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Total 100 articles, created at 2016-09-07 18:02 1 Young girl killed in hit and run on way to school A young girl has died after she was hit by a vehicle on the R512 (1.16/2) near Lanseria, north of Johannesburg, according to paramedics. 2016-09-07 13:03 1KB www.news24.com 2 Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston 'split up' after three months (1.14/2) Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston have split up after three months of dating, according to several reports in the US. 2016-09-07 13:04 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 3 UKZN SRC condemns burning of law library The University of KwaZulu-Natal's student representative council has condemned the burning of the law library at Howard College. 2016-09-07 13:02 5KB www.news24.com (1.14/2)
4 Newborn baby punched in the head after 63yo ‘mistook her for a toy doll’ — RT UK (1.02/2) A 63-year-old Manchester man has been arrested after a five-day- old baby was punched in the head at a Tesco supermarket. He claims he “mistook her for a toy doll.” 2016-09-07 18:01 2KB www.rt.com 5 Indonesian official wants Philippine-style drug war (1.02/2) Indonesia's anti-drugs chief has supported implementing a bloody crackdown on traffickers like the war on crime in the Philippines that has left almost 3,000 dead. Budi Waseso, the 2016-09-07 17:57 2KB globalnation.inquirer.net 6 MMA fighter donates infant son’s organs after fatal hit and run (1.02/2) Just two days after his 15-month-old son, Liam, was tragically mowed down by a drunk driver in an SUV, mixed martial artist Marcus Kowal decided to donate his baby’s organs. After doctors declared 2016-09-07 17:31 2KB sports.inquirer.net 7 Now PIL against Pokemon Go for showing eggs in places of worship
(1.02/2) A PIL has been filed in the Gujarat High Court against developers of the location-based augmented reality game Pokemon Go, alleging it hurts religious sentiments of certain communities by showing eggs in places of worship 2016-09-07 15:34 1KB www.mid- day.com
8 Exclusive: Chuka Umunna to stand to replace Keith Vaz as home affairs select committee chair Who'll be Keith Vaz's (0.01/2) replacement as Home Affairs Committee chair? The shadow business secretary is the first candidate to seek the post following the Labour MP's resignation. 2016-09-07 13:04 5KB www.newstatesman.com 9 Boys tennis rankings for week of Sept. 6 The boys tennis season is underway, and the Michigan High
(0.01/2) School Tennis Coaches Association has just released its Sept. 6 rankings. Take a look at which teams are the ones to beat in 2016 so far: B... 2016-09-07 13:03 2KB highschoolsports.mlive.com 10 I'm back: Tina Dlangwana returns to the music scene After taking a brief hiatus from the music scene, singer Tina Dlangwana has confirmed that she is officially back and will be dropping new music very soon. 2016-09-07 18:01 938Bytes www.timeslive.co.za 11 C-section babies more likely to be obese as adults – study — RT News Lack of exposure to vital bacteria in the birth canal for babies born by caesarean section may result in additional weight, leading to obesity in adulthood, a new study says. 2016-09-07 18:01 2KB www.rt.com 12 Trumped! Massive concrete wall planned for Calais to keep migrants out of Britain — RT UK Britain will soon begin building a “big, new wall” at a cost of £2 million ($2.6 million) in an attempt to halt the flow of migrants and refugees crossing the English Channel, Britain’s new immigration minister has confirmed. 2016-09-07 18:01 2KB www.rt.com 13 ‘Truth about my son will cast shadow on US,’ – jailed pilot’s mother warns Obama — RT Russian politics The mother of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko addressed US President Barack Obama with a letter asking him to show mercy and return her son, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence in New Jersey’s Fort Dix prison, to Russia. 2016-09-07 18:01 3KB www.rt.com
14 Human Settlements unveils new title deeds policy to tackle 22-year backlog Recipients of state-subsidised houses in Gauteng will in future receive their homes simultaneously with their ownership papers or title deeds. 2016-09-07 18:01 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 15 Prasa could partner with Chinese on Moloto Rail Development Corridor The Moloto Rail Development Corridor is one of the “infrastructure development initiatives” included in “a memorandum of understanding” signed between the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) an China Communications Construction Company Limited of China. 2016-09-07 18:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 16 ‘Everyone is a SPY in SA’ – Twitter abuzz about ‘Public Protector in waiting’ #BusisiweMkhwebane The Democratic Alliance’s (DA) opposition to the nomination of the next public protector appeared to have little support as #BusisiweMkhwebane trended on Twitter ahead of Wednesday’s debate in the National Assembly. 2016-09-07 18:01 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 17 Australia threat is real, after lone wolf attacks urged: PM The threat of a terror attack in Australia is 2016-09-07 18:01 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 18 Volkswagen, China’s JAC in talks to make electric cars FRANKFURT, Germany — German automaker Volkswagen says it's in talks about forming a joint venture to develop electric vehicles with China's Anhui Jianghuai Automobile, or 2016-09-07 18:01 1KB technology.inquirer.net 19 IG post confirms Ariana Grande’s relationship with Mac Miller Just after Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston announced their breakup, Ariana Grande and rumored boyfriend, Mac Miller, are officially a couple. The "Into You" singer, 23, posted a sweet 2016-09-07 18:01 1KB entertainment.inquirer.net 20 China under pressure at Asia summit over sea row Beijing came under pressure at an Asian summit Wednesday over its "illegal" island building in the South China Sea, after the Philippines produced evidence it said showed fresh 2016-09-07 18:01 5KB globalnation.inquirer.net
