Oprah Chimp Woman,Charla Nash Pictures After Attack

Oprah Chimp Woman,Charla Nash Pictures After Attack : A Connecticut woman who was attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee has revealed her face and says she’s ready to heal and move forward. On Wednesday’s episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Charla Nash says she’s starting to get stronger.

Oprah Chimp Woman,Charla Nash Pictures After Attack:A Connecticut woman who was attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee has revealed her face and says she’s ready to heal and move forward.

On Wednesday’s episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Charla Nash says she’s starting to get stronger.

The animal ripped off Nash’s hands, nose, lips and eyelids during the February attack. She’s being treated at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

Nash says she no longer has eyes, eats everything through a straw and can’t breathe through her nose. But she says she isn’t in pain and often goes for walks.

Nash also says it feels like “patches of tape or gauze” are covering her face and she doesn’t remember anything from the attack.

Chimp Attack Victim,Chimp Attack Victim Pictures

Chimp Attack Victim,Chimp Attack Victim Pictures : Charla Nash , the Connecticut woman mauled by a 200 pound chimpanzee in February, appeared on “ Oprah ” Wednesday to reveal her face and share heartbreaking details on her life since the attack. Nash who turned 56 Tuesday revealed “the remnants of her missing eyes, nose and lips,” as ABC News described it .

Chimp Attack Victim,Chimp Attack Victim Pictures:Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman mauled by a 200 pound chimpanzee in February, appeared on “Oprah” Wednesday to reveal her face and share heartbreaking details on her life since the attack.

Nash who turned 56 Tuesday revealed “the remnants of her missing eyes, nose and lips,” as ABC News described it.

Gilgit-Baltistan On High As Voters Go To Polls Today

ISLAMABAD: The people of Gilgit-Baltistan will go to the polls on Thursday to elect a new legislative assembly that will enjoy more powers under political reforms introduced by the government recently to accord the region more autonomy. More than 250 candidates are in the running for 23 seats. The winners will elect members for nine reserved seats — six for women and three for technocrats

ISLAMABAD: The people of Gilgit-Baltistan will go to the polls on Thursday to elect a new legislative assembly that will enjoy more powers under political reforms introduced by the government recently to accord the region more autonomy.

More than 250 candidates are in the running for 23 seats. The winners will elect members for nine reserved seats — six for women and three for technocrats.

Polling in one constituency of Ghizer district was put off after the death of a candidate.

All major parties of the country have fielded their candidates.

Visits by top leaders like Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Shahbaz Sharif and Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan have electrified the dormant political scene of the region.

Entry of new players in the fray has broken the grip of two-party politics and is giving a tough time to traditional politicians.

However, independent observers see the Pakistan People’s Party as better placed to win, though not with a big margin.

Although there are eight political, nationalist and ethnic parties in the fray, only the PPP, PML-N, PML-Q and MQM are likely to make significant pickings.

The Pakistan People’s Party has fielded 23 candidates, Muttahida Qaumi Movement 19, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, 15, PML-Q 14 and Awami National Party three. The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl), Balawaristan National Front, Jamaat-i-Islami and Tehrik-i-Insaaf have fielded two candidates each.

The Gilgit-Baltistan Democratic Alliance, which comprises four nationalist groups, has boycotted the polls in four constituencies in protest against what it calls a pre-poll rigging plan and harassment of candidates. It will now contest six seats.

The regional election commission has set up 989 polling stations for 714,966 voters, including 330,391 women.

Most of the candidates are old guns who have been in and out of politics over the past three decades.

However, a few new and young faces have been fielded by some parties.

None of them has a programme for the well-being of the neglected region. The PPP has been employing various tactics to win the polls. The prime minister and some federal ministers have visited the region and made announcements which the party’s opponents consider as part of pre-poll rigging.

The ruling party, despite a leadership crisis, is still in a better position, but it has failed to nurture and groom its young cadre. ‘The stagnant structure of the PPP in the region has stunted the growth of its vote bank,’ says Aziz Ali Dad, a young social activist.

Nevertheless the people of Gilgit-Baltistan still idolise the party’s founder, former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, as he was the first Pakistani leader to address the misery of the poor in the region, especially of Hunza-Nagar, by liberating them from the despotic rule of the two former princely states.

It was his party that gave them the right to franchise.

Religious parties have witnessed a sharp decline in their support and vote bank after dominating the political scene in the 1990s. However, they have a strong influence in Gilgit city and adjoining areas.

‘Another factor that influences election outcomes is kinship-based politics which is stronger in some constituencies of Gilgit and Diamer districts, while Baltistan is racially, religiously and linguistically homogenous to a great extent.

Therefore, its electoral dynamics, to some extent, is at variance with other regions,’ says Aziz Ali Dad.

But a new powerful entrepreneur class which has benefited from border trade and commerce on the Karakoram Highway, tourism, timber trade, contracts and transportation will play a pivotal role as a sizable number of its members are in the field.

The MQM has entered the political arena of Gilgit-Baltistan for the first time.

Lou Dobbs Leaving Cnn..Why Is Lou Dobbs Leaving Cnn

Lou Dobbs Leaving Cnn..Why Is Lou Dobbs Leaving Cnn : CNN’s Lou Dobbs stepped down from his controversial role as an advocacy anchor at the network at the end of his show Wednesday night after announcing plans to seek a more activist role. “Over the past six months, it has become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us, and some leaders in media, politics and business have been urging me to go beyond the role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem-solving as well as to contribute positively to a better understanding of the great issues of our day and to continue to do so in the most honest and direct language possible,” Dobbs said during his 7 p.m

Lou Dobbs Leaving Cnn..Why Is Lou Dobbs Leaving Cnn:CNN’s Lou Dobbs stepped down from his controversial role as an advocacy anchor at the network at the end of his show Wednesday night after announcing plans to seek a more activist role.

“Over the past six months, it has become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us, and some leaders in media, politics and business have been urging me to go beyond the role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem-solving as well as to contribute positively to a better understanding of the great issues of our day and to continue to do so in the most honest and direct language possible,” Dobbs said during his 7 p.m. broadcast.

Dobbs, 64, said he had discussed the issue with CNN President Jonathan Klein, who had agreed to a release from his contract “that will enable me to pursue new opportunities.”

In a written statement, Klein called Dobbs “a valued founding member of the CNN family.”

“For decades, Lou fearlessly and tirelessly pursued some of the most important and complex stories of our time, often well ahead of the pack,” Klein said. “All of us will miss his appetite for big ideas, the megawatt smile and larger-than-life presence he brought to our newsroom, and we’re grateful to have known and worked with him over the years.

“With characteristic forthrightness, Lou has now decided to carry the banner of advocacy journalism elsewhere. We respect his decision and wish him, Debi [Dobbs' wife], and his family the very best.”

Dobbs, who is the last of the 29-year-old network’s original anchors, said he was considering “a number of options and directions.”

He cited the growth of the middle class, the creation of jobs, health care, immigration policy, the environment, climate change and the U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as “the major issues of our time.”

But, he said, “Each of those issues is, in my opinion, informed by our capacity to demonstrate strong resilience of our now weakened capitalist economy and demonstrate the political will to overcome the lack of true representation in Washington, D.C. I believe these to be profoundly, critically important issues and I will continue to strive to deal honestly and straightforwardly with those issues in the future.” Read Dobbs’ full statement about his departure from CNN