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1 Clinton Gains Double-Digit Lead Over Trump in Pennsylvania

(10.99/11) Clinton leads by 3 points in Fla., and has a double-digit lead in Penn. 2016-10-09 10:28 1KB abcnews.go.com

2 Three Americans are among the 17 new cardinals appointed by Pope Francis

(9.99/11) Thirteen of the 17 cardinals named by Pope Francis on Sunday are under the age of 80, meaning that they are eligible to vote for the next pope if either the pontiff dies or resigns. 2016-10-09 10:02 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

3 Ahead Of Presidential Debate, Can Donald Trump Apologize For Lewd Comments?

(9.99/11) That may be the question for Republicans who haven't yet joined the growing chorus of calls for Trump to withdraw his candidacy as he heads into the second presidential debate on Sunday. 2016-10-09 09:59 7KB www.npr.org

4 Andy Murray beats Grigor Dimitrov in the China Open final

(4.46/11) Andy Murray secures his fifth singles title of 2016 by beating Grigor Dimitrov 6-4 7-6 (7-2) in the China Open final. 2016-10-09 10:24 2KB www.bbc.co.uk

5 'Saturday Night Live' grabs Donald Trump by the hot mic

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6 Radwanska powers past Konta to capture China Open title Oct 9 (Reuters) - Agnieszka Radwanska collected her 20th career WTA title after a (3.41/11) dominant 6-4 6-2 victory over Britain's Johanna Konta in the China Open fin... 2016-10-09 07:46 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

7 Some Republicans Withdraw Support For Trump In Wake Of His Crude Comments About Women After a video surfaced of Donald Trump making vulgar remarks about women, many in (3.25/11) the GOP reconsidered their endorsement of him. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Republican strategist Stuart Stevens. 2016-10-09 08:12 819Bytes www.npr.org 8 All 135,000 Glastonbury tickets sell out in just FIFTY minutes

(2.12/11) Tickets for next year's Glastonbury festival sold out in just 50 minutes as fans tried desperately to buy them from 9am on Sunday morning. Fans tweeted their fury as the website crashed. 2016-10-09 07:56 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

9 Watch live: October 9 presidential debate coverage on Apple News

(2.09/11) Donald Trump will have 90 minutes Sunday night to save his presidential campaign, as he faces off against Hillary Clinton in a debate that will cap one of the most extraordinary weekends in American political history. 2016-10-09 08:48 1KB rss.cnn.com

10 Major splits emerge within Labour frontbench on immigration as Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer defies

(2.07/11) Jeremy Corbyn's open borders policy by saying numbers MUST be cut Just two days after being appointed to Mr Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet Sir Keir Starmer (pictured today) admitted migration levels had been too high - a direct contradiction to the Labour leader's view. 2016-10-09 10:28 8KB www.dailymail.co.uk

11 GenForward Poll: Half of Black Youth Face Job Discrimination Qymana Botts saw white colleagues with the same amount of experience getting (2.06/11) promoted to cashier ahead of her at the Indiana discount store where she worked. When she asked her supervisors why, they told her she didn't project the image that they wanted from their cashiers:... 2016-10-09 08:16 5KB abcnews.go.com

12 Alibaba Pictures, Amblin to co-produce films for global, Chinese audiences

(2.05/11) BEIJING, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners and Alibaba Pictures Group Ltd, the film unit of Chinese billionaire Jack Ma's Alibaba Group Ho... 2016-10-09 10:11 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

13 Drones Carrying Medicines, Blood Face Top Challenge: Africa At first, the drone took some explaining. Anxious villagers buzzed with rumors of a new (1.16/11) blood-sucking thing that would fly above their homes. Witchcraft, some said. The truth was more practical: A United Nations project would explore whether a small unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, could... 2016-10-09 09:36 5KB abcnews.go.com

14 Success: UK Group Says 2 Endangered Rhinos Have Given Birth British conservationists say two critically endangered eastern black rhinos bred in (1.16/11) captivity in England have given birth in Africa. The Aspinall Foundation said Sunday the two females bred at its wildlife park in southern England and released in Tanzania have given birth after mating there... 2016-10-09 07:08 1KB abcnews.go.com 15 Not much slippage for Trump in new polls, but potential is there

(1.10/11) New polling shows minimal slippage for Donald Trump after a video surfaced with his lewd comments about women. But Sunday’s debate in St. Louis with Hillary Clinton could change people’s views, particularly among women, pollsters said. 2016-10-09 10:10 2KB www.charlotteobserver.com

16 VIDEO: Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon give Clifton Heights some love on ‘Saturday Night Live’

(1.06/11) Actors Tina Fey, the Upper Darby native, and Jimmy Fallon made their return to ‘Saturday Night Live,’ portraying a couple of undecided woman voters from Clifton Heights Saturday night. 2016-10-09 08:24 1KB www.delcotimes.com

17 Last survivor of Greece's 1967-74 military junta dies at 103 ATHENS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The last survivor from the right-wing junta that staged (1.05/11) Greece's 1967 military coup and ruled for seven years has died at the age o... 2016-10-09 10:01 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

18 New Delhi airport calls off emergency over radioactive leak NEW DELHI (AP) — A section of the cargo terminal at New Delhi’s international airport was cordoned off Sunday after a suspected radioactive leak, but officials later said the (1.05/11) radiation posed no danger to people… 2016-10-09 07:46 2KB wtop.com

19 Rudy Giuliani on Donald Trump tape: 'Men at times talk like that'

(1.04/11) WARNING: This story contains graphic language. 2016-10-09 10:03 5KB rss.cnn.com

20 Brexit: MPs should opinion on talks, says Labour’s Starmer Media captionSir Keir Starmer: If you don't even have the confidence of the (1.03/11) House...you are heading for disasterMPs should vote on the terms of 2016-10-09 00:00 4KB headlinenewstoday.net

21 Yemen: A war of horror forgotten in the shadow of Syria The Yemen conflict shares the same horrors of Syria, yet the international response

(1.03/11) and media coverage of the two wars have been worlds apart. 2016-10-09 05:53 7KB rss.cnn.com

22 Trump’s Misogyny and the Media’s “Righteous- Indignation Dollar” (1.02/11) Twenty years ago, the great Bill Hicks had a classic stand-up bit in which he imagined ad executives watching his rant against advertising, and saying to each other: “Oh, I see what Bill is doing! He’s going after the anti-marketing dollar, the... 2016-10-09 08:45 4KB www.commondreams.org 23 Lin-Manuel Miranda hosts SNL, remixes Hamilton’s ‘My Shot’ (Video)

(1.02/11) Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda, also known as the creator of Hamilton, hosted Saturday Night Live on Oct. 8. He raps a remixed "My Shot" from Hamilton. 2016-10-09 08:23 961Bytes wtop.com

24 Bisping praises 'incredible' Henderson after retaining UFC title – video (1.02/11) Michael Bisping pays tribute to his opponent Dan Henderson after retaining his middleweight title at UFC 204 in Manchester in the early hours on Sunday morning 2016-10-09 05:29 1KB www.theguardian.com

25 Warning over doorstep mattress sales

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26 No casualties reported after China refinery blast BEIJING, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Equipment at an oil refinery in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing caught fire and exploded on Sunday, state media said, in the c... (1.00/11) 2016-10-09 05:52 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

27 Gulp… it’s Brexit

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28 Russia says can protect its Syria assets if U. S. carpet bombs MOSCOW, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday (0.01/11) that Russia had the means to protect its assets in Syria if the United States... 2016-10-09 07:31 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

29 US spooky clown craze moves to Australia, New Zealand MELBOURNE: Sightings of creepy clowns that have spooked the United States appear to have sparked 'copy-cat' acts in Australia and New Zealand, with police issuing stern warnings for would-be clowns. Numerous sightings of clowns appeared on social media in the early hours of 2016-10-09 10:52 857Bytes article.wn.com

30 Austrian police dog recovers severed finger Surgeons have been able to reattach one of two fingers severed by a circular saw in Austria thanks to the keen nose of a police dog. The search animal was able to locate the unidentified woman's thumb lost in tall grass. ... 2016-10-09 10:46 748Bytes article.wn.com

31 Tributes pour in for teen who died after slap Latest news from South Africa, World, Politics, Entertainment and Lifestyle. The home of The Times and Sunday Times newspaper. 2016-10-09 10:39 4KB www.timeslive.co.za 32 Hilarious photo of a sign pointing shoppers to an escalator next to Prada is mocked on Twitter An eagle-eyed shopper snapped a photo of a sign at a London shopping centre bearing the helpful instructions 'Please use the escalator by Prada' - and captioned it: 'Worst. Perfume. Name. Ever'. 2016-10-09 10:26 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

33 Report: Law Enforcement Agencies Registering Vehicle Information Of Gun Show Attendees A report last week in the Wall Street Journal provides further indication of the Obama administration’s persecutory attitude toward America’s gun owners. The newspaper claimed emails from a Fr 2016-10-09 17:32 4KB dailycaller.com

34 Helen Flanagan dazzles in a low-cut gown as she enjoys dinner in Dubai Helen Flanagan has been enjoying some time off in Dubai before she returns to the show after four years out 2016-10-09 10:24 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

35 Muslim vlogger gets a 'breathtaking' response pretending to be homeless in London Clutching a cardboard sign with just the words 'I'm homeless' written on it, YouTube blogger Hstar Vlogs (pictured) films himself sat down in a London street as part of a social experiment'. 2016-10-09 10:21 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

36 Naked models use body paint to perfectly camouflage against variety of famous landmarks New York artist Trina Merry lines her subjects up and photographes them as they appear to blend right into the scenery around them, which ranges from Normandy to Istanbul and New York. 2016-10-09 10:19 6KB www.dailymail.co.uk

37 Wishful Thinking: First 100 Days After November 8 1. Hillary Clinton is elected President.2. Democrats take over the Senate, and reduce the Republican margin in the House to just 3 votes.3. Elizabeth Warren announces she’ll challenge Hillary in the 2020 Democratic primaries if Hillary isn’t sufficiently progressive and bold during her first... 2016-10-09 10:12 3KB www.commondreams.org

38 Ann Arbor Fire Department to hold open houses Oct. 10 to 15 In honor of annual Fire Prevention Week, the Ann Arbor Fire Department will hold open houses at all five of its fire stations from Oct. 10 to 15. 2016-10-09 10:00 1KB www.mlive.com

39 In defence of the comic novel Commons confidential: The shiny new politics of Theresa May From Ulysses to Herzog, the comic novel unlocks the “meaninglessness of everything”. 2016-10-09 17:30 25KB www.newstatesman.com 40 Pres. Obama signs Georgia disaster declaration President Obama signed a declaration Saturday saying a major disaster exists in the state of Georgia following Hurricane Matthew's impact. 2016-10-09 09:32 2KB rssfeeds.11alive.com

41 Western-backed coalition under pressure over Yemen raids By William Maclean DUBAI, Oct 9 (Reuters) - An air strike on a funeral wake, widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes, poses more trouble for a Western-backed Ar... 2016-10-09 09:06 7KB www.dailymail.co.uk

42 Obscene Donald Trump comments 'alpha male boasting' UKIP's Nigel Farage describes US presidential candidate Donald Trump's lewd comments about women as "alpha male boasting". 2016-10-09 17:31 2KB www.bbc.co.uk

43 Pre-Independence Day Parade Celebrates Panamanian Culture in Crown Heights New Yorkers paid tribute to Panama's heritage at the 21st annual Pre-Independence Day Parade. The parade marches down Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights and ends with a street fair. ... 2016-10-09 09:03 726Bytes article.wn.com

44 Photographer recreates historical pictures of Soho to capture how the area has changed While some traces of yesteryear remain intact, much of the landscape, such as Piccadilly Circus (pictured), Berwick Street and Carnaby Street have changed dramatically. 2016-10-09 08:05 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk

45 ‘Obama’s successor would be balanced, consistent towards Pakistan’ Pakistan hopes that U. S. President Barack Obama’s successor would be different and would have a balanced and consistent policy, one of Prime Minister’s special envoys on Kashmir has said. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had sent special envoys to Washington as part of efforts to apprise... 2016-10-09 08:04 879Bytes article.wn.com

46 Perrie Edwards 'enjoyed secret romance with Zoella's 'thrilled' little brother Joe Suggs She was left heartbroken following her split from fiancé Zayn Malik in 2015. And while many thought she was mending her broken heart, its reported she had a romance with YouTube star Joe Sugg. 2016-10-09 08:00 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

47 To leave a note on the car you dinged or not to leave a note. That is the question. There were no parking spaces on my block in Mid-Wilshire. This is true as often as it is not. I live not far from a hospital, on an unpermitted street, which means our curb space gets taken up by medical staff who don't want... 2016-10-09 08:00 6KB www.latimes.com 48 My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding's Danielle Mason puts on a VERY busty display at Shocktober Fest Danielle Mason was showing off again on when she posed for the cameras at Shocktober Fest on Tulley's Farm in Crawley on Friday night. 2016-10-09 07:59 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

49 NYPD and NYFD Perform Dramatic Rescue in North Carolina Video New York's finest and bravest helped rescue residents from the wrath of Hurricane Matthew. 2016-10-09 18:06 798Bytes abcnews.go.com

50 'The Girl on the Train' review: A wild Emily Blunt anchors preposterous thriller The film is an oddly entertaining mess of exploitation, implausible twists and crazy moments. 2016-10-09 07:50 5KB www.mlive.com

51 China moots BRICS free trade area ahead of Goa summit Ahead of the BRICS Summit in Goa, China on Sunday mooted a free trade area for the five-member bloc of emerging countries saying that such a move would constitute “significant form of cooperation”. By setting up a free trade area, BRICS countries would be 2016-10-09 07:48 833Bytes article.wn.com

52 Concordia University fires professor for remarks related to Colin Kaepernick Concordia Campus Chief Executive Officer Curt Gielow confirmed the university had fired the part-time professor on Sept. 22 after she refused to apologize for the remarks she made a couple of days earlier. 2016-10-09 07:30 4KB www.mlive.com

53 Banks ponder the meaning of life as Deutsche agonizes By Carmel Crimmins and Olivia Oran WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - It wasn't just Deutsche Bank that was grappling with big questions about the future at the I... 2016-10-09 07:01 5KB www.dailymail.co.uk

54 Meijer picks up Saugatuck cafe's popular coffee drink See which Meijer stores will offer free samplings from noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 8. 2016-10-09 07:00 3KB www.mlive.com

55 Lemba Jews Of Zimbabwe Are A Caring Community — But Only Now Are Learning To Practice Their Faith DNA has proven that these sub-Saharan Africans have Semitic origins. But what does it mean to be a black Jew in Zimbabwe? 2016-10-09 07:00 7KB www.npr.org 56 Pie chartical: How are we reacting to California’s excessive number of ballot initiatives?

A pie chart expressing collective confusion and frustration 2016-10-09 07:00 1KB www.latimes.com

57 Australian Survivor's Jennah-Louise is eliminated from the show On Sunday's show, blonde beauty Jennah-Louise was sent packing after an intense tribal council 2016-10-09 06:37 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk

58 Aberfan disaster 50th anniversary concert in Cardiff A new choral work by composer Sir Karl Jenkins to mark the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster has been premiered at a memorial concert in Cardiff. 2016-10-09 06:31 1KB www.bbc.co.uk

59 Snow returns to Poland's Tatras Mountains There is no doubt that Europe is now properly into autumn. The change in weather from a late, remarkably warm summer to the first snow was pretty abrupt. The Tatra mountains of southern Pola... 2016-10-09 06:06 690Bytes article.wn.com

60 Seeing the positives: Short-sighted people are brainier than those with 20/20 vision say scientists Researchers at Mainz University in Germany have found a link between intelligence and shortsightedness, saying those who wear glasses may often be smarter than those who don't. 2016-10-09 06:04 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

61 6 reasons to think twice about co-signing a loan If your credit and finances are in good shape and you have friends or relatives who are not in such a good credit position, you may have been approached to co-sign for a loan or credit card. 2016-10-09 06:04 4KB rssfeeds.usatoday.com

62 In Mexico, same-sex-marriage bid revives centuries- long conflict MEXICO CITY -- Conservatives from all corners of the country converged on Mexico City on a recent Saturday for an event dubbed The National March for the Family, which took aim at the president's plan to enshrine same-sex marriage in the constitution. The lesbian... 2016-10-09 05:59 879Bytes article.wn.com

63 'What happened to facing up to difficult things?': Universities are forced to issue 'trigger warnings' ahead of lectures and let students skip topics they may find troubling UK universities are giving students permission to avoid subjects such as sex, suicide and religion if they find them 'too upsetting' in a move which has divided academics across the country. 2016-10-09 05:52 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 64 'History is disappearing before our eyes': Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds were destroyed when an 18th century stately home burned to the ground Portraits by 18th-century artist Sir Joshua Reynolds are thought to have been destroyed by a fire at Cosgrove Hall in Northampton, a privately owned, Grade-II listed stately home. 2016-10-09 05:38 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

65 Foot washing? We ended up in A&E Broadcasters were biased during the EU referendum campaign - but not in the way you think When Dean told me there were evil spirits living in his trainers, I did what any parish priest would do. 2016-10-09 12:48 9KB www.newstatesman.com

66 Rebecca Judd pays tribute to the nurses who helped care for her premature twin boys Tom and Darcy Rebecca Judd shared a heartwarming Instagram photo on Sunday with the nurses at Frances House Special Care Nursery to say 'thank you' for their efforts during her pregnancy 2016-10-09 05:22 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk

67 Donald Trump the Showman, Now Caught in the Klieg Lights Donald J. Trump deftly used the blending of news and entertainment to build a brand, and then a campaign. But all that drama has turned into a big, messy show. 2016-10-09 05:00 8KB www.nytimes.com Articles

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1 /67 Clinton Gains Double-Digit Lead Over Trump in Pennsylvania (10.99/11) Hillary Clinton has developed a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, according to new NBC/ WSJ /Marist polling released Sunday.

In addition, this polling was conducted before Friday when audio was released featuring Trump making lewd comments about women and discussing his attempt to have an affair with a married woman.

In Pennsylvania, Clinton holds 49 percent compared to Trump who holds 37 percent. This is a larger than usual lead for Clinton in that battleground state. Meanwhile, Johnson trails behind with six percent and Stein even further with four percent. In a two-way contest, Clinton's advantage over Trump would be 12 points, at 51 percent to 39 percent.

In Florida, the Deomacratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is ahead over Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by three points.

The former Secretary of State holds 45 percent support compared to Trump's 42 percent, within the poll's margin of error. Gary Johnson of the Libertarian party holds five percent support and the Green Party 's Jill Stein holds three percent support.

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2 /67 Three Americans are among the 17 new cardinals appointed by Pope Francis (9.99/11) Three Americans are part of the crop of 17 new cardinals appointed by Pope Francis, The Vatican announced on Sunday. Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich, Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph Tobin, and Dallas' outgoing bishop, Kevin Farrell, are among the pontiff's selections which show the Catholic church is trying to present a more moderate face. Thirteen of the 17 cardinals named by Francis on Sunday are under the age of 80, meaning that they are eligible to vote for the next pope, according to the Associated Press. Cupich's elevation makes this the seventh time that a Chicago archbishop has been named to the College of Cardinals, according to the Chicago Tribune. The Omaha, Nebraska, native, who came to Chicago just two years ago after he headed the diocese of Spokane, Washington, is widely perceived as a moderate cleric in the same vein as Francis. The pope has struck a more conciliatory tone toward groups that have long been marginalized by the Catholic Church, including homosexuals and the poor. After the June 12 massacre at Orlando's Pulse nightclub, that left 49 dead and more than 100 injured, Francis said that homosexuals deserve an apology from the Church. Last year, the pope tapped Cupich to take part in an international conference of bishops and cardinals aimed at examining ways of communicating Church teachings on sensitive issues like marriage, contraception, divorce, and homosexuality to Catholics in today's day and age. Farrell is also considered a warm, friendly cleric who is not shy about advocating for important social justice causes. This past summer, Francis appointed Farrell as the head of a new Vatican office devoted to families and laity, making him the highest-ranking American at the Holy See, CBS News reported. Tobin is also viewed as a church official on the more 'progressive' end of the spectrum, particularly with his advocacy for women's issues. The nomination for Tobin could indicate Francis' appreciation of Tobin's support for American nuns. Tobin had been the No. 2 in the Vatican office for religious orders for only two years when in 2012, then-Pope Benedict XVI sent him back to the US to head the Indianapolis archdiocese, which had fewer than 230,000 parishioners. The transfer was seen in some Vatican circles as being tied to Tobin's efforts to promote dialogue and resolve tensions between the Vatican and US nuns who were subject of two separate Holy See investigations. After Francis was elected, both investigations were concluded with Vatican praise for the work of the sisters. The College of Cardinals is the Vatican body that convenes to name a successor to the pope if and when the pontiff dies or resigns. As is Francis' tradition, the new cardinals hail from some of the most far-away and peripheral corners of the globe, with Africa, Asia, South America and Oceania getting far more representation than Europe, which has long dominated the College of Cardinals. New to the club of the 'princes' of the church are bishops from Bangui, Central African Republic; Port Louis, Mauritius and Tlalnepantla, Mexico.

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3 /67 Ahead Of Presidential Debate, Can Donald Trump Apologize For Lewd Comments? (9.99/11) Sarah McCammon

Donald Trump greets supporters outside of Trump Towers in Manhattan October 8, 2016 after a 2005 video revealed lewd comments Trump made about women.

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Donald Trump greets supporters outside of Trump Towers in Manhattan October 8, 2016 after a 2005 video revealed lewd comments Trump made about women. Donald Trump has apologized for his vulgar comments about women that were revealed in a recording obtained by the Washington Post on Friday. But is he truly sorry for his attempt to seduce a married woman and for boasting about groping women he'd just met?

That may be the question for some Republicans who haven't yet joined the growing chorus of calls for Trump to withdraw his candidacy as he heads into Sunday night's second presidential debate of the general election cycle.

For Republicans who've denounced Trump's words without calling on him to leave the race, his performance in the debate – his next public appearance since the scandal broke – could be decisive.

North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, who's in a competitive race to hold on to his seat, has said he will watch Trump's " level of contrition " in the coming days before deciding what level of support to give the nominee.

After the news broke Friday afternoon, House Speaker Paul Ryan rescinded Trump's invitation to campaign with him in Wisconsin on Saturday, without rescinding his support. In a statement, Ryan seemed to encourage Trump to show remorse, saying, "I hope Mr. Trump treats this situation with the seriousness it deserves and works to demonstrate to the country that he has greater respect for women than this clip suggests. "

Trump's running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was initially supposed to fill in for Trump at the event with Ryan but backed out and released a statement saying he did not condone or defend Trump's remarks. Pence praised Trump for apologizing before adding, "We pray for his family and look forward to the opportunity he has to show what is in his heart when he goes before the nation" at the debate.

The Pence family isn't the only one who will be watching Trump for signs of penitence.

Penny Nance , CEO and President of the conservative Christian group Concerned Women for America, said in a message to NPR: "It is essential for Donald Trump to take full responsibility for his actions, show contrition and to project a change of heart. "

Sincere remorse may be Trump's only hope for salvaging what's left of his mainstream support, according to Republican pollster Frank Luntz.

