin and that will prevail.'

Immigration minister Jeff Rooker fuelled the row over Britain's image as a soft touch for asylum seekers yesterday by admitting it was far easier to work illegally here than in other EU countries.

Lord Rooker said the ease with which illegal immigrants could join the 'black economy' was a major 'pull factor'.

An influential committee of MPs warned in January that the lack of controls on asylum seekers was a key reason for Britain being a magnet for migrants. Lord Rooker's comments mark the first time a minister has accepted there is a problem.

There are now plans for legislation to crack down on illegal working and Mr Blunkett is expected to make a series of announcements over the next few months.

A Home Office spokesman admitted yesterday that the minimum wage had been identified as a key factor in boosting demand for foreign workers. It is illegal to pay adults under £3.70 an hour so some bosses are turning to asylum seekers and illegal immigrants because they will work for much less.

Officials believe criminal gangs are smuggling in large numbers of stowaways to work in clothing sweat-shops and at seasonal rural jobs.

A recent raid on a huge illegal immigration operation in Southampton led to the deportation of more than 100 migrants, mostly from Eastern Europe.

Under laws passed by the Tories in 1996, anyone giving a job to an illegal immigrant can be fined up to £5,000. But there have been just 17 prosecutions since then.

Even employers trying to stay on the right side of the law face problems. Britain is the only European country which does not require residents to carry ID cards.


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Pardew sees his anniversary spoiled as injury crisis rips through squad

Alan Pardew may be celebrating his first anniversary in charge of Newcastle United but he has more urgent matters to contend with as his team’s injury crisis deepens ahead of the trip to Norwich.

Danny Guthrie, the midfielder who has stepped in so competently for the injured Cheik Tiote for the last six games, has been ruled out for six weeks with a groin injury picked up in last week’s defeat to Chelsea.

And with Tiote still ruled out with the same injury for at least one more week, former Everton midfielder Dan Gosling is likely to make his first Barclays Premier League start for Newcastle since he joined more than two years ago.

Significant absence: Danny Guthrie is suffering with a groin strain

Significant absence: Danny Guthrie is suffering with a groin strain

Pardew has been counting the cost of Newcastle’s first home defeat of the season all week. Steven Taylor is out for the season after achilles surgery and his defensive partner Fabricio Coloccini has been nursing a thigh strain, although the Newcastle captain has not been ruled out of tomorrow’s visit to Carrow Road. He will be assessed on Friday.

James Perch will start as emergency centre-back and Hungarian Tamas Kadar, who didn’t even have a first team squad number last week, is among those in contention to replace Coloccini if he is ruled out, along with former Inter Milan defender Davide Santon.

Pardew put the blame for Newcastle’s fresh injury woes at the door of last Saturday’s referee Mike Dean, who failed to send off Chelsea’s David Luiz for a clear professional foul after just four minutes.

Pardew said: 'I would feel very, very confident going into this period if I had all my squad available but I haven't.

Hit hard: Alan Pardew's squad has been depleted

Hit hard: Alan Pardew's thin squad has been depleted

'The biggest problem from the weekend was the decision by the referee which changed the game because we put in more effort against Chelsea than we have done in any other game and that has cost us with injuries to Guthrie and Taylor. It just goes to show how important those decisions are.

'It is interesting to see that the refs from our game and the ref from the Bolton-Spurs game have both got games this weekend.’

As ever, it has been an interesting last year on Tyneside and Pardew has had highs and lows to deal with since he was chosen to take over from fans’ favourite Chris Hughton for his first game against Liverpool.

The former West Ham and Southampton manager, who has only lost three home games in that 12 months, said the key to his success, and in keeping Newcastle among the frontrunners this season, has been to deliberately quell any hysteria in and out of the club.

He said: 'It has been an enjoyable experience with more highs than lows. Certainly it has been eventful and demanding. I would not expect anything else at a big club like this. I enjoy it.

'When you come into a club, it is important to make progress, and we’ve managed to do that. In some ways, it feels like a long year after all the incidents, like selling Andy Carroll and everything else but in another way, it has flashed by.

'As a club we have tried to do it the right way, I have tried to put a team on the football pitch that plays the game in the right manner and hopefully get great results and that is what we've had.

'There were no doubts in my mind about taking the job. It is such a huge club. Other managers may have said I was crazy to take it, but that was a bit tongue in cheek. They said what are you doing it for? They said you know what it is like there, it's a bit of a crazy club. Well, we are not so crazy now. There isn't so much bad news coming out.

'It's about making sure we have a good product on the football pitch for the fans. I think the fans appreciate our team. We have to get through this difficult period because of all the injuries, but if we do we could have a great season.’


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Mpenza set for permanent switch

Last updated at 12:21 13 April 2007

Emile Mpenza is on the brink of completing a permanent move to Manchester City.

