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Kuwait experienced one of the most awkward award receptions since Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift.

Although people in the West found humor in the Kazakhstan national anthem parody from the 2006 film “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” Kazakh athletes at the Arab Shooting Championship in Kuwait did not find it as funny.

Some were infuriated following an archery competition in Kuwait when the parody was accidentally played during the award ceremony.

Mariya Dmitriyenko, who won the gold medal in the 75 target event, had to bare with the song, which includes lyrics that claim other countries have inferior potassium, that Kazakh prostitutes are among “the cleanest in the

region” and claimed the country invented toffee and the trouser belt.

In the video, which is circulating the web, that Dmitriyenko is surprised when the parody is played.

This is not the first time Kazakhstan has shown distaste for the film’s gestures, however.

Many people in Kazakhstan have asserted the film does not accurately represent the typical Kazakh lifestyle.

The film’s lead actor, Sacha Baren Cohen, defended that the film was not intended to be racist,in an interview conducted after the release.

The award ceremony was re-run, as the Kazakh team requested an apology from the organizers of the event, according to reports.

Justin Beiber gets a bad rap at times, but a doll resembling the pop star was involved in an altercation in suburban Denver.

Michael Nuanes, 37, a Denver Police Department officer, was charged with domestic violence and criminal mischief after being attacked by a Justin Beiber doll.

Nuanes was arrested for allegedly assaulting his live-in girlfriend.

But Nuanes described his girlfriend as the aggressor during the altercation that in the couple’s Colorado residence in January, according to an Adams County Sheriff’s Office affidavit.

The 42-year-old victim was interviewed by police, and she reported that Nuanes picked a fight with her over “ultimatums” that included her changing her Facebook status to indicate she was in a relationship with Nuanes.

In the subsequent altercation, the victim told deputies how Nuanes pulled her by the hair, threw her on the ground and punched her in the ribs. A deputy photographed the victim’s injuries, which included bruises on her head, back, arm and chest.

Nuanes has been placed on desk duty by the Denver police, and he was given a mandatory-protection order, barring him from contacting the victim. In addition, Nuanes was ordered not to carry a firearm.

Nuanes is due in Adams County District Court in May.

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KING of CastLe Sacha Baren Cohen’s parody angered Kazakh athletes at an archery competition.

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A woman shot in the chest Tuesday morning near the University of Cincinnati’s Barrett Cancer Center has been listed in fair condition at University Hospital.

Tinia Osborne, a 57-year-old black female and patient at the Barrett Cancer Center, was struck by gunfi re at approximately 10:55 a.m., while walking across a driveway on Piedmont Avenue located on the university’s East Campus, said UC Police Chief Michael Cureton.

The woman reported hearing a pop, followed by feeling a pain in her chest, according to a statement from Cureton.

Medical staff and security at the hospital immediately responded to the scene and treated the woman before transporting her to the hospital’s emergency room, said Diana Lara, a spokeswoman for University Hospital.

The incident temporarily forced University Hospital to discharge its patients scheduled for release in its emergency room, due to the area along Piedmont Avenue between Eden Avenue and Highland Avenue being closed while the UC Police Division investigated the incident, Lara said.

Police were focusing the efforts of their investigation on an apartment building located at the corner of Eden Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, Lara said.

The shooting did not affect any other operations of the hospital, nor was the safety of patients inside the hospital at risk, Lara said.

“It’s an isolated incident,” Lara said.There are currently no suspects in the

shooting, Cureton said. UCPD is processing all the security cameras in the area of the incident.

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1. SANFORD, Fla. — The nation’s leading civil rights advocates and outraged everyday people packed this laid-back lakeside community Monday to demand the arrest

of the man who killed African American teenager Trayvon Martin, even as police sources portrayed the unarmed youth as the aggressor.

Beneath an incongruously cheerful Florida sun, the passionate but well-behaved crowd marched, chanting and shouting, toward the Sanford Civic Center.

Inside, the City Commission ceded most of its regularly

scheduled meeting to Martin’s grieving parents, their lawyer and a roster of civil rights luminaries who criticized the city’s leadership and its handling of a case that, to some, symbolizes lingering racism and a justice system that too often fails black victims of violence.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson compared city leaders to Pontius Pilate — who, he said, was just as guilty as “those who held the hammer and the nail” — for deciding not to arrest George Zimmerman, the man who says he shot Martin in self-defense after reporting him to police as a suspicious figure.

Zimmerman followed Martin after a police dispatcher warned him not to.

Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, compared the case to the notorious 1955 Mississippi lynching of Emmett Till, which catalyzed the mid-century civil rights movement.

“We will not rest, we will not stop, until there is justice for Trayvon Martin,” Morial said.

