The case may soon dissolve, however, because nearly all the men have been or are expected to soon be sent voluntarily to other nations.
The Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed in recent weeks to take in 12 of the 13 remaining prisoners, U.S. officials have said. Only one man, Arkin Mahmud, is likely to remain held indefinitely at the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay. His lawyer told the Washington Post the man has mental health problems that cannot be treated in the tiny country. Mahmud's brother is among those headed to Palau.
The men are Uyghurs, an ethnic group from western China. They were accused of receiving weapons and military training in Afghanistan. Some of them have been cleared for release since 2003 and several other Uyghurs have been released to other countries. The United States said it would not send them back to their homeland because of concern they would be tortured by Chinese authorities.
The Chinese government has said no returned Uyghurs would be mistreated and has repeatedly warned other countries against taking the men. Beijing officials this summer again urged the United States to hand over all remaining Uyghurs instead of sending them elsewhere.
China alleges the men are part of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a group the U.S. State Department considers a terrorist organization, that operates in the Xinjiang region. East Turkestan is another name for Xinjiang.
Eight Uyghurs are a party to the pending appeal with the Supreme Court. In a September 23 letter to the court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, the administration's top attorney in high court matters, said the U.S. government "has every reason to believe that at least six of the [Uyghur] petitioners shortly will be resettled in Palau, although it is impossible to be certain until they actually board the plane."
Kagan had said the initial transfer would happen by October 3.
Among the lead Uyghur plaintiffs is Hazaifa Parhat, accused of attending a terror training camp in Afghanistan at the time of the September 11, 2001, attacks. He denies the charge.
A federal judge in October 2008 ordered the Uyghurs released inside the United States because they were no longer considered "enemy combatants." U.S. District Judge Richard Urbina had said further imprisonment "crossed the constitutional threshold into infinitum."
U.S. military hearings known as combatant status review tribunals determine whether a prisoner can be designated an "enemy combatant," and prosecuted by the military. Some legal and military analysts have likened them to civilian grand jury proceedings.
The Bush administration appealed that decision in its final days, and a federal appeals panel ruled in February there was no legal or constitutional authority for the prisoners to be immediately freed on U.S. soil, even though they were unlawfully detained and no countries at the time were willing to accept them. The Uyghurs then asked the Supreme Court to hear the case.
Obama administration officials have said privately they were unwilling to launch a constitutional showdown with the Supreme Court on the detainee issue. The Obama Justice Department has concentrated on the negotiations with Palau.
Lawyers for the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing the Uyghurs in court, said the men pose no terror threat and could have been released into a Muslim community in the United States until their cases were resolved.
If the Uyghurs all find new homes outside U.S. borders, the former prisoners would no longer have standing to challenge their former enemy combatant status and detention in federal court. The high court then would likely dismiss the appeal at the urging of the government, leaving the larger constitutional issues unresolved.
Bermuda in June accepted four of the Uyghurs, after quiet negotiations with U.S. officials.
"I am no terrorist, I have not been terrorist, I will never be terrorist. I am a peaceful person," said one of those four, Kheleel Mamut, in a June 12 interview with CNN on the Atlantic Ocean island.
Albania accepted five Uyghur prisoners in 2006, but has refused to allow any more in the country. Human rights activists say the European nation is concerned about economic and diplomatic retaliation from China.
Any final decision on the Uyghurs by the high court could have implications for other Guantanamo prisoners. The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that detainees can go to federal court to contest their imprisonment, but that civilian judges lack the authority to order them freed.
In addition to the Uyghurs, more than 200 prisoners, many of them suspected terrorists, remain in the detention facility. Approximately two-thirds have appealed their continued imprisonment and have complained the government is unfairly keeping them from finding out if any evidence exists that could clear them.
Many fear arrest, physical abuse or persecution if they are sent to their homelands, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights.
The Justice Department over the weekend announced three detainees would be sent with their approval to Yemen and Ireland.
Efforts to find places for the detainees have been stepped up since President Obama announced he would close the military prison at Guantanamo in coming months.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Knowing cholesterol numbers could ward off heart disease
Although her overall cholesterol number lingered in the low to mid-200s, she figured her medication would keep it under control.