The Belgian striker was snapped up on a short-term contract by Blues boss Stuart Pearce in February following the cancellation of the 28-year-old's lucrative deal to play in Qatar.

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Emile Mpenza

After the woeful performances of Georgios Samaras and Bernardo Corradi, Mpenza has already become a firm favourite with the City support.

Even though the former Hamburg and Schalke hit-man has only scored twice in his six appearances so far, the goals brought City valuable away wins at Newcastle and Middlesbrough, which have helped ease the Eastlands outfit away from relegation trouble.

Mpenza's performances have already attracted interest from elsewhere, with Scottish giants Rangers among the clubs being linked to the forward.

However, while he accepts he could earn more money elsewhere, Mpenza is happy to confirm his intention to remain with City.

"In my mind, I am already with City," he told the Manchester Evening News.

"Only the fine details need to be sorted out now. It is not about money, otherwise I would have stayed in Qatar. I will never forget that it was City and Stuart Pearce who gave me my chance in England.

"If it was up to me, I would sign for five or six years. I like the city, the team and the coach. He saw me twice and he showed faith in me. I want to repay that."

Mpenza is a certain starter against Liverpool when City look to break an unhappy sequence of not scoring a Premiership goal on home soil since New Year's Day.

Despite that run, Pearce's men have still collected 10 points from their last four games, pushing them up to 12th in the table.

Now virtually safe, Pearce could be forgiven for breathing a heavy sigh of relief after the pressure he has been under for most of 2007 so far.

However, the former England skipper is demanding more, branding City's present position as unacceptable.

"If you ask me whether we are in a league position I will find acceptable if that is where we end up, the answer is no," he said.

"For me to start turning around and make noises about being safe would send out a message that our season is finished - and it is far from that."


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Drogba wary of Schalke threat

Last updated at 13:42 20 October 2007

Didier Drogba has warned Chelsea all their good work against Valencia could be undone by Schalke on Wednesday night.

Drogba, who issued a statement reaffirming his commitment to Chelsea in the wake of the quit threat he issued in a French magazine interview, scored the winner against Valencia in the Mestalla in their last Champions League outing.

Didier Drogba

Chelsea's 2-1 victory over the Spanish giants put their Champions League ambitions back on track after a 1-1 home draw with Rosenborg, but the Ivorian striker knows that Schalke still possess the ability to upset them at Stamford Bridge.

Drogba declared: "We've had a difficult start so we tried to win away. We did it and now we have to focus on Schalke and it will be difficult because they have won against Rosenborg away and these two games are important to qualify as well as the next game.

"In the Champions League game against Rosenborg we had something like 30 chances and we didn't score, against Valencia we only had three. So I don't know, sometimes that's football.

"If you want to score you have to believe that you will score, and it is what I know how to do best."

But Chelsea will face Schalke without captain John Terry and left-back Ashley Cole.

Terry underwent a knee operation last week and Cole, who hurt his ankle on international duty, is expected to miss the next month with ligament damage.

The clash with Schalke will be coach Avram Grant's first taste of Champions League football at Stamford Bridge along with newly installed assistant Henk ten Cate.

Ten Cate, who left Ajax to link up with Grant during the international break, admits it was a hard decision to make.

Ten Cate said: "Of course it was hard because I worked there with a group of very talented and very young players. The only problem with Ajax is you always lose your best players.

"Two days before qualifying for the Champions League, I lost my two best players and the club ended up with a lot of money. It is kind of frustrating. The decision to leave was a big one but Chelsea and I met at the right moment. They needed someone and I wanted to move and everything came together and everybody is happy."

Ten Cate helped Barcelona to win the Champions League and both he and Grant share a vision to get Chelsea playing a similar style of football.

But in the post-Jose Mourinho era, Ten Cate admits the change will not happen instantly.

Ten Cate declared: "At Barcelona the first half-year was not really a success. But the people kept confidence in our work because they were seeing things improving and at the end of the season, we ended second.

"The next two years we won all the prizes to win in Spain and the Champions League which was a great result of course. But you need to be patient. You cannot do it in one year or one-and-a-half years. You have to work on this."


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Pint-sized Hayden Panettiere enjoys a romantic date with her giant boxer boyfriend

At just 5ft 2in, Hayden Panetierre isn’t exactly the tallest actress in Hollywood.

But the diminutive star looked even smaller today when she was accompanied by her giant boyfriend boxer Wladimir Klitschko who stands at a massive 6ft 6in.

The Heroes actress’s flat shoes didn’t exactly help her out as she and Klitschko grabbed lunch at Il Pastaio restaurant in Beverly Hills.

Hayden Panettiere

Tall order: Hayden Panettiere is dwarfed by her boyfriend Wladimir Klitschko as they grabbed lunch in Beverly Hills earlier today

Happy together: The couple go their separate ways after lunching together

She has been dating the 34-year-old Ukrainian since late last year.

