ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Speaking from a Gulf nation whose skyscrapers rose on oil wealth, Britain's foreign secretary called Thursday on the rest of the wealthy Arab world to put their money toward renewable and clean energy ahead of the landmark climate change conference in Paris later this year.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond speaks with Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the minister of state in the United Arab Emirates, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015. Speaking from a Gulf nation whose skyscrapers rose on oil wealth, Britain’s foreign secretary has called on the rest of the wealthy Arab world to put their money toward renewable and clean energy ahead of the landmark climate change conference in Paris later this year.
Philip Hammond's comments while on a Mideast tour came as he visited the Masdar City renewable energy and sustainable technology project in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Hammond applauded the Emirates for investing in the technology, as well as its pledge to have 24 percent of its electricity come from clean energy sources by 2021.
"I suppose the romantic in me says there is something rather nicely symmetrical about the idea that the wealth that's been generated from years of successful exploitation of fossil fuels would be reinvested ... in the energy technologies of the futures," Hammond said.
In December, officials from 195 countries will meet in Paris to discuss climate change and make pledges to slow global warming. Ahead of the meeting, Europe's climate chief has acknowledged that pledges already made fall short of meeting the international goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
Hammond acknowledged that shortfall, though he said Britain and other participants want an "ambitious" plan to form in the Paris talks. "If we don't, at Paris, secure something that keeps less than 2 degrees as an achievable target, then we will have failed and failed miserably," he said.
From the Emirates, Hammond said he'd be heading to Vienna, where world powers are gathering for talks on the Syrian civil war. He declined to take questions on those coming negotiations.


LESBOS, Greece (AP) — The latest in the odyssey of hundreds of thousands of people trekking across Europe in search of a new life: All times local.
A volunteer carries a young boy after a boat with refugees and migrants sank while crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos, on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. The condition of the child is not known. The Greek coast guard said it rescued 242 refugees or economic migrants off the eastern island of Lesbos Wednesday after the wooden boat they traveled in capsized, leaving at least three dead on a day when another 8 people drowned trying to reach Greece.
7:15 p.m. Authorities are struggling to cope with a fresh surge of migrants arriving at the border between Germany and Austria. Officials in the Passau region of southeast Germany say they have too few buses and not enough shelters, forcing many of the new arrivals to wait for hours in frigid temperatures that can reach freezing point overnight.
The dpa news agency reports that some 6,500 migrants arrived at the border on Wednesday and police expect a similar number Thursday.
7:00 p.m.
Germany's foreign minister says European Union members should seek a common approach on the influx of refugees and economic migrants instead of trading blame.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier says no member of the bloc can address the problem on its own. He added that "it will take us nowhere" if Germany and Austria have disagreements, or for Balkan states to blame Greece for letting migrants enter their borders on their way to wealthier EU members.
Steinmeier said Europe will only find answers "when we no longer seek the best by pursuing national interests" but instead pursue European solutions. These, he said, could include a common approach on what constitutes a safe country of provenance, and on guarding the EU's external borders.
Steinmeier spoke during a visit to Athens.
6:10 p.m.
Hundreds of asylum seekers, some holding children in their arms, have pushed their way over metal barriers at the Sentilj camp on Slovenia's border with Austria after waiting for hours in cold weather to cross.
Up to 1,000 people who had been crammed between the barriers set up by Slovenian and Austrian police pushed forward Thursday, jumping over and trampling on one another.
The unrest calmed down after the police let several hundred people cross toward Austria. Witnesses say they saw some people lying on stretchers.
Earlier Thursday, a fight broke out between migrants at the same camp reflecting fraying tempers among the thousands of refugees lining up.
The process has been very slow, with people arriving in large numbers and authorities on both sides only allowing small groups to cross at a time.
5:50 p.m.
Greece's foreign minister is pressing for the creation of registration centers in Turkey from which European countries could directly take in refugees, sparing them the dangerous sea crossing to Greece.
