2015年5月26日 星期二
Punt it like Beckham!
David and Victoria take their children for a leisurely afternoon on the river in Cambridge... and Brooklyn even gets to meet Stephen Hawking
Punt it like Beckham! David and Victoria take their children for a leisurely afternoon on the river in Cambridge... and Brooklyn even gets to meet Stephen Hawking
It's one the of best ways to spend an afternoon in Cambridge, so the Beckhams were naturally keen to take to the waters when they paid a visit to the beautiful city on Monday for a fun-filled family outing.
David and Victoria Beckham and their brood were spotted enjoying a leisurely punting trip down the River Cam as they made the most of the bank holiday weekend.
And not only that but their eldest son Brooklyn, 16, even got to meet legendary physicist Professor Steven Hawking during the family day out.
Family affair: The Beckhams were spotted glided down the River Cam in Cambridge on Monday afternoon in two separate punts
Inspiring: Brooklyn Beckham shared this picture of him with Stephen Hawking, when he paid a visit a visit to the professor on Monday, although his grammar would no doubt have horrified the esteemed physicist
The 40-year-old sporting legend was in one punt with his three boys Brooklyn, Romeo, 12 and Cruz, ten, while fashion designer Victoria took another boat with three-year-old Harper.
Relaxing: David shared this relaxed picture of himself in front of one of Cambridge's many beautiful buildings
Stunning: David was so impressed with his fun-filled day on the river that he took to Instagram to tell his fans about it
All together now: The children's maternal grandparents Tony and Jackie Adams joined them on their outing
The last supper for a 54-year-old British father
A 54-year-old British father dines with his loved ones. Just 16 hours later he took his own life at a Swiss clinic, with the reluctant blessing of his wife and three daughters
- Jeffrey Spector enjoyed a final meal with his family before assisted suicide
- 54-year-old travelled to Dignitas clinic in
Zurich with his wife and children
- Father-of-three feared inoperable tumour on his spine would paralyse him
- The successful businessman described suicide as his ‘
least worst option’
Surrounded by his smiling family and friends, he could be any father enjoying a meal out.
But 16 hours after this photograph was taken, 54-year-old Jeffrey Spector killed himself at a Swiss clinic, telling his heartbroken children: ‘I know I am going too early.’
The married father of three feared the inoperable tumour growing on his spine would leave him paralysed from the neck down at any moment.
Unable to contemplate a future trapped in his own body and dependent on others, the successful businessman described suicide as his ‘least worst option’.
Poignant: Businessman Jeffrey Spector (front right) shares a final meal in Switzerland with family and friends – including two of his daughters - just hours before he took his own life at a Dignitas assisted suicide clinic
Mr Spector said his family had urged him not to kill himself, but he travelled with his wife and children to the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Zurich.
The family had a poignant last meal together before he took a fatal dose of barbiturates with his wife Elaine, 53, at his side.
Last night she and their three daughters said they were ‘in a state of all-consuming grief’, but added: ‘As a family we supported and respected Jeffrey’s decision 100 per cent.
Fr: the Mail
Canada's Miss World candidate says her family was threatened in China
Canada’s newly crowned Miss World candidate says her family in China is being threatened for her outspokenness on religious freedom and her former country’s human-rights violations.
Anastasia Lin, a 25-year-old Torontonian, said that several days after her May 16 victory in Vancouver, she starting receiving harrowing text messages from her father, explaining he had been visited by security forces and telling her she would lose his support, if she continued speaking out.
“He said that the security services threatened him with turning my family into something from the Cultural Revolution,” she said, alluding to the era when the Communists would encourage family members to denounce each other.
Ms. Lin said when she asked her father whether he had been threatened, he instructed her never to ask him about it again and pleaded with her to allow them a way to survive in China. In other words, stop talking about politics. As she explained to him, however, she didn’t see how she could avoid it. “It’s precisely because of the values I’m upholding that has moved the judges.”
Her plight is one of many in which Canadian citizens of Chinese origin say their families in China are being harassed for political activities in their new country. Tibetan and Uyghur groups have made similar claims and they have stressed there is almost no recourse to address the bilateral problem.
Ms. Lin’s predicament adds a wrinkle to the typically placid Miss World contest: The final pageant will be held in Sanya, China, the sixth time the beach city has hosted the competition. “Stay tuned and see if they give me the visa,” Ms. Lin said.
The Chinese embassy in Ottawa did not respond for comment.
A practitioner of Falun Gong – the religious discipline that China regards as a political movement and a menace – Ms. Lin is a University of Toronto theatre major who has appeared in several films that underscore rights abuses in China, particularly against Falun Gong.
Ms. Lin, who prevailed over 52 other contestants, was born in China’s Hunan province and lived there for 13 years before moving to Canada with her mother. Her parents are divorced, and her father has a new family in China.
When asked whether she had reached out to the authorities about the threats, she said there was no one to complain to. “You can’t contact the Chinese police because they’re the problem. I was thinking of calling the Canadian government, but can they really pressure China not to harass people?”
Joel Chipkar, a leader in Toronto’s Falun Gong community, said that thousands of fellow practitioners have complained about similar circumstances and pointed to Canada’s closed-door discussions on human rights with China as the culprit. “If Canada openly called for China to stop harassing its citizens and their families, China would start respecting Canada’s borders a little more.”
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