"It is not only important, it is essential for Trump to acknowledge that what he said was wrong. Then, he needs to apologize for it, ask for forgiveness, and finally do something that demonstrates a genuine change of heart," Luntz said in an email. "I don't know if he has it in him – but he better find it. "

Bill Dallas of the evangelical group United in Purpose said he thinks Christian voters will forgive Trump – if he can convince them he's had a change of heart. Dallas helped organize a meeting of evangelical leaders with Trump in New York earlier this year. Dallas says he believes the Republican nominee is a different person than he was a decade or more ago, but he needs to make that case to people who haven't met with him in person. Dallas said, Trump should make clear that he understands how "ugly, despicable and horrible" his words were, and tell viewers that he's changed.

But so far, Trump doesn't seem especially contrite. Only once before during the campaign had Trump expressed any measure of "regret" for his past controversial remarks – and even that statement was vague and nonspecific.

"I fully think apologizing's a great thing, but you have to be wrong," said Trump in a September 2015 interview with Jimmy Fallon .

The Trump campaign's first move after the release of the lewd recording was to release a brief statement in which he described his words as "locker room banter" and added, "Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course - not even close. I apologize if anyone was offended. "

Hours later, his campaign released a video statement apologizing for the remarks themselves and promising to be a "better man. " But there, too, Trump quickly turned to pointing the finger at his Democratic rival's husband, former President Bill Clinton, for his own history of sexual abuse allegations and infidelity.

To that, Alice Stewart , a former spokeswoman for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's unsuccessful primary bid, said in an email that Trump needs to avoid changing the subject: "There is no defense for these vulgar statements. If this were an isolated incident, it would be one thing, but this is the latest in a series of events that demonstrates Trump has selective respect for women. At the town hall, Trump needs to show true remorse and convey that this type of disrespectful behavior will not happen again. In addition, he needs to stop comparing his actions to anyone else who is not running for president. "

Cruz recently endorsed Trump, and has condemned his remarks about women, but has yet to weigh in on whether Trump should remain the nominee. Cruz's chief campaign strategist, Jason Johnson , suggested Trump's words were in keeping with other inflammatory remarks he's made over the course of the campaign, but a heartfelt apology might be a good strategy.

"I really have a hard time believing his comments came as a surprise to most of his supporters," Johnson said. "Even so, an attempt at remorse couldn't hurt. Just not sure many will remember the remorse after he torches Bill and Hillary (Clinton) for different versions of the same offense. This really is a race to the bottom. "

On Sunday morning, with the debate just hours away, Trump seemed to go after Republican office holders who've called on him to step down. On Twitter, he called them "hypocrites" and threatened that the decision to withdraw support could hurt them politically:

So many self-righteous hypocrites. Watch their poll numbers - and elections - go down!

Even a former Trump advisor, Barry Bennett , said he thinks Trump's only shot at redemption – and a slim one at that – is a dramatic and public mea culpa.

"I think contrition is all he can do to try and save this. But it will need to be extraordinary. Something we have not seen so far," Bennett wrote in a message to NPR. "We will need to see the greatest apology ever given just to have a chance. It seems improbable if not impossible. A combination of contrition and contortion. " Hillary Clinton, Donald Clinton vs. Trump: What to Amid Scandal, Trump To US Presidential debate: Five Trump go into second know about the second Face Off Against Clinton In things you need to know presidential debate amid presidential debate Second Presidential Debate before Trump and Clinton's scandal rssfeeds.freep.com newyork.cbslocal.com second round upi.com independent.ie

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4 /67 Andy Murray beats Grigor Dimitrov in the China Open final

(4.46/11) Andy Murray secured his fifth singles title of 2016 - and 40th of his career - by beating Grigor Dimitrov 6-4 7-6 (7-2) in the China Open final.

World number two Murray was seriously tested by his Bulgarian opponent but the Scot ended a near-faultless week in Beijing with the main prize.

British number one seed Murray did not drop a set during the tournament.

Earlier, British number one Johanna Konta was beaten 6-4 6-2 by Agnieszka Radwanska in the women's final.

"Andy is one of the toughest competitors out there and the credit goes to him," said Dimitrov after the match on Sunday.

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World number 20 Dimitrov made it through to the final after his semi-final opponent, Milos Raonic, was forced to withdraw with an ankle injury. It looked a formality for the Briton who broke his opponent's serve in the opening game before holding his own to double the advantage at the beginning of the first set.

Dimitrov rallied in the second set, forcing it to 5-5 before before the final headed into a tie- breaker.

Murray gained the mini-break with the first point and although Dimitrov hit back, the Scot won six of the next seven points to earn his maiden China Open title.

Murray has targeted overtaking Novak Djokovic as the world's top-ranked player and, with the Serb missing the China Open through injury, the Scot has narrowed the gap.

While Murray has triumphed at Wimbledon and the Olympics this year, Djokovic's form has dipped since beating his rival to the French Open title.

Djokovic was beaten in the early rounds at Wimbledon and Rio 2016, and although he reached the US Open final last month, he was beaten by Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka.

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5 /67 'Saturday Night Live' grabs Donald Trump by the hot mic

(4.21/11) The segment opens with a depiction of last week's vice presidential debate between Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

In the segment, cast member Beck Bennett's Pence denies that Trump has made derogatory comments about women.

"Donald Trump loves women. He respects women. He's never said a single bad thing about women and I dare you to show me a single shred of evidence that proves otherwise," Bennet's Pence says just before the sketch cuts away to a CNN interview with Trump about his lewd comments.

"Are you not entertained? " Alec Baldwin as Trump asks to open the interview in a reference to Trump's defense of some of his other comments about women being done in the name of entertainment.

Cecily Strong plays CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin you fumbles for the words to describe the comments captured in the tape. "Basically you said you wanted to... "

"Grab them by the p---y," Baldwin says directly into his microphone.

"Why would you say these horrible things in the first place? " Strong asks Baldwin.

"C'mon Brooke, I was trying to look cool. I mean what normal, red-blooded American doesn't want to impress THE Billy Bush? " Baldwin's Trump asks.

"Trump" is then caught with a hot mic.

"I wish that I was that hurricane, tearing through all of that hot Miami p---y" he says about Hurricane Matthew while thinking he is off camera. "I would just destroy it. "

The segment closes with Baldwin's Trump getting caught yet again with a hot mic and, of course, making more lewd comments, this time about Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

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6 /67 Radwanska powers past Konta to capture China Open title

(3.41/11) Oct 9 (Reuters) - Agnieszka Radwanska collected her 20th career WTA title after a dominant 6-4 6-2 victory over Britain's Johanna Konta in the China Open final on Sunday. Third seed Radwanska, the 2011 champion, did not drop a set on her run to the title and closed out her win over Konta in an hour an 36 minutes. Konta, who is guaranteed a top-10 spot when the new rankings are released and is the first British woman to rise so high since Jo Durie in 1984, committed 34 unforced errors against Radwanska and struggled on serve. The Pole finished with just eight unforced errors and wrapped up victory with an ace. "It's a very special moment; third final and second title here. It was a really special week for me and it couldn't be any better," Radwanska told reporters. "Every title means a lot, but especially here when you play against the best players in the world, in one of the biggest tournaments. It's top players from the first round and I've been playing my best tennis all week. " Konta, who was 146th in the world 17 months ago, has continued a remarkable rise up the rankings despite her defeat. On her main draw debut at this year's Australian Open, Konta became the first British woman into the last four of a grand slam in more than 30 years. She also earned her first WTA title at the Stanford Classic in July. "I'm very pleased with my progress over the past few years and hopefully many more places to climb. I'm just working hard towards playing matches like these, against players like Agnieszka," Konta said. Radwanska, who bowed out in the fourth round of the U. S. Open last month, also won the Connecticut Open and Shenzhen Open earlier this year and has qualified for the WTA Finals in Singapore. (Reporting by Ian Rodricks in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Davis)

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7 /67 Some Republicans Withdraw Support For Trump In Wake Of His Crude Comments About Women (3.25/11) After a video surfaced of Donald Trump making vulgar remarks about women, many in the GOP reconsidered their endorsement of him. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Republican strategist Stuart Stevens.

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8 /67 All 135,000 Glastonbury tickets sell out in just FIFTY minutes (2.12/11) Tickets for the iconic Glastonbury festival sold out in less than an hour this morning, much to the dismay of thousands who missed out as the website crashed. The sought-after tickets went on sale from See Tickets at 9am and were expected to sell out within half an hour. They were officially all gone by 9.50am despite reports of the site crashing and plenty of furious fans claiming the site would not load. A £10 price increase on last year means festival-goers will have to cough up £238 plus a £5 booking fee for access to the 900-acre site, although fans are not asked to pay the full balance until spring 2017. On Thursday the coach package batch of tickets sold out in just 23 minutes with a number of fans experiencing website difficulties, and last year 120,000 passes were snapped up in just over half an hour. This year there are no telephone ticket sales available, with all customers being directed to glastonbury.seetickets.com which crashed minutes after going live due to demand. A statement on the Glastonbury website said: 'We have, once again, been blown away by the incredible number of people from around the planet who hoped to come to the Festival, with demand significantly outstripping supply. 'We're sorry to all of those who missed out - we wish we could fit everybody in! - but there will be a resale of any returned tickets in the spring, and registration will open again in the next few days.' There will be a resale of returned tickets in Spring, and several charities attending the festival offer tickets to volunteers. The historic festival will take its traditional fallow year after 2017 meaning those who miss out on tickets will have to wait until at least 2019 for the next event. Founder Michael Eavis previously said he 'didn't really want to have a year without a festival', and claimed the event could be held somewhere else in 2017 or 2018. However, last month organisers said there were 'no plans to hold an event at another location in 2018'. Those lucky enough to get tickets to the festival in 2016 were treated back in June to performances by Adele, Coldplay, Muse and LCD Soundsystem. Next year's festival will take place from June 21 to 25 with the line-up not being announced by organisers until spring.

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9 /67 Watch live: October 9 presidential debate coverage on Apple News (2.09/11) Trump and Clinton face off in the second presidential debate on Sunday, October 9 at 9p ET, moderated by CNN's Anderson Cooper with ABC News' Martha Raddatz.

Check back here for CNN's live video coverage of the event on Apple News — as well as real- time audience reactions to the debate performances. A group of voters will react to the debate as it happens, and the highs and lows will be displayed across the debate screen during the event.

Meanwhile, explore the latest election news at CNN Politics , as well as highlights and Reality Checks from the first debate. And catch up on the Trump tape fallout , what to watch at the debate and the reaction inside the GOP.

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10 /67 Major splits emerge within Labour frontbench on immigration as Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer defies Jeremy Corbyn's open borders policy by saying numbers MUST be cut (2.07/11) 'Well look, we've had a leadership election, Jeremy won that, we accept it and we respect it. 'We've had three months of internal division; everybody – on either side of the leadership debate – has hated that division over the last three months. 'We now need to pull together and work to have the most effective opposition that we can. 'Of course we want a Labour government, of course we want to support Jeremy to that end. 'He's won the membership, he now needs to win the country – he knows that, we know that and we need to work together on that.' Sir Keir also endorsed fresh demands by MPs to be given a vote on the terms of Brexit. Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, is considering tabling an urgent question in the Commons tomorrow to try to force Theresa May to guarantee Parliament a role in Brexit negotiations. He is leading a cross-party group of MPs in claiming that June's Brexit referendum was not a vote to leave the EU's single market and MPs should therefore be given a veto because of 'the importance of these decisions for the UK economy'. Sir Keir, tipped as a future Labour leader himself, said MPs should be given a vote on Mrs May's opening negotiating terms when she triggers Article 50, the formal process for leaving the EU. He insisted the referendum was 'clear and has to be accepted' but added: 'There has to be democratic grip of the process. At the moment the Prime Minister M is trying to do is manoeuvre without any scrutiny. 'That is why the terms on which we are going to negotiate absolutely have to be put to a vote in the house.' MPs are plotting a fresh bid to block Brexit by claiming any deal that takes Britain out of the EU's single market should be first voted on by Parliament. Remarkably, the cross-party group of pro-EU MPs – including senior Tories – claim that June's Brexit vote was not a decision to leave the single market. Ed Miliband, who is leading the demands, says Parliament must not be overlooked because of 'the importance of these decisions for the UK economy'. The former Labour leader said it would be an 'outrage' if Mrs May decided the terms of Brexit without first asking MPs. Sir Keir Starmer, the new Shadow Brexit Secretary, backed the move, demanding Theresa May holds a Commons vote on the terms of her opening hand in negotiations with the EU. Mr Miliband has held talks with Conservative MPs and they are considering tabling an urgent question in the Commons demanding that Theresa May appears before MPs tomorow to explain Parliament's role in Brexit negotiations. But Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said their demands 'typifies the disdain that the liberal elite has for voters'. 'They prefer the tyranny of the bien pensants to democracy,' he told MailOnline. Fellow Tory MP Peter Bone said 'everybody knew the consequences' of a Brexit vote and the likelihood that leaving the EU would mean quitting the single market. 'The Remain campaign made that very clear,' Mr Bone told MailOnline. And Philip Davies, Conservative MP for Shipley, accused Mr Miliband of being 'spectacularly out of touch with his own constituents,' pointing out that his north Doncaster seat saw one of the biggest votes for Brexit in the country. The latest attempts by MPs to change the terms of the historic June 23 referendum – which saw the biggest turnout in any UK election for more than two decades – comes after last week's Tory conference signalled the Government is pursuing a 'hard-Brexit' that would take Britain out of the single market in order to end free movement of people. 'Having claimed that the referendum was about returning sovereignty to Britain, it would be a complete outrage if May were to determine the terms of Brexit without a mandate from parliament. 'There is no mandate for hard Brexit, and I don't believe there is a majority in parliament for [it] either. Given the importance of these decisions for the UK economy … it has to be a matter for MPs.' Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show this morning, Sir Keir accused Mrs May of failing to put the country first, telling the PM: 'Put the terms exit in front of the House and have a vote on it.' And Mr Clegg, who is in charge of the Lib Dem's policy on Brexit, said it 'would not be remotely acceptable' to bypass Parliament on the terms of Brexit. But their calls to be given a vote on 'hard-Brexit' are likely to fall on deaf ears in Downing Street after Mrs May used her first speech to Tory party conference as Prime Minister to condemn the metropolitan elite for sneering at millions of ordinary Britons over immigration. So far she has only committed to a parliamentary vote on repealing the 1972. The department for exiting the European Union insisted MPs will be consulted and engaged throughout negotiations but refused to commit to giving Parliament a vote on the terms of leaving. Conservative MP Philip Davies lashed out at Remain MPs demanding a veto on the terms of leaving the EU, saying it is 'time for pro-EU fanatics to accept the result of the referendum'. He told MailOnline: 'Everyone made their arguments during the campaign - including what the consequences of leaving were - and the British people made their decision. 'Ed Miliband ought to reflect on the fact that one of the biggest votes to leave the EU came in his Doncaster North constituency. 'Not only is he spectacularly out of touch with his own constituents, he now wants to treat them with contempt. 'As someone who was brought up in his constituency and with family members who still live there, I think he ought to consider packing in at the next election as the MP there. He clearly wouldn't recognise a working class voter if he tripped over one and is completely out of touch with the people he is supposed to represent.' Mr Bone, MP for Wellingborough, said the Remain campaign had made it very clear itself during the referendum campaign that a vote to leave the EU was also a vote to leave the single market. 'Everybody knew the consequences of the referendum and the Remain campaign made it very clear,' he told MailOnline. 'The economy will be destroyed, the stock market will crash, house prices will fall - all that kind of stuff that hasn't come true,' he said of the Remain campaign's warnings of leaving the single market. 'The crucial issue was free movement - that was by a country mile the number one issue about the referendum. 'Everybody knew that the likelihood would be that you couldn't stay in the single market and end freedom of movement,' Mr Bone added. In another remarkable intervention, business leaders said any deal that would end a close economic relationship with Europe should be ruled out 'under any circumstances'. In an open letter, the Confederation of british Industry and engineering industry body EEF warn ministers not to pursue a trading deal that would adopt World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, which they say would slap on crippling tariffs to 90 per cent of UK exports. The WTO rules would add 20 per cent in extra costs for the UK's food and drink industry and 10 per cent tariffs on British cars. The business leaders write: 'We respect the result of the referendum, but the government must make sure that the terms of the deal to leave ensure stability, prosperity and improved living standards.' A source at the Department for Exiting the European Union said: 'Parliament voted by six to one to give people the final say on EU membership in the referendum held on 23 June. While there can therefore be no attempt to keep Britain in the EU by the back door, we have been clear that parliament will be consulted and engaged throughout the process of exit. 'We will introduce a Great Repeal bill to end the authority of EU law and we have been clear that we will follow all the constitutional and legal precedents that apply to any treaty on a new relationship with the EU.'

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11 /67 GenForward Poll: Half of Black Youth Face Job Discrimination (2.06/11) Qymana Botts saw white colleagues with the same amount of experience getting promoted to cashier ahead of her at the Indiana discount store where she worked. When she asked her supervisors why, they told her she didn't project the image that they wanted from their cashiers: straight hair — not her natural Afro — and more makeup. "When it came time for promotions and raises and things like that, I was told I need to fit into a more European kind of appearance," Botts said of her 2010 experience. "They wanted me to straighten my hair, but I wasn't willing to do that. "

Botts, 25, is not alone.

Almost half of young African-Americans say they've experienced racial discrimination while looking for a job and while on the job, and one-third of young women of all races and ethnicities say they've faced employment-related gender discrimination.

This information comes from a GenForward survey of young adults conducted by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The first-of-its-kind poll pays special attention to the voices of young adults of color, highlighting how race and ethnicity shape the opinions of the country's most diverse generation.

The poll, taken in September, showed that 48 percent of blacks age 18-30 say they've experienced discrimination while looking for a job or at work, which was higher than all other races and ethnicities. About one-third of Asian-Americans and Latinos also said they experienced discrimination at work or while looking for a job.

Just 10 percent of whites say they experienced employment-related racism .

Joy Holloway, 24, of Durham, North Carolina, said she clearly has seen racism during job interviews. Holloway, who is biracial and identifies as black, said she usually does well getting through the application phase and the phone interview phase.

"I can get called in for an interview, and everything will be perfect but as soon as they see me, I can see it in their face: 'Oh, no, she isn't who I thought she was.' And then I never get a call back," Holloway said.

On top of facing discrimination, young blacks are more likely to think their race has made it more difficult to get ahead economically. Fifty-four percent say being black makes it harder, the highest among those polled. Thirty-nine percent of Asian-Americans and 34 percent of Latinos say their race or ethnicity has made life harder.

Young whites are the only group more likely to say their race has made life easier at 31 percent. But more than half, or 53 percent, say their race has made no difference. Still, most young people across racial and ethnic lines say whites in general have at least some advantage getting ahead economically.

According to the Economic Policy Institute , black men's average hourly wages were 31 percent lower than white men in 2015, and black women's average hourly wages were 19 percent lower than white women that same year.

In addition to racism, the GenForward poll also showed that 31 percent of young women say they've experienced gender discrimination in looking for a job and in the workplace itself.

In 2015, women made about 80 cents for every dollar made by men, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research.

Holly Berkey, 18, of Lincoln, Nebraska , said she experienced it firsthand while working in an ice cream shop. Her male co-workers would make sexist, disparaging remarks in her presence, she said — for example, that Berkey should be the one doing the washing and the cleaning instead of them because she's a woman.

Berkey said when she complained to a manager, she was told, "it's just boys being boys. " The final straw, Berkey said, came when she complained about a male co-worker she had trained, who then began acting rudely toward her after a leave. "I was told to just tough it out," she said. So she quit.

Berkey said she hears similar stories from her female friends. "I know a lot of boys who are like this," she said. "I wish it wasn't like that but it is. "

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The poll of 1,851 adults age 18-30 was conducted Sept. 1-14 using a sample drawn from the probability-based GenForward panel, which is designed to be representative of the U. S. young adult population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.

The survey was paid for by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago, using grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

Respondents were first selected randomly using address-based sampling methods and later interviewed online or by phone.

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12 /67 Alibaba Pictures, Amblin to co-produce films for global, Chinese audiences (2.05/11) BEIJING, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners and Alibaba Pictures Group Ltd, the film unit of Chinese billionaire Jack Ma's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd , said on Sunday they will co-produce and finance films for global and Chinese audiences. They will also collaborate on the marketing, distribution and merchandising of Amblin Partner films in China, the companies said in a joint statement. Amblin Partners creates film, television and digital content under the Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures and Participant Media brands. Big Chinese companies including Dalian Wanda Group Co are looking to bring more Western films and movie-making prowess into China even as they seek to expand their footprint in Hollywood. China's masses have the ability to keep Hollywood movies afloat, industry watchers say. They expect China to soon surpass the United States as the world's biggest movie market. This year's 'Warcraft', which was a box office flop in the United States, raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in China, making it one of the country's highest-grossing films of the year. "Some of the stories I'm hoping Jack and I can tell in this new partnership between Amblin Partners and Alibaba Pictures will be able to bring Chinese-themed stories to the American audience, and we can do co-productions between our company and your company," Spielberg said at a briefing in Beijing. "And we can bring more of China to America, and bring some more of America to China. " Hong Kong-listed Alibaba Pictures has yet to release any films, although the company formerly known as ChinaVision Media Group Ltd has several projects in production. Alibaba Pictures began investing in Hollywood films in 2015 with its stake in 'Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation'. It was an investor in this year's blockbusters 'Star Trek Beyond' and 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group paid about $800 million for a controlling stake in ChinaVision Media in 2014. Under the terms of the partnership, Alibaba Pictures will also acquire a minority stake in Amblin Partners, which is chaired by Spielberg, the award-winning U. S. movie director and producer. Dalian Wanda, the conglomerate controlled by China's richest man Wang Jianlin, is partnering with Sony Pictures under which Wanda will market Sony Pictures' films and co-finance some upcoming movie releases of Sony Corp's film unit in China. In January, Wanda paid $3.5 billion for a controlling stake in U. S. film studio Legendary Entertainment. The group has also since said it would start co-investing in global blockbusters next year. "I heard a lot of people say the movie industries are dead. I think that's a lack of imagination," Ma said at the briefing. "All the cinemas in the future are going to be changed because of technology. So people will definitely have all kinds of experiences watching movies. " (Reporting by Ryan Woo; Editing by Paul Tait and Clelia Oziel)

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13 /67 Drones Carrying Medicines, Blood Face Top Challenge: Africa (1.16/11) At first, the drone took some explaining. Anxious villagers buzzed with rumors of a new blood-sucking thing that would fly above their homes. Witchcraft, some said.

The truth was more practical: A United Nations project would explore whether a small unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, could deliver HIV test samples more efficiently than land transport in rural Malawi.

Once understanding dawned and work began, young students and their teachers would spill out of the nearby school, cheering, each time they heard the drone approaching. "It was very exciting," UNICEF official Judith Sherman said.

As drones quickly pick up momentum around the world in everything from military strikes to pizza delivery, Africa, the continent with some of the most entrenched humanitarian crises, hopes the technology will bring progress.

