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Nadal attacks drug-testing rules

World number one Rafael Nadal says new drug-testing procedures in tennis make players "feel like a criminal".
Players are required to report their whereabouts for at least one hour a day, seven days a week, to their national anti-doping organisation.
Testers arrive unannounced and should a player fail to meet with them on three separate occasions over an 18-month period, a suspension could follow.
"It's not fair to have persecution like that," said the six-time major winner.
"They make you feel like a criminal. Not even my mother knows where I am every day.
"I am the first one who wants fair competition, completely clean competition for everybody.



"But it is very difficult to know where you want to be tomorrow, especially in a sport like tennis.
"We want to be an Olympic sport, but we don't want to pay a price like this for being an Olympic sport."
Last week, British number one Andy Murray called the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) so-called "whereabouts" procedures, introduced this year, "draconian".
And the Professional Players Federation (PPF), an umbrella group of professional player associations in the UK, said Wada's out-of-competition testing was becoming a "fiasco", a claim Wada strongly rejected.
Wada director general David Howman told BBC Sport: "Some will say 'that's a bit tough'. But then you are back to that basic question - do you want cheats or not?"
On the opening day of this week's ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, Nadal and Murray, along with at least four other players, underwent drug tests. For Murray it was his third in just over two weeks.
Although the system has been in place for several years, the most recent guidelines have proved controversial for the greater demands they make on those being tested.
As well as specifying that athletes must be available for seven rather than five days a week, according to Wada's 2009 code, the times of day between which they can specify their location have also been restricted.
UK Sport, however, has given its backing to the new measures.
"While I do have some sympathy for the fairly small number of athletes who are required to meet these requirements, I would think that it's a small price to pay for clean athletes to help us drive cheats out of sport," said director of Drug-Free Sport Andy Parkinson.
However, 65 Belgian sportsmen and women have launched a legal challenge claiming that the intrusive nature of the Wada code breaks European Union privacy laws.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

A cheating wife who paid £800 to hire a hitman to murder her husband was yesterday spared jail and .put on a life skills course instead
Mother-of-two Zekiye Osmankan, arranged to have her husband, Cinsan, killed after a complaining about him during a chance meeting with a friend at her children's primary school
But after handing over the cash, the 33-year-old had second thoughts – and then confessed all when she was tricked out of her money

Yesterday, Osmankan was spared jail by Judge Jeremy Roberts QC, who handed her a suspended ten-month sentence and told her to attend a 20-hour 'skills for life' course
He said it was an 'exceptional case', adding: 'You and your husband both now recognise that your marriage is at an end and you will go your sep­arate ways and the situation where you committed your offence will not be repeated.'
Osmankan, from Tottenham, north London, and her Turkish-Cypriot husband married in 1994 and had two children aged six and 12.
But the marriage was an unhappy one and she began an affair in 2008.
Events took a sinister turn when she told her friend, Stacey Jane Ali, that she was being abused.
Ali suggested that for £800 her boyfriend, William Holden could arrange to have her husband shot.
Osmankan withdrew the cash from his account and handed it over at the school gates last August, the Old Bailey was told.
However, a day after she had arranged the hit, Osmankan realised she had made a 'terrible mistake and done something stupid' and phoned to call it off – only to be told there would be a £50 cancellation fee.
She then confessed to her 39-year-old husband she was having an affair, had planned to have him killed and asked if she could borrow the money to cancel the contract on his head.
Osmankan then called police and handed herself in, spending 18 weeks on remand in prison. She admitted soliciting to murder.
Passing sentence, the judge said he had taken into account the fact that Osmankan had been abused, was suffering from depression at the time, confessed within 24 hours and showed remorse.
He added that Ali and Holden were probably con artists who were only interested in cheating her out of her £800. They were originally charged with conspiracy to murder but the case was dropped

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Aptera 2e

I'm accelerating and cornering — hard — on three wheels, little wisps of tire smoke curling out of the slender front wheel pants as steering is cranked in and "throttle" applied. And no, I'm not in an early Volkswagen GTI that hikes up its inside rear tire. Rather, I've been given a drive in the Aptera 2e, a soon-to-be-produced electric vehicle whose shape is slipperier than a Teflon-coated salmon on glare ice, and whose composite construction offers both light weight and impressive structural integrity. Better yet, the 2e is scheduled to begin rolling off the Vista, California, assembly line this October for an as-yet-to-be-determined price between $25,000 and $40,000. Charge it overnight from your 110-volt home outlet, and it's claimed to have a range of 100 miles...in the carpool lane, if you wish.

