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Friedrich Nietzsche said, "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music is a big part of many people's lives. For some, music is life.

Sean Forbes, 26, started a nonprofit called D-PAN, or Deaf Performing Artists Network.

But not everyone can have music in their lives, and one man is trying to change that for the deaf community.

Sean Forbes, 26, started a nonprofit called D-PAN, or Deaf Performing Artists Network, which creates American Sign Language-enhanced music videos.

Forbes spoke with CNN's Nicole Lapin about how D-PAN works. The following is an edited transcript of the interview.

Forbes: Really, the story here of how the whole thing came up was, I was in a car with three girls, and I went to school at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. So we took a road trip to Gallaudet University, and on this trip I was singing all of these songs to my friends. And it's just something I've been doing for a while.

So I'm signing all of these songs and all the sudden, a light bulb goes on above my head, when I'm like, wouldn't it be cool if there were music videos with deaf performers in them, signing the song, signing the lyrics of the song.  Watch Nicole Lapin's interview with Sean Forbes Â»

That was really where the idea started from, and I instantly went back to RIT, and I had a friend make me a video of me signing an Eminem song and that's how the whole thing really started.

Lapin: Eminem, Christina Aguilera. You started translating really popular music videos, and tell me about these shoots, because this is a really big production you put on.

Forbes: Yeah. I mean, we had hearing and deaf people behind the scenes creating this. We had interpreters; there were probably about 20 people on the production set for these videos.

Lapin: What was the reaction from some people in the deaf community that never experienced music before, never experienced it before you and D-PAN?

Forbes: For me it was just awesome to see all of these deaf people who have never been involved with music be involved in these videos for the first time.

A lot of the people who are in the videos never experienced music before. So for them, it was just an awesome experience, and they were really thrilled to be a part of it.

Lapin: And a lot of people on our Web site, CNN.com, are thrilled to be part of your experience, being introduced to your story.

A lot of questions also came in; I want to bring some to your attention. Ashley has this question for you Sean. "Has anyone ever told you that D-PAN would not be successful and if so, how did you respond?" I'm sure you had some haters out there.

Forbes: I've had, you know, I've approached a few situations before where they didn't only tell me that D-PAN wouldn't be successful, but they told me that I would never be successful as a deaf musician.

And I always laughed it off, because I knew deep inside of me, this is what I wanted. And I wouldn't let anyone tell me no, I wouldn't take no for an answer. So those people who told me no, look at me now.

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(CNN) -- Presidential candidates have been wooing voters in Iowa for months, but who wins Thursday may simply come down to where the caucus-goers live, where they meet and the weather.

Iowa is a mixed bag politically, and one of the most evenly divided states in the nation. But the candidates will likely watch two regions more closely than others.

The central part of the state -- including industrial Des Moines -- is Iowa's most Democratic area.

Western Iowa, on the other hand, is home to the most Republicans -- especially the rural counties in the northwest.

The Mississippi River city of Davenport is expected to be one of the most significant battlegrounds, with Linn County -- dominated by the university town of Cedar Rapids -- also attracting lots of attention from both parties.

Past Iowa caucuses have been nail-biters for the candidates.

Democrat Al Gore won the state by a margin of just 0.3 percent in 2000, while President Bush carried it in 2004 by 0.7 percent. In fact, Bush was the first GOP presidential candidate to carry Iowa in 20 years.

Important endorsement

The support of Iowa's largest newspaper, the Des Moines Register, may also play a role in Thursday's caucuses. The paper's presidential endorsements began in 1988 and have become a highly sought-after prize in Iowa presidential politics.

George W. Bush was the Register's pick in 2000 and went on to win Iowa, the GOP nomination and the White House. Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole won the state in 1996 and 1988 after receiving the paper's support.

Democratic candidates haven't had as much success with the Register's endorsement. John Edwards finished in second place in Iowa in 2004, while Paul Simon was also a close second in 1988.

The paper endorsed Sen. John McCain and Sen. Hillary Clinton for their respective parties' nominations.

The candidates have to appeal to voters with strong opinions.

On the Republican side, 37 percent of participants in the 2000 Iowa GOP caucuses identified themselves as members of the religious right and 73 percent described themselves as conservatives.

Meanwhile, 56 percent of the participants in Iowa's 2004 Democratic caucuses described themselves as either very or somewhat liberal. About 37 percent said they were moderates.

The weather

Iowans who take part in the caucuses must traditionally brave freezing temperatures and lots of snow.

Presidential candidates know bad weather may affect how many people turn out, but 1972 was the only time rough winter conditions played a role in the caucuses, according to Drake University's Hugh Winebrenner -- the nation's leading expert on Iowa caucus history.

Caucus-goers that year encountered heavy snowdrifts from a blizzard the previous day.

Temperatures dipped below zero across most of the state. The weather forced about one-fourth of Iowa's 99 counties to postpone their Democratic caucuses up to two days after the scheduled date.

The forecast for Thursday is much better. Temperatures will be in the 20s during the day and dip just below that as the caucuses begin, according to the Des Moines Register. E-mail to a friend

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(CNN) -- Three former guerrilla leaders -- who helped command what one activist called "one of the most brutal rebel movements in modern days" -- were sentenced Wednesday in Freetown, Sierra Leone, for crimes against humanity.

Amputee victims of Sierra Leone's civil war take part in football training at a beach in Freetown.

The U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone found the men guilty in February of crimes that included murder, rape, sexual slavery and forced marriages stemming from a civil war that lasted from March 1991 to January 2002. They were arrested in March 2003, said Peter Anderson, spokesman for the U.N. court.

