Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Three women missing for about a decade found alive in Cleveland home
By Kim Palmer
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Three Ohio women believed abducted separately about a decade ago were found alive on Monday at a Cleveland house near where they were last seen, and three brothers were arrested as suspects in their disappearances, police said.
Police said they were alerted to the whereabouts of the women by a frantic emergency call from Amanda Berry, who was freed from the house by a neighbor who said he heard screaming and came to her assistance.
"Help me! I'm Amanda Berry. ... I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm here. I'm free now," Berry, 26, is heard frantically telling a 911 operator in a recording of the call released by police and posted on the website of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
During the call, she gave the name of her alleged abductor, said he was "out of the house" and urged police to come quickly. She indicated that she knew her disappearance had been widely reported in the media.
The neighbor, Charles Ramsey, said in an interview broadcast by CNN that when he arrived, Berry appeared desperate to get through the door, which did not open properly.
"I see this girl going nuts trying to get outside," he said, adding that he was astonished when she identified herself.
"Then I realized I'm calling 911 for Amanda Berry. I thought that girl was dead," he said. He said Berry had emerged from the house "with a little girl."
The two women found with Berry were identified by authorities as Gina DeJesus, 23, who vanished in 2004 at age 14, and Michelle Knight, who was reported to have been 20 when she disappeared more than a decade ago.
All three women were taken to a local hospital, MetroHealth Medical Center, where Dr Gerald Maloney told a news conference they were all "safe" and "appear to be in fair condition."
"This isn't the ending we usually have to these stories, so we're very happy. We're very happy for them," Maloney said.
He declined to comment on unconfirmed media reports that two children were found with the three women at the house.
The suspects, ages 50, 52 and 54, were arrested based on information given to investigators by the three women after their rescue, according to Deputy Cleveland Police Chief Ed Tomba, who said the women had probably been held in that house since they vanished.
One of the men was identified earlier as Ariel Castro, 52, a bus driver for Cleveland public schools.
CROWDS CHEER
Crowds on the street where the women were found cheered as police cars drove into the cordoned-off area around the house.
Berry was last seen leaving her job at a fast-food restaurant to go home on the day before her 17th birthday.
City Councilwoman Dona Brady, a friend of the family, told Reuters that Berry's grief-stricken mother had died at age 47, essentially from a broken heart.
A cousin of DeJesus, Sheila Figaro, told CNN that the girl's mother, Nancy, "never gave up faith knowing that her daughter would one day be found. What a phenomenal Mother's Day gift she gets this Mother's Day."
The suspects' uncle, Caesar Castro, who owns a grocery store on the same street, said Ariel Castro owned the house where the women were found. He added that members of his family and the family of DeJesus "grew up together."
"Everyone is shocked," said the elder Castro. He said he had known Ariel Castro to be "a good guy" and a musician who played the bass.
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said, "I am thankful that Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have been found alive."
"We have many unanswered questions regarding this case, and the investigation will be ongoing," he added.
(Additional reporting by Sharon Bernstein in Los Angeles; Writing by Steve Gorman; editing by Cynthia Johnston, Christopher Wilson and Mohammad Zargham)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/three-long-missing-women-found-alive-cleveland-house-002307361.html
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Ref's death a consequence of lack of sportsmanship
FILE - In this May 2, 2013, file photo, Johana Portillo, center, and her sister Ana Portillo hold hands while Dr. Shawn Smith looks on during a news conference at Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, Utah. A Utah prosecutor said Monday, May 6, he plans to decide soon what charges to file against a teenager accused of punching Ricardo Portillo, a soccer referee who later died after slipping into a weeklong coma. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
FILE - In this May 2, 2013, file photo, Johana Portillo, center, and her sister Ana Portillo hold hands while Dr. Shawn Smith looks on during a news conference at Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, Utah. A Utah prosecutor said Monday, May 6, he plans to decide soon what charges to file against a teenager accused of punching Ricardo Portillo, a soccer referee who later died after slipping into a weeklong coma. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
FILE - In this May 5, 2013, file photo, Johana Portillo-Lopez, daughter of Ricardo Portillo speaks about her father's death during a news conference in Salt Lake City. A Utah prosecutor said Monday, May 6, he plans to decide soon what charges to file against a teenager accused of punching Portillo, a soccer referee who later died after slipping into a weeklong coma. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Kim Raff, File)
FILE - In this May 2, 2013, file photo, Jose Lopez points to an undated photo of Ricardo Portillo, center, his brother-in-law, following a news conference at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah. A Utah prosecutor said Monday, May 6, he plans to decide soon what charges to file against a teenager accused of punching Portillo, a soccer referee who later died after slipping into a weeklong coma. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
The football teams were still on the field, exchanging the traditional postgame handshakes, when Pete McCabe walked by. The veteran referee heard another official call his name and turned, only to be smashed in the face with a helmet by one of the players.
