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The death of a man six days after he was restrained by police was a result of "misadventure", a jury has found.
Edir Frederico Da Costa died after being stopped by officers in east London in 2017, having put 88 wraps containing class A drugs in his mouth.
Jurors in the inquest of the 25-year-old concluded a majority verdict that his death was by misadventure.
Mr Da Costa died from a cardiac arrest after his airway was obstructed by a plastic bag in his throat, they found.
Walthamstow Coroner's Court heard he had been travelling in a car which was pulled over in Beckton, east London, by five plain-clothes officers on 15 June.
The father of one – who had a number of convictions, including for burglary and theft, and possession of cocaine – was being restrained in the prone position when some 20 to 30 wraps were observed on the ground near his mouth, the jury said.
He became unresponsive, was placed in the recovery position and paramedics removed a plastic bag containing wraps of drugs from his airway.
Mr Da Costa died in Newham University Hospital on 21 June after a period in intensive care.
Jurors said the delay of the ambulance service – which had initially been given the wrong address by police – had not contributed to the outcome.
Commander Dave Masker, from the Met Police, said "the officers who dealt with Mr Da Costa that day acted correctly in very difficult circumstances".
The force said the Independent Office for Police Conduct had recommended four officers receive management action – one for a comment made at the scene and three involving the calling of an ambulance.
The jury had been told by senior coroner Nadia Persaud before beginning their deliberations that there was no legal or factual basis for reaching a conclusion which was critical of the police, in light of all the evidence presented to the inquest.
Following their findings, Mr Da Costa's father Ginario Da Costa said: "We cannot help but wonder whether Edir would still be here had the police identified the risk of Edir choking earlier and taken steps to help him.
"Edir did not deserve to die in the way that he did and we will forever feel that if things had been done differently his life may have been saved."


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Law students in the state are able do legal work if they are supervised by law faculty or legal services groups.You'd better go to a law school that will provide you with the clinics and make room on your schedule — ousting other courses you might think you need — if you want to practice law in New York.
According to [a NYT editorial], the measure could be controversial because it "wades into a fierce debate among lawyers over whether mandatory pro bono service is the right solution—and because it could hit the pocketbooks of young lawyers at a time when they are struggling to find jobs."
ADDED: Actually, I think the clinics won't count for pro bono credit, because you get course credit. Law faculty will be incentivized to offer a separate pro bono option, with no course credit.

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We have a few important updates regarding the next installment in the Underworld franchise. All that we've known so far about the upcoming fourth film in the series is that John Hlavin (The Shield) was writing the film, that it would be released on January 20, 2012, and that Kate Beckinsale wasn't sure if she would return to reprise her role in the series.
Now, we've just gotten a press release that confirms that Beckinsale will indeed be returning to the franchise that made her an action star. The press release also tells us that screenwriter J. Michael Straczynsk (The Changeling) has come on board to do some revisions to Hlavin's script and they're looking to cast someone as Beckinsale's daughter. There is still no director attached to the project but Len Wiseman, who directed the first two Underworld films, will be producing the film. Hit the jump for what we were sent:
– Reprising her role as the character Selene, Kate Beckinsale will take the lead in Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment's fourth installment of the UNDERWORLD franchise.
– The project penned by John Hlavin with revisions with J. Michael Straczynski will be produced by Lakeshore Entertainment's Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi, and Len Wiseman. A director is currently being sought out for the project as well as an actress to take the role of Selene's daughter. Production is set to start in March of 2011 in Vancouver.
– Beckinsale is known for roles in THE AVIATOR, CLICK, NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, and SNOW ANGELS.
– Straczynski recently penned the screenplay for CHANGELING.
– Hlavin's writing credits include the television series' Trust Me and the Golden Globe® winning series The Shield. He will next write the script for the Warner Bros. film THE GUNSLINGER and ALIBI.
– Screen Gems' Senior Vice President of Production, Scott Strauss will oversee the project for the studio.


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It's been well established that all wildlife Down Under has probably escaped from an undiscovered portal to the Land of the Lost. This latest catch only lends further credence to this truth.
Meet Claude, a 15-pound juvenile Tasmanian giant crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas) who's recently taken up residence in a 10-foot-tall, six-foot-wide cylindrical aquarium in the United Kingdom. Claude's smaller claw can sever a human finger, and he's estimated to max out at 30 pounds of crustacean juggernaut. Reality is now officially a Roger Corman movie.
Previously: The goat-eating crabs of 1889.
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This is part of Tyler Florence Ultimate Brunch Menu!
Yield: about 9 cups
Serves 4-6
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Recipe courtesy Mark Dissin
4 cups oats (NOT quick-cook or instant)
1 1/2 cups whole almonds, shelled, but skin still on
1/2 cup flax seeds
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup neutral cooking oil (canola)
1/4 cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups raisins or dried cranberries
1 cup diced dried apricots
1/2 cup dried banana slices
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
Mix oats, almonds, flax seeds, brown sugar, salt and cinnamon in a bowl. In a saucepan warm the oil and honey. Whisk in the vanilla extract. Pour the honey, oil, vanilla mixture over the oat mixture and mix gently, but well. Mix with spatula and eventually your hands. Spread out onto a sheet pan and bake for 40 minutes (stir after the first 20). Cool and break up any clumps. Mix in dried fruit.
Lemon Yogurt and Berry Swirl:
Recipe courtesy Tyler Florence
Berry swirl:
3 cups mixed berries (any combination, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries) frozen
1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
1 lemon, juiced
Lemon yogurt:
1 1/2 cups lowfat vanilla yoghurt
1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Add berries, lemon juice and confectioners' sugar in a pan over medium heat. Cook until the berries break down and mixture becomes syrupy, 10 to 12 minutes. Set aside to cool.
Combine the yogurt, zest and juice in a mixing bowl and stir. To serve, set up glasses and layer with granola, yogurt and berries.
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1 killed, 7 hurt in Le Flore County head-on crash
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says one person was killed and seven were injured in a head-on collision in Le Flore County.