This second-largest continent, with harsh landscapes of desert and rain forest and extremes of rainy seasons and drought, is burdened with what the World Bank has called "the worst infrastructure endowment of any developing region today. " Rural highways, often unpaved, disintegrate. In many countries, access to electricity has actually declined. Taking to the air to soar over such challenges, much as Africa embraced mobile phones to bypass often dismal landline service, is a tempting goal.

Those trying out drones for humanitarian uses in Africa warn that the technology is no quick fix, but several new projects are exploring what can be achieved.

The highest-profile one yet begins this week in Rwanda, as the government and U. S. company Zipline launch a drone network to deliver blood supplies and medicines to remote hospitals and clinics. Even in one of Africa's smallest countries, such deliveries can take weeks by land. With drones, it will take hours.

The speed and limited space of drones have focused aid groups and businesses on how to deliver small, sensitive and potentially life-saving cargo. Earlier this year, a partnership was announced between Zipline and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.

Off Africa's eastern coast in Madagascar, another U. S. company, Vayu, has completed drone flights to deliver blood and stool samples from rural villages with support from the U. S. Agency for International Development.

Africa has certain benefits for such projects, said Sid Rupani, who from his South Africa office studies how drones could be used effectively in supply chains. His U. S.-based employer, Llamasoft, has run a virtual pilot for Zipline in Tanzania.

"It's not crowded airspace. Not many urban areas to deal with," Rupani said. Already, drones are being used in parts of the continent as visual aids in mapping and anti-poaching.

Drones also face multiple challenges. Some models are limited in range or need frequent recharging. If they crash, retrieval in remote areas can be difficult. Some governments are wary of the technology as a possible invasion of their sovereignty, or they have no regulations in place.

Even aid workers have reservations. In a survey of workers in 61 countries released last month by the Humanitarian UAV Network and other groups, the majority saw drones as positive, but 22 percent did not.

A top concern was that people on the ground would think they were under attack.

"Whether we like it or not, UAVs are confused with weaponized drones," one Congo aid worker told the survey, pointing out the use of drones by the U. N. peacekeeping mission there.

Cost is another issue. The United Nations' test early this year in Malawi with the help of U. S. company Matternet found that using motorcycles was cheaper as they could carry other cargo, said Sherman, UNICEF's HIV and AIDS chief there.

But she still sees drones as "a leapfrog technology that has great potential, some we might not have thought of yet. "

Aid organizations are pushing for new breakthroughs. The Netherlands-based Wings for Aid is working on a drone prototype to carry more and go farther: Up to 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of cargo could be delivered to several points within 500 kilometers (310 miles), said Wesley Kreft, director of business development and innovation.

"The holy grail is to have a network of autonomous drones that do their work independently, with a human supervising numerous deliveries at once," said Arthur Holland Michel, co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College in New York.

It could take a couple of years before such drones could be entrusted with critical deliveries in challenging rural areas like Africa, he said, but the technology is there.

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2016-10-09 09:36 By abcnews.go.com

14 /67 Success: UK Group Says 2 Endangered Rhinos Have Given Birth (1.16/11) British conservationists say two critically endangered eastern black rhinos bred in captivity in England have given birth in Africa.

The Aspinall Foundation said Sunday the two females bred at its wildlife park in southern England and released in Tanzania have given birth after mating there with a male who had also been bred in captivity.

The two females named Grumeti and Zawadi were given a sendoff by Prince William when they departed for Tanzania in 2012. William has been active in recent years in trying to protect wildlife.

The foundation says each female has given birth in recent weeks to healthy babies.

Foundation chairman Damian Aspinall says the births represent a "remarkable and vital" breakthrough in the bid to protect this endangered species. He says strong habitat protection is also needed.

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2016-10-09 07:08 By abcnews.go.com

15 /67 Not much slippage for Trump in new polls, but potential is there (1.10/11) Donald Trump has lost only minimal support since the news broke about lewd comments he made 11 years ago, a new poll released Sunday shows, but Trump could face more slippage. A Morning Consult/Politico survey taken Saturday found Trump with 38 percent support to Hillary Clinton’s 42 percent. Trump’s down from the 41-39 deficit he had on Oct. 5-6, just before the video surfaced Oct. 7.

The poll found 45 percent of voters said Trump should remain the race, while 39 percent wanted him out. Only 12 percent of Republicans said he should exit, despite increasing calls from party officials for him to leave. Trump has insisted he won’t.

Three of four Republicans said GOP leaders should stand by Trump.

New CBS polling in Ohio and Pennsylvania also found similar results. Fifty-four percent of Ohio voters and 51 percent of Pennsylvania voters said the news did little to change their view of Trump, and both states, generally nine of 10 Republicans said it did not change their view of him. There was a gender gap. In Pennsylvania, 53 percent of women and 42 percent of men said it made their view of Trump worse. While it’s too soon to know if the video will change attitudes much, “the initial reaction to is suggests that it will certainly be on voters’ minds in tonight’s debate,” wrote Anthony Salvanto, CBS News elections director, Sunday.

CBS’ poll found the response of women notable because “Trump was already facing deficits among women voters and in particular among women with college degrees.”

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16 /67 VIDEO: Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon give Clifton Heights some love on ‘Saturday Night Live’ (1.06/11) Posted: 10/09/16, 8:24 AM EDT | Updated: 17 secs ago

Actors Tina Fey, the Upper Darby native, and Jimmy Fallon made their return to ‘Saturday Night Live,’ portraying a couple of undecided woman voters from Clifton Heights Saturday night.

In a segment on ‘Weekend Update,’ Fey was wearing a Villanova sweater, while Fallon sported an Eagles sweatshirt and brought hoagies to the show.

The pair talked about how they still weren’t sure how they were going to vote in the presidential election in the fallout from Donald Trump’s latest snafu where he used vulgar language about women.

Fey at one point said she would support Hillary Clinton, but she felt Clinton didn’t do enough to punish the women her husband, President Bill Clinton, had an affair.

“When a girl so much as flirted with my husband, I dropped mice from the drop ceiling of her pizza place,” Fey said in a possble reference to a story from 2011 where a man was charged with putting mice into a rival pizza shop in Upper Darby .

The pair also talked about the Mummer’s parade and equated Trump to a “drunk” clown from one of the brigades. TOUCH HERE to see the video.

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17 /67 Last survivor of Greece's 1967-74 military junta dies at 103

(1.05/11) ATHENS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The last survivor from the right-wing junta that staged Greece's 1967 military coup and ruled for seven years has died at the age of 103, the state-run Athens News Agency reported on Sunday. Born on the island of Crete, Stylianos Pattakos was a brigadier general who commanded armoured tank forces when he took part in the April 21, 1967 coup led by Colonel George Papadopoulos. Pattakos's tanks were pivotal in the junta's seizure of the capital Athens. He served as interior minister as well as first deputy prime minister. After democracy was restored in 1974, Pattakos and Papadopoulos were arrested and sentenced to death. Their sentences were later commuted to life imprisonment. Pattakos was released in 1990 for health reasons. He remained unrepentant to his death on Saturday, insisting that the coup had saved Greece from communism. Papadopoulos, who refused to seek his own release, died in prison in 1999. (Reporting by George Georgiopoulos; editing by Mark Heinrich)

Stylianos Pattakos, Greek Stylianos Pattakos, Greek military coup figure, dies at Military Coup Figure, Dies at 103 103 article.wn.com article.wn.com

2016-10-09 10:01 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

18 /67 New Delhi airport calls off emergency over radioactive leak (1.05/11) NEW DELHI (AP) — A section of the cargo terminal at New Delhi’s international airport was cordoned off Sunday after a suspected radioactive leak, but officials later said the radiation posed no danger to people and called off the emergency.

The leak at Indira Gandhi International Airport was suspected to have occurred from a package containing cancer medicine that had arrived as cargo on an Air France plane, said Atul Garg, New Delhi’s fire chief.

Rao Narender, a duty officer at Delhi Fire Service headquarters, said a regular consignment of the nuclear medicine used in cancer treatments arrived at the airport’s cargo terminal and was being processed when some workers raised concerns that it was radioactive material.

Officials declared a radiological emergency and cordoned off the area. Workers at the cargo terminal had to evacuate the building while a disaster management team investigated the nature of the radioactive material. The cargo terminal is located about 2 kilometers (1 mile) from the airport’s passenger area.

A couple of hours later, District Magistrate Abhishek Singh said that the amount of radiation emitted from the medicine was “within permissible limits,” and that it did not pose a danger to anyone. He said there was no radiation in the surrounding areas.

“A final call has thus been taken and the radiological emergency has been called off,” Singh said in a statement.

He said the package was meant for a New Delhi hospital’s cancer unit. comments

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2016-10-09 07:46 The Associated wtop.com

19 /67 Rudy Giuliani on Donald Trump tape: 'Men at times talk like that' (1.04/11) Rudy Giuliani defended Donald Trump's crude remarks about women Sunday, telling CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" that "men at times talk like that. "

But the former New York City mayor also admitted that what Trump was describing in a 2005 video is sexual assault. Hours before the second presidential debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton, Trump's campaign tasked Giuliani with defending the GOP nominee amid a controversy that threatens to derail his candidacy and has thrown the Republican Party into chaos, with many of the party's top officials now openly rejecting Trump and calling on him to drop out of the race.

Giuliani told Tapper that Trump is likely to apologize at the town hall-style presidential debate -- yet is also likely to attack Hillary Clinton over her treatment of the women involved in Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs.

Giuliani said Trump made "horrible remarks -- they're remarks you certainly don't want to hear from anyone, much less a presidential candidate. "

"I think he made a full and complete apology for it. He probably is going to do it again tonight," he said.

Tapper pressed Giuliani on Trump's claim -- in the video from a 2005 "Access Hollywood" interview published Friday by The Washington Post -- that because he is a star, he could walk up to women and "grab them by the pussy," asking who Trump did that to.

"First of all, I don't know that he did it to anyone. This is talk, and gosh almighty, he who hasn't sinned, throw the first stone here," Giuliani said.

Tapper said: "I have never said that; I have never done that. I am happy to throw a stone. I have been in locker rooms. I have been a member of a fraternity. I have never heard any man, ever, brag about being able to maul women because they get away with it -- never. "

Giuliani responded: "We've taken it to an extra degree of what he said. But the fact is that men at times talk like that. Not all men, but men do. He was wrong for doing it. I am not justifying it. I believe it's wrong. I know he believes it's wrong. I believe this is not the man we're talking about today. "

In a separate interview on ABC's "This Week," host George Stephanopoulos told Giuliani that what Trump was describing in the video is sexual assault -- which Giuliani didn't dispute.

"That's what he's talking about. You know, whether it happened or not, I don't know, and how much exaggeration was involved in that, I don't know," Giuliani said. "I do know there's a tendency on the part of some men at different times to exaggerate things like this, and I'm not in any way trying to excuse it or condone it. There is no excuse or answer for it other than, 'I'm very sorry and I wish I hadn't done it. And I'm not like that anymore.'"

The former New York City mayor also insisted that Trump's apology in a video posted on Facebook in the early Saturday morning hours was sincere.

"It was an apology. He definitely apologized, and I know from talking to him that he genuinely feels very sorry about this, and it's certainly not the views he holds today," Giuliani told Tapper.

"He's run for public office. He spent the last year and a half traveling around the country. He realizes the responsibility he has to the people that follow him and believe we have to make a change in this country," he said. "I think that alone has put a heavier weight on his shoulders than he ever had even when he was an entertainment star, the star of 'The Apprentice.' It's a different man that emerges when you campaign around the country for a year and a half and you hear the concerns of the American people. "

Still, in that Facebook video, Trump attacked Hillary Clinton over her treatment of the women involved in Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs.

Giuliani previewed that line of attack in his interview with Tapper.

"Gosh almighty, there were an awful lot of things, particularly Hillary Clinton attacking the women that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted, sexually abused -- and she was the leader of the attack against them -- so maybe he felt that at least put in context the kind of anger there would be at him," Giuliani said.

Bill Clinton has denied sexually assaulting any women and has never faced charges on any claims.

Giuliani also said Trump knows that 16 Republican senators on Saturday said they won't support him for president -- a round of defections that came after the "Access Hollywood" video surfaced.

He said Trump won't exit the race, despite calls from some for him to do so less than a month from Election Day.

"Yes, he is aware of the fact that a number of Republicans pulled their support, and he is not going to drop out," Giuliani said.

"He is going to remain. He is going to apologize for what he did. He is going to explain to people that that's not who he is today," he said. "And he's going to count on the fact that the American people are fair and decent people, and when someone asks for forgiveness, they usually give it. "

Rudy Giuliani on Trump: 'Men at times talk like this' latimes.com

2016-10-09 10:03 Eric Bradner rss.cnn.com

20 /67 20 /67 Brexit: MPs should opinion on talks, says Labour’s Starmer (1.03/11) MPs should opinion on a terms of Brexit negotiations, Labour’s shade Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said.

Sir Keir told a BBC a referendum outcome “has to be accepted” though indicted a PM of perplexing to “manoeuvre though any scrutiny” on how to grasp it.

He also pronounced he believed immigration should be reduced, by augmenting British workers’ skills.

Downing Street pronounced his call for a opinion was “an try to find another approach to frustrate a will of a British people.”

The supervision intends to trigger Article 50, a central routine for exiting a EU, by a finish of Mar 2017. ‘Axe to economy’

At a Conservative Party conference, Prime Minister Theresa May pronounced a supervision would strike a understanding with a EU as a “sovereign, independent” UK, though her debate has lifted concerns among some that a UK is headed for a “hard Brexit” – though unobstructed entrance to a singular market.

Sir Keir, who returned to Labour’s front dais final week in a reshuffle following Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election as Labour leader, told BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show: “The referendum is transparent and has to be supposed and we can’t have a re-run of a doubt that was put to a nation progressing this year.

“But, and it’s a large but, there has to be approved hold of a routine and, during a moment, what a primary minister’s perplexing to do is to stratagem though any inspection in Parliament and that’s because a terms on, that we’re going to negotiate positively have to be put to a opinion in a House.” ‘Should be reduced’

He pronounced nobody voted “to take an mattock to a economy” and Mrs May’s “stance on a singular marketplace is creation it nigh-on impossible” for Britain to have entrance to it that acted a “huge risk”.

Sir Keir also told a BBC “palpable and clear” regard about immigration had to listened to. Asked if he suspicion it was too high or low, he replied: “I consider it should be reduced, and it should be reduced by creation certain we’ve got a skills in this nation that are indispensable for a jobs that need to be done. “

Labour personality Jeremy Corbyn has pronounced he will not “sow division” by pledging to cut immigration – his orator pronounced during a time of a Labour discussion he was “not endangered about numbers”.

The talk follows reports of a cross-party pierce involving former Labour personality Ed Miliband and former Lib Dem personality Nick Clegg to find a stronger purpose for a Commons on Brexit.

In an essay in a Observer , Mr Miliband said: “There is no charge for tough Brexit, and we don’t trust there is a infancy in council for it either… it has to be a matter for MPs.” Mr Clegg told a same paper it was not “remotely acceptable” to leave it to a supervision to confirm a terms.

But a Downing Street source said: “While Labour are looking for ways to stop Brexit we are focused on creation a success of it. Of march Parliament will have a purpose in a exit process, though this idea is simply an try to find another approach to frustrate a will of a British people.”

Conservative MP and former cupboard apportion Iain Duncan Smith told a BBC’s Sunday Politics that it was “pretty clear” that a UK would not sojourn a member of a singular marketplace once it left a European Union.

“I think, when we supplement all these things together it becomes, we believe, flattering transparent unequivocally that … there is no approach unequivocally that a European Union will be means to concede us to be a member of a singular market. Which by a approach is not a same as access.”

The primary apportion has pronounced that immigration controls are a post-Brexit priority, though other EU leaders have pronounced that would be exclusive with a UK remaining in a singular market.

It has been reported that Mrs May is opposite holding a Parliamentary opinion on a process. She has pronounced MPs should be sensitive “at several stages” though told a BBC final week a supervision had to be means to negotiate though be certain that “we don’t set out all a cards in the negotiation.”

Brexit: MPs should vote on talks, says Labour's Starmer bbc.co.uk

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21 /67 Yemen: A war of horror forgotten in the shadow of Syria

(1.03/11) Tune into CNN International on Sunday at 4 p.m. CET for a full report on the Yemen war.

You might think this is a picture of war-torn Syria, but it is in fact Yemen, where a bloody civil war has created what the UN calls a "humanitarian catastrophe. "

YEMEN: Relentless attacks on hospitals

But unlike Syria, the world's gaze has largely missed a conflict that has left millions in need of aid and pushed communities to the brink of famine.

As such, many term it the "forgotten war. "

"It's probably one of the biggest crises in the world but it's like a silent crisis, a silent situation and a forgotten war," UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen Jamie McGoldrick told CNN.

The health service has "completely collapsed" and "children are dying silent deaths," McGoldrick said, as medical facilities continue to be bombed relentlessly.

Child victims

Since the conflict began in 2015, an estimated 10,000 people have been killed, according to the UN.

Harrowing photos of children wasting away are undoubtedly the most telling images of Yemen's war. UNICEF reports that 1.5 million children are currently malnourished in the country, 370,000 of them severely. On top of this, 178 schools have been attacked, according to data collected by the Yemen Post.

"The scale of suffering as a result of the ongoing conflict in Yemen is shocking. An estimated 21.2 million people, which constitutes nearly 80% of the total population, need humanitarian assistance. Almost half of those in need are children," said UNICEF Yemen Representative Meritxell Relano.

The war itself

The conflict began in early 2015, when Houthi rebels -- a minority Shia group from the north of the country -- drove out the US-backed government, led by President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, and took over the capital, Sanaa.

Yemen: US military distances itself from Saudi-led campaign

The crisis quickly escalated into a multi-sided war, which allowed al Qaeda and ISIS -- other enemies of the Houthis -- to grow stronger amid the chaos.

The Houthis are backed by Iran and its members follow the Shia Islamic branch of Zaidism. Zaidis make up around a third of Yemen's population and ruled the country's north for almost 1,000 years until 1962.

YEMEN: UAE says aid ship struck by rebels

A coalition led by neighboring Saudi Arabia began its air raids on the country in support of Hadi's government in March last year.

Deadly Eid strike

Since peace talks in Kuwait failed in August, the Saudi-led coalition intensified airstrikes, despite vocal criticism from rights groups that the bombardments have been indiscriminate and constitute war crimes. The attacks have often hit civilian targets with devastating results. On the day before Eid al-Adha -- considered by many to be the holiest Muslim holiday -- the coalition pounded a group of farmers digging a well in rebel-held Beit Saadan, north of Sanaa, killing at least 48 people, including first responders and children, according to three security sources in Beit Sadaan, who did not want to be named.

Abdul Malik Ali Wajeeh, a local resident and witness, lost his cousin, who was trying to rescue those buried in rubble from the initial strike.

"It's not the first time rescuers have been attacked by Saudi airstrikes, and people are aware that could happen. But you can't watch loved ones die and do nothing to help," he said.

A spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition, General Ahmed al-Asseri, told RT news that "all operations in the area were targeting Houthi positions and members. "

The attack gained international media attention after the UN put out a statement saying it was "deeply disturbed by the unrelenting attacks on civilians and on civilian infrastructure," calling it one of the worst attacks in the conflict yet.

But the Yemen Post collated information from official sources that at least 69 other civilians were killed in strikes the following week, including several as they slept in their homes and others as they celebrated Eid. The media has been largely silent on these attacks.

Out of the headlines

Yemen is in general very poorly covered.

"It's a complicated and messy conflict, it's hard to report on well, and it's hard to find a good guy and a bad guy," said Peter Salisbury, an associate fellow from the Middle East and North Africa Program at London-based Chatham House.

"There are a lot of issues with accessibility -- it's very hard to get into Yemen during the war, and if you do, it's not the easiest environment to get around in.

"It's expensive and it's not full of freelance journalists. It's a hard to sell to editors," he said.

'Giant game of risk'

But the lack of coverage seems to be mirroring a general lack of interest in the international community.

"The Yemen war remains regional because there is no major international backer on the other side of the conflict. And the Americans and the UK don't have any real strategic interest in Yemen, which is why they have decided to back the Saudis. For them, the strategic imperative in Yemen is really to keep the Saudis happy and to maintain a degree of stability in the Gulf," Salisbury said.

The Syrian conflict is of interest in the West as it has bled beyond its borders, with ISIS carrying out or inspiring attacks across Europe and spreading its influence in other Middle Eastern countries.

Lawmakers seek to stall $1B arms sale to Saudis The UK and US have shown no sign of stopping its sale of arms to the Saudis, despite mounting pressure to do so.

"There have been one or two occasions where the British arms industry wouldn't have been able to survive if it hadn't been for massive orders from Saudi Arabia," Salisbury said.

"Basically, policymakers in the West see the world as a giant game of Risk, and they see more value to maintaining their relationship with Saudi Arabia than getting rid of bad PR over Yemen. "

Independent investigation

At the Human Rights Council, which is currently in session, there have been calls for an independent investigation into the actions of the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis, both of whom are accused of committing war crimes.

These calls intensified after the Saudi-led coalition was removed from a UN blacklist in June that blamed the group for a six-fold jump in child deaths in the country. A UN official told CNN the Saudi government had applied huge pressure on Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to do so , though the Saudi government denied the accusations.

Riyadh accuses the Houthi rebels of recruiting child soldiers, and after a deadly strike that killed at least 14 children, it told CNN it was targeting a Houthi militant camp.

Saudi UN Ambassador Abdallah al-Mouallimi told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that he is certain his country was off the list for good following the announcement.

Mouallimi said some of the information in the UN report lacked accuracy and said the UN had been invited to send experts to Riyadh to discuss the report.

"We will do everything possible from our side to minimize casualties on our part," he said.

Syria's war: UN Security Council votes on Aleppo article.wn.com

2016-10-09 05:53 Hakim Almasmari rss.cnn.com

22 /67 Trump’s Misogyny and the Media’s “Righteous- Indignation Dollar” (1.02/11) "Trump’s words did not emerge in a social vacuum, and, as an industrial collective, the US media’s track record on the representation of women is nothing short of shameful. " (Photo: AP)

Twenty years ago, the great Bill Hicks had a classic stand-up bit in which he imagined ad executives watching his rant against advertising, and saying to each other: “Oh, I see what Bill is doing! He’s going after the anti-marketing dollar, the righteous-indignation dollar! That’s a good dollar!” Hicks was pointing out the ability of advertising to, in an utterly cynical fashion, monetize anything and everything…even a foul-mouthed critique of the desire of advertising to monetize anything and everything.

As I watch large portions of the media hand-wring over Trump, without a serious discussion of the role of the media itself in creating the hostile, sexist environment within which Trump’s grotesque worldview can flourish, it is worth asking if the coverage is in large part about the righteous-indignation dollar.

Once again, Trump has exposed himself to be the misogynist many of us suspected. And, again – as with his racism and Islamophobia – the US media has been quick to pitch itself as outraged over his new grotesque comments from 2005.

