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• Scott Parker and Tom Huddlestone available for transfer• Gareth Bale 'very disappointed' to miss out on top fourTottenham Hotspur hope to demonstrate their ambition remains intact despite a failure to reach next season's Champions League by renewing their efforts to sign the Brazil forward Leandro Damião and seeking to pair him with Valencia's Spain international Roberto Soldado.The pursuit of both strikers, coupled with the confidence that Gareth Bale will sign new terms to remain at White Hart Lane for at least another season, would satisfy the manager, André Villas-Boas, who has called for the club to "raise the bar again" before next season. They missed out on the top four this time despite amassing an impressive 72 points.The Portuguese said in January that Leandro "fits the profile" of a potential recruit and attempts were made during the winter window to secure their long-standing target. Tottenham enjoy a close relationship with the 23-year-old's club, Internacional, whose president, Giovanni Luigi, suggested this month that Spurs had resumed dialogue over a move for a player who has 16 caps. A price of around £16m has been mooted, with the Brazilian club apparently now braced to lose the player to the Premier League.Securing his signature would represent something of a coup, though the desire to play him alongside Soldado is particularly eye-catching. The Spain forward, who would have commanded a fee close to £30m a year ago, has been watched by Spurs scouts this season as he has maintained his impressive form at the Mestalla. He could be available for nearer £20m should Valencia fail to qualify for the Champions League.The 27-year-old started his career with Real Madrid but after a productive spell at Getafe, has thrived at Valencia after joining as a replacement for David Villa. He has 27 goals in all competitions this season. Spurs had also expressed an interest in the Queens Park Rangers forward Loïc Rémy, though it remains to be seen if that will be maintained with the player on bail following his arrest on suspicion of rape, a claim he denies.The Spurs chairman, Daniel Levy, hopes to construct a team around Bale with the Wales international, who is happy to remain at White Hart Lane, expected to sign improved terms that will keep him at the club for next season at least. There will be a buy-out clause inserted which could lead to him moving abroad should an offer in excess of £50m be received next summer; though, by then, Tottenham hope they will have secured passage into Europe's elite competition.Bale, who scored his 26th club goal of the season in the 1-0 defeat of Sunderland on Sunday, has expressed his frustration at the club's failure to reach the Champions League. "It was obviously great to sign off with a great goal in the last minute, but circumstances made it hard to celebrate," he said."To miss out on our objective [Champions League qualification] is very disappointing. It was great to get the win but the clouds just came over and made it a little bit duller, but it's something we have to learn from, we are a young squad, and we will take it into the future."Bale is due to play for Spurs against Jamaica in a friendly in the Bahamas on Thursday.There will be significant outgoings at Tottenham, too, with a number of senior players effectively available for transfer. Their number include the England internationals Scott Parker and Tom Huddlestone, as well as Emmanuel Adebayor, who managed only five league goals all season following his permanent move from Manchester City. William Gallas, 35, will leave under freedom of contract.Tottenham HotspurTransfer windowDominic Fifieldguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

• Manager cools on swap with Newcastle's Hatem Ben Arfa• Striker harbours doubts on West Ham after £15m offerBrendan Rodgers expects a quick resolution to Andy Carroll's future at Liverpool, with the striker's hopes of a return to Newcastle United receding.West Ham United have had a £15m offer accepted by Liverpool for the 24-year-old, who was initially reluctant to move to east London on loan last season and who harbours similar doubts over signing for Sam Allardyce's team on a permanent basis.The England international has not given up hope of revitalising his career at Anfield, despite being told by the Liverpool manager that he will have few opportunities to do so, but he would consider a move back to the boyhood club he left for £35m in January 2011. Newcastle, however, have not registered an interest and a potential exchange deal involving Hatem Ben Arfa is unlikely as Rodgers' interest in the French midfielder has cooled.Rodgers said: "It was just a general conversation in terms of the experience of getting out and playing. He enjoyed that apart from the injury. At the start of the season the whole thing was about going and getting games because he wasn't going to be a starter here. We will talk again with him and the club to see how it all evolves. It's one of those situations where it will probably be resolved a lot quicker than that for both parties."Liverpool were keen on Ben Arfa earlier in the season and a swap for Carroll may have appealed to Newcastle, who refused to entertain the striker's £17m asking price last summer and attempted to re-sign him on loan instead. But Liverpool were unimpressed by the 26-year-old France international following his return from a three-month injury lay-off in March and that avenue now appears closed to Carroll.Carroll scored seven goals in 24 league games for West Ham to earn a recall to the England squad for the friendlies against the Republic of Ireland and Brazil, a recall since postponed by a heel injury. As