Harold Ford Not Running For Senate In New York

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Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN), who had been mulling a run for Senate in New York opposite allocated Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, has motionless not to run.

The story was initial reported by the New York Post. Afterwards, the New York Times expelled portions of an perspective square that Ford wrote for the paper, to be run in the whole tomorrow. (Late update: The op-ed is right away up in the entirety.)

"I"ve carefully thought about this competition in each probable way, and I keep returning to the same elemental conclusion: If I run, the expected outcome would be a heartless and rarely disastrous Democratic first -- a first where the leader emerges enervated and the Republican strengthened," Ford wrote. He continued: "I exclude to do anything that would assistance Republicans win a Senate chair in New York, and give the Senate infancy to the Republicans."

Fords mouthpiece Tammy Sun declined to criticism to TPM.

Assemblyman Vito Lopez, who had formerly indicated that he could have upheld Ford, told the New York Post: "After giving it substantial thought and articulate it over with his wife, he reached the end that he would not be running, nonetheless he pronounced he would similar to to sojourn active in the...

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Districts might restaff unwell schools

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Reaching for ways to urge bad schools, North Carolina propagandize district leaders are rebuilt to boot all veteran staff from a construction and begin uninformed with new teachers and principals.

In a Wake County courtroom Tuesday, Guilford County Superintendent Mo Green described a plan to sinecure new staff at a High Point facile propagandize that has bad exam scores. Under a new plan in Durham, teachers and principals at the lowest-performing could be reassigned.

Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning called Durham, Guilford and Winston-Salem/Forsyth propagandize leaders in to justice Tuesday to ask them on what they"re you do to urge facile and center schools where tyro exam scores are woefully low. Manning is overseeing you do of the 1997 Leandro justice ruling, that determined that all young kids have the right to a receptive to advice simple education. He has been utilizing his purpose in the box to vigour the state Department of Public Instruction and particular districts to urge tyro performance.

"Hes pulling us to do some-more and do it faster," pronounced Durham Board of Education Chairwoman Minnie Forte-Brown. The district has motionless that carrying the right propagandize staff is the key to improvement, she said.

"Its about putting the right people in front of the children," she said. "We"re eventually removing that."

Last year, Manning systematic a state takeover of Halifax County schools, and by the years he pressured districts to reinstate principals at schools with bad exam scores. In past years, Manning has focused courtesy on high schools and center schools, but his questions Tuesday focused on the youngest open propagandize pupils, who are cursed to disaster by a small schools, Manning said.

"Some of these schools are worse than Halifax," he said. "This is inexcusable."

He highlighted facile and center schools in the 3 districts where some-more than half the students destroy tests in reading, math or both, and he called out schools by name as he asked superintendents to insist what they were you do to urge them.

"Whats wrong with Fayetteville Street?" Manning asked whilst observant the Durham facile schools high spending per tyro and low flitting rate. "For $10,000 per child, that outcome is only terrible," he said.

Stacey Wilson-Norman, Durham partner superintendent of facile curriculum and instruction, pronounced the propagandize is creation swell underneath a new principal.

School officials told Manning how they were utilizing handheld electronic inclination and special program to lane tyro progress, how a small schools had lengthened and restructured the propagandize day to have students outlay time with tutors and how they were seeking at qualities of successful principals to guide destiny hires.

Manning one after another to urge districts to get absolved of the "dead wood" in schoolsteachers and principals at schools with low tyro scores.

"These small young kids are not reading," he said. "You"ve got to purify up the classroom."

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Google discloses censorship final to users

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SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. has set up a new apparatus to show where the confronting the majority supervision vigour to bury element and spin over personal report about the users.

The country-by-country relapse expelled TuesdayGoogles Web site outlines the initial time that the Internet poke personality has supposing such a minute see at the censorship and interpretation requests that it gets from regulators, courts and alternative supervision agencies. The figures, for the rounded off 100 countries in that it operates, cover the last half of last year and will be updated each 6 months.

Google posted the numbers scarcely a month after it began redirecting poke requests to the China-based service. Those requests are right away rubbed in Hong Kong rather than mainland China so Google wouldnt have to conform the countrys Internet censorship laws. Google pronounced sum about the censorship final it got whilst in mainland China still arent being common since the report is personal as a state secret.

In alternative countries, Google is creation some-more endless disclosures about censorship final or alternative supervision requests to edit the poke results. Google is additionally together with final to remove element from the alternative services, together with the YouTube video site, nonetheless it is incompatible removal requests associated to allegations of copyright infringement, a repeated complaint for YouTube.

