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last week, which deals with the struggles faced by journalists who aspire to enter the industry, found resonate with many young graduates looking to get a foot in the door.

For those who dream of working with an organization of national media unpaid offices in London are certainly an injustice to those who can not afford to move into the capital without pay.

However, when reading about Glen sold the perceived wisdom of "going to London, if you want to be," I could not help but wonder - why young journalists seeking more opportunities for local newspapers am a trainee journalist at the Times, Retford, a small weekly newspaper in a market town in North Nottinghamshire. It may be an option that many students of media ambitious dream for their first job, and I will not break important stories in the world every day. But since October, just months after the end of a course at Darlington College NCTJ, I can honestly say I loved every minute for the reminder of the premises.

As a member of a very small news team gave me a lot more responsibility and a greater contribution in the stories I write what to expect on the first rung of the scale in a large national newsroom.

I have the freedom to come up with my own ideas and covering a variety of areas of communication, rather than to specialize at an early stage of my career.

Every day I do something different - when I write this, I just received an invitation from a local paranormal investigation group to join them on a ghost tour some hotspots frequented Glen mentioned the disappointment of receiving e-mails from rejection, a feeling that we all know. However, Retford was the third work I submitted my application and I was competing with about 20 realistic candidates rather than hundreds of high caliber candidates to apply learning systems, such as the BBC and other functions, and thus usually based in London.

Part of the problem seems to be trend journalism courses, including those based in universities, to guide students in London and national, the 'glamor' option in the industry. It is not difficult to understand why - the institutions, universities exist to encourage students to aim for the top, whatever career path they choose to follow, and for many professions - law, finance -. The capital is the pinnacle of achievement

However, traditionally, journalism was learning his trade in a local newspaper, and later in his career, with experience in grassroots organizations reporting to a national if you follow the London line. Pathways than the BBC and national newspapers are a recent phenomenon.

• outstanding examples of leading journalists who began in a humble include Jeremy Clarkson, who has been trained to
• Rotherham Advertiser
• and former CEO BBC Greg Dyke, who began his career in the
• Evening Mail
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Many of these celebrities to speak enthusiastically of his days often eccentric press room near the province.

my own journalism course is based in Darlington, in a school of higher education over the years has been a fertile ground for journalists unlikely to have made their mark at the highest level, many of them in the north-east, considered one of the hotfixes in the UK the best release. Study at Darlington is not suitable for everyone, but the course fits closely to local journalism and has good connections with major regional titles such as
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After all the promises, where is the legacy of London 2012?

Six months after the start of the Games, to talk about the legacy of the Olympic rings hollow dryness money. This is a missed opportunity to change lives, say teachers and coaches

Near the entrance of the school of York, painted in large letters are the words of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. "To fight, to seek, to find and not to yield." Not a bad slogan, especially for a school that prides itself on its sporting prowess. Throughout the hallways and outside each class are images of athletes, many famous Olympians. At the beginning of each lesson, mathematics or physics public school education, 800 students were three objectives: gold, silver and bronze. "We really try to integrate the Olympic spirit in all aspects of school life," says director David Ellis.

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conclude Tennyson in his poem

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was also chosen by David Cameron to encapsulate the Olympic spirit in his welcome athletes from around the the world in London on July 26 last year. "It is this spirit that will shine in London," said Cameron. "We want this to be the games that stood a city that elevates our country."

Ellis and his students still feel "lifted" by London 2012. In the gym, physical education teacher teaches Chris Shouksmith an enthusiastic group of year seven girls playing badminton and hit the prospectus as end to end, they are obviously enjoying every minute. The school opened in 2007 as a specialist sports college, called young "sports ambassadors" that the team leaders. Beth Johnson, 14, is one.

"I was on the verge of crying when Jessica Ennis won gold," she said. "And the fact that it comes from Yorkshire, it is even better. Always wanted to be a physical education teacher. Now I want to be an Olympic athlete." Others, Charlie Squires, also 14, articulates the overall benefits of the sport with a lot of superior wisdom. "If you are sure of your physical help you feel confident and positive in everything," he said.

Ellen Jennings, 13, tells how she moves in her "comfort zone" and is "more relaxed" when you can spend time with your favorite physical activity, climbing. The three were delighted to London 2012 and the inspiration of the Olympic Games will be sustainable.

Ellis tried everything possible to remove the Olympic spirit to ensure their preservation. But then he can do to a certain extent in their own school, because he and his team are highly trained, he has no illusions about the future of sport in the community and other local schools where principals poorest and facilities can not share their passions. "We are holding things together here," he said. "But there was a real decline."

Until May 2010, York High School led one of the two central school sports funded associations of its facilities in one of the poorest neighborhoods of the city. With the money he received sporting activity coordinated by a network of schools and local clubs. Shouksmith itself an athlete and an experienced teacher, entered the primary for two days a week to run physical education classes for children who otherwise would not have had any instruction from a specialist teacher.

across the country - with funding of ? 168 million per annum - other teachers trained in physical education and coaches also run after school clubs and local competitions and the relationships built with sticks in their areas. The work was an attempt to create a framework for the future - and the promised inheritance -. Bottom-up

"The idea was that if you could get things done in the first schools, and connect children to clubs and discos for children, which accumulate participation beyond school while alone. It worked great. We build and we left out, "said a senior Whitehall still working on the political legacy.