The highway patrol says the crash happened Thursday night on State Highway 112 about 1 mile south of Cameron. A preliminary report says a pickup truck crossed the center line and crashed into a car traveling north.
All three people in the pickup truck were injured. The driver is in critical condition and the two passengers are in stable condition. The driver Eric Potter, 35, and his two passengers 28-year-old Amanda Norman and 9-year-old Uriah Potter were transported by Leflore County EMS to Sparks Hospital in Fort Smith.
One passenger in the car, 30-year-old Manuel Medina of Cameron, was pronounced dead at a Fort Smith, Ark., hospital. The car's driver and three other passengers were taken to the hospital and are in stable condition.
The driver of the vehicle hit Noe Bravo Hernandez, 27, and passengers Gaspa Lopez Cruz, 21, Silvaldo Garcia and Ramiro Lopez Ruiz, both 35, were transported to St. Edwards are are in stable condition, according to the accident report.
Authorities don't yet know why the pickup veered into oncoming traffic.


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thatgamecompany, the company responsible for the genre defying flOw, is back with Flower, a game that expands on the team's tradition of delivering simple gameplay, accessible controls and a medium to explore emotions uncommon in videogames.
In Flower, the surrounding environment, often pushed to the background in many games, is pulled to the forefront and becomes the primary character. The player fades from an external and stressful world and journeys through beautifully vivid landscapes, changing the surroundings and exploring nature along the way.
Playing as the wind, the player guides and grows a swarm of petals by interacting with other flowers and the surrounding environment. The goals and journey in each level vary, but all involve flight, exploration and interaction with the level. Using simple SIXAXIS wireless controls, the player guides the lead petal and accumulates a swarm of flower petals while moving serenely through the environment, causing the on-screen world to change.
Flower's gameplay offers different experiences, pacing and rhythm to all players. Both pastoral and at times chaotic, Flower is a visual, audio and interactive escape on PS3.
Flower offers a bouquet of joy
After the success of its underwater evolution simulator, fl0w, thatgamecompany is back with another sensory massage on PlayStation Store.
In Flower, you control the most unusual of protagonists - a gust of wind. The game begins on the window sill of a dull room on a rainy day. As you focus on a single potted flower, wilting from the boredom, you are transported into its dream - a wide open field of lush grass and blossoming flora.
Tilting the Wireless Controller directs your breeze, which begins with a single petal floating on it, and pressing any button blows it in the direction you are facing. From there, you are free to explore the gorgeous world and interact with it. Blowing past flowers releases their petals and adds them to the colourful collection that follows you, snaking around your movements like a ribbon while you soar across the landscape.
Certain flowers give off an aura and collecting these provokes reactions in the environment. Sometimes this opens a new path, while at other times it triggers an explosion of colour and fertility in an area previously consigned to darkness.
Graphically, Flower is stunning and the stylised visuals, combined with an ethereal soundtrack of strings and delicate chimes whenever you collect a flower, create a hypnotic experience. Up to 200,000 blades of grass are simulated on-screen at any given time, and soaring through them at great speed, seeing them sway and part realistically, is a joy to behold.
Flower's instructions are simple: tilt the controller to soar, press any button to blow wind... relax, enjoy. It's the antithesis to a high octane shooting or racing game and, like fl0w, the central idea is for the player to enjoy their own experience, at their own pace.
Soothing, intriguing and gorgeous on the eyes and ears, Flower is one of the most original titles available from PlayStation Store.
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(Pocket-lint) - You can now get the Apple iPhone on O2, Orange and Vodafone, but with zero difference between the handsets in terms of performance or customisations (operators aren't even allowed to ship them with dedicated apps pre-installed) it's all down to the network and the performance it offers which will help you differentiate what's on offer. So which one is best? We got handsets from all three operators and took them out and about to find out.
Network maps
It's hard to determine what the network speed or coverage is likely to be in your area without us actually coming to your house, work or usual hangouts and making a call or surfing the web in that spot. As we don't really fancy coming and sitting on your toilet (no offence) there are plenty of ways you can track and check how different operators work in your area. After all there is no point signing a deal with Vodafone to find that O2 will give you better coverage where you live.
The quickest way to find this out on your own is to visit the operator's website and punch in your postcode to check coverage.
That will tell you the operator's coverage story, however it's also worth getting a friend that already uses the network you are about to sign up to, to come around your house and see what the network coverage is like. It might cost you a dinner, but at least for the next 18-24 months you won't be whinging that there is a dead spot in your upstairs bathroom that gives you zero coverage.
If they already have an iPhone, even better, there are a host of network speed test apps that will allow you to monitor the connection, but more about that in a minute.
Network benefits
With the iPhone's hardware and price virtually identical across the three networks in the UK, it will be down to the add-ons and services that the three offer that might help swing you one way or the other.
Vodafone's iPhone comes with two apps which you will have to download manually from the App Store once you've activated the handset. People Sync will, says the blurb, "bring all of your contacts together in one easy to access connected address book that's always available on your iPhone, Mac and PC". All you have to do is connect your previous handset to the Vodafone 360 service and it will port them across to your iPhone's contact book (it's cross network by the way). The second app is Vodafone Navigation, a dedicated satnav offering that is free to download and free for the first month. Be warned, however, you will get a £5 bill a month thereafter. Both Vodafone apps will only work on the Vodafone network. Vodafone doesn't currently offer an account checking app. Like O2 you are able to use BT Openzone Wi-Fi hotspots for free.
Orange offers an account app called "Your Orange" that allows you to check the status of your account at the press of a button, and a dedicated Orange Wednesdays app to get the most out of the 2 for 1 cinema deal that the operator has been running for years. The Orange Wednesdays app lets you check the latest releases, popular films or merely scan through via an A to Z listing. It will also let you know where the nearest cinema is and of course let you get the "241" deal, as Orange puts it, directly to your phone, so you can show the box office when you get there.