'I've never had an athlete as a boyfriend before, and it's an exciting experience,’ she said recently.

The 20-year-old star looked happy, if a little small, in denim shorts and a loose tie-dyed peach top.

Hayden Panettiere

Smiling in the sun: Panettiere has been dating Klitschko since last year

She recently had her long blonde tresses cut into a stylish crop.

Heroes, the TV show which made Panettiere famous, was axed in March by the U.S. NBC network after a dramatic loss in viewers.

But creator Tim Kring is keen to bring the drama back for a mini-series in order to wrap up loose ends.

Meanwhile, Panettiere has joined the cast of horror flick Scream 4, where she will star alongside Courteney Cox and Emma Roberts.

Hayden Panettiere

Snapped: Panettiere jokes with the paparazzi as she gets in her car after lunch


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Could the split be real after all? Heidi Montag hires a divorce lawyer

Split rolls on: Heidi Montag has hired a lawyer

Her split from Spencer Pratt has been branded publicity stunt, but Heidi Montag seems determined to prove otherwise.

Two weeks after filing for legal separation, the 23-year-old has hired a divorce lawyer.

The pair, who wed just over a year ago in a ceremony shown on their show The Hills, announced their split amid Pratt's increasingly bizarre behaviour.

Montag then said they were headed for a divorce, but the news were met with scepticism as they are known for exploiting their personal life for fame.

Now it has emerged she already has a lawyer and she has set up a meeting to mediate the split.

Family law specialist Jodeane Farrell is said to be taking steps to get the quickest possible divorce in California, according to TMZ.

Farrell plans to mediate a meeting in which the couple will try to hash out a property settlement privately.

They would then wait six months, as required by California law, and end their marriage.

Farrell says so far things are 'very amicable' between the pair.

Meanwhile, publicity hunger Heidi is attempting to tap into 'Bieber fever'.

The plastic surgery obsessed star of The Hills sent a series of messaged to the fresh-faced 16-year-old via Twitter today.

Montag told Bieber: 'Now that I am getting divorced I really think you and I should do a photo shoot together! Cutie ;)! I'm closer to your age.'

It is not clear what Montag meant by saying that she was 'closer' to Bieber's age, but the chart-topping chick-magnet has recently did a beach shoot with 29-year-old reality TV star Kim Kardashian.

The pair met up in the Bahamas for a photo-shoot after exchanging messages over Twitter.

Spencer Pratt

Playing nice: The lawyer says so far things are 'very amicable' between Heidi and Spencer


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If You Dare: McSwiggan's is the Place to Eat with Pats Fans Sunday. As for the Other Guys ...

If You Dare: McSwiggan's is the Place to Eat with Pats Fans Sunday. As for the Other Guys ...

If you are a human and you live in Dallas, chances are relatively high that you don't give a fuck about the Super Bowl. If you do, you're either a Pats fan with an affinity for Jameson and clams or a Coughlin apologist with pizza-flavored blood. Either way, you can get drunk for cheap and eat food with your east coast brethren this week in Jerryland.

Hardcore Patriots fans have found each other in DFW and have been known to convene and probably say "wicked" and "beans" a bunch of times at McSwiggan's Irish Pub in The Colony, which appears to be the Metroplex's biggest Belichick backer bar. We've begged Scott to go there and are secretly hoping he gets beat up by a guy in a Julian Edelman jersey.

Based on their Facebook page, you can also hang out with people in that photo above. Dudebros!

Irish pubs closer to Dallas' core are also a safe bet should you be seeking other chowdaheads. Black Friar and The Idle Rich Pub have buckets of Sam Adams ready but also will be serving Brooklyn IPA, so there's that.

Transplant Giants fans around Dallas are invading Buffalo Joe's (3636 Frankford Rd) to watch the big game and bask in the glow of each other's New Yorkness. Local group Big Blue DFW has marked their territory here, which may or may not include actual urine. Buffalo Joe's is a New York-friendly place and offers straight up bar food.

Anyway, you will likely be hard-pressed to find a true Giants-friendly destination due to the palpable hatred between Cowboys and Giants fans in Big D. Frankie's Sports Bar and Grill (3227 McKinney) is serving up huge hot dogs with and $4 Manhattans for Giants fans, but also catering to Pats fans with Clam Chowder (in a bread bowl!) and $4 Boston Tea party shots. If you just don't care, the Press Box Grill (1623 Main St.) has a 112-inch screen. So there's that.

Whatever team you choose to hate less, Dallas will surely be able to satiate your itchin' for all things East Coast. But you may have to go north of LBJ to get your fix.

