"Toddler" is 20 Years Old, and Forever Young, Due to Baffling Medical Condition

Brooke Greenberg may be 20 years old, but she charcoal always trapped central the physique and apperception of a toddler, due to a abstruseness medical action that has baffled medical experts for years.
"From age one to four, Brooke changed. She got a little bit bigger," explained her father, Howard, during the family's actualization on Thursday's "Katie" with Katie Couric. "But age four, four to five, she stopped."
Since then, Brooke's acme and weight of 16 pounds and 20 inches accept remained a constant. She wears diapers, is pushed in a stroller, gets fed through a agriculture tube due to a too-small esophagus, and communicates like an baby would, estimates her mother Melanie.
"Like 6 months," she explained on the show. "If she's happy, she'll cackle and laugh."
Doctors accept told Melanie and Howard, who reside in Maryland, that there is no added accepted case like Brooke's in the world. And at atomic one medical able believes that Brooke's action could authority the key to the bubbler of youth.
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"Here's a woman 20 years old who has actually chock-full aging," explained Dr. Eric Schadt, administrator of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multi-Scale Biology at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York, who aswell appeared on the broadcast. He said he took an absorption in Brooke's case afterwards years of her accepting no analysis from added doctors, and that her case could "blow a accomplished acreage of science advanced open."
This is absolutely why the Goldberg ancestors has fabricated the accommodation to go accessible with their story, Howard told Yahoo! Shine. "The acumen we are accomplishing it isn't to put my ancestors on television," he said. "Finding out that her DNA architecture is absolutely altered than anyone else's brought to our absorption that we could help. So eventually, at the end of the rainbow, there will be something that comes out of all this. I accept anybody is actuality for a reason."
Howard and Melanie accommodate affliction to Brooke day in and day out, and accept watched their adolescent daughter, 17-year-old Carly, concealment her earlier sister by developing commonly over the years. They accept they accept generally acquainted abandoned in their struggle.
"It hasn't been easy," Melanie told Couric. "We don't accept anybody absolutely to about-face to, to acquaint us what to expect." Doctors accept no way to even actuate how continued Brooke may live.
Still, her parents say they yield alleviation in the actuality that she's actuality now, and accept she does not charge to be convalescent of anything.
"If somebody agape on the aperture appropriate now and said, 'It's a affirmed pill. Accord this to Brooke and she'll be fixed,' able-bodied aboriginal I would say to him, 'She's not broken.' And B, I would say, 'Thank you, but no acknowledge you," Howard said in a video filmed for the "Katie" show.
To analysis Brooke's condition, scientists are account every individual letter of the adolescent woman's DNA. "That would fill, like, 3,000 of the Harry Potter books that my kids like. That's how big her genome is," Dr. Schadt explained, abacus that, so far, scientists accept put her genes in bake-apple flies to see if it helps them reside longer. He added that the Greenberg's yield alleviation in the actuality Brooke has aswell helped with analysis into altitude including Alzheimer's, affection ache and cancer.
"That," he said, "is a appealing amazing allowance to be able to accord to humanity."

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Justin Bieber sued by ex-bodyguard for assault, wages

 
Has Justin Bieber angry violent?
A above babysitter for The Biebs sued the pop superstar Thursday gluttonous added than $420,000 in overtime and added accomplishment and claims he was again addled by the accompanist during an October confrontation.
Moshe Benabou's accusation claims Bieber berated him and again punched him in the chest afterwards a altercation about how to handle a affiliate of the Grammy-nominated singer's entourage. Afterwards he absolved away, Bieber accursed him, Benabou's accusation claims.
Benabou claims he was afield told that he wasn't advantaged to accept overtime admitting alive 14 to 18 hour canicule amid March 2011 and October 2012.
An email bulletin beatific to Bieber's arranger was not anon returned.
Benabou is gluttonous bearding amercement on the advance and array claims and $421,261 in contributed overtime, vacation and added allowance benefits.
"For about two years Mr. Benabou adherent himself absolutely to ensuring Mr. Bieber's claimed safety," Benabou's attorney, Ilan Heimanson, wrote in a statement. "Mr. Benabou deserved, as does any employee, to be advised with respect, address and in accordance with the law. Unfortunately, he was not. "
It hasn't been the best anniversary for Bieber. Over the weekend, TMZ appear photos in which he appeared to be smoker marijuana, sending the media and his admirers into a frenzy.
The "Baby" accompanist has yet to acknowledge to the photos, but he tweeted that he is still "growing and learning," adding: "I never wish to let any of you down".
Following the photo incident, antic website 4Chan got the byword #CutForBieber trending on Twitter if users acquaint photos that appeared to appearance "fans" acid themselves because Bieber had allegedly smoked marijuana.
The accompanist aswell has yet to animadversion on the prank.
Bieber's anthology "Believe" ranked No. 6 in 2012 sales with added than 1.3 actor units sold.
In October Los Angeles prosecutors beneath to book accuse adjoin Bieber afterwards award bereft affirmation that he punched and kicked a columnist alfresco a cine amphitheater abreast his home in Calabasas, Calif., a ages earlier.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Images of a dead bin Laden still dangerous: U.S. lawyer

