The Invisible Hand

An invisible and remote hand has operated successfully a 70-year-old english man who was afffected by irregular heartbeat.

A new magic fronteer for the tecnology's serving the surgery and medicine needs.

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British man has world's first heart operation using remote control-operated robotic arm
By Fay Schlesinger

A British pensioner yesterday became the world's first patient to have heart surgery using a fully remote-controlled robotic arm, doctors said.

Kenneth Crocker, 70, underwent the successful operation to correct an irregular heartbeat at the Glenfield Hospital in Leicestershire.

The 3ft robotic arm pushed a thin surgical tube into Mr Crocker's body while the surgeon - sitting in a separate room - used remote control to steer it through a vein into the heart to correct faulty tissue fibres.

Willing guinea pig: Kenneth Crocker before undergoing his pioneering heart surgery
The painstaking procedure is normally performed by hand and exposes surgeons to dangerous levels of radiation from more than 250 X-rays to monitor the location of the probe for up to eight hours.

But Mr Crocker's ground-breaking operation was completed in just one hour yesterday and hailed an 'enormous success' by British doctors.

It is the first time that the procedure - the same performed on Tony Blair by hand in 2004 - has been carried out by a fully remote-controlled robot anywhere in the world, it was claimed.

Mr Crocker, a retired postal worker from Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, had suffered from an irregular heartbeat for four years.

Before going into theatre, he said: 'Somebody always has to be the first to try something and I've always had a sense of adventure.

'I've been very excited about the operation for weeks. It's a little bit of extra magic being the first in the world.

'I tried cardioversion, which is electric shock therapy, and different medicines to get rid of the problem but so far nothing has worked.

'I've seen the robotic arm and it's an impressive piece of kit. I'd like to shake hands with it after when I'm cured but maybe that won’t be possible.'

Working remotely: Surgeon Dr Andre Ng, consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital and senior lecturer in cardiovascular sciences at the University of Leicester, holds a remote controller for a catheter
Consultant cardiologist Dr André Ng (both corr) carried out yesterday's surgery using the Remote Catheter Manipulation System, a £350,000 robotic arm made in New Jersey, USA.

A 6mm-wide catheter fitted with a pinhole camera and light was inserted into Mr Crocker's groin using keyhole surgery.

Dr Ng then used the mechanical arm and a TV monitor to control its journey through the body using two buttons - one for direction and one to move forwards and backwards.

The catheter gyrates on the end of the robot's arm when it detects fibres on the heart's surface that cause the irregular rhythm.

Radio frequencies are then blasted down the catheter to perform an 'ablation', burning away the faulty fibres.

This corrects the flow of electrical currents through the organ and restores a regular heartbeat.

The system enables the six-man team - including a cardiologist, his assistant, two radiographers and two technicians - to perform the procedure in almost half the time of the traditional method.

The technique could be used to treat up to 50,000 Britons diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat each year, Dr Ng said, reducing strokes and heart failure.

A shortage of skilled clinicians mean only one in ten victims of the condition - called atrial (corr) flutter or atrial fibrillation - are currently treated using catheter ablation.

Dr Ng said: 'Surgeons receive a phenomenal amount of radiation during these kind of heart operations. But with the mechanical arm I can do the same operation from the safety and comfort of the control room.

'This is the first time in the world that the operation has been performed using this fully robotic arm.

'The catheter is programmed to perform exactly the same movements as I would manually which makes it just as precise.

'There's also the added benefit that the operations are sped up and more can be carried out because surgeons are not as tired.

'Heart rhythm treatment procedures are very common in people of all ages and there are hundreds of different conditions.

'If you think about the potential of robotic operations in a Star Trek world, then in a few years we could do the entire operation by just pushing a button.'

Speaking after the operation as Mr Crocker recovered on a ward, Dr Ng said the procedure was a success.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1269681/British-man-worlds-heart-operation-using-remote-control-operated-robotic-arm.html#ixzz0mSoDkVfF

Thanks again, Mr Obama

Some weeks ago I wrote a post thanking the USA president Mr Obama for receiveing the Dalai Lama at the White House in Washington, despite the China's threatens.

