tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47593803565322509852024-03-13T06:49:15.769+02:00Wiki BulletinEverything you need to know.adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962080845838257216noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4759380356532250985.post-2400208145454132702014-04-02T15:17:00.002+03:002014-04-02T15:17:41.625+03:00VIDEO 12-Year-Old Girl Juggles Soccer Ball While Walking around Portland, Oregon <h3>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4759380356532250985.post-15730797347539010702014-04-02T15:02:00.002+03:002014-04-02T15:03:30.912+03:00Outraged Michael Schumacher fans bombard German magazine with complaints over front page photo of smiling F1 ace headlined 'AWAKE!'... which was about other coma victims<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Fans who bought the women's magazine Die Aktuelle discovered it was simply full of stories about people who had awoken after a coma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">German news portal News.de said they had asked the publisher if it had been a deliberate attempt to trick people into buying the publication, or simply careless subbing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But the German publisher of the magazine, the Gong-Verlag, has so far declined to comment on the outrage over the allegations it was simply trying to cash in on the tragedy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Michael Schumacher fans have complained after a German magazine published a picture of the star smiling together with his wife Corinna under the headline 'awake' (left). Mrs Schumacher is pictured (right) arriving at the hospital where her husband is being cared for in January</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Schumacher's family have been told by doctors the F1 racing star is unlikely to wake up from his medically induced coma, which he was put in three months ago to reduce brain swelling following a skiing accident in the Alps where he hit his head on a boulder (file picture taken in 2000)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Reader Dr Gerd Hartmann wrote in the comments section of News.de: 'Such magazines are simply terrible, especially given that the chances of survival with this type of therapy are abysmal. Out of 10 patients 5 would never recover, 3 will be severely disabled and only 2 might recover.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Another user posting as SchumiFan posted: 'I can't believe they are cashing in on this tragedy, there should be a law against this type of shoddy, sensationalist and downright insulting journalism.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On Twitter, one Schumacher fan said: 'The magazine should be sued. It is just terrible. Tasteless.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Another wrote: 'It was just a blatant attempt to sell more copies of their mag through sensational stories.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">German media ethics expert Christian Schicha said: 'This is a clear attempt to deceive the readers. It is an obvious attempt to make money out of a sick man. It is completely tasteless. It is ethically completely out of the question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'Die Aktuelle blatantly makes the impression through the headline that they know something new about the case. It is completely irresponsible. Schumacher’s family have suffered enough without this kind of story circulating.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The anger at the magazine's front page follows reports that wife Corinna, 45, is installing a £10m medical suite in their family home near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, so her husband can be cared for at home instead of the hospital.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The family currently make a 150-mile round trip from their Swiss home every day to visit 45-year-old Schumacher in the Grenoble University Hospital in France where he is receiving treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They have been told by doctors that the F1 racing star is unlikely to wake up from his medically induced coma, which he was put in three months ago to reduce brain swelling following a skiing accident in the Alps where he hit his head on a boulder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Since then, there have been few encouraging signs of recovery and the racing ace has been wasting away in his hospital bed, losing 25 per cent of his body mass to now only weigh 8st 7lbs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Last month it was reported Schumacher was airlifted to the 'wrong' hospital after his ski crash, losing vital hours to save him.</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4759380356532250985.post-68179417740354418942014-04-02T14:56:00.001+03:002014-04-02T14:57:43.452+03:00Teacher saves his student's life by donating one of his KIDNEYS<i style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>A teacher has saved the life of a seriously ill pupil by giving her one of his kidneys</b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ray Coe, 53, stepped in to rescue Alya Ahmed Ali, 13, after learning she was desperate for a donor. </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ayla, from Stratford, east London, suffered from renal failure. She also has hydrocephalus - water on the brain - which has resulted in her having severe learning difficulties.</span><span style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Hero: Ray Coe, 53, stepped in to rescue pupil Alya Ahmed Ali, 13, after learning she was desperate for a donor" class="blkBorder img-share" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/02/article-2595043-1CC266EA00000578-652_634x722.jpg" height="400" id="i-ab210e7c" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="351" /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Her worried mother told Mr Coe during the summer term last year that Ayla would be absent from school as she had to have kidney dialysis. </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Concerned, Mr Coe, a special educational needs co-ordinator, asked what he could do to help her.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'I said "Can I put my name down as a donor?" I knew what being a donor meant and I knew there was a possibility it could go ahead and I knew the implications. I knew exactly what I was doing.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'There is a verse in the bible that says something like: "Maybe you were born for such a time as this". It just clicked and I knew then that it was right.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'When we told Alya, she just gave me a big squeeze and her face lit up. It brings tears to my eyes whenever I think of that.'</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Gift: 'When we told Alya (with father Ahmed), she just gave me a big squeeze and her face lit up,' says Mr Coe. 'It brings tears to my eyes whenever I think of that'" class="blkBorder img-share" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/02/article-2595043-1CC2670200000578-242_634x833.jpg" height="640" id="i-a76b0e57" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="487" /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Gift: 'When we told Alya (with father Ahmed), she just gave me a big squeeze and her face lit up,' says Mr Coe. 'It brings tears to my eyes whenever I think of that'</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The pair went on to have blood tests and against all the odds, they showed that Ray was a match - despite not being related. </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The successful transplant went ahead at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital in February.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Both Alya and Mr Coe are now recovering well from the operation and are expected to return to school after the Easter break. </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mr Coe said: 'For her parents, it’s not words that can express their gratitude. For them, I have saved their daughter’s life.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Success: Both Alya and Mr Coe are now recovering well from the operation and are expected to return to school after the Easter break" class="blkBorder img-share" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/02/article-2595043-1CC266DD00000578-336_634x787.jpg" height="787" id="i-ab7a0e88" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Success: Both Alya and Mr Coe are now recovering well from the operation and are expected to return to school after the Easter break</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'It’s like I am another family member now.'</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Alya’s father, Ahmed Ali, 47, has hailed Mr Coe a 'hero and a lifesaver'. </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He said: 'Ray has given Alya much more than just the gift of life. He’s an amazing man, we owe him so much.'</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">School headteacher Wendy Bower said: 'Mr Coe has gone above and beyond the call of duty with this selfless and noble act.