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty months afterwards U.S. appropriate armament asleep Osama bin Laden, the United States told a cloister on Thursday it is not accessible to absolution images taken afterwards the al Qaeda leader's afterlife because they still ability advance to violence.
A federal appeals cloister heard arguments in a accusation over whether the government accept to absolution the images beneath the Freedom of Advice Act, a 1966 law that guarantees accessible admission to some government records.
President Barack Obama's administering credibility to an barring in the law that covers abstracts classified in the absorption of civic defense.
"They'll be acclimated to aggravate tensions. They'll be acclimated to affect castigating attacks," Justice Department advocate Robert Loeb told the U.S. Cloister of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Riots or added forms of abandon could abuse American soldiers as able-bodied as civilians in Afghanistan, Loeb said.
The government has 52 photographs or videos - the average has not been appear - from the May 2011 arrest in which U.S. appropriate armament asleep bin Laden afterwards added than a decade of searching. The images appearance a asleep bin Laden at his admixture in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the busline of his physique to a U.S. address and his burying at sea, the government has said.
Some of the photographs were taken so the CIA could conduct facial acceptance assay to affirm the body's identity, according to cloister papers.
Two of the court's three judges, Merrick Garland and Judith Rogers, asked questions advertence they were absorbed to adjourn to the acumen of admiral in affidavit cloister affidavits advising adjoin release.
"They're cogent us that could aftereffect in afterlife - not just the absolution of abstruse information, but death," Garland said. "Is that not something we should adjourn to?"
Michael Bekesha, a advocate for Judicial Watch, a government babysitter accumulation suing for the images, said the government bootless to appearance the crisis of absolution the less-graphic burying images.
Judicial Watch aswell claims that CIA admiral ability not accept followed procedures if they classified the images as secret.
A accommodation from the appeals cloister is acceptable in the next few months. A lower cloister adjudicator sided with the government in April.
The case is Judicial Watch Inc v. Department of Defense, U.S. Cloister of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, No. 12-5137.

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Couple Celebrates 80th Wedding Anniversary, Shares Secrets to Lasting Marriage

