Spain Train Crash: Scores Killed After Locomotive Derails Near Santiago De Compostola (VIDEO/PHOTOS)

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain, July 25 (Reuters) - A train derailed outside the ancient northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday evening, killing at least 77 people and injuring up to 131 in one of Europe's worst rail disasters.
Bodies covered in blankets lay next to the overturned carriages as smoke billowed from the wreckage. Firefighters clambered over the twisted metal trying to get survivors out of the windows, while ambulances and fire engines surrounded the scene.
The government said it was working on the assumption the derailment, which occurred on the eve of the city's main religious festival, was an accident.
Sabotage or attack was unlikely to be involved, an official source said, though the devastation will have stirred memories of a train bombing in Madrid in 2004, carried out by Islamist extremists, that killed 191 people.
The Santiago de Compostela train operated by state rail company Renfe with 247 people on board derailed as the city prepared for the festival of Saint James, when thousands of Christian pilgrims from across the world pack the streets.
The city's tourism board said all festivities, including the traditional High Mass at the centuries-old cathedral, were cancelled as the city went into mourning following the crash.
"It was going so quickly. ... It seems that on a curve the train started to twist, and the wagons piled up one on top of the other," passenger Ricardo Montesco told Cadena Ser radio station.
"A lot of people were squashed on the bottom. We tried to squeeze out of the bottom of the wagons to get out and we realised the train was burning. ... I was in the second wagon and there was fire. ... I saw corpses," he added.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who was born in Santiago de Compostela, will visit the site on Thursday morning, his spokeswoman said.
"In the face of a tragedy such as just happened in Santiago de Compostela on the eve of its big day, I can only express my deepest sympathy as a Spaniard and a Galician," Rajoy said in a statement.

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El Pais newspaper cited sources close to the investigation as saying the train was travelling at over twice the speed limit on a sharp curve.
Both Renfe and state-owned Adif, which is in charge of the tracks, had opened an investigation into the cause of the derailment, Renfe said.
An official source said no statement would be made regarding the cause until the black boxes of the train were examined, but said it was most likely an accident.
"We are moving away from the hypothesis of sabotage or attack," he said.
Clinics in Santiago de Compostela were overwhelmed with people flocking to give blood, while hotels organised free rooms for relatives. Madrid sent forensic scientists and hospital staff to the region on special flights.
The death toll was 77, a spokeswoman for Galicia's Supreme Court said on Thursday morning, adding that the figures were still provisional. She said that 73 three people had died at the site of the derailment and four died in hospital.
Up to 131 people were injured, a Galicia-based spokeswoman for the office of the central government had earlier said.
"The scene is shocking, it's Dante-esque," said the head of the surrounding Galicia region, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, in a radio interview.
The eight-carriage train was travelling from Madrid to Ferrol on the Galician coast when it derailed, Renfe said in a statement.
The disaster happened as Spain is struggling to emerge from a long-running recession marked by government-driven austerity to bring its finances into order. Firefighters called off a strike to help with the disaster, while hospital staff, many operating on reduced salaries because of spending cuts, worked overtime to tend the injured.
The city's main festival focuses on St James, one of Jesus' 12 disciples whose remains are said to rest there and who is patron saint of Galicia.
The apostle's shrine there is the destination of the famous El Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, followed by Christians since the Middle Ages.
The derailment happened less than two weeks after six people died when a train came off the tracks and hit the platform at a station in central France.
That accident may have been caused by a loose steel plate at a junction, French train operator SNCF said.
Wednesday's derailment was one of the worst rail accidents in Europe over the past 25 years.
In November 2000, 155 people were killed when a fire in a tunnel engulfed a funicular train packed with skiers in Austria.
In Montenegro, up to 46 people were killed and nearly 200 injured in 2006 when a packed train derailed and plunged into a ravine outside the capital, Podgorica.
In Spain itself, 41 people were killed the same year when an underground train derailed and overturned in a tunnel just before entering the Jesus metro station in Valencia. (Reporting by Inmaculada Sanz, Sonya Dowsett, Sarah White, Andres Gonzalez, Blanca Rodriguez, Julien Toyer and Emma Pinedo; Writing by Sonya Dowsett; Editing by Julien Toyer, Peter Cooneya and John Stonestreet)

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Sky picks Twickenham for GPS team build | Mexia Communications

Thursday, July 25th, 2013

Twickenham Experience recently hosted the Sky Broadcast Services Operations team for two separate team days using the newly launched GPS treasure hunt team build package. Both events were attended by delegates from across the Broadcast Services Operations teams who between them are responsible for delivering all of Sky?s broadcast platforms, channels and scheduled programmes 24/7 365 days a year.? Hosting 80 people each day, the events were designed to promote inter-departmental collaboration, deliver key business updates, celebrate success as well as encourage a sense of fun and team building. The events utilised Twickenham?s Live Room tiered auditorium along with the GPS challenge activities around the venue which formed the core team building event for the final part of each day.

