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Though still in her early twenties, the hardships of living in an impoverished informal area with little or no access to water or other services has left their mark on Samahs pale face and thin body.

Samah left primary school to work as a maid. Working in homes where she could at least enjoy putting her hands in water and having a nourishing meal seemed like heaven. At least I could have a better life there, she said.

Her words bespeak the hardship of living in the informal area of Ezbet Al-Hagganna on the outskirts of Nasr City, where there is little security and crime is rife. Samah lives with her family in a small flat in a shabby building with no private bathroom. She shares a small childs bedroom with her three sisters and a brother.

I was hardly allowed to play in a park when I was little, simply because we didnt have one in our area, and I have only ever seen the sea on TV, Samah said. We rarely have water at home, and I have to spend my only day off work filling and carrying water buckets from a nearby area.

Has life become any better after two revolutions? What are you talking about? Samah asked incredulously. Life has become worse due to the price hikes, unemployment, and the absence of security. We do not trust the governments promises or that anyone will ever care for the poor.

Samah is, however, luckier than many other residents of such areas. In an earlier report on informal areas in Cairo and Giza, I was told heartbreaking stories of the inhumane conditions people are forced to live in.

Some families shared a mattress on the floor of a tin kiosk with a cardboard ceiling that gave them little protection from the winter rains. Many reported the prevalence of crime, disease and dangerous insects and snakes. Sewage had leaked into the Saft Al-Laban, a waterway in the Giza governorate, and some schools were located close to sewage ponds.

Despite such hardships, however, almost everyone who talked to Al-AhramWeekly still insisted they would not move away from the places where they live. They hoped to be either relocated to safe buildings in the same neighbourhood or provided with services that would make their living conditions more tolerable.

ALARMING FIGURES: In his book Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City Out of Control,the American author David Sims, an economist and urban planner, paints a bleak picture. Egypt seems by far to have the most extensive informal urban development of any Arab country, said Sims, adding that such developments are increasing at a very rapid rate.

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KICKING his girlfriend out of bed, ripping up her parents lawn and wrestling her father has led to a Warrnambool man being ordered to complete 100 hours of community work.

KICKING his girlfriend out of bed, ripping up her parents lawn and wrestling her father has led to a Warrnambool man being ordered to complete 100 hours of community work.

Damian Michael Keane, 21, of Bell Street, pleaded guilty in Warrnambool Magistrates Court this week to careless driving/improper use of a vehicle, unlawful assault, assault by kicking and breaching an intervention order.

He was convicted, fined $700 with $113 costs, has lost his drivers licence for three months, will have to complete a safe driver course and was placed on an 18-month community corrections order.

The CCO includes conditions he complete 100 hours of community work and undertake assessment, treatment and programs including a mens behaviour change course.

Police alleged that Keane was dating the daughter of the victims. At 10pm on May 9, Mr Keane and his then-girlfriend went to a North Warrnambool house to store property in a garage.

There was an argument and Keane was asked to leave. He got into a car and security camera footage showed him driving along the front lawn for up to 20 metres, ripping up the grass.

He got within about two metres of a bay window where his girlfriends parents were.

Keane had to surrender his vehicle under the hoon legislation.

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By ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Secret Service officers chasing a Texas Army veteran across the White House lawn in September figured they had him cornered when he encountered the thick bushes on the property.

To their surprise the bushes were no match for the fence-jumper, who dashed into the executive mansion through a pair of unlocked doors, knocking aside an officer physically too small to tackle him. She would then fumble with her own equipment as the man carrying a knife ran deep inside the president's home, according to a Homeland Security review of the Sept. 19 incident.

The incident occurred shortly after 7 p.m., only minutes after President Barack Obama and his daughters, along with a guest of one of the girls, left the White House aboard Marine One on their way to Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland where Obama and his family were to spend the weekend. First lady Michelle Obama had traveled separately to Camp David and was not at home.

The folly of errors and missteps by Secret Service officers were revealed in a nine-page summary of the government's investigation of the break-in at the White House by a disturbed Army veteran.

The government determined that lack of training, poor staffing decisions and communication problems contributed to the embarrassing failure that ultimately led to the resignation of the head of the Secret Service, Julia Pierson. The report did not specify any disciplinary actions.

