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A MAN threatened to attack the person who had “caused difficulty” in his marriage with a samurai sword in front of his children, a court heard.
Michael Blakeley’s 14-year-old daughter called the police and told them he had got very angry and began storming round the family home on Dell Avenue in Beech Hill and punching wall.
Wigan and Leigh Magistrates Court heard that Blakeley, 38, and his wife had separated around Christmas time and he had got angry at around 7.40pm on Sunday when she failed to respond to a text message he had sent her asking if she was ok.
Steve Woodman, prosecuting, said: “When police arrived, the defendant’s daughter was visibly shaken.
“They said they spoke to the girl who was distressed at having called the police but said she was so scared.
“She told police her dad was angry at a man who had been causing difficulty in her parent’s marriage.
“She said she asked her father to stop but he grabbed a samurai sword and was talking about leaving the house and stabbing someone.
Blakeley was kept in custody overnight and appeared on Monday after police made an application for a bind over for breach of the peace, meaning Blakeley would have to behave for a period or pay a financial penalty.
He said: “I was upset when she didn’t text back. I had been out to watch the football and had had a few drinks.
“My daughter started on at me, saying I should leave her mum alone. I wanted to scare her into being quiet.
Blakeley, who was not represented and has no previous convictions, accepted the bind over which magistrates imposed for 12 months with a fine of £500 if Blakeley failed to behave.
Special to the DailyBryan Pineda Rosas died last week of complications from the flu. He was 13.
SUMMIT COUNTY – Always helpful, thoughtful, friendly, a problem-solver, kind, peaceful: Bryan Pineda Rosas, a 13-year-old Summit Middle School student who died of flu complications last week, will be remembered for all these things and more.
According to his father Javier Pineda, Bryan always had an easy-going, can-do attitude. He was a good student, did lots of community service work through the Boy Scouts and liked to lend a helping hand.
In his two years with the Boy Scouts, Bryan contributed more than 100 hours of community service, said Jennifer Pierson, the committee chairperson for Troop 188. He participated in a “barn-raising” at Swan Center Outreach, ice delivery for the Frisco and Dillon BBQ Challenges, various Color Guards in the community and ...
Bryan was set to earn his First Class Scout rank, and the award will be presented to his parents at the Court of Honor on Oct. 11.
“His smile will be greatly missed,” said Bryan’s Scoutmaster T. A. Rosko.
The eighth-grader also had a list of long-term goals – he wanted to join the Army, and if that didn’t work out he wanted to study in England.
When Bryan wasn’t in school or at Boy Scouts, he liked to skateboard and play soccer. He was also musical – his father said he played the violin and the viola. And he liked eating fruit, especially apples and peaches.
Bryan also enjoyed spending time with his older brother, 15-year-old Javier, his 3-year-old sister Angie, and his 3-month-old brother Edwin.
“He really loved those kids, his family,” father Javier Pineda said.
The fundraiser will include a silent auction, donation drives throughout the day and the direct contribution of Bistro proceeds. The Blue River Bistro will donate all proceeds collected between 11 a.m. and midnight.
A suicide bomber has killed at least 42 soldiers as they exercised at an army training school in north-west Pakistan.
It is the deadliest attack by militants on the army since it began operations against pro-Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters close to the Afghan border.
It happened in the town of Dargai in North West Frontier Province, not far from where the army said it killed some 80 militants last week.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan says Wednesday's attack could undermine recent agreements between the military and pro-Taleban militants in other border areas.
Emotions in the region have been running high since an air strike on a religious school (madrassa) last week in the neighbouring area of Bajaur, in which the army said 80 militants were killed.
Local people insisted the dead were innocent religious students.
The army base targeted in Wednesday's suicide bombing is about 40km (30 miles) south-east of the bombed madrassa.
"The attack was carried out by a man who got down from a car wearing a chaddor [cloak] and walked into the parade," Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said.
"After the Bajaur incident this was expected, but we will continue the fight against terror. We condemn it, innocent lives were lost."
The US government condemned the army camp attack and praised the efforts of the Pakistani government in tackling militants.
An eyewitness, Aurangzeb, told the BBC he saw soldiers picking up scattered body parts minutes after the explosion.
"The victims were dying. Their shoes and caps were scattered all over the place," he said.
It appeared that most of the men who died were military recruits who had been doing morning exercises.
Up to 20 soldiers were wounded in the attack. Some are believed to be in a critical condition.
The military are reported to have sealed off the area and also the hospital where the wounded are being treated.