21 LOOK: PNP releases sketch of male suspect in Davao bombing The Philippine National Police on Wednesday released the artist’s sketch of the man who left a black bag with an explosive inside it at the Roxas night market in Davao City on Sept. 2. The 2016-09-07 18:01 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 22 Phelps awakens late, steers Phoenix past Blackwater Eugene Phelps bucked a woeful first half and captained Phoenix to a 93-81 victory over Phoenix Wednesday in the 2016 PBA Governors' Cup at Ynares Center in Antipolo. Despite being held to 2016-09-07 18:01 2KB sports.inquirer.net 23 Ateneo nears Spikers’ Turf sweep Ateneo rallied from a fourth set defeat to nip National U, 16-25, 25- 23, 25-18, 22-25, 15-11 and move within a win from retaining the Spikers’ Turf Collegiate Conference crown. The Blue 2016-09-07 18:01 1KB sports.inquirer.net 24 Bangladesh reassured of PH help to recover stolen money MANILA -- The Philippines has reiterated that it is committed to help Bangladesh recover through proper legal procedures the $81 million robbed from its central bank by cybercriminals let 2016-09-07 18:01 5KB globalnation.inquirer.net 25 Senate ethics committee to take up De Lima case Tuesday THE Senate committee on ethics and privileges is set sit down on Tuesday to decide on whether or not to give due course to the complaint filed against Sen. Leila de Lima over her alleged links to 2016-09-07 18:01 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 26 Pizza motivates employees to work harder than cash—study Hard work for slices of pizza. A recent study found that employees who were promised free pizza vouchers worked harder than if they were to receive cash bonuses. Dan Ariely, a psychology 2016-09-07 18:01 2KB technology.inquirer.net
27 Imelda getting pension as widow of war vet, Medal of Valor awardee Former First Lady Imelda Marcos has been receiving pension from the government since 1994 for being a surviving spouse of a war veteran and a Medal of Valor awardee. According to Solicitor 2016-09-07 18:01 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 28 Pacquiao leaves for US, vows to return in time for Senate session Sen. Manny Pacquiao on Wednesday reaffirmed his vow to never miss a Senate session even while he is training for his comeback fight set on Nov. 5 in Las Vegas. This as he left Manila Wednesday 2016-09-07 18:01 2KB sports.inquirer.net 29 ‘I told you so…drug charges are all made up,’ says De Lima "I TOLD you so," Senator Leila de Lima said on Wednesday after another witness denied owning a bank account that would allegedly link her to the illegal drug trade. “Yun nga 2016-09-07 17:53 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 30 World stocks drift as Fed rate outlook eases on service data HONG KONG — World stock markets meandered Wednesday after a weak report on U. S. service companies added to expectations that the Fed won't move anytime soon to raise interest 2016-09-07 17:41 3KB business.inquirer.net 31 7 Chinese nabbed as PDEA, PNP shut down ‘shabu lab’ in Pampanga MAGALANG, Pampanga -- A suspected shabu laboratory operating inside a piggery and poultry farm at a village here was shut down in a Wednesday (Sept. 7) morning raid by the police and agents of the 2016-09-07 17:40 3KB globalnation.inquirer.net 32 Henry Sy donates P100M innovation hub to Miriam College THE SM group has donated a P100-million innovation center - the Philippines’ first-of-its-kind integrated “makerspace" - to Miriam College on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of this 2016-09-07 17:32 5KB business.inquirer.net 33 DOLE releases financial aid to Davao blast victims The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said it would release financial assistance to the families of the fatalities and victims of the Davao city blast that claimed 14 lives. During 2016-09-07 17:26 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 34 Mumbai: FIR against builder for FSI fraud that cost govt Rs 2,000 cr Cops registered FIR against directors of the firm that constructed the 61-storey super luxury project — One Avighna Park at Currey Road — for allegedly forging documents with the help of civic officials, to obtain a huge FSI 2016-09-07 15:09 3KB www.mid-day.com 35 Watch video: Miraculous escape for three men who collided with a lorry It was a miraculous escape for three men whose bikes collided with a lorry in Medchal, Hyderabad on Wednesday. Watch video here 2016-09-07 15:07 1KB www.mid-day.com 36 Mumbai's forgotten Olympian Mary Dsouza Sequeira awaits state honours India's first double international Mary Dsouza Sequeira disappointed at no recognition from Maharashtra for her athletics and hockey exploits; Mary (85) represented India in athletics and hockey in the 1950s 2016-09-07 15:06 11KB www.mid-day.com 37 Fire breaks out in an old wooden building in south Mumbai, no casualties A major fire broke out in two storey old wooden building at Mazgaon in south Mumbai on Wednesday. No injuries have been reported 2016-09-07 14:36 1KB www.mid-day.com 38 Watch Video: 108-feet tall eco-friendly Ganpati in Visakhapatnam Amidst the Ganesh Chaturthi fever, a 108-feet tall Ganesha idol has been installed at a pandal in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam city. Significantly, the idol is an eco-friendly one 2016-09-07 14:25 1KB www.mid-day.com 39 Mothers are the Worst….to Other Mothers We already knew that Helicopter and Tiger Moms were a menace. Now, we have research to back up our anecdotal experiences... 2016-09-07 01:02 2KB spectator.org 40 Suspected Chlorine Gas Attack Hits Rebel- Held Aleppo Neighborhood Video The Syrian government is being accused of dropping three barrel bombs laced with chlorine. 2016-09-07 14:17 1KB abcnews.go.com 41 Yuvraj Singh, Jonty Rhodes visit Sachin Tendulkar's home for Ganpati India cricketer Yuvraj Singh and former South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes were among the 'sporting' guests, who dropped in to Sachin Tendulkar's Perry Cross Road bungalow in Bandra over the weekend to offer their prayers on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi 2016-09-07 14:07 1KB www.mid-day.com 42 Watch Video: Student beaten by teacher for snapping plant stem In yet another shocking video of violence against children, a 13- year-old student was allegedly beaten up for snapping the stem of a plant. The incident occurred in Sitapur are of Uttar Pradesh 2016-09-07 13:39 944Bytes www.mid-day.com 43 It’s hard to get rid of the governor of a central bank. Here’s why With the continued harassment of South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, it has become patently clear that no institution will be spared in the wave of state capture that is sweeping through the country. 