But - despite the rhetoric of Cameron at the height of the Olympic fervor last year - the financing of these structures in schools was conducted, step by step, and is reduced to almost nothing by Gove's education secretary, Michael. Gove also abandoned the goal of at least two hours per week of physical education in schools and completed annual surveys of the amount of sport that does what any decline can not be measured.

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Shouksmith

day extension of a work week was reduced to one as money has dried up. At the end of this school year ends completely. "When the boss told me that I could not finance anything else, not even a single day, it was quite devastating," he said.

With national links between schools and clubs are strengthened rather than broken. Randall Norman, CTO Radcliffe sword fencing club in Nottingham, sent five coaches in schools - and the clubs have been reaping the benefits with increased adherence. "The Olympic Games provide the opportunity to develop these relationships and increase our outreach because the games inspired many young people to play sports like fencing. My concern is that the potential order that enthusiasm is lost because the programs we allowed to work with young people in schools have dried.

• "The link is broken and the opportunity was there for a legacy was not captured when I was there for the taking. Clubs increased the number of programs that beginners past September, but courses starting this month are usually back to their levels before the Games. believe that a great opportunity has been lost. "

Ellis says he can not bear the thought of the destruction of a policy that began to change lives. "In the field of people who are passionate about the positive impact sport can have on young lives have worked creatively to preserve the good practices wherever possible, but the end result is that the quality and quantity is reduced. It really is a national disgrace that we do not take advantage of the goodwill, enthusiasm, emotion and motivation that generates London 2012. "

six months ago from the start of the Olympics. London won the Games largely on the back of its promise of an inheritance, not only for "inspiring a generation" for a few weeks or months, but to implement effective policies to encourage the participation of all age groups and in all communities. This is progress?


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Freda Collier obituary

Aunt Freda Collier, who has died aged 97, became famous in the 1950s as part of the core team of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin John Randall (over Franklin PhD student Raymond Gosling) who works at Kings College London on the structure of DNA. Freda x-Franklin, photographer and director of the lab that produces the famous King "image 51" seen by James Watson, University of Cambridge. Watson realized immediately revealed that the molecule was a double helix.

Watson

As described later in his book The Double Helix (1968) ". From the moment I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to beat "Following the announcement by Watson and his colleague Francis Crick in 1953 that the structure of DNA has finally cracked, Freda has traveled extensively United States explain the techniques of X-ray diffraction equipment used by the King's College.

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Freda was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, the youngest of seven surviving children - five girls and two boys. His early years as a photographer were at the General Electric Company in Wembley, north London, where Randall had worked before, and it was he who convinced her to join the team at King's College 1950.

• Her boyfriend was killed during the Second World War, but later met and married the Church distinguished army captain Frank Collier and moved to Folkestone. There were no children of the marriage, but she enjoyed the company of her many nieces and nephews, and later in life triplets Lynne and Paul Jones - a family that lived in the street - which became accommodate their children. Lynne Freda care in the years after Frank's death in 2010.
• Freda was a devout Christian and shared fully in the life of the church of her husband, raising thousands of pounds for charities around the world. His passion was strong and the plants spread and selling coffee in the morning. His enthusiasm was infectious for life, as was his laugh. Boundless energy, and even in their 80s and partially blind, she and Frank were left by train for their annual vacation in Lugano, Switzerland, to change trains in Paris loaded with luggage (Frank hated flying).

My aunt was the closest confidant of Franklin, who died of ovarian cancer in 1958 before the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins in 1962 to unravel the structure DNA. It was a big pain in the contribution of Freda Franklin to discover has never been fully recognized. The eminent physicist JD Bernal describes pictures of my aunt as "one of the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken".

He is survived by five nieces and four nephews.


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Gun control opponents hold rallies across the US

'High Noon'

held in 47 countries to protest against the legislative proposals announced by Barack Obama

Thousands of supporters gathered peacefully Saturday cannon capitals around the U.S. to protest against stricter limits on firearms, with demonstrators armed with rifles and pistols in some places, while in other places set to shake the hand scribbled signs or shouting is hoarse.

activists promote "Guns Across America" ??rallies mainly through social media. More than 18,000 people RSVP on Facebook, and concentrations began at noon, in 47 states.

The size of the crowd at each location varies from dozens of people in South Dakota and 2,000 in New York. Large crowds also proved in Connecticut, Tennessee and Texas. Some protesters in Phoenix, Arizona, and Salem, Oregon, came with his holster pistols or rifles on their backs. In Frankfort, Kentucky, participants received a special round of applause for "ladies are packin."

In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, more than 200 people, mostly white, middle-aged men, seemed to show their displeasure with Obama 23 new decrees and his attempt to restore the Weapons of assault.

• Rickie Miller, the first speaker at the event, has not declared his profession, but said he was carrying weapons. "The second amendment gives us the power to establish a militia to overthrow the government if it becomes tyrannical," he said, "Yes, I use an AR15 for hunting. 'S Good to go after coyotes." M14 is used for deer because it has a larger ball and is very effective. "We need to educate the media. they have something wrong," he said. "" Assault weapon "The term was coined by supporters of gun control." With regard to the AR15, "not automatic. Fires a single bullet each time the trigger is pulled, like all semi-automatic pistols. Is not an assault weapon. Ban AR15s If you, then you open the door to prohibit semi-automatic weapon. "
• Laura O'Halloran had all the children in the audience to join her on the stage of sending a message to Obama. He read a letter from a seven year old child, asking the president to allow his teachers and his mother of having arms for their protection. "The children are in dire need of protection. Never give up our weapons, "he said.

