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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Woman hears buzz of tattoo needle for first time
By Ree Hines
Sarah Churman was born deaf, but earlier this year, at the age of 29, she underwent a procedure that suddenly allowed her to hear. Soon after, Churman decided to celebrate the life-changing event with a new tattoo at Ami James' "NY Ink" hotspot, the Wooster St. Social Club.
See Churman share her story with tattoo artist Tim Hendricks in this sneak peek from TLC. ?
"(My husband's) mom came to us one day and she said, 'Listen, I'm going to pay for the sugery.' It absolutely broke my heart that his widowed mother was going to cash in her savings and didn't think twice," a teary-eyed Churman explained to Hendricks as he inked a pinup girl along her side. "As soon as the words were out of her mouth, I called and started setting stuff up and told them give me the soonest date they've got."
If her story sounds familiar, it should. Churman rose to viral video fame after her husband uploaded a clip to Youtube which featured her reacting to the very first sounds she'd ever heard beyond vibrations and some noises an earlier hearing aid provided.
She also visited TODAY in October and explained just how profound her experience has been.
To see more of Churman's moving story, and the completed tattoo she got to commemorate it, tune into to the season premiere of "NY Ink" Thursday night at 9 p.m. on TLC.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
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Ex-Finance Minister flourishes a brush for charity ? RT
Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin (RIA Novosti / Vladimir?Astapkovich)
Russia?s former Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin has been proving there is more to life than balance sheets. He?s sold his first painting at auction for 100,000 euro ? the money will go to charity.
?Mr Kudrin went to art classes as a child, and a couple of years ago decided to take up painting again. He went to Moscow painters and art gallery owners Irina and Valeriy Nagie to get some tips.?
?Alexey Leonidovich turned out a very nice person?, recalls Irina. ?We have chosen a genre ? it was a still life, the subject was chess. He painted it in just one day and did everything by himself. We only helped him mix paints?.
They gave Mr Kudrin an easel and brushes for his birthday, and he?s created a studio in his country house and continued to paint, Irina Nagiy added.
?The Chess? as his painting is called set a record for a charity auction at the Winzavod gallery, where it was displayed alongside paintings by would-be politician Mikhail Prokhorov and Sberbank Head German Greff. The secretive buyer of the Kudrin ?classic? is thought to be a businessman.?
Painting is not the only artistic activity the ex-Finance Minister enjoys he?s also known as a jazz fan and plays percussion.
Russian Politicians have sometimes turned to art for charity purposes. A few years ago a painting by then St.Petersburg governor Valentina Matvienko sold for 11.5 million roubles. A painting by Vladimir Putin later sold for 37 million roubles. Last year a photo of the city of Tobolsk taken by President Dmitriy Medvedev was auctioned for 51 million roubles. The money has all gone to help hospitals in St.Petersburg.
Source: http://rt.com/business/news/kudrin-painting-auction-record-815/
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Sign of the times as ?50m resort with Mandarin signage planned in Wales for the Chinese
By Keith Gladdis
Last updated at 11:39 PM on 28th December 2011
A luxury ?50million holiday village is being planned in the Welsh countryside ? especially for Chinese visitors.
Developers are hoping to lure thousands of wealthy tourists from the booming Far East to the complex which will boast a 100-bed hotel and 80 plush holiday homes.
Britain attracted more than 110,000 holidaymakers from China last year ? up 23 per cent on the previous? year ? and they spent an estimated ?184million.
The resort at Pantglas Hall will include a 100-bedroom hotel and 80 holiday homes, aimed at the Chinese
Developers Maxhard Ltd say the design will incorporate a Grade II Listed tower from the original building
Pantglas Hall, once the largest house in South Wales, became an asylum in the 1960s before a small fire in the basement. It was sold again and taken to pieces so its bricks could be used on a hotel in Southern England
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Dinefwr Park is a local attraction known for its history and landscape.
It is host to Roman forts and a medieval castle alongside two towns and a herd of White Park Cattle.
Castle Woods nature reserve is nearby in the parish of Llandyfeisant there are the remains of Dinefwr Castle, ones home to the government of Wales.
It is believed construction of the castle started in the 9th century but there are no remains from this period and it was rebuilt between 1155 and 1197.
Gelli Aur country park is host to fallow deer, a private mansion with a history stretching 500 years and an arboretum that has been growing and worked on since the 1860s.
The parish church of Llandeilo, St Teilo's, has an impressive tower that is from late medieval times and construction on the rest of the church was finished in 1850.
Twelve miles away is the county town of Carmarthen which has a museum, the Oriel Myrddin and King Street galleries, a theatre, Carmarthen Quins rugby club and the Llangloffan Cheese farm.
A recent indicator of the phenomenon was the large contingent of Chinese shoppers snapping up designer goods at the post-Christmas sales.
Now the first purpose-built holiday centre at a 22-acre site at Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, West Wales, is aiming to cash in on the trend.
It will cater for up to 20,000 visitors a year and is expected to include signs in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, and train staff in Chinese customs.
