1. TimelinessThe student mountain climber story is an exciting achievement, especially since she's the first woman to do it, but if it hadn't happened August 29th we wouldn't still be publishing stories about it."Columbia student becomes first woman to free climb "murder wall" in Swiss Alps"http://college.usatoday.com/2015/09/04/sasha-digiulian-murder-wall-swiss-alps/ "Pick your classes. Stock up on study snacks. Buy a shower caddy. These are just a few things the average college student might do the week before the semester begins.But if you’re Sasha DiGiulian, you’re gearing up for the school year by setting some serious records.On Aug 29, the 22-year-old professional rock climber became the first woman to free climb the perilous Magic Mushroom route up the North Face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps. She and her climbing partner, Carlo Traversi, were the first American team to make the ascent.“There were definitely points on the climb where I would feel almost paralyzed by fear,” she says. “It hit me in waves, realizing the extent of the danger that the Eiger actually has to climbing it.”Although she and Traversi arrived in Switzerland Aug 1, they didn’t summit until the Aug. 29, largely due to inclement weather conditions. Storms can roll in unexpectedly on the Eiger, she says, which increases the danger of rock fall.“And when they’re large chunks of rock, no helmet is going to protect you,” DiGiulian says.In addition to the threats of dangerous weather and falling rocks, DiGiulian says she also had to overcome the pure physical exhaustion that comes along with a challenge like the Eiger.“On Saturday morning before reaching the summit and completing the climb, I felt like I couldn’t even open my hands, they were so tired,” she says. “It’s a lot of suffering, and a lot of convincing yourself that you can do something when there’s a lot of uncertainty and doubt.”When she’s not scaling cliffs, DiGiulian is a senior at Columbia University. She says she tries to split her time between her school and her sport.“I have a nontraditional approach to school, in that I live off-campus in my own apartment and travel every weekend,” she explains. (Living off-campus is rare at Columbia, where nearly all undergraduates live in university housing all four years.) “When I’m traveling, I’m doing school work on the plane.”DiGiulian schedules her classes for three days each week, and then spends Thursday through Monday traveling — on a climbing trip, at a speaking engagement or attending an event for her sponsors, which include Red Bull and Adidas Outdoor. When asked about her weekend plans, she tosses around the names of cities she’s planning to visit might the way most students toss around restaurant ideas.“I’m probably leaving for LA tomorrow to go climb Mount Whitney,” she says nonchalantly. She should be back just in time for the start of class this Tuesday.Despite her hectic schedule, DiGiulian balances her school life and professional life with the same precision with which she scales mountains — and she has genuine passion for both pursuits.“School was something I was brought up to value,” she says simply.And when she talks about her recent summit, her voice gets soft and dreamy.“Up on the Eiger you’re living in your own little world. You look around, and you see a sublime landscape of mountain ridges and snow-capped peaks,” she sighs. “It’s beautiful.”