I do not doubt the sincerity of the attacks on Trump from individual journalists. Nor is this an argument that the responsibility for Trump’s words can be found anywhere other than with Trump himself. But Trump’s disgusting comments are also a reminder that massive double- standards in how men and women are treated in and by the media are important context for the story.

Trump’s words did not emerge in a social vacuum, and, as an industrial collective, the US media’s track record on the representation of women is nothing short of shameful. There is more than a drop of irony in newspapers printing articles attacking Trump, while on other pages of their publications near anorexic models advertise clothing and other fashion items, forwarding an ideal body-type that is not only impossible to attain, but physically harmful. There is similar irony in television pundits shaming Trump’s shaming and glorification of sexual abuse, while at the same time women “over a certain age” are quietly erased from our screens in favor of younger, more “attractive” talent. Add this to the fact that in popular film and television, women are sorely under-represented and under-heard, and the hypocrisy is only magnified.

Of course, Trump is a great way for the US media to check some progressive boxes.

Against racism? Check.

Against Islamophobia? Check.

Against sexism? Check.

The problem, however, is that Trump’s racism, Islamophobia and sexism are not counter- balanced by US media representations of African-Americans, Muslims and women…it is, more often than not, supported by them. Where, one should reasonably ask, were the hand-wringing editorials on how large swathes of the US news and popular media contributed to Trump’s rhetoric by giving credence to the very insults (that women are inferior sex objects) they now condemn? Where were the thought-pieces asking why women above a certain weight or age cannot make it as on-air talent in television? Where were the pundit round-tables looking into the role of corporate control and advertising in US media in shaping representations of women? This lack of critical introspection on the role of the media smacks of a deliberate attempt to deflect and obfuscate. It doesn’t absolve Trump, but it does implicate those who control our flow of news, information and entertainment.

So, yes, Trump is the villain here. But the broader message of current coverage is that structural sexism, racism or xenophobia are only important when Trump says something outrageous. When we consider US media history, that’s as disingenuous as it is hypocritical.

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Christian Christensen, American in Sweden, is Professor of Journalism at Stockholm University. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrChristensen

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23 /67 Lin-Manuel Miranda hosts SNL, remixes Hamilton’s ‘My Shot’ (Video) (1.02/11) WASHINGTON — Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda, also known as the creator of the musical Hamilton, hosted Saturday Night Live on Oct. 8. Watch Miranda break into rap with a remixed version of Hamilton’s “My Shot.” comments

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24 /67 Bisping praises 'incredible' Henderson after retaining UFC title – video (1.02/11) Michael Bisping pays tribute to his opponent Dan Henderson after retaining his middleweight title at UFC 204 in the early hours on Sunday morning in Manchester. Bisping says the 46-year-old Henderson is a legend of the sport after winning a thrilling fight on a points decision. Henderson also announces his decision to retire from the sport and that the fight will be his last

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2016-10-09 05:29 Source: UFC www.theguardian.com

25 /67 Warning over doorstep mattress sales (1.01/11) Councils are warning people not to buy mattresses from door-to-door sellers.

The Local Government Association – that represents councils in England and Wales – pronounced some “scam traders” were offering unwashed mattresses that had been thrown away.

Others were importing them though a correct reserve certificates. The mattresses are afterwards repackaged – mostly in branded wrapping.

Some sellers feign a internal hotel is offering them after grouping too many.

Councils opposite England have dealt with mis-sold mattresses:

Simon Blackburn, a authority of a LGA’s safer and stronger communities board, said: “These fly- by-night sellers don’t caring about a risks these mattresses pose, they only wish to make a discerning sire and leave we with phoney sum so they can’t be traced.

“These mattresses might be described as memory froth though are delicately wrapped so we have no thought what we are buying.

“They generally destroy glow reserve tests and are mostly worn-out, unwashed and unsanitary equipment unfailing for a tip.

“Anyone offering a inexpensive mattress on their doorstep should not buy one.”

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26 /67 No casualties reported after China refinery blast (1.00/11) BEIJING, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Equipment at an oil refinery in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing caught fire and exploded on Sunday, state media said, in the country's latest industrial accident. The explosion occurred at around 1:50 p.m. at the Jinlingshihua Nanjing Refinery, a subsidiary of Sinopec Group, the official Xinhua news agency said, adding that no casualties had yet been reported. Xinhua said fire fighters had been dispatched to battle the flames and pictures carried by state media showed thick black smoke rising into the sky above an industrial complex. The blaze had been controlled and there was not currently a secondary environmental or security risk, the company said on its official microblog. Deadly accidents are relatively common at industrial plants in China, and anger over lax standards is growing after three decades of swift economic growth marred by incidents from mining disasters to factory fires. China has vowed to improve safety at such facilities. President Xi Jinping has said authorities would learn the lessons paid for with blood after chemical blasts in the port city of Tianjin on Aug. 12 last year killed more than 170 people. (Reporting by Michael Martina and Coco Li; Editing by Stephen Coates)

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27 /67 Gulp… it’s Brexit (1.00/11) Before there was Brexit – before there was a European Common Market or a Treaty of Rome – there was a sherry trade.

Shakespeare sang a praises of a golden fortified booze from a sun-griddled vineyards of southern Spain.

The English in sold have been celebration it by a tub given Sir Francis Drake began looting reserve from a Spanish harbours he attacked.

The sherry wineries or bodegas in and around a southern city of Jerez de la Frontera are a accessible vantage indicate from that to consult a trade landscape of post-Brexit Europe – an EU reduction a UK.

On a one hand, times have been tough in new years – sales of mass-market sherries have plummeted in a years given a 1980s, when each domicile in a UK kept a inexpensive bottle to hand, to flow into trifles on Sundays and kin during Christmas.

On a other hand, a trade has historically showed unusual resilience during formidable chronological moments, rising successfully from World Wars One and Two, a Spanish Civil War and a Great Depression.

It was a indicate emphasised to me by Pedro Revuelta Gonzalez, in a superb wood-panelled library of a Gonzalez-Byass bodega in Jerez. Holiday business

He constructed from a repository a bill orderly recording a company’s business in Britain during a early 1940s – a years of a Blitz and a Battle of Britain. The neatly-bound ledger, with handwritten entries in faded fountain-pen ink, was recovered from a disadvantage of a company’s London office, that was shop-worn in a German atmosphere raid. Mr Gonzalez favours a soothing Brexit – one that protects not usually a interests of a sherry trade, though also those of a British expatriates who live on a coast, a brief expostulate to a south, and a outrageous numbers of Britons who come each year to a resorts of Benidorm and Torremolinos.

“We trust in giveaway trade,” he told me. “And we wish and we’re certain that a regulators in a UK and Europe also trust in that. So they’ll try to find a resolution that will be good for Britain, for Europe and of march for consumers, so there won’t be large barriers in commerce.”

If Brexit were to turn a sour affair, that concerned British depart from a EU etiquette kinship and a singular market, and clever restrictions on leisure of transformation into a UK, afterwards in speculation during slightest those tourists in destiny competence need a visa for their Spanish holidays.

Perhaps since this segment of Spain has such tighten links with a UK, that certainty that a soothing Brexit understanding can be organised seems sincerely widespread.

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In a celebration of British tourists on a debate of a Gonzalez-Byass bodega we met Mick Irwin and Glenys Nicholls, who told me they voted for Brexit. And if there are Brexiteers experiencing “Buyer’s Remorse”, as some commentators have suggested, afterwards Mick and Glenys are not among them.

“No, no, no approach – that’s it, we’ve done a decision,” Glenys told me. “I wish they don’t go behind and do another vote, since it’s not a best of 3 until a other side get their way. We’re entrance out, come what way, and we’ll usually have to mount by a self-assurance and tarry one approach or a other.”

When we asked Mick if there was some arrange of counterbalance between voting Brexit and afterwards streamer off to an EU member state on holiday he couldn’t have been clearer.

“Not during all. They still wish to sell us their sherry and they wish to sell us their object and sangria and they’ll be slicing off their noses to annoy their faces if they try to put British tourists off.”

There was a ubiquitous clarity of warn in Spain during a UK’s opinion to leave a EU. Fragile recovery

Spain assimilated a EU usually a decade or so after a genocide of a tyrant Francisco Franco, and membership here is compared some-more with an anchoring of a approved routine and a modernising of a economy, than with nonessential bureaucracy and untrammelled immigration.

Eugenio Camacho, a presenter and editor of a news programme on Radio Jerez, put it like this:

“The concerns about Brexit are mostly in terms of a ancestral blurb family over sherry between Jerez and Great Britain. More than fear, there’s uncertainty. At a impulse when a expenditure of sherry has started to redeem in an critical marketplace like a UK this unequivocally puts a brakes on that recovery.”

The routine of negotiating a terms on that a UK leaves a EU has not nonetheless begun. And it is probable that when it does it will be prolonged and tortuous.

Southern Spain, with a clever ancestral British trade links, provides a sign that when a EU is perplexing to settle on a negotiating plan there will be voices job from within for a soothing Brexit and a soothing alighting – for what might be a formidable and long process.

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28 /67 Russia says can protect its Syria assets if U. S. carpet bombs (0.01/11) MOSCOW, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday that Russia had the means to protect its assets in Syria if the United States decided to carpet bomb the Syrian government's military air fields. Lavrov said he had heard that this was one option being advocated by some policy makers in Washington. "This is a very dangerous game given that Russia, being in Syria at the invitation of the legitimate government of this country and having two bases there, has got air defence systems there to protect its assets," Lavrov told Russian state TV's First Channel, according to the text of his interview published on the Foreign Ministry's website. Lavrov, in the same interview, said he was convinced that U. S. President Barack Obama would not agree to such a scenario. (Reporting by Maria Kiselyova; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

Russia says draft French U.N. Syria resolution protected militants dailymail.co.uk

2016-10-09 07:31 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

29 /67 US spooky clown craze moves to Australia, New Zealand MELBOURNE: Sightings of creepy clowns that have spooked the United States appear to have sparked 'copy-cat' acts in Australia and New Zealand , with police issuing stern warnings for would-be clowns.

2016-10-09 10:52 system article.wn.com

30 /67 Austrian police dog recovers severed finger Surgeons have been able to reattach one of two fingers severed by a circular saw in Austria thanks to the keen nose of a police dog. The search animal was able to locate the unidentified woman's thumb lost in tall grass. ...

2016-10-09 10:46 system article.wn.com

31 /67 Tributes pour in for teen who died after slap Three days after posting a happy selfie on Facebook of his family on a plane to their dream holiday in Mauritius, a 14- year-old boy paid a heartfelt tribute to his dead sister.

''She was one in a million" said the boy of his sister Mundolene Vosloo, 17, who was allegedly killed by her stepmother at the four-star Hotel Riu Le Morne on the Le Morne peninsula in Mauritius on Wednesday.

Mauritian authorities say the boy is likely to be the key witness against his stepmother Marietjie Vosloo, 39, who has been arrested and provisionally charged with Mundolene's murder.

The teenager from Springs, east of Johannesburg, travelled with her father, Mike, two brothers aged 14 and 11, and her stepmother - their father's second wife - to the tropical island on a family vacation.

The Sunday Times understands that Mauritian police will today conduct a crime reconstruction with the boy, who is said to have been present when his stepmother allegedly threw a glass at his sister and later slapped her.

Mundolene's family in South Africa said on Friday they were too traumatised to talk and were awaiting details of what had happened in Mauritius.

Her aunt, Cornelle Vorster, said: "This is a very difficult time ... We can't comment on anything at this stage. "

In a Facebook post, Vorster wrote: "Thank you to everyone for the messages and prayers with the death of my brother and sister-in-law's daughter... Our hearts are broken. "

Family lawyer Jan van Heerden said the family's priority was to repatriate Mundolene's body to South Africa and make funeral arrangements.

Mundolene's biological mother, Mariska, and her husband travelled to Mauritius on Thursday.

A message from Mundolene's father posted by a family friend on Facebook provides some detail of how Mundolene allegedly died.

He said Marietjie had been "moaning" at Mundolene and he had asked his daughter to ignore her to avoid a fight. "Mundolene did as I asked and avoided any possible conflict. On several occasions myself and the boys asked Marietjie to leave Mundolene alone.

"A fight ensued where Marietjie, in front of everyone, threw Mundolene with a glass. "

Mike Vosloo's message, in Afrikaans, said that during a later altercation, Marietjie slapped Mundolene, who fell down.

"My child was declared dead 30 minutes later. Can't believe my beautiful child is taken away from me. I miss her very much.

"All I wanted was a once-in-a-lifetime holiday for my children. They were so excited and now it has turned out like this. "

Marietjie Vosloo, Mundolene’s stepmother who has been provisionally charged with murder, will appear in court in Mauritius again on Thursday. Image: YOUTUBE

According to the police report the family, except Marietjie, are due to return to South Africa on Tuesday.

Marietjie will make her second appearance in the Bambous District Court on Thursday.

Police spokesman Inspector Shiva Coothen said: ''Until the investigation is over we cannot jump to any conclusions.

''Everyone who has witnessed the incident, their statements have to be recorded and they have to testify when the case goes to court.

"They will have to record the father's version on whether he witnessed anything and they need to know if there were any problems between his wife and late daughter," Coothen said.

Tributes poured in for Mundolene. Her boyfriend Tyron Bothma said it was too early to speak, but wrote several messages and posted a musical tribute to her on Facebook.

Other tributes were from her friends at Hoërskool Hugenote in Springs. Zandré Wolmarans wrote: ''You were the prettiest girl I knew... God will take care of you. I'll miss you very much. "

Chenique Levinson wrote: ''Someone make me wake up and say 'it was just a dream'. "

Department of International Relations and Co-operation spokesman Nelson Kgwete said the family had not requested government assistance.

An investigator told Mauritian media yesterday that Mundolene's mother Mariska had given a statement to the police in which she said Marietjie disliked her ex-husband spoiling the children when they visited his home. She also said that she had asked her daughter to avoid her stepmother as she was "bad tempered". [email protected]

2016-10-09 10:39 MONICA LAGANPARSAD www.timeslive.co.za

32 /67 Hilarious photo of a sign pointing shoppers to an escalator next to Prada is mocked on Twitter Some of the most lavish fashion houses spend thousands of pounds creating a perfume campaign that will entice shoppers. But one photo proved that all it takes is a little unfortunate wording to spark derision and mockery - and lead to a social media meltdown. An eagle-eyed shopper snapped a photo of a sign at Westfield shopping centre bearing the helpful instructions 'Please use the escalator by Prada' - and captioned it: 'Worst. Perfume. Name. Ever'. London-based Joe Harland's wry words suggested that luxury Italian fashion house Prada has released a new scent titled: 'Please use the escalator.' He posted the shot to his Twitter account on Saturday after spotting it at the London shopping centre - and the photo quickly garnered over 4,000 likes. Twitter users went into meltdown coming up with various puns and suggestions for limited- edition releases as a result. Jake Brown wrote: 'waiting for the follow up: Scent of a Crowded Elevator.' Meanwhile Richard May suggested: 'Surely it's better than the smell of JP Gaultier's "Run up the stairs"? And it wasn't long before the puns started pouring in, with one user commenting: 'Designed to give the user a lift?' Stuart Greaves added 'There will be some people who get a rise out of this, lol.' Chris Hawkins commented: 'Sales may go up with a name like that, but after a while, have to go down (sic)'. And Jake Collie mustered all his powers of wordplay to offer this nugget of comedy gold: 'Amazing advert. Can't help but stair at it.' James Sklar managed to find even more comedic nuance in the picture, suggesting that Prada had created an escalator to rival fellow Italian designer Gucci. He wrote simply: 'The Gucci Escalator is broken.' One user with the handle @briankardell inquired: 'I wonder if they recommend a different scent in case of fire.'

2016-10-09 10:26 Ekin Karasin www.dailymail.co.uk

33 /67 Report: Law Enforcement Agencies Registering Vehicle Information Of Gun Show Attendees A report last week in the Wall Street Journal provides further indication of the Obama administration’s persecutory attitude toward America’s gun owners.

The newspaper claimed emails from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show that U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents used local police officers in Southern California to drive around the parking lot of a large gun show to “collect all of the cars’ information.”

Based on normal attendance at the show, thousands of individuals who were under no particularized suspicion were likely swept up in the surveillance dragnet.

The article states that ICE had hatched a plan to use license plate readers (LPRs) at Southern California gun shows to compare information on vehicles parked at the shows with information on vehicles later crossing the border into Mexico.

Of course, there’s nothing inherently suspicious about attending a gun show or traveling to a neighboring country, even if one event precedes another.

And unsurprisingly, according to the article, “There is no indication the gun-show surveillance led to any arrests or investigative leads ….”

Nevertheless, officials contacted by the Journal did not “rule out that such surveillance may have happened elsewhere.”

What happened to the information gathered by the surveillance, and whether it remains on file with the government, is unknown.

Federal law prohibits the government from compiling a registry of firearms or their owners from certain types of specified information. Information obtained by LPRs, a relatively new technology, is not covered by these provisions.

Use of the devices is largely unregulated, and because they capture information that individuals are exposing in public, their Fourth Amendment implications have not received the same degree of attention as the capture of information contained in ostensibly private locations or communications. Yet the move sparked condemnation from a number of quarters, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a company that manufactures LPR systems, whose CEO called the gun show surveillance “an abuse of the technology.”

On Tuesday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) weighed in with his own disapproval in a letter sent to ICE’s director , Sarah R. Saldaña. “Constitutionally-protected activities should not subject gun show attendees to unwarranted and heavy-handed surveillance practices by their government,” he wrote. Chairman Goodlatte also demanded further details of the operation mentioned in the Journal article and of any similar operations.

This is not the first time that mass surveillance of gun show attendees has made the news. Last year, we reported on a similar program proposed by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and revealed in documents obtained by an ACLU FOIA request.

The DEA claimed that particular program never went past the proposal stage.

Whether or not that’s true, it’s clear the Obama administration is sympathetic to the idea that any gun owner, or even any person who simply attends a gun show is a potential criminal or terrorist.

That attitude has led to other abusive tactics and proposals, from Operation Choke Point to the president’s calls for “universal” background checks.

Gun owners should take note and should be sure the officials who get their votes are committing to protecting their rights, not using the exercise of those rights to cast unwarranted suspicion or condemnation upon them.

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2016-10-09 17:32 dailycaller.com

34 /67 Helen Flanagan dazzles in a low-cut gown as she enjoys dinner in Dubai She's preparing to reprise her role as Rosie Webster on Coronation Street next year. But before all that, Helen Flanagan has been enjoying some time off in Dubai with her family. The brunette beauty, 26, looked a picture of happiness as she wandered to dinner with her footballer beau Scott Sinclair, 27, and their daughter Matilda, 15 months, on Saturday night. Helen dazzled in a shimmering maxi dress that accentuated her ample assets with a plunging neckline and two racy side-splits. Tying her hair back to let her striking facial features shine through, natural beauty Helen accessorised with a subtle necklace, shoulder handbag and completed her outfit with some strappy heels. Meanwhile Celtic star Scott, who had some time off as he was not selected to play for England during the international break, looked casual in a jeans and T-shirt combo. He carried cute Matilda, clad in an adorable white dress, in his arms as the happy family headed to trendy Mexican restaurant Maya at the Royal Meridien Beach Resort & Spa. Helen will reprise her famous Coronation Street role at the end of the year - with her first scenes airing in February 2017. Helen, who played Rosie Webster for 12 years, is due to start filming scenes at the end of the year. The vivacious brunette will come bouncing back into her mother and father's lives when she arrives back in Weatherfield from Miami alongside younger sister, Sophie. Speaking about her return to the soap, Helen said: 'I'm so excited to be returning to Coronation Street and being part of the Webster family again.' Corrie boss Kate Oates said that it was the 'ideal time' to bring the character back, explaining: 'The Websters have missed Rosie and so have we. 'With Sophie away on holiday with her sister it seemed like the ideal time to bring Rosie back home with her for a visit. Meanwhile, Helen and Scott began dating in 2009, with the actress previously revealing that they would definitely like to get married in the future. Last month, Helen revealed they had considered adding to their brood as she admitted on Loose Women: 'We had talked about trying for a baby last Christmas - and then we said when she's two and now we're saying when she's three, so who knows?' Gushing about her daughter, she added: 'She has made me so much happier. It changes your priorities and you realise what's important but I am completely besotted with her. 'It is really full on but you don't realise how much until you actually become a mother yourself.'

2016-10-09 10:24 Charlie Moore www.dailymail.co.uk

35 /67 Muslim vlogger gets a 'breathtaking' response pretending to be homeless in London A Muslim blogger in religious dress receives 'breathtaking' gestures of kindness when he acts as a homeless man, in this captivating video. Clutching a cardboard sign with just the words 'I'm homeless' written on it the blogger, known as Hstar Vlogs, films himself sat down in a London street as part of a social experiment. While he is ignored by many people passing by some stop to ask him if he is alright and he is soon approached by one man who offers him food. Three girl's then come up to him with one even offering to give him a £50 note. This forces the blogger to break character to turn down the money. The Middlesex University graduate said: 'Three girl's approached me and asked if I was OK. One of the girls offered me a £50 note, but I refused to take it. 'It was a feeling I could not explain- the fact a stranger was helping a stranger. 'I just had to inform them this was a social media experiment. After the kind gesture I just had to let them know. 'One of the girls said she made a silent prayer for me and that meant the world to me.' The video was posted on Hstar Vlogs YouTube channel on Friday. He added: 'My purpose for doing this experiment was not to receive money but to see if the humanity still exists in this world. 'Religion or colour shouldn't matter when it comes to these things. Help others who are in need, your help could make someone's day.'