In New York, the state capital, Albany, about 2,000 people attended a rally cold. Many participants wore American flags and "Do not Tread on Me" banners.

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Washington police failures on rape detailed in groundbreaking report

human rights Human Rights Watch calls for investigation after the report are supporting the cruel treatment of victims and traumatic "by police

sexual assault in Washington DC too often undergo "cruel and traumatic" treatment by the police while attacks are cooked on site and never investigated, according to a pump.

campaign group Human Rights Watch is concerned that the problems in the department of the Metropolitan Police of the city are so severe that equates to "institutional tolerance of inappropriate behavior" by detectives malformed.

More than 40% of the cases examined sexual assault reported to the police by the main hospital of the city, after forensic examinations were victims, "never seem to have been studied" or documented even by the MPD, the report said today.

'Capitol Offense:. Police mismanagement of sexual assault cases in the District of Columbia

Titled, The Human Rights Watch (HRW) calls for a Department of Justice investigation into the police department

"Sexual assault is the most violent crime is reported in the United States, largely because many victims fear that their case will not be taken seriously and that the police will not believe" Sara said Darehshori, Senior Human Rights Watch and author of the report.

"Unfortunately for some victims in Washington DC who courageously came forward and reported their attacks, these fears were realized."

last week, the Guardian reported the preliminary results of the investigation of HRW. It was launched amid growing alarm over certain practices in Washington, despite the serious problems that are prevalent in many police departments in the United States.

HRW case of MPD analyzed 2008-2011 and conducted 150 interviews. In addition to drawing a large number of sexual assaults and rape in the first case, MPD as "sexual assault as a crime or harm to others," the report said.

Many sexual assault were documented several disturbing or simply as "office for information only" and not monitored by detectives.

rights Rights Watch also found that the police presented the case to prosecutors for the arrest warrants were "adequately studied" that prosecutors had no choice but to refuse , resulting is closed by the police.

"Listening to tell me that I did not think it was a slap in the face. Take the air right next to me. "And where to go from there when the policeman said he don 'you think?" One rape victim told Human Rights Watch, which has retained most names of the victims and sources in the report to protect people.

Otherwise, the hospital staff told Human Rights Watch in a report from a trail of blood leading to a room where a woman was found unconscious and bleeding in the room bath and five men spent in the room. Women require emergency surgery for acute rupture of his genitals.

But sexual assault unit MPD Detective - sometimes called the sex internal team "- was indifferent

reportedly said in the presence of witnesses. "Well, it could have fallen on the rocks and can not be taken into panties Moreover, this kind of girl is in a room with five guys"

• One victim interviewed by MPD filed a complaint refers to "the path of confrontation, in which he called insensitive," which she said was "very degrading and humiliating ... I felt like I was assaulted by police officers who protect and serve. "

reports of this type of treatment of employees - men and women - who have claimed many victims are intimidated or embarrassed were far from being isolated, HRW noted in its 197-page report. MPD detectives Aires, meanwhile, enough credit for his work.

MPD is one of the 10 largest police departments in the city to the countryside.

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Obama's second inauguration: 'We are made for this moment'

• President promises to recapture the spirit of the founding fathers

gay rights, climate change and immigration mentioned

• Crowd of about half a million watches oath Washington

Barack Obama used his second inaugural period to provide a strong call to action, as he hugged agenda unabashedly liberal and urged Americans to demand the conservative spirit of the founding fathers .

Speaking before Congress after the renewal of his presidential oath before a crowd of nearly half a million people, the 44th U.S. president is committed to the fight against poverty and prejudice , ensuring equality of homosexuals against climate change and to give young illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.

Aware that many second term to end in failure and disappointment, spoke about the project bucking history. "The possibilities are limitless United States ... My fellow citizens, we are made for this moment, and we will take as long as we took together," Obama said.

His speech was immersed in the language of the U.S. Constitution and rhetorical references to Martin Luther King, emphasizing the symbolism of the inauguration will take place on a holiday celebrating the civil rights leader.

As a result, he had a most inspiring leadership largely disappointing 2009. Then, the unrealistic expectations of his presidency and the country as the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, had temper expectations.

this occasion, took the opposite approach, arguing for collectivism, the need for the federal government to help people out of poverty, providing opportunity for all and not just a privileged few contraction.

attempt to discredit the correct interpretation of the Constitution that prevailed in the United States, Barack Obama, in what has become a recurring theme throughout his speech near, said parents Founders' had no intention of becoming slaves of the country of incorporation and patriotism was not confined to the right.

"This is the task of our generation - to make these words, these rights, values ??- life and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -. Truth for all Americans to be faithful our founding documents do not need to agree on the outline of life. it does not mean that everything is going to define freedom in exactly the same way, or follow the same exact path to happiness " Obama

went to the current generation of principles into reality, he said. "Because history tells us that even though they may be self-evident truths have never been directly applicable."