2. ProximityIt is no longer against the law to skip school in Texas. Instead of a misdemeanor, its not considered a civil matter. This law doesn't affect any other state, so it's a case of proximity.*Found in Austin American Statesmanhttp://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/AustinAmericanStatesmanNIE/
3. ProminenceI think the article is prominent because it was a big deal when Kim Davis refused to acknowledge the Supreme Court ruling, and now there's a happy ending to the story."With Kentucky clerk in jail, gay couples receive marriage licenses"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/09/04/rowan-county-ky-clerk-marriage-licenses/71692046/MOREHEAD, Ky. — Same-sex couples began receiving marriage licenses Friday in Rowan County, Ky., a day after the county clerk was sent to jail for refusing to issue the licenses.At least three couples received licenses Friday.William Smith and James Yates were the first same-sex couple to obtain a license from Deputy Clerk Brian Mason on Friday morning.Yates and Smith had an emotional embrace at the counter as soon as the clerk handed them a license. They shared the same a few moments later with Yates' parents outside, where supporters chanted "love has won."The couple said they were elated and overwhelmed to obtain their license, a day after Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses after the Supreme Court order allowing gay marriage.Yates said no one wanted Davis in jail, they just wanted her to provide the paperwork, and the couple didn't expect to be first in line Friday."This means, at least for this area, that civil rights are civil rights," he said. "We're very happy."A second couple, Tim Long and Michael Long, also received a marriage license Friday.The Longs said they had a commitment ceremony in 2008, and Michael Long had his name changed. But they wanted to be legally married in their home county, and after being denied once, they held up their license to reporters before heading back to work."We feel like we are accepted, like everyone else," Tim Long said, calling the day "very significant" for equal rights.It was the sixth time that Yates and Smith had sought a license. Yates said they already have two dates in mind for a wedding at a family home.Rowan County issued a little more than 200 marriage licenses last year, roughly two every three workdays.Tim Long, 51, said he is torn over Davis and feels sorry that she is in jail, "but she done it to herself." He said it's sad that couples have to battle so much spite to get basic rights.For April Miller and Karen Roberts, another couple who received a marriage license in Rowan County, they understood the enormity of the moment."We know this is bigger than just us," said Miller in an interview. "We have a handful of clerks around the country who are not listening to what the law is."Miller, a 54-year-old Morehead State University education professor and Roberts, a teacher, said they'd been together 11 years before joining the lawsuit to force Davis to issue the license.Signing the forms as cameras clicked, Miller said, "Oh my gosh, I'm so excited." Miller said they plan to marry in a small ceremony.They said they did not view themselves as heroes and were not feeling triumphant over Davis, who was jailed Thursday."We should have been able to get this the first day we walked in," Miller said. "This is about the rights of everyone."Earlier Friday, Davis' husband, Joe, said she was in good spirits and is prepared to remain in jail for months.Outside the RowanCounty Courthouse , Joe Davis called U.S. District Judge David Bunning a bully for jailing his wife Thursday for contempt of court."She won't resign I promise you," he said. "Until something gives, she'll be there."Media outlets from across the country had descended on the courthouse early, surrounding Yates and Smith with cameras and questions. The couple was clearly feeling smothered as they tried to hurry out of the spotlight.Dozens of demonstrators were gathered on each side of the courthouse, waving signs and shouting at each other.Protesters for LGBT rights sang Amazing Grace. Preachers on the other side shouted sermons about immorality and Sodom and Gomorrah.Outside the courthouse Jerry Calvert, a Morehead, Ky., resident said, "It's a good day. It's about everybody being OK, living together."Opponents were also outside the courthouse, waving signs that among other things called the Supreme Court decision that allows gay marriage "illegal."Marsha Moors-Charles, pastor of Bluegrass United Church of Christ, stood with gay-rights supporters and said she was willing to perform marriages if any couples asked. Across the walkway, other ministers shouted damnation.While new civil rights laws are often slow to be accepted by some, she said, the "onslaught of bigotry and prejudice" that has followed the Supreme Court ruling has been "heartbreaking."Penny Stinnett, who was protesting the licenses outside, accused the deputy clerks of backing down and selling "out their salvation" even though Davis has been dedicated to her employees."I think it's sad," she said. "I think everybody in that office should have stood behind Kim Davis."Davis' supporters said a rally is planned at 11 a.m. Saturday outside the Carter County jail, where she is being held. The Liberty Counsel, which has represented her, said it plans a news conference outside the jail at 2:30 p.m. Friday.Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and his son Andy, who is running for attorney general, are targets of their ire, and they are demanding a special session and no votes for the younger Beshear in November.Joe Davis said he has no hard feelings against the five deputy clerks who agreed to issue marriage licenses despite his wife's adamant refusal to authorize the forms.Issuing licenses could pave the way for Kim Davis' release from federal custody, though the judge seems cautious about letting her out too soon.Joe Davis said he doesn't respect or fear Bunning, and he laid blame with Beshear, who has declined to call a special session to rewrite state law on marriage certificates."You ain't no governor because you have no backbone," he said.Joe Davis said he spoke with his wife Thursday night on the phone and the family plans to continue fighting. He said he plans to go to Frankfort next week to confront Beshear.But Davis also said he wouldn't stand in the way of any licenses Friday."We don't want no violence at all," he said. "And we don't hate these people. That's the farthest thing from our hearts."Rowan County Sheriff J.M. Sparks said about 10 officers were patrolling the grounds. Although emotions were high on both sides, he said there had been no arrests related to the protests as of 10 a.m.
