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The retailer issued an apology for the comments after being inundated with messages from angry customers.
UK-based charity, Rethink Mental Illness (RMI), said the remarks were "deeply offensive and insensitive".
"It's disappointing that Joy is selling a product that trivialises mental illness in such a flippant way … but its subsequent remarks on Twitter were even worse," said RMI CEO Mark Winstanley.
"Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness which affects around 1% of the population, and it can be very difficult to live with.
"The last thing people who have the condition need is a company like Joy making fun of it in such an obnoxious and aggressive way.
"There is already so much stigma around mental illness, and comments like this just make things worse."
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It came after Ed Balls, the shadow Chancellor, said he was prepared to do "whatever it takes" to save the NHS, raising the prospect of using tax hikes to fund the health service.
Mr Miliband is also expected to say he will use billions raised from re-introducing the 50p top rate of income tax to help reduce waiting times and increase access to GPs.
In his keynote address at the Labour Party conference, Mr Balls said: "Thousands of people working in our NHS, millions more who depend upon it, worried about rising waiting times and creeping privatisation. I love the NHS - and I will do whatever it takes to save it."
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Cara Delevingne, Lily Allen and Harry Styles love it: knitting is officially cool. Join in with five free knitting patterns for beginners and up, from Lily Cole and Katherine Poulton's knitwear label
BY Rachael Dove | 21 September 2014
" Knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either," wrote the godmother of knitting, Elizabeth Zimmermann, in her 1971 guide Knitting Without Tears. In the years since, knitting has had moments of fusty associations with WI meets and shoddy Christmas jumpers, but Zimmermann's knitting philosophy is now being revisited by a new generation, who are looking to escape the pressures of fast-paced living.
Take Cara Delevingne, 22: the feisty model has been known to pull out her needles amid a hectic fashion-week schedule. Or Lily Allen , 29, the singer famous for her controversial lyrics, who knitted cushions when she "retired" in 2011. Even the singer Harry Styles, 20, has taken to knitting on the One Direction tour bus to help him unwind.
Cara Delevingne wrote "Knitting is the BOMB" underneath this photo she posted on her Instagram account during fashion week (Photo: Instagram )
They're not the only ones. "How to knit" was Google's fifth most searched "how-to" term in 2013, while there has been a 250 per cent increase in people looking for "knitting for beginners" in the past five years. At the Wilderness festival, Charlbury WI' s knitting workshops are hugely popular, and the UK Hand Knitting Society lists more than 620 UK knitting clubs on its website - including one at baa ram ewe , a cool knitting shop in Headingley, the student centre of Leeds.
Knitted looks from Sister by Sibling spring/summer 2014 and autumn/winter 2014 (left and middle) and Stella McCartney autumn/winter 2014. (Photo: Rex)
With the help of fashion heavyweights such as Stella McCartney , Missoni and Alexander McQueen , knitwear is now not only a stylish staple but a firm fixture at fashion week. "We like tradition," explains Cozette McCreery of the hip London knitwear collective Sibling - though the bold womenswear designs for its secondary label, Sister by Sibling , are anything but traditional. Think Lurex knitted skirts, intarsia skull cardigans and pom-pom dresses that satisfy young, hipster knitters with modern twists on conventional patterns.
A Good Yarn, by the model and co-founder of The North Circular Katherine Poulton
Now the twentysomething models Lily Cole and Katherine Poulton are taking their turn. They co-founded the North Circular knitwear label, which utilises the skills of "grannies, girls and a few strong men" to create snuggly scarves, hats and gloves. Here Stella brings you some of our favourite patterns from Poulton's new book, A Good Yarn, to soothe your spirit on these chillier autumnal evenings.
READ - Lily Cole interview: "I'm not necessarily beautiful..."
THE HAT
Free knitting pattern: click here for The North Circular's Chunky stripe hat
Chunky stripe hat by The North Circular (Photo: James Moriarty)
We love this hat in navy and natural to give nautical stripes, or with jet and navy stripes for a more masculine look. But this is really the place for your imagination to bring in your favourite colour scheme. The hat is oversized, giving scope for pulling the back down into a slouchy look. This humble beanie has graced the pages of "Teen Vogue" in these nautical stripes. When it featured in British "Vogue" in chunky wool plain knit, the model liked it so much she kept it. So watch out - once you've put all your love into it, it's an irresistible hat!