But she figured wrong, and heart disease slowly started clogging her arteries.
Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, says that over the years, it's become clear to most American women that heart disease is nothing to ignore. It's the leading cause of death of women in the United States, says Nabel, a prominent advocate for women's heart health.
But Nabel says many women still don't know all the risk factors for heart disease, especially when it comes to cholesterol.
"For middle-aged women, 40 to 60, high cholesterol is the single most important risk factor for heart disease and heart attacks," she said. The Heart Truth: How to lower your risk for heart disease
Peiffer didn't think much about her cholesterol until nine years ago, when, at age 39, she began to feel ill during a water aerobics class.
"I started coughing," she recalled. "I was coughing a lot!"
It got so bad she decided to drive home. The cough, she says, grew worse. "The coughing continued, but then I was coughing up this pink, frothy stuff, and I knew that wasn't right."
Alarmed, Peiffer left her kids with her husband and drove herself to the hospital. But because of her age, doctors never considered that she might be having heart problems; they figured she had a virus and sent her home. But later tests showed that she had something wrong with her heart. After performing an angiogram, her doctors told her the bad news
"They told me I had a 99 percent blockage in my left main artery," she said. "I needed open-heart surgery."
Millions of Americans get a diagnosis of high cholesterol every year. Cholesterol comes from two sources: your body and your food. Your liver (and to a smaller degree, your cells) makes about 75 percent of blood cholesterol. The remaining 25 percent comes from the foods you eat.
Cholesterol is divided into two main types. HDL, or high-density lipoprotein, is the "good" cholesterol because it helps to clear excess fats from the arteries. LDL, or low-density lipoprotein, is the bad cholesterol because it clogs the arteries, increasing a person's risk for heart attack and stroke.
The American Heart Association says that in premenopausal women, estrogen tends to raise HDL (good) cholesterol. But as estrogen drops during menopause, HDL levels drop too, and LDL levels rise. That's why women need to know their numbers.
But she figured wrong, and heart disease slowly started clogging her arteries.
Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, says that over the years, it's become clear to most American women that heart disease is nothing to ignore. It's the leading cause of death of women in the United States, says Nabel, a prominent advocate for women's heart health.
But Nabel says many women still don't know all the risk factors for heart disease, especially when it comes to cholesterol.
"For middle-aged women, 40 to 60, high cholesterol is the single most important risk factor for heart disease and heart attacks," she said. The Heart Truth: How to lower your risk for heart disease
Peiffer didn't think much about her cholesterol until nine years ago, when, at age 39, she began to feel ill during a water aerobics class.
"I started coughing," she recalled. "I was coughing a lot!"
It got so bad she decided to drive home. The cough, she says, grew worse. "The coughing continued, but then I was coughing up this pink, frothy stuff, and I knew that wasn't right."
Alarmed, Peiffer left her kids with her husband and drove herself to the hospital. But because of her age, doctors never considered that she might be having heart problems; they figured she had a virus and sent her home. But later tests showed that she had something wrong with her heart. After performing an angiogram, her doctors told her the bad news
"They told me I had a 99 percent blockage in my left main artery," she said. "I needed open-heart surgery."
Millions of Americans get a diagnosis of high cholesterol every year. Cholesterol comes from two sources: your body and your food. Your liver (and to a smaller degree, your cells) makes about 75 percent of blood cholesterol. The remaining 25 percent comes from the foods you eat.
Cholesterol is divided into two main types. HDL, or high-density lipoprotein, is the "good" cholesterol because it helps to clear excess fats from the arteries. LDL, or low-density lipoprotein, is the bad cholesterol because it clogs the arteries, increasing a person's risk for heart attack and stroke.
The American Heart Association says that in premenopausal women, estrogen tends to raise HDL (good) cholesterol. But as estrogen drops during menopause, HDL levels drop too, and LDL levels rise. That's why women need to know their numbers.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Review: 'Summer' one of the best of the year
In the enchantingly original and romantic (500) Days of Summer, Summer (Zooey Deschanel) is a girl -- capricious, alluring, and not entirely knowable -- and Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is the greeting-card writer who convinces himself that she's "better than the girl of my dreams."