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'He is a very humble and modest man. The whole staff are in admiration for his kindness. He has given a new life to Alya and her whole family.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is billed as the 'ultimate party pad for socialites who love entertaining'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A sprawling luxury flat in the heart of London's Mayfair, 17 Grosvenor Square comes complete with a £5.5million price tag, stunning views across the historic square a short walk from Hyde Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A sprawling luxury flat has gone on the market complete with a £5.5milliion price tag and a communal ballroom capable of entertaining 350 of your nearest and dearest. It has been described by estate agents as the 'ultimate party pad for people who love entertaining'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A drawing shows dancers taking to the floor of the communal ballroom at 17 Grosvenor Square in its heyday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="The ballroom measures 55ft by 22ft and has a 20ft-high ceiling. It has a kitchenette and can accommodate a cocktail party for 350 people or a sit-down dinner party for up to 200 of your closest friends and family" class="blkBorder img-share" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/02/article-2595014-1CC300D400000578-892_964x643.jpg" height="426" id="i-a8ed0e6f" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="640" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The ballroom measures 55ft by 22ft and has a 20ft-high ceiling. It has a kitchenette and can accommodate a cocktail party for 350 people or a sit-down dinner party for up to 200 of your closest friends and family</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="The flat boasts three bedrooms. The master bedroom, (pictured) features an en-suite bathroom, views across the picturesque Grosvenor Square and a stunning feature ceiling" class="blkBorder img-share" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/02/article-2595014-1CC3003E00000578-350_964x643.jpg" height="426" id="i-a83f0e64" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="640" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The flat boasts three bedrooms. The master bedroom, (pictured) features an en-suite bathroom, views across the picturesque Grosvenor Square and a stunning feature ceiling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="The property has gone on the market at £5.5million with a 43-year lease. There is the option to purchase the flat with an extended lease of 120 years, but that will set the new owner back an extra £1.3million" class="blkBorder img-share" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/02/article-2595014-1CC3028200000578-123_964x641.jpg" height="425" id="i-a6f10e54" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="640" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The property has gone on the market at £5.5million with a 43-year lease. There is the option to purchase the flat with an extended lease of 120 years, but that will set the new owner back an extra £1.3million</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Despite the flat's stunning, spacious living area, its main selling point is the ground-floor ballroom, rebuilt when the block was constructed in 1958" class="blkBorder img-share" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/02/article-2595014-1CC3005600000578-705_964x642.jpg" height="426" id="i-a72e0e5a" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="640" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Despite the flat's stunning, spacious living area, its main selling point is the ground-floor ballroom, rebuilt when the block was constructed in 1958</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Hiring a ballroom in Mayfair, would typically cost from £7,000 to £10,000 for a day or evening. But use of the ballroom at 17 Grosvenor Square is thrown in free of charge as part of the deal - potentially saving a socialite who loves entertaining the rich and famous thousands of pounds a year" class="blkBorder img-share" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/02/article-2595014-1CC300FA00000578-450_964x642.jpg" height="426" id="i-a9d30e73" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="640" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hiring a ballroom in Mayfair, would typically cost from £7,000 to £10,000 for a day or evening. But use of the ballroom at 17 Grosvenor Square is thrown in free of charge as part of the deal - potentially saving a socialite who loves entertaining the rich and famous thousands of pounds a year</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="17 Grosvenor Square dates back to the 17th century, but parts were rebuilt after it suffered damage when the area was bombed during the Second World War" class="blkBorder img-share" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/02/article-2595014-1CC3007A00000578-840_964x643.jpg" height="426" id="i-a8800e68" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="640" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">17 Grosvenor Square dates back to the 17th century, but parts were rebuilt after it suffered damage when the area was bombed during the Second World War</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="The property, which boasts two luxury bathrooms, is valued at more than ten times the average London home and 30 times more than a typical home sold in England and Wales" class="blkBorder img-share" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/02/article-2595014-1CC3012600000578-991_964x641.jpg" height="425" id="i-a75e0e5e" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="640" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The property, which boasts two luxury bathrooms, is valued at more than ten times the average London home and 30 times more than a typical home sold in England and Wales</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The stunning flat has gone on the market with estate agent's Wetherell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Peter Wetherell, managing director of Wetherell said: 'This spacious apartment is perfect for a socialite wanting space for entertaining and staff. Its not often that you can buy a Mayfair home with access to a 350 person ballroom and maid¿s rooms'" class="blkBorder img-share" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/02/article-2595014-1CC3028600000578-77_964x640.jpg" height="424" id="i-9aad0e2f" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="640" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Peter Wetherell, managing director of Wetherell said: 'This spacious apartment is perfect for a socialite wanting space for entertaining and staff. Its not often that you can buy a Mayfair home with access to a 350 person ballroom and maid¿s rooms'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There is a 24-hour porter while parking and maids rooms can be rented separately</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The apartment is situated on the second floor of the stunning block which enjoys views over Grosvenor Square, a short walk from Bond Street and Hyde Park</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">While the current owners live in the flat as a two-bedroom property, the dining room (pictured) can be transformed into a third</span></div>
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Here though, in the Serranía de Ronda, less than 45 minutes up the road, the loudest thing is the breeze gently stroking the cypress trees. A giant vulture floats over the ridge, wide wings carved against the deep sky. I sip my morning coffee with toes dangling in the pool, absently gazing at the limestone ridges of the mountains across the valley. My mind is deliciously blank. There is more than one way to be idle.</div>
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Casa Carmen stands just off the road to Algeciras. The road itself has probably evolved from an ancient mountain track serving traders, smugglers and long-forgotten armies. The villa itself feels almost as well established – the earthen tiled roof, whitewashed exteriors, chunky antique wooden doors and gnarly old olive trees are all reassuringly traditional.</div>
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The glorious nine-metre pool is the only obvious nod to the site's present purpose as a rural retreat. But appearances can be deceptive. When I meet the owner, a surgeon at the local hospital, he says he built Casa Carmen just 15 years ago. Before that there was a pigsty. He's not being metaphorical – it was a farm shed. That shed has gone, but wandering between the numerous terraces of the property, luxuriating in panoramic views across the Serranía, I am as contented as a pig in its proverbial element.</div>
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Despite the villa's seeming isolation, Ronda itself is only a five-minute drive away. The celebrated town stands on top of a cliff – and if that isn't spectacle enough, the rock is bisected by a canyon, El Tajo, which separates the old Moorish city from the "new" town. The challenge thrown down by nature was met by 18th-century town planners. They looked into the 400ft abyss and, against all reason, saw a bridge.</div>