Now I want to thank Mr Obama for reminding the world the genocide inflicted by the Turkeys against the Armenian People.

I'm sorry was not able to find the English version of the interesting interview made to prof. Andrew Lawless.

I hope you can manage a little bit with Spanish language.

It might be possible you find it through the link below.

http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/es/tmo_es_article.php?article=_el_genocidio_armenio

Six Months? Not really: say six days!

Six must be his magic number for the giant newborn in South Yorkshire, England.

His name is Harry and when was born he weighed more than six kilos, but he looks like a six month year old baby, though is only six days (see the picture).

It's a record for the hospital where he was born at, since the records began.

Best wishes to his parents mother Sharon and father Paul, who feel very proud of the newborn, though had to dump the too small clothes they had taken ready to use.

Meet Harry the newborn heavyweight: The baby who tips the scales at almost a STONE
By Daily Mail Reporter

Meet Harry Crossland, the giant newborn baby who made his heavyweight arrival into the world tipping the scales at almost a stone.
Harry weighed in at an amazing 13lb 15oz, leaving hospital staff - and mother Sharon Needham - stunned.
And Harry is a record breaker at Doncaster Royal Infirmary where he is the heaviest birth since records began.

Miss Needham, 35, and partner Mechanic Paul Crossland, 51, have had to dump the smaller clothes they were planning to use for their son, who is double the size of the average newborn.
Instead he is already in clothes ordinary babies would wear at age six.
Mother of five Miss Needham, of Bessacarr, Doncaster, had to give birth by Caesarean section because Harry was too big for a normal birth.
She was conscious during the operation but was shielded from the operation by a curtain as Paul held her hand. But they were left speechless when the midwife handed Harry over.
She said: ‘We were both flabbergasted . When the nurses popped him over the curtain we were both speechless. I thought they'd given me someone else's baby.
‘I had a growth scan the day before and the staff said he would be about nine and a half pounds so it was a massive shock.
‘The nurses were shocked as well . They said he was the biggest baby the hospital had ever delivered.
‘When we went up to the special care ward, they couldn't believe he was newborn, they thought he had been transferred to the wrong ward and should have gone to the paediatric ward.’
Harry weighed more than the combined weight of his 13-year-old twin siblings, Siobhan and Kyle, who were born totalling 12lb 14oz.

Proud: Harry with parents Sharon Needham and Paul Crossland at home in Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Miss Needham's eldest Nikkita, 15, weighed 8lb 11oz and daughter Elisha, ten was 7lb 2oz.
The astonished mother, who herself weighed 7lb 7oz, said: ‘There has never been a history of big babies in the family but I knew he would be fairly heavy because I couldn't walk with Harry in the final days of pregnancy.
‘I never experienced that with any of the other children, even with the twins, I could walk fine when I was pregnant with them.’
Medical staff calculated that she was carrying around three litres of water with Harry and her placenta weighed much heavier than normal - at 1.6kg.
But she can't explain why her son was so heavy and she didn't eat large amounts of food during pregnancy.
Miss Needham added: ‘I couldn't eat at all because I felt full after every mouthful.
‘He must have been putting pressure on my stomach.’
Mr Crossland said: ‘It was a huge surprise.’
Britain's heaviest newborn was Guy Warwick Carr, delivered in Cumbria in 1992 weighing 15lb 8oz .
The heaviest baby ever born was produced by Anna Bates of Canada in 1879, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
She weighed 23lb 12lb and died 11 hours after birth.
The record for a baby which survived is held by a boy born weighing 22lb 8oz at Aversa, Italy, in 1955.
The heaviest recent birth was a boy born last September to a woman in Northern Sumatra Indonesia at 19lb 3oz.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268124/Harry-heavywight-Newborn-tips-scales-STONE.html#ixzz0ltTbPGq5

vodka, sex and video pop

As times may change! Once it was love, sex and rock 'n'roll the teenage's best leit motif, now it sounds with vodka first, instead of love! And what is worse, the girls are the best consumers of neat vodka outnumbering the boys by three to one.

