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Ohio kidnap suspect confirmed as father of captive girl
By Susan Guyett INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The daughter of Ariel Castro, the chief suspect in the Cleveland abduction of three women freed on Monday, is serving time in an Indiana prison for attempted murder after she slashed her baby's throat four times with a knife, court documents show. Emily Castro, 25, was sentenced to 25 years and is at the Rockville, Indiana, Correctional Facility. She was found guilty in Allen County Superior Court of attempting to murder her 11-month-old daughter, according to a decision by the Court of Appeals of Indiana on November 5, 2008. ...
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1969 Hendrix telegram: Can Paul come to play?
LONDON (AP) ? Miles and Jimi. Jimi and Miles. Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix's sudden death in 1970.
But less attention has been paid to the bass player they were trying to recruit: Paul McCartney, who was busy with another band at the time.
This tantalizing detail about the super group that never was ? jazz standout Tony Williams would have been on drums ? is contained in an oft-overlooked telegram that Hendrix sent to McCartney at The Beatles' Apple Records in London on Oct. 21, 1969.
"We are recording and LP together this weekend in NewYork," it says, complete with typographical errors. "How about coming in to play bass stop call Alvan Douglas 212-5812212. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams."
The telegram has been part of the Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia collection since it was purchased at auction in 1995. Still it has only generated attention in recent months with the successful release of "People, Hell & Angels," expected to be the last CD of Hendrix's studio recordings.
"It's not something you hear about a lot," Hard Rock historian Jeff Nolan said of the telegram, now displayed at the restaurant in Prague. "Major Hendrix connoisseurs are aware of it. It would have been one of the most insane supergroups. These four cats certainly reinvented their instruments and the way they're perceived."
French promoter and Hendrix fanatic Yazid Manou, who has researched the telegram, says it offers a glimpse of what might have been.
"It's amazing because of the names of the people," he said. "Of course that didn't happen, but the telegram brings us something to dream about. This is a document, proof that they had an idea to do an album."
The telegram raises more questions than it answers. It advises McCartney to contact producer Alan Douglas (whose first name is misspelled in the cable) if he could make the session. But it's not clear if McCartney was even aware of the unusual, apparently impromptu invitation to rush from his London base to New York for the planned session.
Beatle aide Peter Brown replied on McCartney's behalf, telling Hendrix the following day that McCartney was on vacation and not expected back for another two weeks.
The invitation came at an extremely awkward moment for the Beatles' bassist. It was sent the same day a prominent New York City radio station gave wide exposure to a rumor that McCartney had died in a car crash and been replaced by a lookalike. The bizarre story, supposedly supported by hints on Beatles records and album covers, briefly gained worldwide credibility. Its dark nature apparently prompted the exasperated McCartney to retreat with his family to their farm in Scotland.
It also came at a time when the Beatles were falling apart due to business and artistic conflicts that likely would have been exacerbated by McCartney appearing on a record with Hendrix and Davis. McCartney was also still bound by a songwriting partnership with John Lennon that might have further complicated the release of any McCartney-Hendrix-Davis compositions.
And then there is the question of what the proposed group would have sounded like. Davis was moving away from his jazz roots toward a fusion-based sound. He said in his autobiography that by 1968 he was listening primarily to James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone and, particularly, Hendrix ? musicians joined by a love of syncopated funk not found on Beatles tracks.
It is not clear either how McCartney's melodic, subtle bass playing would have made its presence felt in a band that included Hendrix' guitar and Davis' trumpet.
"At first, though, it sounds really weird and off the wall. But on second thought it makes perfect, Hendrix-type sense to chuck in someone who's a great musician but comes from a different tradition," said Hendrix biographer Charles Shaar Murray. "I regret this never actually took place. ... it would have been magnificent."
McCartney is the only one of the four musicians who is still alive. His spokesman, Stuart Bell, said the former Beatle is too busy on his world tour to comb his memory for his thoughts about a telegram sent more than four decades ago.
