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    feeling so many things but dunno really what to say...grammies words still resounding in my head...the lies i told the doc in the hospital...the headache that returned today....the feeling in my head...the it was about to burst. Pain in my back that is increasingly getting worse...i am totally alone now...i need to talk to someone so badly but i dunno who to turn to. i almost wish i had committed suicide rather than go thru this....ive seen both sides...both worlds and i dont belong in either... :cry:
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Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA America) announced today that the Healthy Families America (HFA) affiliate, Project Self-Sufficiency, has been accredited as a provider of high quality home visiting services to families who want to improve their child’s health, nutrition and developmental outcomes.

HFA is a signature program of PCA America that has been providing home visiting services for more than 20 years.  Expectant and new parents have common questions about their child’s development.  HFA connects with families through community partners like hospitals and pediatricians to find the answers to their questions, meeting within the familiarity and convenience of the family’s own home.  HFA is an accessible, voluntary and well-received service.

“Parents want to be good parents; and as parents we all have had many questions when it comes to raising a child,” said Jim Hmurovich, President and CEO of PCA America.  “HFA’s well-trained home visitors are trusted sources in their own communities.  They help provide answers to those questions, individualized support when it is needed most, and linkages to other community services.  HFA requires community agency involvement and the commitment of community leaders.  As we congratulate Project Self-Sufficiency we also recognize the state and the community leadership that has contributed to success in Sussex County.”

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The accreditation process is based upon a stringent set of 12 critical elements grounded in more than 30 years of research.  The process involves an in-depth examination of the site’s operation, as well as the quality of the visits made by HFA home visitors.

“We commend Project Self-Sufficiency for opening itself up to such an intensive review process,” said Cydney Wessel, National Director of HFA.  “We believe that all families and all communities deserve access to quality home visiting services.”

Once a family elects to participate in Project Self-Sufficiency’s Healthy Families home visitation program, they will receive visits approximately once a week, depending on the age and health of their children.  Typical visits from a home vistor usually last about an hour and include a discussion about topics such as health, nutrition and developmental milestones.   Home visitors receive extensive training in a wide range of potential issues for new parents, including caring for a crying baby, proper nutrition, healthy child development, and stress management.

“Project Self-Sufficiency’s Healthy Families home visitation program is an important component of the agency’s services to low-income families in northwestern New Jersey,” commented Claire Willetts, Program Coordinator at Project Self-Sufficiency.  “Families who participate in the home visitation program are also able to take advantage of the other services we provide, such as parenting skills workshops and career guidance.  We have always been proud of the home visitation services provided by Project Self-Sufficiency, and this accreditation demonstrates the strength of our commitment and the high quality of our services.”

Home visitors in each community receive extensive training in a wide range of areas that can cause stress and worry to just about every new parent:  Caring for a new baby, ensuring the baby is receiving the nutrition needed, promoting healthy child development and coping with a myriad of other potential stresses, such as financial, housing, and partner relationships that may become heightened with an addition to the family.

“When parental stress can be managed effectively, children enjoy safer, healthier and more loving experiences, regardless of the parent’s income or standing,” says Hmurovich.

PCA America was established in 1972 with the belief that child abuse and neglect is preventable.  The not-for-profit, volunteer-based organization is committed to preventing child abuse in all forms through education, research, public awareness, and public policy development.  Today, PCA America has 50 statewide chapters.

PCA America implemented the Healthy Families America (HFA) initiative in 1992 in partnership with Ronald McDonald House Charities, building on two decades of research in the field of home visiting.  HFA serves families of all ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, meeting the needs of close to 600 communities in 40 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Territories and Canada.

Healthy Families America is an effective and proven evidence-based home visiting program according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.  PCA America is proud to support HFA and to be part of a national coalition of organizations dedicated to improving the home visiting field.

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On 28 February 2007, the ATO issued Practice Statement PS LA 2007/7 entitled "The use of the Commissioner's power to make default assessments of taxable income in respect of attributable income". The purpose of the Practice Statement is to guide ATO staff on default assessments using the powers provided by section 167 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 in respect of the attributable income of taxpayers under the CFC, FIF and transferor trust regimes.

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Identity theft is a serious crime. Once criminals have obtained your personal information, they can try to take over your identity and do anything from opening a credit card or taking out an auto loan, to filing for bankruptcy, all in your name. Identity thieves can get your personal information from a variety of sources, including e-mail fraud, stealing your wallet, stealing your mail, digging through your trash or hacking internet accounts.

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The 911 call came in just before 10 o’clock on a Sunday night. The voice on the other end of the line was unnerving—it sounded automated, like a computer. This was odd, but there was no time to waste: Something terrible was reportedly unfolding at the suburban home of Katherine Clark, a Massachusetts congresswoman.

Although it was January, it was unseasonably warm for New England. Not knowing about the swarms of police scrambling toward their home, Clark and her husband were settling in after a relaxing family weekend—their oldest son had been visiting from college. “Then my husband and I noticed that there were a lot of police lights in the front lawn,” Clark said. “I immediately thought something was going on at the neighbor’s house.”

So Clark went outside to find out what was happening. “That’s when I realized there were large lights on our house, and our street was blocked off,” Clark told me. “A police officer was on the front lawn with a long gun.”

Law enforcement had turned out in force, responding to a tip about an active shooter at Clark’s house—a report that turned out to be false and, Clark believes, a reaction to her legislative efforts to fight online harassment. What the Clarks likely experienced is known as swatting, the term for when someone deceives law enforcement into responding to a made-up emergency.

Months before all this, Clark had introduced the Interstate Swatting Hoax Act of 2015, a bill that would prohibit the false reporting of emergency situations—just the way federal law addresses bomb threats and fake reports of terrorism. Back in November, after first filing the legislation, Clark had talked to her local police about the possibility that she might become a target of such hoaxes because of the bill—but she still wasn’t prepared for what she experienced that night in January.

“There was just that moment of panic that something very bad was about to happen or had happened,” Clark told me. “As much as I had heard about swatting, it’s a very different situation when you are all of the sudden standing between your family—between your children—and a very engaged, active police presence in your front yard.”