2016-09-07 13:35 6KB www.timeslive.co.za 44 Has Tom Wolfe discovered the real origin of human language? Poldark adviser: how to strip history down for the screen The Kingdom of Speech takes on Noam Chomsky and Charles Darwin in its theories about the evolution of language. 2016-09-07 13:04 14KB www.newstatesman.com 45 The government must stop dithering and hold an Orgreave public inquiry Until we get the truth about the police brutality on 18 June 1984, we will never get justice for the coalfields. 2016-09-07 13:04 5KB www.newstatesman.com 46 Bloomberg View Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news... 2016-09-07 13:04 1KB www.bloomberg.com 47 Police seek Alabama man who points gun at dog in online photo An Alabama man who posted a photo of himself on a social media site pointing a gun at a dog is being sought by authorities. 2016-09-07 13:32 890Bytes www.ajc.com 48 Mumbai attacks: US says wants to see accountability, justice The US has reiterated that it wants accountability from Pakistan on the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that claimed 166 lives 2016-09-07 13:32 2KB www.mid-day.com 49 Rand slightly weaker after strong gains The rand eased on Wednesday morning‚ catching its breath after earlier touching its best level to the dollar in two weeks. 2016-09-07 13:31 1KB www.timeslive.co.za 50 Gabon election: Ali Bongo criticises EU over vote 'anomalies' President Ali Bongo accuses the European Union mission observing Gabon's election, which he won by a narrow margin, of bias. 2016-09-07 13:03 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 51 Four youths try to drown cop during Ganesh festival in Thane A shocking video of a policeman being pushed into a lake and four youths of a local Ganesh Utsav mandal trying to drown him in Kalyan townwhip has gone viral in Thane 2016-09-07 13:29 2KB www.mid-day.com 52 'Culture of drugs' at London's Fabric nightclub causes licence to be revoked One of the UK's most well known nightclubs is to close permanently after its licence was revoked. 2016-09-07 13:04 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 53 Sports Direct faces shareholder revolt at annual meeting Retailer Sports Direct faces a shareholder revolt at its annual meeting with investors dissatisfied despite the firm's pledge to improve working conditions for its staff. 2016-09-07 13:04 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 54 "48 Hours": A look back at "Jacob's hope" "48 Hours" profiled a family's search for their missing son, Jacob Wetterling, in 1992. And Tuesday, the case finally came to a close. The man responsible for Wetterling's death made a full confession. Here is a look back at the "48 Hours" report from 1992. 2016-09-07 13:04 1KB www.cbsnews.com 55 Daniel Singer Creates Innovative Social App Video How growing up in L. A. drove this young and gifted 16-year-old to create an innovative new app. 2016-09-07 13:26 5KB abcnews.go.com
56 Apple expected to unveil new iPhone 7 Apple is expected to unveil its latest iPhone on Wednesday, with speculation focusing on whether the headphone jack will survive the redesign. 2016-09-07 13:03 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 57 New Zealand tops global list for house price rises New Zealand, Turkey and Canada have seen the biggest leap in house prices over the past year, according to a new global ranking. 2016-09-07 13:03 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 58 Apple tax: Irish parliament to debate European Commission ruling The Irish parliament is recalled early to debate the European Commission ruling that Ireland granted €13bn of undue tax benefits to Apple. 2016-09-07 13:03 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 59 Australia's PM gives terror warning at Asean summit Australia is to offer more help to South East Asian leaders to prevent terrorism amid fears of "lone wolf" attacks. 2016-09-07 13:03 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 60 Tromp family: The mystery of a tech-free road trip gone wrong A strange tale of a family who went missing one by one on a tech- free road trip has gripped Australia, with police investigating whether the suffered a collective delusion 2016-09-07 13:03 7KB www.bbc.co.uk 61 Australian senator resigns over Chinese payments scandal Australian opposition senator Sam Dastyari resigns from the Labor front bench over a foreign donation scandal involving Chinese companies. 2016-09-07 13:03 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 62 Mexico's Hurricane Newton: Two die at sea Hurricane Newton weakens after making landfall in western Mexico, but two people die at sea when their boat capsizes. 2016-09-07 13:03 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 63 Adventurers recreate Inuit kayak crossings to Scotland Two adventurers have kayaked from Greenland to Scotland to show that the journey was possible for Inuit in the 17th and 18th centuries. 2016-09-07 13:03 2KB www.bbc.co.uk
64 Ankara seizes Deutsche Welle footage containing interview with Turkish minister — RT News The Turkish government has seized a Deutsche Welle tape containing an interview with its youth and sports minister. The German media outlet has called the move a “blatant violation of press freedom.” 2016-09-07 13:04 5KB www.rt.com 65 Media Finally Interested in Apparent Pay- For-Play Donations Scrutiny for thee, but not for she. Donald Trump dismissed allegations of impropriety on Monday, saying his foundation’s $25,000 donation... 2016-09-07 13:04 4KB spectator.org 66 Morning Bulletin: Snapchat expected to make $1bn on ads in 2017, porn-site Brazzers hacked, lost Doctor Who episode to be animated & Microsoft develops Slack rival Snapchat’s advertising revenue is expected to reach almost $1bn next year according to a number of reports, including Tech Crunch. Analysis from eMarketer estimates that the business will make $366.69m in 2016 and almost triple that next year with $935.46m as a result of its millennial audience. 