But Nikos Kotzias conceded Thursday that this would create "difficulties" for European Union members that have so far resisted significant participation in the EU's relocation program for about 160,000 people.
Speaking at a press conference in Athens with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Kotzias also called for a crackdown on the gangs that smuggle migrants to Greece.
He defended Greece's handling of the migrant influx, saying the country has spent 2.8 billion euros (US$3 billion) so far on addressing it — which he said was about five times the pension cuts the country has agreed to carry out under its bailout program.
5:45 p.m.
French Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve says no migrant crossed the border from France to Britain since security was reinforced on Sunday.
Cazeneuve told lawmakers Thursday that around 1,100 police officers have been deployed in the tunnel area of the French port city of Calais.
He added that "hundreds" of asylum-seekers will be taken out of a slum-like camp in Calais on Friday. The camp is believed to have doubled in size in recent weeks to as many as 6,000 people.
Thousands of migrants and refugees have converged in Calais in the hope to sneak across the English Channel to Britain.
5:00 p.m.
Britain's Ministry of Defense says the Royal Navy has rescued 541 people this week as they scoured the Mediterranean Sea in operations to counter refugee smugglers.
The HMS Enterprise, a survey vessel, rescued 439 migrants and HMS Richmond, a Type 23 frigate, rescued 102 migrants. The Ministry declined to say Thursday more precisely where the operations took place.
Military personnel cared for the migrants on the ships before transferring them to the Norwegian support ship Fiem Pilote.
Royal Navy ships in the Mediterranean have rescued almost 7,000 asylum-seekers since May.
4:45 p.m.
Berlin prosecutors say 32-year-old German man arrested in the disappearance of a 4-year-old Bosnian boy has confessed to killing the child.
Prosecutor Michael von Hagen told reporters Thursday that the man, whose identity wasn't released, was turned in by his mother after she recognized him in video released by police.
Police were interviewing the mother at her home when the suspect showed up there Thursday morning and confessed, telling police he had the child's body in the car.
Von Hagen says an autopsy is still being performed but it appears the boy was not "killed today or yesterday." He says there's no evidence the suspect had any xenophobic motive or any links to far-right groups.
4:45 p.m.
A fight has broken out among migrants at the overcrowded Sentilj refugee camp on Slovenia's border with Austria.
The scuffle Thursday reflects fraying tempers among the thousands of refugees queuing for hours in cold weather.
Slovenian police stepped in, pulling out a man who allegedly tried to cut a line of people waiting to cross into Austria. The process has been very slow, with people arriving in large numbers and authorities on both sides only allowing small groups to cross at a time.
Slovenian camp authorities used loudspeakers mounted on armored police vehicles to tell the crowd "Don't push! Wait for instructions from the soldiers!"
4:10 p.m.
Mohammed Mahouk holds a Swedish passport and yet he is treading the refugee route into Europe alongside tens of thousands of asylum-seekers for the second time in less than a month.
Mahouk says he didn't want to let his big family travel on their own from the bombed-out Syrian town of Aleppo to Sweden, where he has lived for the past ten years.
The 31-year-old car mechanic says he first accompanied his brother, sister and her son along the route before flying back three weeks ago to guide another 17 relatives — seven children and ten grown-ups.
His Swedish passport safely tucked away, Mahouk has traveled as a refugee so he wouldn't have to separate from the rest of the family. It has taken them 22 days from Aleppo to Slovenia's border with Austria.
Mahouk says Aleppo is "the worst place in Syria now. No food, no water, no electricity, nothing."
3:50 p.m.
The Greek Coast Guard says one more body — that of a boy — has been found from the boat that capsized off the island of Lesbos, bringing the death toll in that tragedy to eight.
Rescue workers on Thursday are still searching for about 30 others still missing in the capsizing Wednesday. They saved 242 people from the boat.
Lesbos has borne the brunt of Europe's refugee crisis, with more than 300,000 reaching the island this year and the number of daily arrivals recently peaking at 7,500.
3 p.m.
