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It is not uncommon to hear a choir of Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park. It is unusual for songs like "No" and "Stop."

Church on Saturday, is organizing a free seminar on self-defense carry the Guardian Angels, a volunteer group to patrol the city, the CTA bus trains.Twenty women participated in a class of one and a half in length, which was held in response Recent crime near the Green Line in Oak Park. Five women were attacked and robbed at night 30.3.-28, 04. According to the police in Oak Park.

The women attacked in separate areas, close to Via Lago Boulevard between Austin and Oak Park Avenue. None of the victims was seriously injured, police said.The Guardian Angels began patrolling the Green Line last month after the attacks, providing escorts to train women pilots. The angels are in class on Saturday, when the hearing of an interest in women, they are escorted.

The Angels showed participants how to hit the bridge of the nose of their attackers with a fist blow their ears, fingers digging into their throats and knees inside their Chicago thighs.Guardian Angels chapter leader Mike Fuentes said that it would keep similar seminars in the city if local businesses and organizations will provide CTA riders space.Fuentes recommend women avoid using electronic equipment and traveling alone at night in addition to learning defensive tactics.

Betsy Torres, often with the Green Line commuter, said he rarely rides on the train late at night. 32, Oak Park resident said he got the seminar for self-defense, because sometimes walks his Schnauzer-poodle mix in the dark.

"He is 16 pounds. He has no intention of doing anything to anyone," said Torres.

Blue Line Rider Memari Gibson, 21, said he hoped never to use the techniques learned in class. Gibson, and Forest Park, said when he sometimes go by train late at night, turns off her iPod.

"I am very aware of what is happening around me," said Gibson.

casey anthony trial

Attorney Linda Burdick Dran ended her more than two hours introductory statement assuring the jury in the murder trial of Casey Anthony at the end of this case, they have no problem finding Casey Anthony guilty of murder in first degree. And in the process was a weapon to assassinate the first time:

The tape found with the remains of Caylee Anthony in December 2008, were placed there by his mother with the intention of ending the life of her child, "said Burdick Dran.

"Death has Caylee Anthony Casey to live a good life. At least for these 31 days [in which Caylee was missing]," said Attorney packed his opening statement.

"At the end of this case, you will have no difficulty concluding that Caylee Anthony was murdered by his mother."

More than two hours before, Drane Burdick began his opening statement saying, "It's time to tell the story of a girl named Caylee."

After a midmorning break, Drane Burdick began throwing in the fact that Casey Anthony for 31 days had lied about where he was, where Caylee was what they did.

"It 's back against the wall ... that Casey Anthony first spoke these words:" Caylee was kidnapped by a baby-sitter. "Babysitter, no one has ever seen," said Drane Burdick. The initial response to Cindy Anthony, who is headed to Casey Anthony: "What have you done?"

Cindy Anthony then panics total, Drane Burdick said, and called 911 a third time.

benjamin netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it appeared Obama had to teach in certain areas today, so he described in detail in the Oval Office that the President had for the refugees in the region dates back 63 years, and the views necessary to defend Israel in the context of thousands of years of Jewish suffering.

"There is little margin for error," Netanyahu told the president. "Because, Mr. President, history will not give up the Jewish people have a chance."

Netanyahu, whose father was a retired university, gave the President reiterated the lessons of history, saying the Jews were "almost 4,000 years. We have experienced conflict and suffering like no other people. We went through expulsions and pogroms and massacres and the killing of millions. But I can tell you that even in the absence - even the lowest point in the valley of death, he never lost hope and never lost the dream of restoring a sovereign state in our ancient homeland, the land of Israel. "

Yesterday, Netanyahu angered by Obama - the first time - including the question of American policy, "the boundaries between Israel and Palestine must be based on the 1967 Agreed swap lines, to secure and recognized borders established in the two states."

President Obama acknowledged this debate today, saying: "Of course there are some differences between us and the exact wording of the language, and that will happen among friends."

President Obama has called on reporters in the Oval Office after he and Netanyahu talked one on one for more than an hour and half. The discussions went beyond the designated time allocated to the point that they canceled the lunch.