2016-09-07 13:13 2KB www.thedrum.com 67 Ted Baker takes ‘massive step up’ in content ambition as it adopts cinematic approach for shoppable film campaign Ted Baker is embarking on its largest marketing campaign to date as it rolls out an intricate, espionage-themed campaign that utilises shoppable film technology and Google’s voice search functionality to realise its content ambitions. 2016-09-07 13:13 4KB www.thedrum.com 68 Amazon UK launches free restaurant delivery service for Prime members Amazon is looking to take on the likes of Just Eat and Deliveroo as it launches a free one-hour restaurant delivery service for Prime members in London. 2016-09-07 13:12 2KB www.thedrum.com 69 Apple’s tax affairs have not shaken its loyal customer base Last week Apple was ordered by the EU to pay around €13bn (£11bn) in back taxes in Ireland. This news led to a wave of negative press for the tech giant. But has this story damaged the company’s public perception? 2016-09-07 13:12 3KB www.thedrum.com 70 Why Pernod Ricard is confident spending money on targeted ads despite growing industry unease Pernod Ricard has brushed aside growing concerns that the use of targeting advertising on social media is proving unsuccessful and is instead confident that the tool can help the drinks business to better reach consumers over traditional advertising. 2016-09-07 13:12 5KB www.thedrum.com 71 Singapore marketers on health of industry in the island city state The drum caught up with senior marketers from Singapore to get their take on the countries strengths, weaknesses and the current state of its talent pool 2016-09-07 13:12 11KB www.thedrum.com 72 Georgia Nicols horoscopes for Sept. 7, 2016 Avoid shopping or big decisions from 7:30 p.m... 2016-09-07 13:11 4KB chicago.suntimes.com 73 Dear Abby: Hubby's former fling attends family events Family members have no idea their guest used to sleep with her friend's much younger son when he was a teenager. But it bothers his wife. 2016-09-07 13:09 1KB chicago.suntimes.com 74 Green Mountain Madness Okay, some might not consider Vermont paradise in January. Deep, white-out winter beauty is not for everybody... 2016-09-07 13:04 5KB spectator.org 75 When Malcolm Muggeridge Met Mother Teresa Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa Sunday. She was a celestial figure to many, for sweating away in Calcutta with “the poorest of the poor... 2016-09-07 13:04 5KB spectator.org 76 Planned Parenthood Fights (and Loses) Battle to Limit Parents’ Sex-Ed Rights Late in July, Alaska state Rep. Wes Keller’s (R-Wasilla) House Bill 156 was passed into law, enabling parents to opt their... 2016-09-07 13:04 4KB spectator.org 77 Conservatism’s Loss: The Passing of Phyllis Schlafly “Conservative Activist Phyllis Schlafly Dead At 92- one is not supposed to speak ill of the dead. So no comment then,” tweeted... 2016-09-07 13:04 4KB spectator.org 78 She’s Leaving on a Jet Plane of Her Very Own I cannot stop thinking about Hillary’s new plane. So many questions, so many hypocrisies, my head feels like a chicken cooking on... 2016-09-07 13:04 3KB spectator.org 79 Texas Hides Behind Its Bottles It’s been a busy summer for booze-related litigation in Texas. I’ve written previously about the successful challenge by craft brewers to a 2013... 2016-09-07 13:04 4KB spectator.org 80 Hillary and Obama Want to Make Dying Even More Expensive If Hillary Clinton wins the election, a lot of bad things will happen on taxes, not least of which is a big hike... 2016-09-07 13:04 6KB spectator.org 81 WATCH: An artist worth his salt The discovery of spilled salt in the storeroom of a shop two years ago gave birth to an art form that has brought fame for Pretoria artist Percy Maimela. 2016-09-07 13:03 2KB www.news24.com 82 I don't want to see where my hand no longer is - Kosie Kosie Wessels' wounds are healing but he wants to keep the bandages on because he doesn't want to see the stump that is where his hand used to be. 2016-09-07 13:02 1KB www.news24.com 83 Wounded LAX agents recall chaos as shooter pleads guilty LOS ANGELES (AP) -- James Speer had just helped a shell- shocked passenger run away from a gunman at Los Angeles International Airport and thought they were 2016-09-07 12:53 4KB mynorthwest.com 84 Alaska pot regulators poised to approve retail licenses JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- The board regulating Alaska's fledgling legal marijuana industry is expected to approve licenses this week for the state's first ret 2016-09-07 12:52 3KB mynorthwest.com
85 Crime against women: These 5 acid attack cases shocked the nation With Ankur Panwar being convicted for murder in the Preeti Rathi acid attack case, which took place in Mumbai in 2013, we look at five acid attack cases in India that were shocking in every sense 2016-09-07 12:44 5KB www.mid-day.com 86 Cheteshwar Pujara can't spot googly with pink ball India's Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara (nicknamed Chintu) on Monday raised a few concerns like 2016-09-07 12:44 1KB www.mid- day.com 87 Mashaba insists things are not as bad as they have been made out to be in Bafana His popular moniker is “Shakes” — earned during his tough- tackling defending days — but sometimes you do want‚ literally‚ to shake Bafana coach Ephraim Mashaba. 2016-09-07 12:44 4KB www.timeslive.co.za 88 Ricky Ponting feels let down by Australia's loss to Lanka Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting is unhappy with his country's comprehensive 0-3 whitewash by Sri Lanka in the recently-concluded Test series in the Emerald Isle and said today he was particularly disappointed that it came against an inexperienced home side 2016-09-07 12:39 4KB www.mid-day.com 89 Coast Guard's Last Lightkeeper Looks to 300-Year Milestone A singular lighthouse and its unique keeper are celebrating a milestone. Boston Light, the nation's first and oldest lighthouse station, turns 300 on Sept. 14. Sally Snowman, the Coast Guard's last resident keeper, is helping with celebrations. Events are planned for downtown Boston's... 2016-09-07 12:38 4KB abcnews.go.com 90 Four bodies of children found in Bihar Bodies of four minor children were found near a road at Lakhisarai district in Bihar on Wednesday. The bodies belonged to two male and two female children who are yet to be identified 2016-09-07 12:37 1KB www.mid-day.com 91 HC questions DDCA's move against Justice Mudgal Delhi High Court on Monday asked a top official of Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) and its advocate why contempt proceedings be not initiated against them for making comments in a letter accusing Justice Mukul Mudgal of 2016-09-07 12:34 2KB www.mid-day.com
