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BBC News - Queen's Christmas message hails Olympic stars
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  In her Christmas message, the Queen praises the ''skill, dedication, training and teamwork'' of the Olympic athletes
  The Queen is to pay tribute to the nation's Olympic and Paralympic athletes in her Christmas broadcast.
  She will hail the "splendid summer of sport" and highlight how the sportsmen and women allowed spectators to feel part of the "excitement and drama".
  For the first time the address will be broadcast in 3D.
  On Sunday, the Queen missed church as she was recovering from a cold, Buckingham Palace said. But she is expected to attend on Christmas Day.
  A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said the speech, which will be broadcast in full on Christmas Day, would focus on "service, achievement and the spirit of togetherness".
  During the address the Queen will say: "As London hosted a splendid summer of sport, all those who saw the achievement and courage at the Olympic and Paralympic Games were further inspired by the skill, dedication, training and teamwork of our athletes.
  "In pursuing their own sporting goals, they gave the rest of us the opportunity to share something of the excitement and drama."
  The Queen had her own starring role in the London Olympics, declaring them officially open after appearing to parachute into the stadium with James Bond.
  It has been an eventful year for the royal family, with the Queen celebrating her Diamond Jubilee in June, marked with UK-wide celebrations.
  She also became the first British monarch to reach a 65th wedding anniversary.
  But there were health scares, with Prince Philip, 91, forced to miss some key events during the Jubilee celebrations after being taken to hospital with a bladder infection.
  'Absolutely lovely'Earlier this month, her grandson Prince William announced that his wife the Duchess of Cambridge was expecting a baby.
  Behind-the-scenes footage of the Christmas message, made on 7 December, has been released, showing the Queen meeting senior staff from Sky News which produced the broadcast this year.
  In other footage she wears 3D glasses as she watches part of the broadcast.
  The message was recorded in Buckingham Palace's white drawing room with the Queen wearing a fine silk tulle gown by Angela Kelly.
  The Christmas address is written by the Queen and usually has a strong religious framework, reflects current issues and draws on her own experiences over the past year.
  Her use of 3D technology comes 80 years after George V first broadcast a Christmas speech on the radio and started the 25 December tradition.
  A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said the monarch thought the broadcast was "absolutely lovely".
  She added: "We wanted to do something a bit different and special in this Jubilee year, so doing it for the first time in 3D seemed a good thing, technology-wise, to do."
  The message will be transmitted on both television and radio at 15:00 GMT on Christmas Day.
  It will be available on the Royal Channel on the YouTube website and will also be shown in Commonwealth countries.
  The broadcast will also be screened in standard and high definition.
America should see the Newtown carnage - CNN.com
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  Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:09
  From left: Newtown residents Claire Swanson, Kate Suba, Jaden Albrecht, Simran Chand and New London, Connecticut, residents Rachel Pullen and her son, Landon DeCecco, hold candles at a memorial for victims on Sunday, December 16, in Newtown, Connecticut.Reaction to Newtown school killings
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  STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  Roland Martin: The cost of gun violence is often hidden awayHe says Americans should see the carnage firsthand so they are stirred to actAfter murder of Emmett Till, his battered face was shown on magazine coversMartin says ourtrage over the Till murder helped fuel civil rights movementEditor's note:Roland Martin is a syndicated columnist and author of "The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House." He is a commentator for the TV One cable network and host/managing editor of its Sunday morning news show, "Washington Watch with Roland Martin."
  (CNN) -- "One of these mothers from Connecticut should do an Emmett Till moment; show the picture of their child dead in the classroom."
  That's a text I received earlier this week from my TV One show producer. When I got it, a chill immediately went through my body just thinking about the possibility of seeing the carnage in such a photo.
  When taping this week's edition of my show, "Washington Watch," Sirius/XM Radio host Joe Madison somberly said the same thing. Joe remarked that Emmett's mother, Mamie, insisted on an open casket for her son so the world could see what was done to him by racists in Mississippi.