Almost every bone in McCabe's face was broken, his skull fractured in several places and his nose nowhere close to where it belonged. As he lay on the ground in Rochester, N.Y., the semi-pro player who assaulted him stood over him yelling, "Take that. Take that. This is what I'm all about."
"I have said since this happened to me that it's going to happen again," McCabe said, "and someone is going to get killed."
Four years later, someone was.
McCabe was sickened when he heard the news that Ricardo Portillo had died Saturday, a week after the youth soccer referee in Utah had been punched in the head by a 17-year-old player angry over a yellow card. Just as Portillo's family is now pleading for athletes to control their tempers, McCabe has spent the last four years preaching the importance of sportsmanship in and around Rochester.
To limited success.
"There's no respect for officials now," McCabe said Monday. "Go look at any game, and they're yelling at the official. Pick a high school event, and go watch a couple of games. I guarantee you, you'll see a coach get out of control on the sideline. Or a parent. Or a kid. It's so rampant.
"What happened in Utah, I knew it was going to happen. It was just a matter of time," he added. "Whether it was New York state, Massachusetts, Florida, it was going to happen somewhere in this country."
But the problem isn't limited to this country.
Several Dutch teens are awaiting trial in the beating death late last year of a volunteer linesman who was working his son's youth soccer game. In Brazil last month, a referee was kicked in the chest after the final whistle of a third-division match of the Sao Paulo state championship. A referee in Kenya has filed a lawsuit against the national soccer federation, contending he is impotent after a coach grabbed his testicles in protest over a call. A Spanish soccer player was banned for three months last year after throwing a plastic water bottle at a referee. Also last year, a soccer player in New Zealand was banned indefinitely after he punched a referee and broke his jaw.
And at hockey's Under-18 World Championships in Estonia last month, a Lithuanian player hurled his stick at a referee, hitting him in the upper body.
"Part of this isn't a sport problem, part of it is a societal problem," said Dan Gould, director of the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports at Michigan State. "You watch TV, and the trash talking that's accepted. If you're famous, you're almost supposed to get into trouble. Why is everyone infatuated with Lindsay Lohan when she seems like a spoiled brat?"
Added Barry Mano, the founder and president of the National Association of Sports Officials, "We've become so loud and so brash. It's about me and about being in the spotlight. All of those things play out in the games we play."
Part of the beauty of sports ? and youth sports in particular ? has always been its power to educate and transform. To instill in athletes skills and values they can use for the rest of their lives, in arenas that don't have hardwood floors or boundaries outlined in chalk. Talk to any CEO or other successful person, and odds are he or she can trace the lessons they learned about teamwork, fair play, leadership and overcoming challenges back to Little League, Pee-Wee football or some other youth sport.
But just like passing, dribbling and hitting, those skills don't come with the uniform and the practice schedule. They have to be taught and reinforced by league administrators, coaches and, of course, the parents who signed their kids up for a team in the first place.
"Most Americans really want their kids to learn values through sports. And research has found we can teach kids to be good sports and enhance their moral development through sports if it's done correctly," Gould said. "But the big myth is it just happens."
Even referees and officials can do a better job, Mano said.
Watch any college basketball game, and odds are you'll see a coach not only stalking the sideline but coming onto the floor to protest a call. That's a violation, Mano said, yet it's almost never called.
"We've softened too much by letting bad behavior go escaped," he said.
It may not seem like much. But add up all the little transgressions that have been overlooked or excused, and sports now has a big problem.
"I really believe in the power of sport for changing people," Gould said. "But it's not going to happen if we just hope it happens. We need to train coaches, and the leagues need to be organized and have pretty defined rules of what's tolerable and what's not tolerable.