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Ainsley de Silva, Head of Sky Playout said: ?As a department who operate 24/7, we have to host two events each year to ensure everyone has an opportunity to attend. Twickenham was a great location with its incredible sporting history alongside the hospitality and great facility of The Live Room that we were provided with.? After each day, where the teams got the opportunity to hear and discuss some of the wider aspects of our business delivery and future plans at Sky, the GPS event provided the perfect interactive, slightly competitive and, most importantly, fun activity to close our team days.?

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Amir Vered, Head of Sales and Marketing commented: ?We are delighted to have hosted such a bespoke event for Sky. They are one of our many valued and loyal clients and we are proud to have helped make these events a great success.?

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Part of Twickenham?s newly launched 6-Pack for Active Meetings, Twickenham?s GPS treasure hunt packages provide an active incentive, in keeping with Twickenham?s focus on wellbeing as a leading national sporting venue. Designed to create an innovative team building experience, the package offers delegates the chance to break the ice and bond with fellow team members while enjoying a day of active challenges around the stadium.

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Ryan Braun and Baseball?s New Drug Era

On Monday afternoon, Major League Baseball suspended Ryan Braun, an outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers and winner of the 2011 National League Most Valuable Player award, for the rest of the season, which amounts to sixty-five games, and which would include the postseason, were the Brewers playing well enough to make it there. Braun will forfeit more than three million dollars in salary, but will be eligible to return, technically in good standing, for the beginning of next season. The suspension was essentially a plea deal between Braun and the M.L.B., stemming from his connection to the Biogenesis ?anti-aging? clinic in South Florida, which reportedly provided banned substances to several players and which, under the threat of legal action, began co?perating in June with the league?s investigation. More suspensions loom, including what is expected to be a lengthy one for the New York Yankees? Alex Rodriguez, who was supposed to be spending these later years chasing the all-time home-run record but, it now appears, may instead be chased out of the game.

Last night, after yet another day of discouraging baseball news, I put on a few minutes of the third installment of HBO?s ?When It Was a Game,? a lush and deeply comforting documentary series about baseball?s so-called glory days, dating from the Depression to the beginning of free agency, in the early nineteen-seventies. Part Three features fine archival film of the heroes of the sixties?Mantle, Mays, Koufax, Gibson?paired with remembrances from former players and usual-suspect baseball commentators, folks like Bob Costas and Billy Crystal. It?s in the Ken Burns mode?baseball as mostly peaceful national treasure, a symbol of America as it should be?but amid the home-movie nostalgia the film highlights the sixties as a contentious era in which the economics of the sport, which favored owners at the expense of players, finally became untenable. For years, thanks to the reserve clause in contracts, the rights to players were retained by their team, leaving the players little leverage to negotiate better salaries. Fans and writers liked the system because it led to years of stability among their favorite clubs: Mickey Mantle was a Yankee, plain and simple and forever. The players, meanwhile, mostly hated it, because it kept them under the thumbs of stingy owners. In the film, players recall signing paltry contracts as rookies, when the league minimum was about five grand, and working odd jobs every offseason for their whole careers. Curt Flood, an outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, challenged all this in 1969, torpedoing his career in the fight, and the reserve clause was finally eliminated in 1975, giving way to the modern free-agency system. It was a win for fairness, but something was lost?the sense of baseball, as in the film?s title, as ?a game? rather than a business. This is mostly bunk, of course. Baseball has always been a business, regardless of our collective childlike refusal to recognize it as such, but it was easier to ignore that fact when the owners were keeping the money side secret.