THE SCARF
Free knitting pattern: click here for The North Circular's Moss eternity scarf
Moss eternity scarf by The North Circular (Photo: Hayley Brown)
The simple bands of moss stitch create a firm texture for this eternity scarf - a sculptural knit to wrap around yourself against the cold. Moss stitch is simple for the complete beginner - you just alternate knit and purl stitches to make a great reversible stitch that holds its shape.
THE GLOVES
Free knitting pattern: click here for The North Circular's Houndstooth gloves
Houndstooth gloves by The North Circular (Photo: Emir Erlap)
Houndstooth is a traditional Scottish pattern for woven wool, translated here into these bold knitted gloves. You can use vivid colour play to create striking contrasts in the tessellated patterning. We love jet black and red, but also black and yellow, or blue with red.
THE BLANKET
Free knitting pattern: click here for the North Circular's Narwhal blanket
Narwhal blanket by The North Circular (Photo: Kyle Books)
The magical unicorn horns of antiquity held inspiring awe and wonder, we now know to be of the magnificent narwhal whale. The mesmerising lines of cabling of this luxurious throw evoke the waves of the icy oceans that narwhals dive beneath while we snuggle under it, dreaming by the fire.
THE HANDWARMERS
Free knitting pattern: click here for The North Circular's Aaaron handwarmers
Aaaron handwarmers by the North Circular
Aran knitting comes from the rocky islands near Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland. Now world-renowned for intricate cables, these chunky textured patternswere originally conceived by the island women to clothe their men. This graphic Aran pattern is made up of twistedrib, with moss stitch zigzagging across opposing diagonals, to create symmetry. A simple thumb hole and open fingers make these perfect, simple gloves.
Patterns taken from "A Good Yarn", by Katherine Poulton (Kyle Books, £16.99), available from Telegraph Books at £15.29 plus £1.95 p&p
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TIRANA Albania
1 of 2. Pope Francis (front) stands next to Albania's President Bujar Nishani upon arrival in Tirana for his one-day pastoral visit to Albania, September 21, 2014.
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TIRANA Albania (Reuters) - Pope Francis, in his strongest criticism of Islamist militants to date, said on Sunday no religious group which used violence and oppression could claim to be "the armor of God".
Francis made his comments during a one-day visit to Albania, an impoverished Balkan country hailed by the pontiff as a model of inter-faith harmony because of good relations between its majority Muslim community and its Christian denominations.
"Let no one consider themselves the 'armor' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression," he said in the presidential palace in Tirana, responding to an address by Albanian President Bujar Nishani, who is Muslim.
"May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman, above all to the right to life and the right of everyone to religious freedom," he said.
Francis, on his first trip as pope to a European country outside Italy, made no direct reference to Islamic State militants who have seized territory in Syria and Iraq, but it was clear he had events in the Middle East in mind.
About 70,000 Syrian Kurds have fled into Turkey since Friday as Islamic State militants seized dozens of villages close to the border. A Kurdish politician from Turkey said local people had told him the militants were beheading people as they went from village to village.
Islamic State has declared a "caliphate" in the territories they control and have killed or driven out large numbers of Christians, Shi'ite Muslims and others who do not subscribe to their hardline version of Sunni Islam.
Asked specifically about Islamic State last month when returning from a trip to South Korea, Francis endorsed action by the international community to stop "unjust aggression".
"PRECIOUS GIFT"
In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
"This is especially the case in these times where an authentic religious spirit is being perverted by extremist groups and where religious differences are being distorted and instrumentalized," said Francis.
Some 60 percent of all Albanians are Muslim, while Roman Catholics account for just 10 percent of the population.
Earlier, aboard the plane taking him on the short trip across the Adriatic from Rome to Tirana, Francis said he wanted to visit Albania because it had "suffered very, very much". He is the first pope to visit Albania in 21 years.
The late communist dictator Envier Hoxha banned religion in 1967, driving Albania's Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim faithful alike underground in his drive to create what he boasted was the world's first atheist state.