One of the most remarkable passages was in support of gay rights. Obama, early in his first term, was strongly criticized by gay organizations for not doing enough. He redeemed himself in part by the support of homosexuals in the armed forces and equal marriage rights, but went further Tuesday, placing the struggle for gay rights, summarized by Stonewall protests in New York, with other important civil rights battle.

"We, the people, said today that the most obvious truths - that we are all created equal - is the star that guides us always, just as our ancestors passed through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall, "Obama said.

• "As this has led to all these men and women, sung and anonymous, who left footprints along the great mall, heard a preacher say that we can not walk alone and hear a king proclaim that our freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on earth. "
• "Our journey is not over until our homosexual brothers and sisters are treated like any other person under the law," he said.

and explicitly adopted gay marriage rights. "" If we really created equal, then surely we are committed love should be the same too, "he said.

Obama made similar claims for equal pay for women, legislation to provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and against other vestiges of prejudice.

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Obama's inauguration speech sets out goals: 'We are made for this moment'

• President promises to recapture the spirit of the founding fathers

gay rights, climate change and immigration mentioned

• Crowd of about half a million watches oath Washington

Barack Obama used his second inaugural period to provide a strong call to action, as he hugged agenda unabashedly liberal and urged Americans to demand the conservative spirit of the founding fathers .

Speaking before Congress after the renewal of his presidential oath before a crowd of nearly half a million people, the 44th U.S. president is committed to the fight against poverty and prejudice , ensuring equality of homosexuals against climate change and to give young illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.

Aware that many second term to end in failure and disappointment, spoke about the project bucking history. "The possibilities are limitless United States ... My fellow citizens, we are made for this moment, and we will take as long as we took together," Obama said.

His speech was immersed in the language of the U.S. Constitution and rhetorical references to Martin Luther King, emphasizing the symbolism of the inauguration will take place on a holiday celebrating the civil rights leader.

As a result, he had a most inspiring leadership largely disappointing 2009. Then, the unrealistic expectations of his presidency and the country as the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, had temper expectations.

this occasion, took the opposite approach, arguing for collectivism, the need for the federal government to help people out of poverty, providing opportunity for all and not just a privileged few contraction.

attempt to discredit the correct interpretation of the Constitution that prevailed in the United States, Barack Obama, in what has become a recurring theme throughout his speech near, said parents Founders' had no intention of becoming slaves of the country of incorporation and patriotism was not confined to the right.

"This is the task of our generation - to make these words, these rights, values ??- life and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -. Truth for all Americans to be faithful our founding documents do not need to agree on the outline of life. it does not mean that everything is going to define freedom in exactly the same way, or follow the same exact path to happiness " Obama

went to the current generation of principles into reality, he said. "Because history tells us that even though they may be self-evident truths have never been directly applicable."

One of the most remarkable passages was in support of gay rights. Obama, early in his first term, was strongly criticized by gay organizations for not doing enough. He redeemed himself in part by the support of homosexuals in the armed forces and equal marriage rights, but went further Tuesday, placing the struggle for gay rights, summarized by Stonewall protests in New York, with other important civil rights battle.

"We, the people, said today that the most obvious truths - that we are all created equal - is the star that guides us always, just as our ancestors passed through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall, "Obama said.

• "As this has led to all these men and women, sung and anonymous, who left footprints along the great mall, heard a preacher say that we can not walk alone and hear a king proclaim that our freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on earth. "
• "Our journey is not over until our homosexual brothers and sisters are treated like any other person under the law," he said.

and explicitly adopted gay marriage rights. "" If we really created equal, then surely we are committed love should be the same too, "he said.

Obama made similar claims for equal pay for women, legislation to provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and against other vestiges of prejudice.

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Earl Weaver, Hall of Fame manager of Baltimore Orioles, dies aged 82

salty language "Duke of Earl" won nearly 1,500 games as manager of Baltimore, a team to the World Series four times

Earl Weaver, the Hall of Fame fire director who won 1480 games with the Baltimore Orioles and apparently was involved in almost all the arguments with referees, has died. He was 82 years old.

Dick Gordon, agent marketing Weaver, Weaver said Saturday that he died during a Caribbean cruise sponsored by the Orioles. Gordon said the woman told him that Weaver Weaver returned to his cabin after dinner and began to choke 10:30 to 11:00 p.m. on Friday. Gordon said that the cause of death has not been determined.

Duke of Earl, as he is affectionately known in Baltimore, the Orioles took the World Series four times over 17 seasons, but only won the title in 1970. His .583 winning percentage ranks fifth among executives who serve more than 10 seasons in the 20th century.

"Earl Weaver stands out as the best coach in the history of the organization of the Orioles and one of the largest in the history of baseball," said owner Peter Angelos of the Orioles. " It is a sad day for all who knew him and for all fans of the Orioles. Earl turned his passion for the Orioles known both on and off the field. behalf of the Orioles, I offer my condolences to his wife, Mariana and her family. "

Weaver was a manager who preferred salty language expect a three-run homer instead of a race with a stolen base or a bunt. While some purists argued that baseball strategy, one can question the results.

"It was an intense competitor and very smart when it comes to finding ways to win," said Davey Johnson, who played under Weaver in the minor leagues with the Orioles from 1965 to 1972.