The rebels -- former leaders in the Revolutionary United Front guerrilla movement -- were known for hacking off civilians' hands and feet during the war, which stood out for its viciousness even on a a continent that has suffered many horrific conflicts.

Presiding Judge Pierre Boutet of Canada read the sentences.

Former Revolutionary United Front "interim leader" Issa Hassan Sesay was sentenced to 52 years in prison, former commander Morris Kallon to 40 years, and former chief of security Augustine Gbao to 25 years.

Sesay and Kallon had been found guilty on 16 counts, and Gbao was found guilty on 14.

The former rebels received credit for the six years each already has served in prison, Anderson told CNN.

He said they will be imprisoned in another country, maybe Rwanda, because the prisons in Sierra Leone do not meet the standards of the U.N. court.

Kallon was the only one of the three to express sorrow at his sentencing, Anderson said.

"He really had made a genuine expression of remorse," which is considered a stronger statement than regret, the court spokesman added.

The court noted several mitigating factors at the sentencing, but "in view of the gravity of the crimes, their impact was limited," a statement from the court said.

The court noted that the crimes "were committed upon a massive scale across several districts of Sierra Leone" and that "the impact of all these crimes upon the Sierra Leonean society has been enormous."

"The Chamber concluded that the inherent gravity of the criminal acts for which Sesay, Kallon and Gbao have been convicted is exceptionally high," the statement said.

Corinne Dufka, a senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Africa division, had called the verdict "very significant."

"The RUF were renowned for leading one of the most brutal rebel movements in modern days. Everyone knows about the signature atrocity of limb amputation, but there was also horrific sexual violence, abductions, use of child soldiers and forced marriages," she told CNN by phone from Senegal in West Africa.

Eight people have been convicted of war crimes connected with the conflict -- some on the rebels' side and some on the government's.

The U.N. Special Court's mandate is to try only "those who bear greatest responsibility for atrocities committed in Sierra Leone."

The trial of Sesay, Kallon and Gbao lasted nearly five years. The three had pleaded not guilty on all counts.

The Special Court cannot impose the death penalty.

The Revolutionary United Front seized most of Sierra Leone from the government and fought international and African peacekeepers. International forces retook the capital, Freetown, in 2000.

The trial of the three former leaders was the last of three to be held at the Special Court.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is on trial separately at an international court in The Hague, Netherlands, for his role in the conflict. The prosecution rested in the Taylor case in January after a year of presenting its arguments.

Sierra Leone is known for its diamond wealth, but 70 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.

The Special Court is an independent tribunal established jointly by the United Nations and the Sierra Leone government. It is mandated to bring to justice those most responsible for atrocities committed in Sierra Leone after November 30, 1996.

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question: When were men found guilty

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question: what were the men convicted of?

answer: crimes that included murder, rape, sexual slavery and forced marriages

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question: who was sentenced?

answer: former guerrilla leaders

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Editor's note: A nationally syndicated columnist, Roland S. Martin is the author of "Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith" and "Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America." Visit his Web site for more information.

Roland S. Martin says it's time to get over the fact that baseball turned a blind eye to steroid use.

(CNN) -- I loved baseball as a kid. I still have fond memories of my siblings and me, members of the "Astro Buddies" club, heading to the Astrodome, the eighth wonder of the world, to watch the Houston Astros play.

I played the game in elementary and high school.

But now, I'm sick of it, especially when steroids are brought up.

The latest baseball drama surrounds a New York Times report quoting two lawyers who say that former Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa's name was on a list of players who tested positive for an illegal substance in 2003. The list supposedly contains more than 100 names of players who tested positive that year.

This report comes on the heels of Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees admitting that he used performance-enhancing drugs a few years ago; Manny Ramirez testing positive and suspended for 50 games; and the continuing drama surrounding Roger Clemens. All three were considered locks for the Hall of Fame. But based on what we keep hearing, that'll never happen in this holier-than-thou era.

OK, got it. Baseball had a terrible drug problem. Now they have a drug testing plan in place that has some teeth in it. So, can we just move the hell on?

Seriously, I'm tired of rehashing the drama. As a sports enthusiast, I would love nothing better than to think that athletes in baseball, football, basketball or any other sport are as pure as heroes from yesteryear. But cheating is cheating. It has been around from Day One, and if a player thinks he can get an edge, well, it's a good bet some will try to get it.

Sosa has always been suspected of using drugs, but now that two lawyers say they saw his name on the infamous sheet, he has gone, according to Rick Telander's column in the Chicago Sun-Times, "from hero to zero."

But you know what? I don't care. Can we just all accept the fact that all of baseball -- players, management, owners, the unions -- turned a blind eye to performance-enhancing drugs ravaging the sport? And they did so because baseball was on its way to being comparable to the National Hockey League or soccer in the U.S. -- irrelevant to sports fans.

After the strike in 1994 wiped out the World Series, fans were angry and didn't give a lick about the sport. But then came 1998 and the home-run derby put on by St. Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire and Sosa, both trying to break the record of 61 homers in a year set by Roger Maris of the New York Yankees.

Fans were riveted by the hitting prowess of the two, and people were following their every at-bat. I was working at KRLD-AM in Dallas, Texas, that summer, and we would break into programming to broadcast the call of their at-bats when they were about to break the record. Yea, everyone had Sosa-McGwire fever.

Baseball became relevant again. The players redeemed themselves, management was happy to say they worked for the sport, and the owners were delirious because the money came rolling in.

So there we have it. All of baseball pulled a Robert Johnson, as in the legend of the classic blues singer who supposedly got his gift for music by making a pact with the devil. Or maybe more like Judas. The sport turned in its integrity for a few pieces of silver.