And forty per cent of teenage girls had sex for the first time while drunk, many of them even unprotected.

Pop videos such Lady Gaga's Bad Romance are blame for advertising alcohol abuse despite the strict control by ASA.

Also movies widely appealed among youngsters, like Sex and the City ,are blamed for make increasing alcohol abuse.

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The teen vodka epidemic: Thousands of middle-class girls drink themselves senseless on neat vodka with deadly results by Penny Marshall
Daniela had never drunk vodka before, so it took less than an hour for the half-bottle of spirits to render her unconscious on the floor of her best friend's hallway.
She and her friends had been left alone for the first time in a family home to celebrate a 15th birthday party.
The shocked parents of the birthday girl returned just in time to see Daniela being rushed to hospital in an ambulance to have her stomach pumped.
One of the youngsters had put the public schoolgirl in the recovery position when she passed out, and then dialled 999. It probably saved her life, according to the paramedics who carried her out on a stretcher.

'It was utterly horrifying,' the mother of the party hostess told me. 'These are the sort of children who write thank-you letters to their grandparents at Christmas.
'They came back the day after the party with chocolates to apologise. That's how nice they are. They work hard at school and definitely don't do drugs. So how could it have happened?'
It happened, as the parents of too many well-heeled teenagers can attest, because of the teenage trend for drinking vast amounts of neat vodka - fast. And it's having devastating consequences for young girls in particular.
I know all too well how prevalent this problem has become because last month we agreed to have our first - and our last - house party for our 15-year-old daughter.
Unknown to us, one of the guests had smuggled in a bottle of vodka bought from a local shop.
We had agreed to go out before the party started and leave the 20 teenagers alone for two hours before returning to stay upstairs (in case of trouble) and bring the party to a close at 11.30pm.
We had banned alcohol, though we expected that a few bottles of beer might be brought in behind our backs.
The party ended after just 60 minutes, when we returned home early after an anguished phone call from our daughter.

Damaging: Young girls claim 'it's not a party if an ambulance doesn't turn up' (posed by models)
A couple of the guests were drunk on neat vodka and one had become very ill.
As my husband threw out the partygoers, one thing became startlingly apparent. Not one of the boys was drunk - it was the girls who had gone too far.
Consider also the experience of one of the best schools in London, which has had to issue guidelines on school trips after a group of 14-year-old girls downed a bottle of vodka while on an art history trip to Italy.
One ended up unconscious and had to have her stomach pumped.
Girls in need of hospital treatment because of alcohol poisoning outnumber boys by three to one, according to Home Office Statistics.
More than 100 girls a week ended up in hospital last year after binge-drinking, with 4,939 girls aged between 14 to 17 being seen by doctors for alcohol poisoning over the past five years (compared to 1,776 boys) - an increase of 90 per cent since 2003.
Vodka is Britain's favourite spirit. Sales have tripled in the past five years because it has become 'cool' among the young.

