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 Text:LONDON, England (CNN) -- Heather Mills presented "less than candid" testimony about her life with former Beatle Paul McCartney during her divorce case and made more money during their marriage than before, according to a ruling released Tuesday.

McCartney's lawyer Fiona Shackleton, left, pictured after it is alleged Mills threw water over her.

Mills represented herself during the proceedings and was a "less than impressive witness" on her own behalf, Judge Hugh Bennett wrote in awarding her £24.3 million ($48.6 million) -- far less than the £125 million she had sought from McCartney in the dissolution of their four-year marriage.

"Having given in her favor every allowance for the enormous strain she must have been under and in conducting her own case, I am driven to the conclusion that much of her evidence, both written and oral, was not just inconsistent and inaccurate but also less than candid," Bennett wrote.

Mills emerged from the court Monday angry about the judge's treatment of her. She said the judge and attorneys acted like they were part of a "club." Blog: Did Mills pour water on McCartney's lawyer?

A summary of Bennett's decision was released Monday, but Mills had sought to keep the full ruling under wraps. Britain's Court of Appeals ruled against her Tuesday, and her lawyer, David Rosen, said she accepted the decision.  See a list of expensive celebrity divorces »

"She as a mother has strived to protect her child and felt there were certain issues and matters in the judgment which affected that," Rosen said.

Mills opposed the full ruling's publication because it contained private details about her and her 4-year-old daughter with McCartney, Beatrice.  Watch Mills react to Monday's decision »

Bennett had good things to say about Mills in his judgment, commending her strength in the face of disability. Mills lost her left leg below the knee in a 1993 traffic accident.

But he discounted many of the arguments the former model made about her personal wealth before and after her 2002 marriage to McCartney. He ruled that Mills earned far less before marriage than she claimed, and far more while married -- and at several points in his decision, he wrote that Mills' ideas about their marriage were "make-belief."

"I find that, far from the husband dictating to and restricting the wife's career and charitable activities, he did the exact opposite," Bennett wrote. McCartney, meanwhile, presented balanced evidence and was a consistent witness, he wrote.

"He expressed himself moderately though at times with justifiable irritation, if not anger," the judge wrote in a glimpse of the emotions aired behind closed doors. Read the full ruling (.pdf file -- Adobe Acrobat required)

Bennett found Mills failed to produce financial records to back up statements about money she claimed to have in the bank before marriage, which she said amounted to more than £2 million. In one instance, the judge pointed out McCartney's company loaned Mills money to buy a home in Hove, England -- money that she would not have needed had she had such an amount in the bank.

And Bennett found that Mills' income actually improved during the marriage. In one year, she earned £1 million ($2 million) from a single modeling contract, he wrote. And he quoted Mills' 2002 book, "A Single Step," in which she wrote that her charity work and public speaking roles had expanded "to such an extent that it has left little time for anything else."

"She is a kindly person and is devoted to her charitable causes," the judge wrote. "She has conducted her own case before me with a steely, yet courteous, determination."

The couple met in 1999, a year after the death of McCartney's wife of 30 years, Linda. The judge said McCartney continued to grieve for his late wife well into his marriage with Mills -- and he suggested Mills misrepresented her case because she had been star-struck.

"The wife for her part must have felt rather swept off her feet by a man as famous as the husband," he wrote. "I think this may well have warped her perception leading her to indulge in make-belief. The objective facts simply do not support her case."

Bennett discounted Mills' claims that she was anything more than a loving and devoted wife in helping McCartney.

"The wife's evidence that in some way she was the husband's 'psychologist,' even allowing for hyperbole, is typical of her make-belief," the judge wrote.

Mills and McCartney failed to agree on a divorce settlement in six days of hearings in February, leaving the judge to decide the terms.

Bennett's 58-page decision concluded that £24.3 million was enough for Mills to live comfortably and take care of their daughter's needs. McCartney had proposed a £15.8 million settlement.

The judgment included £35,000 a year for Beatrice, £600,000 for Mills and £2.5 million for her to purchase property in London. E-mail to a friend

Response: Judge: Heather Mills "a less than impressive witness". Paul McCartney's ex-wife received nearly $50M payout in divorce ruling. Ruling follows collapse of ex-Beatle's four-year marriage to former model.


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 Text:Hong Kong (CNN) -- A volcanic eruption in Indonesia that has displaced more than 22,000 people is intensifying, local authorities say.

Mount Sinabung, which began spewing gas in September after a three-year slumber, has erupted over 220 times this week.

The hot ashes and smoke have caused pyroclastic flows -- a fast-moving mass of gas and rocks -- to stretch to seven kilometers down the southeast slope of the 2,600 meter (8,530 foot) mountain in North Sumatra. Last week, flows reached three kilometers.

The local government is still able to cope with the disaster, and no casualties have been reported according to Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for Indonesia's national agency for disaster management.

The government has evacuated more than 22,000 people to 34 temporary camps.

However one area, housing at least 1,000 residents, still lacks necessary provisions and shelter.

The displaced say they have urgent need for baby formula, clean water and gas, said local aid coordinator in Jambur Siabang-abang.

A national emergency hasn't been declared, but the government is prepared for the "worst case scenario."

In case of bigger eruptions, the danger zone would be extended to a radius of 10 kilometers from 5 to 7 kilometers currently.

If the zone is enlarged, Nugroho estimates that 59,000 people would have to be evacuated.

Kathy Quiano in Jakarta, Indonesia contributed to this report.

Response: A volcanic eruption in Indonesia is intensifying. More than 22,000 people have been evacuated from Mount Sinabung area. No casualties have been reported. Authorities considering expanding "danger zone" if eruptions get bigger.


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 Text:(CNN) -- More than a quarter-million American women served honorably in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. These brave women sacrificed much to keep us safe. Now that they are home, or soon to be home, our country has a solemn obligation to help them transition back to civilian life.

Yet there is mounting evidence that America is not fulfilling this obligation. Based on data gathered by the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments, a recent report by Disabled American Veterans finds it clear that our country isn't fully meeting the unique physical, emotional and employment needs of women who served in uniform.

Although they served in equal capacities in combat environments, when they return home they receive less support than their male counterparts from government programs primarily designed for men.

Today, nearly one in five women who are veterans have delayed or gone without necessary health care in the past year. One in 11 is unemployed. Former servicewomen experience homelessness at between two to four times the rate of their civilian counterparts.

It's unacceptable that the women who honorably served our countryâ€”our mothers, spouses, sisters and daughtersâ€”are at risk. The DAV report finds that the federal, state and community programs to support women making the transition out of military service have serious gaps that put some of them in jeopardy.

Consider medical care. Today, one-third of the Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers lack a staff gynecologist and 18% of VA clinics have yet to hire at least one doctor specializing in women's health.

Mental health services for women are severely lacking. Twenty percent of female patients in the VA health system have been diagnosed with a condition resulting from military sexual trauma, which can have devastating, long-term consequences. Nonetheless, one in three VA health centers does not have enough sexual trauma specialists on staff.

Sadly, we are not doing much better when it comes to helping women gain post-military employment. Former servicewomen are highly skilled, with unique life experiences that give them valuable leadership qualities and the know-how to operate effectively in high-stress situations.

Yet the unemployment rate for female veterans has steadily climbed for most of the past decade, and is now higher than for male veterans. What's more, two-thirds of women report that the career service help offered by federal agencies has been sub-par.

These problems could soon get worse. The military has started on a major drawdown of personnel. As a result, more than 200,000 servicewomen are expected to rejoin the civilian workforce in the next five years.

Now is the time for action.

In our report, "Women Veterans: The Long Journey Home," DAV outlines 27 key policy and program recommendations that Congress, the administration, VA and the Departments of Defense, Labor, and Housing and Urban Development can take to strengthen the safety net for female veterans.

For starters, veterans' health centers must meet their obligation to provide specialists in women's health. At a minimum, every VA medical center must hire a gynecologist. And efforts to treat and help stamp out sexual assault within the military need to be expanded. Officials must intensify their efforts to change any remnants of a culture that comes at the expense of women's dignity and safety.

To help combat unemployment among female veterans, the Department of Defense must take a hard look at the primary program designed to help veterans go into the civilian labor force: the Transition Assistance Program. The department does not collect data on participation, satisfaction, and outcomes by gender and race. Simply put, the Department of Defense cannot tell us if the Transition Assistance Program actually helps female veterans find jobs. Also, the VA and Defense Department need to develop career guidance programs specially designed for women.

Finally, as the VA and Defense work to strengthen services to servicewomen, these agencies need to invest in improved child care options. Inadequate child care is proving to be a major obstacle for many women transitioning home. For example, many are unable to take part in specialized mental health services, such as post-traumatic stress disorder support groups, because child care is unavailable.

Thousands of women answered the call of duty and put themselves at risk to preserve our nation's security. They served this country faithfully. Serving them with greater respect, consideration and care must become a national priority.

Response: A quarter-million U.S. women served in Iraq, Afghanistan and are returning to civilian life. Garry Augustine: They served in combat like men, but get less support than men do. He says female vets go without health care, many are jobless, many are homeless. Augustine: VA and DoD need to strengthen services for women, improve child care options.


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 Text:London (CNN) -- It may appear to be the height of bad taste: a collection of handguns clad in silver and studded with precious stones.

But although these weapons, which were produced by Tiffany & Co in the late 19th Century, were able to deliver lethal force, they were never designed to be fired.

"So far as we know, the guns never killed anybody," says Pierre Terjanian, the head of the Arms and Armor department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where a collection of seven such guns is kept.