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It looks like a property tax revolt is brewing across the country, perhaps the biggest one since the era of Proposition 13, in the late 1970s. The Christian Science Monitor reports today that “legislative proposals, citizen initiatives, and lawsuits are on the agenda in at least 20 states.”

It’s no surprise why. Rising home values have meant rising assessments in many parts of the country. Rising home values are great if you’re selling; but if you’re not planning to sell your house, the increase can just mean higher taxes. And now, as Dennis Cauchon pointed out in USA Today, house prices are falling in some places but assessments haven’t yet been adjusted.

More importantly, cities and counties gleefully increased spending as the tax revenue rolled in during a decade or so of rising prices. But now that the revenue increases are slowing, local governments don’t want to cut back. Instead, they want to raise rates to keep the good times rolling—for governments if not for taxpayers.

The Wall Street Journal reports that more and more taxpayers are protesting their assessments. That’s one form of rebellion. Another is tax protests and calls for political action, and the Journal reports that those are happening, too, from Florida to Minnesota.

Back in 1978, the college newspaper cartoonist Berke Breathed (later famous for “Bloom County” and “Opus”) drew a brilliant cartoon about Proposition 13. For the benefit of our younger readers, I’ll explain: Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes in California, was spearheaded by Howard Jarvis. And it passed in June 1978, about the time the movie The Omen II came out, with its tagline “The first time was only a warning.” And Breathed was right: Prop 13 was a warning to the political class that taxpayers were fed up. After Proposition 13, the Democratic Congress cut the capital gains tax rate. Massachusetts passed Proposition 2-1/2 in 1980. More than a dozen other states put constitutional limits on taxes in the next few years. Ronald Reagan ran for president on a tax-cutting platform; he defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter, swept in a Republican Senate, and cut the top marginal income tax rate from 70 percent to 50 and then to 28 percent.

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Jonah 3:1-4:2

May the words of my mouth….

How many of you have ever watched either the movies or TV series: Mission Impossible.

If you’ve never seen it, it’s about a team of secret agents known as the Impossible Missions Force who work for the American Government to keep the world secure.

Now if you recall, the hallmark of the series would be when the team leader would receive the instructions of the mission from a recording which always of course seemed impossible.  (If you choose to accept this mission you will have to take documents from the most secret and secure place in the Kremlin)

His assistants would always be waiting in disbelief of what they were being called to do.

And another trademark of the show was that after the mission was given on the recording device, it would say “this message will self destruct in 5 seconds”.

It would self destruct and then you would hear the theme song……..

Now I thought about Mission Impossible when I read the story of Jonah.

In the story, Jonah is given a mission from God---and for Jonah it must have seemed like Mission Impossible. He’s to go to Nineveh, the pagan capital of Assyria which was an enemy to Israel; a place of wickedness and worshipping of false gods.

And Jonah has the impossible mission of prophetically calling them to repentance to follow the one and only true God.

Well Jonah wants no part of it. He doesn’t want to choose to accept his mission.

But unlike the Mission Impossible TV shows, Jonah doesn’t have a choice. This message from God doesn’t self destruct in 5 seconds.

Instead it follows him everywhere. Even though he tries to run and hide from God, the mission doesn’t go away.

It followed him on a ship of Gentiles on his way to Tarshish. It followed him while the boat was being tossed and turned in a storm. It followed him when he was reluctantly thrown overboard by the gentile sailors and it followed him as he was swallowed up in the belly of the great whale. No matter where he went the Mission followed him.

And as we pick up today’s scripture we see that the Mission has followed him as he lies on the beach and hears God again say Jonah  ‘Get up, go to Nineveh,… and proclaim…the message that I tell you.’

And as we see this time, he accepts the Mission albeit reluctantly.

He goes to Nineveh, a city that we read was so large that it took 3 days just to get across it.

And Jonah speaks one simple message: ‘Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!’

The word gets to the King and he calls for all the people, even the animals, to wear sackcloth which was the sign of repentance.

And as a result the city is spared from judgment and the seemingly Mission Impossible--- with God and Jonah’s reluctant obedience was made possible.

So what does this story have to say to us today???

Well the story of Jonah is a microcosm of the whole story of God’s call to Israel to witness to the Gentile nations of the world.

Israel, God’s chosen people, was called by God to witness and share the blessing that God had shared with them with all the peoples of the world.

Of course this calling to witness was then made complete and inclusive when God revealed Himself fully in Jesus Christ. In Christ a new revelation of chosen people brought together in a new covenant which includes Jewish, Gentile, male, female, free or slave, red and yellow, black and white have been given the mission to go to whoever the Ninevites may be today, to share the revelation of God’s love and grace in Jesus Christ.

Now that’s our call today as followers of Christ. We are the chosen ones. You and I are Jonah. And God is calling us to a mission and it’s not a mission we can choose to NOT accept; unless we want to end up in the belly of a whale.