The new report said Omar Gonzalez, 42, cleared the fence where a trident, or ornamental spike, was missing. An officer in the joint operations center who tried to raise the alarm was unaware his warnings weren't being broadcast to uniformed officers stationed at the executive mansion.

Some officers at a gate on Pennsylvania Avenue failed to see the fence-jumper because their view was obstructed by a construction project. A Secret Service canine officer parked on the White House driveway was using the speaker function on his personal cellphone without his radio ear piece, and a second, tactical radio was stashed away in his locker as the intruder made his way into the secure area.

Two officers wrongly assumed Gonzalez wouldn't be able to get through thick bushes on the property, the report said. Another officer posted on the portico outside the wooden White House doors mistakenly assumed the doors were locked.

The intruder was able to run into the building before a female officer seated just inside could lock a second set of doors.

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A 23-year-old man has been remanded in custody in connection with an alleged stabbing of a father and son in Tralee shortly before 6am last Tuesday.

Brian Keane of no fixed abode is charged with trespass at Woodbrook Lawn Tralee, the home of the Fital family.

He is also charged with assault causing harm (Section 3 of the Non-Fatal offences Against the Person Act) to Kamil Fital, aged 47, at Woodbrook Lawn and with the same offence in connection with 17-year-old Hubert Fital at the same location.

Mr Keane was brought before Cahersiveen District Court yesterday.

Det Garda Michael Healy of Tralee garda gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution saying the accused had been arrested in Tralee on Tuesday and charged on Wednesday with the two Section 3 assaults along with trespassing at Woodbrook Lawn and at Shanakill, Tralee, and theft of cash at Moa lee, Tralee, all on November 11.

The accused made no reply to the charges.

Inspector John Brennan said the State was applying to remand the accused in custody.

Pat Mann, solicitor for Mr Keane, said he was not opposing the States application but put it to Det Healy there is a large medical picture here.

The detective agreed and Judge James OConnor ordered that the accused be given appropriate medical treatment while in custody.

He remanded him in custody to appear at Tralee District Court on Wednesday next.

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By ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Secret Service response to an armed intruder who jumped the fence and raced into the White House was complicated by muted alarms and radios, thick bushes on the lawn, unlocked doors and an officer inside who was physically too small to tackle the intruder and fumbled with her equipment, according to the Homeland Security Department review of the case.

A summary of the government's investigation, released Thursday night, revealed sensational new details about the Sept. 19 break-in at the White House by a disturbed Army veteran carrying a knife.

The government determined that lack of training, poor staffing decisions and communication problems contributed to the embarrassing failure that ultimately led to the resignation of the head of the Secret Service, Julia Pierson. The report disclosed Thursday did not specify any disciplinary actions.

The new report said White House intruder Omar Gonzalez cleared the fence where a trident, or ornamental spike, was missing. An officer in the joint operations center who tried to raise the alarm was unaware his warnings weren't being broadcast to uniformed officers stationed at the executive mansion.

Some officers at a gate on Pennsylvania Avenue failed to see the fence-jumper because their view was obstructed by a construction project. A Secret Service canine officer parked on the White House driveway was using the speaker function on his personal cellphone without his radio ear piece and a second, tactical radio was stashed away in his locker as Gonzalez made his way into the secure area.

Two officers wrongly assumed Gonzalez wouldn't be able to get through thick bushes on the property. Another officer posted on the portico outside the wooden White House doors mistakenly assumed the doors were locked.

Gonzalez, 42, was able to run into the building before a female officer seated just inside the building could lock a second set of doors.

That officer tried twice to take Gonzalez down but was unable because she was smaller than the intruder. She reached for a metal baton but mistakenly grabbed a flashlight instead. As she dropped the light and drew her gun, Gonzalez made his way into the East Room before heading back down a hallway on the State Floor deep within the White House.

Gonzalez was eventually tackled by another officer, who was helped by two plainclothes agents just finishing a shift, the report said.

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By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - A surgeon working in West Africa's Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown to the United States for treatment on Saturday, according to a person in the federal government with direct knowledge of the case.