"They were produced to symbolize the potency of American manufacturing and craftsmanship, and were created using techniques that nobody else could equal."

Guns not blazing

Tiffany & Co had been producing decorative presentation swords that were awarded to American officers during the Civil War and Mexican-American War of 1846-8.

In the 1880s, the company moved into firearms, taking delivery of standard-issue Smith & Wesson handguns and transforming them into one-off works of art.

They were clad in silver, etched with intricate designs, and studded with precious jewels. Each weapon was unique; one was adorned with an American buffalo hunting scene, while others were inspired by Japanese or Islamic design.

These formed the centerpiece of the American display at the World's Fair series of exhibitions, which started with the Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace, London, in 1851, and then were held around Europe and the United States.

"At the time, a great aura surrounded the Wild West in Europe," says Terjanian. "It was at the time of the closing of the frontier, and people were already thinking nostalgically about it.

"Tiffany took Wild West symbolism and combined it with high-quality craftsmanship. It confirmed that Tiffany was an American firm with global ambitions, which could do things that nobody else could."

Uniquely beautiful objects

Among the techniques that the weapons showcased were advanced enameling -- two colors were blended together in a way that had never been seen before -- and the use of chemical etching, as opposed to straightforward engraving.

Tiffany & Co also produced a Winchester rifle, which was famously used in the conquest of the West. Although it was technically able to fire bullets, the thick silver cladding made it impossible to disassemble and clean, and the heavy ebony wood made it too heavy to use effectively.

Despite the focus on display, several weapons were purchased by American businessmen, including Jason "Jay" Gould, the prominent railroad magnate. According to Terjanian, a particularly beautiful weapon -- which had a butt made of carved ivory -- was acquired by a well-known sharpshooter named John Wynans, who used it to demonstrate his skills.

In all, about 50 guns were produced by Tiffany. The project was abruptly discontinued in 1911, when New York adopted gun control laws.

"These are very important objects," says Terjanian. "They showed that objects may have a function, but their symbolic meaning can be greater.

"They stood not for combat but for handiwork and the imagination. They surprised and impressed everybody, and acted as ambassadors for Tiffany & Co and for the United States."

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Response: Tiffany & Co produced about 50 decorative guns. They were intended as a showcase for craftsmanship and a symbol of American power. The largest surviving collection is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.


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 Text:(CNN) -- A 56-year-old married woman has won half of the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot in U.S. history and has taken the cash option, which after taxes, will be about $120 million, Georgia Lottery President Debbie Alford said Wednesday.

Ira Curry, of Stone Mountain, came to the lottery office with the winning ticket of hand-picked numbers, a mix of family birthdays and the lucky number 7. She did not appear at the afternoon lottery announcement in Atlanta.

Curry bought the ticket at the end of the day Friday and it was a last-minute decision, Alford said.

Alford gave a few details about Curry, saying she is married and had her daughter check online for the winning numbers after a radio announcer mentioned 7 was the Mega ball number.

Two tickets matched the winning numbers in Tuesday night's $648 million jackpot. Curry's half of the cash option comes to $173,819,742.50, before federal taxes (25%) and Georgia taxes (6%), officials said.

According to CNN's calculation, the payout will net her $119,935,622.32.

It will take one to two weeks before Curry will get her check, Alford said.

Curry bought her winning ticket in Atlanta at a Gateway Newstand in the lobby of an office building near the city's Buckhead community; the other ticket was sold in San Jose, California, lottery officials said.

"(Curry) had the radio on, and the announcer was talking about the Mega ball, which was seven," Alford said. So Curry called her daughter and "between tears of joys and laughter," the daughter relayed to her mother that she'd won, the lottery president said.

Curry told Alford, "I was in a state if disbelief. I still didn't believe it when my daughter told me," Alford said.

No lotteries in these 7 states

Alford said she suspects Curry called her boss to say she wouldn't be coming in to work because Curry met with lottery officials between 11 a.m. and noon. Curry told lottery officials she hadn't had time to think about what to do with the money.

The winning numbers were 8, 14, 17, 20 and 39, with a Mega ball of 7.

Twenty ticket holders will win $1 million after matching all the numbers except the Mega ball.

Strong sales boosted the jackpot to $648 million from previous estimates of $636 million and $586 million, lottery officials said.

That's tantalizingly close to the U.S. record -- a $656 million Mega Millions jackpot split by three winning tickets in March 2012.

This jackpot was so large in part because Mega Millions became tougher to win. The prize rises with each miss, and no one had won it since organizers increased the pool of numbers to choose from -- making astronomical odds even longer -- in October.

The California winning ticket was sold at Jenny's Gift Shop in a San Jose strip mall, lottery officials said.

You won the big one. Now what?

The chance of winning -- never particularly bright -- got worse in late October, when Mega Millions increased the drawing's pool of numbers. The odds of hitting the jackpot, which were 1 in 176 million, are now 1 in 259 million.

You have more than 1,000 times better chance of an asteroid or comet killing you -- and that's using the longest estimated odds for the celestial bodies -- according to Tulane University.

"Winning the Mega Millions is akin to getting struck by lightning at the same time you're being eaten by a shark," said Todd Northrop, founder of Lotterypost.com.

$800 million in lottery prizes unclaimed

Previously, lottery players chose five numbers, ranging from 1 to 56. It's now 1 to 75. But the sixth, gold ball has fewer numbers from which to choose, as the pool decreased from 46 to 15.

Mega Millions tickets are sold in 43 states -- all but Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming -- plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Lottery winner gives $40 million to charity

CNN's Joseph Netto, Holly Yan, Chris Friedman, Christine Romans, Pamela Brown, Julie In, Devon Sayers and Eliott C. McLaughlin contributed to this report.

Response: Winner, 56, will get $119,935,622.32 after taxes, CNN calculates. Ira Curry of Stone Mountain is the Georgia winner of half the $648 million jackpot. Two jackpot-winning tickets were sold, one in Georgia and one in California. 20 people will win $1 million after matching the five non-Mega ball numbers.


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 Text:(CNN)Two million illnesses. 23,000 deaths. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that's the human toll from antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" each year in the United States.

To fight the growing problem of infections that can't be treated, the administration of President Barack Obama is implementing a five-year national action plan at a cost of $1.2 billion. Those funds, part of the President's 2015 budget, which must still be approved by Congress, would nearly double the amount of federal money allocated to the fight.

The plan calls for creating a "one-health" approach to testing and reporting superbugs around the country, as well as establishing a DNA database of resistant bacteria.

New, rapid tests to detect emerging resistant bacteria will be developed.

Research for new antibiotics and vaccines will accelerate. The plan calls for two new options for people, and three for animals, by 2020.

Global surveillance and cooperation is also stressed, including a global database for animals.

A key goal is to slow the growth and spread of superbugs by reducing the use of antibiotics when they aren't needed. The plan calls for a 50% reduction in inappropriate antibiotic use in doctor's offices and a 20% reduction in hospital use by 2020.

"This is a lofty goal," said internist and Emory Associate Professor Dr. Sandra Fryhofer. "It's important for both patients and professionals to be on board."

There are still details to work out. "Who determines what's appropriate?" asked Atlanta pediatrician Dr. Jennifer Shu. "Are we going to have a checklist of requirements that have to be met? I think it might be a bit tough to measure, but I think improvement can definitely happen."

A recent survey of 796 health care professionals found 63% of the sample prescribed antibiotics when they weren't absolutely necessary, at least 10% of the time. A top reason: the patient requested it.

"Some patients put a lot of pressure on doctors to give them an antibiotic, and they may think they're not getting good care if they're not given one. But that's just not true," said Fryhofer. "It's become like an insurance policy but it's an insurance policy that doesn't give good dividends."

"I do find there is a lot of education that has to go on with patients that might expect antibiotics when their child is sick," said Shu, "but I think in recent years I have seen more of an awareness, and many of my patients are more hesitant to ask."

Another part of the plan pledges to eliminate the widespread use of antibiotics to boost the growth of animals raised for food. It will also phase in oversight by veterinarians for other uses of antibiotics in feed and water. While applauding the spirit of the pledge, critics say the limits are still too voluntary and limited in scope.

"The problem we have with the plan is that it only removes the growth claims from the label," said senior analyst Steve Roach at Keep Antibiotics Working. "What we hoped for in the plan was a commitment from FDA to identify which antibiotic uses other than growth promotion need to be changed."

"With 80% of the antibiotics produced in the United States being used in agriculture mostly for prevention," said Louise Slaughter, D-New York, who has an alternate proposal in front of Congress, "any meaningful solution to the looming antibiotic resistance crisis must begin with limits on the farm. Trusting a voluntary policy that lets industry police itself will not bring about real change."

Response: Antibiotic resistance is a pressing public health issue, CDC says. Plan would nearly double the amount of federal monies allocated to the fight. Patient use of unnecessary antibiotics will be curtailed.


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 Text:(CNN) -- Richard Elman is the Founder and Chief Executive of the global supply chain manager Noble Group. He is responsible for overseeing the management team and formulation of its overall strategic planning.

He first arrived in Asia in the mid-1960s, from England, and has more than 40 years of experience as a physical commodity trader and supply chain architect. He was the first person to sell Daqing crude oil from China to the U.S., and the first to dock a foreign commercial vessel in Vladivostok, Russia.

Prior to founding Noble Group in 1987, he spent ten years with Philipp Brothers as Regional Director of its Asia operations, including two years as a Board Director in New York.