was the case last summer, Carroll has been told he does not feature in the Liverpool manager's long-term plans and Rodgers wants to invest the £15m fee and a salary in excess of £4m in new faces. Schalke's Greece international Kyriakos Papadopoulous is his main target to replace Jamie Carragher in central defence next season and Liverpool may have to pay more than £12m for a player targeted by several leading clubs. The Anfield club are also leading the chase for Barcelona's 16-year-old winger, Sergi Canos, who is also wanted by Arsenal and Manchester City.On his end-of-season talks with Carroll, the Liverpool manager said: "It's a difficult one. I spoke to him and we had a good chat. The boy is a talent. It's just something we need to assess between now and the end of window. In terms of the money, that's something out of my control. But he's a talent so we will assess the whole situation. The objective at the beginning of the season was for him to go out and play. He's gone away to think of what we spoke about and we will talk again through the weeks."In contrast to last summer, however, when Carroll joined West Ham shortly before the transfer deadline and Rodgers was unable to sign Clint Dempsey as a replacement, Liverpool want to resolve the striker's position quickly.Andy CarrollLiverpoolAndy Hunterguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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Earlier today, two men apparently attacked and killed a man in South West London, in what is believed to have been a terrorist attack. The horrifying attack, in which the alleged assailants are reported to have used a "machete," took place on a busy street, and afterwards the attackers lingered, apparently happy to let themselves be filmed and photographed before police arrived on the scene and shot both men. One astonishing photo appears to show a woman talking to one of the men. She is standing just a few feet away from the suspect, who is covered in blood and holding a knife in his hands. Buzzfeed News was one of the many Twitter accounts tweeting the image around: BBC showing picture of apparent second attacker in London machete attack twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/s… — BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) May 22, 2013 Soon, however, someone had recognized the brave woman in the photograph. It was their mother: My mum is a motherfucking badass twitter.com/SiibillamLaw/s… — Basil Baradaran (@SiibillamLaw) May 22, 2013 The woman has been identified as Ingrid Loyau-Kennett. According to another Twitter user (who said Ingrid was his girlfriend's mother). Loyau-Kennett was talking to the man, trying to keep him calm to avoid him "lashing out again." The Daily Telegraph has spoken to Loyau-Kennett, a 48-year-old mother-of-two from Cornwall, England. According Loyau-Kennet, she had been on a bus heading past the scene when she saw the man hurt on the ground, and decided to jump off to try and help. When she walked over to the man on the ground, she could not find a pulse. That's when the suspected attackers walked over to her. The Telegraph reports that Loyau-Kennett spoke to both of the attackers, trying to keep them calm and even asking them to hand over their weapons before police arrived on the scene. Please follow Law & Order on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »

My Nana, Elsie May Meacham, passed away in Southport, England on May 10 at the age of 92, exactly one week shy of her 93rd birthday. In her final week she was surrounded by her three children, three of her 13 grandchildren and also met her 17th great grandchild. I was very fortunate to be able to visit her over Christmas, on Boxing Day, a tradition we had started while my family and I were living in the UK. I knew that would be the last time that I saw her because in all of the years we had been visiting, Nana she always came outside and waved us off until she couldn't see our car or train anymore. This last visit was the only time that physically, she just wasn't able to do that. Over the months since then, I have found myself thinking of Elsie May often and realizing what an impact she has had on my life. It made me realize that we are not just parenting our children, we are raising future parents, and the example that we set in the way that we live and parent today will have a lasting impact on future generations. So, in honor of a life well-lived and a parenting legacy to be very proud of, here are some of my favorite things that I feel we can all learn from Elsie May.Remember what it is like to be a child. One of the most important qualities my Nana had was an immediate rapport with children. Her brother and sister had died of scarlet fever as children, within a week of each other, and telling the story, even all of these years later, it was obvious that the emotion of that loss remained. I always felt that the vivid memory of that childhood event allowed her to remain very in touch with how children feel and how they experience the world. She always had some little toys on her kitchen window or on a bookshelf, and little cups for drinking at the ready. She always enjoyed treating herself to some sweets during a shopping trip into town and always had some to share. Whether I was visiting her house as a child myself, when we visited her in Liverpool or when we were visiting her in her one-bedroom apartment in Southport, with three, young great-grandchildren in tow, she was always happy to have the sound of children around. She remembered that not being the case as a child herself, and she never wanted children to feel they weren't welcome. By remembering what it was like to be a child, she just never seemed to age.More...

