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(2.12/3) 1 Reuters: U. S. - powered by FeedBurner (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, will try again this week... 2016-05-16 19:08 581Bytes feeds.reuters.com 2 First US penis transplant performed on 64-year-old man WASHINGTON, United States — A 64-year-old man who lost most of his penis to cancer is recovering well after undergoing the United States' first penis transplant operation, (1.02/3) doctors said 2016-05-17 06:02 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 3 Shift in Alberta wildfire prompts evacuation of oil sands work camps

(1.02/3) About 4,000 people moved to safety, while key oil storage facility at Cheecham comes under threat from blaze that emptied city of Fort McMurray 2016-05-17 03:03 4KB www.theguardian.com

(1.00/3) 4 The young lions to watch this year By Martyn Herman LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - The top of the men's game has been set in stone for a decade with first Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, then join... 2016-05-17 02:01 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 5 Maine Sunday Telegram News One by one, Fernald checked the 800 traps he had placed along 30 square miles at the bottom of the Gulf of Maine... 2016-05-17 01:10 12KB www.pressherald.com

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6 Legarda presses national, local gov’ts to prepare for La Niña Senator Loren Legarda is urging the government to brace for the La Niña phenomenon, which she said is expected to bring heavy rains in the succeeding months, through effective climate-resilient 2016-05-17 06:02 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 7 Lawyer killed in broad daylight, busy road in QC MANILA -- Police are now investigating the circumstances behind the brazen gun attack, which killed a 56-year-old lawyer in broad daylight in a busy thoroughfare in Barangay Central, Quezon city on 2016-05-17 06:02 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 8 Experience, LeBron make Cavs huge favorites over Raptors CLEVELAND— LeBron James once stood in Kyle Lowry's sneakers. Back in 2007, James, with a much thicker hairline and more hops than he has today, made his first appearance in the 2016-05-17 06:02 5KB sports.inquirer.net 9 ‘Jane the Virgin’ star going into ‘Chicago’ on Broadway NEW YORK— Jaime Camil will be channeling his sleazy lawyer side on Broadway. The "Jane the Virgin" star will play Billy Flynn in the record-breaking "Chicago" starting 2016-05-17 06:02 1KB entertainment.inquirer.net 10 ISIS has lost nearly half the area it held in Iraq — Pentagon WASHINGTON, United States — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group has continued losing control over territory across Iraq and Syria, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday, including almost 2016-05-17 06:02 1KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 11 IPL 9: Kohli-ABD show crushes KKR, keeps RCB's play-off hopes alive Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers once again delivered the goods with their bats as Royal Challengers Bangalore romped home with 9 wickets against Kolkata Knight Riders in their IPL 9 match at Eden Gardens on Monday 2016-05-17 06:02 3KB www.mid-day.com 12 Actor upset by politics, hits woman ATLANTA, United States — A discussion about politics upset actor Wendell Pierce so much that he followed a group of people to their hotel room, tried to force his way inside, hit a woman in the 2016-05-17 06:02 3KB entertainment.inquirer.net 13 Sinead O’Connor goes missing, found safe near Chicago NEW YORK, United States — Sinead O'Connor was found safe in the Chicago suburbs on Monday, a day after the Irish singer set off alarm by not returning from a bicycle ride, police 2016-05-17 06:02 3KB entertainment.inquirer.net 14 Loneliness more dangerous than obesity, study shows MIAMI, United States — When it comes to maintaining health in one's older years, age means little and obesity may not be so bad after all, according to a US study released 2016-05-17 06:02 4KB technology.inquirer.net 15 Syria war: Love and loss on Lesbos Amina Ramadan and her husband Mohamed left Aleppo for Europe to escape the war - but tragedy befell them on the way. 2016-05-17 03:22 655Bytes www.bbc.co.uk 16 New Zealand housing crisis forces hundreds to live in tents and garages Property prices in Auckland have increased by nearly 80% in five years, leaving some families unable to buy or rent 2016-05-17 03:17 4KB www.theguardian.com 17 Man accused of killing five at Calgary party thought world was about to end Matthew de Grood admits stabbing five students at end-of-semester celebration in 2014 but pleads not guilty to murder as trial begins 2016-05-17 03:02 3KB www.theguardian.com 18 Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announces ban on transgender discrimination C anadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced legislation on Monday to protect transgender people from hate speech and discrimination, as debate rages in the... 2016-05-17 03:01 3KB www.telegraph.co.uk 19 Europe migrant crisis: EU faces 'populist uprising' Former MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove says Europe will face a "populist uprising" if it is unable to show its citizens it can control the migrant crisis. 2016-05-16 19:54 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 20 April breaks global temperature record April was the seventh month in a row to have broken global temperature records, Nasa figures show. 2016-05-17 01:45 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 21 Scientists clone Zika for vaccine race US scientists say they have managed to clone the Zika virus - an important step towards fast-tracking a vaccine against the disease. 2016-05-17 01:45 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 22 Obamacare Manipulating Social Change With Your Tax Money | The American Spectator If your health insurance premiums rise, it’s because you’re paying for more than your barely-more-than-emergency coverage. You’re paying for your... 2016-05-17 04:13 3KB spectator.org 23 Make America -- and marriage -- great again Contact WND For 30 years, Republicans have looked to beltway organizations for social policy – organizations whose policy staff are former administrative agency heads making work for their friends rather than solving problems. The results have been no better than what liberals do and possibly worse. Republican welfare reforms... 2016-05-17 02:52 6KB www.wnd.com 24 Olympics terror? It's happened before Contact WND As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the 2016 Summer Olympics in August, intelligence agencies around the world, including Brazil’s, are warning about the high threat of Islamic terrorist attacks at the Games. As an old-timer, reading these reports, I was struck by... 2016-05-17 02:46 5KB www.wnd.com 25 Toby Jones to star as Sherlock villain Toby Jones is to play a villain in the fourth series of BBC One's Sherlock. 2016-05-17 04:16 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 26 Boris Johnson accused of hiding study linking air pollution and deprived schools B oris Johnson has been accused by his successor as London mayor of suppressing an air pollution report that showed 433 primary schools were located... 2016-05-17 02:44 2KB www.telegraph.co.uk 27 Ex-St Louis officer charged with murder in 2011 fatal shooting after car chase Jason Stockley, who was heard on in-car video saying he was ‘going to kill this (expletive)’, fired at Anthony Lamar Smith after police say he saw a drug deal 2016-05-17 02:43 3KB www.theguardian.com 28 APAC Creative Work of the Week: Eco-Cooler by Grey Dhaka Grey Dhaka teamed up with volunteers from Grameen Intel Social Business to adress the issue that many people in Bangladesh live in... 2016-05-17 02:41 1KB www.thedrum.com 29 'Train NHS staff' to plug doctor gaps, bosses say Nurses, paramedics and pharmacists should be trained to fill in for doctors and help the NHS in England cope with demand, bosses say. 2016-05-17 04:16 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 30 Anti-Semitism inquiry leader Shami Chakrabarti joins Labour Shami Chakrabarti - head of Labour's inquiry into anti-Semitism - says she has joined the party in order to gain members' "trust and confidence". 2016-05-17 04:16 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 31 Traditional industries in the West Bank Traditional Palestinian industries struggle to survive in the West Bank. 2016-05-17 01:24 853Bytes www.bbc.co.uk 32 Ukrainian hacker pleads guilty to insider trading in US A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to his role in a hacking and insider trading scheme, US officials say. 2016-05-17 01:25 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 33 Get A Mentor - In Photos: 10 Low-Cost Options For Customized Leadership Development Other than coffees and lunches, financial investment can be kept at a minimum. In choosing a mentor, think internal and external: internal to your department/external to other departments; inside your company/outside your company; inside your industry/outside your industry. Select based... 2016-05-17 01:28 1KB www.forbes.com 34 November 24: Sony Pictures Hacked And Blackmailed - In Photos: Sony Hack Timeline Sources inside Sony reveal that the company's corporate systems were hacked. The hackers left the following message: “Hacked by #GOP. Warning: We’ve already warned you, and this is just the beginning. We have obtained... 2016-05-17 01:28 974Bytes www.forbes.com

35 UK developing digital driving licence The UK's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is working on a smartphone version of its driving licence. 2016-05-17 04:16 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 36 SNPs Stewart Hosie and Angus MacNeil split from wives over alleged affairs with same woman T wo married Scottish MPs have left their wives after having affairs with a Westminster journalist, according to the Daily Mail. Stewart Hosie... 2016-05-17 02:34 4KB www.telegraph.co.uk 37 Whole Lotta Shakin’ at FRP, with superb music of four rock pioneers KMorgan 1242 posts 2016-05-16 18:44 11KB www.thetribunepapers.com 38 Trump is still 'stupid and wrong,' insists Cameron Donald Trump said he was unlikely to have a good relationship with David Cameron because the British prime minister cast the US presidential candidate as "divisive, stupid and wron 2016-05-17 02:30 3KB www.independent.ie 39 Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Q&A: do not subject Muslims to bigotry of low expectations – video On the ABC’s Q&A program, Somali-born author and human rights campaigner Ayaan Hirsi Ali says it’s ‘perfectly fine’ to question and criticise any religion, including Islam. 2016-05-17 02:27 1KB www.theguardian.com 40 Hubble Spies a Spiral Snowflake Spacecraft telescopes offer rare looks at the solar system and beyond. 2016-05-17 01:19 1KB abcnews.go.com 41 76ers 1st NBA team to land jersey sponsorship with StubHub PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers have become the first team in the NBA to put a sponsorship logo on player uniforms, striking a deal with StubHub for a spot on one of the hottest pieces of 2016-05-17 02:27 4KB sports.inquirer.net 42 Asia Times News & Features – Asia Times Chinese global military aspirations were revealed in the latest annual report on the Chinese arms forces and follows decades of earlier reports that insisted China’s... 2016-05-16 19:13 7KB atimes.com 43 Disabled man abandoned on his birthday after carer's shift cancelled Disabled man Jarrod Marrinon, 28, was told he couldn't be helped into bed until morning after his carer was wrongly told the shift was cancelled. The Melbourne man has complained. 2016-05-17 02:26 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk 44 Livonia - News Livonia - News 2016-05-17 01:17 2KB rssfeeds.hometownlife.com 45 Sean Penn, Gerard Butler and Owen Wilson were beach brothers in Malbu Sean Penn, Gerard Butler and Owen Wilson enjoyed a bros beach day together over the weekend in Malibu, California. 2016-05-17 02:25 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

46 Nikkei rises as strong Wall St, weak yen lift sentiment By Ayai Tomisawa TOKYO, May 17 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Tuesday, with a strong performance on Wall Street, higher oil prices and a we... 2016-05-17 02:24 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 47 Roxy Jacenko ditches the courtroom for the Fashion Week catwalk The Sydney PR maven took to her social media sites to give fans a glimpse of her designer wardrobe before heading to the By Johnny show on Tuesday. 2016-05-17 02:24 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 48 Family become carers for a joey found in its dead mother's pouch A kindhearted Western Australian mother and her young family have become the unlikely carers of a new-born joey after its mother was struck and killed by a car. 2016-05-17 02:24 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 49 Man killed crossing U. S. 290 A man attempting to run across U. S. 290 was hit and killed early Saturday. 2016-05-17 05:17 685Bytes www.chron.com 50 Meet the Republican Texas grandmother trying to end marijuana prohibition Ann Lee, 76, only tried marijuana once, but she's made ending pot prohibition her cause. And she's trying to do it through an unorthodox outlet: the Republican Party. 2016-05-17 05:15 1KB www.chron.com 51 Abbott blasts Roberts, calls U. S. Supreme Court a 'political body' Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, wading into the battle over President Barack Obama's nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, said Thursday that high court "deserves to be swept up into the political process. " 2016-05-17 05:15 4KB www.chron.com 52 Outspoken Miley Cyrus tells crowd she's 'a little drunk' at Upfronts Miley Cyrus has always been pretty outspoken. And the 23-year-old was at it again as she took to the stage with Alicia Keys before announcing she was a little drunk at the NBC Universal Upfronts. 2016-05-17 02:21 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 53 Armenia & Azerbaijan vow not to resort to arms in Nagorno- Karabakh Leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan supported the ceasefire in the disputed Nagorno- Karabakh region, promising to seek a non-military resolution to the heated conflict in a statement issued by the OSCE following a Minsk group meeting in Vienna on Monday. 2016-05-17 02:21 3KB www.rt.com 54 Modi's photos with mother win Twitter Twitter users praise PM Narendra Modi's decision to post pictures of his mother's first visit to his official residence in Delhi on social media. 2016-05-17 05:18 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 55 Throwing of banned items in to prisons more than doubles The number of times contraband was thrown in to prisons in England and Wales has more than doubled in the last two years, the BBC learns. 2016-05-17 05:18 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 56 Supply teacher spend exceeds £800m Primary and secondary schools in England struggling to recruit teachers spent £821m on supply staff last year, analysis by BBC News finds. 2016-05-17 05:18 4KB www.bbc.co.uk

57 Libya: US backs arming of government for IS fight The US and other world powers say they are ready to arm Libya's unity government to help it fight the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group. 2016-05-17 05:18 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 58 Texas GOP to debate secession on convention floor Delegates at state convention for the Republican Party of Texas will have a chance to vote on Texas secession, after a platform item calling for independence passed a special committee on Wednesday morning. 2016-05-16 16:44 1KB www.chron.com 59 Clinton: People should stop listening to GOP "propaganda" HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Hillary Clinton says it's "time people stopped listening to Republican propaganda. " The remark was pushback from the likely Democrat... 2016-05-17 02:20 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 60 Alan Cumming hosts UN LGBT gala UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Scottish actor and activist Alan Cumming says he's pleased to be hosting the first LGBT gala ever held at the United Nations, but he al... 2016-05-17 02:20 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 61 Tanzania purges 10,000 'ghost workers' in anti-corruption drive More than 10,000 "ghost workers" are removed from Tanzania's public sector payroll as part of an anti-corruption drive, saving an estimated $2m (£1.4m) a month. 2016-05-17 05:18 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 62 Red Hot Chili Peppers cancel gigs after Anthony Kiedis hospitalised Rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers cancel two shows at short notice after frontman Anthony Kiedis was hospitalised with a stomach bug. 2016-05-17 05:18 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 63 Muslims urged to fund Syrians headed to West Contact WND Muslims everywhere must help fund Syrian refugees on their “hijra” (journey) to the West, and the only way to prevent another refugee crisis like what’s happened in Syria is to build a worldwide Islamic caliphate, says a Canadian imam. Mazin Abdul-Adhim said in a... 2016-05-17 02:19 7KB www.wnd.com 64 Legislature to consider statewide regulations on Uber, Lyft The Texas Legislature will consider establishing statewide regulations for rideshare application companies such as Uber and Lyft, a powerful lawmaker said Sunday, a day after voters here dealt the industry a setback by upholding rules imposed by the city council. 2016-05-16 16:12 3KB www.chron.com 65 WND is looking for someone to cover film business Contact WND WASHINGTON – WND is looking for just the right person to cover movies. Is that you? Do you love movies? Do you like reviewing them? Do you like interviewing movie people – cast members, writers, directors? WND has a special interest in covering... 2016-05-17 02:18 1KB www.wnd.com 66 Supremes exempt selves from 1st Amendment Contact WND Without comment, the U. S. Supreme Court justices announced Monday their decision not to review a case challenging speech restrictions on the court’s property. “Shame on the court for making a mockery of the First Amendment and engaging in a hypocritical double standard that does a... 2016-05-17 02:18 7KB www.wnd.com

77 ‘Anti-ISIS campaign’: Light artists of ‘Daesh bank’ protest to fight terror backers & propaganda Activists of PixelHELPER – a German group that projected controversial images onto the Turkish and Saudi Arabian embassies in Berlin – told RT about their broader plans to expose sponsors of terror and reach out to “disenchanted” Islamic State fighters. 2016-05-17 02:10 5KB www.rt.com 78 April Rose Pengilly dazzles on day two at Australian Fashion Week She's been spotted at glamorous events all over Sydney the past couple of weeks. And on Monday April Rose Pengilly looked effortlessly chic as she stepped out for Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. 2016-05-17 02:06 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 79 Euro2016 fans told to 'remember to drive on the right' F ootball fans driving in France during Euro 2016 are being advised to check the laws of the road after a study revealed fewer than... 2016-05-17 02:05 2KB www.telegraph.co.uk 80 Sources: Blazers, Stotts reach 3-year extension The Blazers and coach Terry Stotts have agreed to a three-year contract extension, according to sources. 2016-05-17 02:03 2KB espn.go.com 81 Fox takes jab at YouTube, highlights Empire as Snapchat success at Upfront “Non-premium video can't hold... to TV's scale," said Toby Byrne, Fox’s President of Advertising Sales, at their... 2016-05-17 02:03 2KB www.thedrum.com 82 Fatal shooting reported at apartments hours after fire Police are investigating a fatal shooting at an apartment complex in west Houston that had earlier been the scene of a two-alarm fire. 2016-05-17 04:11 1KB www.chron.com

83 Body found in Buffalo Bayou A Houston Police Department dive team found a body Sunday in a vehicle that had been submerged in the water since Friday, according to news reports. 2016-05-16 20:17 1KB www.chron.com 84 Harris County sheriff's deputy arrested in game-room case A 25-year-old deputy with the Harris County Sheriff's Office has been suspended without pay and faces criminal charges, authorities said. The deputy, Jose Ramirez, faces charges of "misuse of official information," said Ralph Gonzales, a department spokesman. A... 2016-05-17 04:11 3KB www.chron.com 85 Victims sought in alleged molestation by HISD bus driver Harris County prosecutors are asking for the public's help in identifying possible victims of an alleged child predator who worked as a bus driver for the Houston Independent School District. 2016-05-17 04:11 1KB www.chron.com 86 Formerly conjoined twins, triplet sister to celebrate 1st birthday at hospital in Texas Ximena and Scarlett, of Corpus Christi, underwent an hourslong surgery last month to be separated after they were born conjoined at the waist, sharing a bladder and colon. Their identical triplet sister, Catalina, was born without serious health issues. 2016-05-17 04:13 1KB www.chron.com 87 Bob Dylan and the Manchester Free Trade Hall 'Judas' show Fifty years ago, Bob Dylan bit back at a show in Manchester, after a heckler labelled him "Judas". 2016-05-17 04:16 7KB www.bbc.co.uk

88 The tech start-up planning to shake up the legal world Could an artificially intelligent research system really make lawyers' lives easier? 2016-05-17 04:16 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 89 EU referendum: Osborne accuses Leave camp of 'conspiracies' George Osborne dismisses Leave campaigners as conspiracy theorists in a joint speech with Sir Vince Cable and Ed Balls - but Vote Leave dismiss his claims. 2016-05-16 20:16 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 90 Yahoo - Introducing Fair Play on Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy Yahoo Launches Key Changes in Daily Fantasy to Help Level the Playing Field for Fans Including Entry Limits, Labeling of Veteran Players and No... 2016-05-17 04:12 2KB investor.yahoo.net 91 Toppling Sevilla would rubber-stamp Klopp's red revolution By Richard Martin BARCELONA, May 17 (Reuters) - Juergen Klopp, who has breathed new life into Liverpool in his seven months in charge, would seal his place i... 2016-05-17 02:01 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 92 APAC Creative Works: Featuring BBDO Bangkok, Saatchi & Saatchi Australia, Dentsu and more Welcome to The Drum's APAC Creative Works. As always, this section is dedicated to showing the best creative work and gives you, the... 2016-05-17 02:00 1KB www.thedrum.com 93 Top Cuba diplomat: Obama trip positive, created momentum HAVANA (AP) — President Barack Obama's trip to Cuba advanced the normalization of relations between the Cold War foes and created momentum for more cooperati... 2016-05-17 01:58 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 94 Seven signs you're heading for a divorce A clinical psychologist has revealed the seven signs that your marriage is going to fail, including not having sex, having a partner who cheats, contempt in the relationship and addiction to gambling or drugs. 2016-05-17 01:57 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 95 Australian nut manufacturer under fire after worms found inside Australian nut and seed manufacturer 'Lucky Nuts' has come under fire after a number of customers reported moths, worms, ants, weevils and bug eggs were crawling inside their packaging. 2016-05-17 01:56 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 96 Manning Cartell showcases collection under Sydney Harbour Bridge Day three of Fashion Week Australia got off to a stunning start with the Manning Cartell show by Sydney Harbour Bridge on Tuesday. The highlight was a spectacular burnt orange dress. 2016-05-17 01:55 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 97 Kylie Jenner flashes her bra in a series of pictures on her Snapchat Kylie Jenner isn't shy when it comes to showing some skin. And the 18-year-old Keeping Up With The Kardashian's star was at it again on Tuesday as she paraded her curvy body in a little white bra. 2016-05-17 01:55 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 98 Elyse Knowles sports cute over-sized bow at MBFW 2016 She's been putting her best foot forward as she sits front row at he hottest Sydney Fashion Week 2016 shows. 2016-05-17 01:54 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 99 Boston men jailed for Trump-inspired hate crime attack BOSTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Two Boston brothers accused of urinating on and beating a homeless Mexican man and telling police "Donald Trump was right: All the... 2016-05-17 01:53 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 100 Categories Archives Sean “P. Diddy Puff Daddy” Combs is taking his Bad Boy Family Reunion on the road. A tour featuring Puff, Lil’ Kim, Mase, Faith Evans, Mario Winans, 112, Total, Carl Thomas, The Lox and French Montana will visit Philips Arena... 2016-05-17 04:11 1KB music.blog.ajc.com Articles

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1 Reuters: U. S. - powered by FeedBurner (2.12/3) (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, will try again this week to sell the handgun he used in the shooting after an online auction last week was hijacked by fake buyers. FOXNews.com - powered by FeedBurner feeds.foxnews.com Politics - powered by FeedBurner feeds.feedburner.com Reuters: World News - powered by FeedBurner feeds.reuters.com 2016-05-16 19:08 feeds.reuters.com

2 First US penis transplant performed on 64-year-old man (1.02/3) WASHINGTON, United States — A 64-year-old man who lost most of his penis to cancer is recovering well after undergoing the United States’ first penis transplant operation, doctors said Monday. The 15-hour surgery took place earlier this month at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and is the third such operation known in the world. READ: First penis transplant in US set | US performs its first uterus transplant “The patient, Thomas Manning, 64, of Halifax, Massachusetts, continues to recover well, with blood flow established to the donor organ and no signs of bleeding, rejection or infection,” the hospital said in a statement. “While the patient is still early in the post-surgical healing process, his physicians say they are cautiously optimistic he will regain function that he lost in 2012.” The penis came from a dead donor who matched Manning’s blood type and skin tone. Manning expressed his gratitude to the donor and his family, which has asked to remain anonymous, and said he wanted to go public with his story to eliminate the shame and stigma associated with the loss of a penis. “In sharing this success with all of you, it’s my hope we can usher in a bright future for this type of transplantation,” Manning said in a statement. Doctors at Massachusetts General have been working on the procedure for more than three years, including practicing on cadavers, with the goal of perfecting the method before they offer it to a wider pool of candidates, particularly soldiers who sustained genital damage or loss in war zones. In an interview with The New York Times, Manning said doctors discovered he had a rare form of penile cancer in 2012. After removing the tumor, he was left with a stump about an inch long (2.5 centimeters). Manning, who was single when he was diagnosed with cancer, had to sit in order to urinate and was fearful of becoming intimate with a woman. “I wouldn’t go near anybody,” he was quoted as saying. “I couldn’t have a relationship with anybody. You can’t tell a woman, ‘I had a penis amputation.'” The operation’s three main goals were to reconstruct the genitalia to a more natural appearance, to allow the patient to urinate normally and potentially to achieve sexual function. “We are hopeful that these reconstructive techniques will allow us to alleviate the suffering and despair of those who have experienced devastating genitourinary injuries and are often so despondent they consider taking their own lives,” said doctor Curtis Cetrulo of the MGH Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the Transplant Center. The first penis transplant in the world took place in China in 2006, but it was later removed due to “a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife,” doctors said. The world’s first successful penis transplant was announced last year in South Africa. The donated organ was grafted onto a 21-year-old man who lost his penis in a botched circumcision.

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3 Shift in Alberta wildfire prompts evacuation of oil sands work camps (1.02/3) The wildfire burning around the Canadian oil sands hub of Fort McMurray has forced the evacuation of about 4,000 people from work camps. A mandatory evacuation alert on Monday covered 12 camps north of the city, with workers being moved south and all northbound traffic once again cut off at the city, the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo said. Both Suncor Energy and Syncrude Canada confirmed they had evacuated workers from the affected area. Officials late on Monday said they were hopeful the fire would not reach the facilities but were monitoring the situation. The entire population of Fort McMurray, about 90,000 people, was forced to flee the Canadian city nearly two weeks ago as the wildfire raged through some neighbourhoods and destroyed about 15 percent of structures. On Monday the blaze continued to burn uncontrolled across 285,000 hectares (704,000 acres), officials said. They noted firefighting efforts would be challenging over the next few days with hot, dry conditions and lightning fires expected. The fire also threatened Enbridge Inc’s Cheecham crude oil tank farm south of Fort McMurray on Monday. The blaze, about a kilometre away from the tank farm, was brought under control due to favourable winds and the efforts of the company’s industrial firefighters, officials said. Enbridge said a firebreak around the terminal was being widened and crews were assessing other fire suppression tactics like spraying down facilities. It said some pipelines in and out of the terminal were operating and the situation was being monitored. A Suncor spokeswoman said 120 people were evacuated from its MacKay River plant and camps as a precautionary measure on Monday afternoon, though it said the facilities were not at risk from the fire. Syncrude, a joint venture among numerous energy companies operating in the region, said on Twitter that it was relocating its workers to safety. Firefighters have managed to protect much of Fort McMurray but evacuated residents were still not allowed to return to their homes, partly because of “thousands” of hotspots remaining, said wildfire manager Chad Morrison. The Alberta premier, Rachel Notley, said there was still no timeline on when residents could return but she hoped to have more information by the end of the week. Officials said the air quality in the city had deteriorated, with the air quality health index, usually measured on a scale of 1-10, at 38 on Monday. “This has delayed the re-entry of additional response personnel as well as vehicle retrieval efforts,” Notley said. “It is clear that this is something that could potentially delay recovery work and the return to the community.“ Roughly a million barrels per day of oil sands crude production was shut in as a precaution and because of disruptions to regional pipelines, and much of that production remains offline. Scott Long, executive director of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency, had no information about how much crude oil Cheecham tank farm held but said it was critical infrastructure. Pipeline company Enbridge had evacuated the Cheecham terminal on 4 May but on Friday said it was staffed again. A company spokesman said on Monday he had no further updates. The Canadian finance minister, Bill Morneau, told CBC News the Fort McMurray fire would be a challenge to the economy as well as a human challenge, but he had no price tag yet on how much the disaster would cost the federal government. “We’re obviously going to stand shoulder to shoulder with the people in Fort McMurray and rebuild the city,” he said. With Reuters Workers evacuated from Alberta oil camps due to wildfire dailymail.co.uk 2016-05-17 03:03 Staff and www.theguardian.com

4 The young lions to watch this year (1.00/3) By Martyn Herman LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - The top of the men's game has been set in stone for a decade with first Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, then joined by Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray dominating the top of the ATP rankings. There are signs that a new generation are ready to carry the torch when time finally catches up on the Big Four. Here are the ones to watch as the French Open looms (world ranking in parentheses, age in brackets) 19-Nick Kyrgios - Australia (21) Kyrgios was threatened with ban last year after making lurid remarks about the Stan Wawrinka's girlfriend but is letting his tennis do the talking this season. Won his first ATP title in Marseille and made semis at Dubai, Miami and Estoril. Pushed Rafael Nadal hard on clay at Italian Open and has reached a career-high ranking. "The key for him is maturity and being consistent week in week out," former top-10 player, leading coach and ESPN summariser Brad Gilbert said. "He has the most talent of any of the under 21s but can he put it all together to sustain what he needs to do? " - - 44-Borna Coric - Croatia (19) Lacks the killer weapons of Kyrgios and Alexander Zverev but makes up for that with a maturity beyond his years. Has struggled to chalk up big results against players in the top 20 but did make finals in Chennai and Marrakesh. "He is the best mover of the younger players, a bit of a copy of Djokovic, but less talent than some of the other young guys," Gilbert said. - - 48- Alexander Zverev - Germany (19) Nearly two metres tall and packing huge weapons with his serve and forehand, Zverev also boasts the kind of fluid movement that similarly tall players struggle with. Appears to thrive on the show courts and outplayed Nadal this year in Indian Wells before missing a match point and succumbing. Germany are looking for a new Boris Becker and Zverev could be their best hope, especially at Wimbledon. Coached by his father and former pro, also Alex. "Clearly he has a big game and nice technique and good attitude," Federer said recently. - - 72-Taylor Fritz - U. S. (18) The youngest member of the top 100. By reaching the Memphis Open final, he became the youngest American man to reach a Tour final since Michael Chang in 1989. He lost to Kei Nishikori. A completely different animal to Chang though, relying on a powerful first serve and a crushing forehand. His country's big hope also seems to have the work ethic to go far. "My philosophy is you work so hard that you want to quit tennis. You get to the point where you are so dead and tired. Then you come back and do it again the next day and do it again and again and again," he told the ATP website recently. - - 84-Kyle Edmund - Britain (21) A member of the British Davis Cup team that won the trophy for the first time in 79 years last November, the 21-year-old has benefited from spending time with compatriot Murray during an intensive training camp in Dubai before the start of 2016. Having picked up tips from Murray on how to improve his game, Edmund battled through qualifying before reaching his first ATP quarter-final in Doha. "He's made great progress. He's a better athlete than I thought. He's got a huge forehand. He's got huge upside," American great John McEnroe said. (Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Pritha Sarkar) Next generation ready to break out of the shadows dailymail.co.uk 2016-05-17 02:01 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