The Rev. Al Sharpton warned that sleepy Sanford, on the shores of Lake Monroe just north of Orlando, was flirting with worldwide infamy.

“You are risking going down as the Birmingham and Selma of the 21st century,” he said.

Police have said that Zimmerman, 28, is protected by a state law allowing someone who feels threatened to stand his or her ground and meet force with force.

Critics have noted that Martin, 17, was walking back from a convenience store with only a cellphone, a pack of Skittles and an iced tea. State authorities and the U.S. Justice Department have opened investigations.

Meanwhile, the Orlando Sentinel on Monday reported on its website Zimmerman’s account to police: that Martin had been the aggressor on the evening of Feb. 26, knocking him down with a single punch and slamming his head into the ground.

Police told the Sentinel that Zimmerman’s story was supported by witnesses, including one who said he saw Martin on top of Zimmerman, striking him, as the neighborhood watch captain cried out for help.

Two other witnesses reportedly have suggested the opposite. One of them, Mary Cutcher, told CNN last week: “If it was self-defense, why was he (Zimmerman) on Trayvon’s back?”

The Sentinel reported that Zimmerman told police he’d lost sight of Martin and was heading back to his

SUV when the youth stepped into his path. Martin asked Zimmerman if he had a problem and, when Zimmerman said no and reached for his cellphone, Martin said something like, “Well, you do now,” and punched him.

Zimmerman was bleeding from the nose and the back of his head when officers arrived, the police report says.

The case has sparked widespread anger and demonstrations across the nation.

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6. TOULOUSE, France — The 23-year-old man who police say is behind a string of fatal shootings that horrified France died on Thursday in a hail of gunfire, leaving behind injured police officers and “explicit” videos of his previous attacks.

Mohamed Merah can no longer do any harm, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced to the nation in a televised afternoon address, confirming that the standoff between Merah and police in Toulouse had ended after more than 32 hours.

“He told negotiators that he wanted to die a mujahedin, weapons in hand, that he refused to be tried and that he could not bear the idea of finishing his life in

prison,” federal prosecutor Francois Molins later told reporters.

“He said, ‘If it’s me, so what? I will go to paradise. If it’s you, too bad,’” Molins said.

In his talks with negotiators, Merah took responsibility for three attacks that left dead three soldiers and three children and a teacher at a Jewish school.

He claimed to have links to the al-Qaida terrorist network and to have prepared plans to target more law enforcement officers.

In a video that Merah made of his first attack on a soldier, he can be heard exclaiming, “You kill my brothers, I kill you,” Molins said.

The operation began at 3:10 a.m. Wednesday. After fighting the officers off with gunfire, he eventually told negotiators he would surrender later in the day.

But as night fell, he continued to

hold out, despite water, power and gas being cut to the building.

By the time of his last contact with negotiators shortly before midnight, his attitude had significantly hardened.

As police made their way into the apartment around 11:30 a.m., Merah bolted out of a bathroom, firing a Colt semi-automatic pistol with such rapidity that it sounded like a “burst of gunfire from an automatic weapon,” Molins said.

“The snipers ... tried to overpower him. The policemen who had entered the apartment protected themselves and returned fire too,” Gueant told reporters. “Mohamed Merah jumped from the balcony, still shooting. When he hit the ground, he was dead.”

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Payton wags his tail proudly at his owner, Liz Naber, clearly expectant of a reward.

She tosses his favorite toy, a tennis ball, across the graveyard, and he darts after it, tail wagging and tongue fl opping. He has no idea what he’s just accomplished.

Less than fi ve minutes ago, Naber gave Payton, the nearly 3-year-old black Labrador, a one-word command: “hunt.” With unmatched gusto, he sprinted about, nose to the ground — he was on a mission. Within minutes, he’d sniffed out the remains of a corpse that was buried in this cemetery in 1905.

Payton has been trained and certifi ed by the International Police Work Dog Association in human remains detection — HRD, as the volunteers refer to it.

He is one of 25 dogs on the Buckeye Search and Rescue Dogs team (BSARD). BSARD is a subset of a larger organization, the Ohio Federation of Canine Search Teams. It’s an all-volunteer, nonprofi t organization based in southwest Ohio.

The BSARD volunteers — originally seven members, but now 18 strong — are dedicated dog lovers who devote their time to helping locate missing people, relying on their trusty canine companions to bring much-needed skills to the search.

BSARD members became involved in canine search and rescue for a variety of reasons. Ed Napier, one of the founding members of the organization, lost a friend who drowned in the Little Miami River before there were organized local search dog teams.

“I’ve been through that waiting and hoping. I can empathize,” Napier said. “It’s all about working together to achieve a mission. That missing person is somebody’s family member, friend, father, sister.”

Theresa Jones, another handler, and her husband, Dave, knew they would have to fi nd an outlet for their fi rst German shepherd, Eika, shortly after taking her in.