Nearly 2,000 churches, Orthodox and Catholic, were destroyed under Hoxha, whose paranoid rule lasted four decades until his death in 1985. Many were turned into cinemas or dancing halls.
    More than 100 Catholic priests or bishops were executed or died under torture or in labor camps. Just 30 survived in what Francis referred to in his address as "a winter of isolation and persecution".
Francis' decision to choose tiny, poverty-ridden Albania instead of one of the continent's big Catholic powers for his first European trip as pontiff is in keeping with a papacy that wants to give priority to the poor and the neglected.
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Friends joke about Hershey being a substitute baby, but maybe they have a point. Ironically, given my qualms over parenthood, for months I felt and acted like a new mum. A book entitled Be The Pack Leader became my bible, the words of the Dog Whisperer became my mantra, and exhausted at the end of each day, I shoved Hershey into Ian's arms, snarling, "You take her." Baby teeth like ice picks sunk into my arms and my favourite J Brand jeans got torn. She resembled a mogwai from Gremlins: cute and cuddly on the outside but an absolute devil behind closed doors.
But Hershey soon matured into a gentle creature, demanding nothing but love. I discovered that three is company and am often surprised at how she has enriched my marital relationship. Weekends now revolve around long country walks and conversation over cosy pub lunches à trois.
Somehow, she has brought us even closer together. Like proud parents, we reminisce about the first time she swam, and her first encounter with snow. In her pure, unadulterated joy she didn't know whether to eat it or roll in it, so attempted an amusing eat-roll combo. We miss her when abroad and even FaceTime her (although she's not much of a conversationalist, admittedly).
It strikes me that there are advantages to having a dog rather than a baby. There's no painful labour to undergo, you can go on impulsive weekends away – reliable dog-sitter permitting – and you don't have to remortgage the house to educate, clothe and feed it.
There are health benefits too. I walk for two hours a day, feel fitter than ever and treasure the time spent outdoors. Owning a dog is also sociable. People – from toddlers to octogenarians – stop on the street to stroke Hershey and chat, and they love her at my regular, the Cat & Fiddle, so by default I've climbed a rung on the popularity ladder.
But there are downsides. Hershey scoffing a rack of lamb intended for supper at a dinner party springs to mind, plus the countless times I've stood outside, shivering, pleading with her to "go wee". Then there's the glaring fact that dogs pass away after 10 years or so, and won't care for you when you're old and grey like a son or daughter will.
Canine devotee that I am, I doubt any relationship with a pet could truly match the bond between parent and child. I've realised that the experience of "raising" Hershey has given me a taster of motherhood – of the responsibility and emotions involved. Clearing up after her, tending to her when she's unwell and guiding her to be a well-adjusted pup has taught me that I might just be more maternal than I initially thought.
Perhaps I'm not so averse to a new addition of the two-legged variety, after all. Don't write me off just yet, Mum.
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DVUR KRALOVE Czech Republic (Reuters) - A Czech zoo burned around 60 kilograms (132 pounds) of rhino horns on Sunday, part of an international campaign designed to highlight the plight of a species being driven towards extinction by poachers.
Demand for rhino horn is high in parts of Asia, where it is an ingredient in traditional medicine and is also used as an aphrodisiac and as a status symbol for growing numbers of the newly wealthy.
The Czech Republic has become a major transit point for rhino horn trafficking in recent years. Last year, Czech authorities seized 24 white rhino horns worth an estimated $5 million and charged 16 suspected members of an international ring smuggling the prized material to Asia.
The Dvur Kralove zoo, some 150 km (90 miles) north-east of Prague, organized the burning on the eve of World Rhino Day on September 22. The international event was first announced in 2010 in South Africa, home to most of Africa's surviving rhinos.
The demand for rhino horns shot up around that time after rumors that a Vietnamese minister's relative had been cured of cancer by the horn. There is no scientific evidence to support that claim.
"I think it sends a really good signal to the rest of Europe that this zoo and other zoos and other organizations joining today are just not interested in perpetuating the trade in rhino horns," Tony Fitzjohn, founder of Wild Life Now and one of the leaders of the campaign to save rhinos, told Reuters.