Most romantic comedies have half a dozen situations at best: Meet Cute, Infatuation, Pop Song Montage, Contrived Mix-Up, Angry Breakup, and Final Clinch. "(500) Days of Summer" is about the many unclassifiable moments in between.
Director Marc Webb, working from Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's witty script, stages each scene as a vivid snapshot memory, and his sense of play is boundless.
The film leaps in a heartbeat from the furtive glances (and shared fixation on the Smiths) that ignite an office love affair to a rooftop-party reconciliation that plays out, via split screen, in two simultaneous versions (how the hero wants it to be and how it happens) to a morning-after-the-first-sex saunter that evolves, with joyful hilarity, into a musical number scored to "You Make My Dreams." This has to be the first movie ever to give equal props to Morrissey and Hall & Oates.
"(500) Days" is like a mood ring cued to the ups, downs, and confusions of modern love. It's a Gen-Y "Annie Hall" made by a new-style Wes Anderson who uses his cleverness for humanity instead of postmodern superiority.
None of it would work, though, without such lived-in performances. Deschanel makes the lovely, sensuous Summer just precocious enough to know what she wants without coming out and saying it, and Gordon-Levitt, with his junior Springsteenian chin jut, lets you read every glimmer of hope, pain, lust, and befuddlement beneath his nervy facade.
It's a feat of star acting, and it helps make "(500) Days" not just bitter or sweet but everything in between.
Most romantic comedies have half a dozen situations at best: Meet Cute, Infatuation, Pop Song Montage, Contrived Mix-Up, Angry Breakup, and Final Clinch. "(500) Days of Summer" is about the many unclassifiable moments in between.
Director Marc Webb, working from Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's witty script, stages each scene as a vivid snapshot memory, and his sense of play is boundless.
The film leaps in a heartbeat from the furtive glances (and shared fixation on the Smiths) that ignite an office love affair to a rooftop-party reconciliation that plays out, via split screen, in two simultaneous versions (how the hero wants it to be and how it happens) to a morning-after-the-first-sex saunter that evolves, with joyful hilarity, into a musical number scored to "You Make My Dreams." This has to be the first movie ever to give equal props to Morrissey and Hall & Oates.
"(500) Days" is like a mood ring cued to the ups, downs, and confusions of modern love. It's a Gen-Y "Annie Hall" made by a new-style Wes Anderson who uses his cleverness for humanity instead of postmodern superiority.
None of it would work, though, without such lived-in performances. Deschanel makes the lovely, sensuous Summer just precocious enough to know what she wants without coming out and saying it, and Gordon-Levitt, with his junior Springsteenian chin jut, lets you read every glimmer of hope, pain, lust, and befuddlement beneath his nervy facade.
It's a feat of star acting, and it helps make "(500) Days" not just bitter or sweet but everything in between.
For some fans, lessons of 'Potter' carry over into real world
Harry and his friends start Dumbledore's army to bring awareness to this," said iReporter Andrew Slack. "Meanwhile, our world ignores AIDS, Darfur and global warming."
Some Potter fans, under the leadership of Slack, have come together to bring the spirit of "Dumbledore's army" to life. Slack is the executive director of the Harry Potter Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging Potter fans in social activism.
Slack's group has taken on many issues over the past few years. "Because we're basing it on a modern myth, you can point to many issues at once," he said.
In the "Potter" books, "implications toward public policy are profound," Slack said.
Slack, a former sketch comedian with an interest in building social movements, came up with the idea in 2005 after reading Potter books to children at a Boys and Girls Club, something he said transformed him.
"I saw that the books weren't just empowering personally," he said. "I think the books speak to something that is very unique, because ["Potter" author] J.K. Rowling has been able to express a story about the importance of love."
Slack founded the group with his friends Paul and Joe DeGeorge, members of a "wizard rock" band called "Harry and the Potters," as well as comedian Seth Reibstein and music therapist Sarah Newberry.
Slack sees parallels between the magic in the "Potter" books and expanding one's mind to come up with solutions in a creative way. One of his mottos is "Don't ignore the magic of being alive."
One of the group's projects has been to gather thousands of signatures for petitions in protest of the war in Darfur.