5 Maine Sunday Telegram News (0.01/3) One by one, Fernald checked the 800 traps he had placed along 30 square miles at the bottom of the Gulf of Maine. He quickly hauled each wire cage onto his boat, reached a gloved hand inside and plucked out the lobster lurking within. The young ones, the breeders and the crusty old ones were thrown back into the water. The rest were dropped into a saltwater tank to keep them alive and energetic on their 7,000-mile trip to China. “Just do everything you can to not stress them out,” Fernald, 64, said of his cargo. “The less stressed they are, the more healthy they’ll be, just like people.” Little Cranberry, an island of 70 inhabitants, and China, a nation of 1.4 billion people, increasingly find themselves connected by the shifting currents of the world economy. The rise of China’s middle class has coincided with a boom in Maine’s lobster population, resulting in a voracious new market for the crustaceans’ succulent, sweet meat. Exports of lobsters to China, nonexistent a decade ago, totaled $20 million last year. The bright red color of a lobster’s cooked shell is considered auspicious, making it a staple during Chinese festivals and at weddings. The lobster’s tale is a testament to the complexities of the global marketplace – and a reminder that the line between economic winners and losers is not always clear. China has played the villain from Wall Street to the presidential campaign trail, blamed for plunging stock markets, the downfall of developing nations and the disappearance of blue-collar jobs – including in Maine, where the closings of lumber and pulp factories have left thousands of workers unemployed. Yet the reality is more nuanced. Even as foreign competition has devastated parts of the U. S. economy, China ranks among the biggest international customers for a vast array of other industries, from ginseng to airplanes to pork. Maine lobsters are just a tiny sliver of the $116 billion in annual exports to China, a figure that has nearly tripled in the past decade. “China is undergoing an economic transition,” said Shaun Rein, managing director of the China Market Research Group. “It’s this new buying class that’s changing trade patterns throughout the world.” Maine is still testing the potential – and the limits – of that relationship. The state is hoping that deeper ties to the Chinese can help boost ailing industries, but it could also make the state vulnerable to a far-off, and unpredictable, source of customers. Out here on the water, the forecast is sunny. Amid the roar of the boat’s engine and the blustery wind, Fernald said his philosophy is simple. “My father always said, ‘Keep hauling, and you’ll get a day’s pay,’ ” he recalled. “Most of the time, that’s true.” INDUSTRY IN TRANSITION There’s no escaping the lobsters at Fernald’s home on this island, where his family has lived since 1850. A brass lobster decorates the front door. A metal lobster graces the front yard. His collection of baseball caps hangs on lobster hooks. Even his butter dish is shaped like a lobster. Fernald has been fishing since he got out of the Navy more than four decades ago, one of three siblings to follow in his father’s rubber-booted footsteps. In his workshop, Fernald keeps wooden buoys painted by generations of lobstermen before him. Although the techniques for trapping lobsters haven’t changed much since, the industry itself is in the midst of transformation. For the first time in decades, Maine is facing a glut of lobsters. When Fernald’s father was working these waters, Maine’s lobstermen pulled in roughly 20 million pounds a year. But since 2012, landings have topped 120 million pounds. Explanations for the population boom range from climate change to the overfishing of cod, the crustacean’s natural predator, but the statistics are irrefutable: The state has more lobsters than it can handle. The record catch in 2012 caught the industry by surprise, sending prices falling to the lowest level in almost 20 years. Lobstermen averaged just $2.69 per pound of lobster, barely covering the cost of going out on the water for many fisherman. The businesses that buy and sell the crustaceans say they did not fare much better. The sheer volume helped make up for the decline in price, but the margins grew scarily thin. “We bought a ton of lobsters and made absolutely nothing off it,” said Aaron Bernstein, who manages the dock from which Fernald and the other fishermen on Little Cranberry ship their catch. “It was a very difficult season.” Maine faced a potential crisis. The Pine Tree State already had suffered the decline of its traditional manufacturing industries, lumber and paper, victims of advances in technology and foreign competition. An analysis by the Economic Policy Institute estimated that cheap exports of Chinese goods cost Maine 11,400 jobs, or nearly 2 percent of total state employment, between 2001 and 2013. The lobster industry could not be allowed to implode as well. The solution state officials came up with seemed to come straight from an economics textbook: When supply is too high, increase demand – in other words, get more people to eat lobster. And nowhere are there more people than in China. The first Maine trade delegation arrived in Hong Kong at the end of that year. Since then, the state has established a full-time development office in Shanghai and led a second trade mission to the city last year. Last fall, officials finagled lobsters onto the menu during the White House state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping. The lucky red crustaceans were featured as the second course, poached in butter and served alongside traditional rice-noodle rolls. HONING THE MAINE PITCH It was a coup for a state that lacks name recognition in China. In fact, Maine lobsters are often called Boston lobsters overseas, since they are shipped from Logan International Airport. “Most of the time when we go to Asia, we find that people don’t even know where Maine is,” said Janine Bisaillon-Cary, who heads the Maine International Trade Center. Her pitch typically begins with geography but quickly moves on to the state’s pristine waters and crisp air, its strict seafood conservation efforts and outdoorsy culture – selling points intended to appeal to a country plagued by pollution. Experts say well-off Chinese consumers have moved beyond collecting luxury goods such as designer handbags to coveting luxurious experiences. Their palates now demand beef from Australia, honey from New Zealand, wines from Chile – and lobsters from Maine, preferably alive, so that chefs and diners can select the feistiest ones to feast on. At the five-star Conrad Hotel in Beijing, chef Mirko Sun dishes up lobster porridge, lobster bisque with garlic croutons and a lobster salad with fresh herbs. The crustacean sells for roughly $42 a pound, about a quarter of the average urban worker’s weekly income. “For most Chinese people, eating lobster is about face,” Sun said. “Mostly people only order it to treat important guests.” But Maine is not the only source of the crustacean. China gets much of its lobster from Australia, although it is the spiny-tailed variety that residents here deride as tougher and less flavorful. Still, China is spending millions of dollars to erect a shipping facility in Australia, and a fishermen’s co-op there is building holding tanks for live lobsters in Guangzhou, according to local news reports. The projects exemplify China’s typical investment strategy: Go big. Instead of just shipping copper from Africa, it bought the mines. To feed its growing taste for American pork, it bought the largest producer in the world, Smithfield Foods. Bisaillon-Cary said she has had to explain to interested investors that Maine’s fiercely independent lobster industry is not for sale. Each of Maine’s 5,785 lobstermen is an independent business: A license allows its holder to own one boat, and he must do the fishing himself. Each day, the lobstermen sell their catch to dealers for shipment across the country and around the world. State law prohibits dealers from owning boats and lobstermen from becoming dealers, ensuring that this $500 million industry remains decentralized. “That’s a really tough concept for the Chinese. They’re like, ‘We want to own everything,’ ” Bisaillon-Cary said. “We’re like, ‘You can’t do that.’ ” Instead, the state has tried to steer Chinese investors toward plants that process lobsters – or other industries altogether. A Chinese firm purchased a struggling paper mill in 2010 and recently announced investments expected to add hundreds of jobs. Another Chinese company is building a health-care center in an abandoned shoe factory that caters to foreigners seeking medical care. State schools and colleges are wooing international students. It may not be enough to replace all the manufacturing jobs that have disappeared, but it’s a start. “To me, this is our last stand,” said Matt Jacobson, head of the Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative. “We better do this right.” KEY YEAR FOR NEW STRATEGY Forty years ago, Fernald convinced the two dozen other lobstermen on the island to pool their catch so they would all receive the same price per pound and share in the bounty of a good year and the belt-tightening of a bad one. That cooperative is still operating, with the island’s haul ferried roughly once a day to a dock on Mount Desert Island, three miles away. While Fernald worked his traps on a recent morning, another boat carried the previous day’s landings to the dock. Workers hoisted the crates of live lobsters from the boat and onto the pier, then loaded them onto a truck for the three-hour drive down to Portland. “That’s a nice catch for Little Cranberry this morning,” said Bernstein, the manager at the dock, which is run by Beal’s Lobster Pier. The truck was headed to Ready Seafood, a large supplier of Maine lobsters to China. At the company’s headquarters in downtown Portland, the lobsters would be immersed in cold water to purge their intestines and keep them docile. Then they would be transferred to a second, cleaner tank until they could be packed into boxes with frozen gel packs and wet newspaper to keep them alive during the drive down to Boston and the long flight to China, which takes at least 14 hours. Lobster prices have rebounded since their 2012 plunge, but this year could test Maine’s strategy. Forecasters are predicting an early start to the fishing season, which could push prices down again. On this day alone, the value of a pound of lobster dropped 75 cents – on top of a $2 decline over the past few weeks. “They say it’s not going to be like 2012. But no one can really predict that with any certainty,” said Justin Synder, part of the family that owns Beal’s Lobster Pier. “It’s classic supply-and- demand economics.” The lobsters loaded onto Ready Seafood’s truck went for $5.25 a pound. But for Fernald’s catch today, he would get just $4.50 a pound. He learned the bad news as he unloaded his boat back at Little Cranberry. “What?!” Fernald said in surprise, then rolled his eyes. “What a bunch of bucketheads.” Maine’s iconic industry is more than just a revenue stream. The mix of fishermen, artists and wealthy New Englanders on this tiny, picturesque island is at the heart of the state’s nonconformist culture. Fernald has entertained blues singer Bonnie Raitt on his boat and once appeared in an Old Milwaukee commercial, sitting by a campfire and enjoying a cold one. His wife, Barbara, used to work on his boat, earning his respect when she baited his traps with maggot-infested fish without complaint. Now she designs jewelry, and his crew member is a 24- year-old college grad who walked away from a high-paying job offer at a hedge fund in California to spend his days on the water and also raise hogs. In Fernald’s father’s day, trapping lobsters was the path to a modest but comfortable lifestyle. Since the population boom, it has become big business: Many fishermen pull in sales totaling six figures. Some lobstermen have indulged in new traps, new cars and new boats with monthly payments that can rival a mortgage. For Fernald, the increase has helped pay for his twin sons to go to college and helped shore up his retirement account – even though he says he has no intention of turning in his boots anytime soon. “When I first started, we made a living, and that was good,” Fernald said. “I know it won’t stay this way forever. Anybody that’s not taking advantage of it might be in trouble.”

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6 Legarda presses national, local gov’ts to prepare for La Niña Senator Loren Legarda is urging the government to brace for the La Niña phenomenon, which she said is expected to bring heavy rains in the succeeding months, through effective climate- resilient and disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs. Legarda, chair of the Senate committees on climate change and finance, said the government should utilize funds for disaster preparedness and climate adaptation to “immediately and effectively prepare for La Niña.” Communities in landslide prone areas, she said, should already have been relocated “not only due to the impending La Niña, but also because such areas should not be inhabited in the first place.” “We have to be ready for the impacts of La Niña even as we continue to help drought-affected communities recover from the effects of El Niño,” Legarda said in a statement Monday. READ: El Niño dries up Asia as its stormy sister La Niña looms The senator said government agencies, both on national and local levels, must work together to help communities projected to be hit by the La Niña adapt to the phenomenon. “Desilting and dredging of rivers, canals and drainage systems should already be underway to reduce or prevent flooding,” she said. “Meanwhile, communities in landslide prone areas should already have been relocated not only due to the impending La Niña, but also because such areas should not be inhabited in the first place,” she added. Legarda pointed out that the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) has already issued a La Niña watch after new predictions suggest further weakening of El Niño and the probable arrival of La Niña by the second half of 2016. READ: Pagasa raises La Niña alert During La Niña, she said, the country is expected to experience more than the normal rainfall as well as more typhoons. The senator then reminded local government units (LGUs) to enhance community-based disaster management and early warning system in their respective localities. “Empowered and equipped with the necessary mandate, knowledge, skills and tools, LGUs should develop their own DRR and climate change adaption (CCA) plan of action within their jurisdiction to prevent the loss of life and minimize the damage to property brought about by extreme weather conditions, such as the expected La Niña,” she said. Legarda said LGUs should improve disaster risk information through risk identification or assessment, make people more responsive to government-issued disaster warnings, reduce sources of risk and exposure of vulnerable sector by providing house upgrading and relocation options for settlers located in hazardous areas, and ensure effective disaster preparedness and recovery mechanisms by encouraging active participation of the vulnerable communities. IDL

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7 Lawyer killed in broad daylight, busy road in QC MANILA — Police are now investigating the circumstances behind the brazen gun attack, which killed a 56-year-old lawyer in broad daylight in a busy thoroughfare in Barangay Central, Quezon cit y on Mond ay afternoon. The Kamuning police, which has jurisdiction over the area, said the 3:10 p.m. ambush along East Avenue at the corner of the BIR road took the life of lawyer Ferdinand Lopez, identified by his driver Jerico Ricafort and his staff Ricardo Solis, both of whom survived the attack but also sustained gunshot wounds. Supt. Pedro Sanchez, the chief of the Kamuning police station, said Lopez and Solis were on board Lopez’s sedan (PHI 723), being driven by Ricafort, when two unidentified men on a motorcycle with no plate number suddenly opened fire on the car, before speeding away. Sanchez said Lopez had just come from an estafa hearing, in which he was the complainant, at the Quezon city hall of justice. Investigators, however, are still checking if the attack was related to the case. Senior Insp. Elmer Monsalve, the Quezon City police homicide chief, said police were in the process of identifying the perpetrators, and knowing the background of Lopez. The victims were brought to the East Avenue Medical Center. SFM

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8 Experience, LeBron make Cavs huge favorites over Raptors CLEVELAND— LeBron James once stood in Kyle Lowry’s sneakers. Back in 2007, James, with a much thicker hairline and more hops than he has today, made his first appearance in the Eastern Conference finals and carried the Cavaliers past Detroit and into the NBA Finals for the first time. Nine years, five straight Finals appearances, four MVP awards and two championship rings later, James is again on the doorstep of the league’s showcase event. It’s all new to Lowry, one of Toronto’s All-Star guards, and the Raptors. Experience is just one advantage the Cavs will enjoy when they open the East finals Tuesday night against the Raptors, who have scratched their way through two Game 7s in this postseason and are on their deepest playoff run. And although the Cavs are recharged following a nine-day break between playoff series and have been in this spot before, James doesn’t think his or Cleveland’s postseason resume gives them any edge. “It’s not an advantage,” James said after practice Monday. “They’re here for a reason. You got to go out and play. They also played two seven-game series and we didn’t. So they can have the upper edge on that. So, there’s no advantage to either team. Both teams are 0-0 and it’s the first to four.” READ: Wary of rust, Cavs sweat in gym while awaiting next round The Cavs have yet to go five games in this postseason, completing four-game sweeps over Detroit and Atlanta. James has been his usual dominant self, averaging 23.5 points, 8.8 rebounds and 7.3 assists. But unlike last year when Cleveland lost Kevin Love in the first round to a shoulder injury and Kyrie Irving went down with a broken kneecap in the Finals, James isn’t on his own, which is why the Cavs are an overwhelming favorite to make their second straight trip to the title round. And as if the Raptors didn’t have enough to worry about, Lowry, who scored 35 points in Toronto’s series-clinching win over Miami, has already taken a swipe at James. READ: Lowry leads Raptors into conference final against Cavs Asked during an on-court interview Sunday about the upcoming matchup with the Cavs, Lowry said, “LeBron’s probably one of the best players in the league — besides Steph (Curry).” Probably? James, who last week said he felt Curry deserves to be this year’s MVP but questioned the meaning of the award, said he’s not offended, offering “none taken,” when presented with Lowry’s comment. Still, Lowry’s slight — unintentional or not — may provide the Cavs with some extra motivation, not that they seem to need any. The Raptors will be without center Jonas Valanciunis in Game 1 and maybe for the entire series. The 7-footer is still recovering from a sprained right ankle sustained in Game 3 against the Heat, and his loss damages Toronto’s depth and rebounding. Some other things to watch when the Raptors, who beat Cleveland twice during the season, try to dethrone the defending conference champions: HAIL THE KING: Raptors coach Dwane Casey came to Lowry’s defense on Monday, saying the comment about James is being overblown. “Whoever is making a big deal about that has nothing else to write about,” he said on a conference call. “There’s nothing but respect in our locker room and our organization for LeBron James. The respect that we have for him and the respect I know I have for him and our staff has for him is unprecedented. “In my heart I feel like LeBron James is the best player in the NBA right now. They didn’t ask me for my vote so I didn’t give it to them.” BIG-TIME BIYOMBO: The injury to Valanciunis, Toronto’s best interior player, gave backup Bismack Biyombo more playing time and the Congolese player has delivered. The 23-year-old scored 17 points with 16 rebounds and two monster dunks in Game 7 against Miami. The Cavs know they’ll need to account for him. “He’s the kind of guy that’s a spark for their team,” Love said. “He runs the floor, cleans the glass on both ends and he’s really been the X-factor for them that got them over the hump.” THREE-POINT CIRCUS: The Cavs made 77 3-pointers in their sweep over the Hawks, dropping an NBA record 25 in Game 2. Atlanta chose to protect the paint with defenders and paid for it. Casey said stopping Cleveland’s outside game is crucial. “That’s going to be the issue,” he said. “They’re such a great transition team, such a great penetrate, pick-and-roll team that you try to stop everything and you don’t stop anything. We have to pick our poison. They’re very lethal.” WE THE NORTH: As a Canadian, Cavaliers forward Tristan Thompson understands what Toronto’s playoff run means to a hockey-obsessed nation getting more familiar with the hardwood. “For Canada, it’s huge,” said Thompson, who is from Brampton, Ontario. “Basketball has definitely grown a lot in my country, so for the Raptors to be able to make it to the Eastern Conference finals, popularizes the game more. It’s great for Toronto and the country as a whole.” 2016-05-17 06:02 Associated Press sports.inquirer.net

9 ‘Jane the Virgin’ star going into ‘Chicago’ on Broadway NEW YORK— Jaime Camil will be channeling his sleazy lawyer side on Broadway. The “Jane the Virgin” star will play Billy Flynn in the record-breaking “Chicago” starting May 31. READ: Crazy but charming new TV show Set in the 1920s, “Chicago” is a scathing satire of how show business and the media make celebrities out of criminals. It has Bob Fosse- inspired choreography, skimpy outfits and killer songs such as “All That Jazz,” ”Cell Block Tango” and “Mr. Cellophane.” Flynn has been played by the likes of Patrick Swayze, Jerry Springer, Wayne Brady, Tom Wopat, Tony Yazbeck, Harry Hamlin and Billy Ray Cyrus. Camil has appeared in the films “Pulling Strings” and “200 Cartas.” He has been on Broadway in “Latinologues” in 2005 directed by Cheech Marin.

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10 ISIS has lost nearly half the area it held in Iraq — Pentagon WASHINGTON, United States — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group has continued losing control over territory across Iraq and Syria, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday, including almost half of what it had once held in Iraq. The Defense Department had previously estimated that ISIS fighters had lost control of about 40 percent of the territory they claimed in Syria and about 10 percent of the land they held in Syria. Those tallies had gone up in recent weeks, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said. “The number right now in Iraq is about 45 percent of the territory they once held has been recovered,” Cook said. “The number in Syria is anywhere between 16 to 20 percent.” ISIS jihadists stormed across large parts of Iraq and Syria in early 2014, meeting little resistance from Iraqi security forces and exploiting the chaos in civil-war-torn Syria. Since August 2014, the United States has led an international coalition fighting back against the ISIS group, using a combination of air strikes and training and equipping local partners. ISIS fighters have lost control of Ramadi and Heet in Iraq, but still control other important cities including Mosul and Fallujah. In Syria, the group maintains control of Raqa, the capital of their so-called caliphate. 2016-05-17 06:02 Agence France newsinfo.inquirer.net

11 IPL 9: Kohli-ABD show crushes KKR, keeps RCB's play-off hopes alive Kolkata: Threat turned into nightmare as Royal Challengers Bangalore kept on course for a playoff berth with a nine-wicket victory over Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens on Monday. Needing to win their last four games, RCB have now ticked two boxes, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers again flaunting destructive form as KKR's 183 was chased down with eight balls to spare. The two had demolished Gujarat Lions in Bangalore a couple of nights ago with a partnership of 229 off 98. Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli plays a brilliant shot through the off-side against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens on Monday. Pic/AFP Kohli remained unbeaten on a 51-ball 75 while De Villiers got his 59 in 31 balls, each helping himself to five boundaries and three sixes. The only wicket to fall was that of Chris Gayle, who came into his own at last to score 49 off 31 with five fours and four sixes. KKR, who need another win to confirm a berth in the playoffs, will have to wait. Half-centuries by Gautam Gambhir and Manish Pandey, and an Andre Russell-powered finish had KKR post a challenging total. After Gambhir and Pandey had put on 76 in 49 deliveries, Russel and Shakib Al Hasan had them overcome a mid-innings slowdown prompted by fall of wickets. Their unfinished association yielded 58 off 28 deliveries. Kohli had won a good toss, having KKR plunge into the pressure of putting runs on the board. Up against the batting powerhouse of IPL-9, Gambhir & Co. would've wonder how much was enough, even as RCB's non-delivering attack was spared the job of stifling a run-chase. Mumbai spinner Iqbal Abdulla, a former Knight, struck in his first over as Robin Uthappa closed the bat-face early to give a return-catch. It triggered KKR's best partnership as new-man Manish Pandey and skipper Gambhir made good use of the powerplay fielding restrictions. The rollicking partnership, which yielded 76 runs in 49 deliveries, ended on the second mid-pitch mix-up between the two. Gambhir had hit 51 off 34 dceliveries by then, and his wicket triggered a slide of sorts. Pandey (50 off 35 with five fours and a couple of sixes), Yusuf Pathan and Suryakumar Yadav left in quick succession, and it was left to Russell (39 nout out in 19 balls with two fours and three sixes) and Shakib (18 not out off 11 with one four and one six) to ensure a challenging total. The reply began on an ominous note as Gayle, coming into the match with just 19 runs from five outings, found his bearings, lofting the bowlers for those signature sixes or smashing boundaries. Kohli was happy to play the second fiddle. But not for long. Dropped on 32 at backward point by Gambhir, he was soon into that partnership with De Villiers. It was worth 115, and came off just 67 balls. The threat had come good. Brief Scores: Kolkata Knight Riders 183/5 (Gautam Gambhir 51, Manish Pandey 50; Sreenath Aravind 2/41) vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: 186/1 (Virat Kohli 75, AB de Villiers 59)

2016-05-17 06:02 By Arup www.mid-day.com

12 12 Actor upset by politics, hits woman ATLANTA, United States — A discussion about politics upset actor Wendell Pierce so much that he followed a group of people to their hotel room, tried to force his way inside, hit a woman in the head and ripped the hood off of her hoodie, she told Atlanta police in a report released Monday. Pierce gave police a different version of the fracas at the Loews Atlanta Hotel early Saturday morning. Pierce acknowledged following the group to their room after the political discussion but told police he was standing outside when the woman and two of her friends tried to pull him inside as he tried to get away. Pierce was charged with simple battery and released on $1,000 bond, Fulton County Jail records show. No charges were filed against the woman and her two friends. “I regret that what started as a civil political discussion escalated to the level that it did,” Pierce said in a statement released Monday. “Although what has been reported thus far differs in important respects from what actually occurred, I have confidence that the judicial process will work as it should.” Pierce, a New Orleans native, is known for his TV roles as Detective William “Bunk” Moreland on “The Wire” and Antoine Batiste on “Treme.” Jail records list his current address as Pasadena, California. The woman and two witnesses listed in the police report didn’t immediately respond to phone messages Monday from The Associated Press. The police report doesn’t specify the nature of the political argument, but said the woman and her two friends were sitting in a hotel hallway when Pierce and his girlfriend exited the elevator. “Both groups of parties began a conversation about politics, which got Mr. Pierce upset,” the report states. The woman police identify as the victim in the case told officers that Pierce began to push her, and she and her friends then began to walk to their room. Pierce acknowledges in the report that he followed them to their room but disputes what happened next. Pierce and the woman both declined medical help, but police said they took photographs of both people’s injuries. Throughout the process of being arrested, Pierce never indicated he was well-known and his arrest was treated like any other, Atlanta police spokesman Donald Hannah said. After the arrest, Pierce decided not to attend and speak at an upcoming graduation ceremony in New Jersey. Pierce did not want to create a distraction, Rutgers University-Newark announced Monday. TV news anchor Soledad O’Brien will speak at Wednesday’s commencement instead, school officials said.

2016-05-17 06:02 Associated Press entertainment.inquirer.net

13 Sinead O’Connor goes missing, found safe near Chicago NEW YORK, United States — Sinead O’Connor was found safe in the Chicago suburbs on Monday, a day after the Irish singer set off alarm by not returning from a bicycle ride, police said. Police in Wilmette, Illinois, had voiced concern for the safety of O’Connor, who has worried many fans with recent Facebook postings that sounded suicidal. Hours after the police issued an alert, which set off a flurry of concerned messages on social media, authorities said the 49-year-old had been found. “Sinead O’Connor has been located. She is safe and is no longer listed as a missing/ endangered person,” a police statement said. A police spokesman declined to offer further details. The Wilmette Beacon newspaper reported that O’Connor had been staying in the suburb for several weeks with friends. Police said that a caller had reached out to voice concern as the singer had not been heard from since Sunday at 6 am (1100 GMT) when she went on a bicycle ride. Brian King, the local police chief, told the Chicago Tribune that O’Connor was riding a motorized bicycle and wearing a sweatshirt with “Ireland” written on the back. Alarming Facebook messages O’Connor, who has always been known for her strong views, has recently posted a string of messages on Facebook that have raised alarm. In her latest posting, O’Connor appeared to be asking her son to go to court on Tuesday to take custody of his brother. She also posted as her Facebook cover photo an image of US abolitionist hero Harriet Tubman with the quote: “I had reasoned that out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.” Late last year, she suggested on Facebook that she had tried to kill herself by overdosing. O’Connor also recently wrote that comedian Arsenio Hall had been providing drugs for decades to late pop icon Prince, leading Hall to express outrage and sue for libel. Prince, who died on April 21 in unclear circumstances, wrote O’Connor’s best known song, the ballad “Nothing Compares 2 U.” O’Connor won critical acclaim for her haunting voice and intricate musical expression on her two first albums, “The Lion and the Cobra” and “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.” But she was also immediately controversial in the media. She took to task the pop culture’s expectations of female sexuality by shaving her head and singing in shapeless clothes. O’Connor, who said she was abused by her mother, has also been outspoken in criticizing the Roman Catholic Church for not doing more to protect children. In one of her most polemical incidents, she ripped up a picture of then pope John Paul II when performing on US television’s highly watched “Saturday Night Live” program in 1992. While gradually retreating from the intense public spotlight, O’Connor has remained active and experimental as an artist. She notably took a turn into reggae with her 2005 album “Throw Down Your Arms” after she moved to Jamaica and explored the Rastafarian faith.

2016-05-17 06:02 Agence France entertainment.inquirer.net

14 14 Loneliness more dangerous than obesity, study shows MIAMI, United States — When it comes to maintaining health in one’s older years, age means little and obesity may not be so bad after all, according to a US study released Monday. Factors such as loneliness, depression and having broken a bone recently are more likely to predict a person’s risk of dying in the next five years, researchers at the University of Chicago found. READ: Loneliness may lead to early death — study | Turning the bad into good–how I used depression as my personal trainer “The healthiest people were obese and robust,” said the study in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, which found that 22 percent of older Americans fit that definition of good health despite higher obesity and blood pressure. They had fewer organ system diseases, better mobility, sensory function and psychological health than others. They were also the least likely to die or become incapacitated five years into the study, which involved 3,000 people aged 57 to 85. Researchers also uncovered new classes of people at twice the risk of dying or becoming incapacitated in five years. They include those of normal weight who face one key health problem such as thyroid disease, anemia or ulcers, those who had broken a bone since age 45, and those with poor mental health. The most unhealthy are those with uncontrolled diabetes and high blood pressure, and who often face challenges getting around and performing daily tasks. “Instead of policies focused on reducing obesity as a much lamented health condition, greater support for reducing loneliness among isolated older adults or restoring sensory functions would be more effective in enhancing health and wellbeing in the older population,” said co-author Edward Laumann of the University of Chicago. Although cancer caused 24 percent of deaths among people over 55, it “seemed to develop randomly with respect to other organ system diseases,” the study said. Challenging current wisdom Obesity had long been considered a leading risk factor for dangerous conditions such as heart attack and stroke. More than a third of Americans — nearly 79 million people — are considered obese, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, a number of recent studies have suggested that obesity may not be as bad as once thought, and may even offer protective benefits against certain diseases, a phenomenon known as “the obesity paradox.” Still, current medical wisdom holds that people are healthy if they can avoid heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels. But authors of the new study described a different approach, known as the “comprehensive model” of health and aging, that includes factors such as psychological well-being, sensory function and mobility as essential factors of overall health. Using this new lens, about half of those considered healthy under the current medical model actually have “significant vulnerabilities that affect the chances that they die or become incapacitated within five years,” the study said. “At the same time, some people with chronic disease are revealed as having many strengths that lead to their reclassification as quite healthy, with low risks of death and incapacity.” The findings suggest that “from a health system perspective, a shift of attention is needed from disease-focused management, such as medications for hypertension or high cholesterol, to overall well-being across many areas,” co-author William Dale said.