Other zoos in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Britain are also due to burn rhino horns on Sunday, according to the website www.burnhorns.org.
Kenya's Ol Pejeta, a wildlife conservancy, plans to open a graveyard for all the rhinos poached there in the last 10 years.
"Every river, every lake starts with a drop of rain somewhere... It will have an impact but it takes brave and committed people to take those few first steps," Fitzjohn said.
The Dvur Kralove zoo has a long track record of caring for rhinos. In 2009, it sent four northern white rhinos, half the known population left in the world, to Ol Pejeta in a last-ditch bid to save the species from extinction.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the horn was used to treat maladies ranging from rheumatism to devil possession. Now, many newly rich Vietnamese consume it after a night of over-indulgence.
(Reporting by David Cerny; Writing by Robert Muller; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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Christina was cremated in the lilac evening gown she had bought just a week earlier for the school prom.
Simelane, 24, was arrested hours after the killing, and in October 2013 pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
He is now detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.
Last week, a 95-page report into Christina's murder was published, and exposed serious failings by NHS trusts, the prison service, GPs and the criminal justice system. It revealed how Simelane's problems had been known to the authorities for almost a decade before he launched his fatal, unprovoked attack on Christina.
Despite two jail terms for violence, and 17 different mental-health assessments by four different authorities over 12 months before he stabbed Christina, he was not deemed to be seriously ill enough to be sectioned or treated.
The investigation by Dr Alison Reed, on behalf of the Birmingham CrossCity Clinical Commissioning Group, found that GPs, the police, the prison service and mental-health teams failed to share their records about Simelane. Paperwork went missing, phone calls between professionals unanswered. One senior registrar's serious concerns about Simelane's mental health were ignored.
Last week's report concluded that her death was "preventable" but not "predictable", and made more than 50 recommendations about how care could be improved.
Christina's family remains, understandably, bewildered and angry about how this happened in the first place. "The report has just brought it all back," says her uncle, Chris Melia, speaking on behalf of the family.
"People on the outside think the family are doing OK, that they're getting up and going to work and doing normal things, but there is just this huge emptiness that exists every day. It's so vivid, so dreadful.
"I remember going to a football match and seeing Christina a few months before she was killed. We chatted at half-time about what she was doing and I remember thinking how interesting it was going to be, watching her grow up. She was very bright, on the cusp of life, so excited about everything. That's all gone."
He adds: "The anger on the part of the family is that so many professionals had the opportunity to do something and that was missed."
Simelane was well known to the authorities, and his mother had spent almost 10 years trying to get her son's difficulties taken seriously. Once a clever student with a gift for maths, he had developed problems as a teenager.
Since 2004 he had been in contact with school social workers as well as Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) after making claims of being bullied and victimised by other pupils.
At the same time, his mother had reported her concerns to their GP about how her son was depressed, had become increasingly withdrawn and violent, and had started to hear voices. But when Simelane denied he was depressed or suffering from mental-health problems, he was discharged from CAMHS.
In 2007, he was reprimanded by police for being in possession of a knife. At one point, he set fire to his own bedroom and refused to leave as the blaze took hold. Yet he was repeatedly deemed not to be in need of treatment.
When he turned 18, Simelane's mother was told that her son was an adult and she no longer had a right to his medical records or control over his care. Mental-health appointments were made, but when Simelane failed to turn up, he was automatically discharged as part of a policy of "opt in" treatment that means patients are responsible for their own care, regardless of their ability to recognise problems.
As his mental health deteriorated in the year before he stabbed Christina, Simelane repeatedly and violently attacked his mother – including one incident in which he held a knife to her stomach and threatened to kill her in front of his six-year-old brother.
In 2012, he was jailed for the attack on his mother, as well as for punching a police officer and later breaching his parole.
Even when confined to a jail cell, he was classed as a "did not attend" for a psychiatric appointment. Prisoners who refuse to leave their cell for a mental-health appointment are deemed a "did not attend" and are automatically discharged after two weeks unless the case is escalated.