The alliance also helped hundreds to register to vote last year, according to Slack. Earlier this year, the Harry Potter Alliance conducted a book drive for children around the world, an effort led by "Potter" actress Evanna Lynch.
Slack said they raised over 13,000 books, 4,000 of which went to youths in Rwanda who were very young at the time of the Rwandan genocide.
Slack also sees parallels between Voldemort and world leaders who have supported genocidal policies.
"Potter" author J.K. Rowling has many times compared Voldemort to Adolf Hitler. On the other hand, Slack compares Potter's mentor Dumbledore to Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lennon.
This has led to the group's "What Would Dumbledore Do?" campaign.
The campaign takes Dumbledore's ethics and beliefs and translates them to the real world. For the midnight screenings of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," members were encouraged to wear buttons mentioning lessons that Dumbledore taught them.
When iReporters were offered the opportunity to ask a question of President Obama, Slack knew exactly what he wanted to ask about: Darfur. Slack thinks Obama's approach so far is "more than a disappointment. ...There's a great deal of hope for Darfur, if President Obama can move on that."
Rowling herself has praised the Harry Potter Alliance, one of Slack's proudest moments.
"It's incredible, it's humbling, and it's uplifting to see people going out there and doing that in the name of your character," she told Time magazine in 2007. "What did my books preach against throughout? Bigotry, violence, struggles for power, no matter what. All of these things are happening in Darfur. So they really couldn't have chosen a better cause."
Rowling has also written personally to Slack about his efforts.
Science fiction and fantasy aficionados have translated their fandom into real-world action for years. Recent examples: "Star Wars" fans put on a charity auction to benefit victims of the brushfires in Australia, and comic book fans such as "Crimson Fist" donned superhero costumes to help the needy.
Christopher "b!x" Frakonis came up with the idea of screening the sci-fi movie "Serenity" for charity as a way of keeping it on the big screen in 2006.
This year, 52 such "Can't Stop the Serenity" screenings are taking place around the world for charities such as the human rights organization Equality Now!, in response to a challenge by the film's director Joss Whedon.
Members of the Harry Potter Alliance, 4,500 of whom make up the most hardcore group, are inspired by what it has done.
"I know I would have loved to have had a group like this when I was a child or teenager, to support me and show that anything is possible if you put your mind to it," said 29-year-old Amanda Bolton, from Calgary, Alberta.
Bolton first learned about the group when it was mentioned on a fan podcast. She was intrigued by the similarities between the plot of the books and its application to real life as well. In the books, "muggle-borns and other intelligent nonhumans are discriminated against, treated like scum and forbidden from having equal rights," she said, adding that love was the main weapon used against the forces of evil.
Like Slack, Bolton condemns the "Muggle mindset," what members call an ignorance of or refusal to act on the important issues facing the world.
Some bloggers have criticized the group for taking their fandom too far or using young fans' love of Harry Potter to promote an agenda.
Slack denies that he has a partisan agenda. "I sort of took it as a compliment," he explained. At the same time, he hopes that at least some of their causes, such as promoting literacy, are things that all can agree on.
Alliance member Bobby Lang says that some within the group have occasionally raised questions about some of their projects. "There have been some interesting debates over whether or not Dumbledore would be an activist," he said, mentioning that some see Dumbledore as "teaching through living." Lang adds that such debates usually don't get too heated, since "we're all Harry Potter fans, we all have that in common."
Noth Lang and Bolton say they are more knowledgeable about world affairs because of the organization's connection to Harry Potter than they would be otherwise.
"There are issues I didn't know much about or hadn't thought about too deeply that I'm now involved in, like Darfur," Bolton said. "It has introduced me to new issues and new ideas."
Some Potter fans, under the leadership of Slack, have come together to bring the spirit of "Dumbledore's army" to life. Slack is the executive director of the Harry Potter Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging Potter fans in social activism.
Slack's group has taken on many issues over the past few years. "Because we're basing it on a modern myth, you can point to many issues at once," he said.
In the "Potter" books, "implications toward public policy are profound," Slack said.
Slack, a former sketch comedian with an interest in building social movements, came up with the idea in 2005 after reading Potter books to children at a Boys and Girls Club, something he said transformed him.