“She needed to work, and I had no interest in doing dog shows,” Theresa Jones says. “I knew there had to be something worthwhile.”

Search and rescue seemed a perfect fi t for Eika, and the Joneses were thrilled to stumble upon BSARD.

The dogs are constantly practicing their trade; BSARD holds training sessions twice monthly, but owners work with their dogs several hours per week. Naber, Payton’s owner, commits a minimum of fi ve hours every week to agility training, obedience and search training.

The dogs can sniff out anything organically connected to a missing person — a child’s scent on a sock, a cotton ball soaked in the person’s blood, hair trimmings, placenta, fat from liposuction surgery, baby teeth — you name it. The handlers keep a freezer full of oddball items like these, covered in biohazard stickers.

“We ask for donations for items like these from hospitals, plastic surgery clinics, doctors’ offi ces — wherever we can,” says Gloria Napier, a BSARD member and Ed Napier’s wife. “I’m notorious for when I fi nd out somebody’s pregnant, for going, ‘Hey! Would you like to donate your placenta to us?’”

After a dog reaches its certifi cation, it’s time for the real work to begin.

Gloria coordinates the BSARD missions and fi elds calls from fi re departments, police departments and other emergency services. (BSARD works directly with law-enforcement or emergency personnel, not through calls from families or non-offi cials, Gloria said.)

When a “mission” is received, the group decides how many dogs to deploy. An average case warrants four to fi ve dogs. From there, handlers will dispatch to a scene and work with an operations specialist on the case from an emergency unit, such as a fi re or police department.

“After we’re briefed on a case, we’ll get together and develop a strategy and present it to the ops chief,” Ed explains.

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The dog team is quite a colorful mix: There are old dogs, puppies, fat dogs, skinny dogs and all sorts of dogs, and all sorts of breeds. When asked what breed makes for the best search dog, everybody offers a different answer: “Labradors!” “Shepherds!” Ed explains that everyone has a personal bias; the important thing, he says, is to avoid dogs with traits or physical characteristics that don’t make them good candidates for search and rescue.

For example, breeds with “smushed” faces that don’t breath well, such as boxers or pugs, aren’t ideal, but mutts are just fine. “Mostly what you’re looking for is the personality of the dog,” Ed says. “A good search dog typically doesn’t make the best family pet. They’re very intelligent, independent, high-drive, busy dogs.”

Today is Payton’s first day of work in several days; Naber says he’s been itching to get out and practice, as evidenced by his recent preoccupation with pulling toys into his crate and destroying them. Search and rescue dogs aren’t the lay-their-head-in-your-lap, love-to-be-petted sort of dog, Ed warns. Dogs labeled “neurotic” sometimes make the best searchers, able to focus with great intensity. But it’s a tough job, even if the dogs make it look easy.

“They’re not machines,” Ed says. “They’re people, too.” Each mission is different, and each dog’s skills may be

different, too, so which dogs the team picks for a particular mission depends on the nature of a given search. As the team

explains, there are four general types of search dogs. Trailing dogs run on a leash, and handlers run behind them as they follow the scent of a specific person. Area search dogs work off lead and they pick up the scent of the missing person in the wind. They’re generally not scent-specific; their task is usually to find anyone alive in a given area. Payton is a human remains detection dog, another discipline. HRD dogs work similarly to

an area search dog, but they’re looking for a cadaver, not a living person. Lastly, article search dogs seek out any item with human scent on it — usually a piece of evidence in an investigation. Several of the dogs are cross-trained, which makes for greater flexibility when the state of missing person is uncertain.

It’s an expensive hobby — the consensus among the handlers is that they spend $2,000-2,500 each year per

dog, on gas, lodging, dog supplies and personal equipment. They’ve received grants before, but funding is hard to find. Still, membership continues to grow and the number of missions grows: In 2011, BSARD fielded 18 missions, and 11 of those cases ended successfully in finding the missing person.

While the humans can feel the pride in accomplishing such important work, the dogs likely don’t have a clue about the significant role they play on missions. Case in point: Payton, who today runs back to Naber in the graveyard, ears flapping and tongue lolling. He drops a slimy tennis ball at her feet and takes off again in endless anticipation.

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INVOLVEDFor more information on BSARD, visit their website at buckeyesardogs.org.

To get involved with volunteering, contact Gloria Napier at (513) 683-5785 or via email at training@buckeyesardogs.org.

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Despite numerous differences between the beloved best-selling novel, “The Hunger Games” achieved the third-highest weekend box offi ce total of all time.

With nationwide hoopla, it’s only natural to wonder if the movie lives up to the hype.

The movie has all someone could want in an action-packed thriller, like a fi ght to the death on national television. It most defi nitely does not disappoint and will entertain fans and non-conformists alike.