Standing on the lawn, illuminated by a flood of police lights, an officer described the strange and alarming call they’d received. Clark immediately realized what had happened. If she hadn’t known about swatting already, she says, “I can only imagine that initial terror would continue.”

The experience was scary, but it left Clark more motivated than ever. “It definitely deepened my commitment to this issue and our resolve to make sure that we are taking these crimes—crimes that may be perpetrated virtually—as seriously as we take crimes that happen in our neighborhoods.”

Fighting online harassment, including swatting, has been a legislative priority for Clark ever since one of her constituents, the video-game designer Brianna Wu, was the target of a deluge of death threats and harassment during the video-game industry controversy known as Gamergate.

“Any woman who is using the Internet for her professional life or for her personal life has come across that moment where there is all of the sudden a hateful or sexist comment coming back at you,” Clark said. “You do internalize it, and even though it is not someone directly in front of you, there is something about the anonymous nature of it—when you don’t know where a threat is coming from—that really gets into someone’s psyche.”

What Wu experienced was worse than most. Both men and women face widespread harassment online, but Gamergate involved a host of threats against women specifically—and high-profile women like Wu, in particular. In general, much of the worst harassment, including attacks that go beyond name-calling to include stalking and sexual harassment, is disproportionately targeted at women, according to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center.

“When we heard of what Brianna Wu was going through, and really started looking into Gamergate and how extreme—not only the level of threats that were coming in, but the velocity with which they were attacking women; really a 24/7 onslaught of hateful threats and comments. This shouldn’t just be something that we accept as part of women using technology in their work lives and in their personal lives.”

But many women are told they must accept just that: If you don’t like the way you’re being treated online, you should log off.

Two years ago, the journalist Amanda Hess wrote for Pacific Standard about the hailstorm of threats she was receiving online. Among them were messages like: “Happy to say we live in the same state. Im looking you up, and when I find you, I’m going to rape you and remove your head,” and “You are going to die and I am the one who is going to kill you. I promise you this.”

As a journalist who often writes about feminism and Internet culture, Hess was used to being harassed online. But one day, after a string of particularly frightening threats, she called the police.

Two hours later, a Palm Springs police officer lumbered up the steps to my hotel room, paused on the outdoor threshold, and began questioning me in a steady clip. I wheeled through the relevant background information: I am a journalist; I live in Los Angeles; sometimes, people don’t like what I write about women, relationships, or sexuality; this was not the first time that someone had responded to my work by threatening to rape and kill me. The cop anchored his hands on his belt, looked me in the eye, and said, “What is Twitter?”

In recent years, several people—many of them women—have reported similar responses when they’ve sought help from the police. “One of the themes we kept hearing was, the response from police was well intentioned—the police wanted to help—but there was a clear lack of understanding,” Congresswoman Clark told me. “We’ve had [law enforcement] ask, ‘Well, what is Twitter?’ and, even recently, a Boston judge saying to one of the victims, ‘You just have to go offline.’ We hear, ‘It’s virtual, and you just have to turn off the computer and walk away.’”

“When I report a serious death threat to the police, this is what happens,” Wu, the video-game designer, told me in April. “Invariably, a local cop comes to my house and instructs me to stay off social media. I cannot have a career without that online presence.”

In Clark’s view, the disconnect between what people are experiencing online and how police officers are responding represents a training opportunity. That’s why, in March, she introduced the Cybercrime Enforcement Training Assistance Act, a proposal that would provide federal grant money to local law enforcement for the prevention, enforcement, and prosecution of online crimes against individuals. Funding for better resources is also one clear legislative path on a subject that is, for many reasons, tough to address from a regulatory perspective.

“I really think with local police, it comes down to just nothing in their training presents [online harassment] as a crime,” she said. “Law enforcement and judges need to have some fundamental understanding of the nature of these crimes, because many of them are crimes under existing laws.”

In most states, there are already laws pertaining to cyberstalking or other escalated forms of online harassment, according to Police Chief magazine. At the federal level, the Justice Department defines cyberstalking as using “the Internet, e-mail, or other electronic communications devices to stalk another person,” with “stalking” referring to  repeated harassing or threatening behavior. Enforcement, however, is tricky. If someone reports being harassed, and if local police decide to seek the perpetrator—both are big “if”s—investigations often cross state lines, and involve seeking perpetrators who are hiding behind anonymous accounts. Beyond that, even in cases where police identify the person responsible for the harassment, the results of an investigation get passed through a legal system that, historically, has not prioritized prosecuting online harassers.

Last year, when the FBI told Clark that cases involving online harassment are not priority for them, she called on the Department of Justice to intensify their efforts to use existing laws to investigate and prosecute the worst cases of abuse. “The federal government is not responsible for policing the Internet, but it is responsible for protecting the women who are being threatened with rape and murder in violation of existing federal law,” she wrote in an op-ed for The Hill last year.

“In 2006, Congress recognized the real-life dangers of online harassment and amended the Violence Against Women Act to make online threats of death or serious injury illegal,” Clark wrote. “Yet, even though it is a federal crime, federal prosecutors pursued only 10 of the estimated 2.5 million cases of cyber-stalking between 2010 and 2013.”

Several police departments in metro areas don’t keep records or statistics related to online harassment, or swatting, they told me. Law-enforcement officials in New York, San Francisco, Austin, and Los Angeles declined to describe how officers are trained to respond to complaints of serious online harassment. But there are hints that some police departments are beginning to take such incidents seriously. In Philadelphia, for instance, a police spokeswoman told me that officers make no distinction from threats lobbed online versus anywhere else.

“Regardless of the type of communication—if it’s social media, in-person, or through the mail—it’s going to be handled the same way,” said Tanya Little, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia Police Department. Detectives will conduct an investigation and submit findings to the District Attorney, who then decides how to prosecute, she said. “As things change in the world, law enforcement has to adjust. It takes time. The laws catch up with the crime, and then law enforcement catches up with the laws, and we go from there.”

