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Top 10 crying moments from Obama to Gazza

Nothing increases a person's public image a bit like blubbing very timely, as Barack Obama has brilliantly demonstrated. Here is a selection of the best - and strangest - tears of celebrities

Have you seen Obama still crying? Thanking the staff and volunteers of the campaign headquarters in Chicago on Wednesday, reelected president paused, the tears and wiped a tear to applause from his supporters.

Clip

was directly on his official YouTube channel - we thought - for two reasons: to show volunteers and staff of the depth of the gratitude he felt for his hard work, and because the Obama people know that it is real and when it is time, nothing is more effective for the public image of a person crying a little well-intentioned.

Similarly, when the weather is bad, or the tears do not seem justified, can be a very bad way. Here are nine times more tears, triumphs wholeheartedly humanization mixing with water embarrassing explosions. And that which is just weird.

Gordon Brown by Piers Morgan springs

speaks volumes about the attitude of the public towards Gordon Brown in February 2010 that YouTube clip is entitled "Gordon Brown crying voice." Cynicism seems unfair. He had, after all, been invited to speak about the death of his daughter and Piers Morgan look directly at the same time. This is likely to reduce most people to tears.

Vladimir Putin: "We won!" Speech

flags fluttered

filled Red Square, but the show was marked by a series of suspicious small Vlad right eye. The reason people Putin was the wind. It is clear that we are not interested in getting emotional in Russia.

Andy Murray: "I'm closing"

is generally considered impolite to turn the tears when you lose, but an exception must be made to Andy Murray. The austere and generally grumpy Scot transformed its image in the space of four minutes, when he fought tears to thank his fans and his family after his defeat against Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final this year.

Glenn Beck
sorry love America

This is strange. When forehands jock Glenn Beck nationalist burst into tears in the air, it probably became even more popular with the brigade of patriotism. But confirmed the growing concern among all others - even including the management of Fox News - that Beck was not the kind of man to trust with the public. Or even a pencil sharpener.

• Ken Livingstone
• tears in his campaign launch
• is fair to say that it go your way. By all means, mourn a moving story about the campaign. But never, never cry her own show prefabricated elections. There is a very mayor.
• Gwyneth Paltrow
• implodes on winning Oscar

The jury is still out on this point. Paltrow gasped and grimaced his way through floods as she thanked her agent, her family and half of Hollywood is in what was a whirlwind of tears blew arrogant or a tender and intimate moment of emotion pure.

Chris Hoy fight tears on the podium

motion, if a bit strange that. Cry when you win the first gold medal of course. Cry for the second time, perhaps, if it was hard fought, and against all odds. But mourn the sixth time winning a gold medal seems a bit naive. You can sort not expect to win if not?
Paul Gascoigne cries out a yellow card

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Mitt Romney's '47%' comments: a history - video

Mitt Romney denies that the statements recorded secretly a fundraiser in Florida who despised the 47% of American voters as dependent on the government, is a timeline of key moments: the video shows disclosed in Mother Jones Romney scrambled press conference the next day, and his recent appearance on Fox News to deny the comments

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Presidential debate: the Romney factor | Editorial

Mitt Romney must win. If, as the pollsters tell us repeatedly, the economy is the main issue of this election

Mitt Romney must win. If, as pollsters have been telling us the economy is the main issue of this election - and more people say they have confidence in the economic management of Mr. Romney than they do on the field, the incumbent Democrat is - why Why Barack Obama in key states away? Economic statistics indicate a healthy advantage Romney. The unemployment rate refuses to drop below 8%, disposable income fell in the second quarter, growth is anemic

Everything is grist to the mill of Mr. Romney. Why is it that Obama leads by 18 points among women? This is important because women are more likely to vote Democratic than men. Obama is the development of a healthy son of eight U.S. swing. In New Hampshire, built a 15-point lead. Energy levels that take people to vote the Democrats, the Republicans are not. Why? Other factors must be at work.