'Vodka is cheap - a 70cl bottle can be bought for £5 - and it's easy to get,' says Professor Roger Williams of University College, London, the country's foremost liver expert.
'It's being cleverly marketed with words such as "pure" and so it seems glamorous and safe.
'Teenagers also think it's easy to disguise and more difficult to smell on the breath.
'But it can be lethal if taken in excess. Vodka gets absorbed into the blood rapidly. It can cause arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, even sudden death.'
The drinks market is full of new brands of vodka, most of them aimed at young women.
There are designer-label fashion vodkas from Louis Vuitton and Roberto Cavalli, as well as the blush-rose-coloured Pinky and Diva, which comes with coloured crystals dangling in the bottle.
Girls in need of hospital treatment because of alcohol poisoning outnumber boys by three to one, according to Home Office Statistics
Marketing has helped vodka take centre stage in the nightclub, party and pop scene.
Product placement and celebrity endorsements have secured its position as a glamorous drink for the young generation.
'Vodka has done extremely well at keeping the category contemporary and exciting,' says Michelle Strutton, senior drinks analyst at Mintel.
'It has strong appeal among young drinkers and both budget and premium growth is keeping the category buoyant, even during this economic downturn.'
The rapper Diddy describes himself as a strategic partner of the French vodka company Ciroc and is rumoured to earn 50 per cent of its profits.
Lady Gaga's Bad Romance pop video contained such blatant product placement that it looked like a vodka commercial.
Within the first 20 seconds of the video there are close-up shots of Lex Nemiroff vodka bottles.
Later, we see Lady Gaga having a clear liquid in a crystal glass being forced down her throat as she writhes on her back - not a good advert for responsible drinking.
As the singer is so popular with youngsters, it's a shameful example of irresponsible marketing.
Advertising alcohol to under-18s is strictly controlled by the Advertising Standards Association, but there doesn't seem to be anything regulating the use of alcohol in U.S. pop videos and movies popular with children.
SKYY Vodka has prominent product placement in Sex And The City 2 - which has a 15 certificate and is a film with a wide appeal to teenage girls.
'I am shocked a loophole exists that effectively allows back-door advertising to children,' says the psychologist Jacqui Marson.
'Children are getting unhelpful and dangerous messages about alcohol. Lady Gaga drinking vodka would have much more power and influence on a child than a health education film at school warning of the dangers of alcohol.'
Forty per cent of 13 and 14-year-olds reported being 'drunk or stoned' when they had sex for the first time, according to the Institute of Alcohol.
Of those aged 16 to 24, one in seven had unprotected sex when drunk; one in five had sex they later regretted; and one in ten revealed they have been so drunk they have been unable to remember if they had sex the night before or not.
Many parents have not grasped the seriousness of the situation. Fathers may feel almost nostalgic about the first time they had a hangover after drinking too much beer, but today it's the girls who are drinking to excess, not the boys.
Because of natural physiological differences, females can withstand only half the amount of alcohol a male can drink, but the fashion is for teenage girls to match drink for drink with their male friends - or consume even more.
'It's not a big deal, you know,' one of the girls at Daniela's party told me. 'It isn't really a party unless an ambulance comes. The girls who get taken to hospital always recover.'
Tragically, that's not true, as the grieving parents of 16-year- old Rhona Tavener know. The teenager from Reading, Berkshire, died after a house-warming party last year.
It's thought the straight-A GCSE student, who was not a regular drinker, consumed half-a-litre of vodka before collapsing. Her life-support machine was turned off four days later.
When I asked Daniela about collapsing at her friend's birthday party, she put it down to the fact that she hadn't eaten all day so she would look slim in her dress.
Daniela and her friends not only believe that vodka is glamorous and chic, they told me it was calorie free and somehow good for them, or at least less damaging than other drinks, because it is 'pure'.
'It's not like alco-pops - those have sugar in them and make you fat,' they claimed.

These girls are drinking neat vodka before they even get to a party because they are so nervous of how their appearance will be judged by their peers.
Impossibly glamorised and sexual images in magazines and pop videos have made them feel intimidated and unhappy.
And vodka is so cheap, accessible and alluring that they see it as a shortcut to the glamour, social and sexual success they crave.
That's why nice, middle-class girls drink vodka.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267600/The-teen-vodka-epidemic-Thousands-middle-class-girls-drink-senseless-neat-vodka-deadly-results.html#ixzz0li1PDniq

Are you tanoressic?

The neologism has an awful sound. As matter of fact it stays to indicate a very bad disease which affects hundreds of young girls, leading to death one handred a year of them only in Great Britain.

It beats those girls whe expose their bodies to UV beans in order to get tanned.

The practise leads to a psicologist dependance and needs a real help from mental head to get rid of.