Hungary's foreign minister says the European Union needs to wrest back control of its borders, dismissing as "hypocritical" criticism of his country's construction of a border fence to tame the flow of refugees.
Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said Thursday after talks with his Cypriot counterpart that Hungary built the fence with Serbia to comply with EU rules on the movement of people and goods. He said this must happen through official border crossings during specific opening hours and the only choice was to build a "physical obstacle."
Szijjarto also said fellow EU foreign ministers couldn't offer an alternative when challenged, adding "this kind of hypocritical behavior should be forgotten in Europe."
2:45 p.m.
A top U.N. health official says refugees sleeping outdoors or in cold shelters "are more prone to suffer from hypothermia, frostbite" and other health problems.
Zsuzsanna Jakab, head of European branch of the World Health Organization, said refugees should be given heated shelters, warm meals and proper clothing but also influenza vaccines. In a statement Thursday she urged health authorities in Europe to make sure to detect and treat the migrants' cold-related diseases as winter approaches.
WHO's European Region, based in Copenhagen, encompasses 53 countries, including former Soviet republics.
2:25 p.m.
Berlin police say they have arrested a suspect in the disappearance earlier this month of a 4-year-old Bosnian migrant boy, and have found the body of a child in the suspect's car.
Police said the 32-year-old man, who wasn't identified, was arrested Thursday morning. Police said they are still trying to confirm the identity of the dead child and an autopsy will be conducted later in the day.
The suspect was being questioned.
Authorities had released a video showing 4-year-old Mohamed Januzi leaving the central registration center for migrants in Berlin with an unidentified man on Oct. 1.
2:20 p.m.
Hungary's foreign minister says the international community must significantly ramp up its fight against the Islamic State group in order to stem the flow of people fleeing conflict in the Middle East and heading to Europe.
Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto says "the less successful we are in combatting terrorism, the more migrants will come to Europe and the bigger challenge we will face."
Szijjarto said Thursday the 28-nation European Union must put together a "European force" to help Greece protect its vast sea borders with Turkey, from which thousands of people cross daily into Europe.
He said the EU must also give more financial help to Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Turkey so they can better take care of the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees they are hosting.
2:05 p.m.
Swedish police say firefighters have extinguished another small fire in a house for unaccompanied refugee children.
Police say an "inflammable liquid was poured in through a window" of the house early Thursday and are calling the blaze arson. No one was injured.
In recent weeks, Sweden has seen a spate of arson attacks on asylum centers or buildings as an influx of refugees has surged. Swedish immigration officials estimate up to 190,000 asylum-seekers will arrive this year.
Sweden's national police said they are coordinating the arson investigations and will use helicopters with infrared cameras in an attempt to find suspects.
In neighboring Norway, immigration authorities were considering whether to follow Sweden's decision and longer publicize the location of refugee facilities.
1:45 p.m.
Greek authorities have raised to seven the number of dead from a boat that capsized off the eastern island of Lesbos and are still looking for more than 30 others.
The coast guard said the bodies of two children, a man and a woman were recovered from the sea Thursday. The accident occurred in stormy weather Wednesday. Coast guards and local fishermen managed to rescue 242 people.
Nearly 1,000 people were rescued in 20 separate incidents off the eastern Aegean over the past two days, the Greek coast guard said.
But at least 11 — mostly children — drown in separate incidents Wednesday, as thousands of refugees keep heading to the Greek islands from Turkey.
1:30 p.m.
Slovenian police say more than 100,000 refugees have entered the country in less than two weeks.
Police say more than 5,000 came in Thursday morning, bringing the total number since Oct. 16 to 102,757.
Asylum-seekers hoping to reach Western Europe turned to crossing Slovenia after Hungary closed its border with Croatia with a barbed-wire fence.
Slovenia has warned it could also put up a fence along its border with Croatia. The small nation of 2 million has repeatedly said it cannot not cope with the mass influx.
1:20 p.m.