Little also says that officers in Philly know not to respond to a complaint of harassment by telling someone to stay offline. “We’re not going to restrict someone from their right to use social media,” she said. “You should have the freedom, without being harassed, to do what you want.”

Freedom, but also protection, Clark says. Part of convening in any public forum—online or off—may entail “coarse language” and “opinions that are a personal affront,” she says, but harassment and threats are unacceptable and should be treated as such. “If it crosses the line, and really is a threat to your safety,” Clark says, “My goal is for every woman to know that there’s going to be help for you and you will be able to have a law-enforcement system that is going to assist and bring safety back to you and allow you to continue to earn a living and have a professional life online that is not thwarted by this criminal behavior.”


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Disabled people are not scroungers

It's time the government stopped using incapacity benefits as a political football – those who got us into this mess should pay

Looking at the government's vehement attack yesterday on incapacity benefits, coupled with their announcements about disability living allowance (DLA), and reducing staff at railway stations (which are vital for people with severe sight and hearing problems), you might be mistaken for thinking that it was we disabled people and the long-term sick who caused the recession and created the enormous budget deficit.

George Osborne is talking tough on incapacity benefits and suggesting that many recipients are fraudulent. There is no evidence to support this, other than a few, extreme anecdotal cases. He claims he will support the long-term sick and most vulnerable, but let's look at it realistically.

I am 54 years old and deafblind. I have Usher type II syndrome, which means I have partial hearing and extremely limited vision (progressive sight and hearing loss). All I can see is light and shade, and I have been registered blind since 1985. I would be very restricted in the type of work I can do, but am a keen volunteer. It would be very difficult for an employer to take me on with my complex limitations.

I worked for 20 years for the civil service before I was forcibly retired on medical grounds 14 years ago. I survive on incapacity benefits, DLA and a small pension (this is reduced as I only worked for two decades). Contrary to what many people believe, this really does not amount to much. I am also allowed to earn £80 extra myself, which I do by playing the piano in local venues.

This coalition government wants to speed up what Labour started and move me from incapacity benefit to employment support allowance, with no transitional relief. This could mean a potential extra cut of £40-50 a week. Add to this a rise in VAT, stricter requirements for DLA (which is awarded to help with the extra costs associated with having a disability, such as paying for communication support) and, suddenly, the "firm but fair" rhetoric used by the coalition government looks anything but.

It's time the government stopped using disabled people and the support we get as a political football. We are not scroungers; just vulnerable people who already experience higher levels of poverty and discrimination. Yet, this government wants to pile on more. How much more revenue would be generated if tax loopholes were closed and the bankers who got us into such trouble were forced to be accountable and, at the very minimum, pay back the enormous loans they took to keep their banks afloat and their inflated bonuses rolling in?


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BREAKING: Mitt Romney is kind of awkward

Today, the New York Times revealed that Mitt Romney 'strains to connect in a personal way' with voters. Well, duh
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Mitt Romney: who says he's uneasy and unnatural? Photograph: Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters

Today, the New York Times offered readers a "close-up study of Mr Romney's casual interactions with voters," which is awesome if you're a voter planning on having a casual interaction with Mr Romney. Or if you've had one and still wonder, what did it mean? That is what close-up studies are for! (Also, Google.)

It turns out that Mitt can be "uneasy" and "unnatural" and "strains to connect in a personal way," traits that will come as no shock to the millions of viewers of the umpteen presidential debates, but may serve those citizens who have spent the primary up to now huddled in a cave, waiting for the apocalypse. I speak here, of course, of Michele Bachmann supporters.

I don't want to poke too much fun at the Times for reporting the story – you've got to fill space somehow, and since he's spent over five years running for president, the number of things new to say about Mitt Romney has already long passed zero. We're in negative space as far as information about Mitt goes, where every piece of information passed along about him actually causes us to know less. Romney's recent barb at Newt Gingrich, comparing Newt's attempts to get on the Virginia ballot to "Lucy in the chocolate factory" has, for example, made most reporters forget to question what the point of that comparison could possible be. (Though the image of Newt stuffing bonbons into his mouth is dangerously easy to conjure.)

Reporters hold as an article of faith (because it's not borne out by either elections or polls) that voters give a lot of weight to a candidate's having-a-beer-with quotient, so "MITT LOSING VOTERS BECAUSE OF INABILITY TO GUESS THEIR AGES" was probably what editors were thinking when they allowed such time and energy to be devoted to their "study."

Actual Iowa citizens seemed puzzled, but not alienated, by Romney's quirks: "I don't mind stiff and formal," said one. Another told the candidate himself: "I have a lot friends who say you are the robotic type. And I am like, no, you need to stay that way because you are a leader."

Is it that hard to believe that Romney might lose Iowa because people are wary of his policies, not of his programming?

The Times's piece also underscores a simple fact about the economics of reporting from the campaign trail: it's so expensive, yet the news to be gleaned from direct observation so scanty, one must squeeze from each moment as much news-like substance as possible. The Times got 1,300 words out of this particular examination. As Romney says in the article: "That is a lot of milk."


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There's a stirring in the Forest

Anna Kessel sees the resurgent candidates for the play-offs maintain surprising late progress

From thirteenth spot to the play-offs in a couple of months. Well, nearly anyway - haven't Forest done well. They're just two points off it in seventh place after Oldham lost to Barnsley. Had their fixture been a draw, Forest's win against Tranmere would have earned them sixth spot.

It's an unlikely story that has attracted the attention of the national media, much to the dismay of the Prenton Park faithful. 'The Observer, The Times what next?' asked one Tranmere supporter. 'I expect you're here for Forest?' he said, resignedly.

Credit for the success goes to the unlikely caretaker managing duo of Frank Barlow and Ian McParland, former assistant manager and reserve coach respectively, between whom there is a 15-year age gap.

Roy Keane, Tord Grip and Dave Bassett had been the names bandied about after Gary Megson's departure in mid February, but Frank and Chaz, as they are affectionately known, were bestowed with the honours and they've transformed a once ailing team.