In his autobiography, Davis said he and Hendrix occasionally jammed together at his apartment in New York City and tried to get into the studio to record but were hampered by financial matters and by their busy schedules. Murray and others maintain that Davis wanted $50,000 up front to attend the session.
The Juilliard-trained trumpeter Davis described Hendrix, who learned his chops backing up the Isley Brothers and others, as a self-taught "natural musician" who could not read music but was able to pick up complicated pieces in the blink of an eye.
Davis says in the book that he and arranger Gil Evans were in Europe planning to record with Hendrix at the time of his death in London.
"What I didn't understand is why nobody told him not to mix alcohol and sleeping pills," Davis wrote.
Hendrix's death dashed their plans to record together, with or without McCartney. Eddie Kramer, the engineer who produced most of Hendrix's music, said there will always be speculation about what might have been.
"I think it would have been phenomenal," Kramer said. "Lord knows where it may have gone; those huge egos in the studio at the same time! I would have loved to have done that one. But it was not to be."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/1969-hendrix-telegram-paul-come-play-062723028.html
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Achy breaky hot: Miley Cyrus tops Maxim hot list
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Miley Cyrus spoiled her own news last week: The singer and actress was named No.1 on the Maxim Magazine's 2013 Hot 100 list of beautiful women, and she just couldn't keep the news secret.
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Miley Cyrus tops Maxim's Hot 100 list.
Cyrus tweeted on May 3, "Didn't know this was coming out yet! I'm so happy to be #1 on Maxims HOT 100!" Whoops, turns out the magazine, and the news, wasn't out yet. But the news was true anyway, and the issue will be on newsstands May 21.
Readers vote for the 100 women, and Cyrus, No. 68 last year, moved up to the top spot this time.
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Football player Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend also made the list.
She's followed by Selena Gomez, Rihanna, Mila Kunis, and Jennifer Lawrence rounding out the top five.
There are some surprises on the list. TODAY show fourth-hour anchor Hoda Kotb is No.79 -- Maxim's editor came by the program to present her with a sash and bouquet.
And also on the list was "Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend," honoring the hoax that made headlines nationally for the Notre Dame football player. The photo for her was a bikini hanging in thin air, as if on an invisible woman.
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No trace of Australian couple who fell overboard
SYDNEY (AP) ? No trace of an Australian couple believed to have fallen off a cruise ship has been found despite an intense, day-long search, officials said Friday.
Paul Rossington, a 30-year-old paramedic, and his 26-year-old girlfriend Kristen Schroder, both from the town of Barraba in New South Wales state, were discovered missing Thursday morning after the Carnival Spirit docked at Sydney's Circular Quay at the end of a 10-day journey, said New South Wales Police Superintendent Mark Hutchings.
Surveillance camera footage showed the couple fell more than 20 meters (65 feet) from the ship's mid deck Wednesday night, Hutchings said, when the ship was about 120 kilometers (65 nautical miles) off the coast of Forster, a city 300 kilometers (185 miles) north of Sydney.
They were discovered missing more than 12 hours after police believe they fell overboard.
Rescue officials searched through the night with heat-seeking infrared equipment, but had not found the couple as of Friday morning, police said.
"We're going to be going hard today ? we've got a lot of assets we're throwing at this," Hutchings told Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Friday.
Andrea Hayward-Maher, spokeswoman for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating the search, said Friday that five airplanes and a helicopter were searching a 700-square-kilometer (200-square-nautical mile) area of sea 110 kilometers (70 miles) east of Forster. She said search conditions were good.
Investigators were having the surveillance video enhanced in a bid to determine whether Rossington and Schroder had jumped or had fallen by accident.
The ship has around 600 surveillance cameras that are constantly monitored, although no one reported seeing the fall at the time.
Hutchings said the pair fell a few moments apart. It was not clear from the video who fell first.