Greece's Merchant Marine Ministry says the bodies of four more refugees trying to reach Europe have been found off the Greek island of Lesbos.
Authorities on Lesbos say the death toll has now risen to seven after a wooden boat carrying migrants sank en route from Turkey to Greece.
At least 30 others are still believed to be missing in the capsizing. Another 242 people were saved in a dramatic rescue Thursday night.
11:45 a.m.
A Swedish mayor says a standoff continues with 14 asylum-seekers who are refusing to move into fully equipped chalets in a remote and cold part of Sweden where they have been told to stay while their asylum applications are processed.
Kurt Podgorski says the chalets, made for winter sports tourists, in the middle of woods several kilometers (miles) from the nearest town, "maybe is in stark contrast with what they left."
Podgorski said Thursday temperatures in Lima, a mountainous forest in northern Sweden close to Norway, currently are above freezing.
Some of the Syrian and Iraqi asylum-seekers have since Sunday occupied the bus that brought them there, saying Lima is not suitable for them because they have a pregnant woman and children.
Podgorski added police might intervene to help the bus company get its vehicle back.
9:40 a.m.
Authorities on the Greek island of Lesbos say 38 people are believed still missing after a wooden boat carrying migrants sank. Three people are known to have died.
At first light Thursday, a helicopter from the European border protection agency Frontex joined the search by Greek coast guard vessels off the northern coast of the island, hours after the dramatic rescue of 242 people.
At least 11 people — mostly children — died in five separate incidents in the eastern Aegean Sea on Wednesday, as thousands of people continued to head to the Greek islands from Turkey in frail boats and stormy weather.
Lesbos has borne the brunt of the refugee crisis in Greece, with more than 300,000 reaching the island this year — and the number of daily arrivals recently peaking at 7,500.
In a dramatic scene late Wednesday, dozens of paramedics and volunteers helped in the effort to assist the survivors, wrapping them in foil blankets and prioritizing ambulance transport.
Eighteen children were hospitalized, three in serious condition, local authorities said.
Dear Roman,
Please accept my apologies if addressing you as Roman instead of Mr Abramovich seems a bit too familiar but I’m not alone in considering you as one of us, one of the Chelsea FC family.
I’m writing this letter in an open format in the hope that you will be made aware of it and the respect that you command amongst the millions of fans of OUR club.
I am not an astute businessman. I am not a successful entrepreneur. I am however like you, a fan. I am one of the millions that are affected by your decisions, not so much financially, but emotionally, we are equal.
When we lose we both hurt. We both rage at perceived injustices against OUR club. We both celebrate wildly when we win. The mood of both our families is affected by the results of the previous 90 minutes OUR players have achieved on the pitch.
I know we are not alone in these emotions, and there is another person who shares our pain and happiness just as much as us, and that person is Jose Mourinho.
Jose Mourinho, your employee, your manager is very much like us. He “gets” Chelsea FC, he understands us, he loves us, indeed as he has declared, he is one of us.
In this era football is of course a business.
In days gone by it didn’t matter if a team went through a slump in form. It didn’t matter if a club was trophy-less for a season because the financial demands weren’t as great. These days it has all changed. Money demands success, success brings more money, more money demands even more success, and the so the vicious circle continues.
In the midst of this vicious circle there is one commodity that all too frequently gets overlooked: loyalty.
Loyalty (as I’m sure you are all too aware) is a rarity in football. Loyalty to the club, loyalty to the owner’s principles, and loyalty to the fans.
In business it is similar, but with one major difference when it comes to the elite performers. If a top trader starts making some bad decisions after years of success, successful businesses make allowances, whether it be with a leave of absence so that the star can recharge their batteries, or by offering emotional support. In short, an elite performer will be supported, not sacked.
In the above scenario I am of course referring to Jose Mourinho.
Jose IS Chelsea FC’s elite performer when it comes to managers. The stats alone support this with an impressive seven trophies in five and a half years of combined service.
During Jose’s absence:
The other eight managers achieved six trophies in five and a half years.