Maxhard Ltd plans to build its resort at Pantglas Hall, where a timeshare complex of 25 Swiss-style log cabins already exists.
The five-storey hotel would incorporate a Grade II listed tower ? the only structure left standing from the original 1830s hall.
The holiday homes would be built in a modern, urban style which the developers believe is ?what would be expected? by its clientele. ?
The plans, which also include a three-storey 220-space car park, ten shops and a swimming pool, are facing fierce opposition from locals who claim the development will have a negative effect on the rural community.
Councillor Meirwen Rees said: ?What advantage is it going to bring to Llanfynydd? It?s not for local people, is it? It is for Chinese holidaymakers.?
A spokesman for Maxhard, which has offices in China and the UK, described the project as ?a luxurious development for a select international clientele, mainly from China, looking to? enjoy a tranquil Welsh retreat?.
One of the new homes that developers hope to use to entice travellers from the Far East
The estate where the hotel could be built is surrounded by the beautiful South Wales countryside of Carmarthenshire
The scheme is due to be considered by planners in Carmarthenshire in the New Year.
Maxhard director Tommy Li hopes the complex will open Wales up to the growing Chinese tourist market.
He said research showed that most visitors from China knew of England and Scotland but had not heard of Wales.
He added: ?We are going to bring at least 20,000 Chinese clients each year to Wales.? Much of China lives in poverty but its burgeoning economy has produced an estimated 960,000 millionaires.
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Obama Needs Luck To Win In 2012
nytimes.com:
Barack Obama probably will have to pull out a familiar card next year: the luck of the draw.
In winning the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, the president defeated political heavyweights, starting with Hillary Rodham Clinton. His other triumphs were facilitated by lots of luck.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Texas police: Man in Santa suit killed 6 relatives
Grapevine police investigate the scene where they found seven people dead outside Dallas in Grapevine, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. Four women and three men who police believe to be related were found apparently shot to death, and authorities said they believe the shooter is among the dead. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)
Grapevine police investigate the scene where they found seven people dead outside Dallas in Grapevine, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. Four women and three men who police believe to be related were found apparently shot to death, and authorities said they believe the shooter is among the dead. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)
Police tape hangs in front of an apartment complex where 7 people were found dead, Sunday Dec. 25, 2010, in Grapevine, Texas. Four women and three men who police believe to be related were found apparently shot to death, and authorities said they believe the shooter is among the dead (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)
Police tape stretches through a Grapevine, Texas, apartment complex where police found seven people dead in an apartment on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 in Grapevine, Texas. Four women and three men who police believe to be related were found apparently shot to death, and authorities said they believe the shooter is among the dead. (AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)
Police line tape lines the scene where police found seven people dead in an apartment on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 in Grapevine, Texas. Four women and three men who police believe to be related were found apparently shot to death, and authorities said they believe the shooter is among the dead. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Scott Goldstein) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET OUT; AP MEMBERS ONLY
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GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) ? Police in a quiet Fort Worth suburb worked Monday to piece together a family history after a man dressed in a Santa Claus suit apparently shot six relatives and himself on Christmas.
Grapevine police spokesman Sgt. Robert Eberling said the shooter showed up in the Santa outfit shortly before gunfire erupted and that the family appeared to have been opening Christmas presents. Police responding to a 911 call found four women and three men dead, along with two handguns.
"We think he was just inside there celebrating Christmas with the rest of them and decided for whatever reason that's how he's going to end things," Eberling told The Associated Press.
Investigators worked through Sunday night and into Monday morning, meticulously searching the apartment where the bodies were found, along with vehicles parked outside. Police said they believe the victims were related, though some were visiting and didn't live in the apartment.
Eberling said investigators are piecing together a "family history," but he declined to get into specifics. Autopsies of the shooter and the victims were being done Monday by the Tarrant County medical examiner, but it would probably be Tuesday before their identities were released, he said.
"We're getting a clearer picture, but we're not ready to go on the record with anything until we find out from the medical examiner absolute confirmation of identities and the manner of death," Eberling said.
Roger Metcalf, a spokesman for the medical examiner's office, said the victims have been tentatively identified, but the office couldn't confirm the names because the state driver's license fingerprint database wasn't available on the holiday.
"In addition, we need to locate next of kin before information can be released, and our investigators are working on that as well," Metcalf wrote in an e-mail to the AP.
Late Sunday evening, police intently searched a sport utility vehicle parked outside the apartment. The vehicle is registered to a man who listed his residence as a home two miles away in the neighboring suburb of Colleyville.
Thomas Ehrlich, who lives near the home in Colleyville, told the AP he heard from neighbors that police went to the house Sunday. He said it was his understanding that the man and women who once lived there were estranged.
Records show the couple had financial problems and that their home, most recently valued on the county tax rolls at $336,200, had been sold in 2010 at a foreclosure auction.
Police and firefighters rushed to the Lincoln Vineyards complex about 11:30 a.m. Sunday after receiving a 911 call in which no one was on the other end of the line. Because no one responded on the phone, police went into the apartment, located at the back of the complex.
They found the seven, aged 18 to 60, dead.