2016-05-17 06:02 Agence France technology.inquirer.net

15 Syria war: Love and loss on Lesbos Amina Ramadan and her husband Mohamed left Aleppo for Europe to escape the war - but tragedy befell them on the shores of Greece. See also: Women risking it all to flee Syria Video produced by: Mohamed Madi Cameraman: Tony Fallshaw

2016-05-17 03:22 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

16 New Zealand housing crisis forces hundreds to live in tents and garages Hundreds of families in Auckland are living in cars, garages and even a shipping container as a housing crisis fuelled by rising property prices forces low-income workers out of private rental accommodation. Charity groups have warned that, as the southern hemisphere winter approaches, most of the premises have no electricity, sewage or cooking facilities. “This is not people who haven’t been trying. They have been trying very hard and still they’re failing,” said Campbell Roberts of The Salvation Army, who has worked in South Auckland for 25 years. “A few years ago people in this situation were largely unemployed or on very low-incomes. But consistently now we are finding people coming to us who are in work, and have their life together in other ways, but housing is alluding them.” Auckland’s housing market is one of the most expensive in the world, with property prices increasing 77.5% over the last five years (this growth has now slowed), and the average house price fetching over NZ$940,000 (£440,000), according toCoreLogic, New Zealand . Combined with low interest rates, rising migration, near full occupancy of state housing in South Auckland, and minimal wage rises, the pressure on many low to middle income earners has become too much to bear. Some families now forced to choose between having a permanent roof over their heads, or feeding themselves and their children. Jenny Salesa, a Labour MP in the South Auckland suburb of Otara, says Maori and Pacific peoples are overwhelmingly bearing the brunt of Auckland’s housing crisis, and she has people coming to her office every day begging for help. “People are living in garages with ten family members and paying close to NZ$400 for the privilege,” said Salesa. “People are ashamed their lives have come to this, and they try to hide. But you can tell which garages are occupied - there are curtains on the windows, small attempts to make it a home. And on the weekends, in the park, there can be up to fifty cars grouped together, with people sleeping in them.” Salesa estimates nearly 50% of people asking for her help in finding a home are in paid employment, and many families have two parents working and are still unable to make ends meet. Nobody knows exactly how many people are living rough in Auckland, but common estimates range in the hundreds. Darryl Evans, CEO of Mangere Budgeting in South Auckland, says on some roads in South Auckland every second house has additional accommodation erected - be it an occupied garage, a portable cabin with a chemical toilet, or tents pitched on the front and back lawn. “Up until a few years ago, a family member might let you camp in the garage at no cost, as a temporary set-up,” said Evans. “But now landlords have cottoned on to how desperate people are, and are renting out garages or Portakabins for hundreds of dollars. Our food bank - every food bank in Auckland - is under the most pressure its ever been.” Evans has also seen many families get trapped in a cycle of a gradual migration south, chasing cheaper rents, but causing huge unrest for children, who are unable to access regular schooling, health care or social support networks. “People living in these situations are feeling huge shame,” said Evans. Last week the New Zealand government announced NZ$41.1m for emergency housing, but with winter mere weeks away, charities believe any assistance will come too late for most. “We warned the government six or seven years ago that a housing crisis was looming,” said Roberts. “Successive governments have ignored our warnings, and now look where we are. The worst homelessness I have seen in 25 years. You might be able to survive like this in the summer, but you can’t in winter. You just can’t live like this in a New Zealand winter.”

2016-05-17 03:17 Eleanor Ainge www.theguardian.com

17 Man accused of killing five at Calgary party thought world was about to end A young man in Canada who stabbed five people to death at a house party displayed erratic behaviour in the weeks leading up to the incident, telling friends the world was about to end and posting messages online about killing vampires. The trial of Matthew de Grood, 24, began on Monday, more than two years after an end-of- semester house party in Calgary, Alberta, turned fatal. De Grood is facing five counts of first- degree murder in the city’s worst mass killing. De Grood has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges but admitted in an agreed statement of facts that he had stabbed the victims. Lawrence Hong, Joshua Hunter, Kaitlin Perras, Zackariah Rathwell and Jordan Segura – all students who ranged in age from 22 to 27 – suffered multiple stab wounds. The trial is being followed closely across the country, and much of it is expected to focus on the mental state of de Grood at the time of the killings. On Monday, the court heard that his friends and family had noticed changes in his behaviour in the weeks leading up to the attack, including erratic posts on Facebook and paranoid, rambling text messages sent to his parents and coworkers. De Grood’s father, a high-ranking official with the Calgary police service, and his wife had worried about their son’s seemingly deteriorating mental health and briefly considered obtaining a mental health warrant to have him taken into custody. He had struggled with drug use in the past and family members were concerned he might be using drugs again. Prior to the stabbings, de Grood, who had just finished a bachelor of science in psychology and had been accepted to law school, told one friend that the world would end at midnight and another that US president Barack Obama was the antichrist. Police were later called by guests at the party to a rented home near the University of Calgary campus. They found three men already dead. A fourth man was found collapsed on the front lawn, while a woman inside the house was also injured. Both were taken to hospital, where they later died. De Grood was arrested near the home. Police found a clove of garlic stuffed in his sock and another one tucked in his jacket pocket, the court heard. “It was to keep the zombies away,” de Grood told police. “I’m sorry. I had to kill them,” he added. He made other bizarre comments to the officers, telling them he was an alien and had been born in an incubator. He was taken to hospital, where doctors noted that “he was psychotic and had no insight into his illness”, according to the agreed statement of facts. Prior to the start of the trial on Monday, Gregg Perras, the father of one of the victims read a statement on behalf of the victims’ families. “All we ask is that you remember how they lived: full of purpose, full of life, full of goodness, and love for their friends and family,” he said as he choked back tears. “Their deaths and this tragedy do not define them.”

2016-05-17 03:02 Ashifa Kassam www.theguardian.com

18 Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announces ban on transgender discrimination C anadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced legislation on Monday to protect transgender people from hate speech and discrimination, as debate rages in the United States over laws restricting their rights. "Even today, despite all the obstacles we have overcome, the battles we have won, and the victories we have celebrated, we are still witnesses, and in some cases, victims of injustices," Mr Trudeau said in a speech at a Montreal event hosted by gay rights group Fondation Emergence. The recently elected Liberal prime minister said legislation ensuring "the full protection" of transgender Canadians is to be officially unveiled by Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould on Tuesday, the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. "We must continue to demand true equality," Mr Trudeau said in Montreal. "We must carry on the legacy of those who fought for justice by being bold and ambitious in our actions, and we must work diligently to close the gap between our principles and our reality. " W ith the Liberals holding a majority in the House of Commons, the legislation is guaranteed to pass. Past attempts to pass similar legislation in Canada have failed. It will add "gender identity" alongside race, religion, age, sex and sexual orientation as prohibited grounds for discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act, and add transgender persons to a list of groups protected from hate-mongering under the Criminal Code, according to Wilson-Raybould's mandate letter from the prime minister. Mr Trudeau's father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was Canada's justice minister when Ottawa introduced a Criminal Code amendment to decriminalise homosexuality. He famously commented at the time (two years before it became law): "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. " In July, Justin Trudeau will be the first sitting prime minister to participate in a gay pride parade , in Montreal. F ollowing his speech, Fondation Emergence honoured him with an award for his promotion of gay rights, including allowing sexually active gay men to donate blood, and pardoning gay men who were convicted of gross indecency before homosexuality was decriminalised in 1969. South of the border, meanwhile, a debate on equal rights in the United States has been raging over a flurry of initiatives targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities since a historic Supreme Court decision last year legalised same-sex marriage nationwide. Last week, the US federal government and North Carolina's governor launched dueling lawsuits over a state law restricting transgender Americans' use of public restrooms . The North Carolina law, passed on March 23 , requires transgender people to use public restrooms corresponding to the gender listed on their birth certificate. It provoked a public outcry and led several high-profile entertainers and big companies to join activists in denouncing the measure, pulling the plug on events and investments in the state.

2016-05-17 03:01 Our Foreign www.telegraph.co.uk

19 Europe migrant crisis: EU faces 'populist uprising' Europe faces a "populist uprising" if it is unable to show people it can control the migrant crisis, former MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove has said. He was speaking on the BBC's World on the Move day on migration issues. Sir Richard also warned against offering visa- free travel to Turkish nationals, describing the move as like storing gasoline near a fire. Earlier, UN special envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt warned the humanitarian system for refugees was breaking down. She spoke of a "fear of migration" and a "race to the bottom" as countries competed to be the toughest to protect themselves. BBC News World On The Move is a day of coverage dedicated to migration, and the effect it is having on our world. A range of speakers, including the UNHCR's special envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt , and former British secret intelligence chief Sir Richard Dearlove , have been setting out the most important new ideas shaping our thinking on economic development, security and humanitarian assistance. What's the story with migration? Live coverage as it happened Latin America's affluent capital Technology lures ex-pats back to Vietnam 'We need to defend mobility online' Women risking it all to flee Syria Uganda: "One of the best places to be a refugee" Sir Richard said the numbers of immigrants coming into Europe over the next five years could run into millions. The crisis could reshape the continent's geopolitical landscape, he said. "If Europe cannot act together to persuade a significant majority of its citizens that it can gain control of its migratory crisis then the EU will find itself at the mercy of a populist uprising, which is already stirring," he added. He described the UK referendum on leaving the EU as "the first roll of the dice in a bigger geopolitical game". Sir Richard warned against a deal with Turkey to allow visa-free travel to the EU to its citizens in exchange for controlling migration to the EU. He said it was "perverse, like storing gasoline next to the fire we're trying to extinguish". Talks between the Turkey and the EU over the deal have currently stalled over the former's refusal to amend its anti-terror laws. The former head of MI6, which gathers intelligence abroad for the UK government, said €1.8bn (£1.4bn) allocated by the EU to address the root causes of migration in Africa made "much more sense" than a deal with Turkey but was not nearly enough. The only answer was a "massive response" of this kind combined with a "much more aggressive operation along the North African coast", he added. But Sir Richard cautioned against shutting the door on migration altogether. "In the real world there are no miraculous James Bond-style solutions," he said. "Human tides are irresistible unless the gravitational pull that causes them is removed. " Speaking earlier in the day, Ms Jolie Pitt said that more than 60 million people - one in 122 - were displaced globally - more than at any time in the past 70 years. "This tells us something deeply worrying about the peace and security of the world," she said, adding: "The average time a person will be displaced is now nearly 20 years. " Ms Jolie Pitt said the "number of conflicts and scale of displacement had grown so large" the system to protect and return refugees was not working. Save the Children is calling for greater international commitment to ensure child refugees remain in school. The charity's new report, A New Deal for Refugees , says only one in four refugee children is now enrolled in secondary school. It is calling on governments and aid agencies to adopt a new policy framework that will ensure no refugee child remains out of school for more than a month. It is an ambitious target but there is growing concern that this migration crisis is producing a lost generation of children which means conditions for even greater insecurity and poverty. Are more people on the move? Migrant crises through history A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.

2016-05-16 19:54 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

20 April breaks global temperature record April was the seventh month in a row that broke global temperature records, Nasa figures show. Last month smashed the previous record for April by the largest margin ever, the data show. That makes it three months in a row that the monthly record was broken by the largest margin ever. But in terms of its departure from the 1951-1980 temperature average used by Nasa, April was equal with January 2016. Six graphics that explain climate change February and March this year showed greater departures from the norm. The new record for April trounced the previous one, set in 2010, by 0.24C. "The very unfortunate circumstance we have now is the overlap of a very intense El Nino that has been magnified by climate change," said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. "All of these record breaking temperatures and attendant implications that we have had, such as record breaking fires for example, and droughts in India are all reminders that we cannot afford to do anything except to accelerate the solution agenda - we absolutely have no other option but to accelerate. " Gavin Schmidt, director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which analyses global temperature datasets, tweeted: "With Apr[il] update, 2016 still (greater than) 99% likely to be a new record (assuming historical ytd [year-to-date]/ann[ual]patterns valid). " Several northerly regions, including the US state of Alaska, saw very hot temperatures during April - a pattern repeated in previous months. The records for April will also raise questions about the achievability of a goal to hold global warming to 1.5C that was agreed at the Paris climate talks in December 2015.

2016-05-17 01:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

21 Scientists clone Zika for vaccine race US scientists have cloned the Zika virus - an important step towards fast-tracking a vaccine against the disease. The man-made copy is a replica of the strain that is spreading across the Americas and has been linked to brain deformities in newborn babies. In tests at the University of Texas, the clone could infect mosquitoes - the carrier of Zika - and cause disease in laboratory mice. Experts say they can use this in experiments to design a good vaccine. It is hoped a candidate will be ready for testing in the coming months. But it could be many years before there is a safe and effective jab that can be offered to the general public. Zika can cause serious harm to unborn babies, but it often has no visible symptoms in the mother. Experts say a vaccine to protect expectant women, and others at high risk of infection, is one of the most effective ways we have of beating it. Many different research groups around the world are working to make such a vaccine. The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases hopes to start human clinical trials on its vaccine candidate by September. What's needed is a "safe" version of Zika that will be enough to make the body ward off the infection without actually causing disease. The University of Texas team say their cloned virus should help with achieving this. They have published their findings in the journal Cell Host & Microbe. Until now, researchers had known the structure of Zika, but they had not replicated it - at least not this strain. UK expert Dr Tom Blanchard, from Manchester University, is using a safe derivative of an existing smallpox vaccine to try to make a new antidote for Zika. He said: "The challenge for people like us who are developing vaccines is to separate out the harmful effects of the virus from the beneficial effects. We want to have something that will replicate but will not cause damage. "Research such as this could help. " Prof Polly Roy of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said: "This is good. Scientists have everything to play around with now. " She said that as well as designing a vaccine, researchers would also be able to test antiviral drugs that might lessen the effects of Zika if someone was already infected. Follow Michelle on Twitter

2016-05-17 01:45 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

22 Obamacare Manipulating Social Change With Your Tax Money | The American Spectator If your health insurance premiums rise, it’s because you’re paying for more than your barely-more-than-emergency coverage. You’re paying for your mentally ill neighbor’s hormones to transition into whatever he or she is not. He wasn’t born that way but you have to pay to make the change. You will be paying for this insanity, according to an exuberant Atlantic writer: The rule also changes the way “gender” is interpreted under the law. “On the definition of gender identity, it accepts that gender is not a binary,” Sepper said. “It occurs on a spectrum, and folks can even not have a gender.” This is a fairly radical shift—it accepts that people might identify as something other than “male” or “female.” So, if you’re transgendered, broke, and want hormones, you’re all set. If you want to keep your doctor and your premiums low, forget it. Only two weeks ago, we find out that Obamacare premiums are going to take off again. From the Hill: Health insurance companies are laying the groundwork for substantial increases in ObamaCare premiums, opening up a line of attack for Republicans in a presidential election year. Many insurers have been losing money on the ObamaCare marketplaces, in part because they set their premiums too low when the plans started in 2014. The companies are now expected to seek substantial price increases. “There are absolutely some carriers that are going to have to come in with some pretty significant price hikes to make up for the underpricing that they did before,” said Sabrina Corlette, a professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms, while noting that the final picture remains unclear. Insurers are already making the case for premium increases, pointing to a pool of enrollees that is smaller, sicker and costlier than they expected. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association released a widely publicized report last month that said new enrollees under ObamaCare had 22 percent higher medical costs than people who received coverage through their employers. “The industry is clearly setting the stage for bigger premium increases in 2017,” said Larry Levitt, an expert on the health law at the Kaiser Family Foundation. The worst part of this is that these regulations happen bureaucratically. No elected officials make these decisions. Obama flunkies running his various departments control your tax dollars and, with health care, your finances and life. People who argued against Obamacare knew this was going to happen. Social justice warriors on the left are thrilled at these consequences. What is better than the already burdened middle class being stuck with paying for their most recent pet social project?

2016-05-17 04:13 Melissa Clouthier spectator.org

23 Make America -- and marriage -- great again Contact WND For 30 years, Republicans have looked to beltway organizations for social policy – organizations whose policy staff are former administrative agency heads making work for their friends rather than solving problems. The results have been no better than what liberals do and possibly worse. Republican welfare reforms enacted in 1996 failed to stem the trajectory of the Great Society. Poverty is at record levels despite record welfare expenditures, along with other low-income metrics such as drug abuse, crime, gun and domestic violence , incarceration rates and murder. The Center for Marriage Policy’s supply-side socioeconomic model explains why Republicans failed and how socioeconomic policy must not be done in the future. Like illegal immigration, the problem must be turned around from the front-end. Half of the equation to “Make America Great Again” involves making marriage great again. The productive, educated, motivated workforce businesses need depends decisively on relatively large numbers of married families in the middle and lower income groups. Social issues are fiscal issues , and they are inseparable. Social spending (the largest line item in federal and state budgets) can be contained only by strategic new policies building marriage. A Center for Marriage Policy chart showing the longitudinal relationships between trend lines of non-marriage, poverty, health insurance, economic downturns, unemployment, and illegitimacy metrics visually demonstrates that the single biggest factor driving our greatest social problems and uncontrollable social spending begins with marriage-absence. In addition, many other costly ongoing problems such as crime, violence, education and mental health also correlate most highly with structural marriage-absence. Supply-side socioeconomics is the only way to turn all these problems around. The principles are simple to understand. Most economists know that supply-side economics works better than any other model. Supply-side socioeconomics works the same way, but builds marriage instead of business. Add the two models together and we have the complete recipe to make American great again. Once everyone understands that marriage-absence is a reversible structural problem, it can be turned around at the front end. Existing demand-side social policies do not give citizens the choices they want and need when they have economic or serious family problems. Government offers only choices that kick off a downward spiral of consequences. The Center for Marriage Policy’s proposals establish inexpensive power tools everyone can easily use to keep their marriages on track. That is almost always everyone’s first choice – and the reason why most people will prefer it over existing policy. We empower individuals to fix their family problems and get ahead. We can easily knock $200 billion off current social spending (currently in excess of $1.1 trillion ) by focusing on marriage-building policy. That puts us most of the way to balancing the budget with a total spending decrease of $500 billion. The beauty of this model is that it works by harnessing self-interest, not forcing people to do things, and without dumping them in the streets with hard cuts. For example, substance abuse is the greatest factor in divorce, domestic violence and gun violence. It is also a central factor in the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and other cities. Under existing law, the only way do deal with a family problem is to live with it or get a divorce. Our policy gives folks what they want. The responsible spouse has a power tool to drive the substance abuse problem out of the family. Nothing will clean out drug problems and violence in urban cores more effectively than citizens having the ability to grab the bull by the horns and send the problem packing. Changes are needed to health-care laws. Presently, many couples are forced to divorce to protect retirement accounts from depletion under Obamacare rules. Changes must be made to welfare so that it becomes bridge financing that leads back to marriage. Married couples have twice the human resources and time needed to raise kids, get a better education and get ahead. No-fault divorce laws are a costly, combative mistake that must be replaced with our hybrid model where most divorces occur via an inexpensive “Mutual Consent” model, with a tightly woven “Responsible Dissolution” method for cases involving serious issues. This will prevent most families from ending up bankrupt when marriage has to end. After a decade of development and vetting by lawyers and judges, our policy model is ready to launch. Marriage Savers is a particularly effective, proven marriage support model. Any couple can find a local support meeting and be guided out of marital troubles by a mentor couple who survived the same problem. These programs only need room space in any public building or church to bring about big increases in marriage rates and matching decreases in divorce and illegitimacy rates. Our policy model promises shrinkage of demand for a wide variety of expensive consequential government programs such as mental health, remedial education, delinquency, incarceration, drug abuse, homelessness, suicide and other problems. In addition, married couples pay taxes – something an astonishing 45 percent of the nation does not do today. Economic globalists will have no need to push for constitutional or legislative changes to erase borders, import large numbers of foreign workers, or offshore their operations when American workers become the educated, motivated workforce businesses need, and taxes can shrink to levels making American manufacturing more competitive. Voters will no longer feel the need to vote for Democrats to stay above water after Republicans drain the swamp. It is well-known that married voters are the ones most likely to be Republican and to attend church, too. One does not have to be educated, rich, or powerful to understand and benefit from marriage. When we stop destroying marriage in the middle and lower income groups, America can and will be great again.

2016-05-17 02:52 David R www.wnd.com

24 Olympics terror? It's happened before Contact WND As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the 2016 Summer Olympics in August, intelligence agencies around the world, including Brazil’s, are warning about the high threat of Islamic terrorist attacks at the Games. As an old-timer, reading these reports, I was struck by the realization that most people alive today have no recollection of what happened at the 1972 Munich Olympics. To set the scene, 1972 was only 27 years after the end of World War II. The previous Olympic Games hosted by Germany in 1936 was under the watch of Adolf Hitler. That was where Jesse Owens stole the show. But in 1972, German officials sought to put all those Nazi memories aside and set out to host what it called “Die Heiteren Spiele,” or “the cheerful Games.” Let’s just say that’s not how they are remembered. Historically, the Games themselves have been largely overshadowed by what became known as the “Munich Massacre.” On Sept. 5, a group of eight armed members of the Black September Arab terrorist group under the sponsorship and direction of Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization broke into the Olympic village and took hostage in their apartments nine Israeli athletes, coaches and officials. Two others who resisted were killed in the first few moments of the attack. For the next 18 hours there was a standoff. Late that evening, the terrorists and their captives were transferred by helicopter to a military airport where they expected to board a plane for an undisclosed terrorist-friendly Middle East nation. At the airport, in a botched rescue effort by German forces, the remaining nine Israelis were killed, along with five terrorists. Four of the Israelis were shot and then incinerated when one of the terrorists detonated grenade inside the helicopter where they were sitting. The other five hostages were machine-gunned to death. Three of the terrorists were taken alive and exchanged six weeks later for a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner. Two of the terrorists were later hunted down and assassinated, presumably by Israelis in an operation known as “Operation Wrath of God.” One is reportedly still alive and in hiding. Maybe you know all that. But there’s a component of this story I have told many times over the years that always shocks the public – including many who were alive and watched this tragic spectacle on television. Experience more of Joseph Farah’s no-nonsense truth-telling in his books, audio and video products, featured in the WND Superstore While this attack was taking place, the Games were suspended for a few hours. Then, immediately after they concluded, Olympics officials in Germany decided, with little international protest, to resume the Games without delay. Avery Brundage, the International Olympic Committee president, exclaimed, “The Games must go on.” Can you imagine? Do you remember? An Islamic terrorist attack resulted in the deaths of 11 Israelis. But the Games had to go on – with no time for reflection or mourning. And as for “Operation Wrath of God,” it wasn’t entirely effective. While all but one of the terrorists were killed, those responsible for directing them and financing the attack survived. In fact, the man who wrote the checks to the operatives is today in charge of the Palestinian Authority, the successor to Yasser Arafat. His name, of course, is Mahmoud Abbas. The “international community” characterizes him as a “moderate.” The pope once called him “an angel of peace.” It’s not that Abbas had a chance of heart. He’s still the same anti-Jewish terrorist he always was. In 1982, 10 years after Munich, Abbas wrote his doctoral thesis at Moscow’s Oriental College in 1982, putting forth the proposition that far fewer than 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Even worse, he actually accused the Jews of conspiring with Hitler to annihilate European Jewry. Abbas accused the Jews of deliberately inflating the numbers of those killed in concentration camps to pave the way for a Jewish state. He may have been one of the first to equate Zionism with Nazism. In the version of his doctoral paper later published under the title, “The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and the Zionist Movement,” Abbas denied the German use of gas chambers and suggested the total number of Jews killed was fewer than 1 million. Despite this incredible charge, Abbas still enjoys the reputation of a “moderate.” He still enjoys the reputation of a “pragmatist.” He still enjoys the reputation of a “statesman” – perhaps even an indispensable statesman. This is Israel’s so-called “partner for peace.” This is the guy Barack Obama and John Kerry insist Israel should bargain with – give concessions to. Too many have forgotten the lessons of Munich 1972. And you know what they say about those who don’t learn the lessons of history. Media wishing to interview Joseph Farah, please contact [email protected] . 2016-05-17 02:46 Joseph Farah www.wnd.com

25 Toby Jones to star as Sherlock villain Toby Jones is to play a villain in the fourth series of BBC One's Sherlock. Jones will join Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in the second episode of the new three- part series. Filming began on Monday. Jones said: "I'm excited and intrigued by the character I shall be playing in Sherlock... " The show's co-creator Steven Moffat said: "Delighted to have Toby Jones on board, bringing to life one of Doyle's finest villains. " Co-creator Mark Gatiss added: "We're thrilled to welcome one of our finest actors to the Sherlock family. I know Toby will embrace the part with true relish! " It was announced last month that series four will begin with Holmes (Cumberbatch) back on British soil, as Doctor Watson (Freeman) and his wife, Mary (Amanda Abbington), prepare for parenthood.

2016-05-17 04:16 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

26 Boris Johnson accused of hiding study linking air pollution and deprived schools B oris Johnson has been accused by his successor as London mayor of suppressing an air pollution report that showed 433 primary schools were located in areas that exceed EU limits for nitrogen dioxide pollution. The report, Analysing Air Pollution Exposure in London, obtained by The Guardian , found that of those schools 83% were considered deprived, with more than 40 per cent receiving free school meals. A spokeswoman for Sadiq Khan said the new mayor planned to publish the full report. S he told The Guardian: “This shocking report reveals a snapshot of the true impact that our polluted air has on some of London’s most vulnerable communities. It is difficult to understand why the last mayoralty decided to cover it up and not fully release it in 2013 – they clearly didn’t want Londoners to know the dire state of pollution in the capital. “The mayor is fully committed to cleaning up our air and protecting Londoners’ health and is shocked to learn that important scientific evidence like this have been locked and ignored at City Hall.” It is not the first time Mr Johnson has been accused of trying to cover up air pollution levels in London. B efore the 2012 Olympics it emerged the city was using dust suppressants – a sticky saline solution that causes dirt particles to stick to the ground – close to monitoring sites. The newly revealed research was commissioned from the independent consultancy Aether in 2013. It examined air pollution data from 2010. The researchers found the number of affected schools would reduce significantly by 2020, as air improvement measures took effect. Tower Hamlets, Camden, Southwark, Islington and City of Westminster were the worst affected boroughs. The authors said that roads were a major source of toxic NO2 emissions in London. “A possible explanation for the general trend may be the link between lower house prices, and hence poorer households, and proximity to main roads such as the M4, inner ring roads and radial roads,” they said. European Union limits demand that maximum hourly nitrogen dioxide concentrations are not exceeded for more than 18 hours a year. London exceeded that limit within eight days of 2016.

2016-05-17 02:44 Telegraph Reporters www.telegraph.co.uk

27 Ex-St Louis officer charged with murder in 2011 fatal shooting after car chase A former St Louis police officer was ordered held without bond on Monday after being charged with first-degree murder in a 2011 shooting of a 24- year-old man after a chase. St Louis circuit attorney Jennifer Joyce said in a statement that Jason Stockley was on duty when he first fired at Anthony Lamar Smith after police say Stockley witnessed a drug deal. Joyce alleges that during an ensuing pursuit of Smith’s car, with speeds exceeding 80mph, Stockley can be heard on his in-car video telling his partner he was “going to kill this (expletive), don’t you know it”. After Stockley and his partner in their police sport utility vehicle forced Smith’s car to stop, prosecutors allege, Shockley approached Smith’s car and fired five times into its driver’s side, striking Smith with each round and killing him. Lab tests showed that a gun found in Smith’s vehicle had Stockley’s DNA on it, Joyce said, suggesting that Smith was unarmed. A judge on Monday ordered Stockley held without bond and he was in custody in the Houston area, where he now lives. Online court records don’t show whether Stockley has an attorney. Joyce said he left the St Louis police force in 2013. Smith’s death came less than three years before a white police officer in the suburb of Ferguson fatally shot black 18-year-old Michael Brown , who was unarmed in August 2014, enflaming tensions between police and minorities and stoking the Black Lives Matter movement. Activists as late as last month were pressing for charges against Stockley, who is white, in the death of Smith, who was black. Federal prosecutors who reviewed the circumstances of Smith’s death at the request of St Louis police declined in 2012 to charge Stockley. But in March, Joyce said her office gave the matter a fresh look, given unspecified “additional evidence” developed by St Louis police and the FBI. Joyce said she plans to present the case to a grand jury in coming weeks, adding that the US Justice Department also is reviewing the matter. In 2013, the St Louis board of police commissioners settled a federal wrongful-death lawsuit on behalf of Smith’s then-1-year-old daughter, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reported Monday. Albert Watkins, an attorney for Smith’s family, declined to publicly reveal the settlement amount, citing a confidentiality agreement.

2016-05-17 02:43 Associated Press www.theguardian.com

28 APAC Creative Work of the Week: Eco-Cooler by Grey Dhaka Grey Dhaka teamed up with volunteers from Grameen Intel Social Business to adress the issue that many people in Bangladesh live in iron houses, making the summer months intollerable. With temperatures rising to 45 degrees at its peak, the agency opted to find a solution that used materials that could be at hand to people living in these areas. The solution was a rectangular device that fitted onto windows that had holes that could fit plastic bottles into. The invention used the principle that pushing air through a smaller space cools it down. If you breath with a wide mouth versus pursed lips, you can feel the difference in temperature.

2016-05-17 02:41 Charlotte McEleny www.thedrum.com

29 'Train NHS staff' to plug doctor gaps, bosses say Nurses, paramedics and pharmacists should be trained to fill in for doctors and help the NHS in England cope with demand, bosses say. Management body NHS Employers has given the plan the green light after advisers said there were a range of extra tasks they could do with more training. A Nuffield Trust review found examples of nurses filling in for hospital doctors and pharmacists for GPs. But unions warned against using it as a quick fix for problems in the NHS. It has been well documented that there are gaps in junior doctor rotas, while GPs are struggling to cope with the rising number of patients coming through their doors. NHS Employers asked the Nuffield Trust to look at ways the 1.3 million-strong workforce could be reshaped to help. The think tank highlighted examples of areas that were already experimenting. These included: The report said as well as helping cover for doctor shortages, such moves made sense because of the changing nature of care, with much more stress on looking after people with long-term conditions such as diabetes and heart disease rather than curing them. It said that as doctors only made up about one in 10 of the workforce much more was needed from other health staff, but the Nuffield Trust admitted money would need to be set aside to ensure it happened. Are nurses the new doctors? NHS short of front-line staff, MPs say Report author Candace Imison said there were "huge opportunities" in reshaping the workforce, in both improving patient care and providing staff with more rewarding roles. And NHS Employers chief executive Danny Mortimer said: "Our challenge now is to take forward the learning and recommendations in the report. " But British Medical Association leader Dr Mark Porter said while he supported increasing the skills of the workforce, this should not be done "at the expense of good quality training for doctors or indeed doctors themselves". "It takes doctors many years to learn how to provide the best care for their patients, and there is no substitute for this kind of expertise and experience," he said. "There should be more staff support for doctors to help them coordinate the best possible care for their patients. " And Unison head of health Christina McAnea said the squeeze on funding in the health service meant there was "all too often" no funding for training courses. "Developing the NHS support workforce must not be seen as a quick and cheap fix for the chronic shortages of nurses and other health workers across the country," she added. Read more from Nick Follow Nick on Twitter

2016-05-17 04:16 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

30 Anti-Semitism inquiry leader Shami Chakrabarti joins Labour The leader of Labour's inquiry into anti-Semitism, Shami Chakrabarti, says she has joined the party in order to gain members' "trust and confidence". But she said she would investigate "without fear or favour" and her recommendations would be "mine alone". The independent inquiry was set up after MP Naz Shah and ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone were suspended amid anti-Semitism claims. Islamophobia and other forms of racism will also be looked at. The announcement of the review last month, alongside a new code of conduct on anti-Semitism, came as critics claimed the party leadership was not doing enough to combat the problem. Ms Shah, the MP for Bradford West, was suspended after social media posts emerged in which she suggested Israel should be moved to the United States. Mr Livingstone was then suspended after claiming Hitler supported Zionism, as he tried to defend her. Ms Chakrabarti was political neutral in her previous job as head of campaign group Liberty. Explaining why she joined Labour on the day she was asked to lead the review, she said: "This is a party looking at itself in the mirror and I wanted to have the trust and confidence not just of the Labour leadership but of party members. " She said she wanted members to know the inquiry, which will report by the end of June, was "in the party's interests". She added: "I consider myself to be independent. I do not think I am less independent for making absolutely clear that I share the values of the Labour Party constitution and will seek to promote those values in any recommendations and findings. "It is a judgment call but I thought that was the most honest thing to do - to be clear that I was undertaking this because I do believe in the values of the Labour Party and want to see them promoted not just in the Labour Party but in the world. " Labour - along with other progressive parties - had to "openly look at itself in the mirror" and combat not only prejudice but also complacency, she added. The inquiry will consult Labour members and supporters, as well as members of the Jewish community and other minority groups, she said, and could suggest changes to Labour's rules and procedures. Ms Chakrabarti said she would seek submissions from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn although she could not compel anyone to give evidence. Labour peer Baroness Royall - who is already leading a review into anti-Semitism allegations including in the Oxford University Labour Club - and Professor David Feldman, director of the Pears Institute for the study of anti-Semitism, will be vice chairs.