Google is arrangement how often it respected those requests and spelling out that of the services were targeted.

In the United States, for instance, it perceived 123 requests to remove element from the services during the last half of 2009 and complied with 80 percent of them. Reasons embody violations of Googles own policies per impassioned violence, impertinence and hatred speech. More than 40 of those requests enclosed a justice order, Google said.

Google is on condition that a some-more singular image of supervision requests for the users" personal information. The numbers are cramped essentially to final done as piece of rapist cases, withdrawal out polite counts such as divorces. And Google isnt divulgence how often it cooperated with those interpretation demands.

The avowal comes as some-more regulators and consumers watchdogs around the universe are angry that the association doesnt take peoples remoteness severely enough. Google maintains that the users" remoteness is one of the companys top priorities. The association additionally records that, in one instance, it has left to justice to forestall the U.S. Justice Department from removing extended lists of peoples poke requests.

Brazils supervision peppered Google with the majority requests during the six-month duration covered. The association says thats often since it operates a amicable network called Orkut. That use has captivated millions of users in Brazil and generates some-more taunting, derogative denunciation and alternative inflammatory element expected to trigger supervision requests and violate the own standards.

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Google perceived 3,663 requests for user interpretation and 291 requests to remove element from Brazil. Nearly 200 of the removal requests concerned Orkut.

Other countries logging at slightest 1,000 requests for user interpretation were the United States (3,580), United Kingdom (1,166) and India (1,061).

After Brazil, the majority requests to edit element came from Germany, at 188. The nation has laws that shorten the online arrangement of calm continuous to the Nazi regime. India was subsequent with 142 requests often scored equally to Orkut, followed by the United States, where the final focusedYouTube.

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Con-Dem Nation! Enter right the bromance of the century

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Competitive back-slapping

Its a diversion dear of general diplomats rival back-slapping. The manners are simple: whoever leaves the press discussion with his palm on the alternative chaps shoulder, display a transparent and patronising authority, wins. Dave appeared to have the top palm as he and Nick entered No 10 together for the initial time, running his DPM with a organisation right hand. Then Clegg scored a quick "Clinton" declared after US league-topper Bill slapping Dave at the back of as shortly as he had expelled him. But Cleggs feat was pipped by an extra-time chastisement from Dave, who could usually be seen patting Nick on his reduce at the back of as the great doorway thudded shut. We"ve got five years of this, and we"re keeping score.

How tall?

Close your eyes and design the leaders. Now, that one is taller? A severe bureau check suggested 64 per cent of IoS staff hold the Cameron, since infancy cinema indicate Clegg is incompletely taller. One co-worker says the tallest personality regularly wins the election. Brown was positively the shortest, at 5ft 11in. According to the BBC, Cameron is 6ft dead, whilst the accord on celebheights.com take a look, the hours of fun puts him at 6ft 1/2in, or 185cm, a figure that additionally appears on IMDB (we"re not certain since hes on there). There are no central total accessible on Clegg, but he not long ago told The Economist he is rounded off 6ft. Well, if even he doesnt know afterwards we"ll leave the conjecture there.

Hooray Paddy

Paddy Ashdown greeted headlines of the bloc with usually one word: "Hooray". Now, we"re all for concision, generally from seasoned windbags, but when the BBC asked him to blow up he became a small tiresome: "Listen you"ve listened my comment, that is one word. Its the initial time you"ve had a one-word matter and it is, "Hooray". And I"ll repeat it. "Hooray."" Our outcome of his outcome contains usually one word, too, but the not hooray.

Young leaders

Much discuss about Lord Liverpool after each media opening reeled out the actuality that Cameron is the youngest budding apportion to take bureau since old Livers in 1812 (he was 42, Dave is 43). But the similarities go majority serve than that. My well-thumbed book of Wikipedia tells me that, as well as carrying been to Oxford and rising by the Tory ranks unequivocally quickly, that "during his time as budding minister, from 1812 to 1827, Liverpool became well well well known for odious measures introduced to say order", that enclosed the scandalous corn laws. The economy was additionally in apocalyptic straits, with the republic saddled by large debt caused by new wars, and Liverpool responded by putting up taxes and overseeing a lapse to the bullion standard. Spooky.