Mr Elman has today built Noble Group into a leading force in supply chain management from its headquarters in Hong Kong, and his reputation for leadership is complemented by numerous industry awards and accolades.

Under his leadership of two decades, Noble Group's revenues have grown consistently to reach $13.7 billion in 2006, representing a 20-fold increase from $677.5 million in 1996.

In 2004, he guided Noble's Board of Directors to claim the Listed Companies (Main Board) Boards Award from The Hong Kong Institute of Directors and oversaw the top ranking on the Billion-dollar club of the Singapore Stock Exchange for Total Shareholder Returns over a three and five year period.

Noble also landed on top of the Forbes Global 2000 as the world's best performing stock from 2001 - 2005 (2,302%). E-mail to a friend

Response: Richard Elman is the founder and CEO of the Noble Group. He founded the company in 1987, having arrived in Asia in the 1960s. Under his leadership revenues have grown 20-fold over the last 10 years.


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 Text:(CNN)Much like the ardent young royal-watchers of today, enamored by the Duchess of Cambridge's very being, I was similarly captivated by Diana, Princess of Wales when I was a youngster.

She was a rare breed: stunningly beautiful, immediately accessible, witty, charming and endearingly mischievous -- she was one in a million.

Of course that was long before the, "there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded," interviews and tell-all books alleging suicide attempts and acts of betrayal, but back then I was unaware of her more scandalous infamy. I simply adored her ... I still do.

As the world awaits the impending birth of William and Kate's second baby, potential names have become the topic of rampant speculation and heated debate. Girls' names are causing the biggest stir, as there seems to be a belief that the couple are expecting a princess.

If the assumptions are correct, she will be the first Princess of Cambridge born into the royal family in 182 years. The birth of any baby is cause for celebration, but given recent changes in the laws of succession, her arrival would be a historical one.

In choosing a name, titled royals tend to turn to the family tree, rather than a well-thumbed copy of "1,001 Best Baby Names" like the rest of us.

Traditionally they pick dynastic names, and there are plenty to choose from: Elizabeth, Alice, Victoria and Charlotte have all been frontrunners, but the sentimental favorite among punters remains Diana.

In a recent Today Show poll, 32% of Americans predicted the name was a shoo-in, and in the UK the bookies' odds of a baby named after her late grandmother change almost daily as Diana becomes an increasingly popular choice.

That said, in the event the couple do welcome a baby girl, I would hope that they do not opt to name her Diana.

Today Diana's name is as divisive as the very institution of monarchy itself: while some have virtually sainted her, others have been vehemently critical, accusing her of being childish, unhinged and self-serving.

Contrary to popular belief the Queen was very fond of Diana, but should her name be bestowed as a first name upon the baby, it would be perceived as a slap in the face to the monarchy.

In the years since Earl Spencer's scathing attack on the Windsors at Diana's funeral, the nation has moved on and Diana's legacy has been celebrated. She has become a part of royal history. Her memory has been preserved, and the royal family is once again enjoying a renewed sense of popularity.

Out of respect to the Queen, Charles, Camilla and the baby herself the couple simply wouldn't do it.

Diana's name conjures up both positive and negative responses the world over, and whichever side of the fence you're on, the moniker seems to me an almighty burden for a newborn baby to carry.

Since Diana's death almost 18 years ago, William has honored his mother's memory in a private and personal fashion. He has taken on many of her patronages and continued to champion her causes.

At his wedding in 2011 the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, a close friend of Diana and executor of her will, gave the address. The hymn Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer, which was sung at both Diana's funeral in 1997 and at the memorial marking the tenth anniversary of her death in 2007, was chosen for the royal wedding.

Julia Samuel, another close friend of Diana, was asked to serve as Godmother to Prince George. William chose Kensington Palace, his own childhood home, to be the primary residence for his family, and in perhaps the most public acknowledgment of his mother's memory, he gave Kate Diana's engagement ring.

William doesn't need to name his second-born child after his mother in order to honour her; he does so by being a good husband and father.

I still miss Diana. She was a one-off, and I don't believe the world will ever witness another quite like her.

Daily comparisons to her late mother-in-law are already Kate's cross to bear. Shouldn't a baby girl be spared the same fate?

Diana's tragic, untimely death and iconic status will ensure her memory is kept alive for generations to come. She wouldn't want her granddaughter to languish in her shadow.

She would want her to go out into the world, to make her own mark and help those less fortunate, to enrich the lives of others and to carve out her own unique identity -- as Alice, Elizabeth, Victoria, Charlotte, or -- my own personal pick -- Alexandra.

Response: As William and Kate await the arrival of their second child, speculation is rife as to what he or she will be named. Royal expert Victoria Arbiter argues that naming a newborn princess after Diana would put too much pressure on her.


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 Text:(CNN) -- A group of Columbus, Ohio, police officers hopped on the Powerball bandwagon, but unlike the majority of ticket buyers, the players will walk away from the frenzy $1 million richer.

The majority of approximately 20 officers work either in the department's forgery or auto theft unit, according to department spokesman Sgt. Rich Weiner.

"It's nothing anyone can really retire from, but a lot of people are going to have a nice holiday season," said Weiner, who was not involved in the pool that purchased the tickets.

The group's ticket had the five winning numbers, but their Powerball number was one off from the winning Powerball 6 -- a not-so-lucky number 5, according to Weiner.

The group planned to come forward late Thursday, according to the Ohio Lottery Commission. Once confirmed, they officers will share the winnings.

Wednesday night's drawing produced 58 $1 million tickets and eight $2 million tickets, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association.

Winning Powerball tickets sold in Missouri, Arizona

CNN's Chuck Johnston contributed to this report.

Response: Police officers share winning ticket. They missed only the Powerball.


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 Text:(CNN) -- With less than a month until Christmas, toy retail experts are predicting that Santa's sleigh won't be the only thing flying through the night sky this festive season.

Both international toy store Toys 'R' Us and the UK's Toy Retailers Association have named remote control flying toys among their "top toys" for Christmas 2013 -- and that's just the beginning of the flying robot invasion. Aerial bots of all sizes -- from miniature flying fairies to full-scale surveillance aircraft -- could be appearing under Christmas trees come December 25.

It's evidence that the high tech materials and components developed for complex flying robots are filtering down creatively to the new world of "civilian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles."

It wasn't long ago that easily controlled multifunctional quadcopters were only seen in the hands of tech university researchers and military specialists. Now, cheap, lightweight motors and stability-providing gyroscopes are available to anyone, opening up flying robot technology to the world of toys, as well as providing new ways for shutterbugs to make home movies and shoot aerial photos.

Check out the slideshow above to see some of the amazing flying robots that are available for kids and adults alike. And consider giving Rudolph a break this year by giving a gift that can make its own way down the chimney.

Response: Could flying robots invade the market for presents this Christmas?. Toys 'R' Us names remote controlled flying toys as "top gifts" this year. Both novelty and high tech devices are becoming increasingly affordable.


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 Text:(Mental Floss) -- We've all seen it: that one lonely bag on the baggage claim track at the airport that goes around and around with no owner in sight. What happens to it if no one shows up?

Well, it might end up at the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama. That's where you can visit a store that takes up an entire city block and find everything from the expected (clothing, toiletries, books) to, well, the unexpected.

Here are 10 of the strangest items that have gone unclaimed.

1. Hoggle from "Labyrinth" -- Unlike other items at the Unclaimed Baggage Center, Hoggle is not for sale. He is now a permanent part of the Unclaimed Baggage Center Museum. If you're not familiar, Hoggle was David Bowie's dwarf-goblin minion in the 1986 movie.

2. A slew of ancient Egyptian artifacts -- From a mummified falcon to a shrunken head, a bunch of objects dating back to 1500 B.C. were found in an old Gucci suitcase. Christie's auction house ended up selling the museum-worthy items in the '80s.

3. A rattle snake -- A live one, roaming free amongst the rest of the unclaimed baggage.

4. A Naval guidance system -- Yep -- a piece of equipment worth $250,000 was lost and never claimed. The people at the Center decided to be good sports and return the expensive GPS to the Navy.

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5. Bountiful Barbie (but not in the way you think) -- A woman purchased a Barbie at the Center for her daughter, which isn't at all unusual. After all, kids lose toys all the time. But when the girl yanked the head off her new Barbie, $500 in rolled bills tumbled out of her body.

6. A full suit of armor-- Unlike the Egyptian artifacts, this guy was merely a replica of a 19th century piece. Still, I bet to this day, there's a guy out there who continues to tell the story of the time he lost a suit of armor at the airport.

7. A violin from the 1770s -- Like Hoggle, it resides in the Unclaimed Baggage Center Museum.

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8. A 5.8-carat diamond -- It was set in a platinum ring and packed in a sock.

9. A camera designed for use on a NASA Space Shuttle -- As with the Navy's guidance system, the Center dutifully returned the camera to NASA.

10. A 40.95-carat natural emerald.

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Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC. All rights reserved.

Response: Unclaimed suitcases go to Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama. Items in suitcases are mostly clothes or toiletries, with occasional diamond. A $250,000 Naval guidance system was left in unclaimed luggage. Full suit of armor, ancient Egyptian artifacts and 40.95-carat natural emerald.


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 Text:(CNN) -- It takes a special person to join Mensa.

For one, the elite society only takes individuals with IQ scores in the 98th percentile, meaning just 1 in 50 Americans is eligible.