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6. Human Interest The story about the Syrian family who lost two kids and the mother while trying to migrate to Greece from Turkey is a human interest story because it makes people think about their own families as well as the tragedies taking place overseas. "Image of drowned Syrian,Aylan Kurdi, 3, Brings Migration Crisis Into Focus"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/world/europe/syria-boy-drowning.html?ref=world "The smugglers had promised Abdullah Kurdi a motorboat for the trip from Turkey to Greece, a step on the way to a new life in Canada. Instead, they showed up with a 15-foot rubber raft that flipped in high waves, dumping Mr. Kurdi, his wife and their two small sons into the sea.Mr. Kurdi tried to keep the boys, Aylan and Ghalib, afloat, but one died as he pushed the other to his wife, Rehan, pleading, “Just keep his head above the water!”Only Mr. Kurdi, 40, survived.“Now I don’t want anything,” he said a day later, on Thursday, from Mugla, Turkey, after filling out forms at a morgue to claim the bodies of his family. “Even if you give me all the countries in the world, I don’t want them. What was precious is gone.”It is an image of his youngest son, a lifeless child in a red shirt and dark shorts face down on a Turkish beach, that appears to have galvanized public attention to a crisis that has been building for years. Once again, it is not the sheer size of the catastrophe — millions upon millions forced by war and desperation to leave their homes — but a single tragedy that has clarified the moment. It was 3-year-old Aylan, his round cheek pressed to the sand as if he were sleeping, except for the waves lapping his face.Rocketing across the world on social media, the photograph has forced Western nations to confront the consequence of a collective failure to help migrants fleeing the Middle East and Africa to Europe in search of hope, opportunity and safety. Aylan, perhaps more even than the anonymous, decomposing corpses found in the back of a truck in Austria that shocked Europe last week, has personalized the tragedy facing the 11 million Syrians displaced by more than four years of war.The case of this young boy’s doomed journey has landed as a political bombshell across the Middle East and Europe, and even countries as far away as Canada, which has up to now not been a prominent player in the Syria crisis. Canadian officials were under intense pressure to explain why the Kurdi family was unable to get permission to immigrate legally, despite having relatives there who were willing to support and employ them. So far, the government has only cited incomplete documents, an explanation that has done little to quiet the outrage at home and abroad.Mr. Kurdi, a Syrian Kurdish barber, and his brother Mohammad wanted to immigrate under the sponsorship of their sister, Tima Kurdi, 43, who lives in a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia. She had invited Mr. Kurdi to live in her basement with his family and work in her hair salon.“They can work with me, doing hair, I can find them a job, and then when they are financially O.K., they can move out and be their own,” she said by phone on Thursday.Mr. Kurdi, too, said his sister had told Canadian authorities that she would be “responsible for our expenses,” but that “they didn’t agree.”In fact, Ms. Kurdi said, she had applied at first only for Mohammad’s family, teaming up with friends and relatives to make bank deposits to prove she could support the family.But in June, she said, Mohammad’s application was rejected for lack of a required document proving he had refugee status. But under Turkish refugee policies, such documents are nearly impossible for Syrians to come by. In any case, the experience persuaded the family that neither brother would ever get a Canadian visa.That, Ms. Kurdi said, was when she offered to help her brothers finance the boat trip — something, she said through tears, “I really regret.”Now, she said, “All what I really need is to stop the war. That’s all. I think the whole world has to step in and help those Syrian people. They are human beings.”Aylan was named after a cousin, Ms. Kurdi’s son Alan, she said. She had never met Aylan or his brother Ghalib, 5, but saw and talked to them often on video chat. Aylan’s father grew up in Damascus, the Syrian capital, in the neighborhood of Rukineddine, but was originally from the Kurdish city of Kobani near the Turkish border. A year or so ago, he said in a telephone interview, he moved his family to Kobani because of increasing strains in Damascus. But he said it was not safe there either, with the Islamic State increasingly attacking the area.The family eventually moved to Istanbul, but it was difficult for Mr. Kurdi to support himself, and he had to borrow money from his sister for rent.Ms. Kurdi turned to her local member of Parliament, Fin Donnelly, who hand-delivered a letter appealing for help to Chris Alexander, the citizenship and immigration minister.