The dystopian fl ick takes place in a post-apocalyptic North America — Panem, which is split into 12 poverty-stricken districts and one wealthy Capitol.

As a punishment for rebellion, the districts are forced to offer one boy and one girl, tributes, to participate in an annual blood bath known as the Hunger Games.

A fi ght to the death match where only one tribute is crowned victor, the Hunger Games seems to have fi nally met its match in Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), who becomes a hero and symbol of hope for the people of Panem.

Did this popular book to fi lm adaptation stay faithful to its paperback roots? From the opening scene of the movie, it’s clear that Suzanne Collins, who wrote the book and co-wrote the movie’s screenplay, had her hand in making sure the movie wasn’t simply a visual translation of her work.

There were few discrepancies that were obvious to only those who read the book before watching the movie. The Mockingjay pin was the fi rst of the fi lm’s blunders, as within the fi rst few minutes, Katniss picked it up from

the Hob, a local trading staple, instead of receiving it from Madge, daughter of the District 12 mayor.

Another change that came to the big screen was the depiction of some less than central characters. The fi lm did a great job of illustrating the grayness of the districts as opposed to the color and wonderment of the Capitol.

Having said that, the fi lm failed to convey Katniss’s relationship to those she left behind, thus making it hard for the characters back home to show the audience why Katniss is fi ghting so hard for them. The same can be said of what little screen time Katniss was given with Rue, a fellow tribute who reminded Katniss of the younger sister she left behind.

The biggest change from book to movie was the fact that the audience was not able to get inside Katniss’s head and revel in the thoughts that congregated there. The intensity of her character seems to be lost at times without her inner voice.

Deprived of access to Katniss’s thoughts, someone who has never read the book would have a hard time deciding whether she truly comes to feel for Peeta (her male counterpart), or if she’s still playing the game.

Although there are a few differences between the book and the fi lm, and despite the loose character development due to time constraints, it’s hard not to become captivated by the world Collins has built.

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Following a two-week break, the University of Cincinnati football team has resumed spring practices.

The Bearcats have their work cut out for them, as they’re looking to fi ll vacancies at multiple positions.

The positions with the most obvious holes, however, are also the positions where there is the most depth.

The loss of quarterback Zach Collaros and Isaiah Pead at running back will no doubt have a major impact on the team, but the Cats have many players waiting in the wings to assume starting roles.

At quarterback, Munchie Legaux, Brandon Kay and Patrick Coyne are vying for starting roles.

Head coach Butch Jones isn’t ready to name a starter, however, because he doesn’t think any of them are “game ready” just yet. The biggest competition, however, seems to be between junior Legaux and red-shirt senior Kay.

After fi lling in for the injured Collaros last year, Legaux is seen by some as the team’s favorite.

During this past season, he saw action in 11 games, starting in fi ve of them. In that time, he completed 55 passes for 749 yards and fi ve touchdowns.

Kay is relatively unknown to most Bearcat fans, because he’s spent a lot of time at UC in a backup role due to injury.

Kay saw limited action last year, playing in just three games. Now that he’s healthy, however, Jones believes he’s showing signs of being able to run the offense.

“Brandon Kay has really shown some good things this spring,” Jones said. “He’s back 100 percent healthy, and he’s

really worked on his technique.” Some fans might wonder why Jordan Luallen’s name isn’t

in the mix for the starting job, but that’s because he’s joined the Bearcats’ receiving corps.

Jones said Luallen is progressing as a receiver, but he will still see some snaps at quarterback in every game.

“Obviously he’s dynamic with the ball in his hands, so we’re going to ask a lot of him,” Jones said. “He’s one of our better athletes and one of our most competitive players that we have on this football team, so we need to get him on the fi eld.”

At the running back position, George Winn seems to have picked up where he left off at the Liberty Bowl. He spent this past season as Pead’s backup, seeing action in 13 games, where he picked up 219 yards and two touchdowns on 40 carries.

After solid fi rst-year outings, sophomore running backs Jameel Poteat and Ralph David Abernathy IV are expected to be strong offensive contributors, Jones said.

“Right now, all of them are gaining valuable reps and we’re very encouraged by that entire unit,” Jones said.

The Bearcats will need all of these players and more to step up if they hope to improve on their performance from last year. This will be no small task, as their newly released schedule shows matchups with competitive Big East teams like Pittsburgh, Louisville, Syracuse, Temple, Rutgers, USF and UConn.

The Cats will also face off against some tough non-conference opponents like Virginia Tech at FedEx Field, Miami (OH), Fordham and Toledo.

You won’t have to wait until September to watch UC live, however, as you can catch the team in action at 4 p.m. April 14 in Nippert Stadium for the sixth annual Bearcat Bowl.

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