Their unbeaten run of nine games is bettered only by Manchester United and Carlisle in the form books. From winning one in 10 in Megson's final weeks, to seven wins and two draws, Forest have leapt six places up the table. Such success won the duo the March manager of the month award, although whether they will be granted the management position on a permanent basis has yet to be decided.

The two had warned about getting overexcited, but Barlow could hardly conceal a grin as he reflected on the win - Forest's second victory at Tranmere. 'There's a reasonable amount of satisfaction,' he said, with understatement, 'but we're a long way short of achieving the word the chairman's banned.' That would be promotion. 'It's important to keep our feet on the floor, if you lift your eyes up that's when you start to have problems.'

Tranmere caused a few of those yesterday but a measure of a team in the ascendancy is how they react under pressure. Two 1-0 wins on the trot show Forest have the confidence to grind out a result, no matter how resurgent the opposition.

'They're on a roll,' said Tranmere manager Brian Little. 'There really was nothing between the sides today.' Except confidence. And the visiting supporters helped with that, all 2,300 of them - the biggest away support in the division.

Grant Holt, a £300,000 buy from Rochdale during the transfer window, scored the only goal of the game after 17 minutes from 10 yards. It was his fourth in 15 games for Forest.

At the other end, academy product Wes Morgan, 22, led the Forest defence, heading balls out of the box as Tranmere produced a number of unexpected attacks. Steve Davies' shot came closest as it skimmed the right-hand post.

It was a frantic last quarter of an hour for both teams as Forest gave away a succession of corners and dangerous free-kicks, but Tranmere - growing in frustration - failed to convert their chances. Yeovil will be a big game for Forest tomorrow, but the four-game run-in looks favourable.

Forest back in the upper echelons? 'The tradition of support for this club is our base to go forward,' said Barlow. If that's all they need to rely on, they've a good chance.


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Romeo turns sporty

Alpha Romeo 159 Sportwagon 1.9 JTD

Price £21,495

Top speed 129mph

Acceleration 0-62 in 9.6 seconds

Consumption 46.3mpg (combined)

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In a word Italian

You can tick off all the traditional Alfa Romeo signifiers on the new Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon. Like the fact that it's called a Sportwagon, for instance. (You or I would probably say estate.) Does it have macho, stainless-steel trimmings all over the place? Of course. Style to burn? Naturally. Italian words ("acqua", "olio") on the dials? Goes without saying. Offset numberplate? Does the Pope have a balcony? Alfa Romeo products are nothing if not fiercely protective of their authentic Italian flavour. How it must pain them to fit these cars for right-hand drive. How it must pain them, also, to build estate cars. You can imagine the order coming down from on high and a cringing design and marketing team asking, "Must we?"

Hence the euphemistic term "Sportwagon", hinting at a life of skiing, parascending and reckless amounts of outdoor eating in Europe's most vibrant shoreline destinations, as opposed to the term "estate", which merely speaks of puzzling levels of domestic encumbrance and spirit-taxing trips around the North Circular to Ikea.

And hence the way the 159 hunkers down, low and compact, behind its sleek row of headlamps and the Lord Of The Rings-style breastplate that constitutes its radiator grille. The whole package shrieks that this is a sporty hatchback merely pretending to be an estate under duress and because somebody told it to.

Still, at least it's long enough to incorporate a ski-hatch - a trapdoor-style opening between the boot and the back seats through which you can poke your skis. A ski-hatch! Does any other car accessory more mournfully taunt the British driver with the life unlived? How many people are there in Britain who drive to skiing facilities? And of those people, how many take skis with them, rather than hire them when they get there? Answer: four. Yet those four people get to choose from something like 25 different models of car currently on the UK market with ski-hatches.

Laden with skis or not, most estates corner like trailer-bearing tractors during harvest. The 159, on the other hand, is cunningly girded with structural enhancements, including an "all-new premium floorpan" that turns out not to be a novelty pizza, but the steel foundation underlying the car's mission to sail rigidly through anything the road throws in its path. And, true enough, the 159 glues itself to the road and burns round the bends, leaving in its trail only dust and a dark tang of aftershave.

But where are you going to put the plastic water butt? Because it stands to reason, surely, that if you're in the market for an estate car, then at some time in the near future you are going to find yourself moving a plastic water butt. Isn't the carriage of plastic water butts, or similar gardenware, ultimately what owning an estate car is all about?

You'll struggle to get a plastic water butt in a Sportwagon, though. Let me rephrase that, lest someone interpret it as a challenge - you'll struggle to feel that a Sportwagon is an appropriate place in which to insert a plastic water butt. Unless, of course, it's a compact, chic, beautifully crafted, Italian plastic water butt.


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Daily Mail publisher's print revenues slide

DMGT hit by fall in print ad income and circulation, but digital surge is led by 61% year-on-year revenue rise at Mail Online
Daily Mail - May 2013
Daily Mail: print ad revenues declined in the six months to the end of March

Revenues at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday declined 6% to £287m in the six months to the end of March, as print ads and circulation declined, while the Mail Online juggernaut continued with a 61% year-on-year revenue surge to £20m.

Parent company Daily Mail & General Trust said that the overall Mail franchise's revenues declined 4% to £306m, with print ads down 8% and circulation income down 6%, with a further fall mitigated by Mail Online.

Freesheet Metro suffered in the lull after the London Olympics, which provided a major revenue boost in the first half of last year, with an 8% decline in the six months to the end of March.

Overall DMG Media – home to the newspapers and assets including digital recruitment business Evenbase, property operation Zoopla and GroupOn-style deals service Wowcher, reported that revenue declined 7% to £406m.

Nevertheless, operating profit at the division, which said that the major reason for the revenue decline is because Zoopla is now accounted for as a joint venture, increased 6% to £36m.

The publisher again pointed out that it has reached a "significant inflection point", with the growth in total digital advertising revenues across DMG Media outpacing the ongoing decline in print advertising at its newspapers.