This exclusivity -- some might say snobbery -- is part of Mensa's lore. Early Mensans in Britain walked around with yellow buttons, organizational publications once referred to non-Mensa members as "Densans," and last year, a top Mensa member and tester called anyone with an IQ of 60 a "carrot."

In short, you don't always join Mensa because you think you're smart. You join to be set apart from most people, who are, as one member put it: "mundane."

But a new partnership between American Mensa and online dating giant Match.com offers a new, enticing reason to join the society of geniuses: true love.

Beginning this week, members of the brainiac group can connect through a separate, exclusive dating service called Mensa Match. In addition, Match.com members can add a special Mensa badge to their profiles, signaling a specific interest in connecting with a single person with a confirmed genius-level IQ score.

Smart dating struggles

Anne Sereg is one of those geniuses.

The 55-year-old Florida woman is an IT project manager who graduated high school in three years, college in two-and-a-half and has a law degree from Georgia State University.

"It's been a long time," she said about her dating life. "I went hermit-y for a quite a few years. I just didn't find anyone who's been interesting enough."

Sereg found she does not connect with people who are athletes or sports nuts, for example.

"I'm looking for people who are intellectually curious. And when all you're talking about is sports teams and barbeques ... when you're talking about physical traits and not existential philosophy, I'm not going to get the vibe."

Sereg admits this attitude can limit her relationship options. But one expert thinks the results could be much worse.

Ali Binazir is the author of The Tao of Dating, and penned a 2009 article, "Why the Smartest People Have the Toughest Time Dating."

A Harvard graduate, Binazir said highly intellectual people can frequently feel "entitled" to love. And sometimes this means unwilling to make the compromises for a successful relationship.

"IQ tends to be pretty one-dimensional. There's no way to say if this person interacts well with others," he said. "For a relationship, it matters more how that person implements that intelligence in the real world, for jobs and parenting and exchanging of ideas."

"You need to remove the barriers to love. And when you exclude those people, as smart people tend to do, that's when you become lonely."

According to Match's data, 80% of singles say they "must have" or find it "very important" to be with someone of the same intelligence level.

What your IQ score doesn't tell you

Sereg has decided a college education -- not a Mensa IQ -- is her basic requirement for a future mate.

"I just want someone who can keep up with me," she said.

New possibilities

The new Mensa partnership will give Match.com users a new way to find common ground, said Helen Fisher, a professor at the University of Indiana and Match.com's chief scientific adviser.

"If you're proud of being in Mensa, if someone (else) is also proud of being in Mensa, then you're already in the same clan," she said. "It's not unlike saying I read a lot of books and I'm looking for someone else who reads a lot of books. There's an automatic filter."

In their announcement of the partnership, Mensa and Match.com included a heat map of the U.S., listing where the "smartest singles" live, based on the cities with the highest percentage of Ivy League graduates on the dating site. The top 10 is dominated by college towns such as Durham, North Carolina; Ithaca, New York; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Boulder, Colorado; and Charlottesville, Virginia.

Fisher cites numerous studies that suggest relationships with a brainy mate could come with great perks.

"People who are smarter tend to have a higher income, tend to be creative, coordinated, and good at solving problems," she said. "So not only could you have a better conversation during dinner, but dinner could be in a nicer place, and (you could) leave in nicer car."

Binazir does not believe Mensa members are better at relationships than anyone else. But the partnership with Match.com provides another way for people to find common interests, which is always positive, he said. "I think it's a step in the right direction."

Anne Sereg hopes he is right, but she won't get too excited just yet.

"One of the most recent marriages in our Mensa group came through finding each other on Match.com, and that was before the partnership," she said.

"I'm hoping that it (works). I don't know if it will. But you can't go anywhere if you don't have hope."

Response: Mensa and Match.com join to launch an exclusive dating service. Mensa members can also identify themselves to all Match users. Dating expert: You're not entitled to love just because you're smart. Single Mensa member: "I just want someone who can keep up with me".


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Explain the text in one sentence.
 Text:(CNN) -- Google began an ambitious project in 2004: to scan and index the world's paper books and make them searchable online.

Nine years later, the company has overcome a major roadblock in its mission. On Thursday, a judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the Google Books project brought by authors who claimed the project violated their copyrights.

By sheer numbers, the Google Books project has been a huge success. More than 20 million books and magazines have been scanned using optical character-recognition technology, making each word or phrase searchable, so snippets of text are part of Google search results.

It also has been a lightning rod for controversy. Google did not seek approval to scan many books that were still under copyright, nor did it offer to compensate authors or publishers in any way, claiming the scans were fair use.

The program doesn't put entire books online for free. If a book is still under copyright, search results will only show the brief section that includes the word or phrase searched for and the page number it appears on, along with details about the book itself.

Google compares the system to a card catalog. Books that are out of copyright can be viewed in full and even downloaded, and people can buy books whose authors or publishers are part of Google's Partner Program.

"As we have long said, Google Books is in compliance with copyright law and acts like a card catalog for the digital age, giving users the ability to find books to buy or borrow," said a Google spokesperson.

Because the company only shows "snippets" of the books in search results, it claims the project falls under fair use. Fair use is an exception to copyright law that allows copyrighted work to be sampled or used in certain circumstances, typically by altering or using the original work in a new "transformative" way.

"The use of book text to facilitate search through the display of snippets is transformative," Judge Denny Chin said in his ruling. He said the Google Books program provided benefits to the public.

"It advances the progress of the arts and sciences, while maintaining respectful consideration for the rights of authors and other creative individuals, and without adversely impacting the rights of copyright holders," said Chin.

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The ruling notes that the majority of the books scanned are out of print, and that Google provided digital copies to the libraries that allowed them to scan their collections. The books scanned are also primarily nonfiction titles, which have less copyright protection than fiction.

The Google database is used by researchers, librarians and educators and greatly expands access to books around the world by putting them online. By converting print to digital text, the program has also made it easier to convert titles into more accessible formats, like text-to-speech and Braille.

"This has been a long road and we are absolutely delighted with today's judgment," said the Google spokesperson.

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Response: Judge dismisses class-action lawsuit against Google's book-scanning program on Thursday. Google Book program has scanned millions of paper books, made the text searchable online. Authors complained the Google project infringes on their copyright.


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Explain the text in one sentence.
 Text:(EW.com) -- Shad Gregory Moss hasn't gone by the name Lil' Bow Wow for some time now. But if you squint hard enough and try to ignore the barrage of broad African-American stereotypes in his latest film, "Lottery Ticket," it's easy to see that the former pint-size Snoop Dog protégé has grown into a likable leading man.

In this frenetic, family-friendly riff on the Friday formula, Bow Wow plays Kevin, an honest, hard-working high school grad who lives in an Atlanta housing project and punches the clock selling Air Jordans at the local Foot Locker. That is, until he realizes he's holding the winning ticket in a $370 million lottery.

After his loose-lipped, Bible-thumping grandma (Waiting to Exhale's Loretta Devine) spills the beans about his imminent payday, a flood of characters (or, to be more accurate, caricatures) cozy up to him to get their cut.

Gangsters, gospel preachers, gold diggers -- Kevin sees through their greed and ulterior motives. But not before going on a wild spending spree that would make Pretty Woman proud.

The problem is, music video director Erik White's blue-collar fantasy wants to have it both ways: For every well-intentioned speech Kevin gives about the lottery being a rigged game designed to keep poor folks down, there's a montage of him giddily blowing wads of cash on sneakers and sports cars.

If "Lottery Ticket" had as much conviction as laughs, it could have hit the jackpot.

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Response: Shad Gregory Moss, formerly known as Lil' Bow Wow, has grown into a likable lead. For every well-intentioned speech, it shows a montagge of him blowing wads of cash. If "Lottery Ticket" had as much conviction as laughs, it could have hit the jackpot.


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Explain the text in one sentence.
 Text:(CNN) -- For some, Twitter is a social media platform that enables you to keep up with breaking news, raise political issues or offer amusing thoughts. But for many others, including myself, Twitter has become the new "Fight Club." It has in essence become the cyber version of the basement of "Lou's Bar" from that 1999 classic film.

To those who have not made it onto Twitter yet, let's make something clear: Twitter is not Facebook. Facebook is as dangerous as visiting a P.F. Chang's. Twitter, on the other hand, is the Wild West in the 1800s -- it's new, unsettled and often savage.

In "Fight Club," people from all walks of life -- from professionals to blue collar workers -- would nightly shrug off their mundane existence to experience a visceral rush by beating the crap out of each other in the basement of a neighborhood bar.

"Fight Club" celebrated the duality of life. By day, actor Ed Norton played a mild-mannered, timid insurance adjuster leading the quintessential life "of quiet desperation." But by night, Norton became his brash and bold alter ego, Tyler Durden, portrayed by Brad Pitt. The difference between these two characters was succinctly summed up by Tyler Durden while talking to his more staid alter ego: "I am free in all the ways that you are not. "

This is what Twitter is to many. A place to be free. A place where people from all walks of life are on equal footing to battle each other -- from the rich and powerful to the poor and angry. And on Twitter, you're not required to be polite like you are in the real world. In fact, cutting and snarky remarks are not only accepted, they are glorified.

But there's an increasingly dark underbelly to these Twitter fights. What might start out as a disagreement about a political or social issue, at times can escalate into racist, sexist or homophobic rants. In fact, Humboldt University recently created a map entitled "The Geography of Hate" which charted the hate filled comments being spewed on Twitter. It's truly alarming.