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Tanaholics: Sunbed sessions are now 'as addictive as alcohol or drug abuse'
By Jenny Hope

Sunbeds remain an irresistible atttraction for many people despite repeated health warnings, a survey has revealed.
Girls and young women who use them regularly have been described as addicts getting their fix.
Researchers claim that such tanning leads to behaviour on a par with alcohol or drug abuse. They said heavy users may even need help from mental health specialists to kick the habit.

Addicted: researches say some women need counselling to help them stop using sunbeds
Sunbeds are blamed for at least 370 cases of melanoma skin cancer and 100 deaths each year in the UK. Melanoma has become the most common form of cancer for young women, with one aged in her 20s diagnosed each day.
Concern over 'tanorexic' teenagers has led to laws banning under-18s from using sunbeds, which are expected to come into force in England and Wales by the end of the year.
Coin-operated booths will be outlawed after several children suffered serious burns using them without supervision.



For the latest study, 421 college students filled in a questionnaire normally used for drink and drug addicts which had been adapted to check for addiction to sunbeds.
Among 229 students who used them, the average number of visits in the past year was 23 - once every two or three weeks.
Two out of five students met the criteria for tanning addiction on at least one measure.
Students rated as tanning addicts were also likely to score highly on use of alcohol, cannabis and other substances, as well as have more anxiety symptoms.
Researchers Catherine Mosher and Sharon Danoff-Burg, based in New York, said repeated exposure to UV light on sunbeds led to 'behaviour patterns similar to those observed with substancerelated disorders'.
US researchers said doctors may have to treat sunbed addicts for possible mood disorders if they want to help wean them from the tanning habit.
They added: 'Despite efforts to educate the public about the health risks, recreational tanning continues to increase among young adults.
'In addition to appearance enhancement, motivations include relaxation, improved mood and socialisation.'
In the Archives of Dermatology journal, the researchers wrote that doctors may have to treat sunbed addicts for possible mood disorders to wean them off tanning. However, Gary Lipman, chairman of The Sunbed Association, dismissed the study, saying: 'There are so many flaws I am surprised it was published.

Nina Goad, of the British Association of Dermatologists, said previous research suggesting that 'feel-good' chemicals were released in response to sunlight might explain why some find tanning addictive. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1267323/Tanning-bed-users-addicts-getting-fix-researchers-say.html#ixzz0ldm6PC4U

Pittsburgh beats London 1-0

It seems true that the copy of Francesco Francia's Virgin and Child with Angel, held by London's National Gallery it's only a 19th's century fake made by an anonymous while the original renaissance's masterpiece is shown at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum.

How many fakes are still shown in the major museums of the world?

To know more read on DM on line by Dalya Alberge

The National Gallery has discovered an impostor among its great Old Master pictures, a 19th-century forgery of a 15th-century painting.
The Virgin and Child with an Angel has been a highly-prized painting by the Renaissance artist Francesco Francia since it was acquired as a gift almost 100 years ago. It was thought to have been painted around 1490.
Now it has been unmasked as a fake, painted as recently as the second half of the 19th century. It is a dramatic occurrence for a national collection to find a forgery.
The Virgin and Child with an Angel was thought to be painted around 1490. Now it is thought to have been painted in the second half of the 19th century
Experts at the gallery found the damning evidence recently when they used routine scientific tests to look through the painting’s layers for the first time.
Scientific analysis exposed the deception, revealing that the forger used pigments that were not available before the 19th century and coated the top layer with a natural resin to simulate the appearance of age.
To their astonishment, they discovered a preliminary drawing beneath the painting drawn with a graphite pencil - an implement that did not exist at that time.
'This proved the painting could not be an authentic Francesco Francia,' says Betsy Wieseman of the gallery.