• could
• biggest problem is that Mitt sell? This is a first timer. This is his fourth attempt to perform any kind of choice, and for the moment, anyone in your household have figured out how to overcome the difficulties of your image. But apparently, it's unbelievable, no. Interrogation by the Pew Research Center - and that was before the last month of the infamous video in which Mr. Romney said that 47% of Americans rely on government assistance - shows Obama playing match points when is judged on his personal qualities. Approximately 64% found Obama inspires, while 43% found it difficult Romney 51% was proud of Obama, 48% concerned about Mr. Romney. This does not mean that Obama is doing a good job of selling their policies to create jobs, but it means that Mr. Romney made a bad job of selling her
Wednesday night in the first of three televised debates presidential, Romney will do the impossible: any candidate who scored higher unfavorable than favorable in September won the last six presidential elections. 47% Romney gaffe did not sit well among independent voters. New Hampshire figures reflect the disillusionment of independents. Should be your main goal, because the base of his party has moved to the right, however, with Paul Ryan on the trailer, which is only disabled. Republican swing states are running budget he produced. Ryan can be even more toxic than the running mate Sarah Palin was for John McCain in 2008.

We live in the age of the candidate self-destructive, and Obama must resist the temptation to smile at the sight of the enemy so easily stumble. But at least we can direct the televised debate Wednesday in Denver with a great advantage: Mr. Obama can be himself, Mr. Romney can not

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The weird world of the hair weave

hair weave invaded Africa in its march towards world domination. Without compromising the right of everyone to freedom of expression, no time to rethink a carpet?

One of my friends is a fashion photographer who spends most of his time taking pictures of models. In his spare time, he takes pictures of women less flattering. Since hair extensions and tissues became dominant, the police has been redesigned as knitting, surreptitiously snapping heads headphones cheap fake hair sewn onto the scalp unsuspecting or pieces of hair extension as a lost ball rolling along the sidewalk. These are common sights in east London, where he works, but it would be just as busy in Ghana, where I live.

This friend is driven by a bunch of fake hair first. Personally, I do not think the extremist line - is the right of every woman to decide to sew, hit someone or a clip is more hair on the head. I did it myself. In addition, hair extensions are harmless compared to some other lengths women are willing to go in the name of beauty. Of course, there are ethical questions about where the hair is. And, as anyone who has seen a woman on the bus having to use a debit card to scrape the scalp through thick layers of extensions, the tissues are not particularly useful when it is hot.

But my problem with the fabric is world domination that we women are our own worst enemies. Good looking hair used to draw, and for black women, natural hair knockout or traditional styles such as braids and cornrows hairstyles meant that they were worthy of open access. In Ghana, you can get your hair braided for less than £ 2. There is poverty here, but rarely gets in the way of people who take care of your hair.

At least, that's what they used to be. But then something terrible happened. Ghana reached the tissues. Textiles went everywhere. Women of all races and economic levels have replaced their natural advantages extensions with names like Virgin Indian Remy Hair Wave Royal Temple and Russian.

The objective is to achieve the kind of transethnic, image transhuman popularized by women in the clips of R & B -. Thick, long straight hair that are impossible for all but the smallest number of heads, which push themselves

• The result is that now you can count the amount of money that someone has the quality of your hair extensions. Fabrics intended deception, designed to create the illusion that the hair you bought has actually increased your scalp clean. This distance is only convincing if it is adopted, as another friend of mine recently, $ 450 for a style that will last six weeks. And the same amount of actually buying hair.

most women can not afford it. This means that many hairstyles cheap. Or worse, means that people who take bank loans only for their tissues. Chris Rock documentary

Good Hair

revealed the phenomenon - until now unknown in the UK, but it is only a matter of time - credit to tissue that women with low incomes could afford hair extensions $ 1,000 loan.

There are other potential dangers of using tissues. Last week, two women were arrested at JFK airport when customs officers found packages of cocaine sewn in hair extensions. Their friends had adopted a pragmatic approach to their hairstyles large, well tarnish his potential drugs.

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DWP and Ministry of Justice correspondence about the disability appeals video - full documents

A response to a request for access to information includes a letter from the Ministry of Justice parliamentary secretary Jonathan Djanogly, Chris Grayling and messaging conversations on video

NBC's opening ceremony mess: the top six cringeworthy moments

Meredith Vieira

jokes about his own ignorance ads frequent interruptions and meaningless chatter stations

After receiving a barrage of criticism from the media not to transmit the opening ceremony of the Olympics live, the U.S. network has also been beaten by some of the changes and the content of delayed coverage.

Here are some of the most cringeworthy

Punk Goes Pop

The Sex Pistols

long ceased to be subversive and become the place typically British. But perhaps not as far as NBC is concerned. His song Pretty Vacant fragments of the transmission made on both sides of a break and fell heavily.

Tim Berners-Lee - who dat

NBC co-host Meredith Vieira failed to do their homework and did not recognize the importance of the inventor of the World Wide Web. "If you have not heard of it, we have not done well," he said. "Google," joked co-host Matt Lauer.