In December 2012, a mental-health assessment of Simelane in jail was conducted by a junior doctor who had never undertaken one before, overseen by a manager who had only been involved in one such case previously. They concluded that Simelane did not meet the level for mental-health treatment and did not pose a significant risk.
Days later, he was released with three days' worth of anti-psychotic medication, no permanent address and no proper GP referral. He began sleeping on buses and using them as shelter during the day with a stolen, out-of-date pass.
Within three months, Christina was dead.
Her parents were praised by the inquiry panel for their dignity and determination that no family should suffer like this again. Recently, Mrs Harris and Christina's father, Jason Edkins, unveiled a knife-amnesty bin in their daughter's favourite colour – purple – in Birmingham.
They are also backing the One Hundred Families charity set up by Julian Hendy, whose father was killed in 2007 by a man well known to mental-health services.
"I'm not advocating a return to asylums, but the current situation isn't protecting anyone," says Mr Hendy. "Some people need a place where they can be treated and be kept safe from themselves and other people."
Whether the report into Christina's murder has long-reaching consequences remains to be seen.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of what, at the time, was seen as a ground-breaking report into the murder of Jonathan Zito by paranoid schizophrenic Christopher Clunis. That report was the first to raise concerns about care-in-the-community policies. Mental health charities are keen to stress that the vast majority of people who suffer from mental illness are not a danger to other people.
But that is of little solace to the Edkins family. A few months after her murder, her parents received a package in the post – their daughter's GCSE results. As predicted, she had done brilliantly: 11 passes at A* to C.
On the accompanying yearbook's tribute page, her headmaster wrote: "If a school could choose its pupils, it would be full of Christinas."
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FREETOWN
An empty street is seen at the start of a three-day national lockdown in Freetown September 19, 2014.
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FREETOWN (Reuters) - Streets in the capital of Sierra Leone were deserted on Friday as the West African state began a contested, three-day lockdown in a bid to halt the worst Ebola outbreak on record.
President Ernest Bai Koroma urged people to heed the emergency measures as health workers, some clad in protective biohazard suits, went house to house, checking on residents and marking each doorway they visited with chalk.
Radio stations played Ebola awareness jingles on repeat and encouraged residents to stay indoors.
"As they are fighting this Ebola, we pray that it will be eradicated. That's what we are praying for," said resident Mariam Bangura as she waited at her home in Freetown's West End neighborhood. Other residents looked out over the normally bustling seaside city from windows and balconies.
Nearly 30,000 health workers, volunteers and teachers aim to visit every household in the country of six million people by Sunday to educate them about the disease and isolate the sick.
In Freetown, teams got off to a slow start, waiting several hours to receive kits containing soap, stickers and flyers.
A few police cars and ambulances, sirens blaring, were the only traffic on the otherwise empty streets. One emergency vehicle was seen stopping at a house to take on a patient.
Ebola has infected at least 5,357 people in West Africa this year, mainly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, killing 2,630 of those, according to the World Health Organization. The disease has also been reported in Nigeria and Senegal.
The outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever is the worst since it was identified in 1976 in the forests of central Africa.
Western nations, led by the United States, have pledged in recent days to ramp up their aid effort and the United Nations said on Thursday it would deploy a special mission, calling the outbreak a "threat to international peace and security".
"As the disease spreads, a truth becomes clear. None of us is insulated from the threat of Ebola. All of us must be part of the response," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the U.N. General Assembly on Friday.
EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES
In Sierra Leone, at least 562 people have died so far from the disease.
"Today, the life of everyone is at stake, but we will get over this difficulty if we all do what we have been asked to do," President Koroma said in a television address late on Thursday.
"These are extraordinary times and extraordinary times require extraordinary measures."
Some have questioned whether the campaign will be effective. Sierra Leone newspaper Awareness Times in an editorial called the preparations for the lockdown "chaotic" and recommended its postponement.
"This morning many families are calling on the radio crying because of lack of food in their homes," said Ahmed Nanoh, executive secretary of Sierra Leone's chamber of agriculture.
"Food prices have gone up 30 percent. Many homes that cannot afford (food) are starving.