Boy George

And what of George Osborne? The new Chancellor is a small 38, creation him the youngest chairman to pretence that bureau since Randolph Churchill in 1886. We know rather some-more about him, being the father of Winston, who wrote at length about him in his book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. He is not to be confused with the younger Randolph Churchill, Winstons son, who was so bumptious that when Evelyn Waugh got trapped with him in a farmhouse in Yugoslavia during the war, he challenged him to review the Bible to keep him quiet. The intrigue unsuccessful as Randolph guffawed his approach by the total thing. His grandfather, by contrast, was rather dour, as, we suspect, is the new Boy George.

IDS the hero

Jubilation in worried circles came in astonishing ways, not slightest from The Spectator, that got vehement about Iain Duncan Smith being allocated Work and Pensions Secretary. Normal people will recollect IDS as the still man who pronounced he was branch up the volume. How we quaked! After being defeated as personality of the Conservatives he has been bustling environment up the Centre for Social Justice, that The Spectator applauds. "No politician is some-more committed to gratification reform, or has thought some-more deeply about it," gushes this weeks editorial. "There is no politician alive improved matched to this job, and no one some-more expected to work faster." Nobody can work faster? As any one who has had a review with him will attest, hes not one for utilizing one word when a integrate of dozen will do.

Boriss whizzo similes

Boris Johnson kept an impressively low form in the run-up to polling day but has been creation up for it ever since, entrance up with ever some-more illusory metaphors for the coalition. Speaking to Jeremy Paxman as talks continued, he likened it to a sausage, saying: "Whatever sort of Walls sausage is constructed by this great experiment, the widespread piece has got to be Conservative the beef in the sausage has got to be Conservative." Then, on Wednesday, he likened the Government to a cross-bred dog, somewhere in in between "a bulldog and a Chihuahua". Perhaps Boris would similar to to magnify the embellishment to the leaders: Dave a Labrador, Nick his poodle?

Mugabe to elder statesman

Not since Dianas car pile-up have the pundits committed such an about-turn on a open figure as they did with Nick Clegg last week. Leaving in reserve his rocket-like arena during the TV debates, since polling day he has gone, as someone quipped on Question Time, from king-maker to tea-maker. As the deal-making dragged on, Sir Malcolm Rifkind bloody this skulduggery as "the governing body of Robert Mugabe", whilst David Blunkett marked down Clegg "a harlot". Only hours after he was being hailed as a statesman. If usually Linda Lee-Potter were alive her prior to and after columns would have been a treat.

Young PMs

How old do you feel? If you"re elderly anywhere in in between 43 and 57 you probably feel an horrible lot comparison than you did this time last week. Thats since it will have dawned on you as Cameron was anointed the personality that he is the initial PM to be younger than you. This joyless actuality relates to about 11.6 million people, or nineteen per cent or the population. Just think, that could have been you.

Ramsay MacDonald

We"ve been told sufficient times right away that we can all intone in unison: this is the initial peacetime bloc supervision to be shaped since 1931. Ramsay MacDonald was the Nick Clegg of the day, upsetting the Labour Party by similar to form a inhabitant supervision in that the infancy of MPs were Conservatives. This trick scarcely accomplished off Labour, that won usually 52 seats in that years election. The celebration understandably took opposite MacDonald, blaming him for the nearby collapse, though he confirmed his desertion had usually ever been a proxy measure, and he had hoped to return. Happily for Clegg, his celebration is wholly at the back of him, and the destiny is ideally safe. Isnt it?

Posh factor

75: thats the commission of the new cupboard who went to in isolation school. Its a intolerable figure, generally when compared with Tony Blairs common seventeen per cent, and since that usually 10 per cent of the race is secretly educated. But there is a crafty small counterclaim the Tories can wield, should they wish: this is, in fact, the Conservative Cabinet with the infancy state-educated ministers. An considerable claim, though when you think about it for some-more than a second, the not that surprising. Major, Thatcher, Heath, Churchill of course, their Cabinets were heaving with Etonians. And prior to that the eminence wasnt either you had been to a in isolation or state school; it was either you were a roomer or day boy.

What subsequent for former MPs and ministers?

Its a bustling time for headhunters: reports reach me they have been inundated with happy phone calls from ex-MPs they once met at a party, wondering, um, whether, er, there are any association play that need a rarely paid new member, please?

As Gordon Brown dusts down his CV, we asked a clairvoyant, an astrologist and a personal tutor what the destiny binds for him, ex-ministers and the 263 ex-MPs drowning out the jobs market. Anita Olsen, of Anitas Psychic Readings, tells me: "In the New Year, I see Gordon drifting a small plane." We demur to point out his steer problems prior to she goes on, "or this picture symbolises his complacency with freedom. He should find superintendence from his late mom as I feel she was an impulse to him." Indeed. Nick Mitchell, a personal tutor at Up Fitness, has some-more unsentimental advice, suggesting he goes on a yoga retreat. Its less trustworthy than the flying.