O2, having been an iPhone carrier for nearly 3 years, surprisingly only has one app for you to download. My O2 is, like the Your Orange offering, a chance for you to keep in check with your account. Beyond that, O2 offers Wi-Fi connectivity with The Cloud and BT Openzone allowing you to access over 7500 hotspots around the UK as apart of your monthly fee. All that is required from you is to punch in your O2 phone number or login details, thereby enabling you to surf considerably faster when connected than over the 3G network.
Network coverage test
As we said at the beginning of this article, trying to evaluate the network coverage of the whole of the UK is rather hard without your help. That in mind, that didn't mean we couldn't see how London fared, so that's what we did.
Test methodology
In our mini network test we took an iPhone 3GS on O2, Vodafone and Orange to five different locations in London.
Fenchurch St Station, Liverpool St Station, King's Cross, Marylebone Station, and Apple store Regent Street
.At each location (the four stations on the Monopoly board if you were wondering) we did a number of tests. First we loaded the Pocket-lint homepage in the browser. Then we made a call, and finally we ran a network speed test via a free app available from the App Store called Speed Check three times at each location. Speed Check lets you test the current download rate for the UTMS network, DSL operator or WLAN router. There are others available on the market, however Speed Check is simple, easy to use and gave us the data we needed - in this case download rate and upload rate.
For those not savvy with networks, the download rate is how fast you are able to download data while the upload rate is how fast you can request pages, upload messages to Twitter or send an email.
The results
The results varied massively between networks with Vodafone performing amazingly at King's Cross for example but shockingly bad at Fenchurch street station. It's worth pointing out as well that the tests merely test the speed of the network at that time (in this case in the morning while people were at work) rather than whether or not they can cope with demand with lots of people calling home. The idea is, that we were trying to replicate what most commuters do: phone to say they are on their way home, download a YouTube video while waiting for the next train or pull up Google Maps to see where they've got to go next.
Fenchurch Street
Best download speed was O2, while best upload speed was achieved by Orange.
Liverpool St
Best download and upload was O2
King's Cross
Best download speeds were Vodafone, while best upload speed was Orange
Best download speeds were achieved by O2, while best upload speed was achieved by Vodafone.
Apple Store Regent Street
Best upload and download speeds were Vodafone.
Based on the Speed Check data we gathered the best network in the London area for downloading content to your handset was O2 with three wins out of the five we did. It proved consistently strong in our tests. The results surprised us considering the recent spat of network problems the operator has had.
Best for uploading data was Vodafone followed by Orange. While both won two tests apiece, Vodafone's scores where higher across the board.
Worst for download speed across all five tests was Orange winning none of the tests against O2 and Vodafone.
So to a winner.
Based on the overall consistency of performance on our tests it has to be O2. Followed by Vodafone followed by Orange. It the five tests we did with Speed Check it has the best numbers overall in both upload and download speed, which also proved true in our real life tests of downloading the Pocket-lint homepage, accessing Google maps, streaming a YouTube video and making a phone call. Combine that with the BT Openzone and The Cloud connectivity options around the city and it's a tough one to beat.
What now...
Now we turn it over to you. What's your connection speed like? Do you have good coverage in your area? We would love to know...


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At the Yacht Club, Jesse apologizes to Angie for blurting out her secret, as JR walks in from checking on AJ and learns what happened from Colby. JR tells Colby just to tell the cops what she saw and she'll be fine. He walks away and Asher approaches telling Colby they should keep quiet. Across the room, Angie tells Jesse he should only be concerned with David's death, but he responds she is always his top priority. Meanwhile, Tad chastises Liza for pressing Jesse into admitting Angie's blindness, which leads to another argument. Jesse asks Tad to take Angie home, as Colby insists to Asher she will tell the cops what they saw. Asher sees a cop and nervously says he's has to go get his jacket and leaves the room. Asher runs into JR who notes he's trying to avoid the cops. He says his dad died in a car accident when he was a kid and had to talk to the cops by himself about it. He just wants to get out of there and JR says he'll cover for him. A different cop comes in the room and tells Natalia he just saw David's room in disarray.
It's Going To Get Ugly.
News of David sinks in, Ryan makes a decision, Liza prepares to do her job, and Greenlee falls apart.
Natalia goes to David's room with the cop and tells him to seal it off because it's probably the crime scene. Jesse comes to the room, as does Liza and the two bicker. Once Liza has left, Natalia tells her father to go home to Angie and she'll handle things for the night.
Liza goes to her office and pulls out papers from her locked drawer.
Natalia comes back to the ballroom and questions Colby, who doesn't tell her about the fight between Ryan and David.
Damon and Colby go to Krystal's. Asher walks in as they wonder why Asher just took off and note how they don't really know him.
Tad brings Angie home who fears her eyesight is gone for good. Jesse returns and Tad leaves, as Angie tells her husband her sight might never come back. Jesse says if that happens then they will deal with it as a family.
On their honeymoon, Scott playfully distracts Annie from turning on the TV, by carrying to their bed, where they talk about how happy they are. Emma walks in heir room and tells them she saw something on TV that scared her. She says there were sirens and lights outside the club in Pine Valley and she wants to talk to her daddy.
At his place, Ryan reels from the news of David's death. He doesn't remember it and hugs Greenlee saying he's sorry. He tries to piece together the night's events, but the last thing he remembers is talking to Liza. Greenlee explains she called him and told him she was staying with David because David found out about their plan and threatened him. The women tell him he took off to find answers and Ryan thinks he killed him. He wants the women to leave in case the cops come so they don't get involved. Once the women have left, Emma calls to make sure Ryan is okay. He says after hearing her voice he couldn't be any better. Annie gets on the phone and asks Ryan about what happened there. Ryan says it's nothing she has to worry about and quickly gets off the phone.
Kendall brings Greenlee back to Wildwind where Bianca greets them. She expresses her condolences to Greenlee and goes to make them some tea. Kendall promises her friend everything will be okay and then leaves to say goodnight to the boys. Alone, Greenlee recalls her life with David and cries. Kendall and Bianca return as Greenlee says she can't stay there and leaves.