So where is Nineveh today?

Well, I don’t think we need to look much further than our own backyard to find Nineveh today.

We live in a country today that especially resembles Nineveh….More and more people are turning to false gods, false beliefs; they live in fear;  suicide rates are up, along with abortion, divorce, drug addiction, sexual immorality, greed, violence, bigotry and hate. We live in a fallen world that keeps falling.

Morality and character in our culture are becoming rarer and rarer. Things can look hopeless, helpless and impossible.

So what can we as Christians do?  Well God is calling us, just as he was calling Jonah, to a Mission Impossible…….

So what are our Mission Impossible instructions?

Well the first instruction we see in the story of Jonah is that our Mission Impossible begins by saying yes to the mission. Like in the show we have to accept the mission we’re given no matter how impossible it seems to be.

Jonah had to stop running and accept that he was called to go and witness to others. It wasn’t optional.

And it’s the same for us too. You and I have a call from God to go and witness to others about the good news of the kingdom of God. It’s called the Great Commission.

You know Jesus didn’t command the world to go to church; he commanded his church to go to the world. That’s our mission.

We can’t keep the message for ourselves. And why would we in the first place?

How many of you have ever seen a great movie or read a great book or got some great news? We never have any problem sharing with others about these things.

But when it comes to talking to someone about faith or prayer or inviting someone to church or some other Christian event we keep it private.

A man came out of his house on his way to church on Sunday morning just as his neighbor was pulling out with his boat.

He said, "Hey, Jake, "Come to the lake with me." ------The man said, "Sorry, it's Sunday, and Sunday means church."   After a moment's silence, the neighbor quietly said, "You know, Jake, I've often wondered about your church, and your faithfulness. You know I always invite you to go to the lake with me, but you‘ve never invited me to go to church with you."

Many Christians are starting to embrace God’s call to go to the Ninehvites.

They’re inviting others to go with their Christian friends to ball games together, to movies together or to have dinner with them.  Small groups are formed that also invite non-Christian couples together and in the natural part of a conversation an invite to other things like church just happens.

Ask yourself today, who do I know that I could invite into a closer relationship?  Who’s going thru a tough time that you might ask to pray with? Who might God be calling you to invite to church or to your small group?

God is calling you and me just like he was Jonah to say yes to the mission of his Great Commission. Let’s not run from it but rather embrace it.

Now the next Mission Impossible instruction we’re given……is the call to go to Nineveh by dropping our prejudices and our biases.

If we really look at the heart of the problem with Jonah’s refusal of his mission, what we see is that Jonah held deeply rooted prejudice toward the Gentile people.

As I mentioned earlier, the story of Jonah is really a microcosm of the whole story of God’s call to the chosen people of Israel to carry God’s blessing to all the nations of the world.

Unfortunately the people of Israel saw their chosenness as meaning they were favored by God and better than others.  Jonah like the majority of other Israelites looked down on the Ninevites and all gentile people.  They weren’t worshipping the God who loves everyone and wants to extend mercy and grace to everyone. Instead they were worshipping a god created in their own image who held prejudices as they did.

I like the quote from Anne Lamont this week from Inward Outward that said:

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do”.

For us to fulfill our Mission Impossible, means we have to let go of our prejudices and replace them with a genuine love for ALL people.

So ask yourself today who are my Ninevites? Is it a particular group of people that I want to avoid?  Is it a certain race or a certain religion (Muslims, Mormons)? Are they liberals or conservatives, fundamentalists or atheists?

Perhaps your Ninevites are people who have committed certain sins and you have a bias against them, adulterers or pedophiles.

Maybe it’s someone that you can’t forgive. Maybe it’s someone you’ve attached a label to that annoys you.

Whoever you think in your heart is someone who’s less than you or who you think God is going to destroy, is your Ninevite.

But the one true God is a God of grace and mercy. That’s what the Nienevites found out. As they repented and turned to God, they found out first hand that God loves them too and wants a relationship with them.

And while Jonah knew this truth, he continued to resist this kind of God because he couldn’t let go of his bigotry.  But as a result, Jonah chose to live in the hell of despair and resentment……

But God wants to free us from our prejudice and the false gods we’ve created that we might live with a joy and freedom that gladly carries out his Mission Impossible by being a beacon to the God of grace and mercy and love.  God wants to free you and me from our prejudices. Let us too repent that we might carry out God’s mission with genuine love……

Finally the last piece of instruction of our Mission Impossible…… is to remember that God is the one who will change people’s hearts.

Our mission is simple: we witness while God does the rest. Our Mission Impossible is NOT an Impossible Mission because God’s power is with us and works thru us….

God is the One who changes hearts. We don’t need to carry the burden of converting people.  We’re simply called to obey God’s instructions and faithfully surrender to his power by sowing the seeds of God’s love.