Dargai is a stronghold of a banned pro-Taleban movement, Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-Mohammadi (TNSM).
The head of the madrassa targeted last week was a TNSM member. He was killed in the attack.
The TNSM led thousands of tribesmen across the border into Afghanistan to take on American forces after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Many never returned.
In recent days, tribesmen have openly threatened suicide attacks against the army in retaliation for the madrassa air raid which many also blamed on US forces across the border.
Pakistan has deployed nearly 80,000 troops along the border to hunt militants who sought refuge after the ousting of the Taleban in Afghanistan in 2001.
BlackBerry's new CEO says he is "very interested" in trying to replicate some of the company's signature security and enterprise productivity on rival platforms.
"We'd love to do it," he said when asked on a financial conference call about the possibility of expanding the BlackBerry platform to smartphones running Apple's iOS and Google's Android.
"The one great thing about BlackBerry is that we are well known in security and productivity," Chen said.
"I would love to find a way to make our BlackBerry experience [available] on Android and iOS. It's not without difficulties, as you all know, but it's something that we are very interested in trying."
Some analysts have suggested that BlackBerry, which is struggling under the weight of large losses and declining sales, should jettison its hardware business and focus on software. The company took a step in that direction on Friday, when it said it would shift design and development of low-end handsets to China's Foxc...
Porting the company's signature software to rival operating systems won't be easy, especially if the company wants to maintain a high level of encryption and security, but the company has already started looking beyond the BlackBerry 10 OS.
In October it released a version of its popular BlackBerry Messenger software for Android and iOS.
BlackBerry isn't charging for the software yet. Chen said he was considering a monthly fee per user for customers running it with BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
"It will be a service that we offer with our BES strategy and the model will come from a per user, per month model," he said. "I will not rule out the monetization from advertising model, but at the moment we are very far away from doing it. That doesn't mean we can't do it with a partner, but it's not in my math."
Following in the steps of Japan’s Meteorological Agency, the U.S. Geological Survey have agreed in upgrading the shattering earthquake that hit Japan on March 11 to a magnitude 9. This means that the earthquake was approximately 1.5 times stronger than originally thought.
The USGS often updates an earthquake’s magnitude following the event. Updates occur as more data become available and more time-intensive analysis is performed. There are many methods of calculating the energy release and magnitude of an earthquake. Some methods give approximate values within minutes of the earthquake,...
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After four weeks of in-depth and thorough judging, the E&P team, along with a prestigious panel of 68 judges, has voted and selected the 2012 EPPYTM Award finalists.
Now in its 17th year, this international contest honors the best media-affiliated websites across 30 diverse categories. The awards also recognize excellence in college and university journalism in three different categories, including Best College Newspaper Website.
Each EPPYTM entry is judged on its own merits within a particular category. Finalists must receive a score in the top one third of the average score across all categories within their division (1 million and over unique monthly visitors and under 1 million unique monthly visitors). As a result, there may be no winner i...
EPPYTM Award winners will be announced live on editorandpublisher.com, Oct. 30, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. EST.
Below is the complete list of EPPYTM Award finalists.
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Twitter has struck gold once again and has spent the last 24 hours ripping United Airlines a new one. So far the airline has issued a “Sorry, we’re not sorry” apology for literally dragging an Asian doctor, David Dao, off an overbooked flight—that he had nothing to do with. And, of course, there are some outlets alread...
But people on social media have taken time out of their busy days to give you #NewUnitedAirlineMottos, because, why not?
As for the security officer involved in dragging Dao off the plane? The Chicago Department of Aviation has placed him on leave.
FORMER president Robert Mugabe’s project to appoint former defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi as his successor failed due to an array of reasons: his lack of gravitas, weak support from the deposed veteran leader as well as from the Zanu PF commissariat and critical party structures.
Insiders said this week Sekeramayi proved to be a reluctant and weak candidate, as he appeared timid to provide leadership to the G40 faction which had coalesced around Mugabe and his wife Grace at the zenith of the Zanu PF succession battle.
After the May 2017 “Mexico Declaration”, which heightened Mugabe’s succession war within the splintered Zanu PF, the G40 faction hastily formed a special committee led by the then party’s political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere to introduce Sekeramayi across the country’s 10 provinces as the veteran leader’s preferred h...
While on a visit to Mexico to attend the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Mugabe finally decided to take a decisive step to resolve the Zanu PF succession squabbles by assigning Kasukuwere to lead the process to promote Sekeramayi as his successor ahead of his long-time ally and the then co-v...