"You also need to recognize good sporting behavior," he added. "It's not just about fixing the problem."
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has developed a "True Sport" campaign to help parents, coaches and administrators return the emphasis in sports to the life lessons that don't show up in the won-loss column. The program includes educational materials, codes of conduct and good behavior pledges, and the approach is individually tailored for athletes in elementary school, middle school and high school. In the Netherlands, the Dutch FA responded to Richard Nieuwenhuizen's death with a "Respect" campaign targeted at players of all levels.
And at i9 Sports, sportsmanship is valued so highly there are weekly rewards for it.
The recreational youth league, which has programs in 280 communities in 28 states, designates a specific value of sportsmanship ? being a good buddy, humility, leadership ? for coaches to emphasize each week. At the end of the week, the player on each team who best exemplified that value gets recognized.
Parents also have to pledge to display good sportsmanship, and not use negative or derogatory language with officials, coaches, other parents or kids. They also pledge to keep fun as the main emphasis of the league.
"We believe there's great value in competition, healthy competition," said Frank Fiume, founder and CEO of i9 Sports. "But learning how to win with grace and lose with dignity is key."
That's a lesson that's been ignored for too long, McCabe said. With devastating consequences.
Four years after he was assaulted, McCabe still gets migraine-like headaches every day, has limited hearing in his left ear and has lost his sense of taste and smell. Yet he continues to referee ? "I just love doing it so much" ? hoping he can instill lessons of sportsmanship with the coaches and players he encounters.
But he wonders if it has any impact. Though his assault was big news in Rochester when it happened and again when his attacker was sentenced to 10 years in prison, McCabe sees the same poisonous behavior everywhere he goes. At a state championship football game he worked recently, one of the coaches complained constantly and threw his clipboard. At a boys lacrosse game, McCabe heard a coach tell one of his players to "bury" an opponent.
"Every time I try to talk to somebody I hit a brick wall," McCabe said.
"Unless something's done in this country, it's going to happen again," he said. "Until we teach kids how to play and respect officials, it's going to happen again."
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AP Sports Writers Tales Azzoni and Ricardo Zuniga and Associated Press Writer Mike Corder contributed to this report.
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Monday, May 6, 2013
5 Remarkable Ghost Towns Drowned by Damming
Dams are as old as civilization itself, but it?s only been within the last century that humans harnessed the construction savvy to build structures that could submerge valleys and create lakes. And bury entire towns in the process.
In America alone, engineers have flooded hundreds of now-forgotten towns in a bid to create power-generating and fresh water-supplying reservoirs. But now, thanks to water shortages caused by a changing climate and increasing demand, many of the so-called ?downed towns? are reemerging, broken and dusty, from the water.
Today, Slate and Atlas Obscura take us to a small artificial lake at the nothernmost tip of Italy, where an a 700-year-old belltower peeks above the waters. The photos were cause to look into the history of other drowned towns?and boy, did we find a glut of dramatic images. In fact, submerged towns are so common, it's fairly likely you live near a reservoir that's concealing the remains of one (you can check a partial list of American instances here). A few of the most interesting follow.
St. Thomas Beneath Lake Mead
There are actually multiple submerged towns dotting Lake Mead, including the most famous, St. Thomas. When droughts drain the 80-year-old artificial lake, foundations and sometimes even walls emerge from the sands.
Vilarinho das Furna
Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Vilarinho das Furnas, a town dating back to Roman times, was submerged by engineers in 1972. Interestingly, the tiny community of 300 had been almost forgotten by Portuguese authorities?when it was scouted by engineers in the early 1970s, they found a community governed by an unusual communal political system that some historians speculate dated back to the Visigoth occupation.
The Drowned Church of Potosi
Image via Atlas Obscura and Juan Tello on Flickr.
The town of T?chira, Venezuela, was flooded in 1985 to generate hydroelectric power for nearby developments. But a water crisis in Venezuela is laying the ruins of the town bare?starting with the church steeple that once marked its pinnacle.
Old Petrolandia
Images via Andre Estima on Flickr.
Petrolandia is home to one of Brazil's largest hydroelectric power plants?during construction, entire towns were moved to higher ground. One vestige of the old landscape still remains: the arches of a church that was left, abandoned, to the flood.
Campanile Di Curon
Image via Atlas Obscura and Wikimedia Commons.