Greenlee returns to Ryan's place. She thinks she should go to the police to tell them David was blackmailing her. Ryan thinks that would just make it worse, but Greenlee doesn't know what else to do. She needs to get some air and leaves.
Ryan goes to the police station and tells Natalia he thinks he's the guy she's looking for.
Greenlee goes to Fusion, wraps herself in a blanket and cries.
From her and Scott's room, Annie calls JR, who tells her David was murdered. Scott comes in and Annie hangs up to tell him what happened. She wonders why Ryan didn't tell her and thinks maybe they should go home worried about both Ryan and Marissa. Scott asks who was on the phone just now and she tells him someone from the office.
Jake looks over David's body at the hospital, as Amanda walks in the room. She says she needed to be with Jake right now and he notes how tough this is for her. She never thought it would really be over, but he assures her it is. They meet with the medical examiner who will perform the autopsy and he makes disparaging remarks about David. Amanda forcefully tells him no one deserves to die like that. Alone, Jake tells Amanda David's death affects him only because he's worried about the person who killed him.
Liza comes to the hospital to see David's body. She worries things will get ugly if the person who killed him is who she thinks it is. She will do her job though for David and for her. She tells him to rest in peace if he can.
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Colby tells her mother what she saw.
Madison wants answers.
Liza turns down a deal.
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These are upbeat faith based stories that deal with issues many girls may deal with. Catie acts like a normal tween girl but has a positive outlook and comes up with pretty good solutions to her problems.
*I received a product sample to facilitate my review. All opinions are my own.
Catie Conrad Faith, Friendship, and Fashion Disasters:
About the Book:
Finally a voice in the tween genre that is relatable and no less humorous for girls aged 9 to 12 by author Angie Spady. The first book in a new series titled Desperate Diva Diaries, Catie Conrad: Faith, Friendship, and Fashion Disasters chronicles both the small triumphs and general mishaps of sixth-grade Christian want-to-be diva, Catie Conrad. While her Christian journalist father is often a co-conspirator to making Catie's life interesting with mission trips and church projects, Catie never ceases to realize God's hand in all situations.
What Natalie (11) thought:
It's a really good book, I like diary books. She tries to date a guy named Josh, hoping he will ask her to dances. She secretly loves him but she keeps messing up. Sometimes in front of the whole school. Also her family decides to adopt another kid. Throughout the book she is designing her own fashion. She has a sewing machine so she can actually create the fashions she designs. Her worst enemy is Miranda, one of the most popular girls in school.
Catie Conrad How to Become the Most (un)Popular Girl in Middle School
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Catie Conrad, fashionista extraordinaire, is back in action in the 2nd book in the Desparate Diva Diaries series, along with best friend Sophie, her brother the "Germ," and of course Miranda Maroni—her least favorite person on earth! The desperate diva isn't sure which is worse: the drama at school, or her stressed-out home life.Luckily things get put into perspective as Catie Conrad finds that with faith in God, ALL things are possible.
What Elle (8) thinks:
This books about Germ, her little brother has a pet skunk named Rosie and Catie likes to call her brother a freak. Her brothers best friend asked Germ to take care of his bearded lizard and Catie doesn't like this lizard at all. Catie goes downstairs to tell her parents that Germ took something without asking. She heard them talking about taking money from his allowance so she thought they knew what he did. Later at dinner they were talking about adopting a child and taking money from both of their allowances. Catie didn't like that because she thinks it's unfair. But at the end of the story they adopt a child. I love this story because it is funny and really fun to read.
About the Author:
Angie Spady is an award-winning educator and curriculum author who resides in Eastern Kentucky with her husband Steve and two daughters. She is the author of the popular Channing O'Banning series and notable speaker on the topic of art as a form of self-expression among elementary school children. Her innovative teaching strategies have been featured on PBS and other local media across the U.S. Her passion is to address the desperate need for good reading materials that both promote self-expression in young children and aims to challenge kids creatively and intellectually.
About the Illustator:
Channing Everidge is a high school senior, children's book illustrator, and daughter to award-winning author Angie Spady. She currently resides in Kentucky where she is a member of Hindman Student Ministries and where she is president of the Art and Cultural Enrichment Club at her school. A Governor Scholar of Kentucky, Channing excels in academics and has won numerous state awards in the arts and humanities category. Honored to join the B&H Kids family, Desperate Diva Diaries is Channing's first illustrated book series, designed to reach young kids for the glory of Christ.
You can purchase these books on Amazon.


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MSNBC finally pays off at 30 Rock
NEW YORK--Steve Capus glances at the eight video feeds on the flat-screen monitors in his Rockefeller Plaza office, smiling as he spots Andrea Mitchell in a head scarf, doing a morning live shot for MSNBC.
The 46-year-old NBC News president ticks off Mitchell's contributions while covering the Iranian regime's release of an American hiker: She was on "Today," she will be on "Nightly News" that evening, and she will host her MSNBC afternoon show from Tehran. And those multiple platforms--plus the ability to share costs with a cable channel--is what he believes separates his network from CBS and ABC.
MSNBC was once an afterthought; Capus himself repeatedly turned down a request to move there until his NBC boss ordered him to do so soon after its 1996 launch. But the channel's improving fortunes have buoyed the mothership. "Nobody had any idea how important it would be to this news division," he says. "It gives us a running start. There are no nap times around here."
With its lineup of liberal firebrands, MSNBC can also be a headache that blurs the straight-news reputation of the broadcast network, especially as such stalwarts as Mitchell, Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie spend more time on the cable airwaves. But the channel brings in revenue, in the form of cable subscription fees, and it puts NBC in the 24/7 game. Despite recurring rumors that ABC is flirting with Bloomberg or CBS might join forces with CNN, those deals, with their inevitable complications about editorial control, never seem to get done.