DMG Media's underlying advertising revenues grew 2% in the seven weeks since 31 March.

The publisher warned that the year-on-year "comparatives during the second half of the year will be more challenging due to the benefit of the 2012 Olympics and the significant production cost savings which were realised during the second half of last year."

Overall DMGT, which derives the majority of its revenues and profits from its business-to-business assets, said that total adjusted revenues fell 6% to £915m.

Adjusted group operating profit rose 10% to £146m, while adjusted pre-tax profits rose 30% to £137m.

The company declared an interim dividend of 5.9p, a 5% increase.

Net debt rose £111m to £724m.

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Ray Davies, Other People's Lives

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Other People's Lives

Like a lot of 1960s rock stars, Ray Davies' reputation precedes him. It's somehow fitting that the most English of songwriters should have an English kind of reputation, characterised not by tales of bed-hopping drink-and-drugs excess, but a combination of rainy melancholy, John Bull-ish rudeness and aggression and a wilfulness that borders on perversity.

It's understating the case to suggest that Davies has never made things easy for himself: this is, after all, a man who once attempted to commit suicide in front of 15,000 fans at London's White City Stadium. At the zenith of the swinging 1960s he was to be found writing a song called - without irony - Where Have All the Good Times Gone? He felt the height of the psychedelic counter-cultural revolution was the ideal time to release The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, an album that seemed to make a stand for everything said revolution was doing its best to overthrow. The Kinks' influence on Britpop was obvious, but they chose its annus mirabilus, 1995, to split up, quietly, after 31 years.

Their erstwhile leader's debut solo album has been endlessly delayed, not least by his getting shot last year. Serendipitously enough, it arrives just after the Arctic Monkeys' debut, an album that revels in precisely the kind of English pop satire that Davies invented 40 years ago. With the influence of his mid-1960s golden period still pervasive, the obvious route would be that followed by everyone from Elton John to Paul McCartney in recent years: recruit a hip young producer and make an album that knowingly harks back to your best-loved work. However, this is Ray Davies. Given his previous form, he might conceivably consider this an opportune moment to unveil a penchant for soft metal balladry or tech-step drum'n'bass.

Other People's Lives isn't that extreme, but nor is it likely to draw in younger listeners who have recently noticed that the distance between Dedicated Follower of Fashion and Fake Tales of San Francisco is really no distance at all. In fact, it sounds like the kind of album rock legends used to make before anyone thought of hiring a hip producer and knowingly harking back to their best-loved work: polished, adult-oriented rock, performed by crack session musicians and with a distinctly mid-Atlantic flavour. The latter has happened by design rather than default.

Davies' sleeve-notes mention trying to escape the Godfather of Britpop tag via writing workshops in New York and recording sessions in New Orleans. It leads to some uncomfortable musical hybrids. Davies' voice is among rock's most distinctive - mannered and so ambiguous that the listener is never sure how much sympathy Davies feels for the characters in his songs - but as the anaemic R&B covers on the early Kinks albums proved, it is not a particularly adaptable instrument. If it sounded a bit peculiar belting out Long Tall Shorty in 1964, it sounds absolutely bizarre 40 years on, quavering away over the swampy, Southern-soul-influenced The Tourist and The Getaway (Lonesome Train).

More troubling are the moments when it seems that Davies' greatest weapon - his satirist's eye - has become a blunt instrument. Stand Up Comic is an attack on cultural dumbing-down that arrives about five years too late and sounds worryingly like something written by the late Lynda Lee Potter for the Daily Mail. Its approach is so heavy-handed that Davies announces "this is all about yob culture" in a thicko voice - which, coming from the man who once subtly, incisively skewered the vulgarity of aristocracy and aspirant classes alike on House in the Country and Most Exclusive Residence For Sale, won't do at all.

But then, Other People's Lives also offers up evidence that the man who wrote those songs is alive and well and as subtle and incisive as ever. Things Are Gonna Change (The Morning After) and Is There Life After Breakfast? perfectly capture the existential despair of a hangover. Next Door Neighbours serves up Davies' speciality - a beautifully observed vignette of suburban life that can't quite decide whether it's repelled or fondly amused by what it depicts. Plenty of other people have tried something similar, but no one can quite match him: at moments like this, Davies seems like the national treasure that, behind all the bitterness and gloom of his public persona, you rather suspect he wants to be.

It is a shame there aren't more of those moments on Other People's Lives. Instead, Davies has produced an album that delights as much as it disappoints, leaving the listener not celebrating the rebirth of one of England's greatest songwriters, but slightly confused. At 61, it seems, Davies is still not interested in making things easy for himself.


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Across the country, construction sites are grinding to a halt as builders go bust. But the new Homes and Communities Agency's ambitious plans could use public funds to ease the crisis.
Artist's impression of the Barking Riverside development
An artist's impression of the Barking Riverside development, a joint venture between a government agency and a developer that aims to buck the housing market

Beside the Thames, on the reclaimed site of an old power station in east London, plans are well advanced for the first phase of a small new town that will eventually provide almost 11,000 homes, plus shops, health and leisure centres and up to five new schools. Next year, in the once unglamorous setting of Barking Reach - rebranded Barking Riverside - work will start on the first wave of badly needed affordable housing, with a mix of tenures to address the new reality of a deeply depressed property market.

With housebuilding at the lowest level since records began, fuelled by a credit crunch-induced mortgage squeeze alongside rising repossessions and growing waiting lists for social housing, it is difficult to overstate the current crisis. Construction companies are abandoning hundreds of sites nationwide in a desperate attempt to boost balance sheets as profits plunge and land values plummet by more than 50% in some areas.

But amid the gloom, innovative solutions to revive the flagging market are emerging. These involve local and national government, and their agencies, buying empty properties and, where necessary, acquiring cut-price land for development - in short, intervening in a way that would have been unthinkable a year ago.

Barking Riverside may provide one way forward. While the 150-hectare development was conceived in a booming property market earlier this decade, its outline provides the new Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) in England - which begins work next month - with a public/private partnership model to kickstart building.