"I saw that the books weren't just empowering personally," he said. "I think the books speak to something that is very unique, because ["Potter" author] J.K. Rowling has been able to express a story about the importance of love."
Slack founded the group with his friends Paul and Joe DeGeorge, members of a "wizard rock" band called "Harry and the Potters," as well as comedian Seth Reibstein and music therapist Sarah Newberry.
Slack sees parallels between the magic in the "Potter" books and expanding one's mind to come up with solutions in a creative way. One of his mottos is "Don't ignore the magic of being alive."
One of the group's projects has been to gather thousands of signatures for petitions in protest of the war in Darfur.
The alliance also helped hundreds to register to vote last year, according to Slack. Earlier this year, the Harry Potter Alliance conducted a book drive for children around the world, an effort led by "Potter" actress Evanna Lynch.
Slack said they raised over 13,000 books, 4,000 of which went to youths in Rwanda who were very young at the time of the Rwandan genocide.
Slack also sees parallels between Voldemort and world leaders who have supported genocidal policies.
"Potter" author J.K. Rowling has many times compared Voldemort to Adolf Hitler. On the other hand, Slack compares Potter's mentor Dumbledore to Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lennon.
This has led to the group's "What Would Dumbledore Do?" campaign.
The campaign takes Dumbledore's ethics and beliefs and translates them to the real world. For the midnight screenings of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," members were encouraged to wear buttons mentioning lessons that Dumbledore taught them.
When iReporters were offered the opportunity to ask a question of President Obama, Slack knew exactly what he wanted to ask about: Darfur. Slack thinks Obama's approach so far is "more than a disappointment. ...There's a great deal of hope for Darfur, if President Obama can move on that."
Rowling herself has praised the Harry Potter Alliance, one of Slack's proudest moments.
"It's incredible, it's humbling, and it's uplifting to see people going out there and doing that in the name of your character," she told Time magazine in 2007. "What did my books preach against throughout? Bigotry, violence, struggles for power, no matter what. All of these things are happening in Darfur. So they really couldn't have chosen a better cause."
Rowling has also written personally to Slack about his efforts.
Science fiction and fantasy aficionados have translated their fandom into real-world action for years. Recent examples: "Star Wars" fans put on a charity auction to benefit victims of the brushfires in Australia, and comic book fans such as "Crimson Fist" donned superhero costumes to help the needy.
Christopher "b!x" Frakonis came up with the idea of screening the sci-fi movie "Serenity" for charity as a way of keeping it on the big screen in 2006.
This year, 52 such "Can't Stop the Serenity" screenings are taking place around the world for charities such as the human rights organization Equality Now!, in response to a challenge by the film's director Joss Whedon.
Members of the Harry Potter Alliance, 4,500 of whom make up the most hardcore group, are inspired by what it has done.
"I know I would have loved to have had a group like this when I was a child or teenager, to support me and show that anything is possible if you put your mind to it," said 29-year-old Amanda Bolton, from Calgary, Alberta.
Bolton first learned about the group when it was mentioned on a fan podcast. She was intrigued by the similarities between the plot of the books and its application to real life as well. In the books, "muggle-borns and other intelligent nonhumans are discriminated against, treated like scum and forbidden from having equal rights," she said, adding that love was the main weapon used against the forces of evil.
Like Slack, Bolton condemns the "Muggle mindset," what members call an ignorance of or refusal to act on the important issues facing the world.
Some bloggers have criticized the group for taking their fandom too far or using young fans' love of Harry Potter to promote an agenda.
Slack denies that he has a partisan agenda. "I sort of took it as a compliment," he explained. At the same time, he hopes that at least some of their causes, such as promoting literacy, are things that all can agree on.
Alliance member Bobby Lang says that some within the group have occasionally raised questions about some of their projects. "There have been some interesting debates over whether or not Dumbledore would be an activist," he said, mentioning that some see Dumbledore as "teaching through living." Lang adds that such debates usually don't get too heated, since "we're all Harry Potter fans, we all have that in common."
Noth Lang and Bolton say they are more knowledgeable about world affairs because of the organization's connection to Harry Potter than they would be otherwise.