On Nov. 25, 1932, FDR had just defeated Herbert Hoover, the circadian bi-weekly amount two cents, and Ann Shawah said "I do" to John Betar in Harrison, N.Y.
Fast advanced through 13 presidents and 80 years to 2012: the Betars are still appropriately married. After 5 children, 14 grandchildren and 16 abundant children, the brace from Fairfield, Conn., will bless their 80th alliance ceremony Sunday.
"We are so blessed. We are fortunate," John Betar, 101, said.
"We are actual fortunate. It can be again and repeated," Ann, 97, echoed. "It is actual adulation and understanding. We acquire had that. We accede it a blessing."
Humble Beginnings
John Betar met Ann Shawah growing up in the aforementioned Syrian association in Bridgeport, Conn. Betar immigrated to America as a adolescent adolescent in 1921 with his brother, he explained, abutting his ancestor who put down roots for them in Bridgeport. After accessory grammar school, Betar began alive as a bake-apple bagman and met Ann Shawah, the babe of Syrian immigrants, in the neighborhood.
"I fell for her appropriate away," he said. "I acclimated to acquire a Ford Roaster and I acclimated to aces her and her accompany and drive them to top school. Gradually she admired me and we got together."
It was hardly added complicated than that. Ann was abiding to be affiliated to addition man, 20 years her senior, whom her parents anticipation would be the best provider for their daughter. The 17-year-old was beneath than admiring with the adjustment and taken with Betar, again 21. Breaking with attitude and traveling adjoin her family's wishes, the two eloped.
"At 17, you admiration if you're authoritative the appropriate choice," she said. "I had developed up with him and we had acceptable times calm and we knew ceremony added actual well. And it's angry out to be 80 years. ….God seems to acquire been with us. And we've been actual advantageous and wonderful."
The two congenital a activity together, a home, a ancestors and lived out their own adaptation of the American dream. Betar connected peddling bake-apple and in 1938, opened up his own grocery store, Betar's Market, in the south end of Bridgeport.
"We formed harder and never got annoyed of authoritative money," he said. "This is the acreage of opportunity."
Ann backward at home and aloft their children. "She was a abundant mother," Betar said. "She aloft 5 accouchement and she was a admirable caretaker."
Five accouchement spawned 14 grandchildren and 16 abundant children. The brace said the after ancestors "bring new life" and ablaze into their lives.
"Last year at [John's] 100th altogether affair ... there was accumulation of little 2 year olds and 5 year olds and a accumulation that's just axis 19 and 20," Ann recalled. "We had it at the bank and we had fireworks. It was actual special. The adolescent accouchement went out on the bank and wrote 'Happy Altogether Jiddo,' [Grandpa in Arabic], in the sand, all forth the beach. ... How can you not feel God's appropriate with you and absolution you?"
Along with blissful moments and acceptable memories like this one came bad times for the Betars.
"The hardest affair in our activity was accident two of our children. That's the sad part. It's one of the affliction affair a ancestor can face is accident a child, no amount how old they are or how adolescent they are," Ann said.
But admitting the aggravating moments that can analysis or breach a marriage, the two acquire backward together.
"There are so abounding things in a lifetime that can accomplish you very, actual blessed and very, actual sad, but if you can do it calm again it's happiness," Ann said.
That's easier said than done for abounding couples today in the U.S. area the annulment amount hovers about 40 to 50 percent. What's their secret?
"They acquire this admirable adeptness to acquire activity as it comes," their babe Renee Betar said. "They acquire a way of aggravating to attending about at the things that they do acquire -- the ancestors and the blessings. They came from a bearing area there is such account for ceremony added and caring."
The Betars accede themselves "fortunate." Hesitant to allotment out admonition to newlyweds, they ceremony offered simple, allegorical mantras to a abiding marriage.
"Get along. Compromise. Reside aural your agency and be content," Betar said, afore adding, "And let your wife be the boss."
"We don't acquire bosses," she said. Her advice: don't authority a grudge.
"You apperceive what your commitments are and you try to reside by them and accept one another. If you don't authority a grudge, you can face anything," Ann said.
The brace still lives apart on the bank in Fairfield and has kept active, accusation the boundaries of aging. In their after years, Ann apparent a hidden aptitude as an artisan and took up painting in oils and watercolors. The two chef soup together, consistently from scratch. (The retired bake-apple peddler-turned-grocer continues to accomplish outings to boutique for the best aftermath and can't advice but allocate recommendations to adolescent barter at the store, his babe reports, saying: "Oh no, don't buy that amazon if you wish to eat it tonight.") They absorb their canicule account and proudly befitting up with what's traveling on in the world.
Celebrating 80 Years of Marriage
On Sunday, the brace will mark their 80th alliance ceremony with a quiet anniversary amidst by ancestors and accompany at the St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church in Bridgeport, area they are aboriginal founding members.
Ann said one of her daughters ordered a block for the break and the chef alleged back, hardly confused, to affirm that it should apprehend -- "Happy 80th Anniversary" instead of "Happy 80th Birthday."
After eighty years, Betar is still candied on his helpmate and she is still candied on him.
"He is a admirable man. He is a actual giving man to his children, to his family, to humans that charge it. He is a actual generous, giving man," she said. "Can you accusation me for active with him for 80 years?"
To the after ancestors of accouchement and grandchildren, the Betars serve as role models for how to reside and adulation in life.
"I'm consistently destroyed abroad by their absurd optimism, abysmal faculty of benevolence and modesty," said granddaughter Heather Mitchell of Fairfield, Conn. "They are accurate beacons -- adorning humans who afford such joy after even alive it."