We aren’t called to do the impossible. God is the One who calls people and changes people….He’s the One who makes the impossible, possible.

So ask yourself today, where is God calling me to share my faith but I feel inadequate to do so?

Remember that Jonah was half-hearted at best in his witness and yet God used even that. We simply need to sow the seeds in faith….and joyfully let God do the rest.

In closing today, while we live in a time when churches are closing, and the culture is falling, it can seem dismal, bleak and hopeless.

But today we’re reminded that as we respond to God’s call and let go of our prejudices and witness to God’s grace and mercy, God is able to make the impossible, possible.

Today God is calling you and me to his mission, to witness to his love and mercy and grace for all people. Don’t run from it or turn it down. Instead accept your Mission Impossible and let God use you to spread the good news of his kingdom to others….

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen


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Saw a link in the politics forum on http://www.boards.ie and thought it was a brilliant idea.

Apparently they are using an idea called Guerilla Gardening as an inspiration on what to do with the plague of Election Posters that have become a festering eyesore on our street scapes recently.

Details available from this forum.

As a side note I find it extremely interesting that the worst offenders for this poster vandalism seem to be the green party, looks like hopping into bed with Fianna Fail has shorn them totally of their green credentials and ideals.


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Some of my favorite pieces of silk

"Silk Therapy"

2001 Soul-Making Literary Prize
Honorable Mention

On those days when I feel as if my heart has been torn in two, I drive directly to a fabric store. I make a bee-line for the silks. (I just love the idea of hideously expensive fabric coming from worms.)

My favorite is silk charmeuse, so light and soft, it feels like human skin. Charmeuse is sexy, flowing, it begs to caress me. If I am sure the salesclerk isn't looking, I will gently brush it across my face. It has the touch of an understanding lover.

"There, there," it whispers. "All shall be well--all manner of things shall be well."

Then there is cream-colored pongee made from wild silk. It is both coarse and smooth, wild and serene, heaven and earth. It speaks to me of finding the sacred amongst the profane. "Yes, yes," it says, "find the extraordinary in the ordinary. Recognize the Divine in a homeless drunk, a mouthy teenager, a crazy old man."

Wildly different is Honan silk. It is a plain weave with slubbed yarns but is brilliantly colored-teal, magenta, yellow, purple, lime green, iridescent black. It is a shrieking, in-your-face, extroverted, party-girl fabric. The Bette Midler of silks. When you cut it with scissors it crunches as if you are walking on crusty snow, or biting on fresh celery. It likes to be cut, to be fashioned into something new, into a garment that is going places, doing things, seeing people. Honan silk screams, "Have a vision! Never give up! Celebrate!"

Often I will pick up a bolt of Honan silk and drape it around my body and gaze at myself in a mirror. Salesclerks like this because they think I am serious about buying. I do adore the material, but I have learned that I don't always have to own it to appreciate it.

But of course I do own silk--yards of it, bought over the years, stashed in different places around the house, the storage spots like hidden altars which I visit now and then. Sometimes it is taken away for the sacrament of sewing; other times it is simply left with a prayer of thanks.

When I pick up a roll of silk I realize that I am holding not only fabric, but yards of potential. A two-piece suit? A simple sheath? A sexy blouse? I am reminded that like the beautiful silks, I can fashion myself into someone new: a person who is more loving, less critical, more flexible. The possibilities are infinite. So when I go to the fabric store I am really searching for spiritual healing. I am seeking something that not only covers my body but touches my soul as well.

Of course none of this is obvious as I finger the bolts of silk. The clerks don't realize that I am secretly on a kind of Vision Quest. So although it is seldom that I actually buy fabric, I often buy something--some needles, a zipper, a packet of buttons. I consider it the price of admission.

Once, after an hour or so of looking at silk, I brought a spool of thread up to the counter. "Is that all you came in here for?" the salesclerk asked.

I looked her straight in the eye and said, "Yes, I just needed to do a little mending."

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2001 Soul-Making Literary Prize Honorable Mention
1999 Jack Straw Award
Reflections on being in Manhattan on September 11, 2001.
A book about exercise, love, and a faith journey. (Lion, 1986)
How to control Type II diabetes through diet and exercise. (1989)
A pocket-size book which deals with the spiritual issues around HIV.(1990)
How to be a caregiver for someone with AIDS.(1992)


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The following letter to the editor appeared in the August 13 edition of the (Wilmington) News Jounal.

Recently, news circulated that the EPA is investigating whether to add a polluted plume of groundwater in Newark to its list of Superfund sites. What might surprise many is that Delaware has had more than 20 Superfund sites throughout the state.

That’s why news that the Trump Administration wants to cut the Superfund program by 30 percent should alarm every Delawarean, regardless of political persuasion. Experts predict that such a cut would delay cleanup at many toxic sites, and that could include some in the First State. This drastic cut would come on top of a gradual slashing of Superfund appropriations, from $2 billion in 1999 to $1.1 billion in 2013.