2016-10-09 10:21 Rachael Burford www.dailymail.co.uk

36 /67 Naked models use body paint to perfectly camouflage against variety of famous landmarks These breathtaking photos show naked models camouflaged perfectly against a backdrop of famous landmarks thanks to some meticulously applied body paint. New York artist Trina Merry, who specialises in bodypainting, lines her subjects up and photographs them so they appear to blend right into the scenery around them, which ranges from rural Normandy to picturesque Istanbul and busy New York. The backdrops to her eye-catching art include the White House, Freedom Tower, Grand Central Station, the Golden Gate Bridge, and even Ireland's Giant's Causeway. By painting her subjects into a modern background, Trina is putting a modern twist on the oldest art form known to man. Ms Merry explained: 'I paint on people and, with great care, photograph them using single perspective point photography. This creates a hyper realistic illusion that they are blending into their surroundings. 'Bodypaint is the eldest art form that we know of, pre-dating cave paintings.. 'I am fascinating by how these indigenous markings were used to identify stages of life, rank within a tribe and a distinction between tribes.' She added: 'We have a very similar behaviour in contemporary societies via consumerism, fashion, the cars we drive and houses we buy to represent status. 'However while indigenous tribes accept and embrace the individual as a part of their community, knowing them by name, in our contemporary culture, our individuality is lost and our 'markings' only homogenise. 'I've never felt more alone and disposable than while living in New York. It feels like I could disappear and no one would know. 'My work shows that experience. It uses marking the body to show what we put on our bodies to identify ourselves within a 'tribe' actually cause us to disappear. 'Painting on the body also creates a special connection to a person that other visual art forms have trouble accomplishing. It's a distinctly human experience.' Working quickly, it usually takes Ms Merry between one and three hours to paint a person. However, the work requires to subject to remain completely still. It can be a test of endurance. The artist said: 'Durational performance art takes training, both of the body and of the mind. We train, we meditate, we communicate and we trust each other.' Taking the art into public spaces mean that Ms Merry's work, as well as her subjects, are instantly exposed to people's opinions. She said: 'People love it, they hate it, they think I'm a genius, they don't get it and ask questions, they are scared of the nudity, they embrace the human body and complement the models on their beauty and bravery 'I'm immediately confronted by people's opinions and have learned to not to take anything personally because they are projecting themselves onto the work. 'It has nothing to do with me or my reality of making the work and so I just focus on my responsibility to make the work. 'I have to be incredibly courageous and vulnerable to create this kind of work.' The works include a couple embracing passionately on manicured green lawns in front of the iconic White House in Washington. Speaking about it, Ms Merry said: 'This layered work explores juxtapositions between culture versus nature and power versus protest. The fading Garden of Eden-like embrace reinvents the love and pacifism of the Flower Power movement.' One photo of a woman sitting on a fence with the vast Freedom Tower as the backdrop is intended to draw up such questions like: 'What is our responsibility post 9/11 to our city and our skyline? How will those lost be remembered and how do we move forward as a country making policies, especially in light of our new election? 'Will we continue to be a melting pot country that invites all people towards equality and freedom?' 'Or will we exclude, kick out, gentrify and make the immigrant disappear in the coming 4 years? We have many decisions to make as a country on how we respond to fear based words that may or may not accurately describe a crime like 'terrorism'.' Another image shows a woman standing in front of Grand Central Station looking at her watch as though to check the time. Explaining the significance of the work, Ms Merry said: 'This was a work of stillness in the middle of one of the busiest areas of movement in New York's Grand Central Station. 'We are all coming and going so fast, pushing aggressively past each other in order to save time. 'In this durational work, the performer simple stands still and observes the passing of time as the painter and hurried New Yorkers affect her body, blending her into the environment.' Talking about a snap that depicts the Highline 2, she continued: 'This work was a commission for a Korean Documentary about colour, created on the Highline in Chelsea, New York. The statuesque model transforms into a living public art work.' One couple kissing in front of the famous LOVE Statue in New York was inspired by the World War Two snap of a sailor kissing a nurse. Ms Merry said: 'A couple blend into each other and their surroundings while sharing an intimate moment among the concrete and hurried chaos of New York City. This special pose was inspired by the famous WW2 sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square at the end of the war. This iconic pop art sculpture was created by Artist American artist Robert Indiana.' Another image showed a woman posing delicately against the backdrop of the Washington Square Park Arch Monument. Ms Merry explained: 'These arches were placed around Europe by Napoleon as cultural symbols of conquest. What are they ways that we are colonizing our neighbour through gentrification in the neighbourhoods of New York? 'How are we forcing our neighbours or their cultures to disappear?

2016-10-09 10:19 Ekin Karasin www.dailymail.co.uk

37 /67 Wishful Thinking: First 100 Days After November 8 Among Robert Reich's dreams for the first 100 days: That President Hillary Clinton nominates former President Barack Obama to the U. S. Supreme Court. (Photo: Andrew Dallos /flickr/cc)

1. Hillary Clinton is elected President.

2. Democrats take over the Senate, and reduce the Republican margin in the House to just 3 votes. 3. Elizabeth Warren announces she’ll challenge Hillary in the 2020 Democratic primaries if Hillary isn’t sufficiently progressive and bold during her first term.

4. The Democratic National Committee issues new rules eliminating “superdelegates” and requiring open primaries.

5. In her inaugural address, Hillary Clinton promises to “wrest back control of our democracy and economy from the moneyed interests that have taken over both.”

6. President Hillary Clinton nominates Barack Obama to the Supreme Court, who immediately pledges to reverse “Citizens United.” Senate Democrats make a rule change that allows Obama to be confirmed with 51 Senate votes. He is.

7. President Clinton nominates Bernie Sanders for Treasury Secretary and Michelle Obama for Attorney General. Both are immediately confirmed.

8. The chairman of the Republican Party officially repudiates Donald Trump, saying “shame on us for having nominated him.” Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Pence appear in a joint news conference in which they apologize for having ever supported Trump.

9. Disgraced and with his brand in tatters, the value of Trump’s properties drops 80 percent. His creditors demand that his personal assets – homes, planes, furniture, all he possesses – be liquidated to pay his bills.

10. Rupert Murdoch fires Sean Hannity from Fox News.

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Robert Reich , one of the nation’s leading experts on work and the economy, is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Time Magazine has named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written thirteen books, including his latest best- seller, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future; The Work of Nations ; Locked in the Cabinet ; Supercapitalism ; and his newest, Beyond Outrage. His syndicated columns, television appearances, and public radio commentaries reach millions of people each week. He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, and Chairman of the citizen’s group Common Cause. His widely-read blog can be found at www.robertreich.org .

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38 /67 38 /67 Ann Arbor Fire Department to hold open houses Oct. 10 to 15 ANN ARBOR -- In honor of annual Fire Prevention Week, which takes place Oct. 9 to 15 this year, the Ann Arbor Fire Department will hold open houses at all five of its fire stations all week long.

The city's fire stations will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, Oct. 10 to 14. People also can visit the fire stations from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 15.

For locations, visit the fire department's website, www.a2gov.org/fire .

The open houses offer tours, fire hats and coloring books for children.

If visitors find a station is closed during the aforementioned hours, it is most likely due to fire personnel responding to an emergency incident at that time, the AAFD said.

Groups of six or more are encouraged to schedule their visits ahead of time by contacting Leslie Herter at (734) 794-6978.

The theme for Fire Prevention Week 2016 is "Don't Wait - Check the Date! Replace Smoke Alarms Every 10 Years. "

2016-10-09 10:00 Logan T www.mlive.com

39 /67 In defence of the comic novel Commons confidential: The shiny new politics of Theresa May I have always thought of Shakespeare as a sort of novelist-in-waiting, impatient for the novel to happen. It isn’t just that it’s hard to read any novel without hearing him or bringing him; it is also that by taking us to the brink of the novel – and, if you like, expending all of its dramatic alternatives – he shows us its necessity. He confers a sort of blessing and obligation. “Now my charms are all o’erthrown” – let’s see what you’ve got.

I recall an Australian academic colleague forever pulling out King Lear’s words calling on the all-shaking thunder to “smite flat the thick rotundity o’ th’ world” to demonstrate the way that Shakespeare’s language enacts meaning, in this case the impossibility of ever smiting flat something as manifest and linguistically unassailable as the thick rotundity o’ th’ world. He was a great arguer for the thingness of literature and once wrote an essay on Middlemarch entitled “Fred Vincy’s Grilled Bone”.

Matthew Arnold could similarly have called his essay on Anna Karenina “Konstantin Levin’s Shirts”. To Arnold, for whom the highest form of expression was poetry, the scene in which Levin is late for his wedding because he can’t find his dress shirt is utterly bewildering in its apparently aimless true-to-lifeness. “It turns out to import absolutely nothing,” he writes, uncertain whether that’s a bad thing or not.

And I, while we are on Anna Karenina , once wrote a lecture on the absurdly inappropriate giant pear that the philandering Stepan Oblonsky presents as a drunken peace offering to his neglected wife, Dolly. But far from importing nothing, I argued, the irrefutability of the pear speaks for those qualities in Oblonsky that make it impossible for us to judge him only negatively. Before the thick rotundity of that pear, m​ orality trembles.

For a long time, the phrase “the curse of actuality” clattered about my mind as something I recalled reading in Saul Bellow’s great novel of cuckoldry and cogitation, Herzog. It was only when I went looking for it that I discovered it wasn’t there at all, except as a marginal note made by me. Bellow writes: “As soon as Herzog saw the actual person giving an actual bath. . .” Whereupon I, wanting to be in on the act, leapt into the margin with a pencilled “Ah, the curse of actuality!” punctuated with an exclamation mark that I take to denote irony – actuality being no curse at all, unless you want to commit an act of murder, which, in this instance, Herzog does. Or says he does. Or thinks he does. Or thinks he ought to. Herzog/Hamlet. The conjunction is not accidental.

Post-T S Eliot, there is a sort of weary intellectual obligation on the likes of us (readers and writers) to accept our tragic limitations – that is to say, our limitations as to tragic potential – and acknowledge that we are not Prince Hamlet, nor were meant to be. But wasn’t not being Prince Hamlet precisely Hamlet’s problem?

Long before Prufrock, Hamlet was wondering whether there was more of the fool in him, more of the rogue and peasant slave, than the prince. There is further evidence in the plays that the question of playing the fool when one should be acting the hero preoccupied Shakespeare – if not as a personal matter, then as something indicative of changing times. A consciousness of clownish inadequacy might be a mark of modernity, but we haven’t got there in a single, clumsy leap.

It is, however, my contention that the novel is never more itself – certainly it never has more fun being itself – than when its heroes fall drastically short of that heroism whose function is to right wrongs, settle scores and put the fractured times back together again.

Returning to the specifics of Herzog , let me remind you of the heroic action on which Moses Herzog is hell-bent and into which I, brandishing my pencil, leapt Laertes-like. Herzog’s rage has been a long time brewing. The failure of his marriage to Madeleine, in particular his angry thraldom to her, is rendered with an immense comic verve of the sort that is sometimes called misogynistic, though it comprises such attention, not to say attentiveness, to her every movement and inflexion – from the way she applies her lipstick to the way she bends her knee at church – that it also deserves to be called rhapsodic love. A person has to be, or has to have been, deeply in love to attend with such lingering detail to what is infuriating in the beloved. It is, however, well past all that, now that Madeleine (you can choose whether to hear a Proustian allusion in her name) has left him for Valentine Gersbach, an overdemonstrative, one- legged radio announcer and erstwhile friend. It’s a Hydra-headed, bitterly ludicrous betrayal that includes, as Herzog sees it, the usurpation of his young daughter’s affections, too. Herzog won’t be the first man who, in circumstances such as these, sees murder as the only self-respecting response.

Bellow allows Herzog ample opportunity to muse on this but then goes further, arming him with the gun that, long ago, Herzog’s father pointed at him – though he failed, in a maelstrom of Jewish tears and recrimination, to pull the trigger. Herzog pockets the gun and drives to the house – the family home that has been snaffled from him, along with his wife, his daughter, his good name and his sanity – where he imagines his wife and her lover to be engaged in acts that would make the Devil blush. “Heaven and Earth . .. Let me not think on’t.”

To say that Herzog “drives” to find them in the act is to understate the violence of his purpose. “He gunned his motor at the stoplight,” Bellow writes. We are in a thriller novel now. Moses and his motor, the weapon and the man who’ll fire it. The image of his daughter rises before him – the one genuine thing in his life, born “out of cowardice, sickness, fraud, by a bungling father out of a plotting bitch”, but still “something genuine”. And with the image of his daughter comes an unquenchable sense of justice. “It’s not everyone,” he muses wildly, “who gets the opportunity to kill with a clear conscience. They had opened the way to justifiable murder. They deserved to die. He had a right to kill them.”

He parks around the corner from his old house, advances on it by foot, steals into the yard, sees his wife’s underwear and his daughter’s dresses on the clothes line, looks into the kitchen where Madeleine is cleaning up after dinner, then into the bathroom where Gersbach – yes, Gersbach, the one-legged radio announcer and his old friend – is bathing Herzog’s daughter.

Herzog saw the hair-covered heavy soft flesh of Gersbach’s breast. His chin was thick, and like a stone axe, a brutal weapon. .. And that hearty voice with its peculiar fraudulence and grossness. The hated traits were all there. But see how he was with June, scooping the water on her playfully, kindly. .. Steady and thorough, he dried her, and then. . . he powdered her.

That powdering is quite a touch, enough to make the most pacific father itchy on the trigger finger. There are two bullets in the chamber of the gun – one for Gersbach, one for Madeleine – but (for it would seem we are not in a thriller, after all): “They would stay there. .. Firing this pistol was nothing but a thought.”

The thinking man, alive only in his own head or in the letters that he voluminously composes – “Meet it is I set it down” – resumes control. “As soon as Herzog saw the actual person giving an actual bath, the reality of it, the tenderness of such a buffoon to a little child, his intended violence turned into theatre, into something ludicrous. He was not ready to make such a complete fool of himself.”

Resemblances between Herzog and Hamlet have been coming thick and fast, and there are distinct echoes here of Hamlet’s finding Claudius at prayer, believing this to be the ideal moment to avenge his father – “Now might I do it pat” – but drawing back because to kill a man at prayer is to save his soul, not send it to perdition. That, at least, is his excuse. The joke is on him either way. Claudius cannot pray. He acknowledges himself too wedded still to the things he killed to gain – his queen, his throne (substantial rotundities, both) – for his words to reach heaven. For the moment, at least, Claudius is the more theologically subtle of the two men, showing a keener understanding of what is required to be the recipient of grace. Religious faith and actuality, he grasps, are not always compatible.

It is not because he better understands the subtleties of Gersbach’s character that Herzog holds back from killing him. It is his own aesthetic dignity that he cares about. In refusing to make a complete fool of himself, he does, of course, make a complete fool of himself. Actuality turns resolution into absurdist theatre, whether you go on or you turn back. If that is not an invariable law, it is the law of Herzog’s nature. No less self-aware than Hamlet, he embraces in himself the absence of urgency or grandeur, for the voices that he honours are unable to declare for either.

Between Hamlet and Herzog, Leopold Bloom – cuckold, sensationalist and wanderer – has happened. That, to me, is a decisive intervention. Yet Shakespeare is forever at Joyce’s shoulder. And it was Shakespeare who brought literature part of the way to what we understand by modernity in the matter of contemplating heroic action and refusing it. “Hates any man the thing he would not kill?” asks Shylock, though when he has the chance to kill Antonio he doesn’t take it. It’s part of the frustration of The Merchant of Venice that it ends – at least, the interesting part of it ends – with the normally eloquent Shylock having nothing to say for himself.

I see him as the modern hero in embryo, gunning his way to the penultimate act only to watch his intended violence turn to theatre, and deciding that he is not, after all, prepared to see the logic of the drama through. Shylock decides against exchanging his life for Antonio’s, asks in vain for his money back, accepts the spite of his Venetian tormentors, complains of feeling ill and quits the stage defeated. I would like to argue that this is an act of anti-heroic existential heroism, a piece of bitter acquiescence in the way things always turn out, a definitive refusal of grand action in the face of the absurd actuality of Venetian justice (not to say all justice) – the last echoing laughter of the joke he initiated when, in merry sport, he offered Antonio the 3,000 ducats in return for a useless pound of his flesh. Did he half-know then how all of this was going to end? Did he want it to end this way?

But that might be to fill a silence with more matter than it can contain. Shylock is as sardonic as any character in Shakespeare, most of the time in the face of insult, which he is able to bat back with expert mimicry and finely tempered impudence. In the face of utter ruin, though, he is given nothing to say. The play, it would seem, cannot further contain him. He needs a novel.

Hamlet, too, won’t play the part required of him until he returns from England, where he appears to have left his sense of humour. A pale shadow of himself, more stoic philosopher than comedian now, he finally finds a way of littering the stage with bodies. He has risen to action’s challenge at last – but so inordinately that it seems to mock the very concept of the heroic.

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Perhaps the only tragic figure in Shakespeare who is able to scoff at heroic action at the same time as lauding it is Cleopatra. Against all the evidence to the contrary, she goes on imagining an Antony whose legs bestride the ocean. Her great speeches defying the actual would be inconceivable in the novel. They speak to the group longings of an audience hungry for transcendence.

No such assault on concrete reality is possible in a Jane Austen novel. It’s true that a happy ending is rescued from the near certainty of despair in Pride and Prejudice , and that Persuasion closes with the heroine balancing felicity on a tray so precarious that we can barely turn the final pages for fear of causing her to drop it: but these are intimate accommodations to the expectations of readers, quiet contracts to hold out temporarily against the cruelty of things, not philosophical assaults on the nature of reality.

Similar accommodations are made in novels throughout the 19th century, with Clennam and Little Dorrit descending into a modest life of usefulness and happiness while the noisy and the eager and the arrogant and the forward and the vain fret and chafe and make their usual uproar; and those disappointed that Dorothea Brooke never made it as another St Theresa are consoled with the thought that “the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts . . .”

Does the 19th-century novel abandon the idea of heroic action, or heroic imagination, altogether? Hardy’s heroes are failures before they begin. The moral successes of Henry James’s characters are circumscribed and ironic. As are those of Conrad’s, no matter that his melancholy sea captains venture into bigger and more physically testing terrains. It takes Lawrence to remind the English novel of its tragic, Shakespearean antecedents, by which I mean that we count the cost of his heroes’ failures not only personally, but societally and even metaphysically – Gerald Crich dying high and cold in the Swiss Alps; Rupert Birkin, salvator mundi and windbag, overcome by sexual and ontological frustration, stoning the reflected image of the moon into fragments. Lear was content to destroy the terrestrial world; Birkin can’t rest until he has taken apart the universe. You have to admire the ambition. But the indifferent moon re-forms the minute that Birkin stops stoning. Were there not so much of Birkin in Lawrence, the scene might have been funny. Maybe it is funny.

“Ours is essentially a tragic age,” Lawrence wrote at the beginning of Lady Chatterley’s Lover , “so we refuse to take it tragically.” That “so” is teasing. Does it point to some perverseness in us? Is it a wilful blindness, or is it its own sort of courage? Either way, the actualities are small, the rebuilding envisaged modestly. “The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats . . .” Gently does it, and Lady Chatterley is a novel of surpassing gentleness. It could be one of Shakespeare’s late plays. . . minus the clowns.

But with Ulysses , so full of Shakespearean echoes and unequivocally funny, a hero for our tragic times is finally given legs. Leopold Bloom is a Jew, and it might be that after the long wait since Shylock, a Jew is precisely what’s needed: one forced by historical necessity into sufferance and accommodation, an outsider looking in. A joker whose jokes not everybody gets. A done-to, not a doer.

Bloom’s Jewishness apart, if we collate the several diagnoses made of his physical and spiritual condition, the result is a sort of reference written in support of an application for the position of quintessential modern hero. “Professor Bloom is a finished example of the new womanly man”; “Many have found him a dear man, a dear person”; “Dr Bloom is bisexually abnormal . . . the funniest man on Earth . .. He is prematurely bald from self-abuse, perversely idealistic in consequence, a reformed rake, and has metal teeth”; “He is about to have a baby” – qualifications that, whatever else we make of them, don’t fill us with confidence that he’d do a good job of killing Claudius at prayer. But the great thing is that, finally, it doesn’t matter.

One of the best jokes Joyce makes about Bloom is that he was once a traveller selling blotting paper. He is, above all things, absorbent. “Try,” Henry James advised aspiring novelists, “to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.” Bloom, though not an aspiring novelist, is one of those in whom everything is incorporated. He has a genius for passivity. A vocabulary of voluptuous detumescence – acted upon, not acted – embraces him in his 24-hour journey from the bed- warmed rump of his unfaithful wife and back again. Soft and watchful about his day he goes, limp-languid, gentle, solitary, mutable, abnegated, yielding – a real man, in Joyce’s provocative phrase, strong to the point of weakness.

Whatever Bloom and Herzog owe to Shylock and Hamlet, they owe much, too – as ignoble heroes of democratic narratives, inheritors of those spoils of a war fought long ago when prose split from verse – to Rabelais and Cervantes. We could say that they are the children of mirth, whose role, in Milan Kundera’s words, is to “reverse the false consolations that tragedy brings” and reveal the “meaninglessness of everything”.

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Meaninglessness, as Kundera uses the word, is not to be confused with nihilism. Until he finally got away from Prague, Kundera wrote under the restrictions of a communist regime. Meaninglessness, to him, is the artistic resistance to system, a refutation of the terrible illusion of divine harmony. Meaninglessness resists the imposition of meaning. The novel’s great contribution to this resistance resides, according to Kundera, in its “daily, concrete, momentary aspect”, its refusal of myth, the war it wages, moment by moment, against our tendency to lose the “concreteness of the present” – what is there, and what is of now – and transform it into abstraction. And the mode by which it most successfully wages that war is comedy.

This is from The Book of Laughter and Forgettin g : “Things deprived suddenly of their putative meaning, the place assigned them in the ostensible order of things . . . make us laugh. Initially, therefore, laughter is the province of the Devil.”

If we were to collect Kundera’s arguments in favour of the novel, we would see that the “concreteness of the present”, the refusal of “consoling myth” and the laughter that comes with realising that things are looser than they seemed are as pearls upon a single diabolic string. Yet Kundera invokes the Devil only as an antidote to the angels who want to persuade us “how rationally organised, well conceived, beautiful, good and sensible everything on Earth” is.

There is nothing particularly diabolic about Oblonsky’s pear, or about Gersbach’s powdering of Herzog’s daughter. As object and as act, both are morally neutral. It is only when they come into collision with appropriateness or expectation that they work their comic magic. What is released in us, when Oblonsky’s sweetly inane love offering misfires, or Herzog’s violent schemes collapse before the mundane reality of a one-legged radio announcer tenderly powdering a child, is a sort of exhilaration. In being excused the rigidities of moral judgement or stern justice, we experience a gleeful and maybe even guilty relief.

It is no small thing to be liberated from the idea that we are here for some sacred purpose, or that we have an obligation to heal the distempered world in which we find ourselves. There can even be a loveliness in accepting our unlovely inadequacies – “a certain nobility”, D H Lawrence calls it, in reference to Paul Morel’s rival, Baxter Dawes, having the courage to “own himself beaten” and “like a beggar take what [is] offered”. Sons and Lovers ends with Paul Morel’s determined refusal to own himself beaten in this way. Fists shut, mouth set fast, he heads off from the last page of the novel – “No, he would not give in.”

That harks back to an earlier idea of the indomitable hero, ready to confront the world. It feels old-fashioned now. It wasn’t Paul Morel but the defeated Baxter Dawes who was the coming man of the 20th-century novel. Without, that is, the exuberant farcicality of a Herzog, or a Yossarian, or a Bardamu – heroes of non-heroism sacrificed to the high indignity of comic narrative.

Call this narrative the atheism of the real. It is the great achievement of the novel in prose. I mean no disrespect to those whose imaginations take them to fantasy in any of its forms. The novel can and should do anything. Yet there can be a bias among those of us who love novels nearly as much as we love life (and sometimes even more) in favour of the flight-of-fancy novel, the introspectively other-worldly, let us call it, as against this worldliness, except when what is of this world is to airy thinness beat, as luminescent as angels’ wings, so exquisite in its quiet dailiness that we can see right through it.

By the terms of this bias in favour of the novel as convalescent home for fraught nerves, robustness is mistrusted, as though we fear that wild rejoicing in the incoherent mess we make of this world would cause our imaginations to stumble before the creation of another – or as if there’s something limiting about the actual. Popular and even not-so-popular culture revels in fantasy at the moment. So what is it that our own times don’t provide – deities, grandeur, heroism, illusion? God Himself? Are we, in the name of modernity, hankering for the ancient? Is it the anti-naturalism of Shakespeare’s late plays that we covet? Miracle? Magic? Romance?