The style of the under-drawing was 19th-century rather than 16th, she adds, pointing out that the forger also simulated the natural pattern of cracks that develop in old paintings.
If not for the scientific tests, the forgery would not have been uncovered. 'It is a lovely, very attractive painting otherwise', Ms Wieseman says.
The oil-on-wood painting, which measures 58.5 by 44.5 cm, was described as a Francia when it was bought by the collector Ludwig Mond in 1893.
In 1924, his £500m-collection of Renaissance masterpieces, including Raphael, Titian and this 'Francia', was left to the nation.
The Francia Virgin took pride of place in the National Gallery until 1954 when another version, now in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh , surfaced.

Its quality was superior, but experts still believed that the National Gallery’s painting was a Francia.
The gallery now realises that its version is a precise copy of the Pittsburgh one.
Francia was an important artist in his day, but he has since been overshadowed by his Renaissance contemporaries. The National Gallery has four other genuine works by him.
The Gallery’s Renaissance expert Luke Syson says: 'Francia is no longer prized to quite the same degree as he was in the middle of the 19th century, when this fake was made.

'Yet as an artist, Francia remains very important because he was both a painter and a goldsmith.
'Before it was discovered to be a fake, The Virgin and Child was highly prized by art historians, particularly because the chalice held by the angel appeared to provide a very rare example of Francia’s work as a goldsmith.'
Asked whether they fear they may discover more fakes, the Gallery says it is unlikely.
The fake will have one last outing in a gallery show before being disgraced to a storeroom. It will be included in the National Gallery’s major exhibition Fakes,

slept for crisis

It seems that recession, in UK, is getting people to bed an hour erlier than ever in the last two years.

That's the result, in a survey of 3,000 people, conducted by Jockey Underwear.

As to say: I beat the crisis just sleeping a bit more!

Specially if men find their women sexier wearing a pyjama than any lace lingerie!

Read more by Daily Mail Reporter

"Bedtimes are getting earlier and we're spending more and more time in our pyjamas, a survey has found.
The average time for a British adult to hit the sack on a weeknight is now 10.30pm, a full hour earlier than two years ago.
And almost 60 per cent of us say we slip into our PJs as soon as we get home from work.

Experts have blamed the recession for the change in our bedtime habits
A survey of more than 3,000 men and women by Jockey Underwear reveals a revolution in bedtime habits.
Experts blame the recession, with people opting to spend more time at home to save cash.
'We're now going to bed earlier than at any time during the last two years,' said Ruth Stevens, Jockey marketing manager.
'It's clear that the UK is not only spending more time in bed - due to earlier nights and fewer nights out - but we are also putting our pyjamas on much earlier in the evening.
'Many of us now get changed into our pyjamas as soon as we get home from work.
'Our research tells us that people feel more relaxed when they put their pyjamas on.
'It's a psychological end to the working day.
'The fact that we are in a recession has clearly been a factor too. People are going out less and going to bed earlier.
'The average weekday bedtime for the UK in 2010, according to our research, is now 10.30pm - a whole hour earlier than two years ago when it was 11.30pm.'
Pyjama sales have almost doubled and 71 per cent of those surveyed said they have bought a set in the past year despite not owning any in the previous five years.
An astonishing 59 per cent of British adults now put their pyjamas on as soon as they get home from work with a further 26 per cent admitting they spend at least an hour in their pyjamas before going to bed and turning out the lights.
Even more surprising is the number of people surveyed who own pyjamas compared to two years ago.
Of those questioned, 65 per cent admit to owning a set of bedtime clothes with 71 per cent of those saying they bought pyjamas in the last 12 months, despite not owning any for the past five years.
More than three quarters of men polled say their partner borrows their pyjamas, and 81 per cent of them said they found girls in men's pyjamas sexier than ladies in lace lingerie." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266012/How-recession-left-turning-bed-hour-earlier.html#ixzz0l8h1mIZr

A well kept secret

After 46 years, more than six hours of an interview, realeased by the shot dead President Kennedy widow's Jacqueline, about her life with President John, made just after a few months from the cruel husband's assassination, is going to be published.

The interview was conducted by Pulitzer Prize Arthur Schlesinger jr, died in 2007, who kept it secret for express Jackie Kennedy Onassis's desire, very concerned for her sons' safety.