OUR club became known as the rich managers graveyard for five and a half years.
OUR club became known as a place for managers to earn quick mega money, and with the players at their disposal, potentially boost their personal CV.
OUR club became a laughing stock when we even had to hire the loathsome interim manager Rafa Benitez. Benitez, the man who hated Chelsea FC, took your money and used OUR players, and OUR club as a stepping stone to what he considered a bigger and better job.
THAT HURT.
As a fan that must have hurt you too. As a business owner you did what had to be done in the short term to achieve the long term goal of success.
Everyone makes mistakes, it’s what defines us as human beings. Without mistakes we wouldn’t appreciate the good things we do achieve.
I’m sure that Chelsea FC’s transfer targets during this close season weren’t what we ended up with.
I’m sure that nobody at Chelsea FC envisaged the scenario where at least two of our top performing players from last season would be allowed to start this season overweight and unfit.
There’s no doubt that Jose has made mistakes and I’m sure in private Jose admits those mistakes, as we all do. Let’s face it, none of us go shouting from the rooftops about them, but successful people reflect in private and learn from those very mistakes.
Jose Mourinho is a successful manager.
Passionate? Yes.
Contentious? Yes.
Outspoken? Yes.
Annoying? Yes.
However, above all else I have seen the effect that Jose Mourinho has on us as fans.
He unites us.
What other club could take thousands of fans on a wet Tuesday night to Stoke City after the poor start that we have endured to the season? What other club’s fans would respond to the team going a goal down by chanting their manager’s name continuously in a show of support? What other club’s fans would applaud their team and manager off the pitch after yet another disappointing defeat?
That is the Jose effect.
Chelsea FC are extremely privileged to be in the position of having you as a passionate owner, Jose as a passionate manager, and John Terry as a passionate captain.  I cannot think of any other club in the world where the 3 people fans mostly connect with are all so equally passionate about their club.
Surely it makes excellent business and footballing sense to ensure that the three most successful people in the history of OUR club stay strong and loyal to each other and ride out this “perfect storm” that we are temporarily going through.
I will end this with a reminder of how just 5 months ago we all celebrated together on the streets of West London with a couple of pictures I took at the time.
Fans at Eel Brook Common
Champions
Scenes like this will come again. The millions of Chelsea FC fans worldwide believe that, we know that you believe it too, and pray that you believe Jose Mourinho is still the right man to achieve the success we all so desperately crave.
Yours Sincerely on behalf of the world wide Chelsea Family,
Lee Fraser.

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A youth Corps member, Temi Omolabake, died yesterday, Monday, October 26, in a ghastly motor accident.
Omolabake met death in a motor accident in Zamfara state on her way back to Sokoto from Sango Ota, Ogun state. She was a 2015 batch A corps member serving in Sokoto state. A friend of hers who was a 2014 batch C corps member, Adeniyi Sukurat Abidemi, paid tribute to her.
Her tribute reads:
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“I could remember the first day I met you at a person after hearing so much about you on phone. You were so pretty and young, I fell in love with your smile immediately. You were a loving girl, your siblings’ best friend, your parents’ favourite and your fiance’s little bae. I saw you last on October 7, 2015 when the traffic light stopped my bike and I heard that your tiny voice saying “Chicken, how far”. You traveled the next day to Ogun State and until now I still wish you didn’t travel.
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I loved you so much but you didn’t even allow me to show the love well…. You were an ambitious presenter who had a lot of plans.. Now who would continue your sport program you started at Savannah TV, you gave us so much stress in thinking about a name for that program before we all decided on one. Everyone always gets to like you at first sight…. Trust me, you can’t meet her and not fall in love.
Rest in peace Lamina Temitope Balqis Omolabake…. My dearest talkative.”
Just recently, National Youth Service Corps
Meanwhile,  posted to the state.
President Muhammadu Buhari met with former heads of state of Nigeria and some members of his administration today, October 21 at the council of states meeting at the presidential villa in Abuja.