Whether Shakespeare took that route out of the grinding determinism of tragedy only because the novel was not yet to hand, I can’t say. I’m not sure if anyone knows the extent of his familiarity with Cervantes, who died the same year he did, or Rabelais, who died half a century before; but, for whatever reason, his imagination was set upon a different, less rotund, more anorexigenic course. It is, to my mind, perverse to want to follow him there when we have the invigorating examples of Rabelais and Cervantes to follow instead.

To talk of actuality, the momentary and the concrete is not to define a mode or style. Yet whatever we’re saying, if we’re saying it in prose in the 21st century, we would be fools not to avail ourselves of the freedom that comedy by its nature gives us to rejoice in our ungodliness; to refuse system in any of its forms, whether moral or political; to tell the offended to go hang – because taking offence, too, constitutes a system – and to exult in the meaninglessness of things.

Howard Jacobson delivered a longer version of this New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize lecture at the prize shortlist announcement on 28 September

Theresa May’s Imelda Marcos tribute act, the PM’s self-confessed shoe extravagance extending to a £215 pair of silver-capped, black suede slippers for her inaugural leader’s speech in Birmingham, is keeping the cabinet on its toes. A prominent member muttered that May glances down and judges a man by his footwear. So my informant makes sure his brogues are shiny before going to No 10. Stains on the rear of suit trousers signify a recent conflab, ministers standing on one pin to polish a shoe on the other calf. It’s the PM’s contribution to cleaning up Tory politics.

The source of grumbles about Europe has shifted. In the 28 years since Thatcher’s Bruges speech, and perhaps even longer than that, Tory Europhobes generated the loudest discontent. No longer. Now that the swivel-eyed dictate a harder Brexit, it’s dispossessed Europhiles, symbolised by the lippy Anna Soubry, who chunter noisy rebellion. May will struggle to hold together the unmerry band when every event produces two polar interpretations.

“Hello, Kevin, it’s Sir Craig , Sir Craig Oliver.” The knight of the realm accosting this columnist in the pasty queue at Euston Station was indeed David Cameron’s redundant spinner. Sir Craig evidently took exception to a tweet applauding the damage inflicted on the honours system by his notorious “K”. This encounter on the way to Brum was a foretaste of Touchy Oliver’s “call me Craig” train crash on Andrew Marr’s Sunday sofa. Yet it’s Theresa May who should be fretting. A Sunday lobby hack from a Tory paper informed the benighted knight he would welcome his return. Gripes are audible about the new PM’s media operation.

Paraphernalia sold at the conference tat stall included a £30 cushion with a print of John Major’s bespectacled countenance. Imagine my shock at the suggestion by a ribald parliamentarian that the item would make the perfect gift for Edwina Currie. “She’s probably sat on his face before,” he chuckled.

Word surfaces of tensions between Labour’s two men of action, Clive Lewis and Dan Jarvis. Lewis, the shadow defence secretary who served in Afghanistan with the Territorial Army, is whispered to be irritated that the Corbynistas were prepared to offer his post to Jarvis, a former major and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, if that would lure the former Para on to Jezza’s front bench. Jarvis, I’m told, won’t sign up but would stand if shadow cabinet elections return. Stand easy.

The clodhopping Ed “Glitter” Balls is to sidestep Strictly Come Dancing ’s money-spinning tour of Britain’s ballrooms. Is the one-time shadow charleston of the Exchequer about to waltz into a big job? We shall know soon enough.

Kevin Maguire is the associate editor (politics) of the Daily Mirror

2016-10-09 17:30 Sarah Ditum www.newstatesman.com

40 /67 Pres. Obama signs Georgia disaster declaration President Obama signed a declaration Saturday saying a major disaster exists in the state of Georgia following Hurricane Matthew's impact.

The declaration orders federal aid be sent to help state and local recovery efforts in the area, beginning Oct. 4, 2016, and continuing.

The funding will go to local governments and certain nonprofit organizations for emergency work in Bryan, Camden, Chatham, Glynn, Liberty, and McIntosh Counties.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said that damage surveys are continuing in other areas, and more counties and additional assistance may be designated after the assessments are completed.

Hurricane Matthew swept by Georgia's coast on Friday into overnight Saturday, before making landfall in South Carolina. Savannah and Brunswick suffered major damage from rain, winds and a significant storm surge. Towns along the entire Georgia coast now have to deal with major cleanup. The storm, which is responsible for hundreds of deaths in Haiti and the Caribbean, also claimed three lives in Georgia. It killed several others in Florida and North Carolina.

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2016-10-09 09:32 Adrianne Haney rssfeeds.11alive.com

41 /67 Western-backed coalition under pressure over Yemen raids By William Maclean DUBAI, Oct 9 (Reuters) - An air strike on a funeral wake, widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes, poses more trouble for a Western-backed Arab campaign against Yemen's Houthis that has long been criticised for civilian losses. The White House announced an immediate review of Washington's support for the 18-month-old military push after planes hit mourners at a community hall in the capital Sanaa on Saturday, killing 140 people according to one U. N. estimate and 82 according to the Houthis. The statement from Riyadh's main ally, noting for the second time in as many months that U. S. support was not "a blank check", sets up an awkward test of a Saudi-U. S. partnership already strained by differences over wars in other Arab lands. The reproach also indirectly hands a propaganda win to Riyadh's arch rival Tehran, a Houthi ally that has long seen the Sunni kingdom as a corrupt and domineering influence on its impoverished southern neighbour, diplomats say. Sources in the Saudi-led coalition denied any role in the attack, but Riyadh later promised an investigation of the "regrettable and painful" incident, with U. S. expert advice. The move was apparently aimed at heading off further criticism of a military campaign already under fire for causing hundreds of civilian deaths in apparently indiscriminate attacks. PRESSURE "There will be pressure on the campaign," said Mustafa Alani, a security analyst close to Saudi Arabia's interior ministry. While the coalition followed very careful rules and understood human rights concerns, "there will now be pressure to end the whole operation, or to restrict the operation". An estimated 10,000 people have been killed in the war and the United Nations blames coalition strikes for 60 percent of some 3,800 civilian deaths since they began in March 2015. The outcry over civilian casualties has led some lawmakers in the United States and Britain as well as rights activists to push for curbs on arms sales to Riyadh, so far without success. The coalition denies deliberately targetting civilians and says it goes to great lengths to ensure its raids are precisely targeted, with explosive loads calibrated to limit the risk of causing damage beyond the immediate target area. The coalition accuses the Houthis, who seized much of the north in a series of military advances since 2014, of placing military targets in civilian areas. The Houthis deny this. Fury in Sanaa at Saturday's raid was echoed internationally. A spokesman for U. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said any deliberate attack against civilians was utterly unacceptable. Ban called for "a prompt and impartial investigation of this incident. Those responsible for the attack must be brought to justice", the spokesman said. U. N. emergency relief coordinator Stephen O'Brien described the attack as obscene and heinous. There was dismay, too, in the ranks of the internationally recognised Yemeni government that the coalition is defending. "DIRTY WAR" "It's shocking to see that a target like this was hit," said a senior official in the Saudi-backed government of President Abd- Rabbu Mansour Hadi. "It's the latest in a series of attacks by all sides on civilian targets like homes and public gatherings that are turning this into a dirty war. " "If anything positive can come from this, it would be increasing the will for a ceasefire that is needed. But incidents like these before have just fuelled a desire for revenge. " Yemen's powerful ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, a key Houthi ally, called on Sunday for an escalation of attacks against Saudi Arabia, demanding "battle readiness at the fronts on the (Saudi) border". Saleh's remarks reflect the heightened political climate in Sanaa, but it was not clear what concrete effect they might have. Houthi forces regularly fire rockets across the frontier, occasionally killing or wounding Saudi civilians, and bands of Houthi fighters stage border incursions almost daily. The funeral wake was for the father of the interior minister of northern Yemen's Houthi-run administration, Jalal al-Roweishan, who had died of natural causes on Friday. Yemenis say the Roweishan family is widely respected and has good ties with many groups and tribes across Yemen's political spectrum. Mokhtar al-Rahabi, a spokesman for Hadi, condemned the attack on his official Facebook page on Saturday. "Bombing a mourning hall in which there were dozens of civilians is not acceptable, even if leaders of the (Houthi) putschists were present. Our war is a war of morals. " A statement issued by the alliance after Saturday's raid reiterated that its forces "have clear instructions not to target populated areas and to avoid civilians". But the eventual prospect of a more limited military campaign -- perhaps through tighter targetting parameters for air operations - and a possible reduction in Western support could deliver a blow to Riyadh's efforts to confront perceived Iranian expansionism in its southern neighbour. The Houthis and powerful local allies hold most of Yemen's northern half, while forces working for the exiled government share control of the rest of the country with local tribes. COMPENSATION Peace talks have made little headway. The Saudi-backed government of President Hadi insists on compliance with U. N. Security Council resolution 2216, which calls on the Houthis to withdraw from cities seized since 2014. Riyadh has long accused Hezbollah's ally Iran of backing the Houthis and seeking to transform the group into a replica of the Lebanese militia to use as a proxy against Saudi Arabia. While Washington has long expressed understanding for Saudi concerns about Iranian activism in Arab lands, the U. S. military has distanced itself from the coalition's targeting decisions. In June the U. S. military withdrew personnel from Saudi Arabia who were coordinating with the Saudi-led air campaign, and sharply reduced the number of staff elsewhere who were assisting in that planning. U. S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the lower staffing was not due to concern over civilian casualties. But the Pentagon also said that in its discussions with the coalition, it pressed the need to minimize civilian casualties. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) political scientist, said that if the coalition was found to be responsible for the killings, that should be acknowledged openly and compensation arranged. He said no country wanted an end to the war more than Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other coalition members, while adding that it was up to the Houthis to respect resolution 2216. "I think everyone realises this war has gone on way beyond what was originally expected. But the ball is in the Houthis court," he said. (Additional reporting by Noah Browning and Mohammed Ghobari; editing by Philippa Fletcher)

2016-10-09 09:06 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

42 /67 Obscene Donald Trump comments 'alpha male boasting' Obscene remarks made about women by US presidential candidate Donald Trump were no more than "alpha male boasting", Nigel Farage has said. The UKIP interim leader told Fox News the remarks were "ugly" but something "if we are being honest that men do".

Mr Trump's remarks, made 11 years ago, have led at least a dozen senior Republicans to withdraw their support from his presidential bid.

Labour MP Tom Watson said Mr Farage's defence of Mr Trump was appalling.

Mr Watson, who was recently made shadow culture secretary, said: "Nigel Farage seems to be enjoying his new job as the UK cheerleader for Trump but in so doing he devalues himself and his party in the minds of the decent people of our country. "

On Friday, The Washington Post released a video from 2005 in which Mr Trump makes lewd remarks about women. The video led to Speaker of the House and the Republican party's most senior elected official, Paul Ryan, withdrawing an invitation given to Mr Trump to a campaign event on Saturday.

Mr Ryan is one of a number of high-profile Republican figures to denounce Mr Trump's comments.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and senator John McCain have both withdrawn support from Mr Trump's campaign. In the video Mr Trump is heard speaking on a bus off-camera, where he says "you can do anything" to women "when you're a star" and is heard saying "grab them by the pussy".

On Saturday Mr Farage said Mr Trump was running to become President of the US, "not the Pope".

He said: "Look, this is alpha male boasting. It's the kind of thing, if we are being honest, that men do. They sit around and have a drink and they talk like this.

"By the way, quite a lot of women say things amongst themselves that they would not want to see on Fox News, or the front page of a newspaper. I'm not pretending it's good - it's ugly, it is ugly. "

Mr Trump later apologised for his comments, but said defiantly that he would not drop out of the presidential race,.

On Sunday evening he is due to take part in a second television debate with Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton, in St Louis.

Mr Farage returned as interim leader of UKIP after Diane James stood down as head of the political group after only 18 days , claiming she did not have "sufficient authority" to lead.

2016-10-09 17:31 www.bbc.co.uk

43 /67 Pre-Independence Day Parade Celebrates Panamanian Culture in Crown Heights New Yorkers paid tribute to Panama's heritage at the 21st annual Pre- Independence Day Parade. The parade marches down Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights and ends with a street fair. ...

2016-10-09 09:03 system article.wn.com

44 /67 Photographer recreates historical pictures of Soho to capture how the area has changed The soul and essence of Soho - renowned for its nightlife, culture and eateries - has been fairly consistent in the last 100 years but a photographer has returned to the scenes of historical pictures in order to capture how much the area's external appearance has transformed. The images have been collated by Carl Court after he learned the story of London's smallest shop, a 6ft x 5ft x 2ft space on Bateman Street that was occupied by a cobbler underneath the window of another business. These days, the entire unit is occupied by a Vietnamese restaurant but other images, some of which date back to before the First World War, show that while some traces of yesteryear remain intact, much of the landscape has changed dramatically. Places like Piccadilly Circus have been completely modernised, with the former neon lights used to advertise Bovril and other businesses being replaced with a giant electronic screen. Other places, such as Berwick Street Market and the Carnaby Street shopping area show how many former independent traders have been replaced, often by international chains.

2016-10-09 08:05 Paddy Dinham www.dailymail.co.uk

45 /67 ‘Obama’s successor would be balanced, consistent towards Pakistan’ Pakistan hopes that U. S. President Barack Obama’s successor would be different and would have a balanced and consistent policy, one of Prime Minister ’s special envoys on Kashmir has said.

2016-10-09 08:04 system article.wn.com

46 /67 Perrie Edwards 'enjoyed secret romance with Zoella's 'thrilled' little brother Joe Suggs She was left heartbroken following her split from fiancé Zayn Malik in 2015. And while many thought Perrie Edwards, 23, was still mending her broken heart, it's been reported she enjoyed a whirlwind romance with YouTube star Joe Sugg, 25. According to The Sun On Sunday , the Little Mix singer enjoyed a steamy summer romance with the brother of social media superstar Zoella, 26, after they followed each other on social media and started sharing 'flirty' messaging. Scroll down for video Although it fizzled out, Joe - who is one of the biggest vlogger in the world with more than 500million video views and seven million subscribers - is reportedly 'desperate' to get in contact with her again. A source told the paper: 'He was thrilled to be spending time with her and couldn't believe his luck as she's absolutely gorgeous and boasted about what a great kisser she is. 'But after a promising build-up, things fizzled out pretty quickly, although he's still desperate to get back in touch and has reached out a few times. 'However, the writing was on the wall when she unfollowed him on social media in the summer and didn't invite him to her birthday.' MailOnline has contacted both Perrie's and Joe's reps for comment. Meanwhile, Perrie, 23, was recently linked to actor Luke Pasqualino, 26 - who shot to fame starring in E4 series Skins - earlier in the summer when they were spotted enjoying a performance of Aladdin in the West End. However, it was reported by T he Sun in September that the two went their separate ways, deciding to be just friends. Currently busy filming new series Snatch, sources said: 'Luke’s made it known they’re definitely not together. 'He’s been laughing at the rumours with crew and was overheard telling people they’re just friends and have never been a couple.' Meanwhile, her former flame Zayn, 23, quickly moved on from the hitmaker with supermodel Gigi Hadid but later penned the single It's You about Perrie. He said at the time: 'I just felt like I needed to put myself out there on that just because it was a form of therapy for me and it did help get me through some stuff.'

2016-10-09 08:00 Lisa Mcloughlin www.dailymail.co.uk

47 /67 To leave a note on the car you dinged or not to leave a note. That is the question. There were no parking spaces on my block in Mid- Wilshire. This is true as often as it is not. I live not far from a hospital, on an unpermitted street, which means our curb space gets taken up by medical staff who don't want to pay to park. Usually, it’s a problem on weekdays, working hours, especially Mondays and Tuesdays, when alternate-side-of-the-street parking is in effect. This night, though, was a Sunday, and I was already feeling stressed.

Earlier, the dog had started hobbling; a slipped disk, the vet opined. My son and I kindled a low- burning disagreement — about what, I don’t recall. I went out to see a friend, but it didn't help me crawl out from under the dreary weight of my funk. Funk? No, more like a rash, the start of something and an itch I couldn’t scratch.

I circled the neighborhood a few times, looking for a place to leave my car. Finally, I found one a block south of my house. It was behind a late-model Jeep, buffed and Simonized. I tried to back into the space, but I had the approach wrong. I was relying on my back-up camera, but I couldn’t see the angles, couldn’t figure out where I should cut my wheels. I pulled out again in front of the Jeep and began once more to navigate by way of my dashboard screen.

Perfect, just perfect. The fitting cap to an uneasy day. I sat behind the wheel for a minute, motor running; then, craning my neck to peer through the back window this time, I wrestled my car into the space and got out to check the damage, already thinking about three years of inflated insurance premiums.

What I noticed first was that the damage wasn’t as bad as I’d expected; in fact, it wasn’t very bad at all. My car was unscathed, except for a line of grime I wiped off with the palm of my hand. The Jeep, too, had an oily streak on its white front fender, which I also wiped clean. Underneath, however, were two distinct vertical scratches, like a pair of surgical scars. I felt the bumpy edges of abrasion.

I went back to my car to look for paper and pen. As I got in the driver’s seat, I noticed something else: a woman, walking her dog, who was now photographing me with her phone. “I hope you’re not planning to drive away,” she said.

Until then, I was irritated with myself for having been so careless, but now, I was angry with the woman for taking my picture without permission, a symbol of the censorious culture we have created. (“If you see something, say something.”) How dare she, I thought. It was an invasion of my privacy, not to mention an assumption that I would do the wrong thing.

And yet, what made me maddest was that she wasn’t entirely incorrect. I had no intention of driving away without leaving a note, but I’d be lying if I said the thought hadn’t occurred to me. It was dark, and aside from her no one was watching. It happens all the time — the hit-and-run, the parking lot ding — and I understand the desire to evade, the temptation to sneak away.

Understanding, however, is not the same as action. We all have impulses to behave selfishly, to go against the social contract; it is not the thought but what we do with it that counts. And yet ethical behavior can be difficult — especially when it goes against self-interest, which in this instance was entirely financial: I didn’t want to pay for the damage I had done.

There it was, however; I had caused the scrape, and the choice to own up was left to me. I found a piece of paper and scratched a note with my name and phone number, left it on the windshield underneath the wiper blade.

It took a few days to hear from the Jeep’s owner, long enough that I began to hope that I might not. Then, an unfamiliar number showed up on my phone. The caller thanked me for leaving the note; he was surprised. The damage appeared insignificant, but he would let me know. A week later, he called again:The scratches had been buffed out at no cost.

There’s a moral here about the value of doing what we should. Not because it will end well (as it did for me) or out of some amorphous sense of guilt or ethics. But because this is how community is meant to work. We live in a culture defined by suspicion, in which everyone has a reason to be in it for themselves. We yell and scream at one another, take advantage where we can.

I understand the narrow impulse, but this is not the tie that binds. Rather, it is the commitment to take responsibility, to care for one another, to think about the greater good. Idealistic? Sure it is. But a little idealism can go a long way — starting on the streets of Mid-Wilshire. Stopping a deadly superbug, medical marijuana, the battle for Mosul, how we scored the VP debate, California's interesting Senate debate, a Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant was killed in action, and coin slot machines are a dying breed in Las Vegas.

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Sergeant Steve Owen was responding to a burglary when he was fatally shot.

Sergeant Steve Owen was responding to a burglary when he was fatally shot.

2016-10-09 08:00 Los Angeles www.latimes.com

48 /67 My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding's Danielle Mason puts on a VERY busty display at Shocktober Fest She's never been afraid to flaunt her figure, often spotted in skimpy bikinis and racy ensembles. And Danielle Mason was showing off again on when she posed for the cameras at Shocktober Fest on Tulley's Farm in Crawley on Friday night. The My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star, 33, put on a very busty display in a sheer plunging top that showcased her toned abs and accentuated her ample assets. Letting her blonde locks flow over her shoulders, the beauty completed her racy outfit with jeans and over-the-knee boots, accessorising with a statement belt and earrings. Danielle pouted fiercely for the cameras, and even bent down to show off her pert posterior, before deciding to get into the Halloween spirit by frolicking with some pumpkins. The popular annual event comprises eight live attractions including the Coven of 13, The Chop Shop and the Horrorwood Haunted Hayride. There's also live music, street theatre and plenty of food for those who haven't lost their appetite. Danielle was joined by a plethora of stars from the reality world including TOWIE's Pascal Craymer, CBB's Heavy D and former X Factor hopefuls Mason Noise, Frankie Cocozza, Mike Hough, Stevi Ritchie and Chloe Jasmine. Danielle is the half sister of EastEnders actress Jessie Wallace but she is most famous for her appearance on Channel 4 reality show My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. TV favourites including Gogglebox's Sandi Bogle also put in appearance at the fun-filled event. Danielle recently revealed that she's been apart form her cage fighting partner Tony Giles since he was incarcerated earlier this year, admitting that she's 'been celibate for eight months.' The pair first met in 2009 and following Rudy's birth in August 2011. And they got engaged on a rollercoaster in Thorpe Park in Surrey in March 2012.

2016-10-09 07:59 Charlie Moore www.dailymail.co.uk

49 /67 NYPD and NYFD Perform Dramatic Rescue in North Carolina Video More Than 1 Million Affected by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti

According to the United Nations, more than one million people have been affected by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti, including 350,000 people in need of humanitarian assistance.

2016-10-09 18:06 ABC News abcnews.go.com

50 /67 'The Girl on the Train' review: A wild Emily Blunt anchors preposterous thriller It's a small miracle that "The Girl on the Train" makes any sense at all. It's "Rear Window" crossed with a soap opera, a throwback to "Single White Female"-style preposterous thrillers, a light ripoff of satirical psychodrama "Gone Girl" and a lurid slice of faux- forbidden post-ironic exploitationist crap a la "Fifty Shades of Grey. " It features a central performance by Emily Blunt so complex, I don't know whether it should be taken as a dead- serious depiction of alcoholism, or if it's a bizarre lark, an opportunity for her to plant tongue firmly in cheek and scatter all her marbles on the floor.

At least it keeps us on our toes, alert and guessing. Adapting Paula Hawkins bestselling novel, Tate Taylor directs from enough points-of-view to fill several movies, making it all that much easier to engage in shameless misdirection. It's trash, no doubt, but entertaining trash, a series of narrative diversionary tactics with a goal no higher than diversion from our own dull commutes and banal workdays. That it's in some ways a righteous portrayal of three caged, frustrated women seems accidental. Taylor would rather we recall a spiked pump in the eye than a Gloria Steinem lecture.

Thanks to Blunt, I forgive the movie's blatant trespasses on common sense and rational behavior. I admire her versatility – it's with equal conviction she has played an ass-kicking alien- blasting warrior heroine, a green black-ops agent, a corseted young Queen Victoria and Meryl Streep's abused lickspittle, and will soon play Mary Poppins, the thought of which sets my heart aflame.