“We waited and waited, and we didn’t have any action,” he said.In Canada, a country that has long prided itself on openness to refugees but has shifted that policy under a conservative government, this amounts to a campaign issue; Mr. Alexander had promised to admit 10,000 refugees from Syria, just over 1,000 had arrived by late August, and opposition parties like Mr. Donnelly’s say more should be welcomed. On Thursday, Mr. Alexander rushed back from the campaign trail to Ottawa, the capital, to deal with the family’s case, declaring that it “broke hearts around the world.”Mr. Kurdi said he tried several times to cross to Europe on his own. He almost drowned trying to cross the river at Edirne, in Turkey, he said, “and once from the borders with Bulgaria and I got caught and sent back.”Then he paid 4,000 euros, about $4,450, for the sea crossing — paying extra supposedly to avoid using a rubber raft.“Of course we were afraid of drowning,” he said, “but the Turkish smuggler said it was going to be a yacht.”Mr. Kurdi said the family had life jackets that were lost in the accident, but a senior Turkish security official said they were unavailable.Choking back emotion as he spoke, Mr. Kurdi described how he had flailed about while trying to find his children as his wife held on to the capsized boat.“I started pushing them up to the surface so they could breathe,” he said. “I had to shift from one to another. I think we were in the water for three hours trying to survive.”He watched helplessly as one exhausted child drowned, spitting up a white liquid, he said, then pushed the other toward the mother, “so he could at least keep his head up.”Mr. Kurdi then apologized, saying he could no longer speak, and ended the conversation with one parting message.“What I really want now is for the smuggling to stop, and to find a solution for those people who are paying the blood of their hearts just to leave,” he said.“Yesterday I went to one of the smuggling points and told people trying to get smuggled at least not to take their kids on these boats. I told them my story, and some of them changed their minds."
7. NoveltyIt's not everyday you see toy car transportation! This is definitely a novelty story."Texas State student uses Barbie jeep to get around after DWI"http://college.usatoday.com/2015/09/03/texas-state-barbie-jeep-dwi/
"Anybody running her name through a search engine long enough will find the peculiar pictures of her rolling around Texas State University in a small, pink, plastic car better known as a Barbie jeep.“That’s Tara,” said her father. “Always got a little drama going on.”The story behind Tara Monroe’s peculiar form of transportation traces back to a recent arrest for allegedly driving while intoxicated. When her dad found out what happened, he didn’t hesitate.“I went and put my bike rack on my jeep and proceeded to drive to San Marcos,” Monte Monroe said. “And I told her, ‘The jeep’s mine. Here’s your bike. This is your new form of transportation.’”His daughter was upset and remorseful, he said, but she also wasn’t very happy about riding a bike around campus. So she went on Craigslist and bought a battery powered Barbie jeep.“I figured I’d hear back from her,” her father said. “Well, I did hear back from her. She said, ‘Dad, I got a Barbie jeep.’ And she sent me a picture of her in the jeep.”A caption on the photo said, “My dad took my car away because I got in trouble and so I went out and bought my first car.”“She’s a diva,” said her sister, Taylor. “She doesn’t walk. She doesn’t sweat. She’s not going to ride a bike. She’s got to get somewhere, she’s going to figure out how she’s going to get there. She’s stubborn.”Taylor figures Tara came up with the Barbie Jeep idea because they used to ride a toy car around Kingwood when they were girls.“I was in ninth grade, she was in eighth grade,” Taylor recalled. “We’d do that all the time. We went through Starbucks drive throughs. The baristas there got a real kick out of that.”Since Tara Monroe bought her Barbie Jeep, photos and videos of her tooling around San Marcos in her toy car have popped up on the Internet. Now she’s getting phone calls from reporters and, frankly, she’s a little frazzled by all the attention. (On Thursday, she declined an on-camera interview.) “I don’t think she anticipated the publicity that would come from it,” her father said. “But I’ve told her, I said, ‘Use this to be an example for other people not to make the same mistake so they won’t be where you are.’”He hopes other students seeing her riding around campus in her toy car will take it as a warning about the consequences of drinking and driving.“She is paying and continues paying the penalties for her actions,” he said. “I want her and everyone else – all the kids in college that get out there and do this type of thing — to learn from it and not do it.”The way her dad’s talking, she may end up driving her toy car for a long time to come.“I don’t have any plans for her to drive for a very, very long time,” he said."