The recent resignation of ABC News President David Westin, who had to cut 25 percent of his staff this year, underscores the tough sledding facing the broadcast networks in an era of declining audiences. But Capus, a genial former producer who took over the news division five years ago, says the gloom-and-doom reports don't apply to his network. In fact, senior executives say NBC, MSNBC and CNBC are on track to have their most profitable years ever, generating about three-quarters of a billion dollars in combined profits. Roughly a third of that comes from MSNBC.
But getting there hasn't been a cakewalk. Capus, who came to the president's job with limited management experience, had to slice 18 percent from the leanest of the Big Three network staffs.
"It's gut-wrenching," he says. "I grew up inside this organization." Each dismissal, says the 18-year NBC veteran, "is more than a name on a sheet from human resources. You know these people, you know their families." But, he says, "I do not ever apologize for running this organization as a business." Capus has added back 5 percent of the positions through hiring this year.
NBC chief executive Jeff Zucker, who tapped Capus as a supervising producer when he was running "Today" in the early 1990s, says that "Steve is tough and demanding but also has a very soft, human side to him. There's always a concern that you can't be objective about people because you grew up there. But he's made a lot of tough calls along the way."
Capus concedes that MSNBC's lefty lineup at night--Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and, as of next week, Lawrence O'Donnell--raises questions about NBC. But cable is "narrowcasting," he says, and "I think the audience gets it, pure and simple."
Fox News, he adds, is "trying to brand us" as a liberal broadcast network because of MSNBC. "It's a classic political tactic--they don't like Keith Olbermann, they're going to come after us. It's annoying."
Fox Executive Vice President Brian Lewis responds that "NBC, and especially MSNBC, is not even a blip on our radar screen. We don't care what they do. Capus must be confusing us with CNN" as a close competitor. (Fox host Bill O'Reilly, for his part, regularly describes NBC as a left-wing network, at one point slamming "Capus and his character assassins.")
No one is suggesting that Brian Williams's newscast has suddenly become biased. But with MSNBC stars such as Matthews appearing on NBC programs--and with the cable channel having left New Jersey and settled in at 30 Rock--a blurred identity is certainly a possibility.
Fox still dominates the cable news race, but MSNBC now regularly beats CNN in prime time, and Joe Scarborough's "Morning Joe" has become the most talked-about breakfast show. Capus attributes the turnaround to the channel branding itself "the place for politics," giving it a long-sought focus after so many short-lived programs with the likes of Alan Keyes, Phil Donahue and John Hockenberry.
For its first 11 years, "MSNBC didn't have its act together," Zucker says. "Only in the last three years has MSNBC emerged as a serious network. ....
"It's too easy for people to say, 'Oh, the reason they're better than CBS and ABC is because they have MSNBC.' Is it one of the reasons? Of course. Is it the only reason? Not even close."
Zucker has made his share of mistakes with the network, most notably moving Jay Leno to prime time and giving the "Tonight" show to Conan O'Brien, which became an embarrassing fiasco. But as a career newsman, he has also devoted special attention to the care and feeding of NBC News.
The network also benefits from its financial channel, CNBC, with appearances by such stars as Erin Burnett and Maria Bartiromo, and from its minority stake in the Weather Channel, where Al Roker has a show. And MSNBC.com has become one of the most popular news Web sites.
Andrew Heyward, a former CBS News president who has consulted for NBC in the past, says having a cable outlet "is very important for brand extension, but also as a recruitment tool." NBC, for instance, lured Martin Bashir from ABC's "Nightline" in part by giving him an afternoon show, announced last week, on MSNBC.
Heyward says CBS and ABC need to find new partnerships, perhaps with local stations or newspapers. "Just relying on their existing programming poses really dire challenges."
A Temple University graduate, Capus got his start as a producer at Philadelphia's WCAU-TV, where he was paired with the new South Jersey reporter, Brian Williams. He wound up as executive producer of Williams's MSNBC newscast and then of "Nightly News," which didn't hurt his bid for a top management spot. Capus threw a pizza party last week to celebrate Williams winning 52 straight weeks in the ratings. "Nightly" has averaged 8.55 million viewers, to 7.55 million for Diane Sawyer's broadcast and 5.71 million for Katie Couric's program.
NBC's other signature newscasts, "Today"and "Meet the Press," were in first place when Capus took over and remain atop the ratings, despite the death of Tim Russert and Couric's defection to CBS. There has been some industry chatter about whether Couric might be lured to her old network when her CBS contract expires next year.
"How can you not at least think about it?" Capus says of the prospect of Couric's return. While he calls the "CBS Evening News" a "good broadcast," Capus adds that every television journalist needs the right platform--and in Couric's case, "you have to think long and hard, what would that be?"
NBC, like every network, is trying to peddle more of its wares online (CBS's "60 Minutes" will launch a Web show with original content next week called "Overtime"). Capus notes that NBC's Ann Curry has more than 1 million followers on Twitter. Williams, who has dissed Twitter as a waste of time, finally joined the site last week (he has 4,000 followers but has yet to tweet).
But a long shadow hangs over the news division. Comcast's acquisition of the network from General Electric, which is expected to be completed by year's end, could bring major changes in leadership and resources. In his limited conversations with Comcast executives, Capus says, "they are very much in that mode of 'what can we do to help?' You want to hear that."
One plus for the Philadelphia-area native: the cable giant owns the Flyers and the 76ers. Capus, who keeps Flyers photos on his office wall, bumped into Brian Roberts, Comcast's chief executive, at a game during the hockey playoffs.
Did they huddle about NBC's future?
"We talked about whether the Flyers could score on the power play," Capus says.
Howard Kurtz also works for CNN and hosts its weekly media program, "Reliable Sources."
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Now that is one hard hitting report on MSNBC...such tough questions. With all those lib/dem firebrands, how could anyone surmise that NBC is a liberal network, especially Capus and Zucker.
Posted by: d1carter | September 19, 2010 11:13 PM | Report abuse
Don't you have to worry that the network becomes Philadelphia-centric? Or maybe they should unleash Andrea to take on the likes of Tate, Rizzo, or Darlin' Arlen from her early years in broadcasting. Jeesh, where has the time gone?
