Mr Smith said he had finally decided to agree to his daughter’s funeral after receiving a letter from his ex-wife.
He told BBC News that she had written to him to say she felt that as she and Mr Smith were in their latter years, they should organise the funeral while they were both still alive.
A service will take place at Wakefield Crematorium in Crigglestone followed by a private ceremony to scatter her ashes on 11 November at the Cow and Calf Rocks, Ilkley.
Miss Smith died on 20 May 1979 after she and a Dutch man apparently fell 70ft from a balcony flat in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
Investigations by Saudi police concluded Miss Smith and Dutch sea captain Johannes Otten had died after falling while having sex, but former policeman Mr Smith has refused to accept the findings.
He has alleged the real truth surrounding his daughter’s death has been covered up by the British establishment at the highest level.
An inquest jury in Leeds returned an open verdict in 1982.
West Yorkshire Police has previously said that without new evidence, no further action into the case would be taken.
Mr Lake, then a captain, spoke fluent French and was known by the field name Jean-Pierre Lenormand.
He decided to join a number of French officers who went along to greet the general, but was surprised by the conversation that followed.
General de Gaulle: “Jean-Pierre, that’s a French name.”
Mr Lake: “My nom de guerre, mon general.”
Gen de Gaulle: “What are you doing here?”
Mr Lake: “I belong to the Inter-Allied Mission for Dordogne, and I am at the moment with Dordogne troops at Marennes, mon general.”
Gen de Gaulle: “But what are you doing here?”
Mr Lake: “I am training certain troops for special operations.”
Gen de Gaulle: “Our troops don’t need training. You have no business here.”
Mr Lake: “I obey the orders of my superiors.”
Gen de Gaulle: “You have no business here, I say. You have no right to exercise a command.”
Mr Lake: “Mon general, I exercise no command.”
Gen de Gaulle: “We don’t need you here. It only remains for you to leave. You too must go home. Return, return quickly. Au revoir.”
Later, Mr Lake noted: “The whole dialogue passed very quickly and in a tone of voice which there was no mistaking.
“It was so unexpected that I must confess I was far too taken aback to reply intelligently, and I think the majority of those present had similar reactions.”
Despite the incident, Mr Lake was highly regarded by senior Army commanders and was referred to in an official report as “modest, unassuming, but possessed of considerable authority”.
“His dust-up with de Gaulle showed him to be a good diplomat, level-headed and intelligent,” the report added.
Mr Lake was parachuted into the Dordogne on the night of 9 April 1944 and immediately began training teams of resistance operatives.
To do this he organised “evening classes” in subjects such as sabotage, but recalled that his first sortie was with fighters who were “armed like pirates, behaved like pirates and expected me to do likewise”.
After the D-Day landings on 6 June, Mr Lake said the situation became “very precarious” as the Germans stepped up attacks on the resistance.
Nevertheless, in mid-June he carried out a daring operation to blow up a major railway line.
Mr Lake returned to Britain in October 1944 and went on to have a successful career with the UK consular service.
Both men and women who have seen the film seem to like it. It’s quite rare you get men admitting to liking a romcom isn’t it?
I hate the word romcom, it’s like no-one can let two people who are dating have their own names – everyone has to match it all together. I don’t like romantic comedies for that very reason, in that they’re never funny and thus not romantic, because you go halfway through the film, ‘this is stupid’ and then you don’t care.
This is just a good comedy. But I play the guy and that was a lot of fun. Really, if you think about it, I’m the guy role. That’s why I think men can identify.
A lot of guys have said you’re the kind of girl that guys like, not in a bimbo-type way. What do you think about that?
I want to be the bimbo, I want to be looked at as the bimbo, purely as a sexual object.
I’ve been working for that for a very long time, hence the reason I’m butt naked. I go, ‘Maybe this will cross me over’. Obviously it didn’t.
I need surgery. I’m getting some boobs. I think that’s my problem. All my brains are in my butt, they’re not in my chest.
Did you work out specifically for that naked scene
For every film I like to change my body if there’s a reason to. You gain weight or you get really thin. But this one, I just wanted her to look really good in suits. I wanted a certain hard-core tiny waist.
I have a butt, that’s what I was born with. Use what you got and build on that.
Yeah, you get on the treadmill a little longer. You’re very conscious of the fact that you’re going to be naked. Had it been a sex scene it would’ve been a whole different weird vibe but this was for comedy and for fun so you just didn’t eat junk until the last day of shooting the scene.
Do you allow yourself to binge after you’ve been really good?
I don’t believe in denying myself anything. If I can be good during the week, then for 24 hours on the weekend I can eat whatever I want.
I need that reward system or I will never stay on it. I like food too much. I’m pretty much a picker, I graze all day. Once you get that down, there’s a good balance in that.
What are your favourite things?
I like almost everything. I just love good food. I’ll be happy with a steak, or I’ll be happy with a great piece of fish. I love pastas and cheeses, the same as I love a nice glass of wine and a nice salad. I love good clean, hearty food. But a steak, and a great glass of wine, there’s nothing better than that – some homemade French Fries and a big bowl of ice-cream.