2. ProximityIt is no longer against the law to skip school in Texas. Instead of a misdemeanor, its not considered a civil matter. This law doesn't affect any other state, so it's a case of proximity.*Found in Austin American Statesmanhttp://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/AustinAmericanStatesmanNIE/
3. ProminenceI think the article is prominent because it was a big deal when Kim Davis refused to acknowledge the Supreme Court ruling, and now there's a happy ending to the story."With Kentucky clerk in jail, gay couples receive marriage licenses"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/09/04/rowan-county-ky-clerk-marriage-licenses/71692046/MOREHEAD, Ky. — Same-sex couples began receiving marriage licenses Friday in Rowan County, Ky., a day after the county clerk was sent to jail for refusing to issue the licenses.At least three couples received licenses Friday.William Smith and James Yates were the first same-sex couple to obtain a license from Deputy Clerk Brian Mason on Friday morning.Yates and Smith had an emotional embrace at the counter as soon as the clerk handed them a license. They shared the same a few moments later with Yates' parents outside, where supporters chanted "love has won."The couple said they were elated and overwhelmed to obtain their license, a day after Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses after the Supreme Court order allowing gay marriage.Yates said no one wanted Davis in jail, they just wanted her to provide the paperwork, and the couple didn't expect to be first in line Friday."This means, at least for this area, that civil rights are civil rights," he said. "We're very happy."A second couple, Tim Long and Michael Long, also received a marriage license Friday.The Longs said they had a commitment ceremony in 2008, and Michael Long had his name changed. But they wanted to be legally married in their home county, and after being denied once, they held up their license to reporters before heading back to work."We feel like we are accepted, like everyone else," Tim Long said, calling the day "very significant" for equal rights.It was the sixth time that Yates and Smith had sought a license. Yates said they already have two dates in mind for a wedding at a family home.Rowan County issued a little more than 200 marriage licenses last year, roughly two every three workdays.Tim Long, 51, said he is torn over Davis and feels sorry that she is in jail, "but she done it to herself." He said it's sad that couples have to battle so much spite to get basic rights.For April Miller and Karen Roberts, another couple who received a marriage license in Rowan County, they understood the enormity of the moment."We know this is bigger than just us," said Miller in an interview. "We have a handful of clerks around the country who are not listening to what the law is."Miller, a 54-year-old Morehead State University education professor and Roberts, a teacher, said they'd been together 11 years before joining the lawsuit to force Davis to issue the license.Signing the forms as cameras clicked, Miller said, "Oh my gosh, I'm so excited." Miller said they plan to marry in a small ceremony.They said they did not view themselves as heroes and were not feeling triumphant over Davis, who was jailed Thursday."We should have been able to get this the first day we walked in," Miller said. "This is about the rights of everyone."Earlier Friday, Davis' husband, Joe, said she was in good spirits and is prepared to remain in jail for months.Outside the Rowan
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6. Human Interest The story about the Syrian family who lost two kids and the mother while trying to migrate to Greece from Turkey is a human interest story because it makes people think about their own families as well as the tragedies taking place overseas. "Image of drowned Syrian,Aylan Kurdi, 3, Brings Migration Crisis Into Focus"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/world/europe/syria-boy-drowning.html?ref=world "The smugglers had promised Abdullah Kurdi a motorboat for the trip from Turkey to Greece, a step on the way to a new life in Canada. Instead, they showed up with a 15-foot rubber raft that flipped in high waves, dumping Mr. Kurdi, his wife and their two small sons into the sea.Mr. Kurdi tried to keep the boys, Aylan and Ghalib, afloat, but one died as he pushed the other to his wife, Rehan, pleading, “Just keep his head above the water!”Only Mr. Kurdi, 40, survived.