Many of the nearby apartments are vacant, and police said no neighbors reported hearing anything on a quiet Christmas morning when many people were not around.
The apparent murder-suicide involved the first homicides in Grapevine in more than a year and a half.
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2012 NFL Mock Draft: CBS Sports Has Texans Taking Dontari Poe In The First Round
More 2012 NFL mock drafts are starting to come out and the latest comes from CBS Sports' draft guru Rob Rang. Rang projects the Texans will be picking late in the first round at No. 26, and he has them taking Memphis Tiger nose/defensive tackle Dontari Poe:
No. 26 Houston Texans: Dontari Poe, DT, Memphis: The Texans have emerged as one of the NFL's best teams, but run defense remains a concern as the team doesn't have a dominant nose guard. Poe, at 6-5 and 350 pounds, possesses a rare combination of size, strength and athleticism and would surely intrigue the Texans and any other teams in search of a nose guard, should he leave Memphis early.
Source: http://houston.sbnation.com/houston-texans/2011/12/25/2660109/2012-nfl-mock-draft-texans
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
GOP primary is family affair
CONCORD, N.H. --
Mitt Romney's wife gushes about his silly side and devotion to their five sons and 16 grandchildren.
Rick Santorum's college-age daughter opines online about missing the campus coffee shop and chats with friends about their Friday night plans.
Jon Huntsman's daughters generate much-needed buzz for him with a joint Twitter account and online videos, including at least one that went viral.
Days away from voting in the Republican presidential race, the path to the nomination quickly is becoming a crowded family affair with spouses and offspring pitching in and doing far more than just smiling from the sidelines.
Ann Romney, Anita Perry and Callista Gingrich are starring in new TV ads for their husbands. Romney extols her husband's character and says, "To me, that makes a huge difference" in a candidate. Perry tells the "old-fashioned American story" of how she and her husband were high school sweethearts who had to wait until he was done flying airplanes around the world for the Air Force before they could marry.
Callista Gingrich wishes the nation a Merry Christmas "from our family to yours" in husband Newt Gingrich's new holiday-themed TV ad.
Candidate kids are helping, too, acting as surrogates, strategists and, in some cases, sounding boards for parents competing for the right to challenge President Barack Obama next fall.
"There are times when I wonder why I'm not sitting in the coffee shop on campus with my friends, lightheartedly discussing ('Saturday Night Live') videos, how bad the cafeteria is, what our plans are for Friday night or how absolutely swamped we are with schoolwork," Santorum's daughter, Elizabeth, lamented in a recent blog post. "But this is where God wanted me."
Sometimes the family members campaign with the candidates, and other times they go it alone.
While Rick Perry spent several days campaigning in Iowa recently, his wife was in New Hampshire emphasizing his small-town upbringing and conservative values at a retirement community chapel. Audience members peppered her with questions about subjects such as taxes, immigration and the death penalty.
"She handled them quite well," said Sid Schoeffler, an independent voter from Concord. "When she knew the answer or knew the campaign's story line, she recited it. And when she didn't know, she said so. I thought that was refreshing.
"But whether it's enough to swing my vote, I don't know yet."
Source: http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2011/dec/26/tdmain04-gop-primary-is-family-affair-ar-1568181/
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Queen Elizabeth Visits Prince Phillip After Emergency Surgery (omg!)
Queen Elizabeth visited her husband Prince Philip at Papworth Hospital Saturday morning following his emergency heart surgery to treat a blocked coronary artery.
NEWS: How Queen Elizabeth helped William plan his wedding
She was joined by her children Prince Andrew, Princess Anne and Prince Edward in Cambridge, England, where the 90-year-old Duke was airlifted by helicopter late Friday. He had been suffering from chest pains, which was treated by coronary stenting.
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Early Saturday, Buckingham Palace officials issued an update, saying he had had a "good night" following his procedure and that he was in "good spirits."
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The royal family, including Prince William and Duchess Kate, are planning to spend Christmas at the 85-year-old Queen's Sandringham estate.
Pippa, 28, is expected to join them on Boxing Day (Dec. 26), before the trio travels to the Middleton family's home in Bucklebury.
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BASEBALL: Husky Player Profile - Shawn Riesgraf
Baseball
Monday, December 26, 2011
Shawn Riesgraf |
Welcome to the 2012 baseball season at St. Cloud State University.? This week we will look at junior pitcher Shawn Riesgraf.
Riesgraf is a junior pitcher from Chaska.? GO HUSKIES!
HUSKY PLAYER PROFILE: SHAWN RIESGRAF
Name: Shawn Riesgraf
Favorite Opponent: Mankato
Favorite Baseball Road Trip: Conference Tournament at Mankato last year.