• French champions want to pair Rooney with Zlatan Ibrahimovic• Forward would need to be convinced of Ligue 1's qualityParis Saint-Germain have informed Wayne Rooney's representatives that they would be willing to match his current wages as they seek to convince the unsettled England striker to leave Manchester United for Parc des Princes.Rooney's future at Old Trafford has been in serious doubt since Sir Alex Ferguson, speaking immediately after his final home game in charge, suggested the forward had asked for a transfer after nine years with United. The incoming manager, David Moyes, is understood to want to retain the 27-year-old's services but the player may now consider his relationship with the club and the supporters to be fractured beyond repair.PSG, who are braced to lose their title-winning manager Carlo Ancelotti to Real Madrid and will consider Rafael Benítez as a replacement, have sensed an opportunity to secure the England international and hope to pair him up front with Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic next season.The French champions, who are backed by the money-flushed Qatar Investment Authority, made their interest in securing the player known last week and have indicated they would be prepared to match his salary, which amounts to about £300,000 a week.Rooney, whose wife Coleen gave birth to the couple's second boy, Klay Anthony, on Tuesday, is reluctant to transfer abroad, given his young family, and would need to be convinced of the overall quality of Ligue 1. But a move to Paris remains a possibility given the lack of other options on the table.PSG have prioritised the Englishman over Napoli's Edinson Cavani, who is a long-standing target for Manchester City, and believe he can still be persuaded to leave for France. Arsenal have also been mooted as a potential destination within the Premier League, though it seems unlikely they would be prepared to stretch to the player's financial demands. Neither City nor Chelsea are inclined, at present, to revive interest in the striker.Rooney had met Ferguson last month to discuss his prospects at United after the player was dismayed at falling behind Robin van Persie in the pecking order and at his inability to earn regular selection in his preferred forward position. He felt the writing was on the wall from the moment he was dropped for the second leg of United's Champions League knockout tie with Real Madrid in March and expressed his concerns in the discussions.He apparently denies making a formal transfer request but the manager's comments, and the subsequent fallout, have left him concerned as to whether there is any way back at United, even under new management, given the damage inflicted by the suggestions he was keen to leave.United would still need to be convinced about selling Rooney, who has two years remaining on his contract – the usual point for renewing terms – and Moyes's input could yet prove key to determining the player's future. If the player cannot be convinced he can be rehabilitated at the club, the best course for him and the club could yet be for his sale to be sanctioned.United and Rooney's representatives could not be reached for comment.Wayne RooneyParis Saint-GermainManchester UnitedDominic Fifieldguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: DoubleClick Search Tools To Migrate To Enhanced Campaigns Now Out Of Beta The custom toolset Google designed to help DoubleClick search users migrate to enhanced campaigns has come out of beta. The tools are designed to guide users in identifying similar campaigns that target