The EPA is shrouding this gutting of the Superfund program with calls to “streamline” the process, using outside parties to monitor conditions and reassess groundwater cleanup goals, and provide polluters incentives to clean sites more quickly.

As an environmental toxicologist, I know what goes into cleaning up polluted sites and how intricate and involved that process is. I agree we should look to cut unnecessary expenses and be more cost-effective, but a draconian 30-percent cut would delay the remediation of these polluted sites, increasing risks to human health and the environment in the name of saving a few dollars.

Congress must fully fund the Superfund program so that any remediation needed for these sites takes place. The program ensures that our communities are safe and healthy spaces where our families can grow. The environmental cleanup means more jobs, which will be lost if the federal government doesn’t fund the program.

We should be forward-thinking and thoughtful in our actions so they make improvements to the program, not blindly cut resources without proper vetting.

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Posted on May 6, 2015 by By Kristy Poisson ’16.

Courtesy: Delaware Valley University My semester in Japan.
Courtesy: Kristy Poisson ’16 Kristy Poisson ’16 (center) is a Delaware Valley University student who is studying abroad in Japan.

Kristy Poisson '16 is a Delaware Valley University English major who is blogging about her semester in Japan for DelVal. Read her intro post here and find out about her first week in Japan here

It has been a month since I last wrote. Settling into the routine of classes here in Tokyo has taken a bit more time than I expected. It feels as though I’ve been running around all over Tokyo. Though, last weekend, CIEE, my study abroad program, took us on a trip to Hiroshima, which was a highly impactful life experience.

On Friday afternoon, we took the Shinkansen (bullet train) to Hiroshima. It took us four hours to get from Tokyo Station to Hiroshima going more than 100 miles per hour. The Shinkansen was actually a fun experience with surprisingly spacious seating and amazing views of the rice fields and Mt. Fuji.

On Saturday, we walked from our hotel to the Peace Memorial Park and Museum. The park and museum are dedications to those who suffered from the dropping of the atomic bomb as well as a symbol of world peace. This ended up being a rather difficult day for most of us. It was the first time I had been told the story of a historical event from another perspective. The images and exhibits displayed in the museum told countless stories of tragedy, pain and regret, so unlike the version we learn in school in the United States.

The park itself was beautiful in a quiet contemplative sort of way with several memorials scattered around. The most harrowing was the A-Bomb Dome. This building once housed the Hiroshima Commercial Exhibition Hall. The building was at the hypocenter of the bomb’s explosion and remained one of the only buildings standing. What was once a building of elegant architecture is now a hollow shell that stands over the meditative scene.

On Sunday, the mood of the trip shifted to a much lighter one. We took a ferry out to Miyajima, an island just off the coast of Hiroshima famous for its picturesque floating torii (shrine gate). It felt great to be out of the crowded city atmosphere and experience somewhere slightly more rural. The island is also known for its rather docile deer population. There are so many deer just relaxing all over the main streets, and they are so calm and used to people that you can go right up and pet them. The first few minutes of being on the island was pretty much a trip to a petting zoo. We then took a walk through the Itsukushima Shrine. Walking through the traditional Japanese architecture felt like I was taking steps back in time. There was a sort of serenity and clam here that isn’t always easy to find in the hustle and bustle of Tokyo.

On the whole, this trip was amazing. It was great to get out and see new parts of Japan other than the big city. Hopefully I can update you all again soon! For now, I’m going to keep on exploring. See you soon!


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In response to litigation filed by the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Justice Department today released four secret memos used by the Bush administration to justify torture. The memos, produced by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), provided the legal framework for the CIA's use of waterboarding and other illegal interrogation methods that violate domestic and international law.

The ACLU has called for the Justice Department to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate torture under the Bush administration.

"We have to look back before we can move forward as a nation. When crimes have been committed, the American legal system demands accountability. President Obama's assertion that there should not be prosecutions of government officials who may have committed crimes before a thorough investigation has been carried out is simply untenable. Enforcing the nation's laws should not be a political decision. These memos provide yet more incontrovertible evidence that Bush administration officials at the highest level of government authorized and gave legal blessings to acts of torture that violate domestic and international law," said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. "There can be no more excuses for putting off criminal investigations of officials who authorized torture, lawyers who justified it and interrogators who broke the law. No one is above the law, and the law must be equally enforced. Accountability is necessary for any functioning democracy and for restoring America's reputation at home and abroad."

Three of the memos released today were written by Steven Bradbury, then a lawyer in the OLC, in 2005. The fourth memo was written by then-OLC head Jay S. Bybee in August 2002.