Let's just accept this as a fact, acknowledge those were the dark days and move on. It's just tiring to keep going back to what happened then. It's done. It's over. So let it go.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland S. Martin.

text: Editor

text: 's

text: note

text: A

text: nationally

text: syndicated

text: columnist

text: Roland

text: S.

text: Martin

text: is

text: the

text: author

text: of

text: Listening

text: to

text: the

text: Spirit

text: Within

text: Perspectives

text: on

text: Faith

text: and

text: Speak

text: Brother

text: A

text: Black

text: Man

text: 's

text: View

text: of

text: America

text: Visit

text: his

text: Web

text: site

text: for

text: more

text: information

text: Roland

text: S.

text: Martin

text: says

text: it

text: 's

text: time

text: to

text: get

text: over

text: the

text: fact

text: that

text: baseball

text: turned

text: a

text: blind

text: eye

text: to

text: steroid

text: use

text: CNN

text: I

text: loved

text: baseball

text: as

text: a

text: kid

text: I

text: still

text: have

text: fond

text: memories

text: of

text: my

text: siblings

text: and

text: me

text: members

text: of

text: the

text: Astro

text: Buddies

text: club

text: heading

text: to

text: the

text: Astrodome

text: the

text: eighth

text: wonder

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: to

text: watch

text: the

text: Houston

text: Astros

text: play

text: I

text: played

text: the

text: game

text: in

text: elementary

text: and

text: high

text: school

text: But

text: now

text: I

text: 'm

text: sick

text: of

text: it

text: especially

text: when

text: steroids

text: are

text: brought

text: up

text: The

text: latest

text: baseball

text: drama

text: surrounds

text: a

text: New

text: York

text: Times

text: report

text: quoting

text: two

text: lawyers

text: who

text: say

text: that

text: former

text: Chicago

text: Cubs

text: slugger

text: Sammy

text: Sosa

text: 's

text: name

text: was

text: on

text: a

text: list

text: of

text: players

text: who

text: tested

text: positive

text: for

text: an

text: illegal

text: substance

text: in

text: The

text: list

text: supposedly

text: contains

text: more

text: than

text: names

text: of

text: players

text: who

text: tested

text: positive

text: that

text: year

text: This

text: report

text: comes

text: on

text: the

text: heels

text: of

text: Alex

text: Rodriguez

text: of

text: the

text: New

text: York

text: Yankees

text: admitting

text: that

text: he

text: used

text: performance

text: enhancing

text: drugs

text: a

text: few

text: years

text: ago

text: Manny

text: Ramirez

text: testing

text: positive

text: and

text: suspended

text: for

text: games

text: and

text: the

text: continuing

text: drama

text: surrounding

text: Roger

text: Clemens

text: All

text: three

text: were

text: considered

text: locks

text: for

text: the

text: Hall

text: of

text: Fame

text: But

text: based

text: on

text: what

text: we

text: keep

text: hearing

text: that

text: 'll

text: never

text: happen

text: in

text: this

text: holier

text: than

text: thou

text: era

text: OK

text: got

text: it

text: Baseball

text: had

text: a

text: terrible

text: drug

text: problem

text: Now

text: they

text: have

text: a

text: drug

text: testing

text: plan

text: in

text: place

text: that

text: has

text: some

text: teeth

text: in

text: it

text: So

text: can

text: we

text: just

text: move

text: the

text: hell

text: on

text: Seriously

text: I

text: 'm

text: tired

text: of

text: rehashing

text: the

text: drama

text: As

text: a

text: sports

text: enthusiast

text: I

text: would

text: love

text: nothing

text: better

text: than

text: to

text: think

text: that

text: athletes

text: in

text: baseball

text: football

text: basketball

text: or

text: any

text: other

text: sport

text: are

text: as

text: pure

text: as

text: heroes

text: from

text: yesteryear

text: But

text: cheating

text: is

text: cheating

text: It

text: has

text: been

text: around

text: from

text: Day

text: One

text: and

text: if

text: a

text: player

text: thinks

text: he

text: can

text: get

text: an

text: edge

text: well

text: it

text: 's

text: a

text: good

text: bet

text: some

text: will

text: try

text: to

text: get

text: it

text: Sosa

text: has

text: always

text: been

text: suspected

text: of

text: using

text: drugs

text: but

text: now

text: that

text: two

text: lawyers

text: say

text: they

text: saw

text: his

text: name

text: on

text: the

text: infamous

text: sheet

text: he

text: has

text: gone

text: according

text: to

text: Rick

text: Telander

text: 's

text: column

text: in

text: the

text: Chicago

text: Sun

text: Times

text: from

text: hero

text: to

text: zero

text: But

text: you

text: know

text: what

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: care

text: Can

text: we

text: just

text: all

text: accept

text: the

text: fact

text: that

text: all

text: of

text: baseball

text: players

text: management

text: owners

text: the

text: unions

text: turned

text: a

text: blind

text: eye

text: to

text: performance

text: enhancing

text: drugs

text: ravaging

text: the

text: sport

text: And

text: they

text: did

text: so

text: because

text: baseball

text: was

text: on

text: its

text: way

text: to

text: being

text: comparable

text: to

text: the

text: National

text: Hockey

text: League

text: or

text: soccer

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: irrelevant

text: to

text: sports

text: fans

text: After

text: the

text: strike

text: in

text: wiped

text: out

text: the

text: World

text: Series

text: fans

text: were

text: angry

text: and

text: did

text: n't

text: give

text: a

text: lick

text: about

text: the

text: sport

text: But

text: then

text: came

text: and

text: the

text: home

text: run

text: derby

text: put

text: on

text: by

text: St.

