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I am obviously plagued with the inability to explain things well. A co worker of mine pointed this out to me on several occasions very kindly with the advice of K.I.S.S. Keep it simple stupid =P This is good advice but I just can't seem to do it. My wife gets frustrated with me at times also with the same problem. I explain things to her and she says by the way I say it it just seems there is more or something hidden to what I am saying and it doesn't make full sense. I am starting to feel really retarded and very frustrated. Sometimes I can catch myself doing it but don't know how to stop it. It must be something to do with speaking before I know exactly what I mean to say. WTF Am I supposed to stop for like five mins and figure out my next sentence? Sigh!!!!!

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/49421?ns=guardianpageName=Society%3A+UK+police+withheld+details+of+sex+abuse+at+orphanage+from+Albanian+authoritiesch=Societyc3=The+Guardianc4=Child+protection+%28Society%29%2CCrime+-+UK+%28News%29%2CPolice+%28politics%29%2CUK+news%2CReligion+%28News%29%2CPolitics%2CWorld+news%2CSocietyc5=Society+Weekly%2CPolicy+Society%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CChildren+Societyc6=Paul+Lewisc7=2008_11_20c8=1120693c9=articlec10=GUc11=Societyc12=Child+protectionc13=c14=h2=GU%2FSociety%2FChild+protection" width="1" height="1" //divpBritish police helped cover up a horrific sex abuse scandal at a Christian missionary orphanage in Albania, a Guardian investigation has found. /ppSenior officers agreed to keep details of abuse secret from their counterparts in Albania after the British director of the orphanage, David Brown, persuaded them that while children had been sexually abused in his care, he had played no part in it./ppBrown, 57, an evangelical charity worker who founded the His Children orphanage seven years ago, was yesterday found guilty of "sexual relations" with minors. /ppSentencing him to 20 years in a maximum-security jail in Albania, Judge Gerti Hoxha said the home had been used as "camouflage" for sexual abuse. He hoped the sentence would serve as a warning to other paedophiles. /ppLooking unstable on his feet, Brown was escorted from the courtroom./ppTwo other British helpers at the orphanage remain on trial for their alleged part in the abuse. Dino Christodoulou, 45, a social therapy nurse from Blackburn in Lancashire, and Robin Arnold, 56, a salesman from Cromer in Norfolk, were extradited to Albania from Britain in May. Brown's shelter cared for 40 abandoned children and babies. It was raided by Albanian police in May 2006. Ten children, aged between four and 13, told Albanian police they had been sexually abused by Brown and the two Britons. In some cases the children claim to have been bound to a balcony, gagged and raped. /ppBut an investigation has revealed that Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) received details about abuse at the home 18 months earlier, in December 2004, and failed to tell their Albanian counterparts./ppBrown gave members of NCIS, stationed in the region to fight organised crime, harrowing accounts of abuse suffered by boys at his home, but denied he was involved. Taking his word, officers decided not to inform Albanian police about the abuse./ppBefore speaking to the detectives, Brown sought advice from his friend Alan Moir, a retired police superintendent from Inverness. Moir, 64, who supported the running of the home, convened a meeting at a hotel in the capital with officers from NCIS. At that meeting Brown claimed that Christodoulou, whom he had allowed to return to Blackburn, had sexually abused the children behind his back. He did not say anything about Arnold's alleged involvement and claimed to have had no prior knowledge that children were being harmed. /pp"We made a decision that we would not report [the abuse] to the authorities," said Moir. "We knew what would happen - someone would be arrested and the children would be back on the street."/ppAsked if that constituted a cover-up by those at the meeting, Moir replied: "That is a fair and accurate description. We kept it secret from the Albanians. But it wasn't that we wanted to hide anything - we were trying to protect the children, open a new orphanage and make something good of this. That was my view at the time - it may have been wrong. Looking back I do feel misled by David. At the time I was under the impression that this was a bona fide home."