The meeting was the first since Buhari was sworn in as the president in May 29.
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The Nation reports that the meeting began at 11.10 am after the arrival of the president.
In attendance was former president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida who was seen shaking hand and enjoying a laugh with President Buhari.
PIC. 6. PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI (L), IN A HANDSHAKE WITH FORMER MILITARY PRESIDENT IBRAHIM BABANGIDA, AT THE MAIDEN NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATES MEETING, AT THE PRESIDENTIAL VILLA IN ABUJA Photo Credit: NAN

PIC. 5. FROM LEFT (FRONT ROW): FORMER HEAD OF INTERIM NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, CHIEF ERNEST SHONEKAN; FORMER MILITARY PRESIDENT IBRAHIM BABANGIDA; SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES YAKUBU DOGARA; VICE PRESIDENT YEMI OSINBAJO; PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI; FORMER HEAD OF STATE, GEN. YAKUBU GOWON; FORMER HEAD OF STATE, GEN. ABDULSALAMI ABUBARKA, AND STATE GOVERNORS AFTER THE MAIDEN NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATES MEETING, AT THE PRESIDENTIAL VILLA IN ABUJA Photo Credit: NAN
Watch how President Buhari informally greeted IBB:
Also in attendance were Gen. Yakubu Gowon, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar and Chief Ernest Shonekan.
Professor Yemi Osinbajo, the vice president and Yakubu Dogara, the speaker of the House of Representatives were also present.
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Shehu Shagari, Goodluck Jonathan and Bukola Saraki were absent when the meeting began
The absence of Saraki is suspected to be as a result of

A new anti-bullying PSA that’s making waves across the Internet is a real tearjerker — but not for the reasons you’d fear. Instead, the video, launched by the UP TV network as part of its campaign for National Bullying Prevention Month, is an uplifting social experiment that shows adults intervening when they see an adolescent girl being tormented by two others.
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“Do you have any friends at all?” is the first line of assault from the two older girls toward the younger one — all three actors, filmed sitting at a bus station in Grand Rapids, Mich., in a setup designed to see how various strangers within earshot would react. Other cruel lobs from the girls include: “I know a bunch of people from your dance team and they said they just pretended to be sick so they didn’t have to go to your birthday party,” and “You definitely do need makeup.”
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The results were heartening: After the makeup comment, a woman sitting and waiting for the bus cut in, “No she [does] not.” Other adults overhearing the mean jabs did not hold back either, stepping in to make comments such as, “Leave her alone, please,” “Quit messing with her… It’s not nice,” “It’s that stuff that you’re doing that brings people’s self-esteem down,” and “You want somebody to do that to you? You think it’s funny?”
Others motion for the girl to move away from the bullies and sit closer to them — and when she does, the caring bystanders try to cheer her up by offering compliments and support and, in one touching case, pulling out a harmonica and playing her a tune.
The video, created by Rob Bliss Creative, has been viewed more than 300,000 times on YouTube since being posted there on Thursday. “The idea was to see if strangers would intervene when they came across bullying, and if so, who?” Bliss tells Yahoo Parenting. “I honestly had no idea if people would step in or not, but was delighted to see such heartfelt interventions. Personally, I feel it reinforces the ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ idea — that we all need to be looking out for the warning signs of bullying.”
UP TV launched its “Stand Up to Bullying Campaign” earlier this month to support the network’s larger message to uplift and support families. On its website, it offers advice about how to best stop bullying, via PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center. Its advice for kids about what a child should do if he or she sees a peer being bullied can generally be applied to adults, as well:
•Speak out and ask the bullying kids to stop.
•Do not join in.
•Help the kid who is a target of bullies get away from the situation.
•Let a bullied kid know that no one deserves that type of treatment, and that it’s not his or her fault.
“At least 1 in 3 kids will be bullied during school,” the new UP TV video notes at the outset. “UP TV set out to ask the questions: In an increasingly disconnected world, who will stop the bullying?”