text: Louis

text: Cardinal

text: Mark

text: McGwire

text: and

text: Sosa

text: both

text: trying

text: to

text: break

text: the

text: record

text: of

text: homers

text: in

text: a

text: year

text: set

text: by

text: Roger

text: Maris

text: of

text: the

text: New

text: York

text: Yankees

text: Fans

text: were

text: riveted

text: by

text: the

text: hitting

text: prowess

text: of

text: the

text: two

text: and

text: people

text: were

text: following

text: their

text: every

text: at

text: bat

text: I

text: was

text: working

text: at

text: KRLD

text: AM

text: in

text: Dallas

text: Texas

text: that

text: summer

text: and

text: we

text: would

text: break

text: into

text: programming

text: to

text: broadcast

text: the

text: call

text: of

text: their

text: at

text: bats

text: when

text: they

text: were

text: about

text: to

text: break

text: the

text: record

text: Yea

text: everyone

text: had

text: Sosa

text: McGwire

text: fever

text: Baseball

text: became

text: relevant

text: again

text: The

text: players

text: redeemed

text: themselves

text: management

text: was

text: happy

text: to

text: say

text: they

text: worked

text: for

text: the

text: sport

text: and

text: the

text: owners

text: were

text: delirious

text: because

text: the

text: money

text: came

text: rolling

text: in

text: So

text: there

text: we

text: have

text: it

text: All

text: of

text: baseball

text: pulled

text: a

text: Robert

text: Johnson

text: as

text: in

text: the

text: legend

text: of

text: the

text: classic

text: blues

text: singer

text: who

text: supposedly

text: got

text: his

text: gift

text: for

text: music

text: by

text: making

text: a

text: pact

text: with

text: the

text: devil

text: Or

text: maybe

text: more

text: like

text: Judas

text: The

text: sport

text: turned

text: in

text: its

text: integrity

text: for

text: a

text: few

text: pieces

text: of

text: silver

text: Let

text: 's

text: just

text: accept

text: this

text: as

text: a

text: fact

text: acknowledge

text: those

text: were

text: the

text: dark

text: days

text: and

text: move

text: on

text: It

text: 's

text: just

text: tiring

text: to

text: keep

text: going

text: back

text: to

text: what

text: happened

text: then

text: It

text: 's

text: done

text: It

text: 's

text: over

text: So

text: let

text: it

text: go

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

text: in

text: this

text: commentary

text: are

text: solely

text: those

text: of

text: Roland

text: S.

text: Martin

question: It is time to turn the page on what?

answer: steroid use.

text: steroid use.

question: What is the name of the person who says there is a problem?

answer: Roland S. Martin

text: Roland S. Martin

question: What type of problem does baseball have?

answer: terrible drug

text: terrible drug

question: What did Baseball have according to Martin?

answer: steroid use.

text: steroid use.

question: Who raced to break the home run record?

answer: Mark McGwire

text: Mark McGwire

question: Who raced to break home-run record?

answer: Mark McGwire and Sosa,

text: Mark McGwire and Sosa,


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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican authorities deployed more than 1,000 additional police officers to reinforce security at the capital's 175 subway stations on Saturday, a day after a shooting inside a station left two people dead and eight injured at the height of evening rush hour.

Camera footage shows Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo brandishing a gun.

The shooting at the Balderas station in central Mexico City happened after police stopped Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38, from writing graffiti on the wall of one of the subway platforms.

Five of the injured suffered gunshot wounds, and three others were hurt by the stampeding crowds, officials said.

Hernandez Castillo was writing "Este gobierno de criminales," or "this government of criminals," Mexico City district attorney Miguel Angel Mancera said. As police tried to stop him, Hernandez Castillo drew a .38 special handgun and began firing.

Mancera said his first impression of Hernandez Castillo is that he may suffer from mental illness.

"One moment he is talking about global warming and then about the message of the Bible and suddenly he focuses on some government," Mancera said.

Authorities identified Hernandez Castillo as an agriculturalist from the state of Jalisco.

Hernandez Castillo also told investigators that he believed a great famine would come, and he traveled to Mexico City to relay a message, Mancera said.

Earlier this month, a Bolivian pastor hijacked a passenger jet in Mexico City with a fake bomb, claiming that he acted on a divine revelation to warn people of a forthcoming earthquake.

Mancera said Hernandez Castillo was aware of the hijacking, but that the two events were not connected.

Hernandez Castillo said he opened fire because he saw the police as a threat to his task of writing on the wall, Mancera said.

Preliminary tests show that Hernandez Castillo was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs during the incident, Mancera said.

The Mexican government on Saturday posted security camera footage of the shooting. It shows a busy subway platform as the train pulls into the station just before 5:15 p.m. Friday. As the train comes to a stop, there is a disturbance in the crowd, and Hernandez Castillo is seen shooting at an officer.  Watch the dramatic incident unfold Â»

The crowd disperses, and the officer runs out of view of the camera. The officer, who was a bank policeman, is later seen on the footage lying dead, face down on the platform.

Authorities identified the officer as Victor Manuel Miranda Martinez.

The footage shows a man in a white shirt running off the train and trying to wrestle Hernandez Castillo. The man chases Hernandez Castillo around the platform. He frequently falls either because he slips or is trying to avoid being shot.

The man is on the floor facing Hernandez Castillo, about to get up and try to grab him, when he is shot in the head and falls to the ground.