Favorite Field on the Road to Play At: Metrodome
Favorite Professional Athlete Jordan Smith
Favorite Pro Team: Minnesota Twins Favorite
Class at SCSU: Organic Chemistry
Favorite Professor: Dr. Mechelke
Favorite TV Show: Storage Wars
Favorite Movie: The Rookie
Favorite Book: Kirby Pucket: I Love This Game
Hobby/Pastime (aside from baseball): Fishing
Favorite Musician/Band: Jason Aldean
Favorite Food: Pizza
Favorite Restaurant: Pizza Ranch
Favorite Vacation Spot: Soon to be Hawaii
Favorite Website: #Twitter
Favorite Video Game: Call of Duty
Why Did I Choose SCSU: It felt like a program Coach Dolan had going in the right direction with great players and a group of guys that get got along on and off the field.?
Pre-Game Day Ritual or Superstition: For a while before every start last year I had to get a piece of gum from Coach Vorpahl.
Most Memorable Baseball Moment: Beating Mankato out of the Conference Tournament on their own field.
How old where you when you first played Baseball for a team, and what was the team?s name:
When I was 6, I played t-ball for Chaska Security Bank.
First Job: Mowing Lawns
What most people don?t know about me: I was Joe Mauer's Bat Boy when he was in High School.
Three people you would like to have dinner with: Nolan Ryan, George Washington, and Travis Enger
Advice to young athletes: Whatever you choose to do in your life, do it to your fullest, chase your dreams and nothing will be able to stop you.
Favorite Pat Dolan saying: SOMEBODY BEAT GOLD!
Sport I?d like to try but never have: Noodling for Catfish
Something I never leave home without: My Fishing? License
Plans for the future:? Win a World Series, Graduate with my Biomedical Science Degree, and head off to Medical School to become a Doctor.?
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Gusty Santa Ana winds hit Southern California
A 100 year- old Pine Tree came down in the high winds this morning on Burritt Way near New York Av in LaCresenta, Ca. The tree, according to Glendale firefighters, who were there, before it came down, came down very slowly and gracefully, taking out a gas line and causing the evacuation of one or two homes. There were no injuries. (Photo by Mike Meadows)
LaCresenta, Ca 12-22-11 A 100 year- old Pine Tree came down in the high winds this morning on Burritt Way near New York Av in LaCresenta, Ca. The tree, according to Glendale firefighters, who were there, before it came down, came down very slowly and gracefully, taking out a gas line and causing the evacuation of one or two homes. There were no injuries. (Photo by Mike Meadows) (Mike Meadows)
The latest round of gusty winds to hit California toppled trucks and trees and fanned a small brush fire on Thursday.
Gusts of Santa Ana winds topped 70 mph in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles, but by midafternoon the region had escaped without a repeat of the millions of dollars of damage and huge blackouts caused by hurricane-force blasts three weeks earlier.
The brush fire was reported in a rural foothill canyon area near Santa Paula, said Ventura County fire Capt. Ron Oatman.
The blaze, believed to have started in a grove of avocado trees, spread across 12 to 15 acres but was not threatening any homes, he said. Several fire trucks and bulldozers were dispatched.
The National Weather Service said the Santa Anas, generated by a strong high-pressure system over the Great Basin, would continue through today in Southern California, but no "red flag" warnings for fire danger would be issued because fuel conditions were not at critical levels.
Gusts faster than 70 mph were recorded at Warm Springs and Chilao in the Angeles National Forest.
Several tractor-trailers blew over on wind-prone routes in the inland region east of Los Angeles and video cameras recorded a huge tree in Glendale losing its hold on the earth and collapsing across a street. Another tree fell on a residential building in Santa Ana, KCAL Channel 9 reported.
Weather was also blustery in other parts of California.
During a Nov. 30 Southern California windstorm with gusts approaching 100 mph, trees were toppled, power poles and traffic light standards snapped, homes and cars were damaged, and electricity was cut to nearly 650,000 homes and business.
Most of that damage occurred east of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley. No injuries were reported amid the blizzard of flying debris, but some homes lost power for a week, triggering complaints against utilities.
On Thursday, work crews were on standby in Pasadena, where the last windstorm covered nearly all of the 325 miles of city streets in debris that still is being cleared.
"It's a big, big job," city spokeswoman Ann Erdman said. "It's slow and steady. Crews continue to work night and day getting it done."
By early afternoon no damage had been reported.
"We're anticipating some gusts from time to time in Pasadena but they absolutely will not even begin to hold a candle to what happened here three weeks ago," Erdman said.
Still, she added, "we do encourage all our residents to be prepared, batten down the hatches."
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Cinco aplicaciones y dos stylus para tomar notas en tu tablet
Los tablets, sobre todo el iPad y los Android, que son lo que tienen una mayor cantidad de aplicaciones, son las herramientas ideales para tomar notas y apuntes de manera r?pida all? donde vayamos.
No, no son la herramienta perfecta y todav?a no suplen la comodidad de una buena hoja de papel y un bol?grafo de toda la vida, pero s? pueden ser de gran ayuda en determinados casos. Los stylus tampoco son a priori la mejor herramienta para utilizar con un tablet, que fueron dise?ados para ser utilizados con el dedo en su mayor parte (con excepciones como el HTC Flyer), pero los dos que recomendamos hoy aportan una comodidad en muchos casos que puede resultarle ?til a m?s de uno.