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Their first attempt ended in a heap of rubble at the bottom of the gorge, killing some 50 people. The second attempt took more than 40 years to complete and was engineered to last. The Puente Nuevo is an architectural feat as impressive as it is improbable. The supporting brick arches seem to grow organically from the flanks of the gorge and touch down on the banks of the Guadalevín River far below.</div>
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The vertiginous structure has generated its own mythology. One story – that the architect, José Martín de Aldehuela (who also designed the town's bullring) fell to his death from the bridge while trying to catch his hat when it was blown off his head – is easily dismissed. He died in 1802 in Malaga at the respectable age of 73.</div>
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Another story, altogether darker, concerns the more recent history of the Spanish Civil War when a mob of Republicans are alleged to have executed more than 500 prisoners by heaving them alive off the bridge. The unsparing account of a similar atrocity in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls is widely cited as being based on events in Ronda.</div>
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According to the historian Paul Preston, many evils were indeed perpetrated in Ronda but this particular horror was invented by one of Franco's generals. In his recent book The Spanish Holocaust, Preston insists "there is no substance to the claim … that large numbers of prisoners were killed by being thrown into the Tajo." It seems likely that the dramatic setting of the bridge has pushed imaginations to take a Gothic leap over the edge.</div>
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Although there are other bridges across the gorge lower down, and they are picturesque in their own way, they simply can't challenge the Puente Nuevo for grandeur. On my way down to the lower bridges on the east side of the Tajo I find the Casa del Rey Moro (House of the Moorish King). The name is misleading, because the Moorish kings had long passed when this palace was built in the 18th century. It is undoubtedly eye catching, partly for the wrong reasons.</div>
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Clearly designed to impress, the building occupies one of the most commanding locations overlooking the gorge. But unlike most of Ronda's well-maintained historical monuments, the palace is in a tragic state. A German hotelier bought the ghost house three years ago but no meaningful restoration has begun and with each passing season the once proud casa looks ever closer to ending up as another heap of rubble in the Tajo.</div>
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The grounds however are open to visitors and include a formal "hanging" garden at the top of the cliff, as well as a bona fide relic of Ronda's Moorish history. A modest doorway from the garden leads to La Mina (the mine). The Moors were not digging for gold or gems, but something infinitely more precious – water. La Mina dates from the 14th century and was built to provide emergency access to the river in the event of a siege. The steep stairway is carved out of the bedrock and winds down through the cliff via various vaulted chambers and buttresses. I emerge blinking into the light at river level and find a little Eden. All is calm at the base of the gorge. Today, the Guadalevín is a flat mirror reflecting the mighty cliffs topped by the icing of white buildings.</div>
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Back on the west side of the Puente Nuevo, Plaza de España is Ground Zero for the coach party day-trippers. The parador is here, souvenir shops, and, inevitably, the McDonalds. Many are the tourist traps. I overhear one group planning their lunch strategy. They conclude they will find cheaper and better fare the further they venture from the busy plaza. They march off along Calle Nueva, their mission taking them past the recently opened La Fuente. They have missed a treat.</div>
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The café occupies such an obvious position on the main square that it seems almost lazy to stop here. The bright-eyed young owners are pumped up with enthusiasm for their new venture. Pablo Piek looks barely old enough to drive. He is, it turns out, 23 and has paid his dues working at another celebrated local café-restaurant (Tragatapas) under a disciple of the legendary Catalan chef Ferran Adrià. Pablo's take on Spanish flavours is accordingly bold. At lunch, the seared tuna tataki is a welcome change from the heavier staples of Andalucia, but it's the deep purple gazpacho de cerezas y queso de cabra – an ice-cold cherry soup with grated goat's cheese and powdered pistachio – that steals the show.</div>
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The area is famous for its pueblos blancos (white villages). I drive to one of the most popular, Grazalema. Its whiteness doesn't disappoint. (To be fair, though, there is another colour. Looking down on Grazalema from above, the village is a dazzling pattern of white lines broken up by stepped terracotta roofs.) Picasso could have daubed a photo-realistic rendition of the view and accidentally invented Cubism right here.</div>
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I bump into Clive Muir, who traded landscape gardening in the UK for a life of guiding in the mountains of Andalucia (<a href="http://wildsideholidays.com/" sl-processed="1" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; color: black; outline: none;" target="_blank">wildsideholidays.com</a>). He tells me Grazalema's lifeblood is tourism and its picture-perfect cuteness is no accident. "There are very strict planning controls," he says. "Walls are white, doors are brown, and all iron work black. A sign on, say, a bar or restaurant, has to be black with white lettering and can be no bigger than 60cm by 60 cm."</div>
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But sometimes the tourist experience of Grazalema is reassuringly disorganised. The village is well known for its wool-blanket industry, but my attempt to visit the associated museum is not inspiring. I find a blanket factory with an attached shop. When I inquire inside about the museum, a lady shoos me vaguely in the direction of a shed in the car park. There I amble between a few old wooden looms and some other rusting machines. There is no commentary or explanation of what they did, or how they worked. And that seems to be it. Nada más.</div>
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Luckily, Clive has instructed me to take a hike. The "must do" walk, according to him, is around the 4,340ft summit of Coros, a mountain on the hairpin drive to Zahara, the next pretty white village. Soon I am in the domain of the Spanish fir – an ancient species that dates to the Tertiary period. Peeping through these slender elegant survivors from the age of the dinosaurs, I get tantalising glimpses of ever expanding views.</div>
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Close to the Puerto de las Palomas pass, the cliff face of Coros looms; I can hear the squabbling of a colony of griffon vultures which nests amid the crags. The walk starts from a car park at the top of the pass. The route loops around the summit and is not much more than a gentle stroll, but the colossal views reveal the curvature of the Earth and play to my vanity as a wannabe mountaineer. Looking down I can see the coiled mountain road descending to Zahara, next to it a long ragged lake draws a turquoise diagonal and beyond it the arid plains of Andalucia stretch out towards Seville.</div>
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Nearer to hand, the flora is equally spectacular: delicate thistles with golden crowns, red-stemmed succulents and wicked yellow thorned cacti. The most eye-catching, though, are pods that split to reveal a jewel case of fuchsia, red and blue-black beads – wild peony plants. More serious bird watchers than me would be able to identify the various darting blurs between the shrubs; wheatears, shrikes, choughs and warblers all inhabit the terrain.</div>
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There is however no mistaking the bird I come upon as I round the corner towards the steeper south-west side of the mountain. With their 9ft wingspan, there are few sights in Spain's wilderness as impressive as griffon vultures up close. With a few effortless flaps they slide off the cliff, gliding past at eye level in search of the thermals that will take them soaring high above the Serranía – oblivious to the vanities of mere earthbound beings.</div>