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, which has been at the forefront of the effort to contain the epidemic, warned last week that the lock-down could lead to the concealment of cases, potentially causing the disease to spread further.
An official for the United Nations children's agency UNICEF, Roeland Monasch, said, however, that the "Ose to Ose" campaign, which means "house to house" in local Krio, would be helpful.
"If people don't have access to the right information, we need to bring life-saving messages to them, where they live, at their doorsteps," he said.
Investors are worried about the consequences of the lockdown on Sierra Leone's iron ore production. In a bid to reassure them, African Minerals Ltd. (AMIq.L) said it expected no material impact on its iron ore operations.
GUINEA PURSUES KILLERS
Healthcare workers seeking to contain the Ebola outbreak have often been met with deep mistrust, hampering their efforts to stop its spread. One team of eight educating people on Ebola risks in a remote part of southeastern Guinea were killed and their bodies dumped in a village latrine, officials said on Thursday.
While recognizing that the risks faced by health workers, the World Health Organization said that the tragedy must not be allowed to derail the education effort.
"We should continue the dialogue with the community, we should continue to explain our work, continue to show our empathy with the victims, with the families, with the communities," WHO expert Pierre Formenty said.
NGOs warned in a joint statement that the Ebola crisis could set back by a decade economic progress in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, and called on more governments to follow U.S. steps to expand efforts to stop the disease's spread.
U.S. President Barack Obama said earlier this week it would deploy 3,000 military engineers and medical personnel and other troops in the region. There are currently around 20 military personnel on the ground in Liberia conducting planning and assessment for the mission.
Over the weekend, 45 more U.S. soldiers are scheduled to arrive in Liberia's capital Monrovia to begin setting up a command center, Department of Defence spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said on Friday.
In a rare piece of good news, Senegal's health minister said on Friday there was no further risk of Ebola spreading in his country, following the end of a quarantine period for those who came into contact with an infected man from Guinea. State television said the 21-year-old Guinean student was being repatriated on a military aircraft.
Ebola is endemic in forest mammals in parts of Central Africa but the deadly Zaire strain has never previously appeared in West Africa. Scientists say that a fruit bat butchered as bushmeat in Guinea last December probably started the epidemic.
A parallel outbreak has so far killed 40 people out of 71 cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
(Additional reporting by Bate Felix in Dakar, Joe Bavier in Abidjan and Phillip Stewart in Washington D.C.; Writing by Emma Farge and Joe Bavier; Editing by Crispian Balmer and Grant McCool)
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FREETOWN
An empty street is seen at the start of a three-day national lockdown in Freetown September 19, 2014.
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FREETOWN (Reuters) - A team burying Ebola victims was attacked in Sierra Leone's capital on Saturday, a member of parliament said, as a small group defied a three-day lockdown aimed at halting the worst outbreak of the disease on record.
In one of the most extreme measures since the epidemic began, Sierra Leone has ordered its population of 6 million to stay indoors as volunteers circulate to educate residents about the disease as well as isolate the sick and remove the dead.
Residents have mostly complied with the measures announced by President Ernest Bai Koroma earlier this week. On the second day of the lockdown, the streets were mostly deserted, except for ambulances and police vehicles.
The attack on the burial team on Saturday occurred in the village of Matainkay, some three miles from the Waterloo district of Freetown.
Claude Kamanda, MP for the Waterloo district, said that armed policemen accompanying the burial team quickly arrived, causing the attackers to flee.
The police Local Unit Commander in the area, Superintendent Mustapha Kamara said he sent reinforcement to the village "after some youths attempted to disrupt the burial". He told Reuters that he has now instructed that the burial team must inform them to provide a stronger presence.
Ebola has infected at least 5,357 people in West Africa this year, mainly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, killing 2,630 of those, according to the World Health Organization. More than 562 people have died in Sierra Leone.
Neighboring Liberia had put in place temporary community quarantine measures and curfews last month, but lifted them after street protests.
Some have criticized Sierra Leone's lockdown measures, warning of food shortages and saying it might cause people to go to extra lengths to conceal highly contagious bodies.
But volunteers said they were bombarded with calls on an Ebola hotline over the last two days, receiving hundreds of requests for help.