Son dos aplicaciones de iOS, tres para Android y dos stylus bastante diferentes entre s? que cubren funciones distintas
Aplicaciones
Noteshelf (iOS): Dicho de manera simple, la mejor de todas, de iOS de Android, de tablets grandes, de tablets peque?os? es la mejor y con mucha diferencia. Con muchas opciones de puntero, la posibilidad de archivar en cuadernos de distintos dise?os y con diversas plantillas para usarlo desde partituras ?
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Cuban-Americans stream to the island for holidays
Travelers wait in line with their luggage at Miami International Airport before traveling Cuba, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, in Miami. As the holidays approach this year, thousands of Cuban-Americans are taking advantage of the Obama administration's relaxed travel regulations to return to the island. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Travelers wait in line with their luggage at Miami International Airport before traveling Cuba, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, in Miami. As the holidays approach this year, thousands of Cuban-Americans are taking advantage of the Obama administration's relaxed travel regulations to return to the island. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Liedy Hernandez of Miami waits in line with luggage at Miami International Airport before traveling to Cuba with her family, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, in Miami. As the holidays approach this year, thousands of Cuban-Americans are taking advantage of the Obama administration's relaxed travel regulations to return to the island. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Liesneivy Cortinas, left, and Jose Betancourt, right, of West Palm Beach, Fla., fill out travel documents at Miami International Airport before traveling to Havana, Cuba, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, in Miami. As the holidays approach this year, thousands of Cuban-Americans are taking advantage of the Obama administration's relaxed travel regulations to return to the island. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Ilvert Labrada of Plantation, Fla. waits in line with luggage at Miami International Airport before traveling to Cuba with his family, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, in Miami. As the holidays approach this year, thousands of Cuban-Americans are taking advantage of the Obama administration's relaxed travel regulations to return to the island. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
MIAMI (AP) ? Deborah Labrada was giddy as she stood in line at Miami-Dade International Airport, waiting to fly to the town of Guantanamo, Cuba.
It is the place she visits roughly once a year to see her grandfather, aunts and uncles and cousins. She still considers it a second home, even though she has lived nearly all her 17 years in South Florida.
"The first thing I'm going to do when I get there is cry, and then give everyone hugs," she said Monday, as she leaned against her cart of bags secured in the festive, neon green airport plastic wrap. The duffel bags ? cheaper to ship through than heavier, traditional luggage ? bulged with food, over the counter medicine, toys and other necessities hard to obtain in Cuba's struggling economy.
Labrada was among thousands of Cuban-Americans flying to the island this week to celebrate the new year. These types of annual pilgrimages would have been sharply curtailed if two South Florida, GOP Cuban-American congressmen had succeeded in returning to the Bush-era limit of once every three years. The measure backed by U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and David Rivera was tucked into the congressional spending bill, but Republican leaders jettisoned it last week as part of a last minute compromise.
Labrada said Monday she didn't appreciate the effort to restore the old restriction.
"I think it was very disappointing, because the least we can do is help our own families," she said. "We should go and take advantage of the opportunity to bring them things and help any way we can."
President Barack Obama allowed unlimited family visits by Cuban-Americans shortly after taking office and removed the $1,200 annual cap on remittances. Exact numbers are difficult to come by, but the Cuban government said earlier this year it expected about 500,000 U.S. visitors annually, the vast majority of them Cuban-Americans. Cuban officials did not immediately respond to requests for corresponding statistics from past years, but they have previously said there were nearly 300,000 visits from Cubans living outside the island in 2009. It was not immediately clear whether that included repeat travelers.
Many Cuban-Americans, like Labrada have already been traveling to Cuba for years. They just had to go through special church trips or through a third country to get around the three year ban.
Of nearly a dozen families interviewed at the Miami Airport, all but two said they'd last visited the island in the last year or two.
"I don't think it should be any different for us than it is for anyone else going to visit family in any other country," Labrada said.
Except it is different.
Most Cubans who come to the U.S. are able to immigrate here as a result of U.S. policy that views them as victims of political oppression. And as Diaz-Balart is quick to note, not everyone can travel. While average Cubans may be able to visit family off the island, their visa requests can easily be denied. The Cuban government has refused to allow blogger and internationally renowned activist Yoani Sanchez to travel to the U.S. and Europe to accept human rights awards.
But Professor Andy Gomez of the University of Miami's Institute for Cuba and Cuban-American Studies says the flood of travelers isn't likely to stop any time soon, and he says trying to stem the flow makes no sense.
"I was at the Miami airport last week, and there were flights on the hour," he said. "Stopping it? Impossible. It is the people-to-people contact we want and need, and it is already happening."
Most of the flights to Cuba still originate from South Florida, with nearly 300,000 people departing to the island just from Miami International Airport in 2010. Numbers for 2011 were not yet available. But they also now leave from places such as Tampa, Fla.; Oakland, Calif.; Los Angeles, New York City, Atlanta and Puerto Rico.
Flights to Cuba from the Tampa International Airport began in early September after a 50-year hiatus, and local officials are banking on it as a new source of revenue. Airport officials said about 45,000 passengers will travel the route in 2012.