"There are issues I didn't know much about or hadn't thought about too deeply that I'm now involved in, like Darfur," Bolton said. "It has introduced me to new issues and new ideas."
Friday, July 17, 2009
Us magazine posts video of Michael Jackson's hair on fire
And Michael Jackson's hair is still in video in 1984 during a Pepsi commercial shoot us online magazine caught fire Wednesday in the war.
Accident 25 years ago on stage in which Jackson's scalp is burnt, a prescription pain medication was held responsible for the artist's path.
Broadcast journalist of the magazine and did not comment on how the video has been told.
Dramatic photos show Jackson and yellow flames pyrotechnics black hair next to him, immediately above the epidemic explodes. Pop stars for about 10 seconds, the stage hands to her own skin to cover the fire extinguisher down the stairs before the rush keeps dancing.
A Bald spots know Jackson when he appears at the top of the head. But because the backroom brought sequined glove trade, Jackson even head carriage by hand. Views accident »to open
Miko Brando, son of actor Marlon Brando, and Jackson's close friend who first saw Jackson's success.
This video - usmagazine.com above - at the same time, business, and then down the stairs Jackson dance, it causes an explosion from the fireworks started takes a few seconds at the beginning of the shows have been aroused.
Business in Los Angeles' Shrine audience live audience January 27, 1984 before the film.
Jackson's Pepsi sponsorship near the height of popularity in their own part may unprecedented.
Jackson, in a video statement, published in 1993 talking about how the accident Painkiller Addiction To solve this problem of child rastlenyya table:
"You already know that in May, after my tour in the treatment of addiction Kim Pain Management remained outside the country ended. Drug first on my skin after the last re-operation was set for pain pain pain."
Weekly print edition of the magazine date "on the day he called at the beginning of the addiction.
Accident 25 years ago on stage in which Jackson's scalp is burnt, a prescription pain medication was held responsible for the artist's path.
Broadcast journalist of the magazine and did not comment on how the video has been told.
Dramatic photos show Jackson and yellow flames pyrotechnics black hair next to him, immediately above the epidemic explodes. Pop stars for about 10 seconds, the stage hands to her own skin to cover the fire extinguisher down the stairs before the rush keeps dancing.
A Bald spots know Jackson when he appears at the top of the head. But because the backroom brought sequined glove trade, Jackson even head carriage by hand. Views accident »to open
Miko Brando, son of actor Marlon Brando, and Jackson's close friend who first saw Jackson's success.
This video - usmagazine.com above - at the same time, business, and then down the stairs Jackson dance, it causes an explosion from the fireworks started takes a few seconds at the beginning of the shows have been aroused.
Business in Los Angeles' Shrine audience live audience January 27, 1984 before the film.
Jackson's Pepsi sponsorship near the height of popularity in their own part may unprecedented.
Jackson, in a video statement, published in 1993 talking about how the accident Painkiller Addiction To solve this problem of child rastlenyya table:
"You already know that in May, after my tour in the treatment of addiction Kim Pain Management remained outside the country ended. Drug first on my skin after the last re-operation was set for pain pain pain."
Weekly print edition of the magazine date "on the day he called at the beginning of the addiction.
Second person dies after Madonna stage collapse
A second person is deceased during the construction works for the Madonna concerts in Marseille, France, authorities said Friday.
The second fatality was a 32-year-old British citizen, the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a senior police officer said. It was not clear whether the person is a man or a woman, but the families had been informed, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A 53-year-old man was slain in French Saturday when a crane collapsed at the scene, a fire department spokesman in the southern French city said.
A third person was in critical condition, said Alexandre Lanzalavi, a spokesman for Marseille hospital. Two other people were in hospital and required surgery, and seven others treated and released Lanzalavi said.
Madonna on Thursday was "destroyed" to hear about the death.
"My prayers go to those injured and their families, along with my deepest sympathy for all those affected by this heartbreaking news," Madonna said in a statement issued by her representative, Liz Rosenberg.
At least a Madonna show was canceled, CNN said Rosenberg.