?When It Was a Game? is a reminder of an essential conflict in baseball: that fans, writers, and players each experience the game in their own ways, and want and expect different things from it. In practical terms, it emerges from our discrete roles: fans want their teams to win, writers act as worried guardians of the longer historical narratives of the sport (but are also hungry for a good story), and players want all kinds of things?to do well, to earn respect from their teammates, to make money, to stay healthy, to get home from time to time to see their kids. These roles mostly support each other, forming the foundation of what the writer Robert Lipsyte identified as ?SportsWorld,? the great national money-printing business. But there is a darker side to this conflict: as much as we venerate athletes in America, with attention and riches and the respect implicit in cultural capital, we are also deeply hostile toward them. We complain when players fail on the field or demand huge contracts in the offseason. And, having been sure all along that they were stupid and overpaid and not worthy of our respect, we take a kind of perverse thrill when their personal weaknesses are revealed, when they somehow go broke despite earning millions of dollars or run afoul of the law. It is envy, perhaps, but also a form of self-loathing?a shame about the amount of energy and time we devote to frivolous games with outcomes completely outside our control. This is the id of the sports fan in his living room, and of the talk-radio host barking in your car, and of the grizzled columnist writing the umpteenth article about how the latest generation of jocks is tarnishing the past. An open secret, in some ways: we love sports but kind of hate the players.

And so, in the past day, we have enjoyed the release of endorphins that comes with giving Ryan Braun exactly the kind of public tomato-pelting he deserves. He is the most irritating kind of cheater?a player who skirted a failed drug test, in 2011, on what appeared even at the time to be a technicality and then, rather than quietly thanking the fates, instead held a sanctimonious press conference, in which he said several variations of: ?I?ve tried to handle the entire situation with honor, with integrity, with class, with dignity, and with professionalism, because that?s who I am and that?s how I?ve always lived my life.? Later, he seemed to impugn the person who had collected his urine sample but failed to follow delivery protocol, saying, ?There were a lot of things that we learned about the collector, about the collection process, about the way that the entire thing worked that made us very concerned and very suspicious about what could have actually happened.? Perhaps he was just referring to flaws in the testing process, but those suggestions of nefariousness (?a lot of things that we learned about the collector?), in light of what amounts to his admission on Monday that he subsequently violated the league?s drug policies, seem especially scurrilous on Braun?s part. He is a diminished figure, and perhaps as ruined as a man who is guaranteed to earn a hundred and thirteen million dollars between now and 2020 can be.

In the past, the head-shaking and outrage directed at steroid and other P.E.D. users mostly came from fans, or from writers, to whom moralism comes naturally. Yet, over the past twenty-four hours, and in what may be a watershed moment, current players have elbowed in to express their anger at Braun. This is a new phenomenon: before, players would remain mostly mum about infractions by their peers; the antagonism between players and owners left over from the reserve clause has never fully disappeared. ?I think everybody?s frustrated, especially the players. I think we all feel a little bit cheated,? the Seattle Mariners pitcher Joe Saunders told the A.P., in an article that features a half-dozen such condemnations of Braun from around the league. (Some players, including members of the Brewers, have come to Braun?s defense and said that they accept his apology.) ESPN?s Buster Olney writes that recently a big-league pitcher threw at a suspected P.E.D. user as a form of inner-circle retribution. (Olney doesn?t name the pitcher, though, giving the whole thing the feeling of a parable.) More notably, the players? union has said that it will not defend players from drug suspensions if there is solid evidence against them. That?s not to say that the union is throwing its members to the dogs, but it does reflect an important policy shift. The union has decided that, at this stage of the drug era, the greater threat is not M.L.B. overreaching to investigate and punish players but rather the existence of cheaters among the ranks. This makes a lot of sense: drug users threaten the livelihood of clean players, and hurt the league?s reputation. The recognition that a clean sport benefits the players was one of the reasons that the union agreed to stricter drug-testing policies and stiffer penalties in the most recent collective-bargaining agreement.

Yet the way in which league executives have pursued the Biogenesis case may give some players pause. Ryan Braun is not accused of failing a drug test; neither is Alex Rodriguez or any of the other players who are likely to face suspensions. Instead, Braun was suspended for what the M.L.B. called, vaguely, ?violations of the Basic Agreement and its Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.? As Tom Verducci, of Sports Illustrated, notes, the suspension was issued essentially at the sole discretion of league commissioner Bud Selig. Granted, Braun took the deal, and others connected to Biogenesis may choose to accept a similar arrangement, but while the clean players who are fed up with cheaters sharing their dugouts might be happy about that, it?s worth pausing a moment to consider some of the lessons of history, and the bargaining leverage with owners and league management that their forebears fought so hard to achieve. We?ve reached an unusual moment in which the desires of fans, writers, players, and owners seem to align: everyone wants a clean game. But now, as always, it?s the players who are held to the highest standards, who face the most scrutiny, and who have the most to lose.