What of Peter Mandelson, who has some-more time on his hands? Over to Anita: "I feel there is low meditative and concentration on personal relations around November/ December. Drama or entertainment are shown to me as being of significance to Peter and might have a probable work connection."

Philip Garcia, a luminary astrologist, says the former commercial operation secretary, as a Libra, should concentration on his skills, bringing peace where there has been discord. "He wouldnt go far wrong in matrimony guidance, as well as apropos a celebration planner maybe the divorce celebration epoch is about to begin with Peter as ringmaster?"

Alan Johnson is, according to Mitchell, "looking a bit old and knackered", and should pill this with a little "steady weight training". Anita sees a career as a manoeuvre beckoning: "I see Alan equine riding. The equine symbolises strength and energy entrance his way. Alan is shown to me similar to the section residence in "The Three Little Pigs", he will not be blown down."

But the majority appropriate headlines comes for Tessa Jowell, the former Olympics apportion whose husband, David Mills, was at the centre of temptation allegations. Anita says she can see Tessa enjoying full of health monetary affairs a year from now, though she warns: "There appear to be some-more severe situations forward she could great from asking a suggestion for guidance." Or usually the Carabinieri.

The dictionary of love

"A unequivocally polite partnership" was how the Evening Standard pennyless the happy headlines and, suddenly, it was as if we had a stately marriage on the hands. After Nick and Daves in contact with opening on the Downing Street lawns on Wednesday a corner press discussion with relating his-and-his lecterns sub-editors swung in to Charles and Diana mode circa 1981, striking headlines of "The happy couple" and "A special relationship" over the papers.

But the cinema didnt need explaining: side by side, all diffident smiles, romantic gazes, on foot and talking, fooling around and poking, on the lawn, up the stairs, channel the threshold, their relating blue suits sewn together at the sleeve. Was that confetti in the background? Oh no, usually wisteria, but we got the message: this was the domestic bromance of the century.

The Daily Telegraphs sketchwriter Andrew Gimson urged caution: "When dual people who have well well well known each alternative for five days make well known they are going to outlay the subsequent five years together, the universe is firm to ask either the happy integrate have taken leave of their senses." The Independent illusory the marriage vows: "I, Nick, take you, Dave, to be my leader, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in illness and in health.... Till debt us do part." Soon the columnists were scrambling to come up with the infancy apposite chronological parallel: Morecambe and Wise? Ant and Dec? Jedward? Cleggward? They positively looked identical. Some saw traces of Colin Firth and Hugh Grant in Bridget Joness Diary. But it took Richard Littlejohn of the Mail to take the regretful embellishment a integrate of steps as well far, and up the steps and in to the bedroom, by contrast it to Brokeback Mountain. What a pleasant thought, and one he was, naturally, troubled by. "The honeymoon stops here," he thundered. Thank integrity right away they can empty all those fondue sets.

Boulton and Burley

If we told you Adam Boulton was sleepy and romantic when he monstered Alastair Campbell live on TV you would pretence he"d had a pint or three. In fact, Boulton gave up ethanol for the choosing and unequivocally was unequivocally tired. And the no consternation he was emotional: Campbell and Boulton have history, stemming from Campbells glacial attribute with Anji Hunter, a associate Blair help and right away Boultons wife.

It wasnt what Campbell wrote that Anji minded, but what he didn"t: Hunter was angry that Campbell portrayed her as carrying usually a walk-on piece at No 10. "There were so most entries in his diaries that started, "Meeting with TB and I" that I felt similar to saying, "Hang on a minute, I happened to have been there, too"," she once told the Telegraph.

Campbell is positively the master of the wind-up, and Mondays opening was an intent doctrine in how to needle a presumably usually headlines anchor on a Murdoch-owned headlines channel. "You"re patently dissapoint that David Cameron is not Prime Minister," was the touchpaper. But it wasnt usually Campbell: usually 4 hours after Boulton was finger-jabbing and screaming again, this time at Ben Bradshaw. Although we similar to Boulton, everybody concluded there was no forgive for such behaviour. Had Nick Robinson of the BBC lost his cool, there would be calls for his resignation. There have been scarcely 1,500 complaints to Ofcom, though the thought a Labour chatter debate is at the back of them.