/ppNCIS contacted Lancashire police requesting they check the background of Christodoulou and ensure he was not looking after children. No checks were done on Arnold, who had two convictions for indecently assaulting boys stretching back to the 1980s, leaving him free to travel to Malawi on what he described as an aid mission, where he met children while preaching the Bible./ppThere were no attempts to rescue the Gypsy children at the orphanage, where Brown slept with boys in his bed./pp"A lot of us were uncomfortable about what was going on in there," said a pastor who agreed not to inform Albanian police about the shelter. " But we believed David was a good man. And we didn't want all the good work our churches were doing to be associated with David's orphanage." /ppBy May 2006, Brown was under the impression that the attempted cover-up had succeeded and looked forward to opening another home under a new name. Moir took around euro;20,000 (pound;17,000) of his own money to Albania, which he said was for a deposit on land where they could construct the new shelter. /ppBut for Brown, the game was up. Receiving a tip-off about a suspected paedophile ring operated from the home, Albanian authorities raided the ramshackle orphanage, arrested Brown and, some months later, extradited Christodoulou and Arnold to face trial in Tirana. /ppIt was only then - 18 months after British law enforcement had been told about abuse at the orphanage - that a full criminal inquiry was opened./ppA senior UK police source involved in that inquiry said he was "flabbergasted" to discover the abuse had been covered up by colleagues. "The very basis for child protection is: rescue the children," he said. "The decisions that flowed from December 2004 were clearly a mistake. It endangered the lives of vulnerable children."/ppIn a statement, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), which has taken over from NCIS, denied its officers were involved in a cover-up, pointing out that the allegations "precede the formation of Soca" and communication between Britain and Albanian law enforcement had since improved. "There has been no cover-up. The relationship with the Albanians in 2004 bears no comparison with the relationship Soca has developed since 2006. At the time, officers acted on the best advice available in the circumstances. The excellent relationship we now have has led to three UK nationals standing trial in Albania."/ppInterviewed in prison before yesterday's verdict, all three accused Britons told the Guardian that children had been abused at the home. But all denied their personal involvement in the abuse, instead blaming each other. /ppChristodoulou said the children had been encouraged to tells lies about him. "It was cruel for someone to use the children to spite me," he said. /ppArnold said that while he had indecently assaulted boys in the past, he too was innocent of the charges. "I am here because God is using me to pull these other bastards down," he said. /ppThe pair's defence lawyers have questioned the validity of testimony given by the children, claiming they were "manipulated" by the prosecution./ppBrown described Christodoulou and Arnold, whom he blamed for the abuse, as "wolves in sheep's clothing". He described his trial as "my day on the cross". "I am the father of these children and I have a duty under God to defend them," he said./ph2Trial and terror/h2pstrong1999 /strongBrown travels to Albania to help refugees from Kosovo and, in Tirana, encounters abandoned Gypsy children./ppstrong2001/strong Vowing to help, Brown returns to open the His Children orphanage, above, initially providing shelter and Bible lessons to a handful of children./ppstrong2002 /strongDino Christodoulou moves to Tirana to work at the orphanage. Robin Arnold begins visiting the home and has unsupervised access to some children. /ppstrongOctober 2004 /strongBritish police are told about sexual abuse. They agree not to tell their Albanian colleagues. Brown continues to run the home./ppstrongMay 2006/strong Albanian police receive a tip-off. Brown is arrested and extradition requests are made for Christodoulou and Arnold./ppstrongNovember 2008 /strongBrown is jailed. 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We've been hearing for ages that there was a super-special version of the E71 with an AT&T ROM floating around somewhere in Nokia's skunkworks, but solid evidence of its existence has been scarce to say the least; some said it was canceled, some said it was just taking its sweet time going through the testing process, and some put a hand over our mouth and told us never to speak "AT&T" and "E71" in the same sentence again lest an agent overhear us. New in-the-wild shots give us -- and the North American S60-loving public -- newfound hope that the phone's gonna actually happen, but it'll emerge as the "E71x." That's a new suffix for Nokia, so we really have no idea what it might mean -- more internal memory would be cool, but we're not really counting on it. Word is that it'll be available for something in the $150 range when it finally hits, so if the 6650 isn't your cup o' tea, hang tight. (And by the way, guys, we're totally digging the black.)

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SFGate: "Hans Reiser, the computer programmer who admitted to strangling his estranged wife, is trying to appeal his conviction and sentence on the grounds of ineffective assistance from his lead attorney."