92 2 men shot in Chatham Two men were wounded in a Chatham neighborhood shooting Tuesday night on the South Side. 2016-09-07 12:33 900Bytes chicago.suntimes.com 93 Badminton tourney: Abhishek Kulkarni, Neha Pandit emerge champions Neha Pandit and Abhishek Kulkarni clinched the women's and men's singles titles respectively in the 2nd Maharashtra Senior State Selection badminton tournament held at the Goregaon Sports Club 2016-09-07 12:32 1KB www.mid-day.com 94 EPL clubs obsessed with making money: Paul Scholes Former England midfielder Paul Scholes claims many Premier League clubs are so obsessed with making money they are sacrificing the quality of football being played on the pitch 2016-09-07 12:31 1KB www.mid-day.com 95 Kush shines in Cambridge's 5-0 win over St Joseph's Kush Govil scored a hat-trick as Cambridge School (Kandivli) hammered St Joseph's High School (Orlem) 5-0 to seal Last-16 berth in the Divisional Sports Office's Mumbai Suburban (Taluka) U-14 football tournament at St Francis D'Assisi High School ground (Borivli) yesterday 2016-09-07 12:29 1KB www.mid-day.com 96 PV Sindhu: Ready to shoulder responsibility in absence of Saina Nehwal India's Rio Olympics silver medallist PV Sindhu is willing to shoulder the responsibility in the absence of the injured Saina Nehwal in the upcoming opens, after the latter's injury 2016-09-07 12:28 2KB www.mid-day.com 97 DSO TT: Srushti powers RA Podar's victory vs Jai Hind Bespectacled Srushti Haleangadi played a stellar role in RA Podar Junior College (Matunga) 3-1 win over Jai Hind College (Churchgate) in the girls' U-19 final of the Divisional Sports Office's Mumbai table tennis tournament 2016-09-07 12:28 1KB www.mid- day.com
98 Time to focus on my future, says Sushil Kumar India wrestler Sushil Kumar, who has been nominated for the Padma Bhushan, feels loved again and wants to forget about the Rio episode 2016-09-07 12:27 2KB www.mid-day.com 99 Rafael Nadal to lead Spain vs India in Davis Cup Rafael Nadal has been named in Spain's Davis Cup team to play India in their world group play-off tie in New Delhi on September 16-18. Fifth-ranked Nadal, who was upset by France's Lucas Pouille in the US Open on Sunday, will be... 2016-09-07 12:25 1KB www.mid-day.com 100 Central matters: Cubs chasing division history down stretch The Cubs (.691) have 21 games left against NL Central foes with a chance to catch the 1995 Reds for best intra-division record in NL Central history. 2016-09-07 12:24 2KB chicago.suntimes.com Articles
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1 Young girl killed in hit and run on way to school (1.16/2) Johannesburg – A young girl has died after she was hit by a vehicle on the R512 near Lanseria, north of Johannesburg, on Wednesday, paramedics said. The girl is believed to be aged between six and eight. She was found lying next to the road at 07:40 on Wednesday morning. ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring said it was believed that the child was hit by a vehicle while she was walking to school. Meiring said the driver apparently fled the scene. "A second, light motor vehicle apparently swerved to avoid a collision, lost control and came to rest in the ditch," he said. The driver sustained minor injuries and was transported to Life Fourways Hospital. Local authorities were on the scene to investigate. Young girl killed while walking to school in apparent hit-and-run timeslive.co.za 2016-09-07 13:03 www.news24.com
2 Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston 'split up' after three months (1.14/2) Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston have split up after three months of dating, according to several reports in the US. Rumours first started that the couple, nicknamed "Hiddleswift", were together after they were seen flirting at the Met Gala in May. Since then they've seemingly been inseparable, appearing with each other around the world, including a trip to England to see Tom's family. But they reportedly haven't been able to "keep that kind of momentum going". There's no official word from either Tom or Taylor yet but sources who know the couple added: "They get along great and will remain friends, but they just don't see it working romantically right now. " Image caption Taylor Swift split up with Calvin Harris two weeks before she started dating Tom Hiddleston The start of the relationship came two weeks after Taylor broke up with Calvin Harris. Shortly afterwards, the DJ called out Taylor Swift on Twitter after she claimed she was the sole writer of his single This Is What You Came For. "I figure if you're happy in your new relationship you should focus on that instead of trying to tear your ex bf down for something to do," Harris tweeted. It's thought hectic work schedules had something to do with the split with Tom being based in Australia working on the new Thor film. They were set to walk the red carpet together at the Emmy Awards later this month, but that's almost certainly off the cards now. Both Taylor and Tom seem to be coping well with the split. https://twitter.com/TVChoice/status/772932014098026497 She's been pictured smiling as she left a gym in New York, while the actor was in a good mood when he accepted his best actor TV Choice award from the set of Thor with Idris Elba and Chris Hemsworth. https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/773322197427363840 Some have suggested the split could lead to inspiration for a new album from Taylor, who has a history of writing about ex-boyfriends. Find us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc _newsbeat Related Topics Entertainment Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift, Tom Hiddleston reportedly split after three months ajc.com 2016-09-07 13:04 www.bbc.co.uk