Mancera initially said the man was a federal security agent in plain clothes, but later clarified that the man was a civilian, a 58-year-old construction worker.

A scattered handful of people remain on the subway platform during the shooting. Some stay on the train. Others walk on the platform very close to the shooter, seemingly undisturbed.

Seven minutes later, the camera pans out to show the construction worker lying on his back and the bank police officer in the foreground. Hernandez Castillo remains on the train, occasionally firing his gun and peeking out of the train.

At 5:23 p.m., the camera shows first one, then two, then three plain-clothes police getting into position on the platform. Within moments they rush Hernandez Castillo and pull him out of the train, with nearly a dozen police officers then wrestling him to the ground.

Hernandez Castillo was treated at a hospital for a bullet wound to the right shoulder before being transferred to the local attorney general's office, a common place to hold prisoners during preliminary investigations, a spokesman for the attorney general said.

He faces two counts of murder and one count each of attempted murder, aggression, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace, said the spokesman, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the press.

CNN's Esprit Smith in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- British billionaire Richard Branson's dream of space travel that thousands of people can afford took a leap toward reality with the maiden flight of the world's first commercial spacecraft over California's Mojave Desert.

Branson's company Virgin Galactic announced Monday that the VSS Enterprise had successfully completed what it called a captive carry flight attached to a carrier plane.

The spacecraft's developer called it a "momentous day."

"The captive carry flight signifies the start of what we believe will be extremely exciting and successful spaceship flight test program," said Burt Rutan, founder of Scaled Composites, which built the spacecraft.

The VSS Enterprise remained attached to its carrier aircraft for the duration of the 2-hour, 54-minute flight, reaching an altitude of 45,000 feet, according to a statement from Virgin.

Eventually, the 60-foot long rocket plane will be taken 60,000 feet above the Earth by its carrier and fire rockets to propel itself into space.

The test-flight program is expected to continue through 2011, going first to a free glide and then to a powered flight before commercial flights begin.

"Seeing the finished spaceship in December was a major day for us but watching VSS Enterprise fly for the first time really brings home what beautiful, ground-breaking vehicles Burt and his team have developed for us," Branson said.

"Today was another major step along that road and a testament to U.S. engineering and innovation," he said.

Virgin Galactic has envisioned one flight a week, with six tourists aboard. Each will pay $200,000 for the ride and train for at least three days before going. About 80,000 people have placed their names on the waiting list for seats.

"What we want to be able to do is bring space travel down to a price range where hundreds of thousands of people would be able to experience space, and they never dreamed that [they] could," Branson said last year.

He has said he hopes the technology will lead to a new form of Earth travel, jetting people across oceans and continents faster through suborbital routes.

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Bakersfield, California (CNN) -- When Vincent Barrett died alone in July at age 72, the coroner's office could not find any next of kin.

Similarly, Ronald Axtell was listed as indigent -- no survivors and no funds for a funeral -- when he died at age 69.

And yet a small army of men and women gathered to pay their respects to the two men, both Air Force veterans, as they were buried at Bakersfield National Cemetery in September.

Marsha Dickey, who works in the Kern County coroner's office, was instrumental in making sure the men got the honors they deserved.

"She worked very hard to see that they were veterans ... and without that ... we probably would not be here today to honor them," said Lynn Sprayberry, founder and chairwoman of Friends of Fallen Heroes, a local organization that makes sure veterans receive a respectful service at Bakersfield National Cemetery.

The coroner's office also discovered that Barrett, a former staff sergeant, had been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in Korea. Axtell was a former airman second class.

"Without [Dickey's] persistence, these two individuals would be placed in a county-owned site," said Wesley Jones, director of the Bakersfield National Cemetery. "Nobody would have known. ... Nobody would have any concept of who these individuals were."

Leon Thomas, who served in the U.S. Army in Korea in 1951 and was awarded the Purple Heart and a Bronze Star medal for bravery, helped spread the word about the double funeral.

"The folks at the coroner's office are patriotic Americans," Thomas said. "We got on the phone and on the Internet and invited our friends."

News of the funeral even made the local paper.

"I really didn't know there would be this many people to come out," Sprayberry said.

And come they did, civilians and veterans. An awning built to shade mourners from the hot San Joaquin Valley sun was not big enough to cover everyone. A few brought umbrellas for shade. Many held American flags, some small and some very large and carried on poles.

Some brought flowers; one vet held a few yellow roses; another left a bouquet of red, white and blue flowers with a simple message printed on a white ribbon: "Thank you."

When the honor guard approached with Barrett's flag-draped casket, civilians put their hands over their hearts. The veterans -- some wearing motorcycle leather and bandanas, some sport shirts and slacks, others donning the suit jackets and pea caps favored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars -- stood at attention and snapped crisp salutes.

They saluted again when the honor guard fired three volleys of seven shots and when the lone bugler played taps.

As the guard tightly folded the flag that draped Barrett's casket, a woman in her 20s took cell phone video with one hand and wiped tears with the other.

Barrett's ceremony was brief, not much longer than 10 minutes. Axtell's ceremony started shortly after, his ashes carried by the honor guard in a small wooden box. It lasted about as long as the first, with the same volley of shots, taps and salutes.

The sergeant of the guard gave Barrett's folded flag to Sprayberry. Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood, who also serves as the county coroner, received Axtell's flag.

In the minutes between services, cemetery director Jones asked the crowd whether there were "any family representatives here for Mr. Axtell?"

No one came forward.

"There were 125, give or take, people here who had no idea who ... Barrett or Axtell were," Jones said. "They didn't know if they were African-American, Hispanic, Caucasian. They didn't even know they were in the Air Force. But they were here."