  Many Americans may not even remember Emmett Till, a precocious 14-year-old black teenager from Chicago who went to visit his family in Mississippi. He allegedly flirted with a white woman in a store, and the woman's husband and his brother later went to the home where Till was staying, pulled him out of his bed, took him somewhere and beat him to a pulp, gouged out his eye, blew the back of his head away with a gun, attached a cotton gin with barbed wire around his neck and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River.
  When his bloated and disfigured body was recovered, it was unrecognizable. He was identified based on a ring he always wore.
  When Jet magazine and the Chicago Defender newspaper published his battered face on their covers, it sent shock waves throughout America, and especially in the black community. The brutality of lynchings were talked about and covered, yet for the world to witness with its own eyes the end result of vicious bigotry, it forced the nation to examine its conscience.
  "There was just no way I could describe what was in that box," Mamie said. "No way. And I just wanted the world to see."
  In the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut, mass shooting, we have seen numerous photos of the beautiful, smiling faces of the 20 children and six adults slaughtered at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The images we have become accustomed to include them singing at a piano, sporting the gear of a favorite sports team and others. When we think of them being memorialized it's in the context of teddy bears, candles and flowers.
  Americans want to remember them as vibrant and fun-loving children, but will that actually shake the conscience of America to do something about how they were gunned down in the classroom?
  What if one of the mothers or fathers of the Newtown 20 demanded that police give them a crime scene photo of their child and they chose to show it to the world? Can you imagine a modern day Mamie Till Mobley, wracked with pain but filled with resolve to show the nation so they could bear witness to what hate did to their child?
  The great divide: Little common ground with pro- and anti-gun forces
  I can tell you that I've talked to numerous black men and women who to this day remember August 28, 1955, the day Till was murdered. The image of his face has been seared into their brain for life as a result of seeing that photo.
  Is that what Americans need today? Maybe so.
  For too many of us, we hear about gun violence, we talk about it, we mourn it, but to be honest, we've never witnessed it.
  Our senses have been dulled to the real world carnage. We demand that news organizations not show American troops, or even the enemy, lying dead in war zones. Even when our troops returned home in flag-draped coffins, the Bush administration forbade it from being covered by the media. The Los Angeles Times was ripped by readers for showing the bloody, lifeless body of Ambassador Christopher Stevens being dragged out of a building in Benghazi, Libya.
  What does that say about America? Oh, let's talk about tragedy, but please, please, please don't show the real results.
  We love blood and guts in our movies, preferring exploding heads, chests ripped open by gunfire. We adore the big explosions, bodies flying through the air, buildings tumbling down. We'll drop millions of dollars collectively on movies and video games to see the carnage, but God forbid we are forced to see it in real life.
  That's America. The land of make believe. Show us the fake stuff, but let's retreat into a fetal position and scream, "No! No! No!" when forced to see the real thing.
  When my producer sent me that text, I recoiled at even the mere mention of seeing with my own eyes the real life results of what a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle could do to a 6-year-old body. But maybe I should see it. Maybe Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association should have to answer to such a photo when he is interviewed.
  Maybe if a modern day Mamie Till met with members of Congress and forced them to look at a photo of her baby, then we would see some political courage.
  Maybe if all Americans had to bear witness to such a photo, we would stop ignoring the violence equivalent to the Newtown massacres that is happening in Chicago, New Orleans and other cities across this country.
  Gun violence is a national epidemic. It affects all ages and races. Maybe it's time for America to see the results of what our gun culture has wrought. Enough with our delicate sensibilities. If we truly want to confront the problem, then we'd better have the guts to see the problem.
  When we've had such tragedies in the past, there was always an initial outcry, and then we'd settle back into our routines.
  When that image of Emmett Till was shown to the world, it stirred up such a burning desire for justice inside African-Americans that it was a part of the foundation of the civil rights movement. Just three months later the Montgomery bus boycott began, and many African-Americans will tell you that Till's gruesome lynching was the catalyst.
  Till's death was the moment that led to a movement, and 57 years later, we still talk about his death, largely because of that photo.