Weaver was deemed to be a winner, but the referees have known as a hothead. Weaver often turn his hat back and scream directly in the face of a referee to enforce a call or rule, and after the expulsion was inevitable more often than not kicking down on the plate or instead of the referee.

was kicked 91 times, including once in both games of a doubleheader.

when asked if his reputation could have damaged their chances of being admitted to the Hall of Fame, Weaver admitted: ". This is probably hurt me "

The expulsions were overshadowed by his five seasons 100-win, six East Division titles and four flags. Weaver was inducted into the Hall in 1996, 10 years after his last game managed to Baltimore at the end of a misguided return.

In 1985, the owner of the Orioles at the time, Edward B Williams, Weaver persuaded away from golf to take charge of a squadron of the fight. Weaver got his uniform No. 4, which had already been made by the team, and I tried to breathe some life into the Orioles apathetic.

• Baltimore 53-52 in the last half of the 1985 season, but finished seventh in 1986 with a record of 73-89. It was the only season as manager Weaver losing baseball and retired for good after that.
"If I had not gone," said Weaver after his last match, "I want to be at home thinking about what it would be like to drive again. I heard of his work. "

Weaver finished with a 1.480 to 1.060. He won Manager of the Year three times.

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Snow could put UK in a triple-dip recession

unprecedented drop third time in four years is becoming buyers stay home and paralyzed vital transport

Snow

covering a large part of the United Kingdom could plunge the economy into a recession unprecedented triple immersion, economists have warned.

With the icy blast of cold shows no immediate signs of slowing down, and some places do not expect to see green grass again until next month, while the economic outlook too dark. A series of economic reports - including trade data, weak business surveys sad and pessimistic detail -. A fueled fears that official figures this week showed that output fell in the last quarter of last year

Now analysts fear a cold snap in January could lead to another quarter of contraction, plunging the UK into its third recession in four years. Because land transportation services to its end, the British were not able to get to shops and restaurants, shops close early, the construction has been affected, and supply chains are disrupted. Howard Archer, chief economist for Europe and the United Kingdom, IHS Global Insight, said retailers would be particularly affected, such as hours of disturbed weather shopping Saturday.

David Tinsley, UK economist at BNP Paribas, said: "The scary thing is that, while the snow falls in London and attracts a lot of noise, he could still get down in the first quarter as GDP . would be triple immersion in the territory, but for the wrong reasons. "With snow Met Office forecast in some parts of the country next week, the economic success could be serious. "Obviously, the more snow and ice lasts, the more negative impact on the economy," said Archer.

Snow, bitter easterly winds continued to cause cold conditions and hard about air travel, road and rail on Saturday. Other problems are expected as snow falls across the country Sunday morning in London and the south-east and north spread throughout the day. A search is underway for three people Saturday night in Glen Coe missing following an avalanche.

angry passengers at Heathrow promised to boycott British Airways, the airport, and in some cases, Britain itself as the travel chaos has shown few signs of abating, Saturday . One hundred flights were canceled at Heathrow, 67 of them starts, with passengers to rebook at a later date. In Sunday20% of flights from the airport have been canceled.

Carla Aguilar, a sales representative in Toronto traveling to Ibiza holiday, said: "I never fly BA again, in fact I will never return to this country, I will not happen. penny in this country. In the future, I'd rather pay $ 500 more for a direct flight having to set foot in this country. knew days before I was going to snow, it's awful. "Aguilar had booked your flight BA appellant in Canada, the airline's website and phone line in the UK were closed.

economist Michael Dressley, New York, was forced to wait nearly 30 hours for a flight to Zurich, the lack of preparation vital to the World Economic Forum a day this week in Davos, Switzerland. He said: "I'm never booking British Airways at Heathrow winter with the new policy is chaotic passenger airlines, saying he could not say how long the flight is delayed is outrageous .... Never again "

Dressley was frustrated when another BA flight was canceled the second Switzerland on Saturday, forcing him to take a flight to Basel instead of their original purpose, just so he could escape from Heathrow .

• Other passengers described
• missing luggage for more than 24 hours or be trapped in the plane on the ground for five hours with the crew in the same way in the dark about the reasons your flight has been delayed.
Ken

Knutzen Seattle said: "Before we had a family with a 15 - month-old baby and I wanted to get off the plane, but were not permitted Nobody knew what it was happening. not even the captain. "

other hand, there was anger that had built hotels apparently the room rate to take advantage of stranded passengers. Knutzen and his wife Francis, traveling from Uganda to Canada, paid ? 289 pounds more booking fees 5 for Friday night at the Holiday Inn -. Last month, they had paid ? 95 for a similar room

company website was advertising rooms from ? 47 and the "Park Sleep and Fly" prices from ? 79, but I want to ask the

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How prisons became asylums, but worse: confinement without treatment| Sadhbh Walshe

Jan Green, located only when suffering from symptoms typical of how mentally ill prisons store

In July 2009, Jan Green, married and mother of four children, was arrested on suspicion of having committed an act of domestic violence after allegedly assaulting her husband with a frying pan. Green had suffered in recent years from periodic attacks of mental illness, a problem that has reached its climax in the day of the incident stove. She was taken to the detention center of the county of Valencia (VCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where, according to his lawyer, was seen immediately by the staff who were psychotic and in need of treatment.