I bought the original iPhone the day it came out. LOVED IT. I told everybody it was hands down, the best purchase I had made in my life to date. It was beautiful, stable as a rock, and did everything I could possibly need it to do. I could check emails make phone calls almost everywhere I went (certainly better coverage than i had before) and listen to my music. Just an amazing device.

I now own a 3G. I upgraded thinking my love for iPhone would only increase with added GPS, 3G speeds, and larger capacity. Yet, I find that I have grown more anxious than excited about using my phone...wondering whether or not it's going to let me do what I need to do or simply let me down.

Let me explain a series of repeating iPhone frustrations that all came together to create the perfect storm of iPhone disappointment the other day:

I was out of the office all day for meetings. Knowing my emails were queing up, the minute we had our first 5 minute break, I pulled my iPhone out to check my email. The anxiety begins. Will I have signal? After all, the signal strength is so unreliable on my new iPhone than my original. So I anxiously type in my passcode to unlock the phone. Alas! I have signal...3G even! I tap the mail icon and wait for the blazing 3G goodness to work it’s magic. Yet, anxiety builds again. Will it actually connect and download all my mail before I have to go into my next meeting? I’ve come to realize that 3G isn’t as reliably fast as I’ve seen on TV. So, mail takes about 60-65 seconds to actually connect and download 10 small emails. Not exactly quick. I then tap my first message and I wait. Loading....Loading.....Loading..... After waiting 60-65 seconds for my email to download, I have to wait another 20 seconds or so before the message finally opens up? Because of the lengthy wait, I’m expecting a large email with a picture or two but I’m disappointed to see it’s only a 8 kilobyte email, with just two sentences and an email signature from the sender. Not exactly a complicated message to display...certainly not worth a 20 second delay to open. I respond to the email and send. I place the phone on the table and turn to speak to a colleague. About a minute and a half into my conversation, I hear the swoosh sound of a successful send. So my 5 minute break is up and I was able to download my email, but only had time to open 1, read it, and reply. A blazing fast phone, indeed.

My day continues, and another break. Time to check email again. This time, I'm in a different meeting and have wifi access. Hooray! No unreliable 3G speeds to contend with. My email downloads quickly and I see one of them has an attachment. It's a photo from a colleague of a prototype we're working on. He needs me to look at the photo and approve it. I think how great this is and how impossible this would have been on my old smart phone. So I tap the message and wait. Loading....Loading.... 40 seconds later, the message appears with the embedded image, but it’s too large to see. So i begin to scroll down to see the image in full, and the phone freezes. I sit and wait for the iPhone to catch it’s breath. A minute passes, yet nothing has happened. Still frozen. I’m running out of time, so I have do a forced reboot. Sigh.... By the time it reboots and lets me in, I was out of time again. My colleague would have to wait.

My day is finished and now. I'm at my office and ready to go home. I see a new podcast is waiting for me in iTunes. I decide to quickly sync my iPhone so that i can listen to it on my commute home. Anxiety builds again as I dock the phone....will this be a fast sync or one of the dreadfully long syncs that seem to have returned for no reason? So I dock the phone and I wait. And wait.....and wait....for my iPhone to sync. As I type this, I'm still waiting. It’s been about 12 minutes now. What happened to the speedy sync of days gone by?

As I climb into my car, the bluetooth system happily informs me it has attached the iPhone. I smile...something worked as it should have. I use the system to call home and inform my wife I’m coming home. My podcast fades away and the ringing sound fills my car. “Hello?” I hear. “Hey Honey, I’m on my way home!” There’s silence... I then hear another “Helloooo?” “Honey, I’m on my way home!” Silence again. She can’t hear me. The bluetooth connection has failed me again. I tap the sources, and chose “iPhone” and then quickly reselect my handsfree system and the call resumes as normal. As I wrap up my phone call, I press end and I’m anticipating my Podcast to fade back up and resume playing at the precise location. Yet, there is silence. The iPhone has, yet again, decided not to resume playing the iPod after a phone call as it often does. My iPhone day is completely ruined.