Posted by: Talltimber41 | September 19, 2010 11:45 PM | Report abuse
Brian Williams not biased? Wasn't Brian the guy BOWING to Obama???
Posted by: beecheery | September 20, 2010 3:02 AM | Report abuse
glad it is out in the open that Zucker "tapped" a mid-20-something as a producer and made him a chief with "limited" network experience. In case we missed the Alpha male meme, there are even sports analogies.
And where is a women manager/decision-maker that either of them has advanced with "limited" experience? Women have to prove their mettle in the face of these empowered modern-day sexist men who group together for power and throw off all but token female empowerment.
Nice to see that nobody thinks Capus earned his striped but was simply helped into the boat, as another man's workplace BFF.
Noted. Ladies, where do you want to get your news? From these sexist pigs?
Posted by: FloridaChick | September 20, 2010 6:52 AM | Report abuse
Personally, I can't watch msnbc. It is just too slanted to the left. It's just laughable anyone could take them as a legitimate news source. Same with nbc and cnbc.
Watch the FOX networks if you want the truth.
bye bye democrats
Posted by: COOLCHILLY | September 20, 2010 7:04 AM | Report abuse
RE: "It's a classic political tactic--they (Fox) don't like Keith Olbermann, they're going to come after us. It's annoying."
Earth to Capus: Most viewers don't like KO..that's why you are so far behind in the ratings. KO is arrogant and elitist.
Posted by: tbenintende | September 20, 2010 7:23 AM | Report abuse
Fox is not a credible news org, but rather a propaganda machine - evidenced by Murdoch's recent $1,000,000 contribution to the Republican Party.
Posted by: angie12106 | September 20, 2010 7:54 AM | Report abuse
Personally, I cannot watch Fox News. It's slanted too far to the right. I can't believe anyone could take them as a legitimate news source. I'm very happy that I can watch a cable news channel without having the urge to throw my shoe at the TV. Thank you NBC for the lineup on MSNBC and the new show with Lawrence O'Donnell.
Posted by: phansen1 | September 20, 2010 8:17 AM | Report abuse
COOLCHILLY recently wrote: "Watch the FOX Networks if you want the truth."
His Holiness the Dalai Lama once wrote: "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who have found it."
My money's on the Tibetan.
Posted by: greggwiggins | September 20, 2010 8:55 AM | Report abuse
I guess in Howard's book "pays off" has nothing to do with anyone actually watching. MSNBC is the most biased of all the broadcasts and is more of the same so they have done nothing to differentiate their product. How is watching them any different from NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, Headline News, etc.? They product the same opinion presented as news/fact and it has no appeal to the viewers. Their nightly audience could fit in a dive of a bar.
Posted by: slainte1 | September 20, 2010 9:00 AM | Report abuse
You have neglected the impact of Morning JOe. Because of that program more people are meeting a wider range of thinking people. If that show doesn't make a political junky out of you I feel sorry for you. What do you do to have a decent political discussion?
Posted by: MarjorieTLee | September 20, 2010 9:19 AM | Report abuse
FOX "News" is arrogant and elitist.
Posted by: cllr | September 20, 2010 9:31 AM | Report abuse
To all those on the WaPo message boards who love to tout FOX New's ratings: So what?! Tell me, does the fact that FOX has the highest cable news ratings imbue that network with any claim to being "right" about anything (pun intended)? According to the ratings, at peak viewing times, there are no more than about 1.5 million Americans out of a population of over 300 million watching FOX News. For the mathematically challenged, that's less than .5 percent of the population of the country. All these ratings mean is that the older, white conservatives demographic is much more inclined to watch cable "news" than the rest of the country, especially if it feeds into their entrenched bigotries. Again....so what?!
Posted by: bienefes | September 20, 2010 9:35 AM | Report abuse
"Most viewers don't like KO..that's why you are so far behind in the ratings. KO is arrogant and elitist."
Most viewers don't like the kindly, mild-mannered Bill O'Reilly either. I almost added "avuncular," but when addressing a Fox News viewer, I find that four-syllable words are risky.
Posted by: mattintx | September 20, 2010 9:40 AM | Report abuse
I've watched NBC Nightly News for 20+ years, and recently I've detected a more bias leaning in what they're reporting, and how it's being covered.
It's a shame to watch, and I'm thinking seriously of not watching it at all.
Posted by: mtpeaks | September 20, 2010 10:53 AM | Report abuse
I suppose Howie wants everyone to watch Fox news. People watch programs that appeal to their own values, and that speaks volumes about the kind of people who watch Fox. I suspect it's mostly angry, old, white people watching Fox. Of course, some of the programs on MSNBC are biased. And Fox isn't? Fox is a foreign owned entity that is a propaganda machine for the right-wing Republicans.
Posted by: lddoyle2002 | September 20, 2010 10:55 AM | Report abuse
Nobody could watch MS-NBC on a regular basis and come away with the idea that it is a "liberal" station in the way that Fox News is demonstrably a "conservative" station. Maddow and Olbermann are classic moderates: they only seem liberal because the rest of American programming has gone so far to the right. In Europe, they wouldn't raise an eyebrow.
It is good to have one media outlet giving us the unvarnished truth.
Posted by: jeff9741 | September 20, 2010 11:11 AM | Report abuse
Gosh, you know what I would love to see? A news channel that reports the news. Not a channel purporting to be news but telling us events of the day from a slanted perspective. Not a channel with twelve different personalities each yelling at me from a different corner. Just a news channel, telling me the news. And when there isn't news, don't tell it to me again; just sit there and smile until more news happens.
Is that too much to ask?
Posted by: Elnok | September 20, 2010 11:15 AM | Report abuse
What a double standard! Howie's always defending FOX saying people can tell the difference between their news people and commentators on the SAME channel. Yet he's concerned that people will equate NBC and MSNBC? And MSNBC isn't even close to FOX in terms of distortion. Some times I think MSNBC should copy FOX (aka GOPTV) and be completely blatant about their leanings.