different devices and merge them into one enhanced campaign in five steps: Identify campaigns for merging: Analyze your current AdWords campaigns and automatically generate a list [...] Site Command Limited To 30 Results? Google Says A Temporary Domain Clustering Bug Over the past day or so, we’ve been seeing reports that some of us can replicate ourselves, where the site command (i.e., site:www.domain.com) in Google was limited to only showing 30 results. The rumors were that with the recent domain clustering change Google pushed out this week has severely impacted the site command. Those rumors [...] 2013 Doodle 4 Google Winner Showcases Heartfelt Reunion Between A Soldier & His Daughter The 2013 Doodle 4 Google National winner was announced today on Google’s Official Blog. Selected out of 130,000 submissions based on the theme, “My Best Day Ever…”, the winning drawing by Sabrina Brady of Sparta, Wisconsin tells the story of being reunited with her father after his 18-month deployment as a soldier in Iraq. As [...] Is Google Poaching Clicks From Travel Advertisers? Spend Trends Down Even As Advertisers Increase (Study) On the cusp of the summer travel season, AdGooroo has taken a look at the state of paid search in the travel sector in the U.S. The company has found that, on the whole, paid search expenditures have been trending down since 2011. Spend fell 19% from January through April of this year compared to last [...] Google Trends Gets New Monthly Top Charts & Trending Topics Displayed In Bold Color Visualizations Google Trends has started a new monthly “spirit of the times” Top Charts feature with more than 40 categories of Top 10 lists that include people, places and things ranked by search interest. According to today’s post from Google’s Official Blog, the Top Charts go back to 2004 and will continue to be updated monthly. [...] Non-Descriptive Labeling Can Hurt Your SEO & Site Usability Those who work in the B2B sector have probably seen non-descriptive labeling used on just about every site they’ve worked on. Such labels may include title tags, URLs, H1 tags or navigation labels. Aside from irritating users, poor labeling practices will also hurt your site’s SEO. The concept of “context auditing” should be part of every search [...] Interflora Wins Five-Year Battle Over Google AdWords Trademark Infringement The High Court of England and Wales ended a five year legal battle between Marks & Spencer and Interflora yesterday. The court ruled in favor of flower delivery network Interflora, concluding that retailer Marks & Spencer breached trademark infringement laws by bidding on the keyword ”Interflora” in its Google AdWords campaigns. In the European Union, Google allows [...] Study: TV Networks Not Ranking In Key SERP Positions, Losing Valuable Search & Traffic Opportunities After evaluating the organic search performance of America’s most popular television networks, SEO research firm RankAbove discovered a majority of the networks are missing out on significant search and traffic opportunities. The study examined four key areas of search including keywords, rankings, traffic potential and Universal SERPs. According to the findings, not only are a [...] Programmatic Attribution Modeling – Don’t Just Measure, Execute The goal behind an attribution model is to understand how all of your marketing touch-points fit together, showing you which dollars are working the hardest, and subsequently all

Ray Illingworth, the former Yorkshire and England batsman, has criticised the way Jonny Bairstow was treated by England over the winter.