After her mother and her brother John Kennedy jr died, only Caroline has the right to publish and let all the people in the world know about the life of one of the most loved U.S.A.' s Presidents and still well impressed, positive symbol of the sixties.

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"Almost seven hours of unreleased interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy, recorded months after the assassination of President Kennedy, are to be released.
The interviews with historian and family friend Arthur Schlesinger Jr were conducted in 1964 at her home in Washington DC.
The former first lady discusses her marriage and her White House years, election year campaigning and President Kennedy's thoughts about a second term.
The interview is part of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library's Oral History and, at Mrs Kennedy's request, was kept sealed for an indefinite time.

Since the death of Jacqueline Kennedy, in 1994, and son John Kennedy Jr, in 1999, decisions about the tapes have been handled by daughter Caroline Kennedy.
Now, with the 50th anniversary of her father's inauguration coming next year, Caroline Kennedy is allowing the conversations to come out.
According to two officials familiar with negotiations, Hyperion will issue the transcripts in September 2011 and release 6½ hours of audiotape
It will provide a new and extended opportunity to hear the famously breathy voice of Jacqueline Kennedy, who never published a memoir, about subjects she rarely discussed in public.
Caroline Kennedy will serve as editor and write an introduction for the book, currently untitled, and a historian, who is yet to be determined, will provide annotation.
Schlesinger, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, died in 2007.
Caroline Kennedy has published several books with Hyperion, including a collection of her mother's favorite poems, and has worked for years with editor Gretchen Young, who acquired the book and audio and electronic rights. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1265698/Secret-interviews-Jackie-Kennedy-recorded-just-JFKs-assassination-published.html#ixzz0l2weAsRX

Love is a mistery

I might be considered a simple man or may be a romantic one but, not desireing to be involved in the legal matter, if Prince Charles and Camilla could or not to get married in a civil ceremony (as it seems even too difficult for the apex functionaries:see the following DM's service) but I still remain surprised why the prince of Cornwall could spend his love with the present Duchess, while married with His died legal wife, Princess Diana.

I know love is blind, but I keep asking myself why He didn't get married with Camilla instead, if was in love with her?

I can only answer myself that love keeps being a great mistery!

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by Simon Walters and Ian Gallagher on DM on line

The Government was accused of a cover-up last night after it was ruled that the legal advice that enabled Prince Charles to marry the Duchess of Cornwall must remain secret until after his death.
Doubts about the legality of the wedding have long persisted, with some constitutional experts arguing that legislation prevented the couple from taking part in a civil ceremony.
In the latest development, it was decided to withhold details of the legal advice because of its constitutional ‘sensitivity and significance’. Justice Secretary Jack Straw blocked a Freedom of Information request to make public the advice given to the then Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer before he gave the wedding the go-ahead.

Controversy: Charles and Camilla after their civil ceremony in 2005. Doubts about the legality of the wedding have long persisted
Now, in a 19-page ruling, the Information Commissioner has refused an appeal against the decision.
The couple married five years ago after Lord Falconer overruled claims that members of the Royal Family were banned from marrying in a register office.
He told The Mail on Sunday at the time that Parliament clearly intended that ‘members of the Royal Family could, if they wished, get married in a civil ceremony’.
Lord Falconer repeated this assurance to Parliament six weeks before the marriage at Windsor Guildhall on April 9, 2005.
But his critics argued at the time that Charles was barred from marrying in a register office by two statutes - the Marriage Act of 1836, which specifically prohibited Royals from marrying in register offices, and the 1949 Marriage Act which, according to every Government until Tony Blair became Prime Minister, left the position unchanged.Lord Falconer rejected previous views, however, as ‘too cautious’.
Last night campaigning Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker said of the new ruling: ‘It is an odd decision. We have a right to know on what basis this is being covered up, as indeed does Prince Charles.’