The accident happened when a crane collapsed while lifting a large metal - a structure in which hang the lights - in the situation, Lt. Thierry Delorme by the French navy told CNN. In Marseille, the fire is part of the Navy.
An investigation is the cause of the collapse, he said.
Some 27 fire trucks and 80 firefighters to the emergency when the accident happened around 5:15 pm (11:15 ET clock).
Madonna was the first of five concerts for her "Sticky and Sweet" tour in the 60,000-seat Stade Velodrome on Sunday.
The second fatality was a 32-year-old British citizen, the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a senior police officer said. It was not clear whether the person is a man or a woman, but the families had been informed, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A 53-year-old man was slain in French Saturday when a crane collapsed at the scene, a fire department spokesman in the southern French city said.
A third person was in critical condition, said Alexandre Lanzalavi, a spokesman for Marseille hospital. Two other people were in hospital and required surgery, and seven others treated and released Lanzalavi said.
Madonna on Thursday was "destroyed" to hear about the death.
"My prayers go to those injured and their families, along with my deepest sympathy for all those affected by this heartbreaking news," Madonna said in a statement issued by her representative, Liz Rosenberg.
At least a Madonna show was canceled, CNN said Rosenberg.
The accident happened when a crane collapsed while lifting a large metal - a structure in which hang the lights - in the situation, Lt. Thierry Delorme by the French navy told CNN. In Marseille, the fire is part of the Navy.
An investigation is the cause of the collapse, he said.
Some 27 fire trucks and 80 firefighters to the emergency when the accident happened around 5:15 pm (11:15 ET clock).
Madonna was the first of five concerts for her "Sticky and Sweet" tour in the 60,000-seat Stade Velodrome on Sunday.
Will new Michael Jackson music be released?
Michael Jackson's songs and the days and weeks at the top of the album chart with his death - and maybe more people do not overdose rumors hit songs to find their way to the public.
Rumors of the unpublished material, so the king of the mountains for the last papgwa surface with his death. Is Akon and will.i.am, as well as singers such as death in the 1980s, built back in the session tracking condo.
Jackson, the recording of their session - the time Mottola, Sony Music CEO Tom is known to us, including the Grammy Magazine (Sony late'70s Jackson in the company's Epic label. Ownership and most of Sony's Jackson song The "Jackson" pointed out the flag and distribution rights in the recording studio), his most famous album "dozens," a new album of various types. Fruition.
Let's "In the end, 12 or 13 song album called Michael is singing 15, 20 or 30 later" Mottola time said, "It may be that he can go to the album was all recorded pre-owned - date [Sony] can do Motown is to him. "
He also have some material for high Mottola - Jackson's success can download some idea of "best work".
Has been the creation of new material in addition to material in the record, Jackson said.
King, a pop-up recently will.i.am, is more work - yowaipnida Akon - Who Jackson "and the Remix of Senegal since the wrapper is" a new song, "Take my hand," I want to have been leaked to the Internet in 2008.
"We work very concept is" Akon after Jackson's death, "a song made all the ideas that the board tell me; they do not complete the song. He lay down all ideas, is a type of [first]."
Brian May, lead guitarist of Queen, Freddie Mercury, and Jackson, with his use of the website to mid'80s was Jackson's home, the two tracks. (Mercury, died in 1991.)
"Freddy, Freddy, Michael and save time with Amusingly, we are trying to cope with the bad that has happened, said the name Michael is a great album ..." written in five. "After a moment, Freddy, he smiles a little evil. Conspiracy. Smile and say ... 'We think the name of the album perfect for - but you love or hate ... I think about it, we call it .... . wait can call the D! ' "
May this track, "Even though I have not seen the light of day, said the intent of the music created on YouTube.
"" But not a clear answer to steal the music of music can actually respond Mercury - Jackson. Full cooperation.
"So this is good to talk about''leak tracking, but I now," written, do not go in May.
100 songs for children, some reports his biographer Ian Halperin Jackson is the heritage of the individual is classified library. Jackson's most recent video project, there's a "project, the Dome," and believe speculation about a possible cemetery. Similar to a "Thriller."
Jackson, before the material is not even his death, "CNN's on pretty much everything I can to get David Michael Frank Jackson is the most typical work is the album, including the rumor that the second album does not account."