3 UKZN SRC condemns burning of law library (1.14/2) Durban - The University of KwaZulu-Natal's student representative council (SRC) has condemned the burning of the law library at Howard College on Tuesday evening. "I want to categorically state that we as the SRC are against any form of burning. That infrastructure is used by us and benefits us. If you burn an institution of higher learning you are disadvantaging a black child especially. They are the people who need it the most," SRC president Bandile Majola told News24 on Wednesday. The library was burnt following two weeks of protests by students. Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Thulani Zwane confirmed police were investigating a case of arson. According to Majola, there were many "general issues" that students wanted addressed urgently. "These are issues the university has been well aware of for a long time. They have failed to act on them. Negotiations are a tactic they use to get students to quieten down. They don't implement agreed upon resolutions. " Majola questioned why the university had enlisted the services of a private security company when the institution had security staff, adding that he suspected some sort of corruption in the matter. "Private security Isidingo Security has had their personnel roaming around our campus when we have insourced security. Why? " Curriculum, NSFAS, fee increases He said another of the students' grievances was an unchanging curriculum for first year courses. Majola said students paid more for tuition every year but they were not always offered courses that were current. "Nothing has changed. We don't exactly know what we are paying for. " Listing another grievance, Majola said students are now required to submit applications for government funding directly to NSFAS and not through the university. Majola said handling the application process this way had proven unsuccessful at other universities. "We have seen this direct application process fail at DUT [Durban University of Technology]. We want government or the university to come up with a pilot project at least before just changing things overnight. " Majola said the SRC was also fighting to ensure there was no fee increase in 2017. No word from management He further claimed that police and security dealing with protesting students were using strong-arm tactics. "They have assaulted and shot at students. The sad part is that media itself is not honest. When security and police are terrorising students there is no reporting. But when a building burns down they are there and publishing that. " According to Majola, students also wanted residences built at the university, a resolution he said the university agreed to in 2011. "We have been asking for residences for I don't know how long. On the website we are sold this dream of quality residence, but that is far from true. " Majola said he was yet to be contacted by management on any of the issues since protests began. "By doing this, they are saying the grievances of students mean nothing. We are clients of the university and they are failing to provide for us. There is no university without us, but they are not assisting us. Management has not contacted me since this all began. " He said the SRC was open to meeting with management but would only do so with a mediator present. "We will insist on a mediator because in previous instances when we tried to resolve issues, management comes to the table with arrogance. " University closed Majola urged students to use the early September recess that management announced on Tuesday to catch up on their studies. "We want students to remain in their residence and catch up on a lot of study time that we have lost. " The university will be closed from September 7 to 19 with the academic programme resuming on September 20. Thirteen students (not 16 as previously reported), aged between 17 and 20, were arrested for public violence, contravening a court order and causing damage to property at the UKZN Westville campus on Monday night. Police said six vehicles from the campus were burnt and one building set alight. On Tuesday police dispersed a crowd of around 30 students who were chanting struggle songs at the UKZN Westville campus. Students reported being tear-gassed. A small fire in a bin had to be extinguished. The university's Howard College and Pietermaritzburg campuses also experienced violent student protests with groups of students being dispersed by police firing rubber bullets in some cases. Last week Tuesday the Howard College coffee shop was set alight while the Pietermaritzburg main exam hall went up in flames a day later.
Students roasted for torching UKZN library timeslive.co.za 2016-09-07 13:02 www.news24.com
4 Newborn baby punched in the head after 63yo ‘mistook her for a toy doll’ — RT UK (1.02/2) Elsie Duckers, who was five days old at the time and weighed just 6lbs 12oz, was tucked up in her carriage when she was approached by a man who overheard friends say: “Come and have a look at this beautiful baby.” The man then punched the newborn in the head. He claimed he thought the baby was not real and was a toy. The baby was rushed to Wythenshawe Hospital where she was held for seven hours. She is not thought to have suffered any serious injuries. Her mother Amy Duckers, 27, said the punch was so hard, “you could hear the connection as this man hit Elsie.” She told the Daily Mail : “He left her with a huge red mark and we at first were just stunned. He then began denying anything had happened, despite the crying children and visible imprint on Elsie’s face and I just went hysterical, asking what he just did, why he hurt my baby.” Duckers says it was Elsie’s first trip out of the house since being born, and now she is too frightened to take her out again. “I was pushing Elsie, then five days old, around in a small Tesco trolley. It was my first trip out with her, So I was a little nervous, but we weren’t far from home. “I just can’t believe it - especially as it was on a five-day-old baby. “My seven-year-old was there and saw everything, and she was just screaming. She thought he’d killed the baby. I don’t want anyone to touch Elsie ever again. I literally can’t get my head around why someone would do this.” Greater Manchester Police stated: “A man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a baby. "Police were called shortly before 6:45pm to a supermarket on Altrincham Road in Baguley on Monday to reports of a child having been hit. “The baby girl was taken to hospital as a precaution and has since been discharged. “A 63-year-old was arrested on suspicion of assault and is currently in custody being questioned by officers.”