Stephen Gaojia, head of an emergency services operation, said the ability of his teams to respond to the calls was limited by shortages of staffing and equipment.
"We need about 14 burial teams, as we speak we have about nine", he said. "So if we have more number of people that will be able to improve our response time".
The leader of the United Democratic Movement party, Mohamed Bangura, told Reuters that his team buried 11 Ebola victims on Saturday.
U.N. DEPLOYMENT
The outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever is the worst since it was identified in 1976 in the forests of central Africa. The first victim of the current epidemic is thought to have caught the disease from a fruit bat in the forests of Guinea last December.
Western nations, led by the United States, have pledged in recent days to ramp up their aid efforts, and the United Nations said it would begin deploying an advanced team of its special mission to a regional headquarters in Ghana by Monday.
A chartered 747 jet, carrying the largest single shipment of aid, including protective gear and medications, to the Ebola zone to date and coordinated by the Clinton Global Initiative and other U.S. aid organizations, departed New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday afternoon bound for West Africa.
Former President Bill Clinton praised new efforts from the United States, Britain, France and other countries to fight the epidemic. "We're still a little behind the curve but we're getting there," Clinton said on Saturday.
Volunteers and healthcare workers are often viewed with suspicion by locals who blame them for infecting the communities they are meant to be healing, slowing the ability of authorities to contain the disease.
Friday Kiyee, head of a Monrovia Ebola burial team, said that earlier this week locals placed a roadblock to prevent the collection of the decomposing body of a 29-year-old victim.
"Sometime we go into a community people will tell us they need an autopsy, and at the final stages you will see them blocking road. We don't expect for our own brothers to behave this way," she said.
Bans on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone hosting any international football because of fears of spreading Ebola were kept in place by the Confederation of African Football, its executive committee decided on Saturday.
(Additional reporting by James Harding in Monrovia, Michelle Nichols in New York, Caren Bohan in Washington; Writing by Emma Farge; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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About three million Briton currently suffer osteoporosis which is affected by a number factors such as genes, a lack of exercise and poor diet and results in about 60,000 hip, 50,000 wrist and 120,000 spinal fractures every year, according to the National Osteoporosis Society, costing about £1.7 billion in health and social care.
Dr Ifty Ahmed, a researcher at Nottingham University, said his team wanted to provide a preventative treatment, strengthening the bones of those at risk before they suffered a fracture.
Speaking at the Regener8 conference on regenerative medicine, in Leeds last week, he said: "Our aim would be to use screening to spot people who are at risk, then strengthen their bones before they get fractures.
"It means that rather than waiting until people have a fall and break something, we would try to stop that ever happening, along with the consequences, loss of independence, surgery and secondary illnesses."
Previous attempts have been made to find ways of strengthening thinning bones but the difficulties of protecting the fragile stem cells has meant no such treatments have yet been developed.
Dr Ahmed's team hope to overcome this problem by puncturing the tiny hollow spheres of calcium phosphate allowing the stem cells to migrate inside them where they are protected.
The experimental treatment has not yet been trialled on humans.
It would involve extracting stem cells from a patient's bone marrow and mixing them with the microspheres before injecting the paste into the vulnerable bones.
Dr Ahmed said: "If it works, this kind of treatment could be done in a day."
Until now the team have been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council but they are now looking for a commercial partner.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - An HIV-positive man in Seattle could face jail time if he fails to comply with a court order seeking to prevent him from spreading the disease to his sexual partners, King County officials said Thursday.
Public health officials took the rare step of seeking a cease-and-desist order against the man, identified only as "AO," who became aware of his HIV-positive status in 2008 but has since infected at least eight people, court documents said.
Health officials in Seattle said the move was not criminalizing sexual behavior or infringing on personal liberty, but was instead aimed at protecting public health.
"All of our work related to the case in question has been designed to ensure that an HIV infected person receives needed medical care and adopts behaviors that protect both him and his sex partners," King County Health spokeswoman Hilary Karasz said in a statement.
The agency said it has only sought a cease-and-desist order against an HIV-positive individual once before, in 1993.
In this case, the man must show up for counseling sessions and adopt behaviors that will protect future sexual partners, according to the court order.