If they sell the latest to jump at the chance to leave indiciation music ahneunnom What will I learn more about that song, but it has emerged.
Last two weeks more than half since the death of Jackson, Jackson, 2,300,000 are being sold by the album in Nielsen Sound Scan.
Jackson is quite successful in the first post-mortem will not find music.
Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, unfinished tracks, demos, outtakes, and some of the album was complete. Tupac Shakur, verses and freestyles in the form of the song after the death of their competition for the airwaves notorious big hug button, adding the double-bounce reimagined
And, of course, after his death, Elvis Presley musicals. Music 1968 cut "is a little less conversation remix version of" Elvis Presley's 1977 death, after 25 years, No. 1 in the British media in 2002.
But the most original music, Jackson won the battle of kings can be Mottola 12 Jackson, most comprehensive collection of music associated with the release of the media can call me. "The years, even more than Elvis.".
Rumors of the unpublished material, so the king of the mountains for the last papgwa surface with his death. Is Akon and will.i.am, as well as singers such as death in the 1980s, built back in the session tracking condo.
Jackson, the recording of their session - the time Mottola, Sony Music CEO Tom is known to us, including the Grammy Magazine (Sony late'70s Jackson in the company's Epic label. Ownership and most of Sony's Jackson song The "Jackson" pointed out the flag and distribution rights in the recording studio), his most famous album "dozens," a new album of various types. Fruition.
Let's "In the end, 12 or 13 song album called Michael is singing 15, 20 or 30 later" Mottola time said, "It may be that he can go to the album was all recorded pre-owned - date [Sony] can do Motown is to him. "
He also have some material for high Mottola - Jackson's success can download some idea of "best work".
Has been the creation of new material in addition to material in the record, Jackson said.
King, a pop-up recently will.i.am, is more work - yowaipnida Akon - Who Jackson "and the Remix of Senegal since the wrapper is" a new song, "Take my hand," I want to have been leaked to the Internet in 2008.
"We work very concept is" Akon after Jackson's death, "a song made all the ideas that the board tell me; they do not complete the song. He lay down all ideas, is a type of [first]."
Brian May, lead guitarist of Queen, Freddie Mercury, and Jackson, with his use of the website to mid'80s was Jackson's home, the two tracks. (Mercury, died in 1991.)
"Freddy, Freddy, Michael and save time with Amusingly, we are trying to cope with the bad that has happened, said the name Michael is a great album ..." written in five. "After a moment, Freddy, he smiles a little evil. Conspiracy. Smile and say ... 'We think the name of the album perfect for - but you love or hate ... I think about it, we call it .... . wait can call the D! ' "
May this track, "Even though I have not seen the light of day, said the intent of the music created on YouTube.
"" But not a clear answer to steal the music of music can actually respond Mercury - Jackson. Full cooperation.
"So this is good to talk about''leak tracking, but I now," written, do not go in May.
100 songs for children, some reports his biographer Ian Halperin Jackson is the heritage of the individual is classified library. Jackson's most recent video project, there's a "project, the Dome," and believe speculation about a possible cemetery. Similar to a "Thriller."
Jackson, before the material is not even his death, "CNN's on pretty much everything I can to get David Michael Frank Jackson is the most typical work is the album, including the rumor that the second album does not account."
If they sell the latest to jump at the chance to leave indiciation music ahneunnom What will I learn more about that song, but it has emerged.
Last two weeks more than half since the death of Jackson, Jackson, 2,300,000 are being sold by the album in Nielsen Sound Scan.
Jackson is quite successful in the first post-mortem will not find music.
Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, unfinished tracks, demos, outtakes, and some of the album was complete. Tupac Shakur, verses and freestyles in the form of the song after the death of their competition for the airwaves notorious big hug button, adding the double-bounce reimagined
And, of course, after his death, Elvis Presley musicals. Music 1968 cut "is a little less conversation remix version of" Elvis Presley's 1977 death, after 25 years, No. 1 in the British media in 2002.
But the most original music, Jackson won the battle of kings can be Mottola 12 Jackson, most comprehensive collection of music associated with the release of the media can call me. "The years, even more than Elvis.".
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