Man arrested after baby girl 'punched in supermarket' bbc.co.uk 2016-09-07 18:01 www.rt.com
5 Indonesian official wants Philippine-style drug war (1.02/2) Indonesia’s anti-drugs chief has supported implementing a bloody crackdown on traffickers like the war on crime in the Philippines that has left almost 3,000 dead. Budi Waseso, the tough- talking anti-drugs czar who once proposed holding death row traffickers on a prison island guarded by crocodiles, said he believed such a campaign would safeguard “our beloved country.” Indonesia says it is fighting a war against rising narcotics use. It has stepped up executions of convicted drug traffickers, including foreigners, triggering international outrage. Meanwhile President Rodrigo Duterte of the neighboring Philippines has sparked controversy by overseeing the large-scale killing of drug traffickers since winning election in May. Duterte is due to visit Jakarta later this week for talks with President Joko Widodo after an Asian summit and the leaders are expected to discuss their respective anti-narcotics campaigns. Ahead of the visit, Waseso suggested Indonesia could follow a policy like that of the Philippines and revealed authorities were bolstering their resources to fight the drug trade. “If such a policy were implemented in Indonesia, we believe that the number of drug traffickers and users in our beloved country would drop drastically,” the anti-drugs agency head said earlier this week. “I would be on the frontline to eradicate all the traffickers.” In later comments, he said the agency had a major plan to hire more personnel and procure more weapons to better crack down on the drug trade. Agency spokesman Slamet Pribadi sought Wednesday to play down the comments, saying a Philippines-style policy would only be followed “if our law makes it possible,” adding: “We can’t shoot criminals just like that, we have to follow the rules.” But he acknowledged that Waseso was “strict” and had told staff members that “we should not keep our guns in a safe, we must use them — but only for law enforcement.” RELATED STORIES Bloody PH drug war catches eye of int’l media Duterte: Drug menace will turn PH into Asia’s ‘Mexico’ Colombia dismantles network that trafficked drugs to Asia RELATED VIDEOS
Indonesia drug chief calls for Philippine-style crackdown bbc.co.uk 2016-09-07 17:57 Agence France globalnation.inquirer.net
6 MMA fighter donates infant son’s organs after fatal hit and run (1.02/2) Just two days after his 15- month-old son, Liam, was tragically mowed down by a drunk driver in an SUV, mixed martial artist Marcus Kowal decided to donate his baby’s organs. After doctors declared their son brain-dead, Kowal and his wife opted to take him off on life support on Sunday (Monday in Manila). With a heavy heart, the MMA fighter took to social media to confirm that they will donate Liam’s heart to “make another child live. “I am writing this post to ask if there is a child out there we know that needs a heart or any other organ,” Kowal wrote, after doctors informed him that their son’s heart could still be used by someone in need. “It hurts to write this but Liam loved to share and the person we were going to raise him to be would love to help someone else. So anyone we know, or someone you know, inbox me please,” he added. According to the California’s Hawthorne Police Department, Liam’s aunt Michel Eder was pushing him in his stroller through a crosswalk when they were unexpectedly hit by the SUV. The elderly driver, identified as 72-year-old Donna Marie Higgins, was reportedly intoxicated and even tried to flee the scene. Witnesses chased her and formed a vehicular blockade while they waited for the police. The collision caused Liam’s stroller to break into half, a TIME report said. “Our hearts are broken and there’s a void in my soul but we will get through this,” Kowal described the pain of losing his child in an earlier Facebook post. Higgins was later arrested and charged with felony hit-and-run and felony drunk driving. Eder sustained serious injuries, but is now in stable condition. Kowal’s plead on social media, meanwhile, urged netizens to create an online memorial fund for Liam. As of writing, the fund has raised nearly $95,000, and will beintended for the child’s medical bills and funeral service. Khristian Ibarrola
MMA fighter donates organs of toddler son killed by suspected... ajc.com 2016-09-07 17:31 sports.inquirer.net
7 Now PIL against Pokemon Go for showing eggs in places of worship (1.02/2) A PIL has been filed in the Gujarat High Court against developers of the location-based augmented reality game Pokemon Go, alleging it hurts religious sentiments of certain communities by showing eggs in places of worship. The petition has been filed by Alay Anil Dave and San Francisco-based developer of the game, Niantic, Inc., and Central and state governments have been made the respondents. As per the plea, the image of eggs are shown in the augmented reality game appear in places of worship of different religious groups amongst other things. The petitioner has said eggs are considered as non- vegetarian food, and it is blasphemous to carry non-vegetarian food inside a place of worship of Hindus and Jains. Twitterati had a field day laughing at the 'ridiculous' plea. Here's how they reacted!