This 700-year-old belltower was restored to its original site in 2009, after the entire village of Curon Venosta was flooded after World War II. In winter, you can walk right up to its walls.
[Lead image courtesy of Goribau]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5-remarkable-drowned-ghost-towns-created-by-damming-493190547
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Nintendo reportedly offering Wii U game conversion software to smartphone app devs
While we knew Nintendo was happy to hook-up its newest consoles to your smartphone, we thought that was only going to extend to social networking and shopping. Nope, it looks like the company is planning to go a step further, with a report from Japan Times suggesting that the games maker is offering high-level conversion software to app developers "so they can produce smartphone games that can be played on Wii U." A weak existing games library has been blamed for Nintendo's recent financial woes and it's hoping that the addition of some popular titles will offer enough of a reason to invest in a dedicated games machine. We just hope it's able to glean some fresh gaming gems -- the first Angry Birds title launched in 2009.
Via: ZDNet
Source: Japan Times
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
F-16s Are Even More Awesome from the Inside
Goose only wishes he had moves like these. This stunning dash cam footage from an F-16 attached to the 51st Wing captured some intense aerial action at the recent Red Flag-Alaska exercises?including mid-air refuelings, targeted bomb strikes, low-altitude flybys, and even a cameo appearance by a B-2 stealth bomber. Makes Vegas' F-22s look downright tame
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Spanish league investigates possible match fix
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? The Spanish soccer league is investigating a game between first division clubs Levante and Deportivo La Coruna for possible match-fixing.
League spokesman Juan Carlos Santamaria said Friday the league is examining Deportivo's 4-0 win at Levante on April 13.
Levante issued a statement on its website saying it will "help and collaborate with any investigation."
"I have spoken with (league president) Javier Tebas and he has passed on indications (of a fix)" Levante club president Quico Catalan told El Pais newspaper.
Deportivo coach Fernandez Vazquez denied any wrongdoing by his club.
Following the heavy loss to Deportivo, Levante forward Jose Barkero apparently accused four of his teammates? captain Sergio Ballesteros, goalkeeper Gustavo Munua, forward Juan Luis "Juanlu" Gomez, and defender Juan Francisco "Juanfran" Garcia? of a suspicious lack of effort in the match.
Barkero later publicly retracted his accusations. It is not clear if the league had already begun investigating prior to leaks of Barkero's accusations.
"I only want to make public what I have told my teammates," Barkero said at a news conference on Wednesday. "I asked them for forgiveness, above all my four teammates, those who I accused of something erroneous. I ask Ballesteros, Munua, Juanlu, and Juanfran for forgiveness for what I have done to their image, their persons and their family, because they didn't deserve it.
"I am the one who was wrong. I accused them of something that didn't really happen."
Match-fixing is a crime in Spain and can lead to prison time for individuals or expulsion of a club from official competition.
Deportivo is in a fight to avoid relegation. Stuck in last place in Spain's first division last month, it started a four-game winning streak that ended with the lopsided victory at Levante. The previous wins were against teams also struggling to avoid relegation ? 3-1 over Celta Vigo, 3-2 over Mallorca, and 3-2 over Real Zaragoza.
Deportivo has since tied two more games and currently lies one point above the relegation zone with five games left.
"As an athlete I'm slightly offended," Vazquez, the Deportivo coach, said. "But I believe that we athletes have our conscience clean. I don't know about Barkero."
Deportivo became the latest Spanish club to seek bankruptcy in January. It spent last season in the second division and would take a hard economic hit if it dropped down again this summer.
Levante, meanwhile, has lost four straight games, its worst run in two seasons under coach Juan Ignacio Martinez. The modest Valencia-based club was the darling of the Spanish league last season when it briefly occupied first place in the standings for the first time and ended the season by qualifying for the Europa League.
Tebas, who was recently elected league president, said that one of the priorities was stamping out match-fixing.
"UEFA and FIFA say it only happens in 1 percent of matches," Tebas told El Pais on April 28. "But if one game of the 380 played in the first and second division is fixed, it's a serious problem. The first thing we have to do is recognize it's a problem. "
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/spanish-league-investigates-possible-match-fix-091211725.html
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Listen To J.J. Abrams Genuinely Geek Out About 'Star Wars'
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