Unfortunately for Green - staff and inmates who now continues unspecified damages (pdf) - the treatment that they had received was pepper-sprayed in the face and be thrown into a solitary confinement. There, it is alleged, was left to rot for the better part of two years before the charges against him were dropped.

Green's lawyer, Matthew Coyte, during the two years he spent in the VCDC was not only denied medication and therapy, which leads to deteriorate to the point where you hours rocking back and forth in his cell alone, but also basic hygiene products. Green's claims that he was allowed to bleed for months at a time. One of the accused, identified only as Jacob in the application, would be ridiculous waving green pads in front of the window of his cell.

When a pad is sometimes given, was forced to be reused several times. At one point, due to poor hygiene and lack of exercise, which filed a rotten sock in an open wound in the foot.

Green

long stay in the isolation unit in VCDC her daughter has made several attempts to visit, but the lawsuit alleges, was refused entry. On one occasion, the staff said that her mother did not see it, for others, it is enough to say that he was not allowed to see his mother

contacted, the director of the prison, Joe Chavez, refused to talk to me or comment on the case. But in an interview with a local newspaper, which had denied the allegations. Green Paper "difficult to treat a woman" and that she "could lead to abuse." Chavez and Bruce County Director Swingle, also quoted in the article, Mr. Green has never denied medical care or mental state which, in fact, refused on numerous occasions both

"When was imprisoned in Valencia County, not just rest on our laurels in this regard," said Swingle. "It is not what we are. It is not that Valencia is on the county. I must say that the service manager, the box and the staff has done a lot to try to get this one helps. "

Whatever the treatment actually green (and the result of his lawsuit against the county), the most troubling aspect of how the U.S. criminal justice system treated as a patient trapped in mind is that these claims are far from unusual. The number of people with mental health problems in jails and prisons, especially women, are so far from the cards what constitutes a national emergency. According to a 2006 report prepared by the Bureau of Justice (pdf), 73% of all women in state prisons and 75% of women in local prisons (against 55% and 63% respectively for men) have a mental health problem.

• addition, nearly a quarter of women in state prisons and jails have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder by a mental health professional. However, the Bureau of Justice admits that among offenders with mental health problems, only one in three state prisoners, and one in six inmates in prison, received treatment since admission.

There is no mention in the report about what happens to the majority of prisoners with mental disorders do not receive treatment, but it seems that not only ignored, but in fact brutalized by a system that failed at every step. At the end of 1980, according to the directive of President Ronald Reagan, most state-run mental faculties were closed - with the promise that patients with mental disorders receive better care to more humane community facilities. As stated in this statement by the ACLU in 2009 (pdf) for a joint hearing the case, ever man, these community alternatives materialized.

We have reached a point where prisons are the new asylums. That prisons are designed to punish, not to treat the staff is terribly prepared to provide the necessary care. As a result, too many mentally ill prisoners end up either in isolation for disciplinary offenses - are struggling to follow all the rules - or simply because the staff can not cope

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The extraordinary courtship dance of Australia's peacock spider | @GrrlScientist

Meet peacock spider in the world and see their courtship dance adorable!

one of the most common phobias in the world is arachnophobia, an irrational fear of spiders. But there is a kind of spider is so cute arachnophobes even like them.

'm talking about those little jumping spiders (family Salticidae). Not only do these tiny spiders, but they are usually colored and have a keen eye - essential for tracking and pounce on its prey quickly, because it not spin webs to trap insects.

is possible that I may be projecting just a little, but jumping spiders seem to have personalities and, as a zoology professor told me when I was a graduate student, even learn to recognize their human care donors.

But to me, the most remarkable of all jumping spiders are kind

Maratus

. Although only eight species have been formally described to date, at least 20 species are known, and each of them are found only in Australia.

Aa> the

Maratus

spiders are remarkable because males of most species have wings abs shimmering colors which inflate their courtship (Otto and Hill 2011).

"The first time I saw it, I was off mating display. Could not believe that something like this would happen on this scale with this color and movement," said Dr. J?rgen Otto, an entomologist investigating marine mites at the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville, Australia.

Females of the species studied carefully duller coloration brilliant movements of men, vibrations and dancing to determine if they are the right species and the best choice for a companion.

"eyes front were very, very big. Simply observe everything," said Dr. Otto.

is enormous evolutionary pressure on these tiny spiders because breeding attempts may end when the female makes a meal of his alleged lover. "If he does the right thing, she might think that this is the right partner," said Dr. Otto. These colorful fans may have other uses as well. Males at least one species,

vespertilio also show these fins stained for ritualized contests (Otto and Hill 2012). Dr. Otto is very fond of these spiders and their enthusiasm for them to make great contributions to our knowledge of these animals poorly understood.

"The behavior of this kind is a way reminds me of a dog," he said. "You can see how the spider is excited. You can see when they are afraid and want to escape. You can see all these emotions that the spider did." Thanks to Dr. Otto patience and diligence, the courtship dance of a species of peacock spider

M. volans

was captured on a film for the first time.

[video link]

"When I arrived in Sydney, he was a bit boring because there was not much this picture," said Dr. Otto, who is a passionate amateur photographer.