Pie in the sky? Nope. The business model looks sound; nearly 4000 deposits have been placed (Robin Williams among the clientele), enthusiastic investors are locked in, and co-founders Steve Fambro and Chris Anthony have assembled a team that balances Detroit low-volume niche-production experience with California "anything is possible" attitude. Chief engineer Tom Reichenbach was formerly vehicle engineering manager for both Ford GT and Shelby GT500 programs; and CEO Paul Wilbur has a storied history at Ford, [ برای مشاهده لینک ، با نام کاربری خود وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنید ] and ASC. And Fambro, a biotech engineer and private pilot intrigued by his aircraft's composite construction, and Anthony, a composites specialist with a background in boat design and fluid dynamics, seemed predestined for this partnership.

But back to the Aptera itself. I'm in the pre-production prototype called Punch, so named for upholstery whose color matches that oft-spiked party drink. But the fabric's long gone, as Punch gets lots of track-testing duty and is tuned now with suspension settings and an a/c motor/controller that are nearing final production specs. With the rotary "shifter" clicked to D3, the most aggressive setting, it's responsive, easily modulated and reasonably quick: Reichenbach says 0–60 mph in under 10 seconds with a 90-mph top speed with its pack of lithium-phosphate-ion-"pixie dust" cells — that last part suggesting that their exact composition is a secret.

But flinging it around the streets near Aptera's headquarters, it seems quicker still, partly due to a go-kart-like agility that's carried off with a surprisingly civil ride. Adding to the feel is a view of the road rushing up at you (the base of the aircraft-evocative windshield plunges toward the pavement) and those wheel pants articulating with the inboard rocker-type front suspension, visible out of the dramatically forward-raked side windows. Steering and brakes are unassisted, but efforts are reasonable as the curb weight is only 1700 lb., about half the weight of a base Honda Accord

Aptera 2e

Earlier, I rode with Reichenbach in another near-production prototype whose interior and exterior detailing is nearing final spec. Entering gracefully through the quasi-gullwing doors takes a few tries, but the door openings are large and once seated, the cabin width seems to split the difference between a Lotus Elise and a Toyota Corolla. There's a large hooded digital speedometer and bar-graph battery state-of-charge indicator, along with a central infotainment screen that offers mind- boggling possibilities. Leg- and head room were surprisingly generous for even my 6- foot-3 frame. And safety is preeminent in the Aptera's design — the final version will have both frontal and side airbags. And if there was any doubt about the strength of the composite construction, it was quelled as eight Aptera employees stood on the roof of a development shell. And that was after the shell had gone through government roof -crush testing!

.It seems as if the future is here today...or at least come this October

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(CNN) -- The birth of a child fathered by a 13-year-old boy has sparked an uproar in Britain.

Alfie Patten, who was only 12 when the baby was conceived with his girlfriend, Chantelle Steadman, 15, was first pictured on the front of Friday's tabloid Sun newspaper with his daughter, Maisie Roxanne, after her birth Monday.
He told the newspaper that he thought "it would be good to have a baby."
"I didn't think about how we would afford it. I don't really get pocket money. My dad sometimes gives me £10. When my mum found out, I thought I was going to get in trouble. We wanted to have the baby but were worried about how people would react. I didn't know what it would be like to be a dad. I will be good, though, and care for it."
Chantelle, meanwhile, said, "I'm tired after the birth. I was nervous after going into labor, but otherwise I was quite excited."
She later told the Sun that they wanted to "prove to everyone" that they could give Maisie a "great future" and said both of them planned to stay in school.
The Sun reported that police had investigated but said they were not going to prosecute, as it was "not in anyone's interests."
Conservative party leader David Cameron told the British Press Association that parenthood should not be something the teenagers should even have been contemplating.
Former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith, who runs the Centre for Social Justice think tank, told PA that the birth highlighted another case of "broken Britain" where "anything goes."
"It's not being accusative; it's about pointing out the complete collapse in some parts of society of any sense of what's right and wrong.



"There is no opprobrium any more about behavior, and quite often, children witness behavior that's aggressive, violent, rude and se*ual. It's as if no one is saying this is wrong."
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said "all of us would want to avoid teenage pregnancies," PA reported.
Tony Kerridge, of the sexual health specialist Marie Stopes International, told PA that children needed better education.
"We have got the social aspect of young girls in the UK seeing having a baby as a route to getting their own place," he said.
London's The Times newspaper reported Saturday that in the past decade, more than 40 other boys younger than 14 had fathered children.
The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Western Europe: 385 girls under the age of 14 became pregnant between 1998 and 2007.