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The nearest airport is Malaga, which is well served by connections from the UK. Airlines include easyJet (0843 104 5000; <a href="http://easyjet.com/" sl-processed="1" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; color: black; outline: none;" target="_blank">easyjet.com</a>), British Airways (0844 493 0787; <a href="http://ba.com/" sl-processed="1" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; color: black; outline: none;" target="_blank">ba.com</a>), Monarch (0871 940 5040; <a href="http://monarch.co.uk/" sl-processed="1" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; color: black; outline: none;" target="_blank">monarch.co.uk</a>), Jet2 (0871 226 1737; <a href="http://jet2.com/" sl-processed="1" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; color: black; outline: none;" target="_blank">jet2.com</a>), Ryanair (0871 246 0000; <span class="skimwords-unlinked" style="outline: none;">ryanair.com</span>) and FlyBe (0871 700 2000;<a href="http://flybe.com/" sl-processed="1" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; color: black; outline: none;" target="_blank">flybe.com</a>).</div>
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Shankha Guha stayed as a guest of Real Ronda (01275 872 929;<a href="http://real-ronda.com/" sl-processed="1" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; color: black; outline: none;" target="_blank">real-ronda.com</a>) which offers holiday houses, cortijos (farmhouses) and villas to rent. A stay at the three-bedroom Casa Carmen, with a private pool and easy access to Ronda's old town, costs from £1,355 per week.</div>
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Following hard on the heels of the company’s $2bn purchase of virtual reality firm Oculus Rift it does sound like an early April’s Fool, but it’s actually the next step in Mark Zuckerberg`s Internet.org initiative to deliver internet to the two-thirds of the world that are offline.</div>
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“In our effort to connect the whole world with <span class="skimwords-unlinked" style="outline: none;">Internet.org</span>, we’ve been working on ways to beam internet to people from the sky,” wrote Zuckerberg in a blog post.</div>
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“Today we’re sharing some details of the work Facebook’s Connectivity Lab is doing to build drones, satellites and lasers to deliver the internet to everyone.”</div>
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The announcement confirms earlier rumours that the social network will be working on using high-altitude, solar-powered drones to achieve its goals.</div>
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It had been previously suggested that the company would purchase drone manufacturers Titan Aerospace, but it now seems they’ve secured talent from Nasa and Somerset-based aerospace company Ascenta.</div>
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The latter wrote on their site that they would be joining Facebook in a “special partnership” to work on “high altitude long endurance vehicles”. The five-member team has more than 100 years of combined experience within the aerospace industry.</div>
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The technology behind the sorts of aircraft that Facebook is interested in is already quite well established. The basic design is to use solar panels on the top of the wings that charge batteries during the day and keep the craft flying at night, and position the plane at high enough altitudes (roughly 20,000 metres of 65,000 feet) that they’re essentially flying above bad weather.</div>
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Zuckerberg has not provided a specific road-map for the use of this technology, but did highlight the project’s recent successes in the Philippines and Paraguay. In these countries he said that<span class="skimwords-unlinked" style="outline: none;">Internet.org</span> has “doubled the number of people using mobile data […] helping 3 million new people access the internet.”</div>
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<strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Burnel: </strong>A guy called Philippe Manoeuvre – who's now head of the biggest music magazine in France – was always bugging me. One day, he turned up at our hotel demanding an interview, so I agreed – if we could do it at the Eiffel Tower. We took his trousers off, gaffer-taped him to one of the girders and left him there to be photographed by Japanese tourists. It was only the first floor. Admittedly, that is 400ft off the ground.</div>
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<strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Burnel: </strong>Jet and Dave were sensible and quit after a day. Hugh and I didn't. We headed into a surreal, dark, necromantic abyss.</div>
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<strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Black: </strong>We were making an album called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFeykueEZNI&feature=kp" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">The Meninblack</a>, which was based on this phenomenon back then known only to a small coterie of UFO obsessives – that people who saw UFOs were visited by strange people wearing black to shut them up. Anyway, as soon as we started making the album, studios blew up, tour buses broke down and <a href="http://www.punk77.co.uk/graphics/stranglers/aussietroublenme24.3.79.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">gigs became riots</a>. People working for us dropped dead. We were convinced something occult was going on.</div>
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<strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Burnel: </strong>One night, I was so blissed out I thought it would be wonderful to die. I wrote a lovely suicide note, took loads of heroin and woke up three days later. The band hadn't even noticed I hadn't been in the studio.</div>
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<strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Burnel: </strong>This happened twice. The first time, 200 members of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/oct/01/raggare-swedish-rocknroll-cult" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">this teddy boy gang</a> who hated punk drove up in their big 1950s American cars, beat up our road crew and smashed our equipment. We were locked in our dressing room, but managed to escape by throwing a few Molotovs before the police arrived. The second time was your fault. You destroyed the hotel restaurant!</div>
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<strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Burnel: </strong>The Battersea Park incident was completely misinterpreted. I was living with my girlfriend, Tracy, who shared her flat with a stripper called Linda. When we became the focus of attention, right-on shops such as Rough Trade banned our records, saying they were sexist and misogynist. So Linda said: "Look, I've got some friends who'd love to strip for you – to show we're in control of our bodies." So these girls stripped off on stage at Battersea during <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjnFTpp79Ko" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Nice'n'Sleazy</a> and, of course, everyone thought we were being exploitative.</div>
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<strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Black: </strong>The police inspector wanted everybody arrested, but he couldn't find his coppers. They were all in the front row watching the show.</div>
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<strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Burnel: </strong>We were booked to play Nice University but unknowingly walked into a war between the students and the authorities, who wouldn't let us use any of the power points on campus. We ended up having to run elevated cables from generators outside the university, because the authorities wouldn't let them touch the campus grounds. It was ludicrous. Every time we went on stage, the power failed. In the end, we gave up and told the crowd: "We're really sorry. Just remember it's not our fault." All hell broke loose. A full-scale riot ended with us being put in prison, where I shared a cell with two murderers.</div>
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<strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Black: </strong>We were facing 10 years. In the end, a large fine was split between us and the university, but we <a href="http://eil.com/images/main/The+Stranglers+-+Nice+In+Nice+-+7%22+RECORD-303475.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">laughed all the way to the bank</a>. Before that, we were unknown in France. From then on, we played to packed houses.</div>
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<strong style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Burnel: </strong>You might well ask why we are still here. The latest tour is our biggest-selling ever. We've done all the wrong things – but they turned out to be right.</div>
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<em style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">• Giants and Gems, the Stranglers' 40th anniversary 11-CD box set, is out on Parlophone on 24 March. The band tour until 29 March. Details:</em><a href="http://stranglers.net/" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title=""><em style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">stranglers.net</em></a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4759380356532250985.post-88259685872450384932014-03-13T11:31:00.001+02:002014-03-13T11:31:13.500+02:00Russian state nuclear firm in talks to build power station in the UK<h3>
