Satoshi Kon Dies

Japanese animated filmmaker and comic artist Satoshi Kon, known for award-winning films like Tokyo Godfathers and Paprika, has died at age 46.

The celebrated filmmaker died Tuesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, according to a statement his wife, Kyoko, released on his official website Wednesday.

Born in Hokkaido in 1963, Kon was a fan of the Japanese comic style known as manga. Among his best-known features is the Oscar-nominated 2003 film Tokyo Godfathers, Satoshi Kon loose interpretation of John Ford's 1948 western 3 Godfathers, reset in modern Tokyo's poor neighbourhoods.

Japanese filmmaker and comic-book artist, Satoshi Kon, died in Tokyo on Tuesday at the age of 46. Besides incorporating many familiar anime elements, Kon’s work also include literary, artistic, and cinematic traditions beyond contemporary Japanese culture.
Some of Kon’s work includes his first feature Perfect Blue, followed by Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, and Paprika.

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The Shreveport teens from at least two families drowned in the Red River after they were playing in shallow water then stepped off a ledge into an 18-foot sinkhole.

Six teens drowned in Shreveport, LA, Monday afternoon. The ages of the teenagers ranged from 13 to 18..

I can understand how teenagers would be careless about going into the water, knowing they can’t swim. I’m having a hard time understanding why the adults allowed this. Water safety is an important issue for me

. In order to prevent tragedies like this, I urge everyone to take swimming lessons

Accidents happen
. If you are an adult, please do not allow children that do not know how to swim, play in the water

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Tropical Storm Colin formed in the Atlantic Ocean

, tropical storm Colin was upgraded from a tropical depression with maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour; the storm approached the southeastern Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic, and is about 945 miles east of the Lesser Antilles moving west-northwest at 23 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center

1st Visible of Tropical Storm Colin for Tuesday August 3rd 2010.Tropical storm, Colin, is likely to form out of Tropical Depression Four overnight

Tropical Storm Colin formed in the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean on Tuesday but posed no immediate threat to land, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

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Pakistan's international partners have tried to bolster the government's response

Pakistan – Pakistan dispatched medical teams Monday to the deluged northwest amid fears that cholera could spread after the worst floods in the country's history that have already killed up to 1,200 people, an official said

The government says it has deployed thousands of rescue workers who have so far saved an estimated 28,000 people and distributed basic food items.

Thousands more people in the province remain trapped by the floodwaters.

Now people in the northwest also face the threat of waterborne disease — which could kill thousands more if health workers cannot deliver enough clean drinking water and treat and isolate any patients in crowded relief camps

Patients with stomach problems from dirty water are being treated in government medical camps, he said.

Pakistan's international partners have tried to bolster the government's response by offering millions of dollars in emergency aid.

The Pakistani people are friends and partners, and the United States is standing with them as the tragic human toll mounts from flooding in northwest Pakistan," said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in a statement.

The U.S. provided similar emergency assistance after Pakistan experienced a catastrophic earthquake in 2005 that killed nearly 80,000 people

Pakistani militant groups often rail against government ineffectiveness as a way to build support, a message likely to resonate with many in the northwest who have criticized the official flood response.

The military has deployed at least 30,000 army troops who helped rescue more than 28,000 people, said the national government.

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