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• February 16, 2009 - 10:43AM

A baby-faced 13-year-old schoolboy has fathered a child with his 15-year-old girlfriend, making him one of the youngest parents ever in Britain. Photo: AFP

A 13-year-old English boy says he will take a DNA test to prove he is the father of his teenage girlfriend's baby

- Girlfriend pregnant at 14
- 'I will be good'
Alfie Patten, who is 1.2 metres tall, said he made his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman pregnant when she was 14 and he was just 12.
The East Sussex schoolboy, whose voice has not broken and looks much younger than his 13 years, was revealed as Britain's youngest father in The Sun newspaper on February 13.
He vowed to be a good father to daughter Maisie, who was born on February 9.
"When my mum found out, I thought I was going to get in trouble. We wanted to have the baby but were worried how people would react," the 13-year-old told The Sun.
"I didn't know what it would be like to be a dad. I will be good, though, and care for it."
He also defended his girlfriend's reputation after a report in News of the World that other men were claiming to be Maisie's father
"When she found out she was having a baby, I asked her 'Am I the dad?' and she went 'Yeah' so I believe her," Alfie said.
"I didn't know about DNA tests before, but Mum explained it's when they do a swab in your mouth and it tells you if you're the dad.
"So, if I have that, they can all shut up. But I don't really care what people say. And I don't like them being bad about Chantelle."
.Alfie said he did not get pocket money but sometimes received £10 ($22) from his father
.The story rocked Britain and prompted calls for better --- education targeted at children
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: "I think all of us would want to avoid teenage pregnancies

Secretary Ed Balls also told London's Telegraph newspaper: "You look at that young lad being a dad when he is so young - and also the teenage girl - and you think it's not right, this looks so terrible.
"Our first reaction has got to be to make sure that the young lad, the teenage mum and the baby get all the support they need.
"And it's also vital that we do everything we can to make sure that these kind of teenage pregnancies don't happen in the future."
The Sun reported Maisie was conceived after Chantelle and Alfie had a single night of unprotected ---.
They found out about the baby when Chantelle was three months pregnant but kept it a secret for another six weeks, until Chantelle's mother became suspicious about her weight.
"The doctor asked me whether we had ---," Chantelle, who is now 15, told The Sun.
"I said yes and he said I should do a pregnancy test. He did the test and said I was pregnant. I started crying and didn't know what to do.
"He said I should tell my mum but I was too scared.
"We didn't think we would need help from our parents. You don't really think about that when you find out you are pregnant. You just think your parents will kill you

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Pictures of young parent

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?!?!?
what do they know of being parents ??

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Oh my Goddddddl

They're both just kids , and they already have a kid

I cant believe my eyes..Does he know what a parent is like?????

These two had s.... at the age of 12l

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Oh my Goddddddl

They're both just kids , and they already have a kid

I cant believe my eyes..Does he know what a parent is like?????

These two had s.... at the age of 12l

I was thinking about it , too ... look at the boy ... does he know how to be a father ?
did he really had --- with her?

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Kaka urges Galaxy to sell Beckham

Kaka is keen to see David Beckham remain at Milan




AC Milan star Kaka has called for the Los Angeles Galaxy to allow David Beckham his desired move to Italy.



Beckham, 33, is eager to make his loan deal with Milan a permanent switch, but the MLS side are determined to see him return to California next month.
Kaka says Beckham's form for the San Siro side has made him indispensible.
"Maybe it was a marketing move at first, but today the truth is that he is fundamental," the playmaker told Brazilian television.
"I wish Milan can reach a deal to acquire him permanently because he is a player who can help us now and in the coming seasons.
"He is a player that in the last few games was very decisive, with passes and goals."
Ex-England skipper Beckham could find out on Friday whether he has a future at Milan, according to the Italian club's chief executive Adriano Galliani.
BBC Sport understands that AC Milan representatives will fly to the United States this week for further negotiations.
And Galaxy coach Bruce Arena admitted he is expecting talks between the two parties in the coming days.
He said: "Obviously, I would suspect from the comments I've heard from David that there would be some discussions. But I have nothing confirmed at this point."
The former Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder wants to stay at Milan beyond his loan period, which ends on 9 March.



But parent club LA Galaxy want him to return to the United States and Milan have already missed last Friday's deadline that was set by the MLS.

"There is still a bit of distance but Friday could be the decisive day for Beckham," said Galliani.

"The wish of the player is to stay, we will see how the situation evolves."

The Los Angeles club said they have already rejected a £5m offer from the Italian side, with their valuation believed to be around the £10m mark.

Beckham has impressed Milan during his two-month loan period, scoring twice and helping the side move up to third in the table.

His performances also led to him being recalled to the England squad for the friendly against Spain last week.

Despite picking up a slight calf strain in Sunday's derby against Inter, Beckham will travel to Werder Bremen on Wednesday for Milan's Uefa Cup tie.




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