Luckily, at the end, the PSA is able to conclude on a hopeful, positive note: “Who will stop the bullying? All of us.

Slimer (a.k.a. Onionhead) vs. Bill Murray in ‘Ghostbusters’ (Columbia Pictures/GIF via HTMLgiant.com)
Imagine Eddie Murphy and his fellow paranormal firefighters battling a motorcycle-riding skeleton and a giant lizard monster from their gas-station base in a futuristic New Jersey. Who you gonna call? Ghost Smashers!
By the time it became an instant classic upon its release in 1984, Ghostbusters had morphed through radically different iterations, featuring bonkers plot points and unrecognizable creatures. Those mind-blowing details are chronicled by Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Visual History, author Daniel Wallace’s revelatory, self-explanatory new book due out this week, just in time for Halloween.
“I’m a huge Ghostbusters fan, and pretty much every page in this book contains some sort of fact that either wowed me or gave me an acute case of nostalgia,” Wallace tells Yahoo Movies.
Thom Enriquez’s Mr. Stay Puft concepts (via ‘Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Visual History’)
Indeed, from star and co-writer Dan Aykroyd’s sci-fi-tinged original treatment and the casting process to concept art and deleted scenes, the new Ghostbusters tome is full of behind-the-scenes factoids that will astound even the movie’s biggest fans. Here are 15 to ponder:
1. Dan Aykroyd truly believes in ghosts. He wrote Ghostbusters in part because he didn’t think it was right for skeptics to dismiss the paranormal. “What if you advertised on TV or in the Yellow Pages and said, ‘Hey, we believe you, we understand you’” the actor is quoted as saying in the book. “That was the birth of the commercial enterprise of ghostbusting.”
2. Dan Aykroyd dreamed up his original treatment for Ghostbusters around 1981 — the original title was Ghost Smashers. Per Wallace, the story “threw audiences into the deep end of the pool, with a near-future setting and innumerable procedural details concerning high-tech parapsychological tactics. The heroes operated out of a converted New Jersey gas station and faced spectral threats, including a skeletal biker who terrorized a small town.” In the climax, “the Ghostbusters traveled to alternate dimensions.” As director Ivan Reitman relates in the book’s introduction, he received an updated outline in 1983 featuring “a group of men, acting much like firefighters, [who] would trap and catch ghosts as part of a new protective emergency service for the universe at large.” Reitman suggested that Aykroyd reconceive “the story in modern-day Manhattan and frame the adventure as a 'going into business’ tale.” He also encouraged Aykroyd to bring in Harold Ramis as a co-writer. The brain trust was set and together over a two-and-a-half week vacation with their families in Martha’s Vineyard, the trio reshaped the story.
3. The script was written for Aykroyd’s fellow Blues Brother John Belushi to co-star as Peter Venkman, but Belushi died of an overdose in 1982. Aykroyd then zeroed in an Eddie Murphy to co-star.  At one point another Saturday Night Live colleague, Chevy Chase, was eyed for the role — the book includes an excerpt of a script that mentions a “female ghost (romantic-sexy) [that] seduces Chevy Chase.” (Bill Murray, of course, ultimately came aboard.)

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The Twins Before Surgery
Maria Clara and Maria Eduarda Oliveira Santana are twins from Salvador, Brazil, who — until recently — were conjoined. Before they underwent separation surgery, Brazilian photographer Mateus André photographed the twins and their family. “I met them by chance, when my wife and I were spending some days in Goiânia,” André told the Huffington Post. “We were walking in the city, and I saw a story on TV asking for donations.” Inspired to help, André visited the family at the Casa do Interior de Goiás, where they were awaiting the then 3-month-old girls’ surgery. (Photo credit: Mateus Andre/Flickr)

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Photographer Captures Amazing Images of Conjoined Twins Before and After Surgery

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A stunning series of photographs shows now five-month-old conjoined twins Maria Clara and Maria Eduarda Oliveira Santana before and after their separation surgery.
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