Here, she's Rachel Watson, a perma-soused sad sack on the verge of mental collapse. All the vodka, sucked out of a water bottle, and cheap wine has left her pale and gaunt. Unemployed, every day she sits in the same seat on the same car of a commuter train between Manhattan and the suburbs. Of course, she faces backwards, because she can't escape the pain of her past – an inability to conceive a child, which led to a philandering husband, Tom (Justin Theroux), and a bitter divorce. From the train, she can see into the windows of her former home, where the mistress Anna (Rebecca Ferguson) is now the wife, and the mother of Tom's baby. Two houses down is Megan (Haley Bennett); Rachel doesn't know she's the nanny to Tom and Anna's child, but sees her and husband Scott (Luke Evans) rutting on the kitchen countertop, and crafts an elaborate story in her mind, of their perfect lives.

"(Megan) became important to me," Rachel says in voiceover. "She's everything I want to be. " Until Rachel sees Megan on her balcony with another man, upsetting her fantasy and inciting a drunken rage. Rachel sucks down several martinis and ends up in the bar restroom, delivering a show-stopping soliloquy in which she can just feel the ecstatic thrill of smashing Megan's head on the floor, over and over again. In that moment, Blunt brings together two great Nicolas Cage performances: his Oscar-winning turn as a suicidal alcoholic in "Leaving Las Vegas," and his lunatic eye-bulging in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. " It's a long take, and she's sad and crazy and lost and obsessed and dead and alive all at the same time. She's in the moment, and we're right there with her.

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Following a compulsion on a fateful Friday, Rachel gets off the train and wobbles toward her former neighborhood. From the corner of her eye she spots the man who frequently gives her concerned glances on the train; his hair just might be as red as a herring. She blacks out, and wakes up on her bathroom floor with a head wound, blood on her sweater, bruises all over her shoulder, her panties sopped, her roommate (Laura Prepon) angry and concerned, a detective (Allison Janney) knocking on the door. Megan is missing. Just where the hell were you last night, Rachel?

The narrative loops in flashbacks to four years, six months, two months ago, and then catches up to itself: "LAST FRIDAY," reads the subtitle. Tossed in are Anna and Megan's points-of-view. Anna is a cooped-up, stressed-out stay-at-home mom who's upset and troubled by Rachel, who calls and texts Tom obsessively. Megan shoves her legs around as she describes herself as "a whore" to her therapist, Dr. Kamal Abdic (Edgar Ramirez), who raises an eyebrow and surely imagines many things great and naughty and inappropriate, which of course come true, like post-midnight pay-cable softcore.

Predictably, it's all a matter of Rachel piecing together brief flashes of memory from that bleary, boozy night. You'll worry if the movie will go as dumb as you think it will, and it does, although the ensuing eyeroll is more the result of a bemused meeting of expectations than annoyance. Taylor, who helmed "The Help" with a similar lack of subtlety, is an artless cornball; "The Girl on the Train" leans heavily on slow-motion and woozy cameras, yet he still manages to keep the pot on the stove, boiling to a tense climax. He also approaches symbolism like he's sledging railroad spikes into the tracks. But where the film is blunt, Blunt is sharp, elevating the picture from stoic gloom to winking spoof.

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2016-10-09 07:50 John Serba www.mlive.com

51 /67 China moots BRICS free trade area ahead of Goa summit Ahead of the BRICS Summit in Goa, China on Sunday mooted a free trade area for the five-member bloc of emerging countries saying that such a move would constitute “significant form of cooperation”.

2016-10-09 07:48 system article.wn.com

52 /67 Concordia University fires professor for remarks related to Colin Kaepernick ANN ARBOR, MI -- An adjunct professor recently was fired from Concordia University after refusing to apologize for remarks students and the university found to be "unfortunate and divisive. "

Concordia Campus Chief Executive Officer Curt Gielow confirmed the university fired the part-time professor on Sept. 22 after she declined to apologize for comments she made during class a couple of days prior at the private liberal arts university in Ann Arbor.

A Facebook live video recorded by a student documenting what was supposed to be her apology shows the professor, Susan Quade, addressing the remarks on Sept. 22. Two days earlier during a discussion in her social psychology class, Quade responded to a student's question about her thoughts on NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick's decision to kneel during the national anthem in protest.

"I said I would kill him," Quade said in the video captured by student Humphrey Ihejirikah. "I'm not going to kill him. I'm not going to kill anybody. It was a figure of speech.

"I would be pissed off," she added, in the video. "That's disrespectful to my country and my flag. " The video, which Gielow also referenced, provides audio of the exchange between Quade, Ihejirikah and another student, but only Ihejirikah's face can be seen. Gielow explained the exchange about Kaepernick, characterizing her remarks as a "figure of speech" and "sarcastic" and that she didn't mean them literally.

Gielow said the fact that Quade did not apologize or show contrition ultimately led to her termination.

"She said some things that did not align with Concordia's values as a Christian university," Gielow said.

Quade could not be reached for comment.

Gielow asked Quade about the incident in question after a student in the class told Gielow that Quade's remarks made him uncomfortable. Gielow did not think Quade's comments were literal threats, but he determined the remarks were inappropriate. As a result, Gielow demanded Quade apologize the following day during the class.

When she didn't, she was fired.

"It depended on how sincere and forthright the apology was," Gielow said when asked if Quade would have been able to keep her job had she apologized to the class. "Everyone deserves an opportunity and second chance to correct themselves and apologize. "

Although Ihejirikah was not in class during Quade's original remarks, he said her reaction to the situation showed that she did not recognize the impact her remarks had on her students.

"I just thought, 'Are you serious? You can't be serious,'" he said. "That's not a figure of speech and you don't say that sort of thing in a classroom. When a student says a statement made them feel a certain way, you can't just lessen the impact of it and say it's a figure of speech. I was shaking my head the whole time we were having the conversation. "

Following the incident, Ihejirikah emailed Concordia President Patrick Ferry, at the president's request, to share his concerns about the racial climate at the university. Ihejirikah provided a list of "demands" to improve the campus experience for black students.

"We must use our platform as a university to help people on Concordia's campus and in the greater Ann Arbor community understand that black lives matter," Ihejirikah wrote in his email to Ferry. "My vision is to make it known that we as black students not only deal with the stress of trying to be successful in academics, but we deal with the burdensome thought that our lives are at stake. We can be pre-judged and mistreated for any number of things simply because of our complexion. "

Gielow apologized to the class on Sept. 27 on behalf of the university and pointed out that Quade taught only one class at Concordia.

Following the incident, he emailed students to voice his desire for all students to feel safe in the classroom and at the university as a whole.

"It is our goal to build a diverse and welcoming learning community, where all people feel accepted, valued and safe," Gielow said in the email. "We take our values as a Christ-centered university seriously," Gielow added in an interview. "I wish we could avoid these types of things and that I could know what's said in every class, but that's not possible. "

2016-10-09 07:30 Martin Slagter www.mlive.com

53 /67 Banks ponder the meaning of life as Deutsche agonizes By Carmel Crimmins and Olivia Oran WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - It wasn't just Deutsche Bank that was grappling with big questions about the future at the International Monetary Fund meetings in Washington last week. The German bank is scrambling to overhaul its operations as it faces a multi-billion dollar fine for selling toxic mortgage-backed securities in the United States. But many others in the banking industry are also still figuring out what they should be doing, nearly a decade after the financial crisis, as they grapple with anemic economic growth, wafer-thin returns on lending and the possibility that regulators will further hike their cost of doing business. "This new world of low interest rates and even negative interest rates is something that is very difficult," said Frederic Oudea, the chief executive of French bank Societe Generale. "It is a game changer, not just for banks but for the whole financial industry," he told an audience from the Institute of International Finance (IIF), a trade group for big banks that holds its annual meeting alongside the IMF. Deutsche Bank's immediate obstacle is the U. S. Department of Justice's demand for a massive fine over the sale of bad mortgage bonds that could far exceed the 5.5 billion euros ($6.2 billion) in provisions that the bank has set aside. Such a bill could require it to raise more capital. But Deutsche Bank's fundamental problem is that its large investment banking business doesn't fit the post-crisis era. Chief Executive John Cryan is in the middle of an overhaul, cutting jobs and selling assets. But with interest rates showing no signs of lifting, he needs to move fast. Since the crisis of 2008, banks on both sides of the Atlantic have shored up their defenses against future losses, adding hundreds of billions of dollars in equity capital and shedding loss-making assets. Sergio Ermotti, the chief executive officer of Swiss bank UBS, said those defenses had proved their worth in recent weeks when other European banks were largely insulated from the lurch in Deutsche Bank's shares. But with rates expected to stay lower for longer, more banks will be under pressure to change with the IMF warning last week that lenders in Germany, Italy and Portugal needed to take urgent action to address old, non-performing loans and bloated, inefficient business models. "Crisis is the wrong word. We are in the middle inning of the reshaping of the financial landscape," said Mark McCombe, global head of institutional client business at asset manager BlackRock. THE MEANING OF LIFE U. S. bankers attending the IIF meeting were far more upbeat than their European counterparts. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Morgan Stanley head James Gorman and Citigroup boss Michael Corbat, did their version of the "Three Amigos," taking to the stage together to talk up the strength of the U. S. consumer and their own roles in the global economy. In a separate session, Goldman Sachs Group President Gary Cohn said the U. S. banking system was in the "best shape it has ever, ever been by far. " Like their European rivals, many U. S. banks are struggling to get shareholder returns above their cost of capital, but they are making more progress because they wrote off larger portions of their bad loans earlier - enabling them to return to growth more quickly - and most of their crisis-era litigation costs are behind them. The U. S. economy is also improving at a faster clip than Europe. "Is it sustainable for any sector to have a return on equity in the long-term that is below what shareholders expect? I don't think so. Shareholders have been, so far, relatively patient. We should aim to sort out what can be sorted out," said Oudea. Britain's vote to exit the European Union, known as "Brexit," is another headwind facing international banks, with the UK financial industry risking a loss of up to 38 billion pounds ($48.34 billion) in revenue if the country has only limited access to the European Union's single market, according to one study. "The big winner for Brexit will be New York; you'll see more business moving to New York," Gorman said at the IIF meeting. The competition from technology companies in banks' traditional markets, such as lending and payments, has also ramped up the pressure to change. In the pre- crisis days, banks would have merged to cut costs, but regulators are now much less in favor of allowing the creation of big, cross-border lenders which could disrupt markets if they got into trouble. Instead, banks are left to swing the axe where they can and ideally build big market positions in areas that are not penalized by big capital charges, such as consumer lending and asset management. "The transformation process is still ongoing and it is painful," said Alex Manson, global head of transaction banking at Standard Chartered Bank. "But the quicker you can define what it is you stand for, the quicker you can go to execution from meaning of life mode. " ($1 = 0.8928 euros) (Editing by Bill Rigby)

2016-10-09 07:01 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

54 /67 Meijer picks up Saugatuck cafe's popular coffee drink The Midwest supercenter chain recently began carrying Uncommon Coffee Roasters ready-to-drink Cold Brew Coffee in more than half of its locations across the Midwest.

The Cold Brew Coffee sold in a carton is on the shelves of 168 Meijer stores in six states: Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Kentucky.

As part of the deal, Meijer will sell the 16-ounce drinks at an "exclusive introductory price of $2.99 each," says Angie Peña-Smith, UCR's marketing specialist

Meijer is carrying the cold brew coffee in the half & half and chocolate milk version but not the original flavor.

In partnership with Guernsey Farms Dairy of Northville, Uncommon Grounds began offering the flavors in the spring. UCR brews the coffee and sends the concentrate to Guernsey, which adds the milk, packages the drink and then distributes it to wholesale customers.

The company intentionally selected dairy-style cartons, an earth-friendly alternative to plastic containers.

Peña-Smith says the cold brew is set apart from the competition by its brew methods as using very little added sugar and other ingredients. It is brewed in cold water for up to 24 hours, instead of being brewed with hot water and then chilled or poured over ice. Cold brew is less bitter, says the company.

Besides Meijer, more than 60 businesses in Michigan, Illinois and Indiana have picked up the products since they were launched in April. So far, 50,000 cartons have been sold.

The first run of cold brew sold so quickly, production had to be tripled immediately. That demand also led to the small batch specialty coffee roaster creating a special brew tank, a collaboration between Guy Darienzo, a former engineer, and Psycho Brew, a brewing supplier in Greenville.

The company is owned by Darienzo and Stephen Keye, who launched the restaurant Uncommon Grounds cafe, at 127 Hoffman St., in Saugatuck in 1994, which is now called Uncommon Coffee Roasters cafe annd bakery.

By 2000, the cafe was roasting its own coffee beans. Responding to the demand for its cold brew coffee, the business opened a wholesale business in 2010 in the neighboring city of Douglas. The facility at 6785 Enterprise Road now employs a dozen people, reflecting a tripling of the workforce in two years.

Between the restaurant and manufacturing facility, the operations employs 30, says Peña-Smith. She started off doing deliveries, while she taking classes for graphic and web design so she could move up into her current position.

As part of the expansion into Meijer, there will be samplings in 100 stores from noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 9. (See map below for locations.)

The company services over 200 customers in Michigan, Northern Indiana, and Illinois.

Cold brew can still be found the popular cafe where there are several option including on tap.

"The tap is very popular," Peña-Smith said.

It isn't just the URC's product that appeals to its growing customers. In 2012, the longtime gay- friendly business became a certified as a LGBT Business Enterprise through the National GLCC in Washington, D. C. It's another reason that Michigan-based corporate giants Whirlpool and Herman Miller stock their facilities with URC beverages, Peña-Smith said.

2016-10-09 07:00 Shandra Martinez www.mlive.com

55 /67 Lemba Jews Of Zimbabwe Are A Caring Community — But Only Now Are Learning To Practice Their Faith Katya Cengel

A leader of the Lemba people, wearing a prayer shawl, gathers with his fellow Jews. DNA tests have confirmed the Semitic heritage of these sub- Saharan Africans.

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A leader of the Lemba people, wearing a prayer shawl, gathers with his fellow Jews. DNA tests have confirmed the Semitic heritage of these sub-Saharan Africans. This year is not the first the Lemba of Zimbabwe are celebrating the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. They have done so twice before. But Modreck Maeresera, president of the Harare Lemba Synagogue , said past services have been pretty basic. For Rosh Hashana, he said, "it was mainly about blowing the shofar [ram's horn] and eating apples dipped in honey. "

That is because although the Lemba have long considered themselves cultural Jews, they are just now learning how to be practicing Jews. Last year for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, Maeresera searched the Internet for appropriate Jewish High Holiday prayers. This year the congregation has machzorim , or special High Holiday prayer books, making Maeresera confident that services will closely resemble services conducted at a more traditional synagogue.

Still, there are some things he doesn't quite understand, like why the new year is celebrated in the seventh month and not at the end of the year. Nevertheless, the 41-year-old college recruiter has a lot more answers than when he was a child.

Lemba women bring food and water for the men building the community's first synagogue in Mapakomhere in Zimbabwe's Masvingo District, the heart of Lemba territory.

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Like most Lemba of his generation, Maeresera grew up hearing legends of how the Lemba, black Africans living mostly in Mberengwa District in the middle of Zimbabwe and the northern parts of South Africa, came from Israel. Although the Lemba physically resemble any other sub- Saharan tribe, their religious, cultural and social practices and names are Semitic in origin. They follow strict dietary laws, practice male circumcision and when someone dies follow a seven-day period of mourning.

Yet until recently, the Lemba of Zimbabwe had no synagogues, Torahs or menorahs. Which left some of them, like Hilary Zhou, a leading member of the Harare Lemba Synagogue which was established in 2013, with doubts.

"How can they say we came from Senna and that we are the descendants of Jews who fled the Holy Land thousands of years ago, when I look at myself and my neighbor and I'm just the same as them? " asked Zhou, who is 33.

His quest to make sense of his identity was helped by ongoing genetic studies begun in the 1990s that confirmed the Semitic origin of the tribe. Lemba men carry the Cohen Modal Haplotype, a set of Y chromosome characteristics typical of the Jewish priesthood, at about the same rate as that of major Jewish populations. For many, the genetic findings validated the Lemba's connection to Judaism, further inspiring their quest to reconnect with the faith. Their relationship with the larger Jewish community is now helping them preserve their culture and look out for vulnerable community members just as Lemba traditions once did.

"We have a tradition of helping each other, looking after each other in times of trouble," said Maeresera.

In the rural areas where Zhou, Maeresera and most other Lemba come from, Lemba leaders gather at the beginning of the rainy season and list all of the Lemba who need help tilling their land. Members of the community are then sent to help the widows and elderly who are unable to till their own fields. At harvest time each family sets aside a portion of the harvest for needy Lemba families.

Faced with one of the driest years in decades, few Lemba are in a position to help this year. Because of the drought , the government of Zimbabwe estimates that half the rural population is in danger of starvation and that around four million people will need food aid by January 2017. The food shortage is compounded by economic and political unrest that have left many with no choice but to leave the country in search of work.

For several months now the Lemba Synagogue of Harare has been distributing $1,000 worth of food each month to needy community members. The money comes from the U. S. organization Kulanu , which helps isolated, emerging and returning Jewish communities connect with the religion. Kulanu also made possible the synagogue's Rosh Hashana celebration this year and provided the prayer books for the service. In past, the nonprofit has sent religious scholars and rabbis to teach the community about Jewish traditions and instruct them in Hebrew. They also raised money to bring Maeresera to Israel, where he will return in January 2017 to begin his studies to become a rabbi. The efforts are what the religion is all about, said Kulanu president Harriet Bograd.

"To me being a community and being welcoming is central to Judaism and when people want to be part of us I want to welcome them," Bograd said.

Not all see it that way. There are those who say the Lemba are not Jews because their line of descent comes through the father, while Orthodox Jewish law says that the line of descent comes from the mother. Others question the community's lack of knowledge of the religion. Zhou had his own brief renewed identity crisis earlier this year after having his DNA tested. The results showed that people with his haplogroup, men genetically-identified as sharing a common male ancestor, were found not in Africa but in places he had never been: south and central Asia, the Middle East and Europe. While it troubled him slightly that the people in those places didn't look like him, one thing was clear, he said: "The legend was true, my ancestors had come from outside Africa. "

Zhou now knows his true place in terms of religion and culture and it has motivated him to take his religious observance a step further. He immediately began an intensive Torah study and plans like Maeresera to become a rabbi one day. Being a black Jew can be difficult in a country where wearing a skull cap usually results in people greeting you with the Muslim "As-Salamu Alaykum. " Lemba complain about having trouble getting Saturday off of work to attend synagogue and the difficulty of finding kosher stores and restaurants when they are on the road.

Then there is the shofar. The notes that are supposed to be played for the new year are not easy to learn and Maeresera still has trouble making them despite all his practice. Tthe next generation might not have the same problems. Maeresera's four-year-old son, Shlomo, loves to blow the shofar, it is his favorite thing about the High Holidays, aside from, of course, eating apples dipped in honey in the hope of a sweet new year.

2016-10-09 07:00 Katya Cengel www.npr.org

56 /67 56 /67 Pie chartical: How are we reacting to California’s excessive number of ballot initiatives? Stopping a deadly superbug, medical marijuana, the battle for Mosul, how we scored the VP debate, California's interesting Senate debate, a Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant was killed in action, and coin slot machines are a dying breed in Las Vegas.

Columbia’s president receives the Nobel peace prize , Reggie Bush returns to L. A. , coin slot machines are dying in Las Vegas , and Desert Trip begins this weekend .

Obama administration officials have largely ignored the insults and ultimatums from Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte.

For the last fiscal year, coins have accounted for less than 3% of the $50.5-billion slot machine drop, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Just a handful of properties on the Strip have machines that take or dole out coins now, among them the MGM Grand, New York New York, the Bellagio...

Sergeant Steve Owen was responding to a burglary when he was fatally shot.

Sergeant Steve Owen was responding to a burglary when he was fatally shot.

2016-10-09 07:00 Los Angeles www.latimes.com

57 /67 Australian Survivor's Jennah-Louise is eliminated from the show She knew she was at risk of being booted off Australian Survivor. And on Sunday night's episode, Jennah-Louise was sent packing after an intense tribal council. The 27-year-old was eliminated after revealing there was a small gang among the main alliance and afterwards declared to camera: 'I prefer to go out fighting!' Scroll down for video 'I'm definitely proud of the game I played,' the law graduate explained. 'I'm the last-standing Vavau tribe member, I managed to get two individual immunities.' 'I definitely think through me taking a risk and trying to make a big move and turn the tribe's power on its head, I am going out earlier.' 'But I'm more than happy about that because I prefer to go out fighting than to just sit there like other people and just be scratched off one by one.' At tribal council before the vote, Jennah-Louise told host Jonathan LaPaglia and her team mates that all wasn't as it seemed with the big alliance. The main alliance consists of Brooke, Matt, Flick and Sam - with Lee and El thinking they are involved when they aren't. Lee and El make up the smaller alliance within the pack. Meanwhile, Kristie and Jennah-Louise were 'on the outer' this episode. Jennah-Louise said before the vote that the people in the alliance don't know where they 'sit with each other' and are forgetting about $500,000 prize money at the end, which will involve them voting one another off. 'If you gather the numbers from the outsiders, then you become the dominant alliance,' Jennah-Louise said. She said there were cracks in the alliance, with Matt being at the 'bottom' and Flick also getting 'anxious.' 'They're probably the particular two at this point in time that are on the outer,' she said. She continued: 'The way that they're going now, it's not working for some people and it's working beautifully for others. 'I think that people that maybe don't know where they sit in the alliance maybe should be thinking about making big moves.' During the council vote, Kristie and Jennah-Louise were head-to-head with vote tallies. They eventually voted against one another. Jennah-Louise noted at the start of the episode how 'paranoia' was spreading in the tribe and how they realised they will eventually need to vote out each other to win. Brooke had won immunity during a challenge but earlier had described Lee and El as 'threats' when speaking to Sam. The pair decided to still pretend that Lee and El were in the top four contestants, but they really wanted the alliance of themselves, Matt and Flick, to make the top four. Brooke said to camera: 'The game is on fire. It is absolutely heating up.' It seems El was catching on and she questioned to camera where she stood with the alliance. 'I'm starting to pick up on little things happening and little dodgy talks,' she said. Meanwhile in a teaser for Monday's show, Lee says there will be a huge 'blindside', in which he possibly teams up with El and Kristie against the others.

2016-10-09 06:37 Chloe-lee www.dailymail.co.uk

58 /67 Aberfan disaster 50th anniversary concert in Cardiff A new choral work by composer Sir Karl Jenkins to mark the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster has been premiered at a memorial concert in Cardiff.

On 21 October 1966, the village was devastated when a colliery waste tip collapsed, with slurry engulfing Pantglas Junior School on the last day before half term.

A total of 144 people died, 116 of them children. Cantata Memoria was performed on Saturday at Wales Millennium Centre.

Welsh language TV channel S4C commissioned the work, which was performed by Sinfonia Cymru and sung by a mixed choir of over 150 people along with a children's choir of 116.

World-renowned bass-baritone Bryn Terfel and actor Michael Sheen also took part.

The audience included parents and survivors, including teachers Rennie Williams, Mair Morgan and Hetty Williams.

The performance will be shown on S4C on Sunday 9 October at 19:30 BST.