Removing

memorial

• NBC aired a video tribute to the families and friends of people in the stadium who had died. Video memorial - which would have included photos of Danny Boyle's father - was introduced a reference to the tragedy of the terrorist attacks in London in 2005. This omission is doubly offensive.
Meredith sings

Vieira tried to add the voice of Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones "(I Can not Get No) Satisfaction is a walk in all segments of music. Was it not a point it must have made up because the effort lasted karaoke bars, before returning to the single line comment.

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Uruguay plans to legalise marijuana under state monopoly

government of José Mujica said that more harm is done by illegal drug business

President of Uruguay, José Mujica, has announced plans to legalize the production and sale of marijuana in the state monopoly, causing great controversy in Montevideo. The bill will soon be presented to Parliament, where the ruling center-left coalition led by the Frente Amplio (FA) has a majority, but is divided on this issue.

possession and consumption of marijuana was decriminalized in 2000. "No doubt, drug production in Uruguay and distribution, but the state will control and regulate the market," said Interior Minister Eduardo Bonomi.

"We have a progressive tradition," said Bonomi with Mujica, belonged to the Tupamaros urban guerrilla in the 1970s. "In the early 20th century in Spain ended the prohibition of alcohol, prostitution and gambling." Abortion is currently being legalized. "Our approach is pragmatic marijuana," said Bonomi. "The negative effects of marijuana use is far less harmful than the outbreak of the violence associated with the black market."

Approximately 300,000 people (8% of the population) sometimes use drugs. But the domestic market, which is currently illegal, is $ 75 million, according to the minister. "The main danger is not marijuana, but the two vendors supplying the most dangerous substances, such as paco

[a footnote cocaine], it is terrible damage. "

• The government did not specify how to manage production. Mujica suggested that 150 acres would be sufficient to meet demand, distribution is entrusted to a "private company" under the strict control of the state.

The opposition criticized the bill, saying it will increase drug use without reducing insecurity. Bonomi admits that crime is increasing in Uruguay, but stressed that "it is much lower than in neighboring countries such as Brazil and Argentina."

insecurity is a major concern for the Uruguayans and a major cause of criticism of the president, whose approval ratings have dropped 66% in 2004 to be elected to 40%, depending a recent survey. However, three former Latin American presidents - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Cesar Gaviria and Ernesto Zedillo, respectively, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico - have called on governments to take control of the drug. Guatemala is in favor of the Plan Mujica, Bolivia and seeking ways to legalize coca leaf.

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Guardian Weekly
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Chris Grayling puts 'punishment backing into community sentencing'

Ministry

own warning justice measures that could increase recidivism has been discontinued

harsher sentences in the community, almost all include an element of punishment and sentenced could see were labeled GPS to track your position will be announced Tuesday.

changes in the bill on Crime and Justice, which will be published by the Minister of Justice, Chris Grayling, the day after David Cameron made his first major speech on crime and justice with the promise of a new "tough but smart" balanced approach harsher sentences more focused on rehabilitation and crime prevention.

But when the plans were announced by the predecessor of Grayling, Ken Clarke, the Justice impact assessment itself warned that the move could increase recidivism if the punitive element emissions rehabilitation measures.

Grayling says: "We are now re-penalty sanction Community This is a clear message to criminals and the public that if you commit a crime, you can expect to be punished so appropriate common prayers .. not an easy option more. "

Two-thirds of community orders now contain a punitive element, such as forcing offenders to clean graffiti, litter clean and help rejuvenate their communities. Under the new plans, the number will "significantly sentences almost all adults in the community," the ministry said.

Satellite tracking will also

£ 5,000 and a limit on fines by judges to be removed "to make sentences more effective community," said Grayling.

He said: "We will use the latest GPS technology to track the movements of offenders, and give more powers to the courts to pay fines that affect offenders in their pockets and lifting the cover prescriptions compensation to provide adequate compensation to the victims. "

Previously, Cameron said he wanted to take a "tough but smart" approach.

• Speaking in central London, has promised tougher penalties, including life imprisonment for third parties mandatory serious offenders, a review of penalties for crimes knife and fines unlimited to compensate victims.