2016-05-17 04:16 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

31 Traditional industries in the West Bank In the West Bank, several traditional Palestinian industries are still utilising historical techniques fine-tuned through generations - but once flourishing industries, such as shoemaking in Hebron or olive oil soap production in Nablus, are barely surviving, with a fraction of their former workforces. Photographer Rich Wiles has been documenting these industries, some of which may not survive much longer in the current political and economic climate. All photographs courtesy Rich Wiles .

2016-05-17 01:24 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

32 Ukrainian hacker pleads guilty to insider trading in US A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to his role in an insider trading scheme that netted more than $30 million (£20.8 million) in illicit profits. Vadym Iermolovych, 28, admitted to hacking into newswire agencies and using the unpublished information to gain advantage on the stock market. Thirty-two people have been charged in connection with the global scheme. Prosecutors said the defendants used 800 stolen news releases to make trades using the insider information. From 2010 to 2014 the group is accused of hacking the computer networks of Marketwired LP, PR Newswire Association LLC, and Business Wire. They are thought to have gained access to 150,000 press releases that were about to be released. Iermolovych, and other Ukrainian citizens thought to have participated in the hacking, would rapidly pass the stolen information to stock market traders in the US. They would then trade on the unpublished information before that day's market closing. According to the Department of Justice, the trades would occur in "extremely short windows of time between when the hackers illegally accessed and shared the releases and when the press releases were disseminated to the public by the newswires, usually shortly after the close of the markets". Iermolovych will be sentenced in August and could face up to 20 years in jail.

2016-05-17 01:25 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

33 Get A Mentor - In Photos: 10 Low-Cost Options For Customized Leadership Development Other than coffees and lunches, financial investment can be kept at a minimum. In choosing a mentor, think internal and external: internal to your department/external to other departments; inside your company/outside your company; inside your industry/outside your industry. Select based on what your specific needs are, not just the senior-most person. Photo: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg

2016-05-17 01:28 Caroline Ceniza www.forbes.com

34 November 24: Sony Pictures Hacked And Blackmailed - In Photos: Sony Hack Timeline Sources inside Sony reveal that the company's corporate systems were hacked. The hackers left the following message: “Hacked by #GOP. Warning: We’ve already warned you, and this is just the beginning. We have obtained all your internal data including secrets and top secrets.” Photo: AP Photo/Nick Ut, FIle

2016-05-17 01:28 Ewan Spence www.forbes.com

35 35 UK developing digital driving licence

The UK's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is working on a smartphone version of its driving licence. Chief executive Oliver Morley tweeted a photo showing a "prototype" using Apple's Wallet app on an iPhone. He says it will be an "add-on" to the plastic card rather than a replacement. Wallet already stores boarding passes and credit, debit, gift and discount cards. Payment information is encrypted end-to-end and authorised with the user's fingerprint or passcode. CCS Insight analyst Ben Wood said: "Security has taken a significant step forward to support digital payments on phones, so the framework is in place for other secure applications, such as a digital driving licence. "There are not many people in the UK that do not carry a smartphone with them every day, so it is a logical next step. " Chris Green, technology analyst at the business consultancy Lewis, said digital wallets were "a massively underrated and under-exploited resource". "People are getting more and more used to the technology because of e-ticketing," he said. "People are far more comfortable with the concept of keeping key information on their smartphone. " DeLaRue, which prints British banknotes and passports, has already said it is working on a paperless passport. And the NHS has announced a £4bn plan to move to a "paperless" platform. Morpho Trust, a US security company that provides driver's licences, has been piloting a digital licence product in Iowa since August 2015. It says it: And in Australia, the New South Wales government has announced the introduction of digital licences , which it says will eliminate the need for a physical card. The first licences issued under the new system are for fishing, the purchase of alcohol, and responsible gambling. A driver's licence is due to be available in digital format by 2018.

2016-05-17 04:16 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

36 36 SNPs Stewart Hosie and Angus MacNeil split from wives over alleged affairs with same woman T wo married Scottish MPs have left their wives after having affairs with a Westminster journalist, according to the Daily Mail. Stewart Hosie , 53, and Angus MacNeil, 45, have allegedly each separated from their wife following a relationship with 36-year-old Serena Cowdy, who describes herself as a political journalist with Parliament's The House magazine. The Scottish National Party MPs are said to have clashed over their rivalry for Miss Cowdy's affections. M r Hosie , deputy leader of the Scottish National Party, announced on Sunday that he was separating from wife Shona Robison, a senior politician in the Scottish Parliament. He did not mention his relationship with Oxford-educated Miss Cowdy but it is understood that Miss Robison learnt of her husband's affair ten days ago, when he confessed, the newspaper claims. Mr MacNeil announced his separation from his long-suffering wife Jane last year, not long after the end of his affair with Miss Cowdy, a former actress who is now a freelance political journalist. M rs MacNeil had stayed with her husband after a previous embarrassment, when he was caught with two teenage girls in a hotel room in 2007 while she, then pregnant, was in hospital. Miss Cowdy is said to have told friends that she saw SNP MPs as romantic revolutionaries, describing them as 'the Mujahideen of British politicians'. A source told the newspaper: "It's laughable that Serena boasts of her affairs with these MPs and says they're like a sexy Mujahideen. I doubt their wives think they are. " W hen asked about her affairs with the politicians last night, Miss Cowdy told the Mail: “No comment.” The MPs and their now-estranged wives also declined to speak, it claimed. An SNP source confirmed the story to the newspaper but disputed a claim that love rivalry led to a row between Mr MacNeil and Mr Hosie. An acquaintance of Miss Cowdy's circle, who revealed the love triangle, told the Mail: “She was having an affair with Angus MacNeil during the Scottish independence referendum campaign – and boasted that when he was on TV talking about it, she's texted him and he'd looked at his phone. He used to take her to the Park Plaza hotel in Waterloo for the night. Now she's with Stewart Hosie and has been for some time and it's very serious. “She's suggested for a while he's going to split from his wife and they're going to have a proper relationship in public. Now he really has separated we'll have to see. I heard things had been difficult between Stewart and Angus because they'd both had the same girlfriend – and that there have been cross words between them.” Miss Cowdy, from London, described herself as a 'mostly out of work actress' after gaining a 2:1 in modern history from St Hilda's College, Oxford. She appeared on TV nature programmes for some years. T he Mail said it first approached Miss Cowdy and the MPs about the affairs last week – but they said nothing until a bland announcement about Mr Hosie's separation from Miss Robison was issued to a Dundee-based paper on Sunday. An SNP spokesman said of Mr Hosie and Miss Robison: “Stewart and Shona have separated. They have a young daughter, and she will continue to be their priority. “Both parties have asked that their privacy is respected during this difficult time. No further comment will be given.” The Daily Telegraph was unable to contact Mr Hosie, Mr MacNeil or Miss Cowdy on Monday night.

2016-05-17 02:34 Telegraph Reporters www.telegraph.co.uk

37 Whole Lotta Shakin’ at FRP, with superb music of four rock pioneers FRP’s Million Dollar Quartet cast hams it up, rehearsing the final encore. Nat Zegree (as Jerry Lee Lewis) plays piano while sitting on it, as in the show. (Carl Perkins) perches on the bass that Eric Anthony (Jay Perkins) plays. Johnny Kinnaird (Johnny Cash) stands at right, while other rhythm guitarist Chris Fordinal (Elvis Presley) has slid onto the floor. Photo by Scott Treadway. By Pete Zamplas- Million Dollar Quartet is one of the most entertaining and educational Flat Rock Playhouse musicals ever, with stirring sensations of four rock-R&B pioneers jamming impromptu in Memphis in late 1956. Elvis Presley (Chris Fordinal), Jerry Lee Lewis (Nat Zegree), Johnny Cash (Johnny Kinnaird) and Carl Perkins (Jeremy Sevelovitz) were such valuable music talent that a Memphis radio disc jockey called them The Million Dollar Quartet. They got their big breaks from slick Sun Records owner-producer-engineer Sam Phillips (Willie Repoley). The young musical lions (all in their twenties) clash in personality, egos and greedy pursuit of hit records, popular image, fame, more lucrative contracts and other perks. The musical percolates many laughs and somber reflection over aspirations, loyalty and betrayal. Heads were bobbing in the mostly sold-out barn from a sentimental sock hop-like 90-minute, 21- song sock journey. The four stars are a superb cover band with two session players, playing the full musical sound live on stage. Rockabilly, R&B, rock, country and gospel are the deceased stars’ early styles. These actors-musicians won FRP roles from national auditions. Vocals, musicianship, acting, pacing, direction, staging, costuming, lighting and sound are all first-class. New York-based director James Moye played Phillips on Broadway. Musical direction is by Alex Shields. Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux wrote the Tony Award- winning musical. The show runs through May 21, on FRP’s Clyde and Nina Allen Mainstage. The setting is Sun Studio. The Million Dollar Quartet one-day jam was taped there Dec. 4, 1956, and released on CD in 1990. All four future rock Hall of Famers converged in phases in tiny Sun Studio (a former auto shop) in the blues haven of downtown Memphis, for the only time since Phillips launched Sun Records in 1952. Phillips is known as the Father of Rock ‘n Roll, for discovering several stars in the mid-Fifties. He widened appeal of rhythm and blues that was labeled black music, by getting whites to record its earthiness and by blending in country for an eclectic rock sound. Veteran Asheville actor Repoley masterfully plays a cotton-picker as a boy who relates to these emerging stars’ poor upbringing and crave for stardom. The Sun song Sixteen Tons is about a cold miner “another day older, and deeper in debt…I owe my soul to the company store.”Like a politician, Phillips pushes class-conflict buttons more readily than sound controls in the glassed-off studio booth. The one-time radio DJ stirs emotion, and uncloaks inner spirit. In a flashback of their first encounter, he gets Elvis to skip Dean Martin-like crooning and forge a distinctive style. Extracting Elvis’ raw vocal energy, Phillips like a preacher demands to “hear your soul; sing to me the way you’d sing to Jesus!”Phillips efficiently narrates over parts of many songs, to spark the pace. He believes in rock as more than a brief fad. He relishes perfecting songs by engineering them alone in his studio, “where the soul of a man never dies.” He foresees more Sun hits, with such stars. In a fury, he reasons that by discovering these four they owe him allegiance. This even after in ‘55 Phillips accepted RCA’s offer, selling Presley’s contract for $35,000. Phillips shaved debt, and invested in the Holiday Inn chain, merely three years after it opened its first hotel in — in his Memphis. Elvis had minor rockabilly hits on Sun. The jam ensues as Phillips weighs RCA offer to buy his label, and reunite him with rock’s emerging King. Fiercely-proud Phillips crows to the audience he prefers to sell 100 records on his label than a million on one run by someone else. He did decline RCA’s offer. He did not sell Sun’s catalogue until 1969. This is the famed posed shot of the Million Dollar Quartet. L-R are Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley (sitting) and Johnny Cash. Most arrive to the studio by chance for various reasons. Phillips hops on the chance to group and tape them. This was slated as Perkin’s recording session. In the play, Elvis’ fictitious curvy singer-girlfriend Marilyn Evans (Ryah Nixon as “Dyanne”) is lead on the songs as Fever. Backing them are studio musicians Fluke Holland (Paul Babelay) on drums and Perkin’s bassist brother Jay Perkins (Eric Scott Anthony). Early on we hear Perkins’ classic Blue Suede Shoes. Months before the jam, it was Sun’s first certified million-seller and modern music’s initial “triple crown winner” — by topping pop, blues and country charts. Later Perkins does See You Later, Alligator with Phillips on harmonica. Elvis’ songs include Hound Dog, his first hit (in ’54) That’s All Right (Mama), and a crowd- frenzying cover of raucous Long Tall Sally. Cash’s hits in the play include Folsom Prison Blues, Sixteen Tons and Walk the Line and are also well received. Lewis is uber-paced, invigorating and theatrical with Great Balls of Fire, Wild Child and Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On. Perkins and Presley share lead vocals on such songs as Brown-eyed Handsome Man. They four sing in unison on the gospel hit Down by the Riverside, the first song in the play with all four together. And they do their combined (Let’s Have a) Party, a hit in 1957. Fordinal covers Elvis’ vocal range very well, and drew loud crowd approval. New York-based, recent Texas State alumnus Fordinal resembles early, Thin Elvis. The Lewis and Elvis roles are the quartet’s showmen. Fordinal is playful as cordial, young (age 20) Elvis from tiny Tupelo, Miss. He is on the verge of gyrating to the top. He shows some sizzle during songs, in the musical. But he deftly contrasts crazier Lewis by not going over the top — apart from briefly sliding backside onto the floor, in the final encore. The play is set in Sun’s heyday, two weeks before Perkins actually recorded Blue Suede Shoes. Lewis is ready to soar, and months later Roy Orbison is Sun’s next star. Recreating the posed quartet photo in the same order are, L-R, Nat Zegree (as Jerry Lee Lewis), Jeremy Sevelovitz (Carl Perkins), Chris Fordinal (Elvis Presley) sitting, and Johnny Kinnaird (Johnny Cash). Photo by Scott Treadway. A singing dynamic is a battle of egos and showmanship, as the usual friendly competition boils over in close quarters. Phillips has his favorite son take Lewis’ place sitting behind the piano, for a famed posed photo of the Million Dollar Quartet. Lewis is a threat as prospective new star, and brash as a bat out of hell. Zany Zegree steals most of the play, getting howls for antics, expressions and smack talk. The diminutive native Michiganian bats his eyebrows, grins even sillier than Dennis Quaid did on the big screen, flirts with Elvis’ squeeze, moves his piano center stage after the others depart, and climbs all around it while playing. Zegree as Lewis did plays with his feet, other times blindfolded, upside down, or backwards — behind his midsection, while sitting on the piano facing upstage. Nothing seems overkill, given prior portrayals of Cajun Wild Child Lewis. Zegree’s campy, acrobatic, wild-gesturing performance of Lewis tops them all. It harkens to Tom Hulce’s “Amadeus,” the ’84 film about bizarre, histrionic classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. “Killer” Lewus unleashes frenetic piano solos on Perkins’ recordings, angering him. He taunts the guitarist that “88 keys got six strings beat — every time.” Perkins snaps back he wants no part of the flashy-dressed, primping, curly-haired “Liberace” drowning out tracks. But in jamming amicably toward the end, these two face and grin at each other. Perkins is the one of this Fab Four without a hit movie about him and with the least written, rendering him more open to interpretation. Reports are he first played guitar at age 7, on one his father made with a cigar box, broomstick and bailing wire. Perkins was 6-foot-1, Elvis 5-11. The two actors playing them are even taller — standing out in jams. As gifted lead guitarist Perkins, New York native Sevelovitz electrifies the songs with brisk licks. He is expressive — more modern than Perkins and most peers. He even channels Jimi Hendrix, in strumming notes behind his head in an encore. If the script reflects Perkins truly, then he is up to the quartet’s battle of bravado and verbal jousting. Moving scenes include when Perkins complains to his boss that Phillips “gave up” on him and let Elvis usurp his big hit and surpass him into prominence. This was as Perkins was hospitalized with a broken neck, after his near-fatal car crash near Dover, Del. en route to New York City, to perform on Perry Como and Ed Sullivan TV shows. The crash was on March 22, 1956. Perkins’ car struck the back of a pickup, and landed in a ditch with Perkins face down in a foot of water. Drummer Holland rolled Perkins over, to prevent drowning. Two months later, the lanky Tennessean did sing Blue Suede Shoes on TV, on Como’s show. But a week into his hospital stay, Perkins saw Elvis sing that song on TV first. As his character said in the play, many mistakenly thought Elvis recorded it first. It suddenly became Elvis’ song, despite being a much lesser hit for him. Phillips reportedly changed the chorus’ famed line to “Now go, ‘cat,’ go!” to be cooler. Sun colleague Cash suggested the theme of a man stuck up over his fancy shoes. King of Rockabilly Perkins peaked in ’56, though The Beatles would record five of his songs in 1964. His envy and bitterness in the script is revealing about creative performers. All four of the quartet had documented bouts with booze, and some with pills. They dealt with tragedy early, and often. They exchange memories of deceased siblings, in the play. Elvis two decades later was a glittery, gluttonous, pill-popping Vegas showman. Thus it is chuckling irony he tells Phillips in the play he will never work Vegas again. This was after a stuffy Frontier Hotel crowd booed him offstage, as he warmed them for comic Shecky Greene in March of ’56. The quartet’s country cowboy, Cash, is accurately stoic and appreciably restrained in Kinnaird’s portrayal. He is spot-on with monotone baritone singing and talking, reflecting the strong silent type. Kinnaird played Cash for three years in the musical’s original cast in Chicago, then New York. He is clad as the Man in Black/The Undertaker, a tough ex-con minus that knife scar. Cash mostly avoids the fray. But he moans about Elvis, that the “hillbilly went Hollywood” with movies. Cash’s quest to record gospel put him at odds with Phillips. For tickets ($15-40), call 693-0731 or check www.flatrockplayhouse.org . 2016-05-16 18:44 By Pete www.thetribunepapers.com

38 Trump is still 'stupid and wrong,' insists Cameron Donald Trump said he was unlikely to have a good relationship with David Cameron because the British prime minister cast the US presidential candidate as "divisive, stupid and wrong" for proposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. Mr Cameron criticised Mr Trump in the British parliament over his call for the ban on Muslims and suggested that the New York billionaire, who is now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, would unite Britain against him if he visited. "It looks like we're not going to have a very good relationship, who knows? " Mr Trump told Britain's ITV television station in an interview aired yesterday when asked how ties would fare if he won the US presidential election on November 8. "Well number one, I'm not stupid, okay. I can tell you that right now. Just the opposite. Number Two, in terms of divisive: I don't think I'm a divisive person. I'm a unifier, unlike our president right now," Mr Trump said, referring to Barack Obama. Mr Cameron's spokesman said the prime minister stood by his original comments. Mr Cameron will work with whoever is elected US president and is committed to maintaining the special relationship, the prime minister's spokesman said. "The PM has made his views on Donald Trump's comments very clear. He disagrees with them," the spokesman said. "He continues to believe that preventing Muslims from entering the US is divisive, stupid and wrong. He stands by his comments. " The spokesman refused to answer questions on who Mr Cameron would like to see win in November but said there was no telephone call or meeting planned with Mr Trump, adding: "If one is proposed we will consider it". Meanwhile, months after he savaged her on Twitter and elsewhere, Donald Trump has told Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly that people who are bullied "gotta get over it" and fight back. In an excerpt of the interview, which will be on the Fox network tonight, Mr Trump says he's a counterpuncher who goes after people when they go after him, only 10 times harder. Tense Asked if he was ever bullied, the Republican presidential candidate said no. But he said bullying doesn't just happen to children. "People are bullied when they're 55," he said. Ms Kelly responded pointedly, with a smile: "Can happen when you're 45. " She is 45. "You know, it happens, right? " Mr Trump went on, as if he didn't hear her. "But you gotta get over it. Fight back, do whatever you have to do. " Mr Trump took offence when Ms Kelly confronted him in the first primary debate about crude remarks he'd made about women. He later suggested her menstrual cycle was behind her aggressive tone, called her "third-rate" and boycotted one of the debates at which she was a moderator, as his feud with Fox News escalated. In the released excerpt, the two did not directly discuss his criticisms of her. Ms Kelly said the tone of the interview was cordial, with tense moments, and predicted viewers "will be feeling a little uncomfortable. "

2016-05-17 02:30 Guy Faulconbridge www.independent.ie

39 Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Q&A: do not subject Muslims to bigotry of low expectations – video On the ABC’s Q&A program, Somali-born author and human rights campaigner Ayaan Hirsi Ali says it’s ‘perfectly fine’ to question and criticise any religion, including Islam. The program was criticised on social media for discussing Islam without having a practising Muslim on the panel. The panel was selected as part of the the Sydney writers’ festival and featured international authors.

2016-05-17 02:27 Source: QandA www.theguardian.com

40 Hubble Spies a Spiral Snowflake Spiral galaxies together with irregular galaxies make up approximately 60% of the galaxies in the local Universe. However, despite their prevalence, each spiral galaxy is unique - like snowflakes, no two are alike. This is demonstrated by the striking face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6814, whose luminous nucleus and spectacular sweeping arms, rippled with an intricate pattern of dark dust, are captured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image.

2016-05-17 01:19 ABC News abcnews.go.com

41 76ers 1st NBA team to land jersey sponsorship with StubHub PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers have become the first team in the NBA to put a sponsorship logo on player uniforms, striking a deal with StubHub for a spot on one of the hottest pieces of real estate available in sports. StubHub, a website that connects ticket buyers and sellers, will have its logo appear on the front left of the jersey in 2017-18 for the start of a three-year trial period. The patches will appear opposite Nike’s logo, and measure about 2½-by- 2½ inches. StubHub’s jersey patch will be included on all jerseys sold at Sixers’ home games. “We’re so tightly associated with the event-going experience that it was natural for us to move aggressively and chase this opportunity,” StubHub President Scott Cutler said. StubHub will appear in white lettering inside a blue rectangle for home jerseys; blue lettering inside a white rectangle for road jerseys; and red lettering inside a white rectangle for the alternate jerseys. The Sixers are set to display the jersey Monday morning in front of the National Constitution Center. Logos appear on international and MLS soccer jerseys, and many athletes in individual sports wear their sponsors’ attire in competition. The NBA announced the deal last month and expected the move could generate at least $100 million annually. The NBA becomes the first of the four major sports leagues to allow the corporate sponsorship patch, a step that the NFL, Major League Baseball and NHL have yet to take. “I’ve always been jealous of the English Premier League teams. NASCAR figured it out a long time ago,” 76ers CEO Scott O’Neil said. “For some reason, the big four sports in North America have not. I think it’s an unbelievable opportunity.” Major League Soccer teams began selling jersey sponsorships in 2007, and they generate more than $6 million annually in revenues. “I think there’s a push to figure out new sources of revenue and the NBA seems to be a leader in that,” O’Neil said. Adidas enters the final year of its contract as the NBA’s official outfitter next season. When Nike takes over, its logo will become the first on league’s jerseys, except for those of the Charlotte Hornets, who are owned by Michael Jordan. The logo of his Jordan Brand, a subsidiary of Nike, could be on the Hornets’ instead. “The numbers that have been run that track viewers eyeballs, the numbers are pretty aggressive in terms of where the placement is,” O’Neil said. Commissioner Adam Silver said in April the sales can expand the league’s growth oversees by drawing companies who want to be involved. “But there’s a reason this is a pilot program,” he said. “I mean, we listen very closely to our fans, and so we’ll see what the reaction is.” The WNBA has allowed teams to sell ad patches since 2009 and the NBA allowed Kia to advertise on the 2016 All-Star game jerseys. The Sixers and StubHub already partnered on a ticketing platform for next season that will blend the secondary and primary ticket options on one site. The Sixers will direct all buyers to its team- branded experience on StubHub. The Sixers went 10-72 this season, easily the worst record in the NBA, and are primed to win the No. 1 overall pick in Tuesday’s draft lottery. “Their current spot in the standings is largely irrelevant to us because we’re in this for the long term,” Cutler said. StubHub also had an advertising patch on the 76ers’ D-League team, the Delaware 87ers, this season.

2016-05-17 02:27 Associated Press sports.inquirer.net

42 Asia Times News & Features – Asia Times Chinese global military aspirations were revealed in the latest annual report on the Chinese arms forces and follows decades of earlier reports that insisted China’s main military focus is limited to preparing to fight a regional war with the United States over Taiwan. The theme behind the Taiwan focus of the past was that China’s large-scale military buildup is not global in scope because Beijing was only seeking modernized forces designed for conflict across the 100 mile-wide Taiwan Strait. China as global superpower Critics dismissed the Taiwan focus of earlier reports as the result of intelligence “groupthink” that sought to play down China’s real ambition: To ultimately replace the United States as the world’s superpower and promote what Chinese Xi Jinping has dubbed the “Chinese Dream” — a world where China is not just a regional hegemon, but a global superpower. Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at the Washington-based International Assessment and Strategy Center, notes that a decade ago it was clear to many observers that China harbored global military ambitions beyond Taiwan contingencies. The Pentagon, he said, lost a decade during which it could have provided real warning about the growing threat. “China’s pursuit of global military ambitions will generate new threats to the US by the mid- 2020s,” he said. “For the last 15 years China has been building global economic and political power that it is now translating into military access and influence. The Pentagon is really late in warning policymakers about China’s global strategic ambitions.” The latest report reveals what appears to be an incremental, covert effort by Chinese leaders to set up support facilities for its military around the world. Pre-positioning logistics “China is expanding its access to foreign ports to pre-position the necessary logistics support to regularize and sustain deployments in the ‘far seas,’ waters as distant as the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Atlantic Ocean,” the report says. Of particular concern to US military planners is Beijing’s confirmation last year that it will build military support facilities at Djibouti, a small state located on the Horn of Africa strategically located at the critical chokepoint between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The Pentagon report says the Chinese military claims the facility will be used by its navy and army for UN peacekeeping missions, escort operations near Somalia and the Gulf of Aden and for providing humanitarian assistance. “This Chinese initiative both reflects and amplifies China’s growing geopolitical clout, extending the reach of its influence and armed forces,” the report says. In addition to protecting Chinese businesses, the overseas bases will be used to protect critical sea-lanes of communications, based on China’s increasing reliance on foreign sources of oil to fuel its modernization. The report notes that China currently is reliant on foreign oil imports for 60% of its energy, and the dependence will increase to 80% by 2020. “China most likely will seek to establish additional naval logistics hubs in countries with which it has a longstanding friendly relationship and similar strategic interests, such as Pakistan, and a precedent for hosting foreign militaries,” the report states. In Pakistan, China has built the port of Gwadar, strategically located near the Arabian Sea not far from the shipping lanes used by oil tankers exiting the Persian Gulf. The port could be used for Chinese warships in the future. The Pentagon noted that setting up naval bases will not be easy for the Chinese as some states may not support a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) military presence. To date, China has not set up US-style overseas military bases in the Indian Ocean. The report suggests Chinese leaders are seeking a lower-profile combination of foreign state-authorized access to overseas commercial ports, along with a number of dedicated PLAN logistics bases co-located at commercial ports. Currently, China’s naval logistics capabilities in the Indian Ocean are “unable to support major combat operations in South Asia,” the Pentagon report said. However, more naval bases would position the Chinese navy to expand its activities to support sea-lane security, the report said. The report appears to play down the planned use of overseas bases for non-controversial missions such as counter-piracy and counter-terrorism missions. But other sections note China’s strategy of employing coercion, both military and diplomatic, to achieve international goals, notably in its high-profile maritime disputes in the South China Sea. As PLA forces become stronger, “Chinese leaders are increasingly leveraging tactics short of armed conflict to advance China’s interests,” the report says, noting the increased global military presence is the result of a change in doctrine from “offshore waters defense” to a mix of offshore defense and “open seas protection” reflecting the PLA’s “expanding interest in wider operational reach.” Current military doctrine also is called “active defense” defined as a commitment “not to attack” but to respond aggressively, and preemptively “once an adversary decides to attack — a defense that counterattacks in order to disrupt an adversary’s preparations or offensive rather than a defense that reacts passively,” the Pentagon says. ‘String of Pearls’ strategy The report outlining increasing military expansion by China reflects an internal 2005 study done by the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, the futurist think tank, that predicted China would embark on a network of bases along sea lanes around the world that was dubbed the “string of pearls” strategy. The future bases included facilities in Gwadar, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, Thailand and the South China Sea. In the Western hemisphere, China could use its Chinese-owned port facilities at either end of the Panama Canal, and in the Caribbean for coercion, military logistics or operations in a conflict. The driving force for China’s military expansion is likely Chinese insecurity over access to energy supplies. Pentagon officials have said Chinese military leaders understand that US precision-guided strike weapons, combined with the developing, long-range, rapid attack capability known as Prompt Global Strike – weapons that can strike any target on earth within 30 minutes — means the United States could cripple China in a conflict by knocking out its oil and energy facilities and supply lines. By highlighting increasing Chinese global military expansion, the latest Pentagon report appears to be signaling that China is positioning its forces to be able to try and keep those supply lines open in a crisis or conflict. Bill Gertz is a journalist and author who has spent decades covering defense and national security affairs. He is the author of six national security books. Contact him on Twitter at @BillGertz (Copyright 2016 Asia Times Holdings Limited, a duly registered Hong Kong company. All rights reserved. Please contact us about sales, syndication and republishing.)