So, in closing I say: Apple, how I love thee. Your products make me happy and make others jealous. Yet, my new iPhone 3G brings me more anxiety than joy. Anxiety to whether it will do what it's supposed to do or whether it will leave me stranded. Oh how I’ve come to enjoy the little game of skill I now have to play - tapping the source button, then tapping ‘iPhone’ then quickly tapping back to hands free- all before the caller hangs up thinking they have been pranked by a silent caller. And oh how I’ve come to enjoy the ‘beep-beep-beep’ sound of all my dropped calls. Oh how fond I’ve become of the safari crashing and infinite wait for email to download. And oh how I have come to enjoy nap time while I sync my iPhone. Yes, I have come to terms with all of this. I have come to terms that my iPhone is beautiful and better than any other phone out there, yet when I'm in a hurry or need something done right here and now, my iPhone will fail me.

Thanks for letting me vent a little. Am I just too demanding or do I have a right to be disappointed? (I should mention I'm on my second iPhone 3G...already had the Apple store replace it once thinking I had a lemon).

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/49942?ns=guardianpageName=Society%3A+Albanian+court+finds+British+paedophile+guilty+of+sexual+abusech=Societyc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Child+protection+%28Society%29%2CUK+news%2CChristianity+%28News%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CChildren+Societyc6=Paul+Lewisc7=2008_11_19c8=1120357c9=articlec10=GUc11=Societyc12=Child+protectionc13=c14=h2=GU%2FSociety%2FChild+protection" width="1" height="1" //divpA British paedophile who ran a Christian missionary orphanage for abandoned street children in Albania has been sentenced to 20 years in jail after being found guilty of sexually abusing children. /ppDavid Brown, 57, a charity worker from Edinburgh, opened the orphanage seven years ago, claiming to be receiving instructions from God. He was found guilty in Tirana's district court today of "sexual relations with minors"./ppWhen the Guardian recently a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/oct/27/tirana-orphanage-child-abuse-trial"interviewed him/a in prison, Brown denied ever abusing the boys at the "His Children" orphanage, a ramshackle and overcrowded home for Gypsy children in Tirana, Albania's capital./pp"I came to Albania because I wanted to help the Albanian children," he said. "Everything that I set out to do has been violated. I was these children's father."/ppDuring his trial Brown accused two other British helpers at the home of committing the abuse. Dino Christodoulou, 45, a social therapy nurse from Blackburn in Lancashire, and Robin Arnold, 56, a salesman from Cromer in Norfolk were extradited to Albania in May and are being tried separately for their alleged role in the abuse. /ppBrown was arrested in May 2006, following a raid on the orphanage. br /Sentencing him to the maximum sentence in a high security jail in Albania, the judge said he hoped the punishment would serve as a warning to other paedophiles. He ordered Brown to be expelled from Albania when he is released from prison, in 2028./ppBefore travelling to Albania, Brown provided bible lessons and camping holidays to boys in Scotland over two decades./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/childprotection"Child protection/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/christianity"Christianity/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Societycountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227108907835111915362546276"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Societycountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227108907835111915362546276" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

A team of United Nations experts has condemned the trials and harsh sentences of dozens of political activists in Burma.

A team of United Nations experts has condemned the trials and harsh sentences of dozens of political activists in Burma.

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EXAMBUSTERS STUDY CARDS . . . A COURSE in an APP! 500 essential, frequently tested English Vocabulary words you need to know to raise your score. Written by professional exam coaches and certified teachers. Includes synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation, parts of speech, and sample sentences. Perfect for anyone who wants to enrich their vocabulary, reading comprehension, and conversation! A fast, focused review for the GED. Examine study cards one by one in sequence, and eliminate them from your stack once you've learned them. CUSTOMER PRAISE Really helped me prepare for my exams. ----Kristian Paras, Senior, Bergenfield, N.J. Hi-thank goodness for your flash cards because I had forgotten a lot. Now that my mind has been refreshed, I can continue and I'm learning so much more. Thanks. ----Sarah Thomas, Student, Seattle, WA Exambusters really helps students. ----John Johnson, teacher, St.Paul, MN This is the best way to master a subject, and it really works! Thanks a lot for all of your help. ----James Shaw, Navy, Sulphur Springs, Texas A real time saver, great for cramming. ----Joe McCarthy, Senior, State College, PA These cards helped my daughter through a very demanding exam period. I will recommend them to my friends. ----Lisa Yumibe, Indianapolis, Indiana Thank you for introducing us to your product. They are a winner. ----Preston Young, President, Learning Dynamics Tutoring, Hackensack, N.J. These study cards are a perfect supplement to any textbook. ----Barbara Silber, Science Department Chair, The Fieldston School, Riverdale, New York Exambusters really do the job! ----Alex Tushinsky, Instructor, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey

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Get it on iTunes: Ace's GED Vocabulary Study Cards (Exambusters)

Category: Education
Released: Nov 17, 2008
Price: $0.99

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Are you smarter than your spell checker? Many people have gotten used to relying on their computers to spell for them. Quiz yourself on the lost art of spelling and boost your brainpower with this fun and challenging educational game. Each of the twelve levels presents you with a set of flash cards containing commonly misspelled words of increasing difficulty. Each card shows a sentence using the spelling word to help you learn its meaning and context. You choose the correctly spelled word from among six choices. Your goal is to complete each of the twelve levels as accurately and quickly as possible. You can view your progress on a color-coded spelling grid. This application is great for older kids and adults. Adults can keep their brains active and challenged by regularly playing this game. Older kids can learn and reinforce their spelling skills by working their way through each of the twelve levels and then repeating levels to increase their accuracy and time scores. The 12 levels roughly correspond to 4th grade through college. This application is rated 12+ because it contains the spelling words "drunkenness" and "daiquiri". Plausible multiple-choice misspellings are randomly selected for each flashcard. Missed words are saved and presented in later levels to reinforce learning. FEATURES: � Twelve levels that include a total of 156 spelling cards with 6 answer choices per card � Accuracy and time tracked for each level � Detailed color-coded progress grid provides easy visual analysis of strengths and weaknesses for both accuracy and speed � Optional vibration on miss (iPhone only) FUTURE: � We will be adding more spelling cards in the next free update so that you can continue to challenge yourself. ABOUT IMAK CREATIONS: IMAK Creations is a family business based in Austin, Texas. Everyone plays a role in creating our applications, which are focused on education and creativity. NOTE: During the application approval process, we had to change the name from Brain Boost to Brain Blaze to avoid trademark infringement issues. We will update our graphics to reflect this soon.

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Get it on iTunes: Brain Blaze Spelling

Category: Business
Released: Nov 10, 2008
Price: $11.99

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(This contents is NOT a English one.) The collection of examples of a letter and a speech which can be broadly used from a home to business You can transmit an example to the standard e-mail software of iPhone/iPodtouch, and can use for it immediately. Congratulation, gratitude, an apology, a visit, invitation, a notice, etc. recorded 630 examples on the example of the letter so that the letter sentence which suited the purpose might be made. 99 examples which are useful in various cases, such as a wedding reception, condolence, an auspicious occasion, a company, and school relations, were recorded on the speech example.

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Get it on iTunes: Collection of model sentences for buisiness letter

A military court in Nigeria sentences six soldiers to life in prison for selling thousands of guns to suspected oil militants.