Photograph by Marc Serota/Getty Images.

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WWII Exhibit Shows History in Photographs - New York Press

Students learn how to research and depict the story of the last ?good? war

Governors Island only became popular in the last 10 years since it was opened and renovated for public use?or so it seems to us present-day New Yorkers. In actuality, the floating arboretum in the middle of New York Harbor played a seminal role in protecting the everyday lives of New Yorkers back in the 1940s. Thanks to an original exhibition put on by the student historians of the New York Historical Society, visitors to Governors Island can journey back to a time when the verdant parkland was the military base standing between the Germans and the Atlantic seaboard.
When one hears New York and World War II in the same sentence, the landmarks that typically spring to mind are Columbia University, the site of the infamous Manhattan Project; or Times Square, the backdrop for the iconic LIFE photograph of the WWII sailor and nurse kissing; or the hundreds of buildings that were temporarily converted into American Red Cross units, including the New York Historical Society itself, which featured these and many more sites in its past exhibit on the Upper West Side, aptly called WWII & NYC, to present a fuller picture of New York?s role in the war.
Given the limitations of space in the exhibit, one landmark important to the war effort had to be left out and would have probably evaded notice completely if the museum?s education division had not passed on the job to its student historians, an accomplished group of high school students from all five boroughs ?with a passion for making history matter,? said Chelsea Frosini, managing director of the award-winning program. Working for more than six months on exhaustive object-based research and expert interviews with museum curators and other experts, the students were able to piece together Governors Island?s past reputation as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, one of America?s foremost suppliers of ships, planes, equipment and soldiers to the Allied cause.

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?These kids came in and made their own WWII story. Some of the questions they were asking were ones I hadn?t even considered. It was very refreshing for me,? says Mike Thornton, a curatorial associate at New York Historical Society, who spent four to five hours one afternoon teaching students about the basics of curatorship.
Jonathan Brown, a student historian since 2011 from Frederick Douglass Academy on West 140th Street, picked up quite a lot of US history from his internship but admits, ?I never knew Governors Island was part of the WWII effort before, nor did [the other 12] people in my group, but that?s what motivated us to look into it.?
In the end, they decided to present their research in an offshoot exhibition of the original NYHS WWII installation that ended in May. Theirs would be a very different kind of exhibit.
The WWII & NYC (Part Two): Photographs and Propaganda is comprised exclusively of old black-and-white images from the era that have been blown up and hung, not in a museum, but in a pre-war mansion on Governors Island that was once used to house military soldiers. The exhibition brought the New York Historical Society not only to Governors Island for the first time, but out of its home on 170 Central Park West for the first time.
The relocation was not without its bumps and hurdles. The Trust for the Governors Island was very specific as to which building they could use, although the house they gave them ?was not a safe space but more a military ruin,? recalls Mike Thornton. ?My gut reaction was ?Why would you dare put people in there, let alone an installation.??
Yet, Victoria Greene, 17, an Upper West Side student historian who gives tours of the exhibition, along with fourteen other 17-year-olds, recognized early on that ?there is something special about showing the objects on the site that holds such a large piece of the WWII puzzle.?
Upon visiting House #18 now, you?ll recognize the same mustard color exterior and rusty door, but the inside has been completely transformed into a wall-to-wall gallery. ?It was very hands-on and very demanding work,? recalls Chelsea Frosini, ?but our teams of teens and staff all stepped up to the challenge and produced something unprecedented and very exciting!?
The exhibit was also unprecedented in its visitor count. On opening weekend alone, 792 people on Saturday and 832 people on Sunday dropped by to marvel at the sundry photographs, maps, propaganda posters, and advertisements that illustrate New York?s physical and moral transformation by the War.
?One poster I return to every time reads ?Americans always fight for liberty,? which really gives you a sense that this was the good war worth fighting for. It makes me proud to be an American,? said Brown, who will attend Johns Hopkins University in the fall.
For her part, Greene, a rising senior at Stuyvesant High School, finds herself drawn to the items featuring minority groups, such as a board about a Japanese woman whose nursing application was rejected based on her nationality, or one about an African American man who rose to a high-ranking Army position only to face continued discrimination.
Several of the visitors to the exhibition have been veterans or relatives of veterans with their own stories of the war. As they made their way around the exhibit, they occasionally let out exclamations of glee or sadness upon recognizing one of the photographs.
Thornton points out that, with veterans dying at the rate of 1,000 a day, we are at a ?critical cusp? in passing history from first-hand to second-hand knowledge. For this reason, the Student Historians tried to make the exhibit as ?educative and participatory? as possible, said Brown.
Visitors are welcome to stop by the exhibition every weekend from June 15 to Sept. 2 to observe the finished product.