I've experienced it firsthand. Some I've fought with on Twitter have called me ethnic slurs like "towel head" because I'm of Arab heritage or a "stupid guinea" because I'm also of Italian descent. But these comments are tame when compared to the far more hateful comments launched on Twitter against Blacks, Latinos, gays, and the disabled as noted by the Humboldt study.

I know some reading this are asking: Why do you fight at all on Twitter? Why not just ignore those people who challenge you? Sure, you can do that, but as Tyler Durden instructively told us in "Fight Club": "How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight." So many engage in these battles to test their mettle.

There's nothing wrong with the great percentage of Twitter fights. You get a chance to test your opinions on issues of the day. In today's hyperpartisan climate, many just associate with like-minded people and consequently their views on political issues are never challenged. But Twitter provides a forum to debate with others who passionately hold opposing views. True, these battles can become heated and include nasty comments, but for the most part they remain issue-oriented and avoid bigotry.

More than once, I've engaged in a fiery battle over an issue and then found common ground on an unrelated subject that has led to a Twitter friendship.

After one intense argument with a conservative over President Obama's policies, we both discovered our mutual dislike of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. (I'm a NY Giants fan and he's a Buffalo Bills fan.)

That's not to excuse the alarming rise of racist, sexist, homophobic and other hate filled comments on Twitter. And while the Humboldt University report doesn't indicate how many of these comments were made during Twitter fights, I can assure you that is where I have seen them rear their ugly face most often.

Here's my plea to my fellow Twitter users: We need to make it clear that there's simply no place for that type of hate on Twitter. You can win a battle on substance -- or even with cutting remarks --- without descending into the realm of racism and bigotry.

And the best people to police this are my fellow Twitter users. If enough of us collectively speak out, Twitter can become a social media platform where users share info, joke around and even fight with each other, but all without being subject to hate.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dean Obeidallah.

Response: Dean Obeidallah says Twitter has become a home to sharp exchanges, fights. He says the social network allows people to release aggression. Obeidallah: It's inexcusable when people engage in racist, sexist, homophobic rants. He says Twitter users must unite in declaring there's no room for hate.


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Explain the text in one sentence.
 Text:Washington (CNN) -- North Korea has completed the structures at a second missile launch site in the northwest part of the country, a U.S. official said Thursday.

The admission comes on the same day that new satellite imagery, taken by GeoEye on January 10, was released showing a tower, a movable launch pad and swing arms, according to an analysis by Globalsecurity.org.

"The facility comprises a rocket engine test stand, missile assembly and test buildings, a launch bunker and an observation tower, making it a more advanced facility than its other North Korean counterpart at Musudan-ri," according to a Globalsecurity.org description of the image.

But the official said it is not clear whether the technical components, the electronics, are in place that would allow for a launch from the site, which is near Tongchang-dong.

In either case, the official said, there is no indication that the North Koreans plan a test launch in the near term. The intelligence community has been closely watching the site for some time.

The official, who asked not to be named because the official was not authorized to speak on the issue, said the location of the facility allows North Korea to launch heavier payloads.

The Defense Department would not comment on the new picture.

"We don't comment on press reports regarding intelligence matters. However, we continue to call on North Korea to fulfill its international obligations; cease provocative behaviors; and take steps to improve relations with its neighbors," said Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan

The nation previously announced it was working on developing the capacity to launch a space satellite. This site would allow them to do so but, the official cautioned, the site could also be used to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMS) which could pose a threat to the United States and other nations.

"It's a dual-use facility," said the official. "The issue is intent."

The location of the facility also would allow North Korea to launch a payload at an angle that would avoid an flight over other nations.

The head of U.S. military operations in Asia said that while he is not aware of any signs from North Korea of a near term missile test, he anticipated that the next likely provocation from North Korea could be in months, not years, due to a succession push.

"Due to the dynamics of North Korea with succession and the long history of this occurring, our concerns are that we're in a period of compressed time line for Kim Jong Il to train Kim Jong Un in these, in these coercive measures," Adm. Robert Willard, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, said Thursday in a speech to the Asia Society. "Their continued development, export, proliferation of weapons will remain a regional challenge and an international challenge likely for some time to come...So this is a major concern of ours...it should concern us all."

In April 2009, North Korea attempted a test to launch what they said was a satellite into space from its other launch site near Musudan-ri, in the northeast. The missile flew over Japan before crashing into the sea. The launch was widely condemned.

Response: NEW: Satellite imagery is released showing a tower and movable launch pad. It is not clear if the site is ready for a launch, the U.S. official says. There is no indication a test launch is planned soon, the official says. This facility would allow the launch of heavier payloads, the official adds.


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Explain the text in one sentence.
 Text:(CNN) -- Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus, commonly known as the swine flu, the government said in a televised statement on Tuesday.

Oscar Arias, the president of Costa Rica, has contracted the H1N1 virus.

Arias fell ill on Sunday, complaining of a sore throat and temperature, Presidential Minister Rodrigo Arias said.

A doctor's visit on Tuesday revealed that the president had the H1N1 virus, cases of which had been reported earlier in the Costa Rican capital of San Jose.

The president's overall health was good, but following his doctor's advice, he will rest at his home until Sunday, Rodrigo Arias said.

The president is expected to return to work on Monday, the minister said.

As of Friday, there were 718 confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus in Costa Rica, and the virus has been blamed for 27 deaths, according to a report by the country's ministry of health.

A majority of the confirmed cases -- 480 -- were in San Jose.

Arias, 67, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for helping bring an end to Central America's civil wars.

More recently, he acted as mediator between two feuding sides claiming the leadership of Honduras.

Response: President Oscar Arias has been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus, government says. Arias fell ill Sunday, complaining of a sore throat and a temperature. Arias is expected to return to work on Monday, presidential minister says. As of last Friday, there were 718 confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus in Costa Rica.


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Explain the text in one sentence.
 Text:(CNN) -- The recent flotilla incident is the culmination of a steep decline in Israeli-Turkish relations that started with the Gaza war in 2008 and 2009. Relations between these two countries, after reaching a high point in the late 1990s and early 2000s, are now beyond repair, and it will probably take the better part of a decade for them to be resuscitated.

Turkey has also used its increasingly rancorous disputes with Israel to advance its status in the Middle East at the expense of traditional leaders across the region.

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which came to power in 2002, was always conflicted in its relations with Israel. The party emerged from a hardcore anti-Western and anti-Israeli Islamist tradition that had close ties to Hamas and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

As it rose to power, however, the AKP distanced itself from these positions and even embraced the idea of joining the European Union. Still, it always maintained a critical stance when it came to Israel that was punctuated by occasional outbursts.

Turkey's relations with Israel improved when the AKP stepped into the vacuum created in the Middle East by the Bush administration's policies and orchestrated secret negotiations between Israel and Syria.

This effort fit well with the AKP's grand vision of its foreign policy -- Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party were intent in making Turkey an important international player.

After punching below its weight for far too long, Ankara thought now was the time to engage in an activist policy and capitalize on its economic prowess and strategic geopolitical location. It aggressively sought a role in international institutions such as the U.N. Security Council and engaged in all kinds of diplomatic efforts from the Middle East to the Balkans and the Caucasus.

Erdogan and Turkey received many kudos for the Israeli-Syrian talks. But they came to an abrupt end with Israel's Gaza war. Erdogan felt personally betrayed by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who was in Ankara four days before launching the Gaza offensive. From then on, Turkish foreign policy vis-à-vis Israel was dramatically transformed.

We first saw this at the January 2009 Davos meetings in Switzerland when Erdogan publicly confronted Israel's President Shimon Peres and then walked off the stage. Positive reactions to his behavior in Turkey and in the Middle East provided Erdogan with the contours of Ankara's new foreign policy.

From then on, in almost every foreign policy speech, Erdogan would disparage Israel's policy in Gaza, calling the Gaza Strip an open prison. He then began to challenge Israel's nuclear arms while defending Iran against the West.

In a deliberate obfuscation of the issues, he argued that instead of criticizing Iran's peaceful nuclear program, it was Israel's not-so-secret nuclear arsenal that ought to be the object of censure.

This, of course, is a distortion of the truth as Iran was accused of violating the Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which it is a signatory while Israel is not. His singling out of Israel was purposeful but unfair; he never criticized Turkish ally Pakistan -- or India for that matter-- for having tested and deployed nuclear arms.

The flotilla crisis occurred in this atmosphere of great tension. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu claims his government cautioned the Islamist charity that organized the flotilla not to cross into Israeli waters and that they were powerless to prevent an independent, non-government organization (NGO) from acting on its own volition. Yet there are many signs that the AKP and other Turkish Islamist parties were fully supportive of the NGO and its efforts.

Hamas itself interpreted the action as an Erdogan-led effort to breach the naval blockade of Gaza.

No one, including the Israelis, could have anticipated the extent of the fallout, although a cursory look at what the organizers were claiming should have made it obvious that the NGO was clearly trying to provoke Israel and elicit an strong response.

Ultimately, it is the incompetence of the Israeli decision-makers who failed to properly analyze the groups' intentions that in many ways handed the AKP, Erdogan and Hamas a public relations victory.

Erdogan has now become a hero in the Arab street. In two years, he has managed to do what few Arab leaders could do -- push Israel into a corner. Even though Arab countries have been mistrustful of Turkey in the past, Erdogan has successfully transformed himself into the leader of the Middle East.

He is not just the defender of traditional Arab concerns but also of Iran, as he is resisting the Obama administration's efforts to impose sanctions on Iran.

The emerging hostility in Israeli-Turkish relations puts the United States in a difficult quandary. Washington does not want to side with one ally over another, and Turkey has aggressively been pushing the United States to do just that.