Because you’d been friends with [co-star] Ryan Reynolds for so long, was it easier to do the naked scene as a comedy moment?
I think. Being friends could’ve messed up our comedic timing. We could’ve not been friends after the naked scene, I could’ve been too awkward. We approach things the same way, we both panic when a scene’s not working, we both will work on the weekends and fix it.
Once you establish that kind of trust, doing a naked scene like that at the time we did the film, which was closer to the end of the film, was easier than had it been some sexy scene or done at the very beginning.
There was a lot of trust in that, I don’t know how it would’ve been with anybody else, but, thank god, I’ll never be doing that again.
Newsbeat has had a huge response from locals.
Tony from Liverpool said: “Going out is safe if you know where to go, but you have to have your guard up at times. The towny mentality is popular.”
Nadia from the Wirral said: “Liverpudlians are the nicest and friendliest type of people, and it has a far lower crime rate than Manchester and London.”
And Luke from Cardiff said: “I lived in Liverpool for four years, best city I’ve ever been to. Not one bit of trouble the entire time, the people are really friendly.”
Some agree with Curran though, like Jay who said: “I have lived in Liverpool for my whole life. It really is attracting the wrong people and is rough. There’s a lot of good people here but an increasing number of idiots and scallys.”
26-year-old Alex Curran told told new! magazine: “It’s the not same any more. To be honest it’s rough.
“Everywhere new that opens attracts the wrong type of people.
“It’s not nice, so I haven’t bothered to go out.”
Her comments come after her husband was cleared of affray last week at a Mersyside nightspot.
The Liverpool captain admitted punching a man in a drunken row over music, but said it was in self-defence.
The WAG has been a regular at opening parties, bars and clubs around Liverpool.
But more recently the couple have been photographed shopping and dining in London.
Actress Scarlett Johansson is to make her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge.
She will star opposite Scream star Liev Schreiber in the 1950s-set drama about a Brooklyn dock worker who is obsessed by his 17-year-old niece.
The production is due to open at the Cort Theater on 24 January with previews beginning on 28 December.
Other Hollywood stars to have appeared on Broadway this year have included Jude Law and Hugh Jackman.
Johansson, 24, has appeared in films including Lost In Translation, Girl with a Pearl Earring and Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Schreiber, 42, has performed on Broadway a number of times and won a Tony Award in 2005 for his role in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross.
Actress Scarlett Johansson is to make her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge.
She will star opposite Scream star Liev Schreiber in the 1950s-set drama about a Brooklyn dock worker who is obsessed by his 17-year-old niece.
The production is due to open at the Cort Theater on 24 January with previews beginning on 28 December.
Other Hollywood stars to have appeared on Broadway this year have included Jude Law and Hugh Jackman.
Johansson, 24, has appeared in films including Lost In Translation, Girl with a Pearl Earring and Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Schreiber, 42, has performed on Broadway a number of times and won a Tony Award in 2005 for his role in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross.
It goes unchallenged that attending the entrance examination of Master’s degree is the usual choice for the majority undergraduates in modern China.
There’s an undoubted fact that our country still haven’t provided enough jobs for those postgraduates, much less to a large number of undergraduates. Therefore, plenty of undergraduates focus too much energy on their study, not on the basis of improving their all-round capabilities so as to commit themselves well to our society, but on the basis of blind faith in getting high scores in any examination. Thus, the abilities which students should pay the most attention to, are neglected and pushed to the fringes in their lives.
This phenomenon is extremely prevail at present in China, and indeed leaves open essential questions to both experts and we average students. That is “what impacts does education have on students”?
Philip Rosedale took the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) concept and spun it into the Web’s most talked-about virtual destination: Second Life. But don’t call it just a game. For more and more “residents,” Second Life has become a first life, where they can do everything in the virtual world from getting married to launching businesses that exclusively within the site’s confines. Many real-world businesses have opened Second Life branches, too. In fact, Second Life has become so popular that the inevitable backlash has begun: Nick Denton’s Valleywag (see #45) has compared the game’s economy to a pyramid schemeJon Lech JohansenCreator, Better known as DVD-Jon, Jon Lech Johansen is the Norwegian hacker who broke the encryption system used on DVD movies, thereby allowing them to be copied. He released the DeCSS decryption program in 2002 and was promptly prosecuted in his homeland. Eventually acquitted, Johansen went on to crack Apple’s iTunes DRM (repeatedly) while working as a software developer in the United States. Beaten to the punch in cracking high-definition DVD formats by the still-anonymous muslix64, who created “backup” programs for HD DVD late last year and for Blu-ray Disc in January, Johansen nonetheless remains the renegade that big media fears most.. Jerry Yang, David Filo, and Terry SemelExecutives, Yahoo
Google’s product innovations and its blockbuster purchase of YouTube for $1.65 billion may have pushed Yahoo out of the limelight, but the Web giant led by founders Yang and Filo and CEO Terry Semel are fighting back. In the past two years, Yahoo has acquired online photo-sharing site Flickr and social bookmarking site Del.icio.us. It also continues to launch new properties such as Yahoo Food and Yahoo Pipes (for creating custom data feeds). Yahoo’s recent switch to the Panama advertising platform represents another attempt to recapture ad revenue from Google. (Full disclosure: The author of this story writes a blog hosted at tech.yahoo.com.)
