Titanic's Fair Haired Unknown Child

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The crew of the rescue ship
Mackay-Bennett recovered
the body of a fair haired,
about 2-year-old boy out of
the Atlantic Ocean on April
21, 1912.

The body as well as many others
were taken to a cemetery in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, where
the crew of the Mackay-Bennett
placed a headstone dedicated to
the "unknown child" over his grave.

Researchers feel that they have
solved the mystery of the unknown
child, in that he was 19-month-old
Sidney Leslie Goodwin from England.

The fair haired unknown child was
identified two times before, but
researchers believe now he was
Goodwin.

The quest to identify the child
began over a decade ago, when Ryan
Parr, adjunct professor at Lakehead
University, Ontario, worked with
DNA taken from ancient human
remains viewed videos about the
Titanic.

"I thought 'Wow, I wonder if anyone
is interested or still cares about
the unidentified victims of the
Titanic,'" Parr.

Parr received permission to exhume
the remains.

A 2.4-inch long fragment of an arm
bone and three teeth remained of
the unknown child.

An expert analysis of the child's
teeth concluded the unknown child
to be between 9 and 15 months. Doubts
surrounded the conclusions until a pair
of shoes recovered from the unknown
child and held in the Maritime Museum
of the Atlantic caused the researchers
to question the identification.

Parr tried the identification process
again with the help of the U.S. Armed
Forces DNA Identification Laboratory.

They looked at another, less mutation
prone section of the mitochondrial DNA,
where they found a single difference
that indicated that Goodwin might
actually be the unknown child. The
Armed Forces lab confirmed this when
they found a second, single, difference
in another section of the DNA.

"Luckily, it was a rare difference, so
that is what gives you 98 percent
certainty the identification is correct,"
Parr explained.

Night Before The Royal Wedding

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Kate Middleton with her
immediate family will spend
the night before the wedding
at the five star Goring Hotel
in Belgravia, central London.

Clarence House shared the exact
timings of the royal wedding,
and the procession's route.

Clarence House said the procession's
route should pass along The Mall,
Horse Guards Road and Horse Guards
Parade - through Horse Guards Arch,
Whitehall and then along the south
side of Parliament Square into Broad
Sanctuary.

The wedding service is to be relayed
to the crowds by speakers along the
procession route, tens of thousands
expected to hear the couple exchange
their vows.

There will be screens at Hyde Park
and Trafalgar Square.

Clarence House explained that William
and Harry will arrive at Westminster
Abbey in a state limousine at 1015
BST, leave about 40 minutes before
the ceremony begin.

A web site for people in central London
wanting to know where to watch has been
made:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_195179?CID=Central&PLA=url_mon&CRE=royal_wedding.

Lohan angered by jail sentence

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Lindsay Lohan, 24, was “blindsided”
after being sentenced to jail,
while many speculated that if her
charges were reduced from felony
theft to misdemeanor charges, she'd
be able to escape any time behind
bars.

TMZ reports that didn't happen, and
she was slammed with three months of
hard time, plus 480 hours of community
service.

Lohan was in custody about five hours
after her hearing. She then posted bail
and is expected to appeal the judge’s
decision on jail time.

It all started on January 22 when she
allegedly left Kamofie & Company, a
Venice, California jewelry store, with
a $2,500 necklace. Lohan was caught on
surveillance tape trying on the necklace
and departing the store with a group of
friends

She is “angry” about how things ended up
“because she has been working so hard on
turning her life around -- She didn’t do
what they said she did. She didn’t steal
that necklace,” said producer Nathan
Folks, a friend of Lohan.

Lohan made a statement on Twitter:

“With my family and thinking of my
grandfather whos birthday was yesterday
and unfortunately passed away a few years
ago… i am just grateful for the life i have,
i cannot explain how excited i am to begin
working on films again, on top of that- i
better get one of my two favorite scripts
that i am in love with. my friends know
what they both are….. all my love- LL god
bless and g’night :)”

Lohan asserts that she's not guilty of the
felony grand theft charges

Negative Criticism

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Judgments Are Made In Life

Negative criticism, judgment,
is a part of life as is living.
People, wrong or right, make
judgments. Some people live to
hand-out negative criticism.

Why? They care little for you
or your work. The small-minded
look at you, your writing,
under a microscope to poke
around for errors. An I without
the dot will do. They live to
belittle and make themselves
appear right, intelligent.

Some people through their jobs
have an obligation to criticize,
positive and/or negative. Still,
criticism should be handled
humanely.

I critique manuscripts, and know
from experience. I look at a
writer's work with an objective
eye but with the understanding
that a feeling/caring person
wrote it.

Errors can be pointed-out without
crushing a writer's ambition. Tips
are given to improve, make better.

A few forget what it's like on the
writing side, can't grasp it or
don't care.

However, don't let negative criticism
stop you. Negative criticism is
peppered throughout life.

Handle it by accepting that you're
not perfect. Go through your writing
and make it better. Work on areas
of weakness. Your work have tons
of spelling errors? Spell-check
five times, six to be sure. Verbs
a problem? Take time to learn about
strong verbs.

You can't stop people from throwing
negative criticism your way, but you
can strengthen areas that need work.
A suggestion is to select two hours,
day or night, for improving self or
writing.

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