"They're patriotic Americans, and they showed up," Thomas added.

"I knew their names and their rank, and that's all I knew," Sprayberry said. "And yet, I was here, and I was very proud to be here, and spend a little time saying goodbye. ... Nobody deserves to be laid to rest alone, especially for fighting for their country, and ... they deserve the respect."

Bakersfield National Cemetery is far different than any county facility where the indigent would be interred. In the arid foothills of California, their upright headstones will stand in a field of decomposed granite instead of grass, joining about 250 others in an orderly formation. The granite is raked daily, giving the new cemetery a Zen garden look amid the rolling hills and century-old oak trees.

Axtell and Barrett's cases should not be unusual, Jones said. "They're veterans. And because they are veterans, they're entitled to be here, and we honor them the very best way we can."

"I think we're going to see more ... people identified as veterans from the ranks of the indigent," Thomas said. "They should be honored in a fitting way, like we honored these two today."

Between Barrett and Axtell's services, Youngblood addressed the crowd: "Because you may be indigent, it doesn't make you inconsequential. They served our country, and you're paying them a great tribute by being here."

text: Bakersfield

text: California

text: CNN

text: When

text: Vincent

text: Barrett

text: died

text: alone

text: in

text: July

text: at

text: age

text: the

text: coroner

text: 's

text: office

text: could

text: not

text: find

text: any

text: next

text: of

text: kin

text: Similarly

text: Ronald

text: Axtell

text: was

text: listed

text: as

text: indigent

text: no

text: survivors

text: and

text: no

text: funds

text: for

text: a

text: funeral

text: when

text: he

text: died

text: at

text: age

text: And

text: yet

text: a

text: small

text: army

text: of

text: men

text: and

text: women

text: gathered

text: to

text: pay

text: their

text: respects

text: to

text: the

text: two

text: men

text: both

text: Air

text: Force

text: veterans

text: as

text: they

text: were

text: buried

text: at

text: Bakersfield

text: National

text: Cemetery

text: in

text: September

text: Marsha

text: Dickey

text: who

text: works

text: in

text: the

text: Kern

text: County

text: coroner

text: 's

text: office

text: was

text: instrumental

text: in

text: making

text: sure

text: the

text: men

text: got

text: the

text: honors

text: they

text: deserved

text: She

text: worked

text: very

text: hard

text: to

text: see

text: that

text: they

text: were

text: veterans

text: and

text: without

text: that

text: we

text: probably

text: would

text: not

text: be

text: here

text: today

text: to

text: honor

text: them

text: said

text: Lynn

text: Sprayberry

text: founder

text: and

text: chairwoman

text: of

text: Friends

text: of

text: Fallen

text: Heroes

text: a

text: local

text: organization

text: that

text: makes

text: sure

text: veterans

text: receive

text: a

text: respectful

text: service

text: at

text: Bakersfield

text: National

text: Cemetery

text: The

text: coroner

text: 's

text: office

text: also

text: discovered

text: that

text: Barrett

text: a

text: former

text: staff

text: sergeant

text: had

text: been

text: awarded

text: the

text: Purple

text: Heart

text: for

text: wounds

text: received

text: in

text: Korea

text: Axtell

text: was

text: a

text: former

text: airman

text: second

text: class

text: Without

text: Dickey

text: 's

text: persistence

text: these

text: two

text: individuals

text: would

text: be

text: placed

text: in

text: a

text: county

text: owned

text: site

text: said

text: Wesley

text: Jones

text: director

text: of

text: the

text: Bakersfield

text: National

text: Cemetery

text: Nobody

text: would

text: have

text: known

text: Nobody

text: would

text: have

text: any

text: concept

text: of

text: who

text: these

text: individuals

text: were

text: Leon

text: Thomas

text: who

text: served

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Army

text: in

text: Korea

text: in

text: and

text: was

text: awarded

text: the

text: Purple

text: Heart

text: and

text: a

text: Bronze

text: Star

text: medal

text: for

text: bravery

text: helped

text: spread

text: the

text: word

text: about

text: the

text: double

text: funeral

text: The

text: folks

text: at

text: the

text: coroner

text: 's

text: office

text: are

text: patriotic

text: Americans

text: Thomas

text: said

text: We

text: got

text: on

text: the

text: phone

text: and

text: on

text: the

text: Internet

text: and

text: invited

text: our

text: friends

text: News

text: of

text: the

text: funeral

text: even

text: made

text: the

text: local

text: paper

text: I

text: really

text: did

text: n't

text: know

text: there

text: would

text: be

text: this

text: many

text: people

text: to

text: come

text: out

text: Sprayberry

text: said

text: And

text: come

text: they

text: did

text: civilians

text: and

text: veterans

text: An

text: awning

text: built

text: to

text: shade

text: mourners

text: from

text: the

text: hot

text: San

text: Joaquin

text: Valley

text: sun

text: was

text: not

text: big

text: enough

text: to

text: cover

text: everyone

text: A

text: few

text: brought

text: umbrellas

text: for

text: shade

text: Many

text: held

text: American

text: flags

text: some

text: small

text: and

text: some

text: very

text: large

text: and

text: carried

text: on

text: poles

text: Some

text: brought

text: flowers

text: one

text: vet

text: held

text: a

text: few

text: yellow

text: roses

text: another

text: left

text: a

text: bouquet

text: of

text: red

text: white

text: and

text: blue

text: flowers

text: with

text: a

text: simple

text: message

text: printed

text: on

text: a

text: white

text: ribbon