A military court in Nigeria sentences six soldiers to life in prison for selling thousands of guns to suspected oil militants.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/1171?ns=guardianpageName=Society%3A+New+law+to+criminalise+men+who+pay+for+sex+with+trafficked+womench=Societyc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Prostitution+%28Society%29%2CSociety%2CCriminal+justice+%28politics%29%2CJacqui+Smith%2CHuman+trafficking+%28News%29%2CGender+%28News%29%2CWorld+news%2CLaw+%28News%29%2CUK+news%2CWomen+and+women%27s+interests%2CPoliticsc5=Society+Weekly%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CPolicy+Society%2CWomen%2CCommunities+Society%2CCharitiesc6=Alan+Travis%2CAndrew+Sparrowc7=2008_11_19c8=1120100c9=articlec10=GUc11=Societyc12=Prostitutionc13=c14=h2=GU%2FSociety%2FProstitution" width="1" height="1" //divpNew prostitution laws to be set out today will mean a plea of ignorance is no defence for men facing prosecution for buying sex from a woman who has been trafficked or is being exploited by a pimp./ppUnder proposals to be published today by the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, a man who pays for sex with a woman who has been trafficked or is under the control of a pimp could face a charge of rape, which carries a potential life sentence./ppThe new offence of paying for sex with somebody who is "controlled for another person's gain" is to carry a hefty fine and a criminal record./ppThe decision to criminalise men who pay for sex with trafficked women is likely to have a widespread impact. The Metropolitan police have estimated that 70% of the 88,000 women involved in prostitution in England and Wales are under the control of traffickers./ppIt forms part of a wider package of reforms to tackle street prostitution, including prosecuting first-time kerb crawlers and implementing stronger police powers to close down brothels./ppThe package marks a sharp change of approach for Labour, which four years ago proposed a partial decriminalisation of prostitution in red-light "tolerance zones", and then powers to allow two or three women to work together in a brothel to provide protection for each other. The first proposal, by the former home secretary David Blunkett, was blocked by Downing Street, reportedly because of fears of a hostile media response./ppDespite some expectations, today's package will not include changes to the licensing of lapdancing clubs, although Smith has indicated that proposals will be made in future to regulate them on the same basis as sex shops. This is expected to give residents stronger powers to object and to lead to the closure of some clubs, especially in residential areas./ppThe change in the law follows a six-month Home Office-led review of prostitution laws which included visits by ministers, including Harriet Harman and Vernon Coaker, to Amsterdam and Stockholm to see how the law worked there./ppHarman has described the flow of women brought into Britain by human traffickers as "a modern slave trade", and said that it only exists because men are prepared to buy sex: "So to protect women we must stop men buying sex from the victims of human trafficking."/ppThe home secretary has made clear that under the new offence it will not be enough for a man to say "I didn't know". The new offence will include a "strict liability" test so that police will only have to prove that the man paid for sex, and that the woman had been trafficked. There will be no need to prove he knew it at the time./ppIn an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning, Smith said this meant a man would be committing an offence even if he asked a prostitute whether she had been trafficked and was told that she had not been./ppWhen it was put to Smith that this was unfair, she replied: "I will tell you what I think is more unfair. That's that there are women in this country who are effectively being held in slavery. There would not be this exploitation, there would not be this slavery of women, controlled in the way that they are, if there was not the demand for prostitution."/ppShe said that in the past the government has concentrated on addressing the "supply side" issues relating to prostitution. Now the government wanted to curtail the demand./pp"At the end what we also need to recognise is that if there is no demand for sex with women, there will be less trafficking," she said./ppSmith also explained why the government had decided not to adopt the approach taken in Sweden, where the government introduced a total ban on men paying for sex. She said that in Sweden there were only around 1,500 prostitutes, compared with around 80,000 in Britain, and that there was "no strong support at the moment" for a total ban in Britain./ppThe tougher approach will allow first-time kerb crawlers spotted by the police to be prosecuted. At present, the police can only prosecute persistent offenders. Police will get powers to close down brothels where there is evidence of trafficking./ppFormer Home Office minister Fiona Mactaggart yesterday warned that the new criminal offence of paying for sex with a trafficked woman might fall apart in practice, and said there had been no prosecutions in Finland, the only other country where it had been made law./ppThe English Collective of Prostitutes said yesterday that experience had taught them any law against consenting sex forces prostitution further underground and makes women vulnerable to violence./ppNiki Adams, a spokeswoman for the collective, told the Today programme this morning that the government's claim that most prostitutes were trafficked was "completely fabricated"./ppShe said: "What we do know is that women from all walks of life, also working as teachers and students, are also working in prostitution. It's consenting sex."/ph2Key facts/h2p· Men to be prosecuted if they pay for sex with women who are trafficked or under control of a pimp/pp· Ignorance that woman was being controlled not to be a defence and conviction to carry hefty fine and criminal record/pp· Men who knowingly pay for sex with trafficked women may face rape charges/pp· First-time kerb crawlers face prosecution and naming and shaming/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/prostitution"Prostitution/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/justice"Criminal justice/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/jacquismith"Jacqui Smith/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/humantrafficking"Human trafficking/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gender"Gender/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/law"Law/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/women"Women/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Societycountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227089882759111910263152433"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Societycountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227089882759111910263152433" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a