Washington, however, has issues with both countries.

It is upset at Turkish efforts to protect Iran from further U.N. sanctions and at Israel for making its regional diplomacy so much more difficult, not only with the flotilla fiasco but also with its hard line on the settlements and negotiations with the Palestinians. Turkey may therefore emerge as an even more significant factor in an already complicated Middle East political tapestry.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Henri J. Barkey.

Response: Turkey's relations with Israel have grown increasingly tense, says Henri Barkey. Barkey says Turkey made sharp break with Israel because of the Gaza conflict. He says Turkish political parties were supportive of charity that organized flotilla. Barkey: Turkey gains support by opposing Israeli blockade, sanctions against Iran.


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Explain the text in one sentence.
 Text:(CNN)Everywhere you look there are two-wheeled drivers waiting ominously for passengers to hop on board. They're the backbone of public transport in Uganda and the fastest way to get around the capital city, Kampala. The boda boda motorbike taxi is a staple used by all sectors of society.

Traditionally, the usual way of catching a ride was to venture into any street corner packed with tens of boda bodas or simply waiting for one to pass by.

But now, a new local startup are bringing this classic mode of transport into the technological age by providing the ability to hail a boda boda at the click of a smartphone.

"Bodas are the main thing getting people from A to B," says Alastair Sussock, co-founder of SafeBoda, "and we're trying to professionalize this transportation in the city."

The motorbike taxis have their greatest popularity globally in Uganda, with over 80,000 riding the streets of Kampala, according to Sussex who wants to seize upon the country's burgeoning young population. Uganda has more than 24% of the population aged between 10 and 19 years old, according to UNICEF -- and Sussock wants them to get on their bikes.

"Young people use smartphones in Kampala and it's one of the youngest countries in the world," he says.

For now, the Uber-like startup operates mainly in the northern districts of Kampala, where a click on the SafeBoda app -- in addition to the traditional method of hailing them on the street -- will bring you a Safeboda bike, complete with a uniformed driver in a bright orange jacket, helmet and fully trained in road safety. He'll even have a helmet for you.

Safety has long been a concern for those riding boda bodas as the bikes are a leading cause of death and head injury in Kampala. A study conducted at Mulago National Referral  Hospital in Kampala, by researchers at Makerere University, identified approximately 40% of trauma cases at the hospital to be due to boda-boda accidents.

I request a SafeBoda to take me to meet the team in the upmarket area of Kisementi, in Kampala's central district. As i stand waiting, at least 10 regular boda bodas pass by beeping to get my attention and business. A driver called Richard Lalunga then arrives who I spot clearly in the distance thanks to his bright orange jacket and orange helmets -- one on his head and one on his handlebars.

Lalunga has been a boda driver for four years and joined SafeBoda four months ago to learn more about road safety. He explains how he now earns more than ever before due to a loyal customer base stemming from his safe driving. The ride was in fact calmer than those taken with other bodas, and unlike some, as we ride along the congested streets no kerbs were scaled or mounted to avoid the traffic. The name stands - safeboda.

The dangers lie in the low use of helmets -- by both drivers and users -- alongside risky driving and poor road safety practices. This makes many fearful of catching a two-wheeled ride but the team at SafeBoda are trying to lure people back on board. They're reinventing the boda boda reputation to prove they can be safe, as well as fast and economical.

"It's a market-based approach to road safety," says Sussock, an economist, who believes that as word spreads about the skills of his drivers, the income -- and safety -- of his drivers will rise and reflect this.

"People in Uganda don't wear helmets," says Sussock. "So how do we get them to wear helmets?" The answer, is by providing one.

Driver training is provided in partnership with the Ugandan Red Cross and takes place for up to three weeks to cover road safety and bike maintenance -- and it seems to be working.

Since its inception in November 2014, the fleet of drivers at SafeBoda has reached 50, currently occupying four areas towards the north and center of the city. The main need for safe driving is in the congested streets of downtown Kampala where the company plans to expand into next.

"If we train people and make them good and responsible drivers, we're going to save lives," says Ricky Rapa Thomson, who manages the drivers. "But implementing has been a challenge," he says about the difficulties in changing the mindsets of a population.

The team are dreaming big, with plans to expand to 100 by the end of March and 800 by the end of 2015. "With over 1,000 drivers we can begin to change the entire boda industry," says Sussock.

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Response: Ugandan start-up SafeBoda are changing the face of boda-boda motorbike taxis. A click of their app brings you a bike complete with a safety trained driver and protective gear.


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Explain the text in one sentence.
 Text:(CNN) -- Last week, we clued you in to all the annoying things that couples must cease doing on Facebook.

This week, we're taking a look at the other side of the coin. What should you do about all the digital remnants of a relationship when you're no longer flitting through fields, holding hands and weaving flowers Lady Chatterley's Lover-like into one another's various expanses of hair? (i.e., after you've broken up.)

A quick story that's not specifically true but is likely true for many a person: Suzie has a new beau, Johnny, and they are, oh, so in love. Like, two straws, one milkshake in love. And Suzie detests sharing because she's an only child, so you know that's big.

Naturally, the two become Facebook friends, because, well, the site has 900 million users and based on Lord Zuckerberg's official decree, you don't actually KNOW anyone until you click "friend." Suzie is happily clicking through Johnny's pictures and scrolling through his timeline when she notices a girl named Sally has commented on quite a few snaps and left wall posts with some quite explicit descriptions of what she wants to do to his sloped-shoulder physique.

Suzie is thrown into a rage that only the most only of only children can make manifest, then she realizes that the posts are from two years back.

The next time she and Johnny are slurping some frozen milk she asks for the story, and Johnny reveals that Sally was his old flame, a college sweetheart who has long since lost the sweetness and acquired a whip (the accessory of choice for anyone in her rather dominating profession).

Suzie heaves a sigh of relief but still finds herself haunted by Sally's vinyl-swaddled ghost, wondering what Sal had that she lacks, and what macabre moves Johnny might be into. The couple splits over (banana) splits just weeks later.

It's a science-proven fact (or, at least, there's a study supporting it): Social networks like Facebook increase jealousy, partly because information is much more accessible, and that information can often be ambiguous. Our lives are now on display for all the world to see, but often we're not there to explain ourselves when our most loved of loved ones are perusing.

That's why we're suggesting this week that our readers do a little bit of a purge. You likely have years' worth of romantic failure riddled throughout your Facebook profile -- old pictures, wall posts, comments, messages -- and it's not really a good look.

It's basically the digital equivalent of having a box of your ex's stuff, but instead of hiding it in your closet, you're displaying it in your living room for all visitors and cable men to see. And see it they will -- a recent study by Seventeen magazine shows that 60% of respondents look at romantic interests' Facebook profiles daily.

We get that you might want to hold onto some of these memories. We wouldn't ask you to throw away every old love letter or snapshot in your closet, but there's a more discrete way to do so. Download your Facebook profile for safekeeping. That way you'll have a record of all photos, messages, wall posts and comments you may have received from a former beau. Once you have done so, it's time to wipe that slate clean once and for all.

Here's how:

1). Put your status in stealth

Don't go down the winding road that is "making it Facebook official" in the first place, even though most couples reportedly do.

Not only is changing your status back after the breakup horrible and humiliating, Facebook Timeline makes it way too easy to scroll back and see activity like relationship reduxes. When it comes to what the sitcoms whimsically call "The Ex Files," let your mouth do the talking, not some post from June 4, 2011.

Note: It's totally fine to change your status to "married," since that's likely not changing any time soon (we hope). However, apparently close to 50% of brides (of those surveyed) do so BEFORE the wedding, which we wouldn't recommend. Cold feet, anyone?

2). Untag, untag, untag

After you take any and all pictures of you and your former off of Facebook (this is kind of a given, why would anyone keep public pics of long-dead lip locks on public display?), untag pictures where the two of you look cozy from friends' galleries.

You might even want to ask pals to take them down wholesale. As we said, you don't have to get rid of said pics (download your profile or particular pictures), but no one wants to see their new hand-holder holding hands with someone old.

3). Silence old comments

We're not suggesting that you go through every picture and post and purge your ex's exclamations, but perhaps deep six any lengthy epistles or outpourings of love.

If your new squeeze is turned off by an errant comment on an early college snap in which you're sporting flared jeans and pigtails, s/he's probably too jealous anyway. And blind, apparently, because that rhinestone top you're wearing is the real mood killer.

4). Unfriend exes

Now this is a tough one. A lot of you out there purport to be friends with your ex. We believe you. This is totally possible. We've seen such cases with our own jaded eyes. But you are not, my friend, pals with each and every person you've ever dated, so why are they still hanging around on Facebook, liking your snaps and writing "haha" on your most witty of witty posts?

Here's a good litmus test: Do you refer to these "friends" as "my ex so and so" or "my friend so and so?" If it's the former -- and you never actually hang with this person IRL -- it's time to kill this digital sham of a friendship.

Response: Social networks like Facebook increase jealousy because information is more accessible. Study shows 60% of respondents look at romantic interests' Facebook profiles daily. First hint? Don't make your relationship official on Facebook at the beginning.


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 Text:(CNN) -- The soaring popularity of smartphones and tablets is eroding the distinction between our business and personal worlds, says the head of British telecoms giant BT.

Ian Livingston, BT's chief executive officer, told Marketplace Europe the "consumerization" of business -- the trend for personal consumer devices such as smartphones and tablet computers to be used in the workplace -- was redefining the way we do business.