No life preservers were missing from the ship, Hutchings said. A missing life preserver might have indicated that one of the missing passengers had attempted a rescue.
Carnival Spirit is owned by Miami-based Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise operator. The company has been plagued by a series of high-profile problems in recent years.
Carnival Corp.'s representative in the South Pacific region, Ann Sherry, chief executive of Carnival Australia, defended the company's record, saying safety was paramount.
The railing over which the couple fell outside their cabin was 5 centimeters (2 inches) higher than industry safety regulations require, she said.
"It's designed really to prevent accidental tripping" overboard, she told reporters.
Sherry defended the level of monitoring of passengers aboard the ship that allowed the couple's fall to go unnoticed. At least four people were monitoring the ship's surveillance cameras at any time, she said.
"Everyone was on the last night of a fantastic holiday. We record people as they come on and off ships," Sherry said.
"The cameras are monitored and we tend to monitor the spaces where most people are," she added. "There is also a balance, of course, around privacy. We don't watch what people are doing in their private spaces."
Searchers maintained Friday that there was still a chance that the couple would be found alive.
Stephen Leahy, chief executive of Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopters, said the search area was calm and the sea temperature was around 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit).
Leahy described Rossington, a paramedic for the New South Wales state ambulance service, as being "very fit."
"He has a very good understanding ... of survival techniques and his level of fitness will help him," Leahy told ABC. "He'll also be able to help his partner."
"The chances of two young people surviving are very, very good, and certainly from our perspective, we haven't given up hope," he added.
The couple and seven of their family and friends were among 2,680 passengers on a South Pacific cruise. The ship's last stop was Mare Island in New Caledonia, which it left on Monday, bound for Sydney.
The emergency is the latest high-profile problem for Carnival Corp.
Last year, the Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Italy, killing 32 people. Also last year, the Costa Allegra caught fire and lost power in the Indian Ocean, leaving passengers without working toilets, running water or air conditioning for three days. Costa is a division of Carnival Corp.
In February, passengers aboard the Carnival Triumph spent five days without power in the Gulf of Mexico after an engine-room fire disabled the vessel. Those on board complained of squalid conditions, including overflowing toilets and food shortages.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/2-cruise-passengers-fall-overboard-off-australia-111326013.html
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South Africa's main mine union to launch youth wing as numbers fall
By Ed Stoddard
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's dominant mineworkers union will launch a youth wing on Thursday in a bid to shore up its numbers after it lost tens of thousands of members to a militant rival last year on the country's platinum belt.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which says it has around 300,000 members or about 60 percent of the mine workforce in the world's top platinum producer, is a key political ally of the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
Its massive loss of members to the radical Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) last year in the platinum shafts during a bloody turf war was rooted in rank and file perceptions that its leaders had lost touch with ordinary workers and become too close to management and the ANC.
NUM spokesman Lesiba Seshoka said research showed the union's membership was getting younger and that most of the members it lost to AMCU last year were in their 20s or 30s.
"We need young guys. The old guys are more loyal to the NUM because they came up with us through the struggle against apartheid," Seshoka told Reuters.
"The young guys are more militant and we have to look at the interests of young members," he said.
The new entity will be called the "NUM Youth Forum" and will be modeled on the lines of the ANC Youth League. It will elect its leaders at meetings in Midrand north of Johannesburg, on Thursday and Friday, Seshoka said.
The creation of a youth wing also comes ahead of wage negotiations in the mining sector which will be among the toughest ever, given inflation, worker militancy and shrinking company margins.
"The young guys are likely going to be very hard on wage talks," Seshoka said.
The move signals NUM is preparing to literally fight back against AMCU, seeking younger men to beef up its ranks, after the rivalry between the two triggered violence last year that killed over 50 people and sparked a wave of wildcat strikes that hammered production.
(Editing by Keiron Henderson)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-africas-main-mine-union-launch-youth-wing-103038248.html
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