2016-05-16 19:13 atimes.com

43 43 Disabled man abandoned on his birthday after carer's shift cancelled A disabled man who spends $110,000 a year for care has been told he couldn't be helped into bed until morning after his carer's shift was mistakenly cancelled. Jarrod Marrinon had friends over for cake and drinks on Saturday night to celebrate his 28th birthday, and was expecting his support worker to arrive at his St Kilda, Melbourne home at 11pm to help him into bed. But the carer never showed and the man, who has lived with leukodystrophy since he was 18-months-old, was instead forced to get his friend over at 1.45am after a 'disgusting' response from Independence Australia. Mr Marrinon had phoned the company at 11.15pm to check if the carer was coming, only to discover his 'support worker was told that the shift was cancelled by mistake'. 'After an hour and a half of back and forth phone calls the response was disgusting,' he said. 'I picked up the phone at 12.30am to have after hours tell me: "We have exhausted all of our options and we are unable to get anyone to come out. If you like we can get someone to put you to bed in the morning". 'If I waited until the morning to be put to bed I would have had s*** or p*** in my pants, my knees and back would be killing me and I would most likely be out of action for a few days, not to mention my great night with friends ruined,' Mr Marrinon said. Instead, the 28-year-old contacted friends who might be able to give a hand. 'My wonderful friend Nathan who just finished an eight hour shift at one of Melbourne's busiest Emergency departments got in his car and did the 15 minute job that a statewide agency couldn't do. 'People with disabilities shouldn't have to have organised a backup plan for when paid services make reckless mistakes. 'Friends shouldn't have to help there [sic] friends in to bed. 'I am now seriously considering taking my $110,000 elsewhere and get what I pay for.' On Monday, Mr Marrinon made a public complaint on Facebook and shared an image of his 'wonderful friend' and 'champ' in his scrubs at 1.45am. The complaint has caused outrage with disability and queer rights activist Jax Jacki Brown sharing the story on Twitter, writing: 'My friend @jarrodsopinion was left high and dry when support worker failed to show up for shift. It's a disgrace!' The original Facebook post has been shared more than 500 times, liked by more than 2,000 people and has more than 200 comments – most of which were mortified at Independence Australia's response and praising Nathan for being such a great friend. Independence Australia commented on the post to say there were 'concerned by any suggestion that our service may not have met expectations. 'We can certainly understand your frustration and disappointment that this shift was not able to be filled over the weekend. We are investigating this matter further and will be in touch with you shortly.' Mr Marrinon told Daily Mail Australia the best solution would be to have support workers on standby to avoid such 'disgusting' incidents. He said the company is yet to offer a resolution. Independence Australia has been contacted for further comment. Mr Marrinon is a community radio broadcaster at 3CR and runs a theatre group for people with disabilities. Leukodystrophy refers to a group of conditions that affect the brain and spinal cord which worsens with age. Daily Mail Australia has contacted Victorian Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing Martin Foley, as well as Vic Greens disability spokesperson Colleen Hartland and Shadow Minister for Disability Tim Bull.

2016-05-17 02:26 Rachel Eddie www.dailymail.co.uk

44 Livonia - News This feed's current articles are shown below. Subscribe for updates to all the content available in this feed, or click through here to see the original article. Bidding on Gordie Howe International Bridge will soon begin among six business conglomerates. Service will accommodate an additional 50 vehicles at North Old Woodward garage Police say speed and alcohol appear to be factors A Plymouth-Canton bus monitor is charged with two counts of sex assault against a minor. A man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Canton is facing trial Owner Jeff Felts said the business has grown exponentially since he opened in his basement The second annual ceremony honored Livonia officers who’ve died in the line of duty. Garden City mayor talks about progress in each department last year, targets goals A Canton suspect is accused of pointing a gun at a woman and her two dogs. This is the third and final month of the summer with a Supermoon. It's when a full or new moon coincides with the moon's closest point to Earth in its orbit. Basically, the moon appears bigger and brighter than usual in the night sky. Westland time capsule: Tape recording, phone book, toys and a can of Stroh’s Beer Fifty Amp Fuse kicks off season; country, rock, soulfolk and more on tap A man who was part of the first contingent of African-American Marines received a medal for his service. Lyon Area students active in making a difference throughout the community Driver not wearing helmet, collides with Jeep Cherokee in Farmington Hills Canton police are urging motorists to take steps to avoid larcenies from autos An open house will be held at the Farmington Hills location 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Montford Point Marine John Jordan was recognized for his contributions Monday in Farmington. A bill passed through the House in late April would study potential blood level limits for a driver with a medical marijuana card. A 32-year-old Fenton man was in critical condition Saturday after crashing his vehicle while allegedly racing a friend on U. S. 23. Groups pushing for ethics reforms say situation with Sen. Mike Kowall and lobbyist wife Eileen highlights several issues Star Wars fans found true love and joined their “nerdness” at Comic Con A routine traffic stop has led authorities to seize 12 kilos of suspected cocaine South Lyon city officials get to work on their strategic plan Seven weeks into Commerce St. project, business owners feeling pinch of absent patrons ‘Lessen the stigma’ of mental illness: Speakers share their stories

2016-05-17 01:17 rssfeeds.hometownlife.com

45 Sean Penn, Gerard Butler and Owen Wilson were beach brothers in Malbu Sean Penn, Gerard Butler and Owen Wilson enjoyed a bros beach day together over the weekend in Malibu, California. Owen, 47, showed his toned torso shirtless while meeting up on Saturday with his famous friends. The Wedding Crashers star soaked up the sun in green and black board shorts and screened his face with a brown California logo cap. Owen sported a long- sleeved blue rash guard while paddleboarding in the Pacific Ocean. Gerard showed his buff biceps in a tight blue T-shirt and donned green board shorts and sandals. He was joined by his apparently on-again girlfriend Morgan Brown as they stayed dry on the beach. Gerard had enjoyed a reputation as a bit of a ladies man before he started dating Brown two years ago. He's been linked in the past with Hollywood beauties including Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston and supermodel Naomi Campbell. Sean and Gerard were spotted enjoying an animated conversation on Saturday after lunch at a nearby cafe in Malibu. The Oscar-winning actor kept it casual with a distressed leather jacket over a grey T-shirt and blue Adidas sweatpants. Sean climbed behind the wheel as he and Gerard drove off together. The 55-year- old actor after making his film debut in the 1981 drama Taps played high school surfer Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Sean directed the upcoming drama The Last Face about aid workers in Africa that is competing for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Javier Bardem and Charlize Theron and was scheduled to screen on Friday at the annual film festival. Gerard was a co-producer and co-star in the action thriller London Has Fallen that was a sequel to his 2013 hit Olympus Has Fallen. He reprised his role as Secret Service agent Mike Banning in London Has Fallen that was released in March. The sequel has earned more than $195 million at the worldwide box office, topping the $161 million earned by the original. Owen can next be seen in the heist comedy Masterminds also starring Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig and Jason Sudeikis. The film is scheduled for release on September 30.

2016-05-17 02:25 Paul Chavez www.dailymail.co.uk

46 Nikkei rises as strong Wall St, weak yen lift sentiment By Ayai Tomisawa TOKYO, May 17 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Tuesday, with a strong performance on Wall Street, higher oil prices and a weaker yen boosting investor sentiment. iPhone suppliers were in demand after Apple Inc's stock soared as Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reported a stake worth about $1 billion in the iPhone maker. The Nikkei gained 0.9 percent to 16,607.70 by late morning. "The market is stable overall, but there are not enough strong catalysts to lift investors' appetite," said Kazuhiro Takahashi, equity strategist at Daiwa Securities. He said investors were focused on the development of government fiscal stimulus before a weekend gathering of G7 finance leaders which may expose a rift on issues ranging from currency and fiscal policies within the close-knit group of advanced economies. Oil shares outperformed, with Inpex Corp soaring 3.5 percent and Japan Petroleum Exploration Co surging 2.9 percent. Crude oil futures held near six-month highs in early Asian trading as the market focused on supply disruptions that prompted long-time bear Goldman Sachs to issue a bullish assessment on near-term prices. Apple suppliers outperformed, also helped by a weak yen. Japan Display Inc rose 1.5 percent and Minebea Co added surging 2.3 percent. During Asian trade, the dollar edged up to 109.07 yen . Shippers were strong after the Baltic Dry Index, or freight charges, gained 2.2 percent overnight. Mitsui OSK Lines rose 4.1 percent and Kawasaki Kisen gained 3.9 percent. The broader Topix rose 0.8 percent to 1,332.45 and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 gained 0.9 percent to 12,063.66. (Editing by Kim Coghill)

2016-05-17 02:24 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

47 Roxy Jacenko ditches the courtroom for the Fashion Week catwalk After supporting her husband during his appearance at the Supreme Court last week, Roxy Jacenko ditched the courtroom for front row seats at the Mercedes Benz Australian Fashion Week 2016. The Sydney PR maven took to her social media sites to give fans a glimpse of her designer wardrobe before heading to the By Johnny show on Tuesday. Preened to perfection, the mother-of-two was dressed in a blue military- style blazer, by Balmain, a crisp white T-shirt and a tailored pair of Current Elliott jeans. She styled her daytime getup with a large designer Hermes holdall and with a delicate diamond encrusted bracelet, while her talons were painted in a light pink shade. Posing in front of a mirror inside a lift, the 34-year-old captioned her Instagram picture: ‘To @by_johnny we go.’ On Sunday, Roxy and her four-year-old daughter Pixie oozed style and glamour in their designer outfits at the Fashion Week opening show in Sydney. Her red Gucci frock showed off her lean and slender frame, with the number falling in pleats around her calves while it buttoned at the front. She was also sporting a pair of platform heels with ankle straps and her signature blonde locks fell in loosely around her face. Meanwhile, Roxy was originally expected to appear at her partner Oliver Curtis’ insider trading trial on Tuesday morning, which was scheduled to hear evidence from his former best friend John Hartman. But the New South Wales Supreme Court hearing was postponed for the second day in a row because of a sick juror. The trial will continue at a later date. Prosecutors allege Mr Curtis conspired with his former best friend, John Hartman, to commit insider trading offences between 1 May 2007 and 30 June 2008. The alleged offences netted the pair a reported $1.433 million, prosecutors told the New South Wales Supreme Court on Wednesday. Just prior to jury selection, the 30-year-old pleaded not guilty to the charge telling Justice Lucy McCallum and potential jurors: 'Not guilty, your honour.'

2016-05-17 02:24 Sharnaz Shahid www.dailymail.co.uk

48 Family become carers for a joey found in its dead mother's pouch A kindhearted mother and her young family have become the unlikely carers of a new-born joey after its mother was struck by a car. Chloe Enright spotted a dead kangaroo on the side of the road in Dunsborough on the southwest coast of Western Australia and her instincts told her to turn around. She discovered a new-born female joey in the kangaroo’s pouch, rushing to the animal’s aid by wrapping it up in blankets and driving it to the nearest vet, according to her Facebook post. Ms Enright told Daily Mail Australia that the tiny survivor is healing quickly at her home, where her children are nursing it back to health. 'My daughter Lilly wants to name her Angel because she says the angels brought her to us,' she said. Her Facebook post reveals the remarkable circumstances that led to the joey's rescue. ‘This morning after we visited our friend Finn’s house we drove past a dead kangaroo on commonage,’ the post reads. ‘Something told me I needed to go back. Inside the kangaroos pouch was a baby joey. Her mum was still warm but she was gone.’ ‘I gently pulled the baby joey out and the children and I took her to the vet for some much needed milk,’ the post reads. The young mother then went to wildlife rescue organisation, FAWNA, to pick up the supplies needed to nurse the joey to good health. She urged motorists to stop and check if they pass struck kangaroos because they could be carrying vulnerable joeys which need to be rescued. She is providing around the clock care and feeding the joey at regular intervals through the night and day until it reaches 18 months.

2016-05-17 02:24 Nelson Groom www.dailymail.co.uk

49 Man killed crossing U. S. 290 A man attempting to run across U. S. 290 was hit and killed early Saturday. A woman driving a Dodge Charger didn't see the pedestrian until her car struck him, authorities said. She was not intoxicated and does not face charges, police said. She waited for police to arrive. No further information was available.

2016-05-17 05:17 Houston Chronicle www.chron.com

50 Meet the Republican Texas grandmother trying to end marijuana prohibition Ann Lee, 76, only tried marijuana once, but she's made ending pot prohibition her cause. And she's trying to do it through an unorthodox outlet: the Republican Party. She founded Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition in 2012, inspired largely by the benefits that medical marijuana brought to her son after a car wreck left him paraplegic. Now she tries to bring fellow conservatives on board her cause. Lee was one of almost 10,000 delegates to the Texas GOP convention on Thursday, where she hoped to win a spot at the national convention and take her message to Cleveland in July. She's also a prominent Republican activist, and served as precinct chair in the Harris County Republican Party from 1970 to 1992. She said many of her peers at the state convention are receptive to her appeals for legalized weed, and the ones who don't buy it usually cite reverence for he rule of law. "Republicans are usually for law and order," she said. "But when there's a bad law, we need to change it. " Take a closer look at the celebrities involved in the marijuana business in the gallery below.

2016-05-17 05:15 By Dylan www.chron.com

51 Abbott blasts Roberts, calls U. S. Supreme Court a 'political body' WASHINGTON – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, wading into the battle over President Barack Obama's nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, said Thursday that high court "deserves to be swept up into the political process. " Abbott, siding with Senate Republicans who have refused to hold hearings on Merrick Garland, also took a shot at Chief Justice John Roberts, who was appointed to the court by former President George W. Bush. "Chief Justice John Roberts is the tip of the spear in playing politics," Abbott said. "Chief Justice John Roberts knowingly, clearly and unabashedly re-wrote Obamacare twice. What we are seeing is nothing more than naked politics being played by the United States Supreme Court. " Abbott's criticism of Roberts, echoing that of Texas U. S. Sen. Ted Cruz, came during a press roundtable at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank where the governor promoted his idea of leading a convention of states to amend the U. S. Constitution to limit the power of the federal government. The first-term Republican governor also criticized Obama's executive orders on immigration, now under review by the Supreme Court in a Texas-led lawsuit. Abbott, a litigant before the Supreme Court, expressed his hope for at least a partial victory for Texas in its legal challenge, even as he accused the justices of playing politics in past rulings, particularly in upholding Obama's health care overhaul. "Now, more than ever the United States Supreme Court has shed its clothing as being guardians of the law," he said. "The United States Supreme Court is more of a political body than it has ever been in the United States of America. And because, on its own, by its own fault, as an institution, it has chosen to be a political body, it deserves to be swept up into the political process. " Abbott said that includes resisting Obama's efforts to fill the Scalia vacancy "for political reasons," by not holding hearings or voting on the president's nominee. "Why should they go through a dog and pony show when they have concluded that they are not going to consent to confirming this nominee? " he said. Asked if that meant the U. S. Senate is under no obligation to undergo a deliberative process to consider the nominee, Abbott answered, "Show me in the United States Constitution where that process is. " Republicans as well as Democrats – including Obama – have sometimes criticized Court decision they dislike. But few have embraced an openly partisan strategy in the selection of Supreme Court justices, who serve lifetime appointments. Democrats in Washington and Texas have accused Republicans of politicizing the Supreme Court in the case of Garland. "It is shocking that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is shamelessly encouraging Senate Republicans to ignore their constitutional obligation, cash in a paycheck from the American taxpayer, and sit idly by," said Texas Democratic Party Deputy Executive Director Manny Garcia. "Every single day Texans get up and do their job. They expect everyone in government, Democrat and Republican alike, to do theirs as well. " Republican leaders in Congress, including Texas U. S. Sen. John Cornyn, have called for Scalia's replacement to be made after the 2016 presidential election. While the Senate GOP majority has the power to sit on Obama's pick, Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada has said he is considering a rare parliamentary maneuver to force a vote. "There are many procedural things we can do," he told reporters earlier this month. Republicans argue that giving the pick to the next president would give voters a greater voice in the matter. But a new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll suggests that Democrats are winning the public relations battle. The poll released Monday, found a 52 percent majority of Americans now believe the Senate should hold a confirmation vote on Garland this year. In February, that figure was 43 percent.

2016-05-17 05:15 By Kevin www.chron.com

52 Outspoken Miley Cyrus tells crowd she's 'a little drunk' at Upfronts Miley Cyrus has always been pretty outspoken. And the 23-year-old was at it again as she took to the stage with Alicia Keys before announcing she was 'a little drunk'. On Monday the We Can't Stop hit-maker wore a very individual outfit as she attended the NBC Universal Upfronts at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Miley and Alicia were there promoting the new season of The Voice as they joined the panel of coaches. 'They’re all a little drunk, but that’s OK, so are we,' Miley told the crowd. As usual Miley stunned with her own style as she took to the stage. She wore a pair of monochrome patterned cigarette trousers which she teamed with a pair of mustard yellow heels. Miley also wore a printed multi-coloured T-shirt which she teamed with a bold printed jacket, and styled her cropped platinum locks into a messy updo. Alicia looked equally eccentric in a baggy black jumpsuit with a cutout in the middle. The top part of the Fallin' singer's outfit was netted which exposed her chest and midriff, and she added red and white floral printed jacket to her outfit. The star also accessorized with a pair of big hoop earrings and a bandana as she styled her hair into a high ponytail. Also at the upfront event was Jennifer Lopez, who has her cop drama Shades Of Blue on NBC. And Mariah Carey was present, showing off her figure in a racy sequined leotard as she was carried onto the stage. Meanwhile Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian were there to represent their family's reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians, which is currently in its 12th season.

2016-05-17 02:21 Michelle Ganney www.dailymail.co.uk

53 Armenia & Azerbaijan vow not to resort to arms in Nagorno- Karabakh Leaders of the rival states met on the highest level for the first time since the brief escalation in the protracted territorial conflict early in April, which saw the sides attacking each other with artillery, tanks, and rockets, while accusing one another of provoking the hostilities. After three days of shelling resulting in multiple casualties and an ensuing blame game, a Russia-brokered ceasefire was enacted following a meeting between the countries’ chiefs of staff in Moscow on April 5. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev agreed in Vienna to adhere to the original provisional ceasefire agreement that was brokered to terminate the increasingly violent ethnic conflict of 1994-1995. Hostilities between ethnic Armenians living in Azerbaijan’s enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and the central Azeri government erupted in the late 1980s. “They reiterated that there can be no military solution to the conflict. The Co-Chairs insisted on the importance of respecting the 1994 and 1995 ceasefire agreements,” reads the OSCE statement , referring to the position of the meeting’s co-chairs – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US State Secretary John Kerry, and State Secretary for European Affairs of France Harlem Desir – with regard to the flared-up conflict in the border area. Sargsyan and Aliyev also expressed their readiness to further “reduce the risk of violence” in the area by establishing a new OSCE mechanism that would thoroughly investigate all incidents occurring along the contact line of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and provide for an exchange of data on missing persons under the aegis of the Red Cross. Commenting on the feasibility of finding a peaceful resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Lavrov stressed at a press-conference on Monday that there was room for compromise between the previously warring parties. “At least, if there was no such a possibility, then Russia, the USm and France would stop engaging in it [peace talks],” he said, as cited by TASS. Lavrov emphasized that the mediators’ aim is to end the conflict altogether, saying that the ultimate goal is to “start moving forward to the full settlement of the conflict.” However, taking into account the existing tension between the sides, international negotiators will have to employ a gradual approach, Lavrov stressed. It was agreed that the next meeting between Sargsyan and Aliyev, which is expected to pave the way for a final settlement of the dispute, is to be held at a yet unknown location in June. As the conflict came to the boiling point earlier in April, Armenia said it would recognize Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence if Baku continued to shell the breakaway Republic, vowing to “continue to fully carry out its obligations in providing security for the population in Nagorno- Karabakh,” while looking into the possibility of “working on a military cooperation treaty with Karabakh.” Azerbaijan submitted pleas to the UN, NATO and the EU in response, demanding that Yerevan “free all occupied territories, and provide complete territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Republic of Azerbaijan, recognized on international level.”

2016-05-17 02:21 www.rt.com

54 Modi's photos with mother win Twitter Twitter users have praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to post pictures of his mother's first visit to his official residence in Delhi on social media. Heeraben Modi, who is in her nineties, lives in her family house in a town in Gujarat, Mr Modi's native state. He tweeted that he "spent quality time with her after a long time". Mr Modi became prime minister after his BJP party won the general election in May 2014. "My mother returns to Gujarat. Spent quality time with her after a long time & that too on her 1st visit to RCR [Race Course Road]," Mr Modi tweeted. Most Twitter users praised Mr Modi's decision to invite his mother to his residence in Delhi.

2016-05-17 05:18 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

55 Throwing of banned items in to prisons more than doubles The number of times banned items were thrown in to prisons in England and Wales has more than doubled in the last two years, the BBC has learnt. More than 2,000 banned items, including drugs and mobile phones, were thrown in to prisons last year. An information request also showed 730 knives and blades were found in prisons in the last six months of 2015. The Ministry of Justice said it "must do more" to tackle the smuggling in and throwing over of contraband. Banned items were thrown over the walls of prisons 2,151 times in 2015, according to figures released by the Ministry of Justice in response to a freedom of information request. The figure has more than doubled since 2013 when contraband was recorded as having been thrown over 797 times. John Attard of the Prison Governors' Association said: "It's not a fluke, people plan, they know the best parts of a wall to throw things over. "There are all sorts of methods to get things over a prison wall. We've had people putting drugs in dead birds and sending them over with tennis racquets. "We're talking about thousands of pounds worth of contraband but the criminals that are throwing them over are prepared to lose [part of] that to get some through. " Pentonville prison recorded only 15 incidents of banned items being thrown over its walls in the last year. A resident living near the prison said the figure was not a true reflection of the scale of the problem. "They've missed off a zero there. In the last year alone, I've seen it a good couple of dozen times myself. "It tallies with the attitude of the prison. They will not hear reports of this going on. They don't want to know. "It starts off on a Friday, and can happen all weekend. Around two o'clock in the morning is a favourite time. The prisoners will burn holes [in the perimeter netting] to fish out items that have been thrown in. " The resident said items were attached to lines, thrown over the wall and pulled through holes in the netting by inmates. The BBC spoke to one former prisoner who served five years in a number of prisons and wished to remain anonymous. He said the method is one of the most popular ways of delivering contraband to inmates. "They get thrown over the wall. If you go to any prison, walk the circumference of that prison, I guarantee you, you will see things hanging in the wires, there will be a parcel of phones hanging in the razor wire. "How are you supposed to control it? You can't stop it. There's no way of stopping it if everyone's doing it. " He said drugs are often concealed in innocuous items. "It can get thrown over the wall in tennis balls. They cut the tennis ball, fill them and throw them over. It's quite a military operation. I've seen it happen, balls flying over, people picking them up and they're going to the correct people. " The BBC has obtained photographs of juice cartons, tennis balls and shampoo bottles containing drugs and mobile phones that have been thrown over prison walls. The Ministry of Justice said it had recently legislated to make smuggling spice into prison illegal. "Those caught trying to throw packages over prison walls can now face up to two years in jail. "However we must do more, which is why we are investing £1.3bn to transform the prison estate, to better support rehabilitation and tackle bullying, violence and drugs. " The BBC has also learnt that more than 1,000 weapons were found in prisons in England and Wales in the last six months of 2015. An information request to the Ministry of Justice also showed that 730 knives or blades were discovered during that period, equivalent to four a day. A total of 11 firearms were found in 2015, up from one each in both 2013 and 2014, and nine in 2012. This included four replicas, three toys, two homemade and two real firearms. It comes as MPs warned that prison safety in England and Wales has "deteriorated further" and urgently needs improving. The former prisoner said weapons were frequently used in prisons. "There's hidden shanks and knives. You can make [shanks] out of your toothbrush. You melt your toothbrush with your razorblades. Cos you're working in workshops, it's easy to get a bit of metal back. " "I made a stabvest out of magazines so if anyone came from behind they'd be stabbing my midriff, that's normally where you get stabbed". Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said "it's incredibly damaging to have a prison estate that is no longer safe. "The whole purpose of the prison estate is to hold people safely and securely and to try and release them less likely to offend than when they arrived. "If people are in a jail that's awash with weapons or where there's a high degree of self-harm and fear, you're not going to get that rehabilitation. " The Ministry of Justice said it was "committed to cracking down on the supply of weapons and other contraband in our prisons".

2016-05-17 05:18 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

56 Supply teacher spend exceeds £800m Primary and secondary schools in England struggling to recruit teachers spent £821m on supply staff last year, it has emerged. Analysis by BBC News shows the equivalent of £168 was spent on each child in order to hire in extra staff to cover vacancies and absences. Teachers unions say the amount of money spent reflects a "serious teacher recruitment and retention crisis". The government said the number of quality teachers was at a record high. The latest data for schools in England shows spending on supply teachers accounted for 6% of the total amount spent on teaching staff wages. The overall figure spent on supply teachers fell by £18m on the previous year. Schools in London collectively spent the most on supply teachers. Primary and secondary schools in the capital spent £212m on extra staff, the equivalent of £260 per child. The Robert Clack School, in Dagenham, east London, spent the most on supply teachers in England. According to the government's data the school spent £953,807 on extra staff - the equivalent of £526 per child. Dr Neil Geach, the school's chair of governors, said the figures included expenditure on counselling staff, extra-curricular sport staff and professional development spending. "The figures as reported do not reflect reality... We do not use unqualified staff or cover supervisors to cover teaching groups - our children's education is too important. " Aside from London, Yorkshire and Humberside had the highest spending rate for supply staff of £161 per pupil, followed by schools in the West Midlands, which spent £160. Schools in the East of England spent the lowest amount per pupil - £137 for every child. Graham School in Scarborough, North Yorkshire spent £556,776 on supply teachers during the course of 2014-15, which was the highest amount in Yorkshire and Humberside. Two years ago, the school was in special measures owing to its poor performance and as a result the new head teacher Helen McEvoy said she had to replace 45% of the teachers who were working in the school. "Yes we have spent on a lot on extra teachers but that reflects the successful journey we've been on coming out of special measures," she said. "Our use of supply teachers reflects how in the past we've had a lot of vacant posts and that's because it can be hard to attract teachers to come and work in a remote part of the country. " Government figures for 2014 show that teacher vacancy rate across England stood at 0.3%, which meant around 1,000 posts were vacant. Teachers unions have expressed concerns about the use of private supply teacher agencies, claiming that some firms are putting the pursuit of profit ahead of providing high quality teachers. The BBC found schools spent twice as much on buying in extra staff through private agencies than sourcing additional staff through local councils. Becca Morgan, who set up the supply agency Principal Teachers in Catterick 16 years ago, said her company was currently experiencing its busiest ever period. "We start dealing with schools looking for supply teachers at 6.30 in the morning and I often stop answering calls at midnight. To put it bluntly without companies like mine the reality is that the education system would grind to a halt. " Chris Keates, the general secretary of the union NASUWT, said the spend on supply staff reflected a "serious teacher recruitment and retention crisis". A spokesman for the Department for Education said: "Supply teachers provide a valuable role for schools, and schools themselves are best placed to make staffing decisions to reflect their individual needs. It is up to head teachers and governors to decide who is required for the job and this includes how best to cover absences. "The number and quality of teachers is at a record high, with over 1,000 more graduates training to teach secondary subjects now than a year ago. The overall teacher vacancy rate is 0.3% and has remained around or below 1% for the past 15 years. "

2016-05-17 05:18 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

57 Libya: US backs arming of government for IS fight The US and other world powers have said they are ready to arm Libya's UN-backed unity government to help it fight the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group. Speaking in Vienna, US Secretary of State John Kerry said world powers would back Libya in seeking exemption from a UN arms embargo. He said IS was a "new threat" to Libya and it was "imperative" it was stopped. Last month, the Libyan government warned that IS could seize most of the country if it was not halted soon. After holding talks with international partners, Mr Kerry said: "The GNA [Government of National Accord] is the only entity that can unify the country. It is the only way to ensure that vital institutions... fall under representative and acknowledged authority. "It is the only way to generate the cohesion necessary to defeat Daesh [IS]. " The requested arms embargo "exemption" for Libya will need to be approved by the UN Sanctions Committee before it comes into force. But the Libyan government's formal request for it signals that they have been given assurances that it would soon be approved. Libya remains a country where multiple administrations are still bickering over who is in charge. Armed groups in western Libya, reputed for their shifting allegiances, only loosely back the new government, and there is no clear chain of command. There is a risk that future arms shipments will either fall into the wrong hands, or exacerbate the civil conflict there between rival militias. Mr Kerry said support for arming the government was part of a package of measures agreed at the meeting, which included accelerating non-military aid to Libya. He said that as well as countering IS, the GNA should take full control of Libyan ministries, backed by the international community. A joint statement from the countries attending drew attention to Libya's role as a major transit point for migrants trying to reach Europe. "We look forward to partnering with the GNA and neighbouring countries to tackle the threat posed throughout the Mediterranean and on its land borders by criminal organisations engaged in all forms of smuggling and trafficking, including in human beings," it said. "We are ready to respond to the Libyan government's requests for training and equipping the presidential guard and vetted forces from throughout Libya. " But the prime minister of Libya's unity government, Fayez Sarraj, warned major challenges lay ahead, saying taking on IS would require further outside help. "We urge the international community to assist us," he said. "We are not talking about international intervention, we are talking about international assistance in training, equipping our troops and training our youths. " The North African country has been in chaos since Nato-backed forces overthrew long-time ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011. Until recently it had two rival governments competing for power, and there are still hundreds of militias, some allied to IS. Western nations hope the unity government will take on IS, which has a foothold in Sirte - the home town of Gaddafi. The militant group has launched a series of suicide bombings and attacks on oil facilities in the country.