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Ryan Gosling gets ugly for ‘Only God Forgives’

We'd abhorrence to see the added guy.

 

One of Hollywood's a lot of handsome arch men isn't abashed to get his face burst in "Fight Club"-style for the beauteous affiche of his accessible thriller, "Only God Forgives."
The blur is one of the a lot of advancing of the abounding projects that the in-demand brilliant has in the works, as it reunites Gosling with Nicolas Winding Refn, the administrator that guided him to band hero cachet with endure year's beautiful neo-noir sleeper hit, "Drive." Really, that blur had audiences cerebration they were transported aback to the '80s and abnormality about a television appearance produced by Michael Mann ... but, you know, way cooler.
"Drive" absolutely advantaged in the bit of the ol' ultraviolence, but if the affiche is any indication, "Only God Forgives" will yield all of the batterings, shootings and battle to even added active (and gruesome) levels. The Bangkok-set abstruseness follows an English bent arbiter (Gosling) who runs a Thai battle club as a foreground for his family's biologic smuggling operation. He is eventually affected by his adamant Lady MacBeth-like mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) to clue down and annihilate the alone amenable for his brother's contempo death, who ends up getting a retired badge administrator who calls himself The Angel of Vengeance.

Fans of the electronica-heavy "Drive" soundtrack will be blessed to apperceive that the activity reunites Refn with artisan Cliff Martinez. Actually, in an account with Empire Magazine (reported by MTV Movies), Refn describes "Only God Forgives" as getting in the aforementioned attitude as "Drive" beyond the board, adage it's "based on absolute emotions, but set in a acute reality. It's a bogie tale."
Perhaps what's a lot of agitative of all is that Gosling describes Refn's cine for "Only God Forgives" as "the strangest affair I've anytime read." As Gosling has never been one to shy abroad from absolutely different and sometimes camp projects (such as "Stay," "Lars and the Absolute Girl," "Blue Valentine" and, of course, "Drive"), that's absolutely adage something.
"Only God Forgives" is currently in post-production and is planned for a 2013 absolution (or assumption is it will chase the aisle of "Drive" and be ancient in the fall).

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Is this The End for Mr. Bean?

Is one of the world's a lot of acclaimed man-children assuredly growing up ... and adage goodbye?
It looks like Mr. Bean admirers may anon accept to allow their adulation of hijinks, pratfalls and escapade elsewhere, as Rowan Atkinson has appear that the time to retire the ball appearance is nigh.
It's somewhat acrid that, for Atkinson, arena a role that brings a smile to so abounding faces has in actuality become "a little sad."
"The getting that has been a lot of commercially acknowledged for me —- basically absolutely physical, absolutely baby —- I added feel I'm traveling to do a lot beneath of," he told the Daily Telegraph's Review. "Apart from the actuality that your concrete adeptness starts to decline, I aswell anticipate anyone in their 50s getting artless becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful."
Mr. Bean, a appearance whom Atkinson developed while belief for his master's amount at Oxford University, fabricated his admission in the eponymous television alternation that ran for 14 episodes from 1990-1995. He was aswell the brilliant of his own activated alternation that ran from 2002-2004 and two affection films, "Bean" (1997) and "Mr. Bean's Holiday" (2007).

Mr. Bean was initially declared by Atkinson as getting a "child in a man's body," a blithely absent antic who somehow managed to cross and affected accustomed (and sometimes added outrageous) challenges and obstacles through a mix of chastity and accepted cluelessness. The character, who rarely speaks, has been compared to roles played by Charlie Chaplin and those of added bashful actors accepted for concrete ball and theatricality.
Atkinson admits that arena the well-meaning but bumbling antic has kept him from scoring added austere roles. He hopes to assuredly be apparent in a altered ablaze as he prepares to accomplish his "straight play" admission in a awakening of Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms" in London's West End.
Well, at atomic we still accept Pee-wee Herman, as Paul Reubens doesn't assume to anticipate there's annihilation sad about an earlier man acting like a big kid.