Manny Martinez, a 21-year-old Tampa resident, was standing at the back of the long line four hours before Tuesday's flight. He said he's spending two weeks on the island and staying with family. Like Labrada, he said Cuba still feels like home, even though he's lived in the U.S. for 11 years.
When asked to name the first thing he would do once he arrived, he laughed.
"Party," he said. "Just go out with my old friends and have fun."
Not everyone goes just to see family.
Gomez said his maintenance man just returned from a trip to Cuba to visit his dentist because he has no health care insurance in the U.S. and can't afford the visit here. Meanwhile, media reports are on the rise in South Florida about Cuban-Americans involved in Medicare fraud fleeing to the island.
Back at the Miami airport, Isabel Baez, 39, teared up as she talked about visiting her family in Santiago de Cuba. Yet, she said she knows of people who also go as "mules," taking much needed provisions for others on the island who are not relatives, sometimes even for resale.
"But most of those people still go to see their family," she said. "They bring the packages as a way to get a free ticket."
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Associated Press writer Tamara Lush contributed to this report from Tampa, Fla.
Associated PressKenya HIV families torn between health or food (AP)
NAIROBI, Kenya ? Rosalia Adhiambo won't take the free anti-HIV drugs that would prolong her life. The spiraling price of food in Kenya means she can't afford to feed both her grandniece and herself.
So she feeds 5-year-old Emily and doesn't take her own medicine, fearing that the nausea she would get from taking the drugs without adequate food will make her too weak to look for work.
Prices for staple foods this year are almost twice as high as in 2009, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization says. The rising prices and a dwindling of funds for HIV programs mean countless poor families must decide whether to focus on the health of an HIV-positive adult or on a child's hunger.
Valerian Kamito, a nurse at the clinic that gives Adhiambo her food, says some patients are refusing to start treatment for HIV and around a quarter of his 1,555 patients on anti-HIV drugs are now skipping their medication.
"They say they cannot take them on an empty stomach," Kamito said. Before prices rose, he said, "it was very rare."
HIV-positive adults need 10 percent more calories than other people just to maintain their body weight. Children with HIV need between 30 percent to 50 percent more calories than other children. They will lose weight and be vulnerable to infections without those calories, said nutritionist Kate Greenaway from the aid agency Catholic Relief Services.
Annual inflation in Kenya is around 20 percent, but wages haven't kept pace. Around half of Kenyans live on less than $2 a day, including 52-year-old Adhiambo, who makes $1 each day she does housework.
"When there is nothing to eat, we go to bed hungry. I tell Emily it is because God did not send us food today," said Adhiambo, motioning to a cardboard picture of Jesus on the wall of their corrugated iron shack.
"Emily stands before that picture and prays, 'God, please remember to send us food tomorrow,'" said Adhiambo.
She had work for two weeks last month, but the younger women get most of the jobs. Adhiambo relies on her daily free meal of rice, beans and vegetables from a clinic run by Catholic Relief Services in the Mathare slum, though she sometimes misses that if she is searching for work. The staff there are trying to persuade her to take her anti-HIV drugs.
But Adhiambo carries the food home and gives most of it to Emily, who isn't signed up for the CRS program, though workers there are trying to get her into it. The bright-eyed little girl in the torn blue dress is almost all that's left of Adhiambo's family. Adhiambo's brother, two sisters and husband are all dead. Emily's mother is alive, but ill. She refuses to be tested. Emily has been tested and is HIV positive.
Adhiambo needs to take drugs called anti-retrovirals, or ARVs, and so will Emily. Taken regularly, the medicine can prolong life by years, possibly decades. But if taken sporadically, the medicine will lose its effectiveness.
Patients say the medicine can cause nausea, fatigue, and diarrhea at first, especially if there is no food to go with it, said Greenaway. The drugs also cause a ravenous hunger as the body starts to recover. Adhiambo, afraid that the side effects will prevent her from working, refuses to take the pills.
The clinic gives 400 of its patients, Adhiambo among them, "prescribed food" to eat with their medicines so they'll continue the treatment. But most take the meals home to share with their families, said Kamito. The program has a long waiting list. The financial crisis means there is no money to expand it.
Globally, there has been around a 10 percent decline in HIV/AIDS funding, said Michel Sidibe, the UNAIDS executive director. The world's top funder of public health programs ? the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ? has disbursed $15 billion since 2002, but it cannot afford to pay for any new or expanded programs until 2014.
Poverty, meanwhile, continues to eat at the gains made by modern medicine in fighting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Twenty to 30 percent of HIV-positive patients in the developing world drop out in the first two years of treatment, said Nils Grede, the deputy chief of the World Food Program's nutrition and HIV/AIDS unit.
"Barriers to continue the treatment ... are often related to poverty. You don't have the money to pay for the bus, you don't have enough food, so you spend your time on trying to make sure that your family eats," Grede told The Associated Press in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
"People adhere much better to drug regimens when there is food," said Greenaway. "But in poor families, that might mean mothers who want to stay strong have to decide whether to take something from their children's plates."