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Quick Stress Relief Tips Through Your 5 Senses | World of Psychology

Remember the show ?I Dream of Jeanie?? I often wish that with a twitch of my nose I could remove myself from a stressful situation. Too bad it?s not that easy.

Fortunately, we all possess the power to decrease the effects of stress in our lives in an instant. Once we learn to identify our stress and the way our body responds to stress we can develop our personalized plan for decreasing stress in stressful situations.

There are many relaxation techniques, but let?s be honest. It?s not very practical to strike a yoga pose when you?re dealing with a difficult customer or co-worker. It?s also probably not the best look to begin chanting or reciting mantras in the middle of a stressful meeting.

The best way to relieve stress is through our senses. Our five senses often hold the key to quick stress relief.

If you are a visual person, stimulated by the things you can see or visualize, you may want to engage this sense as a method of relieving stress. You can practice mindfulness and be completely aware of all the sights and colors that surround you. If you are unable to find soothing or relaxing images, use your imagination and visualize something that brings you calmness and peace.

If sounds such as music, soft tones, or sounds of nature bring you quick relief, experiment with different sounds to find what soothes you the most. With the current technology, there are tons of apps that provide relaxing music and tones for free. If you find yourself in a situation in which you can?t turn up the music or place your headphones on, try humming your own little tune.

Smells and scents can be very calming. Aromatherapy is a great method for stress relief. You can visit an aromatherapist or begin a search on your own. There are tons of great websites that provide information regarding what scents are good for specific emotions. Lavender is very calming, while eucalyptus and spearmint can be very uplifting.

There is nothing like a hot cup of tea, or a cold glass of water, or a nice piece of chocolate. At least those are my favorites. Whatever you enjoy, savor the flavor. We often inhale our food in a rush and neglect actually spending time to connect with layers of flavor and textures. I really enjoy food, so often when I?m stressed I turn to a hot cup of relaxing tea. When I?m not in the mood for tea, I?ll go for something I don?t treat myself to very often and become mindful of everything about it. It?s a great distraction and I get to eat in the process. For me it?s a win/win.

Some people are very tactile and find that touching or feeling different textures provide stress relief. This can include playing with stress relief balls or other toys, petting an animal, getting a massage, taking a hot bath, or holding an object that you find comfort in.

When trying out ways to manage stress in a quick manner, start small by testing the waters with small stressors. Try not to wait until you are at a 10 to try to quickly get back to a 1. If you try a stress relief technique and it doesn?t work, try something else. Eventually you will begin to learn what works for you in particular situations, but it takes a little experimenting at first. Don?t allow your search for quick stress relief to bring about more stress because that is not the intent. When we learn to handle one small stressor effectively, we are more likely to be able to handle the big stressors when they come.

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eBay debuts desktop version of eBay Now, service coming to more cities this summer

eBay's same-day delivery service has been highly focused on mobile since its very early days, but now the internet giant is looking to change that. Starting today, eBay Now will be available on the desktop, giving shoppers an alternative to using the site on their iOS or Android device. Naturally, this means users can still make the same purchases and have them delivered in a speedy fashion, only they'll be able to do so on a larger canvas that's optimized to display things like big imagery, reviews and which stores are most popular.

In addition, the company's VP of Mobile and Local, Dan Glasgow, told us the service is, as of now, expanding its NYC coverage to Brooklyn and Queens, as well as some more places around the Bay Area. eBay also let us know Now's getting ready to launch in Chicago and Dallas "later this summer," adding that new features are set to debut at around the same time, including one which allows for scheduled deliveries. Still hoping it comes to your city? It may very well happen soon -- eBay says it's excited to keep growing and continue expanding the service.

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