Posted by: PHL10 | September 20, 2010 11:22 AM | Report abuse
NewsBusters: NBC News Prez Whines That FOX News Is 'Trying to Brand Us' As Liberals Because of the Radical MSNBC Lineup
Posted by: StewartIII | September 20, 2010 11:52 AM | Report abuse
Fox News is a vomitfest of people who read and regurgitate republican talking points. No one on the network thinks for themselve and neither do their viewers. MSNBC, while definitely on the left, at least get their facts straight and if they don't, they correct themselves. I'm disturbed that they've given Lawrence O'Donnell a show. He's good as a fill in but I doubt he can carry an hour. I'd much prefer to see them give Cenk Uygur his own show. I was not familiar with him, but he really know how to get the right wing tangled in their own rhetoric.
Posted by: blarsen1 | September 20, 2010 1:14 PM | Report abuse
This column and discussion is rather silly. It's laughable that MSNBC is even being discussed as a news outlet.
Posted by: hsanders1 | September 20, 2010 1:37 PM | Report abuse
ChickaBOOMer| MSNBC: The Little Engine That Could
Posted by: StewartIII | September 20, 2010 4:21 PM | Report abuse
Roberts thinks it is a wise business plan to buy a broadcast network at a time when broadcast market share is way down and heading to zero. In 20 years, or less, everything will arrive over the Internet. Result: end of CATV (Community Antenna Television) and broadcast networks.
Posted by: BlueTwo1 | September 20, 2010 5:51 PM | Report abuse
There's a lot of spinning going on in this interview. How can MSNBC generate $250 million in profits, when hardly anyone is watching? Or was that because of the 2010 Winter Olympics, when MSNBC televised many of the hockey matches?
As for bias, Joe Scarborough is the only non-lefty in the MSNBC lineup, and he has publicly referred to the liberal bias at that network.
As for CNBC, I don't understand why its significance was downplayed. It has some of the very best reporters on TV, even though some have already been hired away by the competition.
Posted by: JBaustian | September 21, 2010 12:20 PM | Report abuse
As long as Fox "News" is slinging GOP-generated talking points as "fact," some reality-based reporting from MSNBC is necessary.
Olbermann's & Maddow's shows should be seen by all, especially conservatives who actually believe Fox to be a genuine source of information.
Posted by: dan122 | September 24, 2010 2:46 PM | Report abuse
MSNBC has only gotten its act together in the past three years? So syas Jeff Zucker. That's the most ridiculous statement I've heard. Prior to the last three years MSNBC was a serious cable news outlet and my first choice. Now, it's just a propaganda outlet. Good riddance Zucker. Hopefully, Comcast will clean house at MSNBC and return it to its former prominence.
Posted by: Steve851 | September 26, 2010 9:07 AM | Report abuse
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Angela Elwell Hunt never dreamed she'd one day be helping Christian celebrities pen their biographies and writing award-winning, best-selling novels.
Hunt may pinch herself in next month when one of her most popular titles becomes her first book to debut as a television movie. The Hallmark Channel will premiere The Note on December 8 (9/8 PM Central), telling the story of a newspaper columnist whose quest to deliver a message from a dying airline passenger leads her on a personal journey of healing.
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How and when did you begin writing?
I became a freelance writer in 1983 because I wanted to help put groceries on the table and I wanted a job I could do at home when my children were small. I wrote magazine articles and anything anyone would pay me to write. I saw an ad for unpublished picture book writers, studied it and wrote something up and it won the contest. It was never my goal, my dream. I believe for the Christian, our duty is to follow the Lord one step at a time. Why should we have a dream when He's got them for us and we don't necessarily know what they are? I would rather obey day by day than set up some dream that may or may not be part of His will for me.
What was your first published work and how did that launch your career?
If I Had Long Hair was published in 1987. I (went on) to write children's books and nonfiction for middle schoolers and adults. My husband and I adopted our children (they are now 23 and 24) and I wrote a nonfiction book on adoption. I also wrote a book about surviving the 'tweenage' years, about parenting middle schoolers. I shared that byline with my husband, Gary. He was and is a middle school youth pastor at a church in the Tampa Bay area.
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This was my third picture book. The story is in the pubic domain. I had heard it in a song and seen it in cards. It occurred to me the story was not in picture book form, so I changed some key elements and wrote it as a picture book.
It has sold over 1 million copies and has gone international. Most people, when they meet me and learn that I wrote The Tale of Three Trees and that I'm a novelist, they don't realize that writers can write in many different genres. I write as the idea comes to me. A lot of times they will call me to co-write a project because they're in a rush. I did two of those last year.
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Your latest novel is called Doesn't She Look Natural? Tell us about it.
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Even having written 100-plus books, you continue to hone your craft. Is there still something for you to learn at this point?
Every book is an offering to the Lord. I probably could write a book on autopilot these days, but I don't think it would be fulfilling to me or honoring to the Lord. I try every year to go to at least one writer's conference where I'm the student, where I sit and learn new techniques and push myself to go deeper. That's the joy of this job. Every book is like climbing the mountain all over the again. Some things get easier, but there are always new slopes and new challenges.
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I don't plan to teach theology, but it's very useful in my writing. For me, writing is about me learning. I wanted to tackle new things and explore areas I am beginning to think about. I got three book ideas out of my Master of Biblical Studies in Theology and I'm sure I'll get some more out of the doctorate of Biblical Studies I plan to pursue next.
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You've written dozens of books and your book club hasn't read any?
They've offered. But in a book club you're supposed to be free to say what you don't like. Me being there would stifle their opinions, because they're nice ladies.
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Hearing from readers that a certain book changed their lives or opened their eyes to something God was doing or to some character quality of God that they hadn't considered before. That's when I know it has hit home.
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This bakwan cost a mere $1. The golden-fried veggie fritter is a common snack on the streets of Jakarta. Rather than go with the sweet sauce that was initially offered, I chose chilies.
This is Ami. He's from West Sumatra and he knows how to grill a fish. Even though a girl raved that it was "best fish she ever had," I decided to get something else from Ami's table.