"One of the things that we are seeing is the barrier between business and consumer is beginning to come down," he said.

"What was assumed in the past was very much [that] your business life is over here and your personal life is over there -- that is not true, certainly not true for most of your business people."

The consumer sector was now taking the lead when it came to innovations in communication technology, giving workers the opportunity stay connected on their personal device around the clock -- whether in the office, at home or traveling.

"People are going to become networked all the time," he said. "I think we are just at the beginning of this revolution."

While there were clear benefits for businesses to be had from the new reality, it also raised challenges around security.

"It used to be that the IT department would say: 'How can I stop people from using it on our corporate network?'" he said. "Today it is 'How can I help people use it securely on the corporate network?'"

Livingston said BT was meeting some of the infrastructure costs required for the new communications environment by focusing on improving its customer service.

"The reason we start with customer service, apart from the obvious fact that customers like better service, is actually the biggest cost of our business and any telecoms business is the cost of failure."

Through initiatives such as the company's "First Time Right" program, it had managed to reduce its cost base by Â£3 billion ($4.7 billion) over three years -- and halved the number of complaints received.

"Take the failures out of the business -- and we have done a lot of that -- and the costs fall out automatically," he said. "That cost transformation has got more to go, and it also frees up money and people to invest in the future of business."

Response: BT CEO: The growth of smartphones and tablets is changing our work patterns. This "consumerization" of business is blurring the lines between work and personal life. The consumer sector is now driving innovation in communications tech, he says. While businesses can benefit from this, it also raises security challenges.


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 Text:Austin, Texas (CNN) -- If 2011 was the year that South by Southwest Interactive grew up, 2012 may be when it decides it wants to don a suit and enter the corporate world -- or run off and join the Peace Corps.

The history of the funky, Austin-based festival suggests it may try to do both. Since its start as the multimedia portion of the SXSW Film Festival in 1994, the event -- which runs Friday through Tuesday -- has its roots in community-driven tech creativity. But in the last five years, the festival has grown bigger and more commercial.

Riding the explosion of interest in social-media services and mobile technology, the fest has a reputation for hosting some of the biggest names in tech and helping launch some influential start-ups.

In 2007, a tiny service nobody had heard of called Twitter used the fest as a launching ground, installing big screens around the Austin Convention Center with a stream of short messages on display called "tweets."

In 2008, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was a disastrous keynote guest for a Q&A that was derailed by a disgruntled audience unhappy with interviewer Sarah Lacy's softball questions.

Both events were turning points for SXSW Interactive -- known to festival veterans as "South By" -- which at the time was still recovering from some lean years after the dot-com bust. Twitter's ascension meant many more start-ups began trying to use the festival, which is filled with influential early adopters, as a launching pad for their products.

And the Zuckerberg keynote was notable for the attention it brought to SXSWi as a place where crazy, unpredictable things can happen.

Huge growth

Over the last two years, the mix of hungry entrepreneurs, social-media mavens and SXSW's traditional attendees -- techies, designers and those interested in the societal impact of technology -- have shared an uneasy peace as SXSW Interactive has exploded in popularity.

From 2009 to 2010, SXSW Interactive's attendance jumped from nearly 11,000 to just under 15,000. Last year, the fest saw another spike, to nearly 20,000 attendees.

The festival says it doesn't expect a growth rate of 30-40% for 2012 as in previous years. But based on pre-registration numbers, attendance will likely increase again over last year.

All those extra bodies stuffing panel rooms and downtown parties at the festival have marked a shift in the culture of South by Southwest, and prompted a lot of soul searching by festival organizers. They're tasked with deciding what the future of Interactive will be in the face of more people, more programming and more interest in what is the festival's hot new tech.

Hugh Forrest, the SXSW Interactive director who has headed up the fest since it began, acknowledges that he and his staff are working hard to balance what he calls "start-up mania" with more community-focused parts of the event.

"Start-ups are hot. For better or for worse, we've been lucky enough to become a center for a lot of that stuff. It's one of the things that South By is built on and that's good," Forrest said. "One of the tensions we faced this year is we've got lots and lots of the start-up stuff and that's very exciting, but at the same time, it's not completely what we're about."

Business vs. community good

The tension between what's good for the online world (and the world at large) and what products can make money is at the heart of a lot of the festival's official programming.

Some people increasingly see SXSWi as a place where fledgling start-ups go to strike it rich. There's a "Start-up Village" area, an "American Idol"-styled start-up competition called "Accelerator," and lots of panels, parties and expo floor space devoted to them.

But the start-ups remain counter-balanced by less business oriented parts of the festival. And there's still an emphasis on socially conscious creativity.

The keynote speakers this year include humorist Baratunde Thurston, "cyber anthropologist" Amber Case, Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka and futurist Ray Kurzweil. High-profile CEOs like Zuckerberg, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh or Twitter co-founder Evan Williams -- all past keynote speakers -- are nowhere to be found on this year's roster.

For the first time, the festival will give out a Hall of Fame award at its Interactive Awards ceremony. Web pioneer Jeffrey Zellman is the first inductee. SXSWi also has expanded its Dewey Winburne Community Service Award to include national and international winners, instead of just local recipients.

Last year Interactive got attention for a community effort that was completely unplanned and that didn't spring from the fest itself: After earthquakes and tsunamis devastated Japan on the opening day of the festival, attendees launched "SXSW4Japan," which raised funds for relief efforts.

The 2011 festival also attracted the attention of Apple, which opened a pop-up store in downtown Austin to accommodate crowds clamoring for its just-launched iPad 2. (Apple says it has no such plans this year.)

2012's slate

SXSW is big enough now to encompass almost every conceivable tech perspective.

With more than 2,600 speakers and hundreds of topics, there's plenty of room for discussion about everything from the future of health care and the increasing role of technology in government change to good app design and the role of social media in Occupy Wall Street-style protests.

Celebrity panelists like TV foodie Anthony Bourdain, media titan Barry Diller, filmmaker Joss Whedon, filmmaker and comic-book geek Kevin Smith, actor Rainn Wilson and "Top Chef" star Tom Colicchio will share the bill with lesser-known web designers, bloggers and founders of tiny companies who made a new app they swear you just have to try.

This week also will find Dave Morin of Path talking about "why happiness is the new currency," Gawker's Nick Denton weighing in on the failure of online comments and a panel of Web producers pondering the question, "Is aggregation theft?"

Like most events with growing pains, SXSWi is full of contradictions. It's trying very hard to be both sprawling and intimate, continually plugged-in but also right there in person. It's a cutting-edge gathering that hates pretension. It's a mash of bodies with their heads in the Cloud, all looking to be dazzled by some new digital jewel.

Like any ambitious 19-year-old, SXSW Interactive is restless, driven and hard to pigeonhole. The festival may be unsure where it will end up, but it's convinced it knows how to get there.

Response: SXSW Interactive evolves from small, community-driven event into a huge industry happening. From 2009 to 2010, SXSW's attendance jumped from nearly 11,000 to just under 15,000. In 2007, a tiny service nobody had heard of called Twitter used the fest as a launching ground. As the festival grows, it tries very hard to be both sprawling and intimate.


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 Text:(CNN) -- For the better part of a decade, superheroes on the big screen have been big business ("Iron Man 2" the most recent example). On TV, however, keeping audiences coming back each week for the exploits of those with superpowers has been a far trickier task. It's been a long time since "Batman," "Wonder Woman," "The Incredible Hulk" and "The Greatest American Hero" hit prime time.

One show that has been able to get it right is "Smallville," which begins its record-breaking tenth season Friday night on the CW (that would be the longest consecutively running sci-fi show). What began as a revised history of Superman's teen years in Smallville has come a long way over the years, with Clark Kent fighting crime in Metropolis as a rarely-seen hero called "The Blur," the introduction of Lois Lane, and other superheroes occasionally joining the fray.

At the same time, what was once one of the highest-rated dramas on TV, "Heroes," progressively lost viewers, ending its run on NBC after four seasons. But that doesn't mean that networks are giving up on the genre: two more series, one with a caped crusader and another about a superheroic family are coming soon.

So what are some of the secrets to success for superhero TV? We asked producers and cast members of some of these series to find out.

1. Make your superheroes believable

When "Smallville" started, the writers had a slogan: "No flights, no tights." Their version of Clark Kent wouldn't take up the mantle of Superman, or even Superboy. Instead the WB-turned-CW series would focus on human drama. Executive producer Brian Peterson said, "[Series creators Al Gough and Miles Millar] created a world you could see walking into every week. Even though we're in Metropolis and we're really touching on the Superman world, it's still a world where you can see yourself having coffee with the characters."

"It started out being about a family in Kansas struggling to make ends meet," added fellow executive producer Kelly Souders. "We always emphasize the emotions. At its heart, I hope it would touch people and give them a place to come home to."

Despite appearances by more and more characters wearing elaborate costumes (Green Arrow and Hawkman, for example), Peterson and Souders say that they have always grounded the show in a real place. "We all could relate to the Clark at the start of the show," said Peterson. "It's great to watch that kid see people in costumes and see people flying with wings, as he interacts with them and we see that in his eyes."

Another show that hopes to emphasize the humanity in the superhuman (without costumes as well) is ABC's new series "No Ordinary Family" (premiering September 28). In it, Michael Chiklis and Julie Benz play the heads of a family who find themselves having been granted extraordinary powers following an accident.

Back in July, Chiklis described it as "a family show wrapped in a police procedural wrapped in the superhero genre."