"Memos written by the Office of Legal Counsel, including the memos released today, provided the foundation for the Bush administration's torture program," said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project. "Through these memos, Justice Department lawyers authorized interrogators to use the most barbaric interrogation methods, including methods that the U.S. once prosecuted as war crimes. The memos are based on legal reasoning that is spurious on its face, and in the end these aren't legal memos at all – they are simply political documents that were meant to provide window dressing for war crimes. While the memos should never have been written, we welcome their release today. Transparency is a first step towards accountability."

"The documents released today provide further confirmation that lawyers in the Office of Legal Counsel purposefully distorted the law to support the Bush administration's torture program," said Amrit Singh, staff attorney with the ACLU. "Now that the memos have been made public, high-ranking officials in the Bush administration must be held accountable for authorizing torture. We are hopeful that by releasing these memos, the Obama administration has turned the page on an era in which the Justice Department became complicit in some of the most egregious crimes."

Since 2003, the ACLU has filed several lawsuits to enforce FOIA requests seeking government documents relating to torture, rendition, detention and surveillance. These lawsuits have resulted in the release of thousands of records.

"We need to know our history to learn from history," said Arthur Eisenberg, Legal Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union and co-counsel on the case. "Disclosure of these documents is essential for our country, and will shed much-needed light on one of the darkest chapters in American history."

The memos released today, in addition to more information, including a copy of the ACLU's recent letter to the OLC, a chart of the still-secret OLC memos, a video and information about the ACLU's FOIA litigation, is available at: www.aclu.org/olcmemos

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I'm sure it'll come as no surprise to hiring managers to hear me saying that it's still quite tough out there and that there's a woeful lack of good candidates on the job market. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that I've never known it to be as hard to find candidates who want to make a move and who have the requisite skills and experience.  It's clear from talking to  Hiring Managers and Job seekers that both are adopting a highly cautious and, at times, extremely prescriptive approach. The result of all this being, that jobs are, seemingly, hanging around unfilled for ages and candidates waiting around just as long for the perfect role to pop up.  So, I thought you might be interested in a little round up of insider information based on the recent conversations I've had with my candidates past and present in the hope that it might give you a steer as to why this is and maybe how the situation could be remedied.

The main reasons cited by candidates for leaving their current role are:

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It's interesting to note that candidates are declining jobs offered because of points 1 & 2 - who wants to swap what they've got for more of the same?- plus the fact that some of the salary increments being offered by clients in this market simply aren't  incentive enough to make a move.

On the subject of salaries, I do believe that they're particularly low right now, particularly in the very skills short insight and analysis sector.  I realise why, of course I do, but if your salary budget is restricted, why not lower your expectations (some briefs we're seeing are not so much job descriptions as they are long wish lists) and consider someone a bit less experienced who has some of what you're looking for, the right attitude, is mad keen to learn and invest in training them?  It's just an idea but I really believe it could work for you in the long run.

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Moderate earthquake in Poland: 19 trapped miners rescued

M 4.7 moderate earthquake shakes Poland today, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Prague, Czech Republic lies 195 km far from epicenter.
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Update 05:05 UTC
-Good news, all 19 miners have been rescued.
Fifteen Polish miners were rescued about 45 minutes ago, and the three others few minutes ago.
-Miners were trapped for about eight hours.
-Four miners were injured while evacuating. They were transferred to hospital.

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In the photo below, Poland's Minister of Treasury Mikolaj Budzanowski (L) greeting the rescue team at the Rudna copper mine in Polkowice, southern Poland; Source EPA

Update 02:00 UTC
-At least 19 miners are reported to be trapped in a Polish copper mine after tunnel collapsed.
-Incident occurred in Rudna mine in western region of Lower Silesia located 400 km southwest of Warsaw.
-Following Reuters reports, missing miners are out of contact. Miners are trapped 600 meters below ground.
-The quake in Poland has also cut communication lines.

-The earthquake happened in Legnica (population 523,596) . The nearest places are Legnica and Polkowice. The maximum altitude nearby is 1511m.
-GDACS has issued Green Earthquake alert in Poland.

M 4.7 moderate earthquake shakes Poland today, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake's epicenter was located 3 kmNE of Polkowice and 60 km SE of Zielona Gora. It was 2.3 miles deep.

Looking epicenter location and magnitude, light shaking of MMI IV will have felt by the people of Lubin and Polkowice. People of Cottbus, Lubin, Jelenia Góra and Wrocław will have felt weak shaking of MMI III.

GDACS has issued Green Earthquake alert in Poland.

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake in Legnica region of Poland in 2010 killed three people.

21:09 UTC (local time Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 10:09 PM @ epicenter)

Epicenter Location
3 km NE of Polkowice, Poland
14 km S of Glogow, Poland
15 km NNW of Lubin, Poland
30 km NNE of Chojnow, Poland

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