A $2 sample plate of udang goreng, or sautéed shrimp with chili sauce, was supremely shrimpy, thanks to Ami's leaving the shells on. Crunching into the meaty shrimp coated in a sweet-sour sauce studded with vibrant red chilies was pure bliss.
After walking around a bit I found myself in front of Ami's grill again. "It's the last one," he said. "Gimme that grilled fish, gimme that ikan bakar, gimme that grilled fish," I replied. (OK, fine I didn't really say that, but I wish I had.) After all, it was only $6, and it looked damn good.
As you can see, it was so big I barely got a picture of the whole thing. It was bathed in mixture of kecap manis (a sweet thick soy sauce), kecap asim (its salty, unsweetened sister), and some jalapeños. Ami chose jalapeños because he said some people can't handle really hot peppers. For a moment I thought I wasn't at an Indonesian Food Bazaar, but I shrugged it off and we dug in.
The fish was so good—crispy exterior, flaky tender meat, combined with the peppery, sweet, salty sauce—that this is the only photographic evidence of our eating it. Many thanks to my friend Willyum's wife, Naomi, for expertly stripping the flesh off the bones.
One of the best things about an event like the Indonesian Food Bazaar is the variety of items and the opportunity for grazing that it affords. For my first dessert I chose one of these cucurs, or sweet rice fritters, because I'd never seen anything like them.
Here's a closer look at one of the sticky glutinous cakes.
And closer still. It had a pleasant chewy texture and a sweet caramelized taste that was no doubt due to liberal use of gula jawa, or palm sugar.
I also had one of these sweet sticky rice thingies coated in coconut and doused with more sugar syrup. Due to an impending food coma, I didn't get the Indonesian name. I capped the afternoon off with a durian shake. We even got to watch some ping-pong.
Many thanks to Dave Cook of Eating in Translation for hipping me to this wonderful event. He says it might have been the last event at the mosque for the summer. I sincerely hope he's wrong.
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Emmy Award winner Regis Philbin will host THE 37TH ANNUAL DAYTIME EMMY(R) AWARDS, to air live from the Las Vegas Hilton Sunday, June 27 (9:00-11:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network.
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Since Philbin first stepped in front of the camera more than 40 years ago, he has ambitiously tackled talk shows, game shows and even the literary world, with multiple best-sellers to his credit. In May 2001, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honored him with a Daytime Emmy as Outstanding Talk Show Host for his syndicated program, "Live with Regis," and another Emmy award as Outstanding Game Show Host for "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire." He and co-host Kelly Ripa received the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Special Class Special for hosting the 2006 "Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade." In Fall 2009, he broke his own existing Guinness World Record? for Most Hours on Camera, setting a new mark of 16,343 hours accumulated over his illustrious career - a career that was recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at the 2008 Daytime Emmy Awards.
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Recipe from Donald Friend of Buffalo, N.Y.
Prep Time: 5 min
Cook time 45min
1 pound of boneless, skinless chicken breasts
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1 tbsp garlic powder
1. Cube chicken into 1" squares add all to pan and simmer slowly until chicken is cooked.
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The TV critic for the Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, New Mexico) wasn't a fan of the Disneyland TV episode, "Magic Highway, U.S.A." The review in May 14, 1958 proclaims that, "the future for driver's is hideous if Disney artists have their way." Below is the full review.
Walt Disney's Disneyland goes a-motoring in "Magic Highway, U.S.A." with a kaledoscopic history of the road, its present cluttered state and some future projections. The future for driver's is hideous if Disney artists have their way, though they don't mean it to be. There are also some road-building shots for any folks at home who might want to build roads. These sequences are rather interminable. Perhaps an hour was too long for the subject matter, with the Southern California Horseless Carriage Club providing the most amusing moments in their 1904 and 1906 models.


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Please use this thread for any reports.jamesh wrote: ↑Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:09 amWe have a new beta release of wireless dongle firmware. This is for anyone using this dongle https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/ra ... fi-dongle/
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Etihad Aviation Group supports World Autism month
ABU DHABI, April 9, 2018
Etihad Aviation Group, in cooperation with Emirates Autism Society, supported World Autism Awareness Month by organising a series of events and activities during the first week of April.
Highlighting the need for increased awareness and understanding of autism, Etihad hosted an awareness workshop at its Training Academy. The workshop featured an informative presentation by Sheena Kathleen Reynolds, an Occupational Therapist from the Wilson Centre for Child Development. A short documentary named "Lemonade" was also broadcast to the audience. The documentary highlighted the difficulties, hopes and aspirations of families of autistic adults.
An exclusive innovation gallery of artwork and robots crafted by individuals with autism was also held in conjunction with the staff event.
Yousef and Kareem, two children who dream of becoming television presenters, hosted the event and welcomed the speakers and the guests.
Khaled Al Mehairbi, senior vice president of Abu Dhabi Airport Operations and chairman of the Sports and Social Committee at Etihad Airways, said: "We are delighted to cooperate with Emirates Autism Society to increase awareness of autism in the hope of improving the lives of children and adults with autism and better integrate them into society. We look forward to continuing our support of Autism Awareness Month within the UAE."
Etihad has also joined thousands of businesses, buildings and iconic landmarks in 'Light It Up Blue' – a global initiative on World Autism Awareness Day which falls on April 2 - by lighting the exterior of its facilities as well as the interiors of its Abu Dhabi Airport premium lounges with blue, the globally recognised colour for autism, and invited its non-uniformed staff to wear casual clothes with a touch of blue.
Pins and flyers with autism awareness information were distributed to guests at Abu Dhabi International Airport by children from Emirates Autism Society.
Autism is a developmental disorder encompassing severe abnormalities in reciprocal social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, accompanied by restricted and repetitive behaviours and interests. These behavioural symptoms are present in very early childhood, before the age of 36 months. Continuous efforts are made across the UAE to promote awareness of Autism and integrate autistic individuals within the society. - TradeArabia News Service