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Britain is in talks with the Russian state nuclear company about building a nuclear power station in the UK, an official said on Tuesday.</div>
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Hergen Haye, head of new nuclear developement at Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), told students at Edinburgh University that active discussions were taking place in London after a memorandum of understanding had been signed with Russia. "I can tell you that, behind closed doors and with microphones switched off, there are interesting debates happening in Whitehall," he said. "<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/russia" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from the Guardian on Russia">Russia</a> wants to build a nuclear power station in the UK."</div>
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Haye chairs a UK-Russian working group on nuclear power, and was in Russia recently for discussions. Haye regards the Russian VVER reactor proposed for the UK as "perfectly safe", but he cautioned that there would be problems convincing the public that a deal with Russia was acceptable, especially given the current crisis in the Crimea. "It's a long road, a very long road," he said.</div>
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He offered his personal view that a Russian nuclear station in the UK may be "a bridge too far – at least for the next ten years." But he stressed that it wasn't his decision to make.</div>
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A memorandum of understanding between DECC and the Russian state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, was signed in September 2013. It agreed a programme of co-operation "designed to be the most effective means of enabling Rosatom to prepare for entry into the United Kingdom civil nuclear market."</div>
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The plan was to give Rosatom access to the UK government's watchdogs, the Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency, so that it could understand British regulatory and licencing requirements. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills "will have detailed discussions with Rosatom to facilitate commercial links with United Kingdom's industry," the memorandum said.</div>
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Rosatom has already formed a partnership with the British nuclear engineering company, Rolls Royce. "The participants hope that this relationship will lead to joint projects in the United Kingdom and overseas," said the memorandum.</div>
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Russia is also reported to have signed a deal with the Finnish power company, Fortum. It operates two Russian VVER reactors near Loviisa in Finland.</div>
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In his lecture, Haye highlighted the difficulties of getting private companies to invest in something as commercially risky as nuclear power. He defended the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/initial-agreement-reached-on-new-nuclear-power-station-at-hinkley" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">£</a>89.50 per megawatt hour "strike price" for electricity agreed with the French state nuclear company, EDF, for 35 years. This was essential to secure investment in the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset, he argued. The UK is also seeking Chinese investment in the nuclear station, and has signed a memorandul of understanding in China.</div>
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According to Haye, securing money from the Chinese was one of the remaining barriers to actually starting work on the Hinkley station. Another was winning agreement from the European Commission that the strike price deal didn't breach state aid rules. The commission has announced that it is investigating the funding arrangements for Hinkley. Hay said he was about to embark upon a tour of European capitals to try and win backing for the UK's position.</div>
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If Chinese funding was secured and the European Commission gave the go-ahead, the earliest work could start at Hinkley was next year, Haye said. Then it could start generating power by 2023.</div>
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A DECC spokesperson said: "Last year Russia and the UK committed to working towards greater co-operation in the field of civil nuclear. It is to be expected that government staff will have discussions about how that might develop. Any new nuclear plants will need to meet stringent UK regulations enforced by independent regulators."</div>
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"The UK actively welcomes inward investment to our energy sector, but any energy company, nuclear or otherwise, that had an interest would need to meet all independent regulatory standards required in the UK and EU."</div>
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As comebacks go, it may not quite be up there with Elvis Presley’s ‘68 special or the forthcoming Monty Python reunion, but fans of ridiculously difficult smartphone game Flappy Bird may soon have cause for excitement. </div>
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The title was nicknamed “the new Angry Birds” when it topped the Apple Apps charts in January, selling millions of downloads and becoming a much discussed cultural icon. However, developer, Dong Nguyen, withdrew his game from the Apple and Android stores in February, seemingly worried about its addictive qualities and driven to depression by Twitter insults and even death threats. Ironically, after withdrawing the game, he received further abuse and threats, many demanding that it be re-instated.</div>
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But according to an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Nguyen is considering bringing the game back – albeit with an added warning to take regular breaks. The young Vietnamese developer, who worked on a couple of games before his unexpected blockbuster says that he was overwhelmed by the success of Flappy Bird, a game in which players must fly through a series of pipes by tapping the screen to flap the bird’s wings.</div>
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Some have criticised the title for its simplicity and graphical similarities to the Super Mario Bros series; others, like games designer and author Ian Bogost, have praised its compulsive nature. Whatever the case, the return of the original will be a relief to the sorts of people who considered buying highly priced second-hand iPhones on eBay, just to experience the game’s avian delights.</div>
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Since its absence from smartphone app stores, a cottage industry in Flappy Bird clones has grown up, with dozens of games sporting titles like Hoppy Frog and Splashy Fish dominating the charts. There are also versions that run on PC and Mac, including one massively multiplayer take on the recipe. So whatever happens with the original title, we are assured of many flappy returns.</div>
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A new smart toothbrush unveiled this week could monitor how well you brush your teeth, and could one day be used to send data back to your dentist. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/26/oral-b-smart-toothbrush-dentists-spy-on-your-brushing" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Oral B’s Smartseries toothbrush</a>, which launched in the UK in June priced at £199, sends data back to a smartphone app recording how many brushstrokes are used, targeting problem areas and following personalised brushing routines.</div>
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This vision of the internet-connected future was just one of the gadgets unveiled this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which kicked off with a keynote from an exuberant Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.</div>
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Explaining the company’s $19bn acquisition of the messaging app WhatsApp, MWC’s 75,000-strong audience was abuzz with what the deal would mean for mobile networks, and whether WhatsApp’s latest move into voice technology would threaten traditional mobile businesses.</div>
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For Facebook, expansion depends on gaining users in developing markets, where the mobile phone is king and mobile broadband outstrips traditional internet three to one, according to data from the International Telecommunication Union.</div>
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But it was the internet of things - connecting physical devices to the internet - preoccupying the discussions of mobile phone networks. The potential is vast, and operators are excited by potential expansion of providing data services to everything from toothbrushes and fridges to cars and washing machines.</div>
