RACISM IN FOOTBALL

 

Football bosses have met the prime minister to try to crack down on racism in football.

The meeting was called because of fears that recent events on the pitch have damaged the game's image.

Earlier this month Liverpool player Luis Suarez had to apologise for refusing to shake hands with Man United's Patrice Evra before the match.

David Cameron said he was worried that children might copy the bad behaviour of the players on the pitch.

The prime minister also said that the UK should be proud of the "fantastic achievement" of the campaign to rid the sport of racism over the past two decades, but that more still has to be done.

One of the areas the government want to be looked at is the lack of black coaches, managers and referees in the game.

They've given the FA two months to come up with a new plan to improve things on and off the pitch.

The FA have said they are already looking into tougher punishments for any players and managers who are accused of racist behaviour.

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WHITNEY HOUSTON

WHITNEY HOUSTON DIES AGED 48

Pop superstar Whitney Houston has passed away aged 48. The blues and soul songstress died in a Beverly Hills hotel room on Sunday, just hours before she was to appear at a pre-Grammy Awards party. Ms Houston was expected to receive a lifetime achievement award at the main ceremony. Medics arrived at her room around 3.43 pm and administered CPR. She was pronounced dead 12 minutes later. The cause of her death is not yet known. Her body was quickly removed from the hotel to avoid the chaos of the world’s media, which had congregated to cover the story. A police officer told reporters: "She has been positively identified by friends and family…and next of kin have already been notified.”

Whitney Houston was one of the world’s most influential, successful and popular singers. She was born into a musical family. Her mother Cissy was a gospel singer and her aunt was the legendary Dionne Warwick. Houston won six Grammy awards among many other top prizes. She released seven studio albums and sold over 170 million CDs, singles and videos. Her most famous song is her worldwide hit, "I Will Always Love You." In 1992, she married soul singer Bobby Brown. They had a rocky relationship that was widely covered by the press. The last 10 years of her life were dominated by drug use. Tributes to her have poured in from the world’s music superstars. Rihanna posted on Twitter: "No words, just tears."

CONTADOR VOWED TO RETURN TO CYCLING

Contador found guilty of doping

Three-times Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has been banned from racing for two years and stripped of his most recent title after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) found him guilty of a doping offense at the 2010 event. Contador's ban is effective from August 5, 2010, when he was provisionally suspended after being informed of the positive test, leaving him free to return to competition on August 5, 2012.

As well as losing his 2010 Tour de France win, which will now be handed to Luxembourg's Andy Schleck, Contador will also forfeit his 2011 Giro d'Italia triumph, which goes to Michele Scarponi.

Contador has always maintained the traces of clenbuterol, a banned steroid used illegally to fatten livestock, entered his bloodstream via contaminated meat bought from a butcher in the Basque Country. The Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) accepted Contador's version of events and in February 2011 cleared him and lifted his suspension.

The International Cycling Union (ICU) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appealed the case to the CAS returning its verdict, which effectively rules Contador out of this year's Tour de France and the London Olympics.

"The panel found there were no established facts that would elevate the possibility of meat contamination to an event that could have occurred on a balance of probabilities. Unlike certain other countries, notably outside Europe, Spain is not known to have a contamination problem with clenbuterol in meat. Furthermore, no other cases of athletes having tested positive to clenbuterol allegedly in the consumption of Spanish meat are known," the CAS said in a statement.

"The panel concluded that both the meat contamination scenario and the blood transfusion scenario were, in theory, possible explanations for the adverse analytical findings but were, however, equally unlikely.

In an emotional appearance in front of the television cameras, Alberto Contador on Tuesday vowed to return to cycling:

"I am going to continue fully in cycling," the Madrid-born racer said. "I will continue to compete cleanly, as I have done all my life." Describing the past year-and-a-half since the positive test became known as "a nightmare," Contador declined to comment on whether his sanction was the result of a witch hunt.

QUEEN ELIZABETH. 60 YEARS ON THRONE

Diamond jubilee: Queen Elizabeth takes to the throne in 1952

Sixty years ago, Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II on the death of her father, King George VI.


Elizabeth was in Kenya with her husband Prince Philip, on the way to a tour of Australia, and flew back as soon as the news reached her :

 The precise moment she ascended to the throne, 60 years ago this morning, the Queen was perched in a tree, watching a rhinoceros rooting around in a watering hole in Kenya. The Duke of Edinburgh was beside her.
It was the start of a tour that was supposed to take the royal couple on to Australia and New Zealand after their African safari, but at the same time, 7.30am back in England, James MacDonald, valet to George VI, was taking the king his morning cup of tea at Sandringham and discovering that he had died during the night from a heart attack.
The coded news – "Hyde Park Corner" – flashed to London was broken to the prime minister, Winston Churchill, still in bed in Downing Street, who promptly burst into tears.
Word that her father had died and that she was Queen was gently passed to the 25-year-old princess by her husband.
Elizabeth II is the country's oldest monarch and the second-longest reigning sovereign in British history.
the Queen has done what monarchs do: dutifully showing herself to the people, touring the country, visiting her subjects in good times and bad

THE REAL MONA LISA?

Prado museum finds Leonardo da Vinci pupil's take

A  copy of the world's most famous painting has been discovered by conservators at the Prado in Madrid, allowing us to see the Mona Lisa as she would probably have looked in the 16th century
 Research presented to a recent symposium at the National Gallery suggests the painting was made by a copyist in Leonardo's studio at precisely the same time he was painting the original.
The newly discovered work offers a much fresher version of the enigmatic, captivating young sitter, generally acknowledged to be Lisa Gherardini, wife of the Florentine cloth merchant Francesco del Giocondo.
The story was broken by the The Art Newspaper yesterday, somewhat spoiling the Prado's intention to release the news to the world later this month when conservation was complete.
The work has been in restoration for several months in preparation for an exhibition at the Louvre [entitled Leonardo's Last Masterpiece: The Sainte Anne]. The conservation process has not been finished. The finished painting is going to be presented at the Prado in about three weeks.
At a press conference in Madrid on Wednesday Gabriele Finaldi, the Prado's deputy director collections, said: "It is as if we were in the same studio, standing at the next easel. You can imagine that this is what the Mona Lisa looked like back in the 16th century."
Miguel Falomir, the Prado's director for Italian painting, said the copy gives art lovers and experts a chance "to admire the Mona Lisa with totally different eyes".
He and Finaldi said the museum's best guess was that the copy was done by an apprentice named Francesco Melzi, because of the style observed in it.
Besides the black background, one other difference from the original is the woman in the copy has eyebrows and the Mona Lisa in the real masterpiece does not.
Prado conservators removed the painting's dingy, black background to find – to their astonishment – a Tuscan landscape similar to that in the true Mona Lisa. The Art Newspaper's Martin Bailey, who saw images of the painting with 90% of the overpainting removed, said the discovery could transform our understanding of the original painting.

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BECAS DE INMERSIÓN LINGÜÍSTICA

Aquí tenéis la convocatoria de estancias formativas en el extranjero para el alumnado de bachillerato y Ciclos Formativos de Grado Medio de Formación Profesional Inicial

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Greetings

 

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