If he does not comply, he could face jail time for contempt of court, officials said.
(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Sandra Maler)
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I've always been a huge sweetcorn fan. As a child there was no vegetable I enjoyed more — munching away rabbit-style on the cob was about as fun as it got at dinner time. I still love it served that way but, these days, I often add a little miso or soy to the butter for an additional umami hit. It's a hell of a combination.
It was a revelation when I actually started cutting the corn off the cob at home. You lose that rustic gnawing experience, but it's satisfying to slice the kernels off yourself, and the recipe potential is much more exciting.
Sweetcorn is surprisingly versatile. Once it is off the cob you can add it raw to salads, chunky soups and stews, or sauté it in a pan with a little butter. It may look as if you've chucked a frankly quite disgusting tin of cooked sweetcorn into your salad, but you'll know you haven't – and the taste is fantastic.
Delightful plum recipes for autumn
Corn, just like fresh peas, does need to be fresh — the more time elapsed since its picking, the tougher and less sweet it becomes. Luckily it's easy to tell the fresh cobs, especially when still wrapped in their husks. Look for the soft green outer leaves – after a while, they become dry and papery.
These recipes are a good start if cooking with corn in a serious way is new to you. A simple, delicious cornbread is always welcome at the table, particularly when served warm and coated in frankly too much butter.
Sweetcorn and crab is a great combination that has developed a bad rep over the years. My version of the classic Chinese soup is a far cry from the takeaway version, though it keeps some of the silky intensity of the original.
Prawns, too, go well with sweetcorn; their earthy sweetness sits well with the saline equivalent in the prawns, and the spice seems to hold it together. These pakoras are a hit with adults and kids and a great base recipe to adapt yourself. Change the spice, ditch the prawns, add some fish – don't feel you have to follow it too closely as it always turns out well.
What are you waiting for? Just whip some corn off the cob and start cooking.
Prawn and sweetcorn pakoras recipe
Sweetcorn and crab soup with chilli oil recipe
Cornbread muffins recipe
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Soup
6 tbsp fish sauce
2 medium sweetcorns, kernels sliced off
4 tsp cornflour
200g/7 oz white crabmeat
½ thumb of ginger, peeled and finely chopped
4 spring onions, finely sliced on the diagonal
2 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp Shaoxing or dry sherry
2 egg whites, lightly beaten
METHOD
Make the chilli oil first. Place the dried chilli in a small pan and cover with the olive oil. Place over medium heat for a few minutes and, just before it comes to the boil, take off the heat and leave to infuse.
Bring 1.2 litres/2 pints of water to the boil and stir in the fish sauce and a big pinch of salt, followed by the kernels. Simmer gently for 2 minutes.
Meanwhile, stir a few tablespoons of water into the cornflour and pour into the soup as well, mixing until it is completely combined. Continue to simmer until the kernels are tender and the soup slightly thickened.
Stir in the crabmeat, ginger, spring onions, soy sauce, sesame oil and Shaoxing and season to taste.
Just before serving bring the soup up to a simmer and very slowly drizzle in the egg white so it creates long white strands in the soup. Simmer for a further minute, then transfer to bowls and spoon over a teaspoon of chilli oil.
Prawn and sweetcorn pakoras recipe
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co is adding a new attraction based on the movie "Frozen" to its Epcot theme park in Orlando, Florida, the media company's latest move to capitalize on the popularity of the blockbuster animated film.
The attraction in the Norway Pavilion will bring to life the world of Arendelle, the Scandinavian setting for the icy kingdom inhabited by two princesses, Anna and Elsa. It will replace a boat ride called Maelstrom.
The attraction "will take our guests to Arendelle and immerse them in many of their favorite moments and music from the film," Tom Staggs, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, said on Friday on the Disney Parks blog. He did not say when the attraction would open.
The "Frozen" presence will grow elsewhere at Disney parks. At the Magic Kingdom Park in Orlando, Cinderella's Castle will be transformed into an ice palace each night starting in early November, Staggs said.
"Frozen" is the highest-grossing animated movie of all time with global ticket sales of $1.3 billion, according to Box Office Mojo.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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