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“We currently have 13m devices connected to our network, of which 1.6m of those connections are machine-to-machine,” said Olaf Swantee, chief executive of EE talking to the Guardian. “We are working to grow those connections up to 32m and M2M connections are going to play a very big part in that.”</div>
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The goal is to turn everything into a smart, data-driven device. Cars could talk to the road about black ice, fridges could order food automatically when it runs out, or you could ask your washing machine “how are you getting on?” and the washing machine could reply “almost there sir, just on the spin cycle, I’ll be done in 15 minutes”.</div>
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These machine-to-machine (M2M) connections are expected to number 250m globally by the end of 2014, according to data from the GSMA. To support the vast number of devices networks are working on capacity and speed, so there were plenty of companies keen to show off hardware that enables super fast connectivity.</div>
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In another corner of the trade show South Korean Telecom demonstrated its next generation 4G mobile data network, which is capable of delivering speeds of up to 450 megabits per second – over three times as fast as the fastest standard UK home broadband. Nokia Solutions & Networks claimed to be the ultimate king of speed, supplying data at 2.6Gbps or 2,600Mbps. At that speed, a very large 4K ultra high definition film could be downloaded in seconds.</div>
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South Korean giant Samsung launched three new smartwatches, the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit, each with a built in heart-rate monitor.</div>
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Signalling an increasingly intense battle between the mobile phone makers, Huawei also launched a fitness tracker for the wrist but that can convert to a headset to take phone calls. Sony already has a smartwatch and a fitness band, while both Motorola and HTC are working on a smart wearable.</div>
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It’s time for this month’s roundup of the best new Android apps on the Google Play store. From this month onwards, we’re splitting out apps from games: you can find the link to the separate Best Android Games roundup at the end of this piece.</div>
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Prices are correct at the time of writing, and from this month we’re also including a notification when apps that are free to download also use in-app purchases (or IAP, as we’ve marked them).</div>
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This is an official app from Radiohead, based on the song ‘Bloom’ from their ‘King of Limbs’ album. Described as “an experimental collaboration” with studio Universal Everything, it’s an eerie interactive experience as you explore virtual landscapes. Interesting and innovative, albeit one for fans.</div>
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New from browser-maker Opera, this is an app that aims to help you save on your data usage – potentially invaluable if you travel overseas a lot and thus get regularly whacked by roaming fees. The app aims to compress data used by “almost every” app on your smartphone, not just the browser.</div>
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Me Books is an app for buying and reading digital children’s picture books, including those based on brands like Peter Rabbit, Peppa Pig and Charlie and Lola. The books, which mostly cost £1.99 each, offer voice narration and the ability to record your own dialogue and sound effects – good news for budding Daddy Pigs everywhere.</div>
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Another impressive children’s app for Android, this is the latest release from Toca Boca. It has a scientific focus, as kids explore the periodic table by spinning, heating, cooling and mixing up the elements – as represented by cute characters. It’s a playful and creative introduction to the science that kids will meet later on in their academic careers.</div>
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For Nexus or Google Play edition Android devices only, this is an upgrade to the native Android launcher application, making the company’s Google Now software easier to access by swiping right from the main homescreen. You can also use the “Ok Google” voice command to trigger apps and commands when on your homescreen.</div>
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If you spend a lot of time managing complex business projects, chances are you’ve encountered the Basecamp service. Now it has an official Android app, helping you keep tabs on projects from your mobile device, including accessing documents and posting comments to team discussions.</div>
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If you live in a shared house and experience the odd… difficulty, Fairshare may be an essential download. Developed in Australia and now going global, it aims to help you set who does what chore, divide up bills and plan dinners and other joint activities. A happier household will (hopefully) be the result.</div>
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This is potentially very useful for fashionistas: an app that you can use to take a photo of a garment you like, and find similar items on a range of stores. Partners include Topshop, French Connection, New Look and Net-a-Porter, with the results based on the cut and colour of clothing – meaning you should find some good matches.</div>
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This is an intriguing idea, sitting somewhere between games and traditional fiction, it’s billed as a “home for interactive, visual stories” – a new spin on Choose Your Own Adventure tales with visuals reminiscent of social mobile games. Romance, detective fiction and other genres are included.</div>
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There are plenty of apps for sharing photos, but not so many that do a good job of helping you organise the thousands of snaps you’ve already taken. Tidy is hoping to do that: it groups pics by time, place and “shapes”, then helps you navigate around them. It can also do the sharing thing though, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.</div>
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This is a simple, but rather impressive idea: an app that sets your lockscreen PIN as the current time or date, meaning it’s constantly changing, yet easy for you to remember. You can use it for free, but some additional features are unlocked using an in-app purchase.</div>
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A fun social app, this, turning photos into animated “cards” that can be sent to friends and family. It draws on photos stored on your device or previously uploaded to Facebook, and can share the resulting video-slideshows to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, as well as sending them via email.</div>
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More photo-sharing, but this time restricted to your closest contacts. Togethera is aimed at families – extended, so grandparents, aunts and uncles etc too – who want to share photos, videos and other updates. You set up the groups as you see fit, and the service runs across smartphones, tablets and computers.</div>
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Depop is the latest shopping app for Android – an alternative to eBay in its ability to help you buy, but also sell. The latter is slickly handled, as you take a photo then create a listing for a device, then share the link to it on various social networks. For buyers, there are neatly-organised categories and item-following features.</div>
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While we’re on a shopping tip, Zwallet is a new take on the idea of a mobile wallet, taking in payments, loyalty schemes and discount vouchers. The company behind it is British, so the retail partners are suitable for the UK: Ask, B&Q, The Body Shop, Zizzi and more are all working with the app already.</div>
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Billed as “the first alarm clock to do good deeds”, this is a new app from Samsung whose twist is that while you sleep, it decrypts protein sequences for the University of Vienna, sending them the results when it wakes you up. A good idea, although it does rely on you connecting your device to a charger overnight.</div>
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This is most useful in the US, where the ability to get photos printed and delivered either to your home or a nearby retailer works. Otherwise, it’s a handy app for sharing photos or whole photo albums, while organising the pics already on your Android device, and commenting on the snaps of your friends.</div>