2016-05-17 05:18 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

58 Texas GOP to debate secession on convention floor Delegates at state convention for the Republican Party of Texas will have a chance to vote on Texas secession, after a platform item calling for independence passed a special committee on Wednesday morning. It is not expected to pass, but represents a substantial achievement for proponents of a Lone Star nation. The Houston Chronicle previously reported that activists with the Texas Nationalist Movement, a secessionist organization, had helped pass independence resolutions in at least 22 county or district conventions in March. RELATED: In Texas, some local GOPs call for statewide vote on secession Those resolutions went to a 31-member platform committee, which decides what will be put up for discussion at the state convention, which begins Thursday. Tanya Robertson, a GOP official with the State Republican Executive committee who has advocated a secession vote before , said the item passed the committee "overwhelmingly" early Wednesday. RELATED: Texas GOP official wants secession on the primary ballot "It's going to be available for delegates to debate and vote on Friday during the convention," she said. "This is pretty big. This is really pretty huge. " Most party leaders have firmly distanced themselves from the secession talk, and the proposal to hold a statewide vote on leaving Uncle Sam will most likely by swiftly shot down by the assembly of delegates.

2016-05-16 16:44 By Dylan www.chron.com

59 Clinton: People should stop listening to GOP "propaganda" HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Hillary Clinton says it's "time people stopped listening to Republican propaganda. " The remark was pushback from the likely Democratic presidential nominee against a vocal critic during a rally in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on Monday. Clinton was praising the record of former Gov. Steven Beshear, a Democrat, noting education and employment gains, as well as his expansion of Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Clinton then said that Republican Gov. Matt Bevin is "trying to undo it all. " A woman then stood up and yelled, "Wait a minute, that's not true. " "Oh yes it is, ma'am," Clinton shot back, amid cheers. "You are entitled to your opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts. " Clinton continued that because of Medicaid, "hundreds of thousands of working Kentuckians have health care. "

2016-05-17 02:20 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

60 Alan Cumming hosts UN LGBT gala UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Scottish actor and activist Alan Cumming says he's pleased to be hosting the first LGBT gala ever held at the United Nations, but he also finds it a bit silly that it's taken so long. "Well I think it's sort of like a little chink in the armor of bigotry on a worldwide level because it is symbolic that this is happening in this institution and also kind of ridiculous at the same time that this is the first time anything like this has happened at the U. N.," Cumming told The Associated Press. Monday night's gala sponsored by Outright Action International marks something of a turning point at the U. N. which only last August held the first Security Council meeting spotlighting violence and discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. The gala honors Indonesian gay rights activist Yuli Rustinawati and her organization, Arus Pelangi, just as her government is considering a law which defines threats to national security so broadly that LGBT and human rights defenders could be considered criminals. Hearing about the proposed law, Cumming scoffed: "I mean if the state needs to be threatened with the idea of equality then good. I hope those homosexuals do threaten the state. I mean if they threaten with equality, it's not so bad. "

2016-05-17 02:20 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

61 Tanzania purges 10,000 'ghost workers' in anti-corruption drive Tanzania has removed more than 10,000 "ghost workers" from its public sector payroll in a crackdown on corruption. Payments to the non-existent employees had been costing the government more than $2m (£1.4m) a month, according to the prime minister's office. The authorities say they are continuing to audit the public payroll and expect to find more phantom workers. President John Magufuli, who was elected in October, has promised to cut wasteful public expenditure in office. He ordered the audit in March, calling for the money saved to be used towards development. Nicknamed the bulldozer , Mr Magufuli has announced a range of cost-cutting measures since coming to power, including cancelling official celebrations for independence day. Tanzania spends more than $260 million a month paying the salaries of its estimated 550,000 public workers, Reuters news agency reports. "We intend to have workers in government who are honest, accountable and hardworking. This is our priority and it is a non-stop initiative," Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa told Tanzanians living in the UK, according to local newspaper The Guardian. The prime minster was speaking after attending a major anti-corruption summit in the UK capital, London, last week. Tanzania is ranked 117 out of 167 nations by Transparency International on its perception of corruption index. Many countries across the continent have been affected by the scam of so-called ghost workers. In February, the Nigerian government removed 24,000 workers from its payroll after an audit revealed they did not exist. In September 2014, Kenya began biometrically registering all civil servants after unearthing 12,000 similar cases.

2016-05-17 05:18 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

62 Red Hot Chili Peppers cancel gigs after Anthony Kiedis hospitalised Rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers have cancelled two shows at short notice after frontman Anthony Kiedis was hospitalised with a stomach bug. The band were due to appear at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in California on Saturday, but pulled out due to Kiedis suffering "complications from the intestinal flu", a band spokesman said. He said the band had also cancelled their show in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Kiedis "is expected to make a full recovery soon", the spokesman added. Following the cancellation on Saturday, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith wrote on Twitter : "No one's more disappointed than us that we couldn't perform tonight. "Sending love and a speedy recovery to my brother Anthony. " The band, who have sold more than 60 million albums worldwide and won six Grammy Awards, release their first record in five years, The Getaway, in June. They are due to headline a number of festivals across the summer, including T In The Park in Perthshire, Belfast's Vital and Reading and Leeds.

2016-05-17 05:18 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

63 Muslims urged to fund Syrians headed to West Contact WND Muslims everywhere must help fund Syrian refugees on their “hijra” (journey) to the West, and the only way to prevent another refugee crisis like what’s happened in Syria is to build a worldwide Islamic caliphate, says a Canadian imam. Mazin Abdul-Adhim said in a fiery sermon recorded on YouTube that the Western powers have caused all of the bloodshed in the Middle East and will not relent in their assault against the worldwide “ummah,” or global Islamic community until the Khilafa or caliphate is implemented. âThe problem is that we donât understand our own system â the Khilafa (caliphate). And therefore, how do we support the people of Syria? We must send money and help the refugees that are coming here in every way that we can,” he said in addressing an Islamic conference in Hamilton, Ontario, titled “The Truth Behind the Syrian Refugee Crisis.” “So we are calling, as an ummah, the people of Syria and everywhere around the world, we as an ummah are calling for the best system that exists on earth from the designer of the universe,” said Abdul-Adhim, a well-spoken imam dressed in Western clothes who is a native of Iraq now living and preaching in London, Ontario, about an hour’s drive from the U. S. border with Michigan. Abdul-Adhim has an active YouTube channel with nearly 900 subscribers. He also has 1,819 followers on his Facebook page , where he recently posted a link to a video denying the Holocaust ever took place. The “best system,” according to Abdul-Adhim, is Shariah. “Anybody who studies the system of Islam,” he said, will recognize that Shariah is a vastly superior system than any other in the world, whether it be capitalism, communism or socialism. “Helping Syrian refugees coming to Canada and building an Islamic caliphate are part of the same cause, according to a pro-Shariah speaker at an Islamic conference in Hamilton,” the Toronto Sun reported on the event in January. Mohawk College, which owns theÂ property where the imam’s event took place, said the group isnât welcome back. Watch Canadian imam Abdul-Adhim rant against the West and claim that creating a global Islamic caliphate is the answer to the world’s problems: “You look at the justice of the ruling system â¦ and the removal of racism that the unity of Islam brings, the economic justice, the land laws and the releasing of the monopolies and the hoarding, and a more just currency system, and the public property laws of Islam that released all this oil wealth and so forth that is being locked to a few individuals,” he said. Abdul-Adhim presented his case while standing beside the flag and banner of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a global organization that promotes the unification of all Muslim countries as one caliphate. “It brings justice to the world. And you compare this to what the colonialists are constantly trying to push on us,” he continued. “Look at what they have. They have how many single mothers?” He derided those Westerners who criticize Muslim women for wearing the hijab or female head covering. “So they talk about hijab. How are their women treated in society other than an object to be looked at, and to be used and abused?” Abdul-Adhim asked. “Look at the alcohol. The amount of alcohol that is being drunk. …Â Is this what we want to bring to Islamic lands? The depression. Right now 80 people own as much wealth as 3.5 billion on earth. Is this the economy we want? Would anybody in their right mind, Muslim or non-Muslim, want this system to replace a significantly superior system?” He then continued his diatribe against “colonial powers” and how they killed half-a-million children in Iraq, destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan and now are destroying Syria. “Name it. Name one place they didn’t turn into a prostitution center,” he told his audience. He explained how the Islamic doctrine of hijra, or “migration,” could cure the West of all these ills. While calling for the full implementation of a global caliphate, the Canadian imam said ISIS was not the legitimate caliphate he envisioned. Rather, he sees the legitimate caliphate spreading through ideas. His beef with ISIS seemed to boil down to tactics, not its strategic goal of an entire globe under the control of Islamic law. Establishing the caliphate through migration “We must recognize one very important point. Muhammad established the first authority for Islam in Medina. Everyone knows this,” Abdul Adhim said. “And the hijra, we talk about the hijra as being some spiritual journey or moving from oppression to justice. It was the symbol of the establishment of the political authority of Islam.” Muhammad went from “having no political authority to being a ruler,” thanks to his migration to Medina, he said. “From having no army to having established the military protection for Islam. That’s what the hijra is. But how did he achieve it? He achieved it by spreading ideas.” These ideas can be spread peacefully through civilization jihad, as described in the Muslim Brotherhood’s “ Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America ,” a document captured by the FBI in 2004 in a raid on a safe house in northern Virginia. That document explains how the Brotherhood intends to infiltrate and destroy the U. S. from within using liberal immigration laws and the country’s own tradition of tolerance and civil rights. Muhammad spent two years teaching Islamic ideas to the people of Medina, Abdul-Adhim said. “It’s a major component. One of the last steps in how to establish a (Islamic) state, and it’s established by spreading ideas,” he said. “If the ummah understands what is required of us as Muslims, what does a caliphate look like? What a system of Islam looks like, and how to re- establish caliphate, according to the method of (Muhammad), the ummah will rise up and know exactly what we have to do. “That’s the cause of the whole problem,” he continued. “It’s a lack of understanding. It’s not a lack of military power, we have more military power than anyone else in the whole world. It’s not a lack of resources or wealth, we have the youngest and strongest demographic in the world. Thatâs not our problem. The problem is we don’t understand our own system, the caliphate. And therefore how do we help the people of Syria?” Send money! “We must send money and help the refugees in every area that we can,” Abdul-Adhim said. “We need to assure this doesn’t happen again. And we need to re-establish our shield, the caliphate. And without it we will forever remain in a state of confusion on what we are supposed to do. Only one solution to this problem and one cause, and that is the absence of caliphate.” He said the imam is a shield and Muslim people fight from behind the imam. The West has caused a “fitna,” he said, and must be confronted. A fitna in Islam is when a non-Muslim tries to cause a division or civil strife within the Muslim world. They are to be resisted with all the might of the ummah.

2016-05-17 02:19 Leo Hohmann www.wnd.com

64 Legislature to consider statewide regulations on Uber, Lyft AUSTIN – The Texas Legislature will consider establishing statewide regulations for rideshare application companies such as Uber and Lyft, a powerful lawmaker said Sunday, a day after voters here dealt the industry a setback by upholding rules imposed by the city council. The to-be-determined proposed regulations, which will be considered in next year's legislative session, will aim to be "consistent and predictable" for the companies, said the lawmaker, Republican state Sen. Charles Schwertner of Georgetown. >> Click the gallery above to see the places Texans used Lyft the most last year "It has become increasingly clear that Texas' ridesharing companies can no longer operate effectively through a patchwork of inconsistent and anti-competitive regulations," Schwertner said in a draft announcement shared with the Houston Chronicle. "As a state with a long tradition of supporting the free market, Texas should not accept transparent, union-driven efforts to create new barriers to entry for the sole purpose of stifling innovation and eliminating competition. " Uber and Lyft have reduced drunk driving and provided jobs, the draft emphasizes. Schwertner was among several state lawmakers to decry Saturday's vote in Austin, which upheld regulations requiring that rideshare drivers undergo fingerprint background checks and that companies report data about operations, among other rules. Uber and Lyft spent more than $8 million to defeat the regulations through a proposition campaign, but 56 percent of voters rejected it. RELATED: See the most popular places Houstonians used Uber the most The companies responded by saying they would no longer operate in Austin, starting Monday. "Local control turns to local tyranny again in Austin," tweeted state Rep. Matt Rinaldi, R-Irving. "#txlege needs to intervene. " Another lawmaker, Republican state Rep. Tony Dale of Cedar Park, tweeted a photo of a request for an Uber to come to the Texas Capitol and a simple message: "See you in 2017. " The drama appears to mirror a situation that played out last year, after Denton banned fracking. In response, lawmakers approved a bill that essentially banned fracking bans, and Denton was forced to repeal its law. Statewide regulations would affect Houston, where a battle over the rideshare application companies also is playing out. The state's largest city imposed its own rules requiring fingerprint background checks 18 months ago, prompting Lyft to leave the city. Uber stayed, but its general manager recently wrote a letter to the Houston City Council saying that it would ultimately leave if the regulations were not repealed. "We have worked hard and taken extraordinary steps to help guide drivers through the current process in Houston," said the general manager, Sarfraz Maredia. "However, a year and a half later, it is clear the regulations are simply not working for the people of this city. "

2016-05-16 16:12 By Brian www.chron.com

65 WND is looking for someone to cover film business Contact WND WASHINGTON – WND is looking for just the right person to cover movies. Is that you? Do you love movies? Do you like reviewing them? Do you like interviewing movie people – cast members, writers, directors? WND has a special interest in covering faith films, but the candidate for this free-lance position should be versatile and able to write about the business in general as well – tracking box-office receipts, keeping an eye on what’s upcoming and developing relationships in the industry. Experience is required – along with a writing flair. Candidates interested in the assignment should send cover letters and resumes to [email protected].

2016-05-17 02:18 www.wnd.com

66 66 Supremes exempt selves from 1st Amendment Contact WND Without comment, the U. S. Supreme Court justices announced Monday their decision not to review a case challenging speech restrictions on the court’s property. “Shame on the court for making a mockery of the First Amendment and engaging in a hypocritical double standard that does a grave disservice to its historic stance on free speech,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute. Whitehead’s group has defended Harold Hodge, who was arrested for holding a protest sign on the public plaza in front of the court. Rutherford argues the court has allowed news conferences, protests and even a wide range of other activities on the site, such as “commercial or professional films.” Trust the government? Maybe you shouldn’t. Read the details in “Lies the Government Told You,” by Judge Andrew Napolitano. Hodge challenged the court’s regulations as a violation of the First Amendment, and District Judge Beryl Howell sided with Hodge. “The absolute prohibition of expressive activity in the statute is unreasonable, substantially overbroad, and irreconcilable with the First Amendment,” Howell wrote. “The court therefore must find the statute unconstitutional and void as applied to the Supreme Court plaza.” But Howell’s decision was overturned on appeal, and on Monday, the justices refused to hear the case, which, according to Whitehead, effectively exempts the Supreme Court plaza from the First Amendment. “By failing to right this wrong and refusing to hold itself accountable to the First Amendment, this Supreme Court has once and for all invalidated its role as the guardian of the people’s rights,” he said. When Howell, finding the censorship to be “repugnant” to the Constitution, struck the regulations, the managers of the court building, with the cooperation of the justices, imposed new regulations within hours. The court repeatedly has declined to comment on the case, even though it’s a constitutional issue that affects the American public on the court’s own front porch. A lawsuit still is pending over the creation and imposition of the subsequent rules, Rutherford said. The case, Hodge v. Talkin , focuses on a 60-year-old practice of banning free speech on the court plaza. “As this case makes clear, free speech is no longer considered an inalienable right or an essential liberty, even by those government entities entrusted with protecting it. True free speech tests the limits of our so-called egalitarian commitment to its broad-minded principles and does not sit well with those who are easily offended, readily intimidated or who need everything wrapped in a neat and tidy bow,” Whitehead said as the case developed. The First Amendment states: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” But the Supreme Court’s managers have determined it is “unlawful to parade, stand, or move in processions or assemblages in the Supreme Court building or grounds, or to display in the building or grounds a flag, banner, or device designed to adapted to bring into public notice a party, organization, or movement.” Trust the government? Maybe you shouldn’t. Read the details in “Lies the Government Told You,” by Judge Andrew Napolitano. Whitehead previously explained how speech gradually has been curbed at the plaza. “Through a series of carefully crafted legislative steps and politically expedient court rulings, government officials have managed to disembowel this fundamental freedom, rendering the First Amendment with little more meaning than the right to file a lawsuit against government officials,” said Whitehead earlier in the case. On Jan. 28, 2011, Hodge was holding a three-foot by two-foot sign stating “The U. S. Gov. Allows Police To Illegally Murder And Brutalize African Americans And Hispanic People.” Hodge was handcuffed and arrested. He was accused of violating a law that makes it “unlawful to display any flag, banner, or device designed to bring into public notice a party, organization, or movement while on the grounds of the U. S. Supreme Court.” “If citizens cannot stand out in the open and voice their disapproval of their government, its representatives and its policies without fearing prosecution, then the First Amendment is little more than window-dressing on a store window – pretty to look at but serving little real purpose,” said Whitehead. The appeals court conceded that attorneys and litigants are allowed to use the plaza for public events such as news conferences and for “commercial or professional films relating to the court” but said the government still can exclude those it does not want to have access to the forum. For example, the judges noted 200 protesters surged up onto the plaza to protest a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer who fatally shot a teenager in 2014. The demonstration went on for 15 minutes, but no arrests were made. In a commentary, Whitehead explained the Supreme Court already has “defended the free speech rights of Ku Klux Klan cross-burners, Communist Party organizers, military imposters, Westboro Baptist Church members shouting gay slurs at military funerals, a teenager who burned a cross on the lawn of an African-American family, swastika-wearing Nazis marching through the predominantly Jewish town of Skokie, abortion protesters and sidewalk counselors in front of abortion clinics, flag burners, an anti-war activist arrested for wearing a jacket bearing the words ‘F#@k the Draft,’ high-school students wearing black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War, a film producer who created and sold videotapes of dogfights, a movie theater that showed a sexually explicit film, and the Boy Scouts of America to exclude gay members, among others.” He continued, “Basically, the Supreme Court has historically had no problem with radical and reactionary speech, false speech, hateful speech, racist speech on front lawns, offensive speech at funerals, anti-Semitic speech in parades, anti-abortion/pro-life speech in front of abortion clinics, inflammatory speech in a Chicago auditorium, political speech in a private California shopping mall, or offensive speech in a state courthouse.” But the justices not only refused to hear Hodge’s appeal, but “in doing so, it also upheld the 60- year-old law banning expressive activity on the Supreme Court plaza.” “Mind you, this was the same ban that a federal district court judge described as ‘unreasonable, substantially overbroad … irreconcilable with the First Amendment,’ ‘plainly unconstitutional on its face’ and ‘repugnant’ to the Constitution,” he wrote. But it’s not complicated, he insisted. “This ban on free speech in the Supreme Court plaza, enacted by Congress in 1949, stems from a desire to insulate government officials from those exercising their First Amendment rights, an altogether elitist mindset that views the government ‘elite’ as different, set apart somehow, from the people they have been appointed to serve and represent.”

2016-05-17 02:18 Bob Unruh www.wnd.com

67 Soviet dissident wins round in fight to restore reputation Contact WND A famed Soviet dissident who has been sharply critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin won a round Monday in his fight over child porn charges in the U. K., which he alleges were staged to stain his reputation. WND reported last week Vladimir Bukovksy was more than three weeks into a hunger strike intended to force an opportunity to clear his name. He claims Russia’s top leaders are behind the charges. On Monday, Radio Free Europe reported Bukovsky halted the hunger strike after a British court postponed the criminal case against him. Instead, he soon will be given an opportunity to pursue a civil libel case against prosecutors regarding the charges they filed. Prosecutors said they needed additional time to investigate whether the laptop computer on which the allegedly pornographic images were found could have been hacked. Bukovsky, who just turned 73, is renowned for resisting the Soviet regime and surviving 12 years as a political prisoner. Get “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character,” which reveals the “hidden war between those wishing to conceal the truth and those trying to expose the increasingly official web of lies.” In recent years, he’s been living in the U. K. In a recent interview with the London Guardian, he explained his concerns: “Frankly, I don’t care about the risk of being sent to prison. I have already spent 12 years in Soviet prisons having committed no crime in my life. I don’t expect to live for very long, and it makes little difference to me whether I spend the final few weeks of my life in jail. However, what is fundamentally important to me defending my reputation. … Throughout the 72 years of my life, my moral reputation had been spotless. It has been ruined in one day by the worldwide publicity given to the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] allegations.” WND columnist Diana West on Monday posted a string of social media statements from Luke Harding of the Guardian, who said Bukovsky’s effort to pursue a libel case has been aided by the decision to delay any criminal trial until December. “I would like to express my gratitude to everyone who supported me during this unfair time. It’s good to know we have many friends,” Bukovsky said in a statement. The Soviet dictatorship that sent Bukovsky to prisons and psychiatric hospitals during the 1960s and 1970s for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda. He alleges he’s the victim now of a blackmail campaign by Russia’s Federal Security Service. Besides his criticism of Putin, he alleges the Kremlin killed former Russian intelligence officer Aleksandr Litvinenko in London with radiation poisoning in 2006. A British inquiry concluded Litvinenko was poisoned by polonium, “probably at the behest of Vladimir Putin.” The Cambridge News reported Bukovsky’s trial was scheduled to start on Monday. But instead the judge discussed the case in chambers privately and then adjourned the criminal case until December. Get “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character,” which reveals the “hidden war between those wishing to conceal the truth and those trying to expose the increasingly official web of lies.” West wrote” “Is there a sentient person, naturally revolted by the thought of child pornography, even five or six images’ worth, going to believe for one minute that the British state, for decades having turned the blindest and hardest and most craven of eyes against the sexual despoilment and prostitution of generations of little British girls at risk at the hands of criminal Islamic ‘grooming’ gangs, has suddenly developed some compelling interest in protecting the welfare of children, and thus turned its avenging sword on … Vladimir Bukovsky? The context, at least, is all wrong from the get-go.” West also cited a report on the case from Claire Berlinski at Ricochet. Berlinski pointed out that when the charges arose, Bukovsky was facing heart surgery and wasn’t expected to survive. “So the point of the exercise [the charges] wasn’t just to shut him up. He would soon be dead anyway. The point was to nullify his life. It was to prove to him, and to anyone tempted to emulate him, that the Kremlin will punish you for defying it even after your death. It will turn you, in the eyes of the world and of history into a child molester. These charges, even if he is acquitted, as he expects to be, would tarnish any man with an ineradicable stain. No one will believe there could be that kind of smoke without fire. They call into doubt Bukovsky’s entire life, testimony, and legacy. He is all too aware of this.” West reported the British Crown Prosecution Service handling the case has dozens of news releases listed online: Continued Berlinski: “For now – if you’ll take my word for it – consider what this implies about Putin’s malice and that of the KGB’s successor organ, the FSB. The object of this exercise isn’t something as banal as killing a dissident on foreign soil,” she wrote.

2016-05-17 02:18 Bob Unruh www.wnd.com

68 Republican candidates walk back pledge of support for party nominee None of the three remaining Republican presidential candidates could affirm Tuesday that they would support their party's nominee, paving the path toward an ugly fight at the GOP convention in July. During a town hall interview with CNN , Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, explicitly walked back a pledge he and his rivals signed in September, agreeing to rally behind their party's nominee. RELATED: Trump signs pledge to back GOP's 2016 presidential nominee When asked if still honored the pledge, Trump said, "No, I don't anymore. " The Republican National Committee said in a statement Wednesday, "The pledge is simple, each candidate agreed to run as a Republican and support the nominee. " The pledge, however, does not hold much sway, said Charles Sartain , assistant general counsel for the Republican Party of Texas and a lawyer at Gray Reed & McGraw in Dallas. "There's no real way to enforce the loyalty pledge, and there is no way to force a candidate to support the party nominee," he said, citing the rules of the RNC. Trump's reversal comes amid widespread chatter of electing an alternate nominee at the party's convention, even if Trump goes in with a lead in delegates and primary votes. Mark Jones , a political scientist at Rice's Baker Institute, rattled off the sequence of past primaries since the 1970s, both Republican and Democrat, but couldn't recall a race in which candidates widely declined to pledge their support to a party nominee. "The level of rancor is so high, and this just fuels it," he said. "This takes an already very volatile and very tense convention setting and makes it even more so. " If no candidate claims an outright majority before the convention, party rules require a series of re-votes that would allow delegates to switch their allegiance and select a candidate other than the frontrunner. RELATED: Growing chance of contested convention puts added focus on delegates Trump has suggested his supporters would riot if he were to enter the convention as the frontrunner and leave without the nomination. He told CNN Tuesda y that he had "been treated very unfairly" by "the Republican Party [and] the establishment. " "That Trump is signaling that now probably means that we'll start to hear more about the threat of an independent candidacy," Jones said. A third party Trump campaign would certainly spell disaster for the GOP in the general election. The likelihood of that scenario increased as the other candidates declined to pledge their support to the frontrunner if he were to win the nomination. "I'm not in the habit of supporting someone who attacks my wife, who attacks my family," Cruz told CNN , in reference to a recent Twitter feud focused on the candidates' wives. RELATED: Lindsey Graham on presidential Twitter fight: 'knock this crap off' Cruz wouldn't say whether he'd support Trump as the nominee, insisting instead that Trump would not be the nominee. Ohio Gov. John Kasich also loosened the terms of the September pledge, telling CNN he would not back a nominee that he sees "as hurting the country. " "This just underscores the animosity that exists within the Republican Party," Jones said.

2016-05-17 05:15 By Dylan www.chron.com

69 Ted Cruz bites back at Donald Trump over allegations his father had part in JFK assassination Presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz is biting back at Donald Trump on Tuesday after Trump hinted that Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz, could be in some way be connected to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Trump was on Fox News this morning when he referred to a "National Enquirer" story from April alleging that the elder Cruz was in league with suspected Kennedy gunman Lee Harvey Oswald. The "National Enquirer" story claimed Rafael Cruz appeared in a 1963 photo in New Orleans with Oswald and others as Oswald distributed pro-Cuba leaflets. This of course set the younger Cruz off – as it should – and while talking to reporters in Evansville, Ind., he tore into Trump, who is on track to win Tuesday's primary vote in that state. RELATED: Did Ted Cruz's father kill JFK? Of course not “Now, let’s be clear, this is nuts. This is not a reasonable position. This is just kooky,” Cruz told reporters, including Politico. He wasn’t done dismissing Trump’s comments, according to Politico . “And while I’m at it, I guess I should go ahead and admit, yes, my dad killed JFK, he is secretly Elvis, and Jimmy Hoffa is buried in his backyard,” Cruz added. Cruz called out Trump for being dishonest. RELATED: JFK motorcade members: What happened after the assassination? “I’m gonna tell you what I really think of Donald Trump: This man is a pathological liar,” Cruz said. “He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies.” BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski pointed out via his Twitter account Tuesday that Cruz had said earlier this year he believes Oswald acted alone in Kennedy's assassination, which also entailed then-Governor John Connally being seriously wounded. Oswald, of course, never stood trial for killing Kennedy and wounding Connally as he was fatally shot by Jack Ruby while in Dallas police custody two days after the assassination.

2016-05-17 05:15 By Craig www.chron.com

70 Hillary Clinton and the 2-for-1 presidency HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The notion of a 2- for-1 Clinton presidency is back. Recalling sunnier days of growth, low unemployment and budget surpluses under her husband, Hillary Clinton is telling Americans that Bill Clinton will be "in charge of revitalizing the economy" if she wins the White House. What his work would be remains unclear: not a cabinet post, she indicated. But, as she has been saying for months, she expects him to play a leading role. Bill Clinton reigned over a strong economy, especially in the final years of his presidency, yet his economic legacy is mixed. The late 1990s were the last period to see sustained income gains for the typical American household. Middle-income wages have stagnated since then. But his refusal to step up regulation of exotic financial instruments known as derivatives was blamed in large measure for the collapse of the financial sector years later. The tech bubble of his time burst. And his agenda was driven by support for free trade deals, including one that gave China better access to the U. S. market, that are held responsible by elements of both parties for driving jobs out of the country. Still, in those pre-9/11 days, it's a stretch of peace and prosperity like Americans haven't seen since and with her latest remarks, in Kentucky, Hillary Clinton is more firmly laying out how important he would be to her agenda. The situation is highly unusual: Not only would Clinton be the first president to have a "First Dude," she'd also be the first to have a former president in the East Wing. Now, facing a two-front fight against Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, she's stressing that Bill Clinton would be an asset in her administration, particularly with the kind of Southern white voters who once backed him but now are drawn to Trump. "Tell me anybody else who's been here as much or knows us as well," said Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, of Bill Clinton, during a campaign event in West Virginia. Hillary Clinton lost that primary — a state her husband won by double digits — earlier this month to Sanders. The GOP front-runner and his team are making a different political bet. They see Bill Clinton's history of scandal as ripe for exploitation. Still, in recent weeks, Clinton has begun sketching out a bit more of a role for her husband, though there is great ambiguity. She told West Virginians that he'd focus on helping economically distressed communities, like those in coal county, reinvent themselves in a changing economy. "You'll get sick of seeing him," she said earlier this month. "This gets him really, really excited. " Spokesman Nick Merrill said Monday that despite the candidate's description of her husband's in-charge role, Clinton would be getting ahead of herself to talk about "any sort of formalized role for anyone. " But, he added, Bill Clinton "has a lot to offer and it would be foolish not to use that in some capacity. " More any other political couple in recent American history, the Clintons have long viewed themselves as a joint package. Shortly after entering the White House, Clinton appointed his wife to head the administration's effort to pass a major health care bill. The failed measure became known as "Hillarycare. " But as the party has shifted to the left during the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton repeatedly found herself forced to repudiate key pieces of her husband's legacy during her primary campaign. She's distanced herself from the North American Free Trade Agreement, the federal law that defined marriage as between one man and one woman, and the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that banned gays and lesbians from military service. Hillary Clinton has also faced criticism for backing the 1994 crime bill, which led to tougher sentencing for drug offenses. Her campaign is calculating that in the general election, Bill Clinton's strong economic record outweighs the criticism. Over the next 10 days, Bill Clinton is scheduled to campaign in Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands, New Mexico, California, South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana. Late in Clinton's presidency, unemployment dropped to 3.9 percent, its lowest level since 1970. It's 5 percent now — and he set a record in monthly job growth in the post-World War II era. Growth averaged 3.8 percent, better than the record under Ronald Reagan and a far cry from the 0.5 percent of the last quarter or the 1.4 percent of the quarter before. But Clinton also came to office when a recession was ending; Barack Obama stepped into a worsening one that would be unrivaled since the Depression. Broadly-shared prosperity is what President Clinton is known for, so I am thrilled Hillary is deploying my old boss," said former Clinton aide Paul Begala. "Wherever two or more are gathered, there, too, should he be. " Campaigning in a smoky diner in Paducah, Kentucky, on Monday, Clinton was surrounded by people who affectionately recalled previous visits by the Clintons. Bill Clinton campaigned in the town right before the 1992 election that made him president. Joanne Clark, 54, exclaimed that she had shaken hands with Bill Clinton all those years ago. "He's gotta get out of retirement! " replied Hillary Clinton. ___ Lerer reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Julie Bykowicz and Christopher S. Rugaber in Washington contributed to this report.