The great headlines for Sky is that the repute doesnt rest wholly on Boulton theres regularly Kay Burley. Burley has turn a YouTube prodigy after barracking a protester, revelation him he should go home and watch Sky. Not usually was this uncanny poise for an usually headlines presenter, but she should have well well well known improved than to take on a garland of protesters, who afterwards chanted live on air "Sack Kay Burley! Watch the BBC!". Anger government classes might be in sequence for both; meanwhile, the majority appropriate competition is on Sky.

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Cash-strapped Britons examination some-more television

UK viewers watch some-more than 4 hours of radio per day, according to new statistics.

Figures expelled by the Broadcasters" Audience Research Board (Barb) show normal each day observation in the initial 3 months of this year rose to 4 hours and eighteen minutes, up from 3 hours and 56 mins in the same duration last year.

That equates to viewers outlayed a day and a entertain (30 hours and 4 minutes) out of each week examination television.

The figures, that usually embody shows noticed as they were promote or recordings watchedwithout fast-forwardingwithin 7 days, show roughly two-thirds of those hours (62%) were outlayed examination blurb channels.

Commercial radio accounted for eighteen hours and twenty-nine mins of weekly viewing, or dual hours and 38 mins per day, up an hour per week on last year.

The series of advertisements that the normal spectator watches each day additionally rose from 45 to 48.

Thinkbox, the selling physique for blurb TV, pronounced the climb was partly down to cash-strapped Britons staying home some-more often.

A orator pronounced a climb in the series of households with digital radio (93.9%) meant viewers had a larger preference of channels and roughly half (44%) right away have digital TV recorders.

Tess Alps, arch senior manager of Thinkbox, said: Anyone who doubted the stability significance and recognition of promote TV in the UK should hopefully be assured by these new figures.

However, jot down levels are doubtful to continue. We are impending the peak, if we are not there already.

Once equivalent term signals are eventually incited off in 2012, the total are expected to stabilise, but hopefully will sojourn at these high levels.

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Sir Terry Leahy checks out at Tesco after fourteen years

Marcus Leroux, Retail Correspondent & ,}

Sir Terry Leahy is to mount down from the helm of Tesco after a 14-year reign that has altered Britain.

In a warn proclamation yesterday, Sir Terry pronounced that he had completed all he had set out to when he became arch senior manager of the association that he joined, stacking shelves, scarcely 40 years ago. During that time Tesco has been remade in to a tellurian code and hatred figure for those who wish a return to normal high streets.

Under Sir Terry, 55, it has quadrupled in distance and turn the widespread supermarket in 75 per cent of British postcode regions. The series of stores has risen roughly five-fold to 2,500 and about 1 in each 7 outlayed in Britain changes hands at a Tesco till.

When I got this pursuit fourteen years ago I had a plan. That plan was to turn No 1 in the UK, to make use of that clever height to go in poke of long-term poke growth opportunities in non-food, in services and in general expansion, Sir Terry said. It has taken all of those fourteen years but the strategy has turn a organisation reality.

Tesco stays the usually British supermarket to have successfully ventured abroad. Under Sir Terry it pennyless new belligerent in exploiting faithfulness label data, in replacing internal dilemma shops, and charity bank accounts and broadband. It will shortly suggest mortgages.

Sir Terry will step down in Mar subsequent year when he will be transposed by Philip Clarke, who has led Tesco in general markets over the past 6 years. Mr Clarke was described as cut from the same fine cloth as Sir Terry.

Both assimilated the association stacking shelves part-time as teenagers and went through the companys government intrigue after university. Both accost from Liverpool and both are unfussy in an industry well known for salesmanship.

Indeed, the main disproportion in between the dual appears to be that Sir Terry is an Everton fan, whilst his successor, 50, supports the red half of the city.

David Potts, who additionally assimilated the association from school, was allocated arch executive of the Asian business.

Sir Terry, who warranted 5.2 million last year, courted conjecture that he was lining up a purpose in open hold up with dual singular domestic interventions. Last October he criticised propagandize standards as woefully low and pronounced that private employers were being left to collect up the pieces. But Sir Terry said that he would instead combine on his in isolation commercial operation interests, and is expected to omit offers of remunerative nonexecutive directorships.

Principally [my plan is] in isolation investing. I similar to operative with businesses and people that I have a courtesy for and assisting grow those businesses . . . it wouldnt be a portfolio of open companies and I have no plans to go in to politics, he said.