A Home Office memo of 1948 says it is ‘desirable’ that the ban on civil weddings for Royals is kept in force in the following year’s legislation.
It is reinforced by a second memo which states: ‘The present time would seem ill-chosen for any alteration affecting Royal marriages. On the whole, it would seem best to leave things as they are.’
There is further evidence from parliamentary and Lambeth Palace archives. A letter written by the parliamentary lawyer responsible for drawing up the 1949 Act says that the then Lord Chancellor, Lord Jowitt, promised that it involved no changes to any marriage laws - including the Royals.
'We have a right to know on what basis this is being covered up'
Officials who acted on behalf of Archbishop Fisher said the Church of England had nothing to worry about from the 1949 Act because it ‘does not depart from previous practice’.
Last night Mr Jones said: ‘The country wishes Charles and Camilla well. He will become King and she will be at his side, whatever her title is. But deeper principles are at stake.
‘Blair and Falconer should have changed the 1949 Act by amending it, as the Tories offered to do. Instead, they took the decision to rewrite history in secret to save time and possible embarrassment to the Royal Family.’
The Justice Ministry does not emerge unscathed from the Commissioner’s findings. He reprimands it for breaking the statutory deadlines on answering Freedom of Information complaints.
A Clarence House official said Charles had taken legal advice from four different sources five years ago and all agreed his remarriage in a civil ceremony was legal.
Mr Jones said: ‘Charles and Camilla have a marriage certificate to prove it. The question is whether Falconer abused his powers to allow it.’
In his interview with The Mail on Sunday before the wedding, Lord Falconer said he believed the wedding would be legal based on the 1949 Marriage Act, which updated the law on civil marriages.
He claimed it overturned the 1836 Marriage Act which banned Royals from marrying in civil ceremonies.
‘The language of the 1949 Act is clearly intended to allow Royals to take part in civil weddings,’ he said.

Flashback: The legality of the wedding was questioned in The Mail On Sunday on February 20, 2005
He rejected the argument that the provision in the 1949 Act that nothing in it should affect ‘any law or custom relating to the marriage of members of the Royal Family’ was intended to continue the ban on Royals having civil weddings.
He said it was merely a reference to other Royal customs, such as there being no need for Royals to post banns before getting married or obtaining a licence.
‘Unlike the 1836 Act, the 1949 Act does not say Royals cannot marry in a civil ceremony. In 1949, Parliament clearly intended that members of the Royal Family could, if they wished, get married in a civil ceremony.’
He said the fact that Section 45 of the 1836 Act was not repealed in 1949 was irrelevant. ‘People who dispute this interpretation may not have had time to think it through fully,’ he said. ‘We have been very thorough and are confident we have got it right.’
Lord Falconer’s claim that Charles was protected by the Human Rights Act was also contentious.
He said the Act required legislation to be interpreted ‘wherever possible’ in a way that was compatible with the right to marry without discrimination.
In 2008 a senior Ministry of Justice official told Mr Jones that secret information relating to Lord Falconer’s decision had been found in Government files.
But it could not be revealed because it was against the public interest - and could lead to the legality of the Government’s decision being challenged in court.
The Justice Department told him: ‘The disclosure of legal advice has a high potential to prejudice the Government’s ability to defend its legal interests by unfairly exposing its legal position to challenge.
‘We recognise that there is a public interest in citizens knowing that decisions of this nature have been taken with the benefit of sound legal advice. However, in the circumstances of this case, the public interest does not outweigh the opposing public interest in maintaining the current convention.’

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What is the Truth?

Pontius Pilate - So, you are the Jews’ King?
Jesus - Do You Know it by yourself
Or someone else has told you?
P. Pilate- Why have your friends
Committed me, a no-believer, to judge on you?
Jesus - My servants could have fight with the arms
Opposing my arrest. But my Reign is not down here!
P. Pilate- Then you deserve a throne?
Jesus- I’m a King. You’ve told it!
Indeed I was born for two aims:
To be witness of the Truth and to die
For the Resurrection!”
P. Pilate- But what is the Truth?