"But since I discovered this species here, I do not want to live anywhere else. I think this is probably the most beautiful spider in the world."

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Expat academics: it's a wonderful life

Matthew Bonnett arrived in Hong Kong in 2008, liked what he saw, and he worked there ever since. He tells

Helena Pozniak

on culture, rewards and academic life of the region

Expat life was good for Matthew Bonnett, Assistant Professor in the accounts of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Not only has he met his American girlfriend, although Cantonese lessons, is able to indulge his passion for football weekends.

"I built with some of its inhabitants, mainly through the local soccer league. 'S Nice to go to different sports, watch the games and make friends. "Hong Kong can be international or local, depending on your preferences, and a west face not resist." If you've never Asian summer before you can still have the comfort but slowly dip a toe in the life of Asia, "said Bonnett.

Like many academics who have uprooted Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, Bonnett has been here long enough - since 2008 - and an incentive to remain in place for at least three years. Anyone living in Hong Kong for seven consecutive years can apply for permanent residence - and then enjoy most of the rights of Hong Kong citizens, including the right to vote

growth area

"This is an exciting time for proper training the next generation of business leaders, with the balance of power is gradually shifting from the United States to China," said Bonnett. Wages are generous investment in higher education is high this month CUHK faculty moved his business to a new 15-storey building

In addition, Hong Kong universities are ranked among the best in Asia. Three universities in Hong Kong are among the top 50 in the world by Quacquarelli Symonds this year (QS) ranking - and institutions by recruiting foreign teachers to improve its international profile. "You can make a lot of money here in academia from the United Kingdom," said Bonnett.

A strong work ethic

• And education is not free, international officials say they have taken the plunge. Students are encouraged - students face stiff competition for places at universities in Hong Kong and it is not uncommon to see students on campus strawberry costume
• Academic
• say the work ethic is strong in all institutions, faculty undergraduate. "It is common to see lights in the offices of people late at night or on weekends," says Dr Wouter Stam, who left Amsterdam to teach the management of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2009. "During the summer, universities [Amsterdam] would be like ghost towns. Here, the powers continue to work. "Stam is more reserved than his colleagues back home." People in Hong Kong are very family oriented - when they have free time, it is likely that it will not happen with expatriates could not go back. "

For students, Bonnett said his cohort tend to be driven and ambitious, but shy to speak. While Hong Kong local university to easily switch between Mandarin Cantonese and English, you can work here with only English - although universities can offer subsidized language courses

Bonnett come alone, but find families to go international competition for primary places is high, so it is important to apply early. CUHK Bonnett helped with paperwork on arrival and provided a housing allowance - the cost of property in Hong Kong is famous for steep and many international researchers choose to live on campus. Cheap but life more than makes up for it - wages are taxed at 15%, the restaurants are good quality and a taxi fare is available in less than two pounds

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Kooza/Cirque du Soleil – review

Old Vic Tunnels , Royal Albert Hall, London

Young Vic production

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner premiered at the Festival of Epidaurus in Greece last year. Coleridge's poem, published in 1798 (not to be confused with the Iron Maiden track of the same name in 1984

Powerslave album) is the voice of the actress Fiona Shaw, who performed the work with the dancer Daniel Hay-Gordon. Phyllida Lloyd directs, in collaboration with choreographer Kim Brandstrup. Although only an hour, it is an unforgettable theater with old Vic tunnels that provide an environment conducive to the funeral. Acoustic space also works well, offering precisely the vaulted chamber Shaw is grater, hissing and nuances.

The poem, one of the earliest examples of British romanticism, tells the story of a sea voyage to the Antarctic, during which the Mariner undergoes a series of supernatural punishment after shooting guide Albatros boat. Shaw expressive range efforts involving many changes symphonic poem, indifference ("Why did you look'st well? With my crossbow I shot the Albatross", shrugs, in denial of the importance of occasional action), a gnawing guilt and horror frozen tormented. And it is more than ably supported by the affable Hay-Gordon, whose flexibility lends itself easily to many characters to move. Hoop sustained and tenacious Mariner bright eyes, noble and width as the wings of albatross, crumpled hat disreputably as wedding guest (the latter characterization certainly Cruickshank engraving given life). Brandstrup wisely limited to a minimum of dance moves that say.

But for all the virtuosity of the performers and Brandstrup Lloyd and conceptual skills, I thought more than once if the action staged by our recognition of descriptive words gothically Coleridge. When we hear the figure of the ghost ship "Her lips were red, her looks were free, / His hair was yellow as gold Her skin :/ was as white as leprosy / nightlife-mare DEATH was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold ", you really need to see a physical representation with masks? On such occasions, I felt dramatic tautology: Short imaginative engagement required by the poet. There was a time, too, when Shaw delivery seemed too sophisticated. rhymed stanzas Coleridge suggest moods and developments of the sea, rigidly frozen ("The ice was here, the ice was there, / The There was ice everywhere :/ broke up and growled and roared and howled ... ") or deadly calm (" Day after day, day after day, / We stuck, nor breath nor motion ") and seem to require simple rhythms of the study hall instead of a more discursive treatment which is applied here. In a perfect world, we could also see Hay-Gordon improvising these seascapes, using the ebb and flow eloquent than last year Ravel

Three poems by St?phane Mallarm?