Insiders say Mugabe had given Kasukuwere the task because he was the national commissar, energetic but also to contain his own raw power ambitions. At the time, Kasukuwere was fighting for political survival after being bruised by internal infighting and demonstrations against him, which Grace initially supported to ch...
Despite this development, insiders say Sekeramayi did not seize the initiative to assertively thrust himself in the public domain and at the forefront of Zanu PF’s politics as Mugabe’s successor, except for two or three rallies where he languidly appeared to do so, was largely invisible and ineffective.
Mugabe also failed to provide clear and direct public support for Sekeramayi. Even when he was pressured by his wife Grace, Mugabe still hesitated to publicly name his preferred successor.
Insiders say Mugabe’s reluctance to show his hand too early stemmed from the fact that the party’s congress, which was due to be held in December, appeared too distant, while prematurely doing so could have intensified military brinkmanship and intervention.
During that time, Kasukuwere, who had survived a tide of protest as the party’s political commissar mobilised by Mnangagwa’s backers, was also weak and vulnerable, and thus could not effectively champion Sekeramayi’s bid for the presidency.
Kasukuwere, sources say, also viewed himself as representing the new crop of young leaders who could provide future leadership within Zanu PF, hence his reluctance to back Sekeramayi.
Sources said Grace — who had been kept in the dark about details of the Mexico Declaration — also did not push single-mindedly as she appeared later to harbour her own lofty ambitions to succeed her frail husband.
However, after details of the Mexico Declaration were disclosed to her by Kasukuwere and Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao, Grace wavered between Sekeramayi and her own burning ambition which she had partly advanced through nationwide youth rallies which were ostensibly meant to drum up support for Mugabe ahead of Zanu PF...
Compared to his main rival, Mnangagwa, Sekeramayi was viewed as weak and uninspiring by his backers and the G40 faction.
Insiders say after details of the Mexico Declaration were leaked to the Mnangagwa faction, reportedly by Mnangagwa’s allies then Environment minister Oppah Muchinguri and Foreign Affairs minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, the military escalated manoeuvres that culminated in a full-scale coup leading to Mugabe’s ouster la...
After the coup, the militarily crushed G40 faction devised a plan to resist Mugabe’s ouster by forming the National Patriotic Front (NPF) which became led by former minister, legislator and Zipra liberation war commander Ambrose Mutinhiri.
The NPF is still being fronted by Mutinhiri, with the behind-the-scenes support of the former president and his wife.
The party’s founders and 39-member interim national executive committee met last week in Harare, amid chaos to prepare for its launch this month.
Insiders said the situation in NPF is dynamic and moving fast as the party and its leaders look for a strategy to be a material factor in the upcoming general elections, either as a party or through a coalition with the existing opposition forces which are rapidly re-aligning and repositioning themselves as the polls d...
ROGER FEDERER has received an invite to play at the Estoril Open in April after announcing his intention to play in the clay court season.
Federer crashed out of the Australian Open on Sunday after defeat to Greek star Stefanos Tsitsipas in the fourth round.
After the match, Federer was asked about his plans for the clay court season and he revealed a desire to return to the French for the first time since 2015.
“It’s a bit of a desire,” he said.
“I’m in a phase where I want to have fun and I’ve missed not doing it.
In 2016, he withdrew from Roland Garros with a back problem.
The following year, Federer skipped the clay to rest his knee after winning the Australian Open.
And last year, Federer won in Australia again and kept his options open about whether he would play on the clay.
But he eventually confirmed in March that he would skip the clay season for a second consecutive year.
However, Federer will now return to the red dirt and the Estoril Open are ready to welcome him with open arms.
They wrote on Twitter: “Hey @rogerfederer, we heard what you said.
“It would be an absolute pleasure to welcome you in Cascais, Portugal for the 5th edition of Millennium #EstorilOpen.
Federer won in Estoril in 2008 when he beat Russian Nikolay Davydenko.
But in his last appearance in 2010, Federer lost in the semi-finals to Spaniard Albert Montanes.
It remains to be seen whether Federer will play at the ATP 250 event but he will most certainly play the Masters 1000 events in Monte Carlo, Madrid and Rome.
The French Open then gets underway on May 26 where he will hope to win a 21st Grand Slam.
Roger Federer: Will he play French Open, Wimbledon and US Open?
While unwanted pounds undoubtedly come from eating more calories than the body burns, the process is far more complicated than the overly simplistic calories in/calories out paradigm, according to a new study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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