“Now I don’t want anything,” he said a day later, on Thursday, from Mugla, Turkey, after filling out forms at a morgue to claim the bodies of his family. “Even if you give me all the countries in the world, I don’t want them. What was precious is gone.”It is an image of his youngest son, a lifeless child in a red shirt and dark shorts face down on a Turkish beach, that appears to have galvanized public attention to a crisis that has been building for years. Once again, it is not the sheer size of the catastrophe — millions upon millions forced by war and desperation to leave their homes — but a single tragedy that has clarified the moment. It was 3-year-old Aylan, his round cheek pressed to the sand as if he were sleeping, except for the waves lapping his face.Rocketing across the world on social media, the photograph has forced Western nations to confront the consequence of a collective failure to help migrants fleeing the Middle East and Africa to Europe in search of hope, opportunity and safety. Aylan, perhaps more even than the anonymous, decomposing corpses found in the back of a truck in Austria that shocked Europe last week, has personalized the tragedy facing the 11 million Syrians displaced by more than four years of war.The case of this young boy’s doomed journey has landed as a political bombshell across the Middle East and Europe, and even countries as far away as Canada, which has up to now not been a prominent player in the Syria crisis. Canadian officials were under intense pressure to explain why the Kurdi family was unable to get permission to immigrate legally, despite having relatives there who were willing to support and employ them. So far, the government has only cited incomplete documents, an explanation that has done little to quiet the outrage at home and abroad.Mr. Kurdi, a Syrian Kurdish barber, and his brother Mohammad wanted to immigrate under the sponsorship of their sister, Tima Kurdi, 43, who lives in a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia. She had invited Mr. Kurdi to live in her basement with his family and work in her hair salon.“They can work with me, doing hair, I can find them a job, and then when they are financially O.K., they can move out and be their own,” she said by phone on Thursday.Mr. Kurdi, too, said his sister had told Canadian authorities that she would be “responsible for our expenses,” but that “they didn’t agree.”In fact, Ms. Kurdi said, she had applied at first only for Mohammad’s family, teaming up with friends and relatives to make bank deposits to prove she could support the family.But in June, she said, Mohammad’s application was rejected for lack of a required document proving he had refugee status. But under Turkish refugee policies, such documents are nearly impossible for Syrians to come by. In any case, the experience persuaded the family that neither brother would ever get a Canadian visa.That, Ms. Kurdi said, was when she offered to help her brothers finance the boat trip — something, she said through tears, “I really regret.”Now, she said, “All what I really need is to stop the war. That’s all. I think the whole world has to step in and help those Syrian people. They are human beings.”Aylan was named after a cousin, Ms. Kurdi’s son Alan, she said. She had never met Aylan or his brother Ghalib, 5, but saw and talked to them often on video chat. Aylan’s father grew up in Damascus, the Syrian capital, in the neighborhood of Rukineddine, but was originally from the Kurdish city of Kobani near the Turkish border. A year or so ago, he said in a telephone interview, he moved his family to Kobani because of increasing strains in Damascus. But he said it was not safe there either, with the Islamic State increasingly attacking the area.The family eventually moved to Istanbul, but it was difficult for Mr. Kurdi to support himself, and he had to borrow money from his sister for rent.Ms. Kurdi turned to her local member of Parliament, Fin Donnelly, who hand-delivered a letter appealing for help to Chris Alexander, the citizenship and immigration minister.“We waited and waited, and we didn’t have any action,” he said.In Canada, a country that has long prided itself on openness to refugees but has shifted that policy under a conservative government, this amounts to a campaign issue; Mr. Alexander had promised to admit 10,000 refugees from Syria, just over 1,000 had arrived by late August, and opposition parties like Mr. Donnelly’s say more should be welcomed. On Thursday, Mr. Alexander rushed back from the campaign trail to Ottawa, the capital, to deal with the family’s case, declaring that it “broke hearts around the world.”Mr. Kurdi said he tried several times to cross to Europe on his own. He almost drowned trying to cross the river at Edirne, in Turkey, he said, “and once from the borders with Bulgaria and I got caught and sent back.”Then he paid 4,000 euros, about $4,450, for the sea crossing — paying extra supposedly to avoid using a rubber raft.