I can’t believe this weekend is Memorial Day. Seems like just a few weeks ago we still had snow! Time, as always, flies by. So let’s get some recipe ideas out there for the official summer season, shall we? (Please forgive some of the old photos.)   Appetizers and Snacks Roasted Red Pepper Hummus (which goes so well with the next recipe…) Fresh Summer Salad Guacamole Watermelon Nectarine Salsa with Homemade Chips - Two Ways Teddy Graham Trail Mix (Don’t forget the kids!) Garden Gazpacho with Hazelnuts Balsamic Berry and Ricotta Bruschetta   Main Dishes White Pizza topped with Fresh Greens (While not traditional cookout food, grilled pizza is amazing!) Classic New England Lobster Rolls Honey Lime Chicken Tacos with Pineapple Salsa (Just grill the chicken. Also, the pineapple salsa is great with chips!) Tortilla Wrapped Burgers Grilled Hawaiian Teriyaki Steak Wraps Woodchuck Summer Cider Blueberry BBQ Sauce on Pork Ribs, plus All Purpose Grill and Smoking Rub Grilled Sausage and Peppers on Naan Steak Wraps with Avocado Chimichurri Sauce   Sides Grilled Veggie Kabobs with Meyer Lemon Olive Oil and Fresh Rosemary Mom’s Slow Cooked Boston Baked Beans (I’ve worked years perfecting these!)   Beverages Homemade Fruit Soda & Lime Rickeys (Feel free to make these adult friendly.) The Moscow Mule   Desserts (I seem to have a lot of these.) Mixed Berry Pandowdy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars Cosmic Brownies Brownie Crisp Ice Cream Sandwiches Raspberry Rhubarb Meringue Bars Fresh Blueberry Pie (So easy!) Even Better Than Ultimate Brownies S’mores and Rice Krispie Treats   Let’s not forget Ice Cream! Find all of my ice cream recipes by clicking on this photo:

Members of the question-and-answer site Quora submitted their picks for the smartest moves in business. Here are three to study.Earlier this month, the online question-and-answer forum Quora asked its members: What's the shrewdest, smartest maneuver you've ever seen in business? Users were quick to respond with their favorite stories of business prowess--citing entrepreneurs from Henry Ford and Sir Richard Branson, to the little-known inventors of liquid soap and a mucus-destroying cold medicine. Here are three colorful tales submitted by users in response to Quora's query.Dow ChemicalHerbert Dow founded Dow Chemical in 1895, and invented a way to cheaply produce the industrial chemical bromine in Midland, Michigan. He sold the chemical for 36 cents per pound throughout the United States--but couldn't expand overseas as the international chemical market was dominated by an incumbent company from Germany. A gentleman's agreement at the time dictated that the German company wouldn't encroach on the U.S. market as long as Dow didn't try to muscle in on chemical sales in Europe.However, by 1904, Dow's business was struggling and he needed to expand. So he began selling bromine in England and quickly cut down the German competition--which sold its product at the fixed rate of 49 cents per pound. Outraged, the Germans began flooding the U.S. market with even cheaper bromine, on the order of 15 cents per pound, in an attempt to put Dow out of business.That's when Dow got crafty.He stopped selling his product in the U.S. altogether--and began buying up the German-made bromine. Then he repackaged it, sent it back to Europe, and began selling it as his own--for 22 cents less than the Germans did. The Germans couldn't figure out why Dow wasn't going out of business--or why there was such a high demand for German bromide in the U.S.--so they just kept lowering their prices to 12 cents, then 10 cents. By the time they caught on, Dow had broken the German monopoly in Europe and forced it to lower prices on its home turf. Ouch.Minnetonka SoapIn the early 1970s, Robert Taylor--who owned then-small soap company Minnetonka--came up with the idea to sell liquid soap in dispensable pump containers. Unfortunately, he couldn't patent the product--liquid soap already existed, as did the pumps that he planned to dispense it with. Taylor worried that the larger, more established soap companies would steal his idea to bottle liquid soap into a pump dispenser, replicating his product on a larger scale than he could compete with and effectively running him out of business.So he decided to beat them to the punch.Taylor raised $12 million dollars--more than his company's net worth at the time--and ordered 100 million of the pump dispensers from the only two companies that manufactured them in the U.S. This order effectively purchased every pump the two manufacturers could make in the next year or two--giving Taylor a head start on the competition. Two years after this maneuver, Taylor's product SoftSoap dominated the market and was eventually sold to Colgate-Palmolive for $61 million.MucinexIn 2002, the over-the-counter cold medicine Mucinex burst onto the market--destroying its competition through a legal loophole. The company patented the drug's 600 mg dose and 12-hour release period, and gained approval from the Food & Drug Administration to sell its product as a non-prescription medication--then pointed out a crucial stipulation: According to law, no drug may be simultaneously sold as a non-prescription product and a prescription product using the same dose and release period.In other words, once Mucinex--which owned the patents for all non-prescription drugs of its kind--gained FDA approval, its competitors' prescription products were deemed illegal. The FDA issued warning letters to 66 manufacturers, distributors, marketers, and retailers that sold the drug as a prescription product and eventually ordered them to cease production altogether.