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For the past 30 years, newspaper industry analyst John Morton and his influential newsletter have been something of an oracle for the world of newsprint – covering where the industry is and where it’s headed. Now, having decided to end the newsletter’s long run, he has ominous words—mixed with a few suggestions—about the future.
“I’m usually a glass half-empty kind of guy,” Morton said in a phone interview with PEJ. “I think the newspaper industry will have a tough next decade – tougher than the previous 10 years. If newspapers keep cutting staff and their news hole, I’m pessimistic.”
“But if they decide they still gather something important to people, something valuable that people want,” he added, “I’m more optimistic.”
On March 20 Morton and economist Miles Groves, the other half of the Morton-Groves Newspaper Newsletter, announced they would cease publishing their monthly analysis that has long-been a must-read for owners, publishers and investors. Morton says a combination of factors, but particularly a diminishing subscribers base, led him to that decision.
“What we were getting out of it simply wasn’t worth what we were putting into it,” he said, with a chuckle. “We decided the hell with it.”
That doesn’t mean Morton will be abandoning any of his deeply-held views about newspaper publishing. He sees two key missions for the nation’s dailies in the next few years. They need to invest in news gathering to make themselves more vital resources in their communities. And they need to convert more of their operations online as quickly as possible in order to reduce the burdensome costs of newsprint, printing, and delivery.
Morton also offered some context for the economic woes afflicting a business that has witnessed the breakup of some of its major publicly owned chains.
“This is still a profitable industry,” he told PEJ. “Publicly reporting companies last year showed profit margins of almost 18%. There are some industries that can only dream of delivering a profit margin like that.”
Analyzing the health of the newspaper industry has been John Morton’s line of work since 1971. But he’s been involved in the journalism business since 1960, when he began as a general assignment reporter for the Binghamton Press in New York State.
After stints at other papers and a brief foray on the broadcast side, he fell into newspaper industry analysis by happenstance. Morton, who had been working at Washington public television station WETA on its local “Newsroom” program, found himself in need of a job when the station ended the show’s run.
He got a call and a proposition from Lee Dirks, who had become one of the nation’s first newspaper stock analysts in the late-1960s as newspaper companies began trading publicly.
“Lee told me all these companies are going public and no one knows anything about them. Let’s cover them and offer analysis and charge them. I figured I try it for a few months,” Morton said.
“It wasn’t just a strong industry – it’s still a strong industry today – it was a growing industry. One of Gannett’s phrases back then was ‘never a down quarter.’”
Morton stayed on Wall Street for more than 20 years working as a registered representative of several big firms before finally leaving in the mid-90’s to continue his work as an independent analyst – removing the official affiliation his company had with any big brokerage house.
Morton said the stock market’s attitude toward newspapers has changed dramatically since he began his career—and in fact, helped drive him away.
Business software manufacturer Oracle has declared it will pay its first dividend to shareholders after its results beat analysts’ forecasts.
It said its quarterly net income fell 1% from a year earlier to $1.3bn (£0.9bn). Software revenues rose 5%.
Oracle said its profits would have grown 11% if the US dollar had not strengthened so much.
A strong dollar means that the company’s deals overseas are not worth as much.
Oracle said it would pay a dividend of 5 US cents per share, or 20 cents annually, its first such payment to shareholders since the company went public in March 1986.
“This is a tremendous achievement in the face of the serious slowdown in the world economy,” said Oracle boss Larry Ellison.
Shares in Oracle rose 7% in after-hours trading on the news.
Many companies have been cutting or scrapping their dividends to conserve cash to weather the economic downturn.
Scientists are investigating how tens of thousands of native crayfish died in Northumberland.
Government environment officials discovered the rare crustaceans had been wiped out following a mystery pollution incident.
Environment Agency officers were called in after the fish were found dead at Hartburn near Morpeth.
The River Wansbeck site was home to one of the largest populations of native crayfish in the UK.
The site is also one of the few areas where the larger American signal crayfish have not threatened the native population.
Officers were called on Friday night after a resident reported seeing dead crayfish.
They have surveyed a three-mile stretch of affected river to assess the damage.
A spokeswoman for the Environment Agency said: “This is one of the largest populations of native crayfish in the UK and for them to be wiped out in this way is absolutely tragic.
“This is one of the few remaining places where American signal crayfish haven’t threatened the native population, so this is a massive blow.”
Experts estimate it could be up to three years before crayfish repopulate the area.
A number of other crustaceans in the river, including freshwater shrimps, were killed.