Key to the Barking development is a joint venture company, embracing the national regeneration agency English Partnerships - which is merging with the Housing Corporation, another quango, to form the HCA - and developer Bellway, Britain's fourth largest house-builder. Four years ago, EP took a 49%, £16m stake in the joint company to drive development forward by reclaiming the toxic "brownfield" site. The expectation was that much of its investment would, at the very least, be recouped over the next 20 years.

Now the HCA, which will start with an annual budget of more than £5bn - although this could well rise if the government brings forward future spending allocations - could soon be casting its eyes on other sites with planning permission around the country, some of them greenfield, where development has stalled because builders have run out of cash. On some sites, work has stopped midway through construction, while in city centres the locked gates outside seemingly abandoned projects provide a graphic illustration of the credit crunch.

Building public investment

Robert Napier, the HCA chairman, is in no doubt that his agency has to acquire land when it is relatively cheap. But there is a caveat. "It must be done in a way that provides a good investment for the public," he insists.

In the current global financial turmoil, with builders laying off workers in the face of mounting losses, several options are being considered by the HCA: for example, buying suitable sites from developers and then contracting them to complete a project; or forming joint ventures such as Barking, that involve the HCA directly taking a stake - which would vary according to a developer's balance sheet - in sites; or investing directly in housing associations, rather than simply dishing out grants to them.

In this way, builders and housing associations will get the necessary cashflow either to start or complete schemes, while allowing the HCA to share in any future profit, which could eventually be ploughed into other projects. At the same time, the agency would be in a position to insist on good design and high carbon-efficiency standards.

Here again, Barking Riverside might be a model. Stephen Oakes, English Partnerships' regional director for London and the Thames Gateway corridor, in which Barking is a key project, says the business plan envisages some profit emerging for the public purse after 20 years. And Oakes thinks the project has attractions elsewhere. He says: "The public sector can step up and say, 'We are willing to take a much longer view on this.' We have to persuade the housebuilders that there is a profit, but not a fast-buck return. We are also in a position to insist on high standards."

What is clear is that builders are willing to do deals. The House Builders Federation says: "A lot are looking at selling land because they need to put money back into the business." On the back of this, others are keen to take advantage of what appears to some as a fire sale of land. Housing associations, which class themselves as social businesses and are partly funded by the Housing Corporation, are increasingly big players in the market - delivering more homes in London than private builders. While some are feeling the pinch, and might have to be bailed out through mergers, most are having to drastically curb or halt developments because projected income from house sales - on which associations increasingly depend to cross-subsidise social housing - has dried up.

But David Montague, chief executive of London and Quadrant, one of the country's largest associations, says many balance sheets are still strong compared with private builders. "We are in the market for land," he says. "It makes much more sense [for either the HCA, or local councils] to partner associations with a strong track record to break the current three-way stand-off between lenders who won't lend, buyers who won't buy, and builders who won't build."

Unless quick action is taken - and many are taking comfort from the commitment by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, to boost spending on housing - the next financial year will see housebuilding levels plunge further. Social and affordable housing could be badly hit.

David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation, which represents associations, speaks ominously of a worst-case scenario in which there is "zero growth" because associations cannot cross-subsidise social housing. But he is cautiously optimistic of a gradual upturn, guided by the HCA. He says: "They will have a much broader range of interventions than the Housing Corporation [which funds and regulates social and affordable housing], such as equity investments, sharing the risk, and thus allowing developments to go ahead."

Use of unsold homes

Around the country, other measures are under way to boost housing supply. Last week, under a £200m initiative announced five months ago by Gordon Brown to buy up unsold homes for social housing, one developer received £13m of public money for 335 of its vacant properties across 19 sites in England. These will be managed by a housing association. And in Shropshire, the county council - which will shortly morph into an all-purpose unitary authority, absorbing five districts - has reached agreement to use some of the £60m held in reserve by the districts to buy up unsold homes. But bigger deals might be on the horizon in the county, such as forming joint ventures with developers to buy land for building or finish partly completed projects that have ground to a halt.

Nationally, however, much depends on the willingness of the government to pool housing spending - currently spread across a raft of Whitehall programmes - into a common pot so that the new Homes and Communities Agency can begin with a bang, rather than a whimper.

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Wasps take the positives from shambolic, fumbling farce

Perpignan 19 - 12 Wasps

Wasps have played their part in some of European club rugby's ultimate spectacles but this was definitely not one of them. "I can't remember Wasps playing as badly as that," shuddered Josh Lewsey, articulating what everyone else was thinking. "We're going to have to raise our game by about 40% if we have aspirations of winning any trophies this year. We're very disappointed with the performance, not just the result."

Perpignan were no better and the upshot was a game so poor it disappeared off the bottom of the assessment scale, accurate goal-kicking aside.

By the end the crowd were laughing aloud at what had become a farcical comedy of errors, redeemed for Wasps only by Alex King's late penalty which salvaged a barely-deserved bonus point.

The assistant coach Shaun Edwards was right to suggest that "if we'd exerted some pressure they'd have cracked", but, aside from a third-minute try by lock Colin Gaston, neither side remotely threatened to cross their opponents' line. Bizarrely, though, this fumbling shambles could yet be good news for Wasps in the final Pool One equation. By January, when Perpignan travel to High Wycombe, it is inconceivable the former champions will play this badly again and the Catalan team may well live to regret their failure to build on a 16-9 half-time lead.

Then again, Wasps also struggled for rhythm in the murk against Castres last weekend and, despite a lofty league position, Lawrence Dallaglio's men have rarely approached their normal high standards. Even their kit has a strangely retro look these days, more reminiscent of Newport in the mid 1970s than the forbidding black-shirted kings of modern times, and confidence seems low. As well as the limping Lewsey, they lost Joe Worsley with blurred vision and Mark van Gisbergen was a further casualty.