Adhiambo's neighbor Ishmael Abongo, a 35-year-old father of four, must do just that. He and his wife Mary are both HIV positive, as is one of their sons. The whole family shares the clinic's food. When he has found work, Abongo takes a bit of porridge from dinner and saves it for the morning so he isn't too dizzy for a two-hour bus journey.
"I know it is important to take the drugs," he said.
He recounted knowing four people who did not take the pills because they had no food. They are now all dead, Abongo said.
A clinic social worker visited Adhiambo in her tiny shack in December, trying to persuade her to take her medication or risk dying, and leaving Emily with no family to care for her. But Adhiambo was more worried about their present situation.
"What will happen to her if I take these drugs and I get sick?" Adhiambo asked, adding that if she can't work or even walk because of side effects from the medicine they won't have any food.
Eventually, Adhiambo stood up. She needed to find some clothes or a floor that needed washing. She was two months behind with the rent ? $15 a month ? and could be evicted.
The white-winged Jesus that Emily prays to was shown in the picture walking through a garden, nothing like the smelly alley outside the shack.
Words below picture said: "May my prayers come before you, that you heal me according to your will."
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Associated Press writer Luc van Kemenade in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia contributed to this report.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Performer hurt in fall during 'Faust' at Met Opera
NEW YORK (AP) ? Mezzo-soprano Wendy White has been hospitalized after falling about eight feet from a platform to the stage during a performance of Charles Gounod's "Faust" at New York's Metropolitan Opera.
The Met Opera says White is in stable condition and undergoing further tests. Her injuries do not appear to be serious.
White was performing the role of Marthe in Saturday's performance.
Met spokesman Peter Clark said in a statement that White fell as she entered backstage during Act III onto a platform that is connected to the scenery. The opera did not say how she fell.
A black curtain was brought down and intermission announced.
White was seen by the house doctor and taken by ambulance to the hospital.
The performance resumed with Theodora Hanslowe substituting in the role of Marthe.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Dodgers honor Angels' Scioscia with bobblehead
updated 7:02 p.m. ET Dec. 15, 2011
LOS ANGELES - Mike Scioscia can be forgiven for getting a big head over this: The Los Angeles Dodgers are honoring the manager of the rival Angels with his own bobblehead night.
The Dodgers said Thursday that fans will get the Scioscia bobbleheads when he brings the Angels to Chavez Ravine for an interleague game on June 12.
Scioscia, a two-time All-Star catcher, spent his entire playing career with the Dodgers from 1980-92 and helped them win World Series titles in 1981 and 1988.
Other bobblehead promotions this year include Maury Wills with Don Drysdale (April 28), Orel Hershiser (May 15), the infield quartet of Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Bill Russell and Ron Cey (May 29), Hall of Fame managers Tommy Lasorda and Walter Alston (July 14) and Fernando Valenzuela (Aug. 21).
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Historic visit to Libya by Pentagon chief Panetta
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, center right, with U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Crets, center left, and Gen. Carter Ham, Commander U.S. Africa Command, third from left, places a wreath at the grave site of 13 U.S. Navy sailors during a ceremony at the Protestant Cemetery in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Dec., 17, 2011. Panetta visited the grave site of the sailors, who where killed on the USS Intrepid in 1804. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, center right, with U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Crets, center left, and Gen. Carter Ham, Commander U.S. Africa Command, third from left, places a wreath at the grave site of 13 U.S. Navy sailors during a ceremony at the Protestant Cemetery in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Dec., 17, 2011. Panetta visited the grave site of the sailors, who where killed on the USS Intrepid in 1804. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Libyan Prime Minister Abd al-Rheem Al-Keeb greet one another during their joint news conference in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Dec., 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, second from left, leaves the grave site of 13 U.S. Navy sailors at the Protestant Cemetery in Tripoli, Libya, after participating in a wreath laying ceremony Saturday, Dec., 17, 2011. Panetta visited the grave site of the sailors, who where killed on the USS Intrepid in 1804. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, center, leaves his challenge coin on the grave stone during the wreath laying ceremony with U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Crets, obscured third from left, and Gen. Carter Ham, second from left, Commander U.S. Africa Command, at grave site of 13 U.S. Navy sailors at the Protestant Cemetery in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Dec., 17, 2011. Panetta visited the grave site of the sailors, who where killed on the USS Intrepid in 1804. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)
U.S. Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta, left, is presented with a gift during his meeting with Libyan Minister of Defense Usama al-Jwayli, right, in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said "the torch of freedom" has passed to the Libyan people and he pledged during a historic visit Saturday to Tripoli that the United States will do all it can to help the country move toward democracy.
But he and his Libyan hosts acknowledged the threat of Islamic militants gaining ground in this period of political uncertainty following the ouster and death of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Panetta and Libyan leaders identified challenges for the government now forming, including how to gain control of the militias that overthrew Gadhafi during an eight-month civil war.
"This will be a long and difficult transition, but I have confidence that you will succeed in realizing the dream of a representative government," Panetta said during a news conference with Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib.