2016-05-16 23:00 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

71 Baseball-Rangers' Odor expects suspension over punch, has no regrets May 16 (Reuters) - Rougned Odor expects a suspension from Major League Baseball after punching Toronto's Jose Bautista in the face on Sunday but the Texas Rangers second baseman says he has no regrets and was just trying to protect himself. Odor sparked a mass brawl on the field on Sunday when he landed the punch shortly after Bautista had made a hard slide into second base. Asked if he had any regrets, Odor said: "No. I can tell when someone is coming hard to second base, so I was just trying to protect myself. "I know I am going to be suspended for a couple of games, but I am going to keep doing what I'm doing. " Major League Baseball has yet to hand down punishment for the incident. Bautista, who drew the ire of Texas fans last season with a bat flip after hitting the game-winning home run in Game Five of the American League Division Series, was hit by a pitch earlier during Sunday's game. "I just play the game how I play it. I play to win the game," Odor said. "I respect (Bautista). He plays hard. " (Writing by Jahmal Corner in Los Angeles; Editing by Peter Rutherford)

2016-05-17 02:16 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

72 Lowry leads Raptors into conference final against Cavs TORONTO — Less than two weeks ago, Kyle Lowry was struggling so badly that he stayed past midnight to work on his game after a tough playoff loss. Now a red-hot Lowry is carrying the Toronto Raptors into their first ever Eastern Conference finals. Lowry scored 35 points, DeMar DeRozan had 28 and the Raptors reached the conference finals by beating the Miami Heat 116-89 on Sunday. They play in Cleveland on Tuesday night. READ: Lowry stars as Raptors down Heat in Game 7 to make history “I missed some shots I could have made, but we won the game,” Lowry said. “That’s all that matters. I’m going to keep pushing and try to be better, and do things to keep helping my team get wins.” After Toronto’s overtime loss to Miami in Game 1, when Lowry scored seven points and missed 10-of-13 shots, he stayed behind for more than an hour to practice his shooting alone while work crews picked up garbage from beneath the Air Canada Centre seats. Things were a lot different in Sunday’s Game 7 when Lowry topped 30 points for the second straight game and the third time in the series. A standing-room-only crowd of 20,257 cheered every one of Lowry’s baskets, roared in appreciation when he was subbed out with the game winding down, and then chanted “We want Cleveland” as the final seconds ticked away. “That’s just what he does,” DeRozan said of Lowry. “He’s been doing it all year, he won us countless games.” Checking out early gave Lowry a chance to sit on the bench and soak in the scene as Toronto set franchise records for playoff points and margin of victory. “It was just a time to relax and just think about the things that we’ve done, and we have to continue to do,” Lowry said. Toronto will need both Lowry and DeRozan to continue pouring in points to have any chance against the Cavaliers, who are unbeaten so far this postseason. The two Raptors All-Stars have been inconsistent so far in the playoffs but seem to be finding their form at the right time. They’ve combined for more than 50 points in three straight games. “They’re our guys,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. “They carried us all year. There were some moments of ‘Are they ever going to make a shot?’ But deep in your heart, you believed that those guys were going to come around.” Toronto won two of three against the Cavaliers in the regular season, with both victories coming at home by a combined six points. Toronto’s defeat was a lot more lopsided: they lost 122-100 in Cleveland on Jan. 4. Scouting booklets for the Cleveland series were sitting on the chair of each Raptors player inside their locker room less than an hour after Sunday’s game. “We know we’ve got a tough task ahead,” Lowry said. “It’s always a challenge going against those guys.” Casey declined to say whether center Jonas Valanciunas, who sprained his right ankle in Game 3 against the Heat, would be available against Cleveland. “He’s still limping around but he’s doing therapy 24/7 so we’ll see,” Casey said. Whether or not Valanciunas plays, Toronto must control Cleveland’s All-Star trio of LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love. They’ll also have to defend the 3-point shot — the Cavs have averaged an NBA-best 16.8 3-pointers per game this postseason. “Obviously we know they’ve got three All-Stars, they have a supporting cast around those three that make shots,” Toronto guard Cory Joseph said. “We’ve all seen them play in this postseason and they’ve been making a lot of 3s.” Toronto’s last consecutive defeats were road losses at Boston on March 23 and at Houston on March 25. “This group is hungry,” Casey said. It’s also an historic one. Toronto, now in its 21st season, had never won a seven-game series before these playoffs. Now they’re the 15th team to win two in the same postseason. By knocking out Miami, the Raptors left Charlotte, the Los Angeles Clippers and New Orleans as the only NBA teams to never reach a conference final. “We aren’t satisfied,” Lowry said. “It’s just our mentality. Our goal is to play as long as possible. Everyone is excited and, yes, we’re excited, but we want to continue to get four more wins and get to the finals.”

2016-05-17 02:14 Associated Press sports.inquirer.net

73 Rays hit 4 homers, rout Blue Jays 13-2 TORONTO (AP) — Curt Casali hit a three-run homer, Tim Beckham and Steve Pearce each hit two-run blasts and the Tampa Bay Rays had four homers while beating the Toronto Blue Jays 13-2 on Monday night. Blue Jays manager John Gibbons was ejected by home plate umpire Mike Winters for arguing a called third strike in the fourth. It was the third ejection of the season for Gibbons and his second in two games — his was one of eight tossed in a game Sunday against Texas that included Rougned Odor's punch to the jaw of Jose Bautista. Toronto has lost three straight. Desmond Jennings also homered, and the Rays set season highs in runs and hits (17). Jennings and Steven Souza Jr. each had three hits in the opener of an eight-game, three-city trip. Drew Smyly (2-4) allowed one run and four hits in five innings to win for the first time in four starts. Steve Geltz, Ryan Webb, Dana Eveland and Enny Romero each worked one inning for Tampa Bay. The Rays roughed up left-hander J. A. Happ (5-1), who entered as one of six undefeated big league starters. Happ matched a career worst by allowing eight runs and seven hits in two innings. Happ's woeful outing snapped a streak of 19 straight games in which Blue Jays starters worked at least six innings. Pearce connected off Happ in the first for his sixth. After Kevin Kiermaier's sacrifice fly, Beckham made it 6-0 with a one-out drive in the second, his first. Souza chased Happ with an RBI single in the third and right-hander Dustin Antolin came on for his ML debut. After Jennings lined out to third, Casali drilled a three-run homer, his fifth. Jennings made it 11-0 with a two-out, two-run double off Antolin in the fourth, and then capped it with a leadoff blast off Jesse Chavez in the ninth. TRAINER'S ROOM Rays: Geltz pitched despite suffering an allergic reaction that made his right eye swell up. ... Manager Kevin Cash said RHP Brad Boxberger (adductor surgery) will make a second rehab appearance at Class A Charlotte on Wednesday. UP NEXT Rays: RHP Chris Archer (2-4, 4.57) is unbeaten in four starts. He's 2-2 with a 3.26 ERA in eight career starts in Toronto. Blue Jays: RHP Marcus Stroman (4-0, 3.54) is 2-0 with a 2.25 ERA in two starts against the Rays this season, with 14 strikeouts in 16 innings.

2016-05-17 02:14 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

74 Argentine championship results and standings May 17 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Argentine championship matches on Monday Monday, May 16 Banfield 0 Velez Sarsfield 0 Patronato 1 Olimpo 0 Sunday, May 15 Estudiantes 3 Boca Juniors 1 Aldosivi 2 Atletico Rafaela 1 Argentinos Juniors 1 Lanus 1 Rosario Central 1 Quilmes 1 Sarmiento 0 Tigre 1 Temperley 2 Newell's Old Boys 0 Saturday, May 14 Independiente 2 Arsenal 0 Colon (Santa Fe) 0 San Lorenzo 2 Godoy Cruz 1 Belgrano 0 River Plate 1 Gimnasia-La Plata 0 Friday, May 13 Atletico Tucuman 3 San Martin (San Juan) 2 Defensa y Justicia 2 Racing Club 1 Huracan 1 Union (Santa Fe) 1 Standings P W D L F A Pts Zone A 1 Godoy Cruz 15 10 3 2 27 12 33 2 San Lorenzo 15 10 3 2 22 15 33 3 Independiente 15 6 6 3 19 12 24 4 Arsenal 15 7 3 5 19 14 24 5 Velez Sarsfield 15 7 2 6 20 19 23 6 Gimnasia-La Plata 15 6 4 5 16 19 22 7 Rosario Central 15 5 5 5 19 15 20 8 Patronato 15 5 4 6 19 23 19 9 River Plate 15 4 6 5 20 20 18 10 Colon (Santa Fe) 15 5 2 8 21 28 17 11 Quilmes 15 3 6 6 21 29 15 12 Banfield 15 2 8 5 14 19 14 13 Sarmiento 15 3 5 7 9 18 14 14 Belgrano 15 3 4 8 20 24 13 15 Olimpo 15 3 4 8 11 19 13 Zone B 1 Lanus 15 12 2 1 27 7 38 2 Estudiantes 15 9 4 2 24 10 31 3 Atletico Tucuman 15 9 3 3 25 17 30 4 Defensa y Justicia 15 7 3 5 25 16 24 5 Huracan 15 6 4 5 18 14 22 6 Union (Santa Fe) 15 5 6 4 23 21 21 7 Racing Club 15 5 6 4 27 26 21 8 San Martin (San Juan) 15 5 5 5 21 20 20 9 Boca Juniors 15 5 4 6 15 13 19 10 Tigre 15 4 5 6 19 17 17 11 Aldosivi 15 4 5 6 19 26 17 12 Temperley 15 4 4 7 14 19 16 13 Newell's Old Boys 15 2 7 6 14 20 13 14 Atletico Rafaela 15 2 3 10 14 30 9 15 Argentinos Juniors 15 1 6 8 9 29 9

2016-05-17 02:14 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

75 Hair-raising video shows a woman pick up a huntsman spider A woman has filmed herself holding a Huntsman spider despite the arachnid carrying a venomous bite. She captured the juvenile Huntsman crawling all over her hand in Boongala Way, Queensland. The woman rotates her hand as the agile spider uses its eight legs to scramble across the back and palm of her hand. 'Here's a beautiful huntsman I found,' the insect lover wrote. 'These spiders are venomous and should not be picked up unless you are experienced with spider handling.' 'Although huntsman are not known to be aggressive, they have a serious bite on them. (I know from experience.)' The 'wannabe' entomologist - the scientific study of insects - posted the video in early February. Australian Huntsman spiders are famed as being the hairy so-called 'tarantulas' on house walls that terrify people by scuttling out from behind curtains. Young Huntsman spiders are initially pale before turning to a darker brown after undergoing several moults while still with their mother.

2016-05-17 02:14 Tang Li www.dailymail.co.uk

76 Simmonds expects higher Paralympic standards but wants more medals Ellie Simmonds expects Rio 2016 to be the toughest Paralympics she has competed at yet but has her sights firmly set on adding to her gold medal haul. Simmonds on Monday was confirmed as part of a 31-strong Great Britain para-swimming team for this summer's Games. The 21-year-old won two gold medals at Beijing 2008, then added two more plus a silver and bronze at London 2012. Following Monday's announcement, Simmonds said: 'It is incredible to know I am going to my third Paralympics. It is so exciting. 'The Paralympic movement is moving forward, the competition is getting tougher and it is getting harder, so I'm just going to go out there and swim the best I can. 'But we do it to get those golds and I am very competitive. I love to be on the top of the podium. 'I want to be the best athlete I can be. I want to push myself to faster times, to be better.' The team also features Ollie Hynd, who ended up with three medals at London 2012, including gold in the SM8 200 metres individual medley. Hynd recently returned from the IPC Swimming European Championships with three gold medals and is the simultaneous holder of the Paralympic, world, European and Commonwealth title in the 200m IM event. Other London 2012 gold-medallists on the team announced by the British Paralympic Association include Josef Craig, Jonathan Fox and Jessica-Jane Applegate. Another is Bethany Firth, who was competing for Ireland at the Games four years ago. There are also places for a 12-year-old in Abby Kane and 14-year-old in Ellie Robinson. While all those swimmers achieved the nomination standard at the trials, the team also features a group of four who have been selected after achieving a time within two per cent of the set benchmark. That includes veteran Sascha Kindred, the 38-year-old who has 12 Paralympic medals to his name and has claimed at least one at each of the last five Games. Tully Kearney, who won four gold medals at last summer's World Championships, has been selected on a discretionary basis having missed the trials due to injury. British Para-Swimming national performance director Chris Furber said: 'We have an exciting and capable team selected for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. 'At British Para-Swimming we have worked consistently on increasing the standards of our team which is reflected in the selection process and it's a real positive to see so many athletes achieving the time outright. 'The athletes know that the hard work doesn't end at selection and I am confident that every one of them will go back and focus on achieving the necessary gains in their training and be ready to perform at their best in Rio.' Great Britain ended up with 39 para-swimming medals at London 2012 - seven golds, 16 silvers and 16 bronzes.

2016-05-17 02:14 Phil Medlicott www.dailymail.co.uk

77 ‘Anti-ISIS campaign’: Light artists of ‘Daesh bank’ protest to fight terror backers & propaganda The non-profit group PixelHELPER, which stands for “freedom, equality and brotherhood,” has no other intention than to “literally shine a light on humanitarian problems worldwide to help those in need,” the group told RT in a statement. “We find that many issues are mentioned in the media, but the public has a short attention span. We want to make sure that these issues do not fall into the background and forgotten,” it said. PixelHELPER’s latest installation focused on Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), and particularly on the countries the activists believe have been funding the terrorist network, and are thus responsible for the refugee crisis gripping the EU. On Friday, the group projected an IS flag with a caption reading “Daesh Bank” on the Saudi Arabian embassy in Berlin. “With the arrival of so many refugees to Europe in general and Germany in particular, we felt it was the perfect time to remind the media and the public that these refugees are fleeing ISIS, and that countries such as Saudi Arabia are funding these terrorists,” PixelHELPER said. RT spoke to Oliver Bienkowski, one of the group’s light artists, who said they have not yet been contacted by Saudi or German authorities in connection with their protest. However, PixelHELPER activists do not intend to stop at just one-off events. On the contrary, they plan to expand their activities into a wider campaign against Islamic State. The group revealed that their planned campaign is in part fueled by disillusioned IS fighters who share their stories about how the extremists really live and what kind of religion they preach. “Several ISIS fighters have contacted PixelHELPER to say that they are extremely disappointed with the lifestyle and religious beliefs they have encountered within ISIS and wish to separate themselves from these terrorists,” it said. READ MORE: RT visits blood-chilling mass grave of ISIS victims (EXCLUSIVE) Activists want to reach out to more disenchanted militants, encouraging and uniting those “who want to leave.” They hope the campaign will create a ripple effect within the terror group by means of “anti-ISIS propaganda.” The defectors could be “extremely valuable in providing insider information about Islamic State,” PixelHELPER says. PixelHELPER activists have been calling for German military exports to “dictatorships and authoritarian regimes” in the Persian Gulf to be stopped, projecting “Thanks no tanks to Saudi Arabia” on the Federal Chancellery and Saudi Arabian embassy in Berlin. In a separate act, they decorated the Turkish embassy with a pair of images showing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Adolf Hilter, in which the two look very much alike. READ MORE: ISIS covers fighters’ hefty bills in Turkish hospitals, leaked phone taps reveal Another installation on the building of Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic mission referred to blogger Raif Badawi , who was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 slashes for criticizing the government in his online blog in 2012. The case stirred international uproar and concern for Badawi’s health, who received his first 50 lashes in January of last year. A follow-up medical exam showed that he could not take any more. PixelHELPER’s main goal is to push cases such as Badawi’s into spotlight. “It is easy for people to become complacent about such issues, and we want to fight against this complacency. Germany is in a unique position. Our history requires that we take an active stance against human rights violations in the world today. Also, today we are a prosperous nation, and we must use that privilege in the best way possible – to help those in need,” the activists believe. READ MORE: Rights advocate sister of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi arrested, put in same prison Noting that the use of controversial light art has been “effective” both in spreading their message on social media and in terms of its low cost, the activists said they hope to bolster support for a pan-European movement of like-minded protesters, in which they could reveal even more “new and creative ways to further make a difference.” The PixelHELPER activists rely on Germany’s freedom of speech laws, which they believe ensure immunity against possible retribution. Their projections are not causing any actual damage to the buildings, either. Freedom of speech, however, did not save German comedian Jan Boehmermann from legal action after he recited a satirical poem about Turkey’s Erdogan, which German Chancellor Angela Merkel found “deliberately insulting.” Boehmermann’s prosecution under the paragraph 103 of the German penal code, which forbids insulting official institutions and representatives of foreign states, has officially been requested by Ankara and was given the green light by Merkel. The ongoing probe has caused an uproar in Europe, with supporters demanding that the comic’s freedoms be protected and critics and copycats lashing out at Erdogan. The UK’s Spectator magazine went as far as to offer £1,000 (about US$1,400) donated by a reader to the person who could pen the most offensive poem about Erdogan. READ MORE: German MP recites notorious anti-Erdogan poem in front of Bundestag (VIDEO)

2016-05-17 02:10 www.rt.com

78 April Rose Pengilly dazzles on day two at Australian Fashion Week She's been spotted at glamorous events all over Sydney the past couple of weeks. And on Monday, April Rose Pengilly looked effortlessly chic as she stepped out for Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. The 28-year-old showcased her slender frame in a sleeveless white marble- printed dress by Ginger & Smart as she was photographed attending the Misha Collection runway. Scroll down for video The actress teamed her designer dress with a pair of nude heels by Christian Louboutin, while a pale pink bag rounded out her look. The former model let her long brunette locks cascade down her back and shoulders as she smiled for photographs. Prior to attending the Misha Collection show, April was also at Ginger & Smart's runway show at Carriageworks. Last Thursday night the brunette beauty attended the Women of Style Awards gala wearing an elegant but daring white gown featuring roses made of lace fitted together. April was joined at the InStyle magazine and Audi-sponsored Sydney event by her father, INXS vocalist, saxophonist and guitarist Kirk Pengilly, and stepmother Layne Beachley. Since beginning her modelling career as a teenager, April has in the past few years switched to film after studying at NIDA and is currently filming Australian TV movie, Brock. She also runs a popular fashion and lifestyle blog that won Pedestrian awards three years in a row from 2012- 14.

2016-05-17 02:06 Jody Phan www.dailymail.co.uk

79 Euro2016 fans told to 'remember to drive on the right' F ootball fans driving in France during Euro 2016 are being advised to check the laws of the road after a study revealed fewer than two-thirds (65%) of motorists know they have to drive on the right after crossing the Channel. The survey of 2,250 UK and Irish licence holders for uSwitch.com also revealed that only 39% are aware they need a high-visibility jacket in their car when driving in France, while 78% wrongly believe the UK has a lower drink-drive limit . Motorists in France are required to have a range of accessories, including a warning triangle, headlight converters, country sticker and reflective jacket. France also has a drink-drive limit of just 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, compared to 80mg in the UK. T housands of supporters from England , Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland will travel to France for the tournament, which begins on June 10. Rod Jones, insurance expert at uSwitch.com, said: "With footie fans looking forward to making the short trip across the Channel this summer, it's concerning that so many could be caught offside because of foreign road laws. "It pays to check that your car insurance policy includes European cover. Many policies default to third-party only protection on the continent unless you've stipulated otherwise, so talk to your insurer if necessary. "Breakdown cover is also worth checking - the last thing you want is for your trip to stall on the way to the game. "

2016-05-17 02:05 Press Association www.telegraph.co.uk

80 Sources: Blazers, Stotts reach 3-year extension The Portland Trail Blazers have agreed with head coach Terry Stotts on a contract extension, sources close to the negotiations confirmed. News of the deal was first reported by The Vertical. The extension will run three additional seasons past Stotts' current deal, which expires at the conclusion of the 2016-17 season. The Trail Blazers held a team option on Stotts' services for next season. The average annual salary of the extension, which will run through the end of the 2019-2020 season, will amount to approximately $5 million. During his four seasons at the helm in Portland, Stotts has compiled a record of 182-146, and the team has qualified for the playoffs in each of the past three seasons. This season, in what was expected to be a rebuilding campaign, the Trail Blazers posted a 44- 38 record and earned the No. 5 seed in the Western Conference. Stotts finished a close second to Warriors coach Steve Kerr in the NBA's coach of the year vote. The Trail Blazers defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 4-2 in the first round of the playoffs before bowing out to Golden State last week in the conference semifinals. After spending parts of two seasons with the Atlanta Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks , Stotts joined Rick Carlisle's staff with the Dallas Mavericks in 2008. While on the bench with the Mavericks, Stotts established a reputation as a sharp offensive coach. When the vacancy in Portland opened in 2012, the Trail Blazers saw Stotts as a logical candidate to sculpt a jump-shooting offense around forward LaMarcus Aldridge , not unlike what Stotts helped construct in Dallas for Dirk Nowitzki. After leading the Trail Blazers to a 54-28 record in 2013-14, Stotts agreed to a multiyear contract extension with the team in May 2014.

2016-05-17 02:03 Kevin Arnovitz espn.go.com

81 Fox takes jab at YouTube, highlights Empire as Snapchat success at Upfront “Non-premium video can't hold... to TV's scale," said Toby Byrne, Fox’s President of Advertising Sales, at their Upfront this afternoon in New York City. Byrne highlighted the difference in viewership on TV and YouTube, noting that a YouTube celebrity has an average audience of 1,620, while a nationally broadcast TV event, like the World Series, draws in close to 14 million views. “Using YouTube’s math, that World Series game would translate to 6.8 billion views. That makes the World Series quite a bargain,” Byrne joked. He stressed the difference between digital, which has unique viewers, and television, which has an average audience and ratings. Additionally, he mentioned that millennials spend 80% of their video time watching TV. Fox also announced that they have the most watched TV shows on VOD, triumphing over other networks from Disney, NBCU and AMC. Fox announced that National Geographic (NatGeo) is their #1 social brand, garnering over 1.6 billion social media interactions. NatGeo is also the largest TV network on Facebook, and the #1 non-celebrity brand on Instagram. Fox described that there were close to 33 million Snapchats about Empire, making it one of the most significant TV shows on Snapchat. Scream Queens and The X-Files were their most talked about shows on Twitter. The Simpsons and Family Guy, the biggest shows on Facebook.

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82 Fatal shooting reported at apartments hours after fire Police are investigating a fatal shooting at an apartment complex in west Houston that had earlier been the scene of a two-alarm fire. RELATED: Small dog rescued from W. Houston fire The shooting happened shortly after 5 p.m. Monday at the apartments in the 2100 block of Hayes, Houston police said. According to initial information, one person was shot after trying to kick in the front door of an apartment in the complex. The person, who has not been identified, died at the scene, Houston police said. It wasn't immediately clear why the person was trying to kick in the door. Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.

2016-05-17 04:11 By Mike www.chron.com

83 Body found in Buffalo Bayou A Houston Police Department dive team found a body Sunday in a vehicle that had been submerged in Buffalo Bayou since Friday. The body was male and has yet to be identified, said HPD spokesman Victor Senties. According to news reports , the man was black and in his 20s. The driver lost control of his vehicle Friday night, running off Memorial Drive near Waugh and landing in Buffalo Bayou. A witness saw the accident around 8 p.m. and tried to help, but the car went out of reach, authorities said. The car sank. The HPD dive team attempted a rescue Friday, but police said the water was flowing too fast and was too high for divers. Rescuers then stopped the water flow at a nearby dam to slow down the current, which took about 24 hours. The water slowed down enough by Sunday to retrieve the vehicle.

2016-05-16 20:17 By Emma www.chron.com

84 Harris County sheriff's deputy arrested in game-room case A Harris County sheriff's deputy is accused of checking license plates for possible undercover police officers at the game room managed by his wife. Deputy Jose J. Ramirez, 25, was arrested Monday and has been suspended without pay. He was charged with misuse of official information - a felony. "The Harris County Sheriff's Office stands firm in the belief that all employees' actions will be held to the highest level and when found to violate policy, procedures or laws will be dealt with swiftly, professionally and justly," Sheriff Ron Hickman said in a statement. At the center of the investigation that led to Monday's arrest is the Airport Game Room, located in a strip shopping center along the 9800 block of the Gulf Freeway near Airport. It is run by Karla Sandoval, Ramirez' common-law wife, authorities said. In January, investigators with the Houston Police Department's vice unit launched an investigation into allegations the game room was illegally paying out money to customers winning on the eight- liner gambling machines. Investigators learned the manager was married to a deputy and suspected him of checking the license plate numbers of possible police officers. On Feb. 28, an undercover HPD vice officer went into the game room and struck up a conversation with Sandoval. The officer played one of the games for a short time then left, according to the criminal complaint filed against Ramirez. Minutes later, Sandoval sent a phone text message asking Ramirez to check the undercover officer's license plate. Texas Department of Public Safety records showed the license plate was checked by a law enforcement officer whose ID matched that of Ramirez. On April 10, another HPD vice officer went to the game room and spoke with Sandoval. A short time later, the officer left after briefly playing one of the 8-liner machines. Sandoval again sent Ramirez a message, asking that he check the license plate because she thought he was "an undercover," according to the criminal complaint. DPS records show that license plate also was checked by someone whose ID was a match for Ramirez. Sandoval was arrested in late April for possession of a gambling device. She was released after posting $2,000 bail in the misdemeanor case. According to the criminal complaint against him, Ramirez admitted checking the plates but said it was for his wife's protection because she was afraid of being robbed. The Harris County Sheriff's Office launched its own internal investigation after the allegations against Ramirez were brought to the office's attention. St. John Barned-Smith contributed to this report.

2016-05-17 04:11 By Mike www.chron.com

85 Victims sought in alleged molestation by HISD bus driver Harris County prosecutors are asking for the public's help in identifying possible victims of an alleged child predator who worked as a bus driver for the Houston Independent School District. Johnathan Palmares, 46, has been charged with indecency with a child and continuous sexual abuse of a child for allegedly molesting two elementary school-age girls on a bus through the 2014-2015 school year. If convicted, he could face up to life in prison. Palmares, who was hired in June 2014, was fired after one of his alleged victims came forward and video footage from the bus corroborated the 7-year-old girl's story. On Monday, prosecutor Daniel Werlinger said continued investigation of the footage determined that there was a second alleged victim, who looked and sounded similar to the first. Because the video footage is only archived for 30 days, Werlinger asked that parents with children on Palmares' former route be mindful that their children could have been victimized or could have been a witness to an assault. "We don't want there to be any more children who were victimized," Werlinger told reporters at a press conference at the Harris County District Attorney's Office. "But if there are, we need to know about them. " He said Palmares drove a route in southwest Houston between elementary schools: Red, Kolter and Gross. Investigators believe the assaults happened after school as Palmares waited outside Gross Elementary with a dozen other children on the bus.

2016-05-17 04:11 By Brian www.chron.com

86 Formerly conjoined twins, triplet sister to celebrate 1st birthday at hospital in Texas When the Hernandez-Torres sisters were born a year ago, family, friends and even strangers held their breath. Today the formerly conjoined twins and their sister can let out a breath of their own Monday, but this time, to blow out birthday candles. Ximena and Scarlett, of Corpus Christi, underwent an hourslong surgery last month to be separated after they were born conjoined at the waist, sharing a bladder and colon. Their identical triplet sister, Catalina, was born without serious health issues. The chance of a triplet birth involving conjoined twins is 1 in 50 million. RELATED: How Houston's formerly conjoined twins are doing Driscoll Children's Hospital staff has cared for the girls since they were transferred to the facility last year, hours after birth at another Corpus Christi hospital. The sisters will celebrate their first birthday at the hospital. "They're doing great," said Haroon Patel, pediatric surgeon and team leader of the surgeons who performed the successful separation procedure April 12. Ximena and Scarlett remain at Driscoll as they recover from their surgery. A team of 45 specialists prepared for the surgery for month and performed a mock surgery before operating on the girls.