However, he rejected suggestions - sometimes promoted within his own party - that the government had to make a choice between being "difficult or sensitive-feely", arguing that it was "out this sterile debate "and do both.

method less costly and more effective in reducing crime has been restored, said Cameron, who promised that in the future all prisoners, not just those with longer sentences are eligible to participate. In the future, it would be the "norm" to use private companies and charities to offer such programs, and providers are paid on results, he said.

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Bollywood in Britain - the legacy of Yash Chopra

refused Kashmir, the great director turned to the English Lake District, Scotland and London as a ringtone background, singing declarations of love on the screen

Veteran Bollywood director Yash Chopra, died this week at the age of 80 years. His death occurred a few weeks before its highly anticipated new version, Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012) is due to the big screen. Yash Chopra has perhaps been one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of Indian cinema, however, will always be remembered as the king of the land of celluloid romance.

a career of 53 years was launched some of the most iconic films and commercial success of Indian film. Hits like Waqt (1965), Kabhi Kabhie (1976), Silsila (1981), Lamhe (1991) and Veer-Zaara (2004) captured the essence of the sensitivity Yash Chopra - a highly stylized presentation of emotional dilemmas of the super - rich. If Yash Chopra heroes were fighter pilots or beautiful melancholic poets and their heroines were prepared in chiffon saris beautiful. And when love was expressed, most often in a song and dance sequence, performed adequately in a picturesque setting - in the middle of the snowy Alps in Switzerland, the Dutch tulip fields or in the hills of area lakes.

Chopra acknowledged the sense of excitement, escape, adventure and aspiration as an exotic place could make a film, especially with love in his heart, and as a backdrop Exotic quickly became his trademark.

Historically in Indian films, was the mountainous region of Kashmir, considered by many as "paradise on earth", which is an idyllic setting for lovers. Kashmir landscape and the landscape has become so popular that lakes, trees and mountains became synonymous with romance in Bollywood. But when the threat of terrorism in the 1980s made the region difficult and inaccessible then Yash Chopra started the trend to seek alternatives abroad. Therefore Bollywood today plays a leading role in the introduction of attractive destinations abroad to India, which is currently the fastest growing market in the world tourism abroad. For your country appears in the latest Bollywood blockbuster is as good as it gets when it comes to product placement. No wonder then that Bollywood personalities are courted by travel agencies around the world. Yash Chopra, for example, without using boost tourism in Switzerland regularly with the country's lakes, misty valleys and snow-capped mountains as a backdrop for the song and dance sequences. So grateful were the Tourism Authority of Switzerland they have a lake named after him.

• The director has also played a role in promoting Britain as an attractive destination. His classic film Lamhe (1991) was filmed in London and the Lake District. When Mujhse Dosti Karoge occurs a decade later, Chopra Ullswater again returned to the cinema on a steamboat sailing between Pooley Bridge and Glen Ridding, reveling in Lake twisting hills and narrow, winding roads National Park.
• singular visual aesthetic Yash Chopra has also influenced a generation of filmmakers. In 1995, the film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (production Chopra), not only marked the debut of his son Aditya, but went on to become the longest running Indian film blockbuster. Not only features some of the best known sites in London, but was also one of the first to integrate British Asians in their history - non-resident Indians (NRI), as they are called in terms of Bollywood.

one of the best filmmakers in Bollywood, Karan Johar, who is a goodwill ambassador VisitBritain four years Britain World "You are invited campaign, Yash Chopra also cites as a major influence. Although his films have recently been introduced in the United States, the first two versions Johar were shot largely in Britain. To capitalize on this, VisitBritain, the national tourism agency responsible for marketing outside the United Kingdom, published a Bollywood movie card, to encourage fans to visit these Indians in British popular your favorite movies. The map highlights historical and recent Bollywood productions, including Karan Johar and 1998 film, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, whose title track was filmed only in Glencoe., Ross Priory and Loch Lomond in Scotland list British locations in its second version, Khushie Kabhi Kabhie Gham (2001) was even more exclusive -. King's College account Canto, Cambridge, Blenheim Palace, Cardiff's Millennium Stadium and Great Court of the British Museum

Chopra remained faithful to her favorite British at the end. Video of one of the songs from her latest film, Jab Tak Hai Jaan (forthcoming November 13, which coincides with Independence Day) is one of the most extravagant tourist destinations in London ever seen in a Bollywood movie.

Irna Qureshi
is an anthropologist and writer in Asian culture. She writes about being British and Muslim Bradford in a context of classic songs from Indian films. His latest book, Cartographies of Love is a show based on intimate conversations with three generations of Muslim women across Bradford.

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