  Maybe the only way Newtown never leaves our conscience and fades away like Aurora or Columbine is if we have to look at the results of the tragedy to ensure that this moment leads to a transformational movement.
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  The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland Martin.
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In Aiding Quake-Battered Haiti, Lofty Hopes and Hard Truths - NYTimes.com
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  Vegetable vendors worked recently amid rubble in Port-au-Prince, three years after an earthquake devastated the city. More Photos >>
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti '-- A few days after the Jan. 10, 2010, earthquake, Reginald Boulos opened the gates of his destroyed car dealership to some 14,000 displaced people who settled on the expansive property. Seven months later, eager to rebuild his business, he paid the families $400 each to leave Camp Boulos and return to their devastated neighborhoods.
  UNRECONSTRUCTEDHaiti After The EarthquakeThis series examines the international effort to help Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake.
  At the time, Dr. Boulos, a physician and business magnate, was much maligned for what was portrayed as bribing the homeless to participate in their own eviction. But eventually, desperate to rid public plazas of squalid camps, the Haitian government and the international authorities adopted his approach themselves: ''return cash grants'' have become the primary resettlement tool.
  This represents a marked deflation of the lofty ambitions that followed the disaster, when the world aspired not only to repair Haiti but to remake it completely. The new pragmatism signals an acknowledgment that despite billions of dollars spent '-- and billions more allocated for Haiti but unspent '-- rebuilding has barely begun and 357,785 Haitians still languish in 496 tent camps.
  ''When you look at things, you say, 'Hell, almost three years later, where is the reconstruction?' '' said Mich¨le Pierre-Louis, a former prime minister of Haiti. ''If you ask what went right and what went wrong, the answer is, most everything went wrong. There needs to be some accountability for all that money.''
  An analysis of all that money '-- at least $7.5 billion disbursed so far '-- helps explain why such a seeming bounty is not more palpable here in the eviscerated capital city, where the world's chief accomplishment is to have finally cleared away most of the rubble.
  More than half of the money has gone to relief aid, which saves lives and alleviates misery but carries high costs and leaves no permanent footprint '-- tents shred; emergency food and water gets consumed; short-term jobs expire; transitional shelters, clinics and schools are not built to last.
  Of the rest, only a portion went to earthquake reconstruction strictly defined. Instead, much of the so-called recovery aid was devoted to costly current programs, like highway building and H.I.V. prevention, and to new projects far outside the disaster zone, like an industrial park in the north and a teaching hospital in the central plateau.
  Meanwhile, just a sliver of the total disbursement '-- $215 million '-- has been allocated to the most obvious and pressing need: safe, permanent housing. By comparison, an estimated minimum of $1.2 billion has been eaten up by short-term solutions '-- the tent camps, temporary shelters and cash grants that pay a year's rent.
  ''Housing is difficult and messy, and donors have shied away from it,'' said Josef Leitmann, manager of the Haiti Reconstruction Fund.
  Benefactors and Dysfunction
  Beyond the numbers, the sluggish reconstruction has been the latest dispiriting chapter in the chronically dysfunctional relationship between Haiti and its benefactors.
  After the earthquake, with good will and money pouring into Haiti, international officials were determined to use the disaster as a catalyst for transforming not only the intractably poor country but the world's ineffectual strategies for helping it.
  Bill Clinton, the United Nations special envoy for Haiti, invoked the ''build back better'' mantra he had imported from his similar role in South Asia after the tsunami. And Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton cautioned donors to stop working around the government and instead work with it, and to stop financing ''a scattered array of well-meaning projects'' rather than making ''deeper, long-term investments.''
  But an examination by The New York Times shows that such post-disaster idealism came to be undercut by the enormousness of the task, the weakness and volatility of the Haitian government, the continuation of aid business as usual and the limited effectiveness of the now-defunct recovery commission that had Mr. Clinton as co-chairman.
  Andr(C) Paultre and Damon Winter contributed reporting.