text: Thank

text: you

text: When

text: the

text: honor

text: guard

text: approached

text: with

text: Barrett

text: 's

text: flag

text: draped

text: casket

text: civilians

text: put

text: their

text: hands

text: over

text: their

text: hearts

text: The

text: veterans

text: some

text: wearing

text: motorcycle

text: leather

text: and

text: bandanas

text: some

text: sport

text: shirts

text: and

text: slacks

text: others

text: donning

text: the

text: suit

text: jackets

text: and

text: pea

text: caps

text: favored

text: by

text: the

text: Veterans

text: of

text: Foreign

text: Wars

text: stood

text: at

text: attention

text: and

text: snapped

text: crisp

text: salutes

text: They

text: saluted

text: again

text: when

text: the

text: honor

text: guard

text: fired

text: three

text: volleys

text: of

text: seven

text: shots

text: and

text: when

text: the

text: lone

text: bugler

text: played

text: taps

text: As

text: the

text: guard

text: tightly

text: folded

text: the

text: flag

text: that

text: draped

text: Barrett

text: 's

text: casket

text: a

text: woman

text: in

text: her

text: took

text: cell

text: phone

text: video

text: with

text: one

text: hand

text: and

text: wiped

text: tears

text: with

text: the

text: other

text: Barrett

text: 's

text: ceremony

text: was

text: brief

text: not

text: much

text: longer

text: than

text: minutes

text: Axtell

text: 's

text: ceremony

text: started

text: shortly

text: after

text: his

text: ashes

text: carried

text: by

text: the

text: honor

text: guard

text: in

text: a

text: small

text: wooden

text: box

text: It

text: lasted

text: about

text: as

text: long

text: as

text: the

text: first

text: with

text: the

text: same

text: volley

text: of

text: shots

text: taps

text: and

text: salutes

text: The

text: sergeant

text: of

text: the

text: guard

text: gave

text: Barrett

text: 's

text: folded

text: flag

text: to

text: Sprayberry

text: Kern

text: County

text: Sheriff

text: Donny

text: Youngblood

text: who

text: also

text: serves

text: as

text: the

text: county

text: coroner

text: received

text: Axtell

text: 's

text: flag

text: In

text: the

text: minutes

text: between

text: services

text: cemetery

text: director

text: Jones

text: asked

text: the

text: crowd

text: whether

text: there

text: were

text: any

text: family

text: representatives

text: here

text: for

text: Mr.

text: Axtell

text: No

text: one

text: came

text: forward

text: There

text: were

text: give

text: or

text: take

text: people

text: here

text: who

text: had

text: no

text: idea

text: who

text: Barrett

text: or

text: Axtell

text: were

text: Jones

text: said

text: They

text: did

text: n't

text: know

text: if

text: they

text: were

text: African

text: American

text: Hispanic

text: Caucasian

text: They

text: did

text: n't

text: even

text: know

text: they

text: were

text: in

text: the

text: Air

text: Force

text: But

text: they

text: were

text: here

text: They

text: 're

text: patriotic

text: Americans

text: and

text: they

text: showed

text: up

text: Thomas

text: added

text: I

text: knew

text: their

text: names

text: and

text: their

text: rank

text: and

text: that

text: 's

text: all

text: I

text: knew

text: Sprayberry

text: said

text: And

text: yet

text: I

text: was

text: here

text: and

text: I

text: was

text: very

text: proud

text: to

text: be

text: here

text: and

text: spend

text: a

text: little

text: time

text: saying

text: goodbye

text: Nobody

text: deserves

text: to

text: be

text: laid

text: to

text: rest

text: alone

text: especially

text: for

text: fighting

text: for

text: their

text: country

text: and

text: they

text: deserve

text: the

text: respect

text: Bakersfield

text: National

text: Cemetery

text: is

text: far

text: different

text: than

text: any

text: county

text: facility

text: where

text: the

text: indigent

text: would

text: be

text: interred

text: In

text: the

text: arid

text: foothills

text: of

text: California

text: their

text: upright

text: headstones

text: will

text: stand

text: in

text: a

text: field

text: of

text: decomposed

text: granite

text: instead

text: of

text: grass

text: joining

text: about

text: others

text: in

text: an

text: orderly

text: formation

text: The

text: granite

text: is

text: raked

text: daily

text: giving

text: the

text: new

text: cemetery

text: a

text: Zen

text: garden

text: look

text: amid

text: the

text: rolling

text: hills

text: and

text: century

text: old

text: oak

text: trees

text: Axtell

text: and

text: Barrett

text: 's

text: cases

text: should

text: not

text: be

text: unusual

text: Jones

text: said

text: They

text: 're

text: veterans

text: And

text: because

text: they

text: are

text: veterans

text: they

text: 're

text: entitled

text: to

text: be

text: here

text: and

text: we

text: honor

text: them

text: the

text: very

text: best

text: way

text: we

text: can

text: I

text: think

text: we

text: 're

text: going

text: to

text: see

text: more

text: people

text: identified

text: as

text: veterans

text: from

text: the

text: ranks

text: of

text: the

text: indigent

text: Thomas

text: said

text: They

text: should

text: be

text: honored

text: in

text: a

text: fitting

text: way

text: like

text: we

text: honored

text: these

text: two

text: today

text: Between

text: Barrett

text: and

text: Axtell

text: 's

text: services

text: Youngblood

text: addressed

text: the

text: crowd

text: Because

text: you

text: may

text: be

text: indigent

text: it

text: does

text: n't

text: make

text: you

text: inconsequential

text: They

text: served

text: our

text: country

text: and

text: you

text: 're

text: paying

text: them

text: a

text: great

text: tribute

text: by

text: being

text: here

question: Who were the veterans who died?