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Launched as a beta by Qualcomm, this lockscreen app promises to focus on whatever’s new since you last glanced (hence the name) at your smartphone. It also syncs with the existing Snapdragon BatteryGuru app to get information on the apps you use most – so it requires the latter app to be installed first.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Apple has rebranded its iOS in the Car initiative as CarPlay, and unveiled Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo as the first partners to build it into their vehicles.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Originally announced at Apple`s WWDC conference in 2013, i</span><span style="background-color: white;">OS in the Car aimed to connect iPhones into in-car information and entertainment systems.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The rebranding was announced this morning at the Geneva International Motor Show, making it clear that CarPlay is the in-car equivalent to Apple’s AirPlay technology in the living room.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Apple’s Siri virtual assistant technology is key to the initiative, acting as the interface for drivers to access their contacts, make calls and listen to voicemails, while also reading out messages and responding to voice commands.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Apple’s Maps service will be a key feature in CarPlay too, with routes shown on the car’s own screen, and spoken turn-by-turn directions. Digital music is also part of CarPlay, but it is not an iTunes-only affair, with Spotify and US service iHeartRadio among the third-party apps that will work with it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Apple stressed that it had safety in mind when designing CarPlay. “iPhone users always want their content at their fingertips and CarPlay lets drivers use their iPhone in the car with minimised distraction,” said vice president of iPhone and iOS product marketing Greg Joswiak.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will be showing off their first CarPlay cars this week. All three were included on a slide shown at WWDC of partners for iOS in the Car, </span><span style="background-color: white;">so have been working with Apple for some time on in-car technology.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The company said today it also has deals with 13 more manufacturers to integrate CarPlay in the future: BMW Group, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai Motor Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia Motors, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan Motor Company, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota Motor Corp.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here, as in other areas of its business, Apple is engaged in fierce competition with Google, which launched an initiative called the Open Automotive Alliance</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">in January at the CES trade show in Las Vegas. Based on its Android operating system, its founding partners included GM, Honda, Audi and Hyundai.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Patrick Rock has been closely involved in drawing up Government policy on internet porn filters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He quit after the Prime Minister learned he was at the centre of a police probe over images of child abuse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Detectives from the National Crime Agency searched No 10 and examined IT systems and offices used by Mr Rock, deputy director of the Downing Street policy unit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Rock was a protege of Margaret Thatcher and has held a series of senior posts in the Conservative Party. He has been close to Mr Cameron for many years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Described as the Prime Minister's 'policy fixer', the unmarried 62-year-old had been tipped as a leading contender for a Conservative peerage only weeks ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His arrest and resignation from Downing Street, where he has worked since 2011, will send shockwaves through the party's high command. The Prime Minister is said to be 'extremely shocked'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A friend said: 'He has known Patrick for a long time and never expected anything like this.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Rock was arrested last month after officials at No 10 were made aware of a 'potential offence relating to child abuse imagery', Mr Cameron's spokesman told the Daily Mail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One well-placed source said Mr Rock had also been the subject of a sexual harassment complaint from a civil servant working in Downing Street, which is understood to have been passed to Mr Cameron's chief of staff Ed Llewellyn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'There were accusations against him that didn't turn into a formal process. That has upset some people at No 10,' the source said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Cameron's relationship with Mr Rock goes back to the Home Office, where they both worked under Michael Howard in the 1990s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Rock, who has repeatedly tried to become an MP, is known in Westminster for coining the phrase 'Cows moo, dogs bark, Labour puts up taxes' used by the Tories in the 1970s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Prime Minister brought him back into Downing Street in 2011, a move welcomed by critics as heralding the return of a 'grown up' to the centre of government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In the No 10 policy unit, he has taken a particular responsibility for home affairs issues and has also been involved in drawing up the Government's measures against internet pornography and child abuse imagery. </span></div>
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<b>'The Prime Minister believes that child abuse imagery is abhorrent and that anyone involved with it should be properly dealt with under the law.'</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Patrick Rock was one of a number of advisers and officials involved in dealing with this issue – but the work was led by somebody else, and decisions were taken by ministers,' a spokesman said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'On the evening of February 12, Downing Street was first made aware of a potential offence relating to child abuse imagery. It was immediately referred to the National Crime Agency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The Prime Minister was immediately informed and kept updated throughout. Patrick Rock was arrested at his home in the early hours of February 13, a few hours after Downing Street had reported the matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Subsequently, we arranged for officers to come into No 10 and have access to all IT systems and offices they considered relevant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'This is an ongoing investigation so it would not be appropriate to comment further, but the Prime Minister believes that child abuse imagery is abhorrent and that anyone involved with it should be properly dealt with under the law.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The spokesman denied suggestions that colleagues in No 10 had been told Mr Rock was 'off sick', but only the Prime Minister and a handful of his most senior officials appear to have been told the reason for his absence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Downing Street refused to comment on the allegation of sexual harassment, but insisted: 'All complaints are dealt with very seriously and are dealt with appropriately.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Born Patrick Robert John Rock de Besombes to a family of European aristocrats, he has worked for leading Tories for four decades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But despite his impeccable social and political contacts, Oxford-educated Rock has repeatedly failed in his ambition to become a Conservative MP, despite being selected to fight safe seats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Rock, 62 and unmarried, lives in a £500,000 flat in Parsons Green, West London. He was born in Kensington in 1951, a year after the marriage of his mother Gertrud and Egyptian-born father Robert John Rock de Besombes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His paternal grandmother was a D'aigneaux, from a noble French family that originated in Normandy and boasts a coat of arms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">As a teenager, Rock boarded at the elite Jesuit Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, winning a scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford, where he studied history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">After graduation he worked as Margaret Thatcher's political correspondence secretary in the then Prime Minister's Office and also as managing director of the Retail Consortium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is not clear when he shortened his name to plain Patrick Rock, but he used it while fighting the Woolwich East election in 1979, aged 28, which he lost despite increasing the Tory vote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">After losing Crewe and Nantwich in the 1983 election he was selected in a by-election to defend the seemingly impregnable safe seat of Portsmouth South in 1984, which had a Tory majority of over 12,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Portsmouth News described him as 'Mrs Thatcher's protege' who had been hand-picked by Downing Street to contest the seat ahead of more impressive local candidates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">During the campaign he was described as 'likeable and energetic but slightly wet behind the ears'. His campaign went catastrophically wrong after he spoke on TV about a hospital that was not in the constituency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Rock was unconcerned, declaring at a public meeting that he was 'absolutely certain' he would win the seat, predicting Labour would finish second and the Liberal SDP Alliance trail in third.