With evil understatement, Sir Terry pronounced that period formulation was regularly a strength of the business. Mr Clarke will be usually the sixth man to lead the commercial operation given Sir Jack Cohen set up emporium in East London after the First World War.

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Tim Clarks story ends unhappily for Lee Westwood

Peter Dixon, Golf Correspondent, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida & ,}

Lee Westwood, looking his initial feat in the United States in twelve years, had The Players Championship rigourously snatched from underneath his nose at Sawgrass last night.

Westwood, who had proposed the last day heading by a singular shot in what is well known as the fifth vital in the calendar, carded a 74 and was in the future denied feat by Tim Clark, of South Africa, who constructed the golf of his hold up in the most appropriate turn of the day.

Two shots at the behind of with 3 to play, Westwood paid for a stand in spook at the penultimate hole and his two-over-par last turn of 74 meant he in the future accomplished the day in a share of fourth place on twelve underneath par, 4 shots at the behind of Clark.

But when Westwood reflected thereafter on the shot that had cost him dear, it was not the one from the 17th tee but the fairway of the par-five 16th, where his proceed with a five-iron found a fort guarding the immature and he unsuccessful to collect up a shot.

It was usually a balderdash shot a finish sclaff, he said. Its disappointing, but not something Im going to lift my hair out over. If you dont fool around well you dont merit to win. As the march firmed up I didnt have the carry out of the day you indispensable and when you get out of on all sides here it becomes really difficult.

After the anguish of finishing runner-up to Phil Mickelson at the Masters five weeks ago, Westwood was dynamic to have justification here and when he looked at the peculiarity of antithesis around him entering the last round, he contingency have fanciful his chances.

His was the big name on the leaderboard at the begin of the day and it would be satisfactory to contend that of all the players at the behind of him, he would not have approaching Clark, 3 strokes in arrears, to have a run at him.

With a unbending breeze and greens oven baked tough and fast it was a day for defensive rather than assertive golf and the scores tended to simulate the fact. Most of the scores, that is, solely for Clarks, who played probably perfect golf on a march that rewards shot-making and punishes anything wayward.

Clark did not dump a shot in his turn of 67, found eleven out of fourteen fairways, longed for usually 3 greens in law and had eight singular putts. On the initial dual days, there were 91 rounds in the 60s, yesterday there were two: Clarks and Davis Love IIIs 68. This was miraculous golf.

The South African leader of nothing of his prior 205 events on the US PGA Tour but with gain in additional of $14 million (about 9.48 million) had since no spirit of what was to come over his initial 6 holes. But after his initial birdie of the day at the 7th, he had a run of 4 on the run from the 9th and seized the initiative.

Clark took the lead for the initial time at the 12th and from afterwards on it was Westwood who had to do the chasing. And as he proposed to pull harder for the birdies, so his diversion became husky a five at the par-three 17th, where he found water, finale his chances.

As at Augusta, Westwood played a little high golf over the initial 3 days, but in the future lost to a player inspired. But with the big names out of the approach here Tiger Woods had already cold harmed by the time Westwood teed off and Phil Mickelson was regularly as well far behind to mountain a critical plea couple of would have put their income on Clark, a perennial, though well-rewarded, also-ran.

Westwood has suffered sufficient near-misses in the big tournaments to last a lifetime. At the US Open in 2008, he longed for a putt at the 72nd hole to get in to a play-off with Rocco Mediate and Woods. And at the Open at Turnberry, last year, he took 3 putts at the last when dual would additionally have put him in to a play-off.

John Higgins allegations could be harmful for snooker says Barry Hearn

Neil Gardner & ,}

Barry Hearn, the universe snooker chief, has vowed any illness in the competition will be private "in a heartless manner" if the allegations of match-fixing against John Higgins are proved.

Higgins and Pat Mooney, his manager, were filmed by the News of the World newspaper allegedly similar to accept 261,000 in lapse for regulating the outcome of 4 frames in matches to be played after this year.

Hearn said: "If there is a illness in snooker it will be the genocide knell of snooker if it is not removed. If John is proven guilty the penalties will be really oppressive indeed."

Hearn, who pronounced he was positively mortified, by the accusations, spoke to a tearful Higgins yesterday. "Obviously the man is in bits," he said. "And I can sympathise, empathise, with him since it"s been his whole life. The man is series one in the world.

"We had a really straightforward review since I was in a on all sides to contend look, I"m not decider and jury here, my pursuit is to impute it to the suitable authorities. But as a friend, that I would systematise myself to John Higgins because I"ve well known him for twenty years, it doesn"t see good, John".