"The first season should feel like the first act of a superhero movie," said "Family" producer Zack Estrin. "The slow discovery of what it means, and how it affects your real life... like yes, I can run fast, but I can also make breakfast fast! You can have the fun stuff in conjunction with the danger."

"Family" co-creator Jon Feldman explained that they wanted their show to have no costumes (at first), either: "I think the goal is, what if it happened to us?" he said. "There's so many things that in the real version of a person getting his abilities, the costume seems like something that would be in the future. The costumes, if they ever did show up, would come much later."

2. Give the characters a good origin

Tim Kring, who created the NBC series "Heroes,"  certainly agrees about making the characters relatable. "I was mainly interested in the idea of powers and how people wrestled with and dealt with the idea of discovery of something new," he said. "To me the origin story is in many ways the most fascinating part of it." Viewers agreed, as the show's first season was one of NBC's biggest hits at the time.

"There was that kind of transparency between your life and characters on the show. Our characters really didn't live heightened lives and their world didn't have that kind of gothic-y look," he said. "They were very much like us. For me that was the important thing."

NBC has another series inspired by comic books on the horizon, and its main character also has an intriguing backstory. "The Cape," premiering early next year, is about an innocent man falsely accused of a crime, and seemingly killed while running from the authorities. Instead he goes into hiding and takes on the guise of the Cape, a comic book hero whom his son idolizes.

Actor Dorian Missick described the show as being "in the tradition of crime drama that just takes place in this fantastic world. It's based in reality, and that helps you believe in what's going on a little more."

3. Don't try to be "Lost" (or "Heroes")

Jeph Loeb, one of the best known comic book writers in the business, was named the head of Marvel television back in June. He's quite suited for the role, having had a hand in the TV series "Lost" and "Heroes."

Both shows had long story arcs that ran over an entire season, or longer. However, when it comes to the shows Loeb hopes to bring to TV, he doesn't plan to follow that tradition.

"What we've talked about is more of the model on 'Smallville.' It may have had an overriding arc, but it was more of the emotional arcs that we were following," he said. "We want to start each show with a problem, and resolve that problem at the end of the episode. Whatever the emotional arc is going on, that's what you care about. If you don't care about characters, you're not gonna care about the show. We don't want a show driven by the plot, we want a show driven by the character."

4. Never underestimate the importance of villains

For many fans, Sylar was the most intriguing character on "Heroes." Villains came and went but Sylar, a serial killer driven by the overwhelming desire to acquire more supernatural powers, was a constant (and Zachary Quinto's performance earned him the opportunity to play the iconic Spock in the 2009 "Star Trek" movie).

On "Smallville," each season has seen bigger and bigger villains, from Lex Luthor, to Brainiac, General Zod, and this season, Darkseid.

So, for an up-and-coming series like "The Cape," the villains were seen as extremely important.

"I want to create a classic 'rogues gallery' like Spider-Man or Batman's," said series creator Thomas Wheeler. In the first episode, he introduces two by the names of Chess and Scales.

However, Wheeler says he won't overdo it. "In 12 episodes, you won't see 12 new villains. You gotta roll out your villains, and make sure they're solid before you bring them in."

"No Ordinary Family" producers hinted that the family will come up against a major villain as the first season goes along as well.

5. Keep it simple

When asked to share advice for producers of superhero programs like Wheeler, Estrin and Feldman, "Heroes'" Kring said, "My advice would be stay away from time travel." (Indeed, some "Heroes" fans felt that some of the overly complex aspects of the show as it went on may have played a hand in its loss of viewership over the years.)

"Having spent a couple thousand hours, probably, in the writers' room trying to figure out the rules of time travel, I would caution anybody to stay away from that idea."

"You really can't do anything that's wholly unique in the superpower genre," Kring said. "Every power has been thought of. Coming up with a brand new power is not really the ultimate goal anymore. I'm just fascinated to see how these new shows explore the genre."

Response: Producers, writers say make the heroes believable. Give the characters a good backstory. Give the time travel gimmick a rest, says Kring.


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 Text:(CNN) -- Devastation is devastation, whether a hurricane rips up your home or a tornado takes the person you love most in the world. It's loss, shock and confusion. It's anger and sadness and resentment. It's being flustered like you've never been flustered before.

But it's going to be OK: Take it from the people who survived Hurricane Katrina and the Missourians from Joplin whose town was leveled by the worst tornado in U.S. history.

They want Sandy survivors to know a few things:

You're probably on autopilot right now. You're moving through it. Stand in the ruins of the life you had before the disaster. Understand that was before. The after is when you're good and ready.

7 ways to manage stress in a disaster

Hours will still go by though. Days will happen. You might not remember to eat because you're filling out paperwork and talking to insurance operators. You will get put on hold.

Your life will feel forever on hold.

At some point, when you think you're handling it, you will stumble on something that reminds you of that old life, maybe it's a thing or it's a memory. Maybe this will happen when you finally get the sleep you've gone without since the disaster. You're going to feel really, really awful again for awhile.

Victims fall to Mother Nature's wrath

Make yourself anew

Eileen Romero still feels the weight on her chest. It has just gotten a little lighter in the years since Katrina. As a nurse, she saw heinous things in the hospital where she worked. Eight years on, it's hard to speak in full sentences without crying.

She watched the wall-to-wall television coverage of Hurricane Sandy, transfixed by the nurses who manually pumped air into newborns after carrying the infants down nine fights of stairs at NYU Langone Medical Center.

"I was right back in that hospital in New Orleans," Romero said. "I know those people. I felt that."

There are always burdens and rewards of being a caregiver. But in an emergencies, they are tenfold.

"They need to know it's going to be hard," Romero continued. "I mean, they saved those babies and they should feel good. But later it might hit them what they were able to get through just because they were trained to do that. And I would tell them, 'It's alright to be upset and to take time out to understand what you've been through.' "

It was comforting to Romero to watch the coverage of Sandy. While she was in the middle of Katrina, she didn't consider that it was the world's focus for days.

"I didn't even realize that we were being covered 24 hours a day," she said. "It was only months later that I comprehended that New Orleans was on TV all the time, that people cared so much about it."

Then again, there's another side to massive media coverage. People might feel obligated to talk about their pain if a reporter asks.

If you don't have the words, you don't have to conjure up something for anyone. No one else has the right to your story. Tell it when and how you want.

Romero became a photographer after Katrina because words kept failing her. When she tried to talk about it, her words were inadequate.

"Understand that the life you had before something like this isn't coming back, and that's not always a bad thing," she said. "Discover and make yourself anew."

Interactive: Remembering the victims

Look for what's funny

Every day, Romero takes her Yorkies out for a walk. It's a simple, effortless routine that has nothing to do with bad things in the world. Find something like that, or keep doing that one, pure, sweet thing that you always did, she said.

You're going to need lightness. Your sense of humor will be tested. Use it a lot.

You might have to move into a place that you'd never imagined you'd ever have to live, like a trailer or someone's garage. This could last for months, maybe a whole year. Your kids, spouse, in-laws and maybe some strangers will all be crammed in there. They might snore.

There are going to be fights and moments where you swear your head is gonna pop.

Writer Michael Tisserand and his wife, Tami, took damage to their home in Katrina. They and their two kids -- now 11 and 14 -- moved in with a friend.

"We were laughing about sleeping in these two twin beds that were squished together," Tisserand recalled. "We were getting food stamps for food banks for the first time. When you're learning about how it feels to be suddenly dependent on others, you have to look for what's funny."

Ask for help, give help

Don't be afraid to give or receive help, he said. Don't sit inside.

Try not to compare your pain or loss to someone else's. You don't have to swim through your living room to say you've been through hell.

Tisserand remembers being stunned and then weeping uncontrollably when he received a package from a friend.

It was a new laptop.

"You will feel helpless. I just felt like I was not the agency of my life then," he said. "It was so unbelievable to me that someone did that for me."

When anyone gives you anything, small or large, cheap or expensive, know that they are trying to be there for you.

The Tisserands are at home in New Orleans, a city they never want to leave. For many disaster survivors, the tragedy redefines their definition of home.

How to help

Take pictures of everything

Kelly Maddy grew up in Joplin, Missouri. The 29-year-old and his wife thought it would be fun to go out and chase a tornado that was set to hit in April 2011. Tornadoes got little more than a shrug in Missouri, so this wasn't really the craziest decision.

It's like choosing to stay at home when there's a Category 1 hurricane forecast for your area. You've gotten through nor'easters before, so what's the harm?

When the Maddys finally made it back to their house, it was kindling. Their cars were gone.

"The night was a blur," he said. "You just stare and wonder what happened to my life? Then the panic."

"Document everything," Maddy said. "Every single insurance person you talk to -- and you'll be bounced around from person to person -- write their name down, write down everything they say. Use your iPhone. Take pictures of everything."

Know what supplies you have and how much you're going to need. Get that stuff soon. Don't put it off, he said.

There's going to be a level of bureaucracy worse than you ever imagined. Insurance workers will be kind, of course, because it's not personal. It's just the system.

Call them constantly. Don't expect them to call you, he said.

The Maddys lived in a basement apartment with their animals until finally rebuilding their house in February.

"Going through all of that almost broke us," he said. "Almost. 'Cause we're still here."

Live blog: Get the latest news on the aftermath of Sandy

Response: People who survived Katrina and the Joplin tornado share their experiences, wisdom. Their advice: Stand in the ruins of your old life; it's fine to be sad. Ask for help and give help, no matter how large or small, they say. They say it will get better, but it will always stay with you.