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But after a 14 per cent swing against him, he was defeated by the Alliance's Mike Hancock in what was labelled the 'biggest election upset for years' and a 'great surprise' to Mrs Thatcher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Newspaper reports described the defeated Rock leaving the count 'pale with shock'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He blamed the defeat on too many Conservatives staying at home and Mrs Thatcher phoned him the following morning to assure him the defeat was not his fault. The following year, he was appointed to the Conservative Research Department.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He later worked as special adviser to Cabinet ministers in the Department of the Environment and then the Home Office, where he met David Cameron. The pair are famously said to have repaired to the Two Chairmen pub on the day of the death in 1994 of Labour leader John Smith, where they agreed Tony Blair would take over, leaving their party 'f*****'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Rock again attempted to become an MP in 1990, applying for the safe Tory seat of Devizes, but failed to be selected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He also worked in Brussels for EU Commissioner Chris Patten, with the responsibility for the western Balkans, before becoming a policy adviser at Downing Street.</span></div>
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3AM are pleased to announce that the classic cleavage is BACK!</div>
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Yep, that's right. Hollywood's finest were all about baring the boobage at the 86th Academy Award winners Oscars ceremony on Sunday night.</div>
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And we weren't complaining.</div>
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Miranda Kerr, Kim Kardashian, Sienna Miller and Lady Gaga were just some of the gals that had their assets out on show for the biggest night in film.</div>
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The brunette beauty teamed her booby dress with a slick of red lippy, and wore her long locks in loose wavy curls.</div>
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The newly-single ombre-haired beauty showed off her svelte bod and eye-popping klevage in a figure-hugging red velvet dress.</div>
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She was undoubtedly the hottest Kardashian of the night. Soz Kim.</div>
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Aussie babe Miranda Kerr also flaunted her boobs in a backless silver gown with plunging neckline.</div>
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So when <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/miranda-kerr-orlando-bloom-kiss-3203189" style="border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">ex Orlando bumped into her backstage, we imagine he felt slightly gutted</a>.</div>
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Rubbing shoulders with Hollywood heavyweights, the 38-year-old stunner looked beautiful in a mermaid tail lace detail gown with plunging neckline. And although husband Robin has vowed to get her back, Paula made a simple statement by appearing minue her wedding ring.</div>
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Robin's childhood sweetheart looked sensational as she posed for pictures in the lace gown - with her sleek hair teased into a bun.</div>
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Blonde beauty Sienna Miller showed off her ample cleavage in a red strapless ballgown.</div>
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The actress-come-model accessorised her look with several gold Grecial style cuffs, and wore her hair in loose waves.</div>
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M&S lingerie model Rosie Huntington-Whitely wore a boob-showing pale blue sheer gown to the prestigious event.</div>
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The Brit model arrived looking 100 per cent delicious at the ceremony with her actor beau Jason Statham.</div>
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Also in blue was Oscar winner Lupito N'yong'o.</div>
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The gorgeous 12 Years a Slave actress rocked up at the swanky event in a divine plunging pale blue gown.</div>
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With a nipped in waistband, fashionista Lupita showed off her perfectly sculpted bod.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Thousands of young followers and parents came to see Tomlinson play for the team he also supports, with many waiting hours to catch a glimpse of the 22 year-old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A planned appearance last September was cancelled after Tomlinson was injured by Aston Villa striker Gabby Agbonlahor in another charity match the previous week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Incredible footage showing an unsuspecting student getting whacked in the face by the tail of one of the world's biggest mammals has become a huge Youtube hit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The much-watched clip shows the teenager being taken completely by surprise as the whale swims alongside a boat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As the excited whale-watchers are all distracted by the giant creature playfully breaking the surface and swimming along within feet of them, it's 10ft tail suddenly rises up out of the water and comes down on the startled girl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The wet slap on her face almost knocks the youngster overboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Fortunately the victim was not hurt in the freak incident, off the coast of Mexico's Baja Peninsula.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In the description for the clip, one comments: "We went whale watching on the Baja this weekend and, unfortunately, Chelsea got smacked in the head by a whale's tail.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The traumatised cow ran off and was hit by three cars - leaving it dead in the middle of the road.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The three cars were also left badly damaged.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Or, as the matter-of-fact WTNH-TV News 8 reporter Bob Wilson succinctly says: "You can't make a story like this up. Two men are in jail, one cow is dead and three cars are totalled."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Wilson and his Connecticut-based TV crew actually arrived DURING the incident, reporting that one of the men "took off" when he spotted the journalists.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">They recorded the whole seedy incident, but thankfully we've been spared that pleasure because, as Wilson again puts it: "The man was naked and covered in jello"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">After the incident at 4am in the morning, the cow</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.4em;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.4em;">ran into the middle of Highway 1039 where it collided with three cars. Two of the drivers were taken to hospital.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">New York State Police have arrested Reid Fontaine, 31, and Michael Jones, 33, for 'sexual misconduct' with the cow on a farm in Hermiker, New York.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Fontaine - a school IT system employee - has since resigned following his arrest, according to Superintendent Kathleen C Greider.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Police said the incident was discovered by a farmer who set up a video camera in his barn in an effort to determine why his cows were acting anxious and not producing milk as usual, police said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The farmer called police after seeing the video of the alleged sexual assault of the cow.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Police have looked into whether any similar reports have been filed but have so far found nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Here's how local paper The Courant reported the story.</span></div>
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