Highlights will be shown on BBC2 Wales on Saturday 22 October at 21:00

Sian Lloyd reports.

2016-10-09 06:31 www.bbc.co.uk

59 /67 Snow returns to Poland's Tatras Mountains There is no doubt that Europe is now properly into autumn. The change in weather from a late, remarkably warm summer to the first snow was pretty abrupt. The Tatra mountains of southern Pola...

2016-10-09 06:06 system article.wn.com

60 /67 Seeing the positives: Short-sighted people are brainier than those with 20/20 vision say scientists Glasses wearers, like Helen Flanagan, are smarter than those with perfect vision, say scientists in Germany

Glasses-wearers are smarter than those with perfect vision, according to researchers at Mainz University in Germany.

According to The Times, scientists in the department of ophthalmology at the German university found that short- sighted people were more likely to be brighter and better educated than people who don't need glasses.

Researchers were investigating the increase in myopia across Europe, which is as high as 50 per cent in groups of professionals over the age of 40.

The study looked at 3,452 people, giving them eye examinations and intelligence tests and recorded their age and level of investigation.

The research paper said: 'A higher cognitive ability was identified in myopes compared with non-myopes.'

But the research also drew the link between intelligence and time in education, which involves a lot of 'near-work' and can affect eye health

But the experts said there was a closer link between intelligence levels and length of time spent in education.

Duration of education is also linked with near-work, where proximity to books and screens can have an impact on eye health.

2016-10-09 06:04 Rebecca Taylor www.dailymail.co.uk

61 /67 6 reasons to think twice about co-signing a loan If your credit and finances are in good shape and you have friends or relatives who are not in such a good credit position, you may have been approached to co-sign for a loan or credit card.

While your friend or relative may deserve the help, it’s not always wise to lend a hand to a sagging financial situation. Here are six reasons why you should think twice before you sign on the dotted line for someone.

If you co-sign a loan, the liability lies squarely on your shoulders should your friend or relative not make the payments. They may still be enjoying the home or car they got with the loan while you are left holding the bag on the responsibility of paying it off. And, if you don’t…

“When a cosigned loan goes into default, the creditor can collect against all who are named on the account since they have an equal share of the responsibility to repay the entire balance,” according to Bruce McClary, vice president of communications for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. “A creditor can make their own decision to pursue the primary borrower or collect from the cosigner. It is common for a lender to make first attempts to contact from the primary before turning attention to the cosigner.” The co-signed loan will appear on your credit reports, including the payment history — good or bad — for the loan. While the damage late payments can do is mitigated over time, generally, your credit report can be severely impacted for years.

As the old saying goes, “money and friendships don’t mix.” Placing your credit report and therefore credit scores in the hands of another individual can place a strain on a relationship. You may begin to notice other money behaviors that you previously thought were quirky or endearing that now seem alarming. Your feelings about your loved one may change in a negative way.

“It is not uncommon for relationships to end when cosigned loans slip into default, leaving much more than a financial mess,” McClary said. “This can be prevented if people either avoid cosigning altogether or proceed with a plan that accommodates for keeping the lines of communication open during hard times.”

When autos are repossessed, there can sometimes be what is known as a deficiency balance. This is the result of when the lender has repossessed the vehicle, takes it to auction and is not able to recoup the amount still owed by the borrower. Some lenders will forgive or write off a deficiency balance if it’s obvious the borrower has no assets, but if you’re co-signing for someone, chances are there are enough assets between you and the person you’ve co-signed for that the lender is not going to be as lenient. In that case, the deficiency balance could be turned over to a collection agency that may be willing to cut a deal to accept less money than is owed and will mark the debt as paid in full.

In the case of credit card debt , once a debt goes 90 days delinquent, a bank is usually willing to talk debt settlement.

In cases where the amount forgiven during debt settlement (or the difference between what is owed and what the lender gets for a car at auction) is $600 or more, a lender must issue a Form 1099-C or 1099-A to the borrower (and the co-signer) and the difference must be reported as income on that year’s tax returns. That’s because the difference between what is paid on the debt and what is owed is considered a net income gain by the IRS, and taxes need to be paid on this gain. If your tax bracket is 28% and the amount forgiven is $2,000, you could wind up owing Uncle Sam an additional $560 come April 15.

Even if your friend or relative makes all the payments on time, your borrowing ability will be affected.

“Provided that the creditor reports account activity to the credit bureaus, cosigning a loan will likely mean that the account will show up on the cosigner’s credit report,” McClary said. “This means that it will impact their debt ratio, which influences a lender’s decision about whether they can afford to take on more debt.”

How to dispute an error on your credit report

2016-10-09 06:04 Kristy Welsh rssfeeds.usatoday.com

62 /67 In Mexico, same-sex-marriage bid revives centuries-long conflict MEXICO CITY -- Conservatives from all corners of the country converged on Mexico City on a recent Saturday for an event dubbed The National March for the Family , which took aim at the president's plan to enshrine same-sex marriage in the

2016-10-09 05:59 system article.wn.com

63 /67 'What happened to facing up to difficult things?': Universities are forced to issue 'trigger warnings' ahead of lectures and let students skip topics they may find troubling undergraduates studying law are being told before lectures on cases involving violence or death that they can leave if they fear the content will be too ‘distressing’. Lecturers have been asked by the director of undergraduate studies for law to ‘bear in mind’ using trigger warnings when they give lectures containing ‘potentially distressing’ content. It has sparked a debate across the country over whether trigger warnings are hindering intellectual development. According to the Sunday Times, the warnings extended to undergraduates on a Christianity course at Stirling University who were to watch a YouTube video on how female characters are treated in video games including Super Mario and the Legend of Zelda. Meanwhile other examples include students at LSE on international law courses studying war crimes such as genocide. Some academics have defended the warnings, including Dr Naomi Wolf, a university lecturer in Victorian sexualities, who told the Times: 'Trauma from sexual or other assault and abuse is very real, and triggers are real for victims of abuse. But the place to process or deal with survivor triggers is with a trained therapist in a counsellor's office, and not in a classroom.' Tony Pollard, professor of conflict history and archaeology at Glasgow University added 'images of the dead' appear regularly in his classes and could be considered disturbing. But others claim it that the warnings risk censoring intelligent debate. John Sutherland, emeritus Lord Northcliffe professor of modern English literature at University College London, told the Times: 'Justified or not, we are imposing on higher learning a climate of intellectual caution.' Push back against these warnings has already started in the US where the University of Chicago has warned students not to expect safe spaces or trigger warnings in the wake of several disrupted events at the institution at the hands of protesters. University officials are said to have told first-year students starting this autumn of its commitment to freedom of expression, saying it wanted civility and mutual respect but that it would still seek out ideas or opinions that were unpopular. The move comes after three high- profile incidents this year in which speakers invited to the university were interrupted or shut down and amid a trend of increasing political correctness on campus.

2016-10-09 05:52 Joseph Curtis www.dailymail.co.uk

64 /67 'History is disappearing before our eyes': Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds were destroyed when an 18th century stately home burned to the ground Artwork by Sir Joshua Reynolds is thought to have been destroyed by a fire at a stately home in Northampton. Cosgrove Hall, a privately owned stately home near Milton Keynes, went up in flames on Friday afternoon, and the Grade-II building was gutted in the fire. Portraits of Mary Anne Biggin, a former mistress of the house, and her two brothers, was among the pieces destroyed, according to the Telegraph. A BBC reporter said: 'Only the stone shell of the building remains. There really is nothing else.' Marcella Beaudreau tweeted that the fire was 'history disappearing before our eyes'. Sir Reynolds was an 18th century painter specialising in portraits. He was the founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts. The portrait of her brother George, shows him full length, in the costume of a salt-bearer at the Eton Montem. Scroll down for video Cosgrove Hall was built in the early 18th century, probably by John Lumley of Northampton. As a privately owned estate it had not been open to the public. Nobody was injured in the fire, the cause of which is unknown. The family was not at home and all members of staff escaped when the blaze broke out. One witness said: 'It has been such a special part of the village for many years.' A spokesman from the fire service in Northampton said: 'There has been extensive collapse to the building and I anticipate there will be further collapse.' The fire broke out at 2.30pm on Friday, October 7, and six fire engines from Bucks fire and rescue and Northampton fire and rescue attended. It was under control at 5.15pm.

2016-10-09 05:38 Rebecca Taylor www.dailymail.co.uk

65 /67 65 /67 Foot washing? We ended up in A&E Broadcasters were biased during the EU referendum campaign - but not in the way you think “There’s always someone worse off than yourself.” Whenever I hear that, I wonder who stands at the end of the chain of misfortune, the person whose life is worst of all. In a parish where I once worked, I met him. He was a young man whom I’ll call Dean, with schizophrenia, a condition so debilitating that he would once have been “put away” in the county asylum; but this had discharged its residents and closed its doors long ago. (I once buried a former resident, who had been admitted as a teenage girl with an embarrassing pregnancy and stayed for fifty years.)

Dean had been left to the care of the community, but unfortunately the community’s performance of its duty was at best uneven.

He lived alone, in a rented room, unable to work, on benefits he could barely manage even when he remembered to take his medication. When he did not, he got confused – which did not go unnoticed by the vulturous types who prey on such individuals. So Dean was broke most of the time, living on Pot Noodles and shreds of tobacco, and spent the days trudging round the town, robbed by junkies, teased by children, and avoided by most, for his personal hygiene and chuntering could be unnerving.

He was often in church, and noticeable for the keenness with which he undertook the responses. “The Lord be with you,” I’d intone and he would reply, “And also with you,” in a camp, sing-song voice which, after a while, I realised was his attempt to sound like me.

One hot summer’s day Dean arrived at my door more than usually distressed and more than usually malodorous. He had not been taking his medication and was suffering the symptoms of psychosis, among them the conviction that evil spirits were living in his trainers. How long had this been going on? “About a month,” he said, “so I haven’t taken my trainers off. My feet are hurting. Can you help me?”

The inescapable image of Jesus kneeling to wash the feet of the lowest of the low came suddenly into focus, and I felt obliged to do the same; but Dean’s feet, released after a month in unwashed socks and tightly laced trainers, were in such bad shape that it was difficult to see where to begin. I did my best, but realised as I retched that I was probably doing more harm than good, so drove him to A&E and sat with him, guiltily, as he waited to be seen, wondering when was the last time someone presented with trench foot.

I remember this every Maundy Thursday when I wash the feet of my parishioners, a symbolic recalling of Jesus’s commandment to his disciples to love one another. The danger with symbols is that they become untethered, and float free, and loving one another can become a bit theoretical. Not for me, after Dean. How beautiful are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings. Veteran BBC broadcaster John Simpson is the latest high profile journalist to question how the media reported the EU referendum campaign. A number of other senior journalists have suggested that broadcasters allowed both the Leave and Remain camps equal airtime without challenging their exaggerated claims or, as Simpson put it, outright lies.

James Harding, Head of BBC News, recently rejected these charges. He argued its editorial rules about “due impartiality” and “broad balance” allowed journalists plenty of freedom to make judgements about the relative merits of campaign claims and, where appropriate, challenge their veracity.

It would be hard not to agree with Harding when considering BBC programmes such as Newsnight and The Daily Politics, or its fact checking service, Reality Check. Journalists such as Andrew Neil regularly questioned both sides. Experts like Antony Reuben unpicked the statistical claims of the Leave and Remain campaigners.

But these news formats attract relatively small audiences , and cater to the most politically engaged section of the electorate. On all channels, the flagship evening bulletins have far more reach and influence, attracting millions of viewers and representing the gold standard of news output.

We examined the main evening bulletins over ten weeks of the EU referendum campaign on Channel 5 (5pm), Channel 4 (7pm), the BBC, ITV and Sky News (10pm). Paradoxically, we found that coverage was both balanced and yet skewed, with a tendency to generate more heat than light when reporting the campaigns. So what does that mean in practice?

The main criticism levelled at broadcasters by journalists – and many others - was their handling of the claims and counter claims of the campaigns. The UK Statistics Authority criticised the Leave campaign for its repeated use of the misleading claim that the UK government sends £350m to the EU every week.

Following our analysis for a BBC Trust commissioned review of statistics in news reporting, we systematically examined every statistical claim made during the ten week campaign – 517 in total – and identified just over one in five were challenged either by a journalist, campaigner or other source. Most of this questioning – 65.2 per cent – was by rival politicians, with 17.6 per cent of statistical claims challenged by journalists. This left little space for more independent sources with expert knowledge to verify claims, or put statistics in context.

In relying so heavily on campaigners without journalistic arbitration or seeking expert opinion, viewers were often left with little more than a statistical tit-for-tat between rival camps.

As a consequence, broadcasters found it hard to address the democratic deficit of British knowledge of the EU. It is notable that voters complained about the lack of hard information even at a late stage in the campaign. They largely focused instead on the activities of the campaigns, with close to half of the 571 news items we examined primarily about the process of campaigning, such as staged walkabouts, Remain and Leave strategies, or internal party political squabbles.

Our other headline finding is, in our view, equally significant. On the two main issues of the Remain and Leave campaign – the economy and immigration – bulletins were evenly balanced. Similarly, when we compared the appearances of campaigners from Remain and Leave, bulletins exhibited a remarkable degree of even-handiness, with both sides of the campaign given roughly equal billing.

But an imbalance emerges when we look at the party affiliation of campaigners, since 71.2 per cent of political sources were from the Conservative party compared to 18.4 per cent from Labour. This cannot be blamed on Jeremy Corbyn’s alleged reluctance to participate in the campaign. Alan Johnson – who led Labour’s Remain campaign – and many other senior Labour figures tirelessly toured the country. Yet they barely featured in the evening bulletins. Ukip made up 7.6 per cent of sources, leaving just 2.8 per cent for other parties, such as the SNP.

The decision to portray David Cameron and George Osborne as the principle flagbearers for the Remain side meant a focus on the issues closer to Conservative hearts - principally the importance of free trade to the British economy. In marginalising Labour and the SNP, pro-EU membership issues such as safeguarding employment rights fell down the agenda.

This interpretation of “due impartiality” was, in this sense, both even-handed and one-sided. The Leave and Remain camps received equal time, but we ended up with an argument that privileged Conservative arguments on both sides. This did not reflect the spirit of, for example, the BBC’s specific EU guidelines, which encouraged journalists to find a “‘broad balance’ of arguments and not necessarily between the designated Campaign Groups” ).

This imbalance was particularly acute on the Remain side, since most parties on the centre – left – Labour, the SNP, Plaid and the Greens – were pro-Remain. Their comparative absence from the broadcast coverage was a significant handicap in Remain’s ability to appeal to traditional Labour areas.

It is easy to be critical in hindsight. Broadcasters, after all, made efforts to be impartial in a way much of the press coverage did not. But there are lessons to be learned here for the months of Brexit negotiations ahead: we need more analysis and less tit-for tat, and we need a fairer a more wide-ranging debate with right and left more evenly represented.

Dr. Stephen Cushion is the director of MA in Political Communication at Cardiff University. Professor Justin Lewis is dean of research for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cardiff University.

2016-10-09 12:48 Jonn Elledge www.newstatesman.com

66 /67 Rebecca Judd pays tribute to the nurses who helped care for her premature twin boys Tom and Darcy AFL WAG Rebecca Judd has paid a touching tribute to the Melbourne nurses who helped take care of her premature twins Tom and Darcy. The 33-year-old TV host, who gave birth by cesarean section last month, sent a heartwarming 'thank you' to the health workers who assisted her throughout her pregnancy. On Sunday, she shared a sweet Instagram photo of herself and two nurses as her twins slept in a nursery, and expressed her gratitude for their efforts. Scroll down for video 'Thank you to all of the amazing ladies at Frances Perry House Special Care Nursery for taking such good care of our premmie baby boys,' she wrote in the caption. 'The clinical expertise and level of care you show these babies and their families is incredible. 'A big shout out to @suemagpies and Lisa for the loooooong chats and keeping me entertained,' she added, personally thanking the nurses in the photo. Rebecca gave birth to her two healthy sons on September 29 at about 35 weeks, which is within the premature spectrum. In a post to Instagram, the mother-of- four was glowing alongside her husband and former Carlton and West Coast Eagles captain Chris Judd. She captioned the image: 'Tom and Darcy Judd are here! Born at lunch time today, perfectly healthy. We are the luckiest parents in the world.' The married couple now share four children - Billie, Oscar and twins Tom and Darcy. Rebecca said in July she was prepared for the possibility of premature babies but was hoping she could 'get (them) through 34 weeks'. 'With identical twins there is one placenta and two cords. You know, it's one fuel tank growing two humans,' she told Mamamia. 'I'm going to put my feet up and stay horizontal and try and get these babies through to 34 weeks. All I can do is close my legs and hope for the best.' Since their birth, Tom and Darcy have made regular appearances on the proud mother's social media accounts. Wrapped in blankets and posed with their father Chris, the Judd family appeared all smiles as they welcomed the bundles of joy into their lives. Rebecca admitted she was beginning to feel normal again just days after the birth as she posed with one of her sons for an Instagram photo.

2016-10-09 05:22 Aneeta Bhole www.dailymail.co.uk

67 /67 Donald Trump the Showman, Now Caught in the Klieg Lights Above all else, the success of Donald J. Trump ’s presidential campaign was made possible by the media environment in which it was spawned, and his canny ability to exploit it. Now that same environment could very well be the thing that destroys it.

A forceful personality with an unparalleled reality-television pedigree, Mr. Trump was perfectly primed to take advantage of the increasingly happy marriage between the news and entertainment sides of the media business — becoming a textbook candidate for the modern infotainment era of which he was already a product.

It is only fitting that it was not an investigative report from the likes of NBC News that is posing the biggest threat yet to his candidacy, but a bit of raw — and, yes, deplorable — video leaked from the editing bays of a celebrity entertainment program, “Access Hollywood.”

And it is rich symbolism that the Bush family member who helped enable the most severe political damage to Mr. Trump is the “Access” host Billy Bush, not his cousin Jeb Bush , the former Florida governor, who was as ill-suited for today’s media environment as Mr. Trump was tailor-made for it.

Mr. Bush — the former governor, that is — approached his campaign as if it would be operating in a normal political news environment, where at least some of the focus would be on economic and educational proposals, foreign policy plans and those words that were once so revered in Republican politics, “values” and “character.”

But Mr. Trump came at it with a new philosophy: Give them a big, messy show with a regular stream of action, and they will come with their cameras and won’t turn them off. Jeb Bush and his college affordability plan never stood a chance.

By then it was a proven formula for Mr. Trump.

He reached the highest level of electoral politics not through legislative or executive accomplishment but through a series of video moments that showcased a can’t-look-away personality as much as anything he achieved in business.

Those moments span more than three decades, and the trail they leave on YouTube follows the media’s evolution to its current discombobulated state.

We first see Mr. Trump discussing the presidency in an interview with the gossip writer Rona Barrett in 1980, just as he was becoming an item of fascination in New York.

As Ms. Barrett recounted in an interview with The Washington Post this year, she asked him about the presidency for no other reason than that he began complaining about the state of the world, lamenting that other nations were taking advantage of the United States. (He said he had no interest in running.)

Oprah Winfrey followed with the same question in 1988, after Mr. Trump published his smash hit book “The Art of the Deal” and became an outspoken critic of the trade deficit. When she asked Mr. Trump if he would run, he told her, “Probably not, but I wouldn’t rule it out.” It was daytime television, and it all seemed like good fun.

But then, that same year, he was suddenly talking about it at the Republican convention on CNN, with Larry King, who was, in his way, an open door in the wall that had separated entertainment and news. A decade later, during Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, it was Rowland Evans and Robert Novak on CNN raising the P-word (president) with him as he defended Mr. Clinton.

All the while, Mr. Trump was making regular visits to the studio of the radio talk show host Howard Stern, where he shared views of women such as, “A person who is flat-chested is very hard to be a 10.” (Mr. Trump recently said such commentary was being offered “for the purpose of entertainment,” apparently as he promoted the beauty pageants he owned with CBS at the time.)

So it was not surprising that such a deep well of incredulity rose up when Mr. Trump emerged as a candidate for the Reform Party’s presidential nomination in 1999. “Is it Campaign 2000 or ‘Entertainment Tonight’?” Howard Kurtz, then the host of “Reliable Sources” on CNN, asked in reference to the media attention to Mr. Trump. Still, Mr. Trump made it all the way to the political proving ground of Tim Russert’s “Meet the Press,” before his bid fell apart a few months later.

Yet as we know now, nothing did more to set up Mr. Trump for 2016 presidential politics than his own TV show, “The Apprentice,” which became a hit during its first season, in 2004. Its huge ratings success made Mr. Trump an even more coveted guest on entertainment shows, like “Access Hollywood” and “Late Show With David Letterman,” and mainstream news programs, which were ever more desperate for ratings and, therefore, ever more willing to embrace celebrities.

Mr. Trump always made it worth their while. He had a willingness to talk about whatever an interviewer threw at him, which is how a one-on-one session with Wolf Blitzer in 2007 came to be dominated by Mr. Trump’s views of the Iraq War (“a disaster” that called for an immediate withdrawal) and his critique of President George W. Bush’s leadership.

He had no policy expertise and was not a historian, but he offered something more compelling for news producers: ratings, which is the only thing that can explain all the coverage he later received for his news conferences questioning President Obama’s citizenship.

Mr. Trump took two other clear lessons away from “The Apprentice”: Television audiences will reward anything that at least looks like authenticity. And the best way to hold an audience is to give it a steady stream of drama, with compelling plotlines that continually surprise.

Those two precepts have consistently seemed to animate Mr. Trump’s campaign, which has sustained various plotlines. There’s always the A plot, based on his own performance. Then there’s a rotating set of B, C, and D plots — be it his ugly war with Ted Cruz, his running feud with the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly or the whodunit surrounding the lifted passages in the convention speech given by his wife, Melania Trump.

It wasn’t always pretty, and as Mr. Trump told me a few months ago in an interview, he did not set out to produce negative story lines. Nonetheless, his robust menu of content crowded out the message of his Republican opponents’ and, for a time, that of Hillary Clinton’s. It worked well for him.

But as the general election campaign has ground on, his copious video and audio content has buried him. In effect, it has become the equivalent of a senator’s voting record.

His video moments have come to be used against him. In August, for instance, the CNN host Don Lemon asked Mr. Trump how he could he say President Obama and Mrs. Clinton caused the creation of ISIS by prematurely withdrawing from Iraq in 2011, when he had told Mr. Blitzer in 2007 — on tape — that the United States should “get out” right then?

If he thinks Mr. Clinton was “a disaster” with women, why was it that he told Evans and Novak in 1997, “I think Bill Clinton is terrific”? What about Mr. Trump’s comments about women on Howard Stern’s show?

Of course, his banter with Billy Bush during his “Access Hollywood” appearance is far worse. The Washington Post was the first to expose the tape because an “Access Hollywood” report was delayed, pushing back one that NBC News was preparing to run immediately afterward. Over the weekend, some political commentators wondered why NBC News didn’t take the lead anyway. But what’s the difference? It all leads to the same place. The question for Mr. Trump is whether that place is the end of the road.

2016-10-09 05:00 Jim Rutenberg www.nytimes.com

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