• The new Cirque du Soleil
• Kooza

is good, it is very, very good, but when it's bad, it's terrible. Start with the good. The set pieces are impressive waterfalls. There is a fine line that led to a routine in which two cyclists support a third person balancing on a chair between them, a really exciting wheel of death act fearlessly with two guys dressed as devils pantomime, and teeterboard amazing sequence in which artists - some on stilts - was catapulted rocking fivefold, from 10 meters in the air. It is a balancing act calm chair assured that presupposes a kind of zen quality, bendy contortionists to look as if they must digest the mouse in a tank reptiles, and so skilful pickpocket succeeds in destroying one participant hearing on his watch, phone and tie in his appearance just graze him. Craft-wise, Cirque du Soleil is spot on.

But companies like State NoFit remember, circus routines can provide more polished sheen and technical sophistication. They can also offer wit, charm and a sense of connection with the artist. Cirque du Soleil and falls flat here.

Kooza

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New York magazines - start spreading the news

The death of journalism has been grossly exaggerated, according to a group of ambitious young writers and editors in New York that shook the world of publishing

This initiative aims to be a dark moment for the young and the words, as a generation was attacked by the "death of journalism" and warnings of financial disaster. However, the economic collapse can create opportunities. When there are no jobs to be established in magazines, and when the spectrum of student debt which makes it even more impossible to study, you may or despair, as an increasing number of graduates from New York, come create your own thing. Publishing something really exciting happens in New York, a new dawn post-digital generation in which a web savvy and politically committed journalism is re-energizing fierce style with print and online publications thought it is for them that we will take our next generation of writers familiar name. Any pretentious than 20 years may, of course, make a blog and call it a great new literary magazine, but these magazines, driven by ego (not necessarily a bad engine) and the socially conscious, are also committed to their grievances - the iniquities of the drone attacks, for example, or the evils of online anonymity - as are their enthusiasm. Are enriched, too, by cross-pollination: the editors write each other, go to the same parties, as true friends call each other as often as great each other

New publications include Triple Canopy

, a digital magazine of art and culture as well as the online magazine radical, the New Query . The latest title to generate heat is the American Reader

, which was hailed as "the New Yorker

'younger, cooler sister. "But as founder Uzoamaka Maduka said she and her colleagues are" great community. " The New Query

the Rachel Rosenfelt expresses a similar sentiment, venturing that their project would be "a movement much like a magazine."

also part of this movement Jacobin , a left-wing magazine founded in 2010 by Bhaskar Sunkara when he was 21 years old and a student at George Washington College . Two years later, the site has a quarter of a million unique visitors per month and has spread to print.

Among Sunkara and peers, the publication is the most namechecked

n +1

, a literary magazine founded in Brooklyn in 2004 by Keith Gessen, Benjamin Kunkel Mark Greif, Chad Harbach and Marco Roth, all of which were established authors. Debut Harbach The Art of Fielding

was one of the best-selling novels and November 2011 was an important step for editing magazines like

Say What You Mean: The Anthology n +1

"Sometimes," says Greif, "The publications are a little lonely, passing the torch from one to the other. But there are other times when many small magazines fight or help or influence another: .. this is one of those years, one of the great moments This is the kind of thing I wanted was when we started n +1

I wonder if these new publications

n +1

debt is funny and has a response: "I am grateful that these friends materialized - and I talk to friends in the sense that people can really fight, learn, get things which I am indebted to them for doing what we all worthwhile " ..

The American reader: "We were tired of white men neurotic"

The American readers

two questions is that old, but its creation is a story that has become a sort of mythical glow, thanks to the praise of these places as diverse as

vice and

Economist last winter Uzoamaka Maduka and her boyfriend, Jac Mullen - both graduates of Princeton who met working at the college newspaper - shared a smoke on the fire escape while complaining about literature

"One thing we were not satisfied, exasperated, has that kind of voice always shows - this neurotic white male voice again and again and again," said Maduka. Finally, "we realized there were a lot of discussions going on between us, but not much to do."

So I started sketching ideas, and last March, funded by anonymous investor, launched

American

Reader

, which publishes essays , reviews, original fiction and poetry, with an initial print run of 8000 copies impressive.

Maduka is very large and remarkable 25-year-old Nigerian American. When she made a gesture, it takes all the body, arms open. "We must fight for what you really want," she said, and that included novelist Ben Marcus ensure as fiction editor and Dean Young, one of his favorite poets, and poetry editor.

as Mark Greif

n +1

, Maduka welcomes the efforts of his contemporaries: "It's like when you move to a new neighborhood, you 're not building a new city - do your best to accommodate others when they are at home and then go home as well and you are a good guest "

Many American

Reader

staff contribute to similar publications, including the journal Arts

Cabinet

and n +1 Journal

s film.

"We have people everywhere," he said. She thinks it is "very rare" to trick you and the game does not belong to the rest of the world around you.

"As well-established journals -

Harpers

, the
• New Yorker
• and the rest - which corresponds to the new publications to their magazines worth in the same shelf

"This is a very important right now - a point that this generation has matured in terms of culture is so important that we never got to that place where we think it is . fair to us when we say: "We love these books, but everybody loves

Twilight

. really depends on your life that, if you notice!"

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