2016-05-17 04:13 By Jessica www.chron.com

87 Bob Dylan and the Manchester Free Trade Hall 'Judas' show Fifty years ago, Bob Dylan was at the centre of a storm, with arguments raging on both sides of the Atlantic about whether his decision to play electric sets meant he had sold out his folk roots. The controversy began at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival in the US, where he was booed when he played electric and it came to a head, unexpectedly, towards the end of his 1966 world tour at a concert in Manchester on 17 May. Frustrated by what he was hearing, one man decided to vent his fury as the sound ebbed before Dylan's final song of the set with a heckle that has become one of the most famous in musical history. He shouted a single word - "Judas". Musician and author Dr CP Lee was in the crowd that night and has since written a book about the world tour. He says it has been "reckoned to be one of the pivotal moments in popular music in the 20th Century, on a par with the riot at Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in Paris ". At the time, he was a 16-year-old schoolboy, eager to see Dylan after missing his concert in the city the year before. He says from the start, the gig had a distinct atmosphere and - with no pun intended - it was "electric". "That night, standing outside, there were people arguing, lots of speculation and quite a sense of an impending event. "We'd read in 1965 about booing at Newport and the impression we got was that Dylan had come back on with an acoustic guitar and everything was alright. "The side door opened and in we went. We could see amplifiers and a drum kit on the stage and people were going 'oh no'. "Some of us had read Melody Maker that week, which said there had been booing in Dublin and people wondered what Dylan was going to do. " Mark Makin, who "by chance" took the only known photographs of the show, remembers the sense of "trepidation" but adds that it "wasn't as if people didn't know what was about to happen". "We had all read that this was going to be electric. They were all just hopeful that it might not. " The gig had two halves: the first saw Dylan taking the stage alone and acoustic, while in the second, he played with the backing of his band, The Hawks. Makin, who was in the fourth row with his school friends, says the audience was "delighted" with the acoustic set. "Everybody was whisper quiet. These days, everyone roars with the recognition of the first line. It never happened then. You didn't dare miss a second of it. "I suppose there was an expectation that he might not [play electric], he just might carry on - because we had such a good first half, he might just do more of the same. " BBC World Service: Witness - Dylan goes electric Lee remembers people in the intermission "breathing a sigh of relief and I heard somebody say 'oh, he's seen sense. He's not going to use the band, he's realised he's wrong'. " Little did they know what was to come. Returning for the second half, Lee says drummer Mickey Jones "blasted into Tell Me, Momma [and] it was the loudest thing I'd ever heard". He says that at the end of that first number, "people were bewildered, shell-shocked even", but shortly after, the protests began. "Throughout the second half, people started slow hand-clapping. Groups of people were standing up, facing the stage accusingly and then walking out. "There were random shouts here, there and everywhere. " And then there was a shout from the circle - "Judas". Lee says the heckle stung Dylan "to the quick". "He lets the guy have it. You can really see that he has rankled Dylan. "The look on his face... he turned around and said 'I don't believe you'. It was an incredibly antagonistic moment. " Lee says Dylan then stepped away from the microphone, swore as he told the band to "play it loud" and they "lurched into Like A Rolling Stone, which was this giant juggernaut". Makin saw what happened in that second half differently. "When he came on, he'd got a smirk on his face, because he knew what was going to happen. "He'd had this elsewhere in the months prior to this and he had it completely under control and was not going to be dissuaded by anybody. "He piled in with Tell Me, Momma, and it hit like a freight train, because it was a real rocker and screamer. "People sat there stunned. " Makin points to a problem with the sound as the reason for the abuse Dylan received, an issue which it has also been claimed was behind the discord in Newport too. "I think the problem was the Free Trade Hall's total lack of musicality - it was a square-sided building and when the sound was projected from a PA like that, it hit the wall at the back and came straight back at you with an echo and a reverb. "All you could hear was this mush of sound. I think that was what hurt people. "It wasn't that we didn't expect him to be electric, but if if he had just come in at three quarters of the decibels, it might have worked. " It is not known whether it was the electric set or the sound quality that vexed the famous heckler - in fact, as Lee explains, it is not even known for certain who shouted. "Andy Kershaw and myself made a documentary for BBC Radio 1 in 1999 and were contacted by a guy who had emigrated to Canada called Keith Butler, who said 'yes, I shouted Judas'. "But there was always an element of doubt. He had shouted something but I think he was confused about whether he had shouted that. "After the broadcast, we got a call from a very irate person who said 'my husband shouted Judas and here he is now'. "He was called John Cordwell. Andy and I met John and he had a lot of people who were with him who said 'yes, he shouted it out and we all applauded and thought he was great for having done it'. "Sadly, both of them have passed away now, but it's funny - you wait 30-odd years for Judas to turn up and you get two at once. " Lee says Dylan reacted so viciously because of the word used in the heckle. "I think being called Judas was the point. Betraying what? It's quite ridiculous. "That level of antagonism against an artist is unimaginable nowadays. It couldn't happen now - people would just either like it or not. "This was not a bad set, it was absolutely fantastic what they played. "It was eye-opening and revolutionary. I'm so glad there is a record of it. " The recording of the concert surfaced as a bootleg at the end of the 1960s and was officially released by Dylan in 1998. Lee says it was an "incendiary" performance and that what happened that night - the heckle, Dylan's response and the ferocity with which he played the second half - changed music forever. "In essence, it's the night that pop music became rock music. "It was heavy metal, it was thrash metal, it was death metal, it was everything that's come since then. "I was totally aware, the moment it finished, I knew I had been present at something that was seismic. "I knew, from that night on, that things would never quite be the same again. " Electric 50, a celebration of the Free Trade Hall show by Manchester's musical community, takes place at Manchester Academy 3 on 17 May.

2016-05-17 04:16 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

88 The tech start-up planning to shake up the legal world A career in law and extremely long hours tend to go hand in hand. When you're starting out it's often particularly gruelling. Partly of course it's about proving your commitment, but being a lawyer also involves an awful lot of grunt work - spending hours and hours looking through past case law to help your firm determine how to fight a current case. It's this time consuming, labour intensive research aspect of the legal system that Andrew Arruda, co-founder and chief executive of tech start-up Ross Intelligence, believes its invention can address. The AI (or artificial intelligence) legal research system allows lawyers to type in a question - much in the same way they'd ask a colleague - and bring up relevant examples of what has happened in previous US legal cases, essentially at the touch of a button. "Lawyers may know the law and where it stands on a particular issue today but many cases come out and it can change that so they're always looking into the past to build the future. "The issue with that is there's just millions of cases. What our system is able to do is keep up to track with all these changes in the law so at a glance a lawyer can help their clients really, really efficiently," says Mr Arruda. He calculates the invention eventually has the potential to save lawyers some 30% of their time. It seems a staggering claim for a firm founded just over a year ago, but Mr Arruda says the calculation is based on this being the amount of time lawyers typically spend on legal research using a normal database. The system is built on IBM Watson, a technology platform that uses natural language processing and machine learning to find relevant information from large amounts of unstructured data, basically written in text, rather than neatly situated in the rows and columns of a database. This enables Ross to extract facts and conclusions from over a billion text documents a second. In contrast, existing solutions rely on traditional search technologies that look for keywords to find results and which then need to be sifted manually, while other rival research products typically require substantial training to be used effectively. "Our system is actually able to understand, when a lawyer asks it a question, what they are really looking for. It does that by examining the different words in the sentence, contextualising it and seeing the relationships between those words. "In an instant it knows what the user is looking for and once a system knows what the user is looking for it's also able to learn from them on what's best to bring up, so there's this constant feedback loop that Ross learns from its users," says Mr Arruda. This of course begs the question as to whether the aim of Ross Intelligence is really to replace lawyers with its much cheaper machines. Mr Arruda claims not, arguing its aim is simply to allow lawyers to do their job more efficiently, describing the research system as "an augmentation" or enhancement of their skills, rather than a replacement. But he acknowledges it could make possible hiring a lawyer in the first place - currently out of the reach of many people. "Systems like ours allow lawyers to do a lot more with less and we are really looking forward to the day when everyone can afford a lawyer," he says. In fact, it was this intention which drove the creation of the firm in the first place. Mr Arruda's co-founder Jimoh Ovbiagele, now chief technology officer at the firm, was 10 years old when his parents separated, a time when he first got interested in programming and computer science. He witnessed his mum unable to afford the high cost of divorce lawyers first-hand, driving his determination to use his interest in tech to ensure others would not have to go through what his mother did. Yet many are sceptical that the legal industry - arguably more associated with tradition, bulging files of papers, odd clothing and arcane procedures - is ready for this level of technical innovation. Mr Arruda refuses to say how many subscribers the firm has so far for its service, although recently BakerHostetler, a US law firm announced it would use Ross Intelligence for bankruptcy matters, saying it believes emerging technologies like cognitive computing can "help enhance the services we deliver to our clients". But Mark Estes, library director at Alameda County Law Library in California, believes human researchers are still the best and most reliable method for people to find out what they need to know in a legal situation. "Sometime in the future it may be easier to find information without the help of a human individual interaction but that to me seems a long way off because a computer has to be able to interpret whatever someone is saying and infer in ways that would be very challenging. "I really don't foresee a time when it will not be advantageous to use a trained law librarian or a trained lawyer to finish your legal research issue," he says. In the meantime, however, Mr Arruda says thanks to Ross's invention there are some lawyers who get to leave work on time. "We've heard a bunch of great stories... such as 'Thank god Ross has allowed me to attend this' or 'I was going to spend Friday night at the office looking into this...'" 2016-05-17 04:16 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

89 EU referendum: Osborne accuses Leave camp of 'conspiracies' Chancellor George Osborne has accused Leave campaigners of indulging in conspiracy theories in their response to economic warnings about an EU exit. He said they would be accusing the Remain camp of "faking the moon landings" next, as he claimed an EU exit would risk £200bn a year in trade. He was sharing a platform with former political foes Ed Balls and Sir Vince Cable who are backing the Remain cause. The Leave campaign accused Remain of resorting to "lurid scare stories". Vote Leave, meanwhile, was backed by 306 business figures who signed a letter published in the Daily Telegraph ,. Voters will be asked to decide whether they want the UK to stay in or leave the European Union on 23 June. In a speech at Stansted Airport on Monday, Mr Osborne unveiled what were billed as surprise guests, Ed Balls and Sir Vince Cable, as he warned that it would be a "huge mistake" to quit the EU. He said leaving the single market - in which there are no tariffs, quotas or taxes on trade and where there is free movement of goods, services, capital and people - would cost Britain £200bn in a trade a year - as well as £200bn overseas investment. "There is a reason the three of us are standing here today putting aside our political differences," said the chancellor. "It's not a conspiracy, it's called a consensus," he said, adding: "Britain will be worse off if we leave the EU. " Mr Osborne said the economic consensus that had emerged, that "Britain will be poorer" outside the EU, was shared by organisations including the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of England and by figures including US President Barack Obama. But he said the Leave camp "say it is all a massive conspiracy" and claim it is "all part of some global stitch-up to give misinformation to the British people". "The next thing we know, the Leave camp will be accusing us of faking the moon landings, kidnapping Shergar and covering up the existence of the Loch Ness monster," he said. Just as the chancellor is trying to claim victory in the economic debate his colleagues on the other side like Boris Johnson are digging in, characterising the debate as nothing less than a struggle between fat cats and the common man. George Osborne can claim the economic debate is over, but voters will decide who and what they want to hear. Read Laura's full analysis Responding to Mr Osborne's comments, Conservative cabinet minister and Vote Leave campaigner Chris Grayling told BBC News: "The reality is there's no conspiracy here at all. "In fact, the conspiracy theories around the European Union are there in black and white, you don't need any hidden elements to it - there is a clear plan to create a federation of the eurozone. " This would leave Britain "on the fringes, with them making our laws for us" and the UK would not be able to do anything about it, Mr Grayling said. In reference to the IMF's warning , he said the organisation had got its economic forecasts wrong in the past and it was "getting it wrong now", and claimed its chief, Christine Lagarde, was an "avowed, devoted Euro federalist". But former Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls - once described by David Cameron as "the most annoying person in modern politics" - said the EU single market had been "great" for consumers while Sir Vince, Lib Dem business secretary under the coalition, said British businesses and workers "stand to lose substantially" from leaving. Ryanair chief executive Mr O'Leary said the company was creating 450 new jobs in Britain as part of the $1.4bn it invests in the UK - but he warned this could have to be scaled back if the UK left the EU. He also said it was a "certainty" that air fares and the costs of holidays would rise - although he has previously said ticket prices would not be affected by an EU exit and in 2004 described the EU as an "evil empire". In February, he told ITV News : "I don't believe leaving the European Union will cause air fares to rise. The thing that will drive up air fares in Britain is the UK government's travel tax. " Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott said: "George Osborne appeared today alongside one man who thinks that the EU is an evil empire and another who said that the chancellor does not understand economics. "George Osborne is panicking about his failing campaign so he is resorting to ever more lurid scare stories. " Meanwhile, signatories to the letter backing Vote Leave include Superdrug founder Peter Goldstein, former Sony vice-president Steve Dowdle, Goldman Sachs managing director David Sismey, Tim Martin, chairman of pub chain JD Wetherspoon and Adrian McAlpine, from construction firm Sir Robert McAlpine.

2016-05-16 20:16 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

90 Yahoo - Introducing Fair Play on Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy Yahoo Launches Key Changes in Daily Fantasy to Help Level the Playing Field for Fans Including Entry Limits, Labeling of Veteran Players and No Scripting --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced important changes to its Sports Daily Fantasy product to make contests more transparent and fun for all users. Changes include limiting entries to a max of 10 entries per user per contest (and in no event can a single user's entries make up more than 1% of total entries in a contest), clearly identifying Veteran players with a badge, and prohibiting the use of any type of scripting tool to upload or edit entries. "We first launched Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy back in because it was an exciting addition to our product suite and because our users were clamoring for it," said , Head of Product for and Finance. "Yahoo Fantasy Sports has tens of millions of registered fans and we are making these changes today as the result of months of user experience and customer requests. values an environment that is transparent and trustworthy. We also want to provide the best Fantasy games for true sports fans. does both. " As daily fantasy continues to evolve, the labeling of a small percentage of "Veteran" players with a distinct badge is a key change that will make it easier for all players to know who they are playing against on Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy. Veterans will be defined as users who have entered more than 1,000 contests within a single year, or who have entered more than 250 contests and prevailed in greater than 65% of them within a single year, or who have won a single prize of or greater more than three times within a single year. As a thank you to those users who have been so dedicated to Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy, will be inviting Veterans to a special, free, invitation-only contest. has been a leader in fantasy sports for over 17 years. The changes made today will continue the tradition of fun and social user experiences that fans have come to expect from. is a guide focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining our users. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses. is headquartered in , and has offices located throughout the , (APAC) and the , and (EMEA) regions. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the Company's blog (yahoo.tumblr.com).

2016-05-17 04:12 investor.yahoo.net

91 Toppling Sevilla would rubber-stamp Klopp's red revolution By Richard Martin BARCELONA, May 17 (Reuters) - Juergen Klopp, who has breathed new life into Liverpool in his seven months in charge, would seal his place in the hearts of the club's supporters if he pulls off victory over Sevilla in Wednesday's Europa League final. It would bring Liverpool's first European trophy since the famous fightback against AC Milan in the Champions League final in Istanbul in 2005. Klopp conjured up the spirit of that historic win in the extraordinary quarter-final performance over his former club Borussia Dortmund when the Reds turned a 3-1 halftime deficit in the second leg into a stunning 4-3 victory in stoppage time. Sevilla, current holders, might be a different matter though. Klopp will be up against coach Unai Emery, whose side have won the last two editions of the tournament and hold a record four UEFA Cup/Europa League triumphs, all in the last decade. Sevilla had an easier path to the final, beating Shakhtar Donetsk 5-3 on aggregate in the semis, although they needed a penalty shootout to overcome fellow Spaniards Athletic Bilbao in the last eight. Sevilla have endured a disappointing domestic campaign, finishing seventh in La Liga and failing to win a single away game, the only team in Europe's top five leagues to do so. Liverpool's season has not been dissimilar. Klopp's team have ended in eighth place in the Premier League, their lowest finish since 2012. The charismatic German has proved a master of the big occasion, however, knocking out Manchester United and Villarreal as well as Dortmund with his trademark game plan of high intensity pressing. He will be looking for the same high octane performance against Sevilla. "There will be challenges all over the pitch. There will be a lot of fight, for sure; you cannot win a cup with just a little bit of playing football," Klopp told UEFA.com. "You have to show that you're really ready for the big moments. " Klopp must decide whether to start with captain Jordan Henderson, who only returned from a knee injury by playing half an hour as a substitute in Sunday's 1-1 draw at West Bromwich Albion. Emery, who has no new injury concerns from the semi-final, is banking on his team's mental resilience to become the first coach to win three consecutive Europa League trophies. "The fact that this is our third consecutive final demonstrates how focused and hungry we have been to do well in the Europa League, and win it," he said. "That means competing - standing up to be counted throughout the 90 minutes. " (Editing by Richard Balmforth)

2016-05-17 02:01 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

92 92 APAC Creative Works: Featuring BBDO Bangkok, Saatchi & Saatchi Australia, Dentsu and more Welcome to The Drum's APAC Creative Works. As always, this section is dedicated to showing the best creative work and gives you, the reader, the chance to decide which work we feature as our APAC 'Creative Work of the Week.' We've now introduced our new five-star voting system. To vote for your favorite, make sure you click on the stars. The winner be chosen based on the average rating and the number of votes cast. Voting closes on Tuesday 24 May. For project information, credits and more hover over the 'i' icon or expand to full screen. To submit work for future publication, contact Charlotte McEleny . For voting updates and more follow The Drum Creative Works on Twitter @TheDrumCreative . To keep up to date with the latest advertising, design and creative work from around the globe visit our Creative Works homepage where you can vote on which work you’d like to see crowned Creative Work of the Week and Creative Work of the Month.

2016-05-17 02:00 Charlotte McEleny www.thedrum.com

93 Top Cuba diplomat: Obama trip positive, created momentum HAVANA (AP) — President Barack Obama's trip to Cuba advanced the normalization of relations between the Cold War foes and created momentum for more cooperation on agriculture, medicine and law enforcement, Cuba's top diplomat on U. S. affairs said Monday. Speaking after a meeting with U. S. officials in Havana, Director General of U. S. Affairs Josefina Vidal said President Raul Castro had seen his meeting with Obama as producing "positive results. " Her portrayal contrasted with more negative characterizations of the visit, including those of former President Fidel Castro and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, who described Obama's trip as an "attack" on Cuba's traditions and values. Vidal said she and U. S. diplomats had agreed upon an agenda for Obama's remaining months in office that would include visits by high-level U. S. agriculture, health and security officials. She said Obama's visit, which included a forum with private business owners and a speech calling on the Cuban people to look toward a better future, would help both sides accomplish that agenda. "We believe the visit was an additional step forward in the process of moving toward an improvement in relations, and that it can serve to add momentum to advance in this process, which is in both nations' interest," she said. "That's the opinion that President Raul Castro shared during his address to the press during Obama's visit. " Commenting on Monday's meeting, The U. S. State Department said that "both governments recognized significant steps made toward greater cooperation in environmental protection, civil aviation, direct mail, maritime and port security, health, agriculture, educational and cultural exchanges. " It said the two sides also discussed future meetings on human rights and claims for compensation by American citizens and firms whose property was confiscated in Cuba's 1959 revolution. Vidal praised a series of agreements struck directly with the U. S. government on topics like environmental cooperation, direct postal service and commercial flights, but said the continuing U. S. trade embargo on Cuba had made progress on business ties more difficult. Foreign investors agree the embargo is the main obstacle to doing business in Cuba. But they increasingly point to the communist government's slow-moving bureaucracy and opaque decision-making as reasons investment on the island is lagging despite a huge surge of interest since the December2014 declaration of detente with the U. S. The two countries appear to be moving toward greater cooperation on law enforcement in coming months. Cuban-born Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was meeting in Havana on Tuesday with his counterparts in Cuba's Ministry of the Interior for talks on cooperation against drug trafficking, illegal migration and transnational crime. ____ Michael Weissenstein on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mweissenstein

2016-05-17 01:58 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

94 Seven signs you're heading for a divorce For some people divorce comes out of nowhere. For others it builds up over a long period of time. So how do you know when issues with your spouse might lead to separation? Clinical psychologist Dr Melissa Keogh has written an article for Kidspot indicating the seven signs your marriage is on the rocks and might be headed for divorce. Whilst there are some that might seem obvious, other indicators are more subtle and worth paying attention to. One of the biggest warning signs - no nookie. A lack of sex in a relationship can be a sign of major problems according to Dr Keogh. And whilst some people have fulfilling relationships with no sex, it's worth seeing a relationship counselor or sex therapist if you're having this issue. Another warning sign is abuse, either physical, emotional or verbal, and controlling behaviors. If a partner is abusive, and won't change their behavior, then this can lead to the end of the relationship. Something which can be linked to abusive behavior, is an untreated personality disorder which is another warning sign of a toxic relationship. Infidelity is also a marriage killer, particularly if the person continues to cheat. As Dr Keogh points out, marriage counselling can help overcome one-off incidents of cheating, but if the behaviour continues the marriage may not be viable. This also comes down to not only the act of infidelity, but the lying and deception that comes along with it. Another issue that this brings up is addiction. Addiction, particularly to damaging things like gambling or substances, is also a shortcut to divorce. 'The level of dishonesty and deceit commonly associated with such issues can also see trust significantly eroded over time,' Dr Keogh explains. Contempt, research has shown, is also a very bad sign for a relationship. Research conducted over 40 years showed that couples who had contempt for one another were likely to divorce. Another lesser known sign your marriage is in bad shape is the inability to recall happy memories about your partner or the time you've spent together. If you think back to the beginning of the relationship and can't think about it fondly, then research shows you might be headed for divorce. If you're dealing with abuse or violence from a partner, or know someone who is, you can contact the national support helpline 1800 Respect.

2016-05-17 01:57 Lauren Ingram www.dailymail.co.uk

95 Australian nut manufacturer under fire after worms found inside A popular Australian nut and seed manufacturer has come under fire after a number of customers found moths, worms, ants, weevils and bug eggs crawling inside their packaging. Melbourne-based 'Lucky Nuts' - famous for its lunchbox staple almond, walnut and cashew snack packs - has received an influx in complaints on its Facebook page across the past month. 'Today I was eating your almonds and yoghurt sultana mix on the way home from work until I noticed I had a worm in my hand,' wrote one woman. 'I looked in the box to find eggs in the box. I got home and emptied it into a bowl and have since found another worm,' she continued. 'This is absolutely disgusting and made me sick on the train when I saw what I had eaten. I will never be buying these products again.' Another dissatisfied customer claimed a moth had left behind eggs and its cocoon in her almond and sultana mixture, while one man uploaded a photo of a clump of nuts covered in worms. 'Lucky they don't make you ill. Worms & moths (dead AND alive) as well as worm pupae. #notgoodenough,' one woman complained, sharing a photo to the company's Facebook page. A customer service spokesperson replied that it was likely the woman had a 'case of pantry moths and weevils' - as they enjoyed nuts and can 'penetrate all forms of packaging.' But the woman found that hard to believe, responding: 'Not pantry moths from my house. Purchased 18th April. Unopened on my desk at work until 21st April. This is clearly a supply chain issue.' Another customer uploaded a photo of coconut-flavoured cashews infested with hundreds of bugs, which she claims came from a freshly purchased packet still wrapped in plastic. 'I opened my nuts today, i was so excited as it was the new coconut and cashew range in the snack boxes. They are full of bug eggs. They were fresh out of the plastic today,' she wrote. Other complaints flooding the Facebook page reveal hundreds of crawling bugs hidden deep inside coconut-flavoured cashews, ants inside almonds and further cases of worms inside packaging. The Lucky Nuts website says that its almonds are sourced from Australian orchards. Its products are sold at most Australian supermarkets and are exported to a number of global destinations. Daily Mail Australia has contacted Lucky Nuts for comment.

2016-05-17 01:56 Daniel Peters www.dailymail.co.uk

96 Manning Cartell showcases collection under Sydney Harbour Bridge Day three of Fashion Week Australia got off to a stunning start with the Manning Cartell show down by Sydney Harbour Bridge on Tuesday. Thankfully, the weather turned it on, too, as models debuted the new collection on a catwalk bedecked by bridge, sunshine and crystal blue water. The pristine conditions were perfectly offset by an autumnal feel in the clothes. Fashion buyers and editors were quick to make a mental note of a beautiful orange gown, which looked perfect in the setting and was the highlight of a spectacular show. Silks, chiffon and sequins were paired with stripes and clashing colours, and the overall show theme was 'Diaphonous'. Show notes read: 'Bold graphic stripes contrast vibrant colour clashes, rich textures and patterns. A luxurious mix of layering, deconstruction and movement.' On a floor bedecked by glitter, models showed off everything from striking and graphic drop earrings to layered outfits and unusual lines. People were quick to admire the metallic shoes, which came in the form of chunky silver and blue sandals. Other highlights included an asymmetric low-neckline white dress, as well as an inventive red top and tasselled trousers. The glam squad were also out in force for the show. Front row-ers included the likes of Carissa Walford, Anna Heinrich and Nadia Fairfax. April Rose Pengilly and Brittany Davis were also quick to strike a pose at the iconic Sydney venue. The collection was contemporary, but feminine, and very wearable. No wonder the crowds were in love.

2016-05-17 01:55 Andrea Magrath www.dailymail.co.uk

97 Kylie Jenner flashes her bra in a series of pictures on her Snapchat Kylie Jenner isn't shy when it comes to showing some skin. And the 18-year-old Keeping Up With The Kardashians star was at it again on Tuesday as she paraded her curvy body in a skimpy white bra and not much else in a series of flirty Snapchats. The raven haired reality star first wore a white jumpsuit as she turned and posed for the camera. Scroll down for video Soon after she changed into a black and white striped skirt with a split as she donned a white bra on top. Newly single Kylie also let fans in on her preparation for the shoot with some of her saucy clips. At one point, there is someone from the crew rubbing lotion onto her chest as she just smiles and looks into the camera. In one of the revealing shots you can see her upper thigh and her tiny tum as she takes the video from a low angle, showing off her curvaceous figure. She also snapped a picture of her perfectly applied manicure with the caption: 'Kylie for sinful colors! Shade: V. I. PEACH' Despite her sensational curves and enviable figure, Kylie takes a refreshing approach to her diet. Just before the photo shoot, the star shared some videos where she was seen chowing down on some bacon with a friend. It was all fun and games for Kylie though. During the shoot the youngest Kardashian was seen messing around with a beach ball and a frisbee. She showed off her figure in a split striped maxi skirt and the bra as her hair was styled in a french braid positioned to one side. Meanwhile Kylie and Tyga called an end to their turbulent relationship last week amid claims they were embroiled in a bitter feud before the Met Gala. Tyga appears to be coping with his heartbreak with another woman by his side as he stepped out with Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta's Karlie Redd on Saturday. Heading into Beyonce's Pasadena concert, the 26-year-old rapper seemed in good spirits as he arrived alongside his pretty companion, who reached out and held her hand on his arm.

2016-05-17 01:55 Michelle Ganney www.dailymail.co.uk

98 Elyse Knowles sports cute over-sized bow at MBFW 2016 She's been putting her best foot forward as she sits front row at some of the hottest Sydney Fashion Week 2016 shows. And Elyse Knowles continued to put on a stylish display on Monday as she attended Misha Collection's runway, which featured in-demand American model Bella Hadid. The 24-year-old opted for a fitted one- shouldered dress that featured a side cut-out, giving a glimpse of her toned torso. Elyse tied her long blonde locks into an elegant up-do and accessorised with a black over-sized bow around the bun. She also opted for a more dramatic make-up look for the event, sporting a smoky eye look and nude lip. The model finished her look with lace-up high heels while holding onto a leather jacket and black chained handbag. Earlier in the day Elyse donned the same attire as she shot a short film for Australian retailer Myer. Taking to Instagram, the blonde beauty shared a selfie of herself writing: 'Lots of fun today shooting behind the scenes doco for @Myer #myeratmbfwa #mbfwa,' she captioned the stunning shot. The globetrotting beauty was also one of many stars to make an appearance at Toni Maticevski's opening show on Sunday. Elyse put on a daring display with a thigh-high split in a top and skirt combo by the Melbourne-based designer at the event held at Sydney's The Cutting. The striking strapless number showed off her perfectly toned physique while the skirt was fastened together at the side, showing off her lean legs. Completing her look, she donned subtle Sarina Surano earrings and a black Salvatore Ferragamo handled clutch and matching lace-up heels.

2016-05-17 01:54 Amy Stevenson www.dailymail.co.uk

99 Boston men jailed for Trump-inspired hate crime attack BOSTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Two Boston brothers accused of urinating on and beating a homeless Mexican man and telling police "Donald Trump was right: All these illegals need to be deported," were sentenced to prison on Monday, prosecutors said. Scott Leader, 38, and Steve Leader, 30, had previously pleaded guilty to indictments charging them with causing bodily injury while committing a civil rights violation, as well as assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, among other charges. Scott Leader was sentenced to three years in prison and Steve Leader was sentenced to 1-1/2 years, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. The pair will also be on probation for three years after their prison sentences end. The Leaders were arrested on Aug. 19 on suspicion of beating Rodriguez, then 58, as he slept in a subway station. The men told police they targeted their victim because they believed he was an illegal immigrant. The victim, Guillermo Rodriguez, said in a statement that he was in fact a permanent resident. "I came to this country many years ago and worked hard in the farm fields to provide produce to people here. I actually became a permanent resident of this country years ago, although if I had been undocumented I still would not have deserved to be beaten this way," Rodriguez said in a prepared statement read by Assistant District Attorney Nicole Rimar before the sentencing. The pair punched and kicked Rodriguez, and one of the men repeatedly struck him with a metal pole, before the two walked off laughing, prosecutors said. According to a police report, they told officers, "Donald Trump was right: All these illegals need to be deported. " Prosecutors said Scott Leader told arresting officers that he believed the attack was justified because the victim was homeless and Hispanic. The pair also allegedly threatened police officers while in custody. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the U. S. presidential race, has been vocal on immigration, proposing to build a wall on the U. S.-Mexico border and promising, if elected, to deport the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in the United States. Trump, a real estate developer and reality television personality, initially described the attack as an outcome of passionate views on immigration but later called it "terrible. " Lawyers for the two men could not be reached for immediate comment on Monday night. (Reporting by Scott Malone in Boston; Writing by Curtis Skinner; Editing by Sandra Maler)

2016-05-17 01:53 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

100 Categories Archives Sean “P. Diddy Puff Daddy” Combs is taking his Bad Boy Family Reunion on the road. A tour featuring Puff, Lil’ Kim, Mase, Faith Evans, Mario Winans, 112, Total, Carl Thomas, The Lox and French Montana will visit Philips Arena at 8 p.m. Sept. 8. The tour launches Aug. 25 in Ohio. Tickets for the show will go on sale at noon May 20 at all Ticketmaster outlets, the venue box office, www.ticketmaster.com , www.livenation.com and by calling 1-800-745- 3000. Ticket prices are TBA. A Citi cardmember pre-sale runs from 10 a.m. May 18 through 10 p.m. May 19 at www.citiprivatepass.com . “This isn’t just a concert– this is a moment in hip hop and R&B history,” Combs said in a statement. “The family and I are so excited to welcome fans into this once in a lifetime experience. This tour is 20 years in the making, and is a celebration of the hits and the Bad Boy lifestyle. The Bad Boy Family has set the standard for concert excellence, and this tour will be a testament to that!” BAD BOY FAMILY REUNION TOUR DATES All dates, venues and cities below subject to change. There are no comments yet. Be the first to post your thoughts. Sign in or register.

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