"We all watched the video, we"ve all seen it. Now, whatever reason there may be at the back of the scenes - and John has subsequently come out with a statement - I can usually decider on the visible justification that is in front of me.

"I only stressed to John that this is something that is not going afar but it will be treated with colour as a very, really critical offence, potentially, and if he is found guilty will lift the majority serious of penalties. And patently that"s really upsetting for him, that I can assimilate since it"s his life, his living.

"I hold he"s a unapproachable man, I essentially hold he"s an honest man but I can"t omit the justification in front of me and the repairs potentially it could do to the game."

Hearn has betrothed that the ruling physique will examine the allegations in a quick manner. "There will be nothing, I repeat positively nothing, that will stop this make a difference being dealt with in the fastest probable timetable so we can have this make a difference resolved and get down to concentrating on what we love to combine on, this smashing game," he added.

Higgins, the stream universe series one, has denied any wrong-doing and insisted he will quarrel to transparent his name. "Today is the begin of the greatest match of my life," he pronounced in a matter on Sunday. "It"s not the World Championship that"s at stake, it"s something even some-more important, my reputation.

"I will concur entirely with the snooker authorities. I have built my reputation on probity and integrity. Sadly others have right away shop-worn that reputation and it is right away left to me to transparent my name.

"I have never been concerned in any form of snooker match-fixing. In my eighteen years personification veteran snooker I have never on purpose longed for a shot, never mind purposely lost a support or a match."

Sir Paul gets behind to keep his guarantee to Scotland

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Haiti assist bid injured by delayed U.N. reply

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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Clutching involuntary attack rifles, truckloads of U.N. infantry patrolled the streets of Haiti"s cracked collateral on the day after the trembler strike last month, clearly preoccupied to the wretchedness around them.

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Cries for assistance from people digging for survivors in collapsed buildings were drowned out by the bark of heavy-duty engines as the infantry plowed by Port-au-Prince but interlude to stick on rescue efforts, majority less lead them.

A usual steer since they were deployed in 2004, the U.N. infantry huddled in the shade of their canopied vehicles.

There were about 9,000 uniformed U.N. peacekeepers stationed in Haiti when the upheaval struck on Jan twelve and they were the judicious "first responders" to the mess in the bankrupt Caribbean country, whose notoriously diseased executive supervision was impressed by the scale of the tragedy.

Initially, however, nothing of the peacekeepers appeared to be concerned in hands-on charitable service in what puncture healing experts report as the vicious initial 72 hours after a harmful trembler strikes.

Their reply to the abominable pang was singular to you do security and seeking for looters after the bulk 7.0 upheaval intended majority of the collateral and took what Haitian President Rene Preval says could be as majority as 300,000 lives.

There was looting in the capital, but it paled in some-more aged with the astringency of the charitable crisis.

Horribly-injured patients flooded overstretched hospitals, forcing healing staff to confirm that patients to yield and that were already as well far left to try saving.

"Doctors played God," pronounced Tyler Marshall, a maestro former Los Angeles Times match operative with an general assist organisation that helped out in a tent city erected at the tallness of the destruction on the drift of Port-au-Prince"s University Hospital, the country"s largest.

Scores of U.N. crew died in the quake, together with Hedi Annabi, head of the U.N. mission that was set up in 2004. That helps insist what majority have criticized as a glacially delayed kickoff of service operations after one of history"s misfortune healthy disasters.

But in the days and weeks that followed it mostly seemed that lessons from alternative disasters were abandoned in Haiti as fears of rioting or anarchy overshadowed concerns about removing assist out quickly.

The U.N."s tip charitable assist official, John Holmes, is between those who have chided service agencies, together with the United Nations itself, for you do as well small to assistance Haiti.

"We cannot ... wait for for for the subsequent puncture for these lessons to be learned," Holmes wrote in a trusted email initial published on the website of the biography Foreign Policy.

"There is an obligatory need to progress significantly genius on the ground, to urge coordination, vital formulation and sustenance of aid," pronounced Holmes.

Edmond Mulet, behaving head of the U.N. mission, concurred in an talk that it played a singular charitable purpose in the initial couple of days after the trembler since the operations were effectively decapitated.

"At the unequivocally commencement it was unequivocally formidable since all the domicile was utterly broken and all the care of the mission was killed," Mulet told Reuters.

"CRIMINALS AND BANDITS"

Mulet gained prominence for wielding an iron fist during a prior army as head of the U.N. mission when he led mostly Brazilian "blue helmet" infantry in a successful crackdown on Haiti"s heavily armed gangs.