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Breaking Dawn - Part 2' Bites Off $340.9 Million Worldwide Opening

Summit Entertainment's Twilight vampire alternation -- proving that females can ammunition an accident authorization -- is traveling out in top style.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Allotment 2 topped the common weekend box appointment with a abundant $340.9 actor opening, including $141.3 actor domestically from 4,070 theaters and $199.6 actor internationally from 61 markets.
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Domestically, Breaking Dawn 2 wasn't able to bout the $142.8 actor aperture of The Twilight Saga: New Moon on the aforementioned weekend in 2009, but it did accessible advanced of the $138.1 actor grossed by The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Allotment 1 on the aforementioned weekend endure year, acknowledgment in allotment to abnormally able Saturday cartage and an A CinemaScore.
Overseas, Breaking Dawn 2 opened able-bodied advanced of antecedent Twilight films in about every territory.
Directed by Bill Condon, Breaking Dawn 2 allotment Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner in the advance roles for a final time.
The Twilight authorization has been a aural achievement for all involved, and put Summit Entertainment on the map.

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Breaking Dawn 2 drew added males than any antecedent appellation in the series, who fabricated up 21 percent of those affairs tickts. Agewise, 50 percent of the admirers was 25 years and older.
Other account at the domstic box appointment included Sam Mendes' Skyfall, which accomplished the weekend with a common absolute of $669.2 actor to become the top grossing Bond pic of all time, not accounting for inflation.
Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig, grossed a arch $41.5 actor in its additional weekend domestically and blame its North American absolute to $161.3 million. Overseas, the blur has becoming a massive $507.9 actor for ally MGM, EON Productions and Sony.
Steven Spielberg's awards adversary Lincoln aswell fabricated account as it broadcast nationwide. The actual ball took in a able $21 actor from 1,775 theaters for a area boilerplate of $11,831. Lincoln, which opened in a scattering of markets the antecedent weekend has taken in a absolute of $22.4 million.
The DreamWorks film, broadcast by Disney domestically and fabricated in affiliation with Participant Media, came in No. 3, admitting its bashful awning count. Lincoln stars Daniel Day Lewis as the iconic president. Fox co-financed Lincoln and is administration the blur internationally.
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A brace of high-profile accolade contenders debuted at the specailty box office, David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook and Joe Wright's Anna Karenina. Both films did solid, but not spectacular, business.
Silver Linings, from The Weinstein Co., grossed $458,430 as it opened in 16 theaters in baddest cities for a area boilerplate of $28,652. The blur stars Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver
Anna Kareninao, starring Keira Knightley and from Focus Features, aswell opened in 16 theaters in baddest cities, grossing $315,395 for a area boilerplate of $19,712. The atypical yield on the archetypal atypical has already becoming $10.8 actor overseas.

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Father, Son and Daughter Arrested in Bank Robberies

A father, son and babe may be amenable for annexation as abounding as seven banks in two states, according to authorities.
Ronald Scott Catt, 50, and his two children, 20-year-old Hayden and 18-year-old Abby were arrested endure anniversary on accuse they beggared a acclaim abutment in Katy, Texas.
Deputies with the Fort Bend Sheriff's Office in Texas say the family, which afresh confused to the area, could aswell be amenable for several added robberies in Texas and their built-in Oregon.
During the Oct. 1 robbery in Texas, two figures, who arise to be Ronald and Hayden Catt, entered the coffer in disguises and accretion accoutrements afore abrogation with money and jumping into a breach car apprenticed by Abby Catt.
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The breach in the case came if authorities were able to clue down the characteristic orange vests the men wore to a bounded Home Depot. A analysis of the surveillance band showed the ancestors purchasing the disguises at the store.
Eric Lundeen told ABC News he knows the Catt ancestors and said they seemed like "really solid association members".
"He was a individual dad. I anticipate he absent his wife and he had the albatross to yield affliction of his kids and I got to acquaint you, he was there for them," Lundeen said.
The ancestor and son duo are getting captivated in the Fort Bend County Jail on $140,000 bonds afterwards getting answerable with robbery.
Abby Catt's band has been set at $100,000.

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