Perpignan Laharrague; Snyman, Marty, Hume (Grandclaude, 70), Dawai Naulu; Meyer (N Laharrague, 62), Durand; Chobet (Bozzi, 69), Konieck (Guirado, 58), Mas, Gaston, Hines (capt), Le Corvec (Bortolaso, 80), Tonita (Vaki, 66), Alvarez Kairelis.

Try Gaston. Con Meyer. Pens Meyer 4.

Wasps Van Gisbergen (Erinle, 40); Sackey, Lewsey (King, 52), Waters, Voyce; Staunton, Reddan (Amor, 80); Payne (Bracken, 74), Ward (Barrett, 74), Vickery, Shaw, Palmer, Worsley (Skivington, 50), Rees, Dallaglio (capt, Haskell, 74)

Pens Staunton 3, King.

Sin-bin Staunton 73.

Referee D Courtney (Ireland). Attendance 13,455.


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Degree of independence

Going to university doesn't mean putting your travel ambitions on hold. Ele Walker learns how to combine study with broadening your horizons
Melbourne: one of the possible destinations for students

One month into my French degree course at Nottingham University, I had seriously itchy feet, having just spent a year working as a teacher in Nepal. Two years later, my itinerary reads more like a nomad's than a student's, having spent 18 months abroad under university schemes.

I have seen many students abandon their studies, craving to see the world before making any long-term decisions. My advice for would-be globetrotters is to choose a degree subject that you find genuinely interesting, and use the resources available to see as much of the world as possible. So no longer does the "travel or study" question necessitate an either/or response; with a little investigation and organisation, it's possible to combine the two without forfeiting your mortarboard.

For a French student like me, Melbourne in Australia seems an unlikely destination, yet I was assigned there in my second year. Universitas 21 is a multi-national consortium of "prestigious" higher education institutions throughout the world, which have joined forces to offer their students, among other incentives, the opportunity to study abroad for a semester. In the UK, Nottingham, Birmingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh universities are involved. The applicant's destination depends on the links between their department and the corresponding departments of member universities, which can be found in Australia, China, Singapore, Canada, Hong Kong, Germany, Sweden, the United States and New Zealand.

Independent exchange agreements often exist between individual higher education institutions. An American and Canadian studies department, for example, will often have secured links with their transatlantic neighbours, allowing students to spend a year at a US college without having to negotiate the extortionate tuition fees.

Further information: Universitas.

The British Universities Transatlantic Exchange programme represents nearly 80 higher education institutions in the UK, with active transatlantic links and interests, most of which have a variety of individual exchange arrangements with US universities and colleges.

Further information: Butex.

This popular scheme is a branch of the European Union-commissioned Socrates programme, which aims to increase student mobility within the EU and associated states. Participants under this scheme get to spend a semester at a foreign university, often receiving a grant from the EU or their home department.

By the start of the next academic year, more than one million students will have benefited under Erasmus. Not only do you get to sit through hours of lectures in the local language, you also gain a cultural insight into the country. France, Germany and Spain are always popular, but the EU encourages applications to countries where less prominent languages are spoken, such as Greece and Portugal. Incidentally, the UK does not consign as many participants as we receive, a statistic that must surely work in our favour.

Theoretically, students of any discipline can participate in the Erasmus scheme, although it depends on the involvement of your specific department in the project. The reality is that, in many universities, the scheme is most commonly implemented for modern language students.

Further information: Erasmus

Rotary International

This offers opportunities to study abroad in the form of ambassadorial scholarships, the aim of which is "to further international understanding and friendly relations among people of different countries. While abroad, scholars serve as ambassadors of goodwill to the people of the host country and give presentations about their homelands to Rotary clubs and other groups."

Further information: Rotary International.

Language degrees

Nowadays, most language-based courses involve a compulsory year abroad. Students who choose not to study abroad during this period can find themselves a job in the country that speaks their chosen language. These are not always European, of course. A friend taking southeast Asian studies at Hull university spent a year teaching in Indonesia, to put her newly-acquired language skills to good use.

A popular option is to apply to be a language assistant through the British Council, which organises 2,000 placements every year in 22 countries where either French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, or Portuguese is spoken.

I was posted to the French Overseas Department of Guadeloupe, in the West Indies, my seven-month contract running from October until May. I taught only 12 hours a week, which left me plenty of time to take private lessons and partake of the local social life.

Further information: Language Assistant.

Leonardo da Vinci scheme

This takes advantage of EU employment agreements to give students the opportunity to work abroad. Labour takes on a whole new dimension in a foreign country: not only do language skills significantly improve, but the novelty of dressing in lederhosen to sell apple strudel in Freiburg, or teaching English to willing dreamboats in Italy is sure to equip one with amusing anecdotes to animate dull dinner parties when we enter the Bridget Jones generation.

Further information: Leonardo da Vinci scheme.

Working holidays

Some courses offer "working holidays" to enhance studies during university vacations. A friend studying biology at Reading university joined a marine biology project in Indonesia. She had to raise £2,500 for the privilege, but found the six-week trip living in stilted huts and canoeing around tropical seas collecting data for scientists a hugely enjoyable experience.

A major benefit of working abroad is that you are likely to find yourself with the capital to explore your environment. Thanks to my experience of working as a club promoter in Melbourne, I was able to spend the summer tracing the budget-friendly backpacker trails across central and eastern Australia. My salary under the British Council scheme was more than ample, allowing me to buy an island-hopper ticket.

Further information: BUNAC (Bunac) can help you find summer employment around the world, and Camp America (Camp America) in the US. Also, summerjobs4students specialises in seasonal positions abroad.

University travel opportunities do not end with the completion of your degree, but may offer graduate opportunities, too. One example, the Japan Exchange and Teaching Scheme (Jets), allows students with little or no teaching experience to earn more than £20,000 teaching English for a year in Japan. Another possibility is The British Council's programme to teach English in China, including TEFL training. Look out for stands at graduate fairs, or ask at the careers office for more graduate opportunities.

Further information: genkistar

*Science and engineering students may be given the option of a year abroad on a work placement, or a year in industry. These placements are often down to the department, perhaps even the students themselves, finding a position, and, where places are limited, may depend on high performance in exams.