And he has finished no tip about sophistry the competing needs of service operations with law enforcement, in his bid to lane down the some-more than 3,000 inmates who took value of the trembler to shun from the main prison.

"We are here additionally to yield security," he pronounced when asked about the mess of convoys of rifle-wielding U.N. infantry to poke for people trapped in the rubble of the busted capital.

"I still have to patrol, I still have to go after all these criminals and bandits that transient from the inhabitant penitentiary, the squad leaders, the criminals, the killers, the kidnappers. I cannot unequivocally confuse myself from you do that."

The service mission shifted in to higher rigging after U.S. infantry deployed in large numbers and set up a supply sequence to get food and disinfectant in to areas great out for aid.

But there were still majority bottlenecks and setbacks, mostly involving U.N.-linked food distributions hobbled by unsound organization, reserve and throng control.

Unfortunately, U.N. infantry in Haiti have over the years gained a repute for toughness and abuse some-more than for easing pang in the lowest nation in the Americas.

"The usually time I"ve seen one of these U.N. infantry burst out of the behind of a lorry was to kick up on somebody or take a shot at them," pronounced a piece of the U.S. Army"s 82nd Airborne Division, as he worked security during a new assist handout.

"These guys have since all of us in unvaried a bad repute here," he said, asking not to be identified.

Haiti"s wrecked infrastructure and bad ride links finished it formidable to get assist out and keep it flowing, but that frequency finished the incident opposite from that in alternative new disasters around the globe.

"POOREST AND MOST VULNERABLE"

"The lowest and the majority exposed people lend towards to live in the regions that are strike the majority by healthy disasters," pronounced Solomon Kuah, an puncture healing medicine formed in New York who outlayed 4 weeks in Port-au-Prince after the quake.

There are no arguable estimates for the series of survivors who died from injuries due to unsound healing supplies.

But Henriette Chamouillet, the World Health Organization"s deputy in Haiti, pronounced all from staff shortages to bureaucracy and a miss of make-up lists embroiled the smoothness of containers full of medicines from Port-au-Prince"s airfield to doctors on the ground.

Port-au-Prince sits usually 700 miles off the seashore of Miami, that is home to a large Haitian-American community, and it seemed ludicrous that so couple of the U.S. infantry rushed there spoke French or were accompanied by translators.

One retaining picture of pell-mell food distributions came when U.S. helicopters offloaded boxes of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) at a site in the capital. Many Haitians non-stop them up usually to toss them afar in offend since no French or Creole-language instructions were enclosed with the assumingly invalid packets of dust, explaining that they indispensable to be churned with H2O as piece of their preparation.

Rajiv Shah, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, has touted the Haiti service mission as "the largest and majority successful general poke and rescue bid ever fabricated in history."

But some-more than 6 weeks after the upheaval hit, the mission is still mostly in an puncture reply mode. The U.N."s World Food Program is tying the food rations to 55-pound (25 kg) bags of rice and the Haitian supervision estimates that a million upheaval survivors are still vital in the streets in temporary encampments with no using H2O or toilets.

Doctors are roughly finished traffic with dire injuries but reconstruction for a little 40,000 amputees and rebuilding Haiti"s health infrastructure are between long-term challenges.

"This is unequivocally a mess of Biblical proportions," pronounced Lewis Lucke, who was the USAID executive in Iraq prior to entrance to Haiti as U.S. ambassador.

U.N. and alternative officials have pronounced the tellurian reply to Haiti"s upheaval was quicker and some-more in effect than in alternative new disasters, together with the Asian tsunami that killed 226,000 people in thirteen countries in Dec 2004.

But experts contend the United Nations has a lot to sense from smaller, some-more nimble healing groups similar to International Medical Corps, or IMC, and Paris-based Medicins Sans Frontieres, along with charities some-more experienced in distributing aid, such as CARE and Catholic Relief Services.

Kuah, who concurrent service efforts for IMC, a California-based organisation that had rarely learned doctors treating patients in Haiti twenty-three hours after the trembler struck, stressed the "need for speed" when it comes to saving lives.

"When you ask yourself if there were ways you could have prevented some-more mortalities or discontinued additional mortality, with earthquakes, in particular, it"s some-more timing than anything else," pronounced Kuah.

(Additional stating by Catherine Bremer, Jackie Frank, Patricia Zengerle, Mica Rosenberg and Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Kieran Murray)

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