"The torch of freedom that has passed throughout the centuries and now passes from nation to nation in the Middle East and North Africa burns brightly here in Libya. May it light your way to a future of peace, prosperity and freedom," Panetta said.
While his visit was brief, Panetta made history as the first U.S. Pentagon chief to set foot on Libyan soil.
He evoked U.S. history, too, with a visit to the cemetery presumed to hold remains of U.S. sailors killed in Tripoli harbor in 1804. Their deaths were memorialized in the famous "shores of Tripoli" line in the Marine Corps hymn.
Both Panetta and al-Keeb expressed confidence that the fledgling government will be able to reach out to the militias and bring them together.
"We know how serious this issue is," said al-Keeb, "We realize it is not matter of saying 'OK, put down your arms, go back to work or do what you want to do.' We realize that there are lots of things that we need to be organized."
More broadly, Panetta said the revolts across the region represent a quest for sovereignty by the people, but they will all involve different approaches and challenges.
During meetings with the Libyan leaders, Panetta expressed concern about al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb militants gaining a foothold amid the chaos of an unfolding democracy. But they told him that the Libyan people will reject the terrorist group, said a senior defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions were private.
Panetta's motorcade from the airport into the city provided views of the nation's violent past and future promise ? lush orange groves, carcasses of bombed buildings and charred and graffiti-covered compound once occupied by Gadhafi. Flying from rooftops were the green, black and red flags, adorned with a star and a crescent, belonging to the new government.
At one point, amid the graffiti splashed across the walls of Gadhafi's former compound was a short comment in English: "Thanx US/UK."
The visit also put the man who has led much of the U.S. terrorism fight over the past several years at the scene of one of the first American wars on terror, more than two centuries ago.
Panetta went to what historians believe is the gravesite of as many as 13 U.S. sailors killed in 1804, when the Navy ship Intrepid exploded while slipping into Tripoli harbor to attack pirate ships that had captured an American frigate.
As the story goes, governments along the Barbary coast had turned to state-sponsored piracy to raise money, attacking and taking over merchant ships, enslaving their crews and stealing their bounties. Unwilling to pay fees to protect its ships, the U.S. sent the Navy frigate Philadelphia to the region but it ran aground just off Tripoli and was captured.
President Thomas Jefferson sent a team to get the Philadelphia back or destroy it. Under cover of darkness, the Intrepid sailed into the harbor, killed about 25 pirates and burned the Philadelphia.
A few months later, Jefferson sent the Intrepid back to destroy as many of the pirate ships as possible. The plan was to pack the ketch with explosives, sail into the harbor and blow her up.
The 13 sailors never got to their destination. The ship exploded prematurely killing all aboard and the next day bodies washed ashore. They were buried outside Tripoli, but in 1949 the remains were moved to The Protestant Cemetery by the Libyan government.
On Saturday, Panetta walked into the small walled cemetery and slowly made his way to a corner where five large but simple white gravestones mark the graves of the American sailors. Markers on four of the stones read, "Here lies an American sailor who gave his life in the explosion of the United States Ship Intrepid in Tripoli Harbour, Sept. 4, 1804."
Panetta placed a wreath at the site and, after a moment of silence, placed one of his U.S. secretary of defense souvenir coins on top of one of the stones.
New life was breathed into the long-ago tale by Congress this year. Lawmakers, prodded by descendants of the sailors, added provisions to the defense bill ordering the Pentagon to study the feasibility of exhuming the bodies and bringing them home to America.
In a statement, Panetta said the recent effort to restore the cemetery is "a symbol of the values we share."
Officials said that Panetta made no specific offers of assistance to the Libyan leaders, and he told reporters that there was no discussion of providing military equipment or weapons.
"They have to determine what their needs are and what kind of assistance is required," he said. "And whatever they need, the United States will be happy to respond."
Ahead of Panetta's visit, the Obama administration announced it had lifted penalties that were imposed on Libya in February to choke off Gadhafi's financial resources while his government was using violence to suppress peaceful protests.
The U.S. at the time blocked some $37 billion in Libyan assets, and a White House statement said Friday's action "unfreezes all government and central bank funds within U.S. jurisdiction, with limited exceptions."
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Man finds way to dial into celeb lifestyle
By Kurt Schlosser
Ever wonder what it would take to get invited to exclusive Hollywood parties or even become "friendly" with some celebrities? Apparently, moving to Los Angeles and requesting a new cell phone number is worth a try.
Bob Gray moved from Cleveland to California and requested a new number with an L.A. area code. His new digits just happened to be the former telephone number for actor/comedian Nick Swardson.
"As soon as I got the number I got a text message from someone who said, 'Hey, I just saw you on TMZ, what a bummer,' and I looked at (girlfriend) Liza and I was like, 'TMZ? Whose number do I have?'"
Check out Gray and Liza Foster telling msnbc TV's Tamron Hall about the flood of phone calls and text messages -- and partying with the likes of Paris Hilton -- in the video below:
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Editorial: What's wrong with TV, and what it might take to change it
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