answer: Ronald Axtell

text: Ronald Axtell

question: Who helped make sure the men got military burials?

answer: Lynn Sprayberry,

text: Lynn Sprayberry,

question: What would have happened if not fot he coroner's intervention?

answer: be placed in a county-owned site,"

text: be placed in a county-owned site,"

question: Who came out to turn their respects?

answer: a small army of men and women

text: a small army of men and women

question: How many air force veterans died?

answer: two

text: two

question: What did the local coroner official make sure happen?

answer: veterans receive a respectful service

text: veterans receive a respectful service

question: What did a small army of men and women do?

answer: gathered to pay their respects

text: gathered to pay their respects

question: How many Air Force veterans died in California without next of kin?

answer: two

text: two


text:
(CNN) -- At least 44 people, including 23 Filipino soldiers, died Wednesday in fighting between the Philippine military and Islamic militants, the country's armed services said on Thursday.

A wounded Philippine Marine receives a medal from Major Gen. Benjamin Dolorfino in Zamboanga Thursday.

The fighting was sparked by military raids on Abu Sayyaf militant training camps in the villages of Silangkum and Baguindan on the southern island province of Basilan, said Steffani Cacho, public information officer for the Philippine Armed Services.

Thirty to 40 militants were killed, but only 21 bodies had been recovered, the military said. Twenty-three members of the military were killed and 22 suffered injuries.

The militants used the training camps to temporarily house kidnapping victims and make explosives, Cacho said, adding that high-power firearms, explosives and documents were seized in the raids.

Abu Sayyaf, which has been linked to the al Qaeda terrorist network, is one of several Islamic militant groups fighting the Philippine government. The group operates largely in Basilan, according to the U.S. State Department, and wants to establish a separate state for the country's minority Muslim population.

The government has been fighting to contain the group, which is blamed for several terrorist attacks in the Philippines, including the bombing of a ferry in 2004 that left about 130 people dead.

This year Abu Sayyaf has been implicated in the kidnappings of several Red Cross workers and journalists.

text: CNN

text: At

text: least

text: people

text: including

text: Filipino

text: soldiers

text: died

text: Wednesday

text: in

text: fighting

text: between

text: the

text: Philippine

text: military

text: and

text: Islamic

text: militants

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: armed

text: services

text: said

text: on

text: Thursday

text: A

text: wounded

text: Philippine

text: Marine

text: receives

text: a

text: medal

text: from

text: Major

text: Gen.

text: Benjamin

text: Dolorfino

text: in

text: Zamboanga

text: Thursday

text: The

text: fighting

text: was

text: sparked

text: by

text: military

text: raids

text: on

text: Abu

text: Sayyaf

text: militant

text: training

text: camps

text: in

text: the

text: villages

text: of

text: Silangkum

text: and

text: Baguindan

text: on

text: the

text: southern

text: island

text: province

text: of

text: Basilan

text: said

text: Steffani

text: Cacho

text: public

text: information

text: officer

text: for

text: the

text: Philippine

text: Armed

text: Services

text: Thirty

text: to

text: militants

text: were

text: killed

text: but

text: only

text: bodies

text: had

text: been

text: recovered

text: the

text: military

text: said

text: Twenty

text: three

text: members

text: of

text: the

text: military

text: were

text: killed

text: and

text: suffered

text: injuries

text: The

text: militants

text: used

text: the

text: training

text: camps

text: to

text: temporarily

text: house

text: kidnapping

text: victims

text: and

text: make

text: explosives

text: Cacho

text: said

text: adding

text: that

text: high

text: power

text: firearms

text: explosives

text: and

text: documents

text: were

text: seized

text: in

text: the

text: raids

text: Abu

text: Sayyaf

text: which

text: has

text: been

text: linked

text: to

text: the

text: al

text: Qaeda

text: terrorist

text: network

text: is

text: one

text: of

text: several

text: Islamic

text: militant

text: groups

text: fighting

text: the

text: Philippine

text: government

text: The

text: group

text: operates

text: largely

text: in

text: Basilan

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: U.S.

text: State

text: Department

text: and

text: wants

text: to

text: establish

text: a

text: separate

text: state

text: for

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: minority

text: Muslim

text: population

text: The

text: government

text: has

text: been

text: fighting

text: to

text: contain

text: the

text: group

text: which

text: is

text: blamed

text: for

text: several

text: terrorist

text: attacks

text: in

text: the

text: Philippines

text: including

text: the

text: bombing

text: of

text: a

text: ferry

text: in

text: that

text: left

text: about

text: people

text: dead

text: This

text: year

text: Abu

text: Sayyaf

text: has

text: been

text: implicated

text: in

text: the

text: kidnappings

text: of

text: several

text: Red

text: Cross

text: workers

text: and

text: journalists

question: where do clashes take place?

answer: in the villages of Silangkum and Baguindan on the southern island province of Basilan,

text: in the villages of Silangkum and Baguindan on the southern island province of Basilan,

question: how many were killed

answer: 44 people, including 23 Filipino soldiers,

text: 44 people, including 23 Filipino soldiers,

question: who has been linked to al qaeda

answer: Abu Sayyaf,

text: Abu Sayyaf,

question: When were the 40 militants killed?

answer: Wednesday

text: Wednesday

question: what island province has been involved

answer: Basilan,

text: Basilan,

question: what has Abu Sayyaf been linked to?

answer: al Qaeda

text: al Qaeda

question: how many bodies have been recovered?

answer: 21