The surgeon, Dr. Martin Salia, will be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the person said. A Sierra Leone citizen, the 44-year-old Salia lives in Maryland and is a legal permanent U.S. resident, according to the person, who was not authorized to release the information and spoke on condition of anonymity

The doctor will be the third Ebola patient at the Omaha hospital and the 10th person with Ebola to be treated in the U.S. The last, Dr. Craig Spencer, was released from a New York hospital on Tuesday

In a statement Thursday, the Nebraska Medical Center said it had no official confirmation that it would be treating another patient, but that an Ebola patient in Sierra Leone would be evaluated for possible transport to the hospital. The patient would arrive Saturday afternoon.

Salia is a general surgeon who had been working at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown, according to the person familiar with the case. He came down with symptoms of Ebola on Nov. 6 but test results were negative for the virus. He was tested again on Monday, and he tested positive. Salia is in stable condition at an Ebola treatment center in Freetown. It wasn't clear whether he had been involved in the care of Ebola patients.

Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year. The disease has killed more than 5,000 people, mostly in Sierra Leona, Guinea and Liberia.

The State Department said in a statement late Thursday, that along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it had been in touch with the Maryland wife of an unidentified Ebola patient about transferring him to the Nebraska Medical Center for care.

The hospital in Omaha is one of four U.S. hospitals with specialized treatment units for people with highly dangerous infectious diseases. It was chosen for the latest patient because workers at units at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital and the National Institutes of Health near Washington are still in a 21-day monitoring period.

Those two hospitals treated two Dallas nurses who were infected while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who fell ill with Ebola shortly after arriving in the U.S. and later died.

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With services like lawn mowing, lawn care, hedge trimming and tree chopping, its surprising to hear Carmichael Gardening Services is owned and operated solely by husband and wife team Brian and Jane Carmicahel.

They established the business three years ago, until Brian quit his full-time job to focus on their business.

Before then, I was just mowing lawns in the afternoons and around my full-time job, Brian says.

We did a course funded by the government to help small business. You get a certificate three or four in small business, and we did that in Toowoomba while we were still working and running this business for about six weeks.

Starting a new business was scary, but the key lies in learning to be resilient in times of rejection.

Dont give up, Brian counsels. Dont be disappointed by rejection and lack of customers. Keep going and it will come. Keep putting your name out there, talk to people in the street, put out business cards, flyers; youve got to keep looking forward every day.

Pic: Brian Carmichael. Source: Supplied.

One marketing tactic Carmichael Gardening Services uses is putting leaflets in houses with untidy yards when mowing a house on the street, something which has been quite effective so far.

They also ask for business referrals from current customers, but says a challenge is trying to get more repeat customers.

Its been fairly tough, especially when it doesnt rain; were now at our fourth month without rain. It gets harder and harder, but its a good chance to catch up on admin and on things around our own property, Brian says.

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When she isn't playing spunky characters like Katniss Everdeen, Jennifer Lawrence walks red carpets in elegant gowns by Dior, the couture house for which she is a celebrity face. From the time she wowed us in Dior Haute Couture while accepting an Academy Award for her role in "Silver Linings Playbook" in 2013, to the Dior high-low dress she wore this week to the London premiere of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1," she's looked feminine and chic. But growing up, she was a tomboy who wore hand-me-downs from her two older brothers along with yard-sale finds, she told French magazine Madame Figaro. [People]

Kim Kardashian bared more than her rear end for Paper magazine, as we reported here at All the Rage on Thursday. She also went full frontal. [Los Angeles Times]

Paper's editorial director Mickey Boardman tells the Cut that baring all was Kardashian's idea: "We hadn't planned for her to take her clothes off. She wanted to and it kind of fit with the thing, and [photographer] Jean-Paul [Goude] was super excited about her attitude and Kim was super excited. Everyone was excited about working together and making magic." [The Cut]

Meanwhile in another corner of Kardashian Land, Kim's half-sister Kendall Jenner reportedly has opted, along with Cara Delevingne, to model for Chanel in Austria on Dec. 2, instead of for Victoria's Secret in London on the same day.[New York Post]

Mercedes-Benz, title sponsor for New York Fashion Week since 2009, may pull out, reports the Hollywood Reporter. [THR]

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