*When choosing your place of study, it's important to investigate not only the course, but the location. A friend who spent a semester at the Pau Language Institute in France said that although the work was beneficial, she found herself surrounded by international students and tourists in her free time, so her language skills did not develop as much as they might have.

*Something to consider carefully when travelling to another country to study or work is the housing arrangements. In Guadeloupe, I lodged with a French family, thus completely immersing myself in the language. Take your time when searching for accommodation, make sure you like your housemates, or at least find them entertaining, since they are likely to have a huge impact on your overall experience.

*ISIC (International Student Identity Cards), from the student union office, offer big discounts on public transport and services in many countries.

*And finally, for those who really can't see a way to incorporate travel into their degree, why not exercise your student prerogative to do some independent travel during vacations? STA Travel caters especially for young people and students, and has some reasonable air fares. Alternatively, try Expedia.

Further information: STA Travel 020-7361 6166.


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Cottage-chic meets a New England twist with Amerock's Highland Ridge collection. Refined beauty and function, partnered with timeless finishes give this collection a touch of contemporary class. This elegant cabinet pull features a rugged dark oiled bronze finish.
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Color/Finish: bronze/oil rubbed
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Length: 5-3/16" (132mm)
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Minimalist line with universal application.
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Manufacturer Location: China
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Oprah Winfrey Blown Away By the Oscars

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Whoa, Ellen DeGeneres is the host?!?

Eddie Murphy didn't win best supporting actor?!?

Janet Jackson and Oprah

The Color Purple isn't nominated?!?

Yes, talk show queen Oprah Winfrey was shocked at a few of the results from last night's Oscars telecast. She watched it at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, sitting alongside Grammy winner Mary J. Blige.

One outcome Oprah was probably happy to see was Jennifer Hudson taking home the award for Best Supporting Actress.

Did Beyonce Knowles feel the same way? We'll leave that up to you to interpret.

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I like money. It's good for buying things. What you want is money with meaning. Meaning is what brings real richness to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

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Denise Richards Plays with Daughter, Celebrity Gossip Photographers

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Denise Richards is either...

... the world's most understanding celebrity;

... Hollywood's most attention-starved, exploitive mother.

While most famous parents bristle at celebrity gossip photographers that dare to encroach on time with their children - even a notoriously quiet, beloved star such as Julia Roberts has been known to get into it with paparazzi that follow around her family - Richards appears to embrace the attention.

Imagine that.

Earlier this week, the terrible actress and booted Dancing with the Stars contestant was spotted at the playground with daughter Lola. She spent more time smiling for the camera than keeping an eye on her child:

Misplaced Priorities

Pssst, Denise Richards: your daughter just took a swan dive off the slide. You might wanna look away from the camera for a second.

No way Richards invited photographers along for this play date, right? No chance she told them where she was going in exchange for a few bucks and a few minutes in the spotlight, right?

Click on the following images for larger shots of the actress exploiting her adorable daughter...

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Fake Play Date
Smiling for Attention
Contrasting Reactions
Doting Mother

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I admit I have a weakness for guys that have dark hair and are passionate in bed. What's wrong with that?

Denise Richards

If I have my kids on my show, I'm exploiting them. If I don't, people will think I'm not a hands on mom â€“ That's why it's very important to me that the girls are part of it.

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Jim Carrey Steals Tom Hanks' Story on Late Show

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Last night on The Late Show with David Letterman, Jim Carrey pulled an interesting move by ripping off an old story of Tom Hanks' almost verbatim.

Ironically, the unoriginal story made for pretty original comedy.

Making the rounds to promote Mr. Popper's Penguins, Carrey did his best Hanks impersonation, only without any indication that he was doing one.

Until Letterman called him on it, of course ...

Carrey recreated one of Hanks' more memorable visits to the Late Show from 2009, retelling Tom's story involving his dogs encountering a skunk.

Comedy cover? Just-for-kicks gag? Paying homage to an interview that neither Tom Hanks, Letterman or anyone else expected would be paid homage to?

Call it what you want, it was vintage Carrey.

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Britney Spears: Photoshopped Into V Pics?

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In the upcoming issue of V Magazine, Britney Spears discusses her management team, calling them "her second family," and poses for photos with them.

Well, the second part of that is up for debate.

The images have attracted considerable scrutiny, with some remarking on how quickly Spears seems to have slimmed down for this particular shoot.

Team Britney Spears

"She has clearly been working out regularly in an effort to achieve such a healthy, lean look," the Daily Mail (UK) notes judiciously. Fans were less PC.

"Photoshopped a dillion! That's her head on someone else's body," remarked one fan site. "Even Ray Charles can see the terrible 'Cut and Paste' job."

Weight-wise, it's not like Britney has been letting herself go lately. In fact, she's thinner at the end of her recent tour than she has been in months.

The Britney Spears photos do look weird though.

Britney Spears' Management Team

The lighting is off and her body seems to glow almost unnaturally. Are they posing with a Britney cardboard cutout? Or is that really Brit's face on someone else's body?

If V did alter the images, why bother??! So many questions here.

You tell us: Is Britney Photoshopped in these pics?

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I miss it here so much! I love it so much! It makes me it's kinda like bittersweet coming here because I used to live here for two years. And when I come here, it's like, man, I wish I had my apartment here still.

Britney Spears [on New York City]

MTV has long played an important role in my career. How can I not be there to kick off their 25th VMAs?

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Zooey Deschanel Named as Boston Bombing Suspect in Hilarious Closed Captioning Fail

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Zooey Deschanel.

While these two names might not sound similar to you, they were close enough to confuse one Fox affiliate Friday during the massive Boston manhunt.

Not long before authorities captured the Boston bombing suspect, he was erroneously listed by the closed captioning as the beautiful singer-actress.

Cross promotion for New Girl?

Zooey Deschanel Closed Captioning Fail

A welcome moment of levity after what could only be described as a tough week, which ended after police remarkably took Tsarnaev alive last night.

Zooey Deschanel, meanwhile, is still at large.

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