“Of course we were afraid of drowning,” he said, “but the Turkish smuggler said it was going to be a yacht.”Mr. Kurdi said the family had life jackets that were lost in the accident, but a senior Turkish security official said they were unavailable.Choking back emotion as he spoke, Mr. Kurdi described how he had flailed about while trying to find his children as his wife held on to the capsized boat.“I started pushing them up to the surface so they could breathe,” he said. “I had to shift from one to another. I think we were in the water for three hours trying to survive.”He watched helplessly as one exhausted child drowned, spitting up a white liquid, he said, then pushed the other toward the mother, “so he could at least keep his head up.”Mr. Kurdi then apologized, saying he could no longer speak, and ended the conversation with one parting message.“What I really want now is for the smuggling to stop, and to find a solution for those people who are paying the blood of their hearts just to leave,” he said.“Yesterday I went to one of the smuggling points and told people trying to get smuggled at least not to take their kids on these boats. I told them my story, and some of them changed their minds."
7. NoveltyIt's not everyday you see toy car transportation! This is definitely a novelty story."Texas State student uses Barbie jeep to get around after DWI"http://college.usatoday.com/2015/09/03/texas-state-barbie-jeep-dwi/
"Anybody running her name through a search engine long enough will find the peculiar pictures of her rolling around Texas State University in a small, pink, plastic car better known as a Barbie jeep.“That’s Tara,” said her father. “Always got a little drama going on.”The story behind Tara Monroe’s peculiar form of transportation traces back to a recent arrest for allegedly driving while intoxicated. When her dad found out what happened, he didn’t hesitate.“I went and put my bike rack on my jeep and proceeded to drive to San Marcos,” Monte Monroe said. “And I told her, ‘The jeep’s mine. Here’s your bike. This is your new form of transportation.’”His daughter was upset and remorseful, he said, but she also wasn’t very happy about riding a bike around campus. So she went on Craigslist and bought a battery powered Barbie jeep.“I figured I’d hear back from her,” her father said. “Well, I did hear back from her. She said, ‘Dad, I got a Barbie jeep.’ And she sent me a picture of her in the jeep.”A caption on the photo said, “My dad took my car away because I got in trouble and so I went out and bought my first car.”“She’s a diva,” said her sister, Taylor. “She doesn’t walk. She doesn’t sweat. She’s not going to ride a bike. She’s got to get somewhere, she’s going to figure out how she’s going to get there. She’s stubborn.”Taylor figures Tara came up with the Barbie Jeep idea because they used to ride a toy car around Kingwood when they were girls.“I was in ninth grade, she was in eighth grade,” Taylor recalled. “We’d do that all the time. We went through Starbucks drive throughs. The baristas there got a real kick out of that.”Since Tara Monroe bought her Barbie Jeep, photos and videos of her tooling around San Marcos in her toy car have popped up on the Internet. Now she’s getting phone calls from reporters and, frankly, she’s a little frazzled by all the attention. (On Thursday, she declined an on-camera interview.) “I don’t think she anticipated the publicity that would come from it,” her father said. “But I’ve told her, I said, ‘Use this to be an example for other people not to make the same mistake so they won’t be where you are.’”He hopes other students seeing her riding around campus in her toy car will take it as a warning about the consequences of drinking and driving.“She is paying and continues paying the penalties for her actions,” he said. “I want her and everyone else – all the kids in college that get out there and do this type of thing — to learn from it and not do it.”The way her dad’s talking, she may end up driving her toy car for a long time to come.“I don’t have any plans for her to drive for a very, very long time,” he said."
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