Pokemon Go in Indian court for 'hurting religious sentiments' bbc.co.uk 2016-09-07 15:34 By mid www.mid-day.com
8 Exclusive: Chuka Umunna to stand to replace Keith Vaz as home affairs select committee chair Who'll be Keith Vaz's replacement as Home Affairs Committee chair? (0.01/2) Chuka Umunna will stand for election as home affairs select committee chair, I can reveal. Following Keith Vaz's resignation yesterday, the former shadow business secretary and Streatham MP has received strong support from Labour colleagues as well as Tory MPs. Vaz's departure means there is currently no black or minority ethnic select commitee chair - a gap that Umunna would fill. Conservative MP Tim Loughton yesterday became acting chair but a Labour MP will take the permanent position. Vaz resigned after the Sunday Mirror reported that recently paid for the services of two male escorts. He said: "It is in the best interest of the Home Affairs Select Committee that its important work can be conducted without any distractions whatsoever. "I am genuinely sorry that recent events make it impossible for this to happen if I remain chair. " Umunna said in response: "I am very sad to see Keith step down but believe he has made the right decision by Parliament and those we serve. It is incredibly important the Committee carries on the important work we are doing scrutinising government. " The position of home affairs select commitee chair would give Umunna, who is still spoken of by Labour MPs as a potential future leader, a powerful position of influence. Possible rival candidates for the post include Yvette Cooper, the former shadow home secretary, and Fiona Mactaggart, a former Home Office minister who previously stood against Vaz. Umunna, who is chair of Vote Leave Watch, yesterday forced the immigration minister Robert Goodwill to concede that the government had no means of identifying EU nationals in the UK or the length of their stay. Asked by Umunna during a home affairs select committee hearing "Are you in a position to identify every EU citizen currently living and working in the United Kingdom and therefore to require their removal? " Goodwill replied: "No we are not in a position and I could not foresee a circumstance where we would want to be in that position. I can't see a situation in which we would even think of that. " The government has so far refused to guarantee that EU nationals who arrived in the UK before the referendum on 23 June will have the right to remain. Umunna replied to Goodwill: "If you can't identify all the EU nationals in our country and be in a position to remove them, what on earth is the point carrying on with the pretence that somehow if you weren't to guarantee them the right to stay, you could get rid of them. " Goodwill responded: "I can see the route you are trying to take me down but it is not a route I think we are ever going to be going down. " Keith Vaz’s resignation as chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee will trigger a battle to chair the committee as it prepares to publish a series of high-profile reports. Among them is the inquiry into prostitution - which threw up the conflict of interest that made Vaz’s continuing role as committee chair untenable in the views of his parliamentary colleagues. But also coming down the pipeline are significant reports into hate crimes, female genital mutilation and the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, which comes under the select committee’s remit, and will form a large part of the new chair's in-tray. Allocation of select committee chairs means that the post must be filled by a Labour MP, every MP gets a vote. MPs of all stripes are keen on a female chair, with several tipping Yvette Cooper, a former shadow home secretary, to make a bid, although she thought likely to prefer her role as chair of Labour’s refugee taskforce. Fiona MacTaggart, is an opponent of discrimination and served as a home office minister, ran against Vaz last time and would start with the vital support of the bulk of Labour’s female MPs, party insiders believed. Also commanding significant cross-party support is Chuka Umunna, who has impressed since being elected on the home affairs select committee, and is being talked up by MPs across the House of Commons. If elected, it would fill up another slot for a Labour MP on the committee, which several MPs tipping Jess Philips, who worked in domestic violence before becoming an MP, for the vacant slot.
Theresa May's Brexit balancing act is struggling to survive the rigours of Westminster Who'll be Keith Vaz's replacement as Home Affairs Committee chair? newstatesman.com 2016-09-07 13:04 Suzanne Moore www.newstatesman.com
9 Boys tennis rankings for week of Sept. 6 (0.01/2) The boys tennis season is underway, and the Michigan High School Tennis Coaches Association has just released its Sept. 6 rankings. Take a look at which teams are the ones to beat in 2016 so far: Brackets indicate 2015 state finals position Division 1 1. Bloomfield Hills [tied 1] 2. Novi [tied 1] 3. Troy [tied 4] 4. Ann Arbor Pioneer [3] 5. Ann Arbor Huron [tied 4] 6. Birmingham Brother Rice [7] 7. Northville [6] 8. Grosse Pointe South [8] 9. Clarkston [DNQ] 10. Port Huron Northern [tied 9] Division 2 1. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central [tied 1] 2. Portage Central [tied 1] 3. Midland Dow [3] 4. Birmingham Groves [tied 4] 5. Birmingham Seaholm [tied 4] 6. Detroit U of D Jesuit [tied 4] 7. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern [tied 4] 8. Okemos [8] 9. Grosse Pointe North [9] 10. East Lansing [11] Division 3 1. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood [1] 2. Detroit Country Day [2] 3. East Grand Rapids [3] 4. Holland Christian [4] 5. Coldwater [5] 6. Haslett [6] 7. Parma Western [tied 7] 8. St. Joseph [tied 7] 9. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Eastern [tied 10] 10. Allegan [tied 10] Division 4 1. Ann Arbor Greenhills [1] 2. Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett [2] 3. Traverse City St. Francis [3] 4. Lansing Catholic [tied 12] 5. Whitehall [4] 6. Williamston [DNQ] 7. West Bloomfield Frankel Jewish Academy [DNQ] 8. Grand Rapids West Catholic [tied 11] 9. Kalamazoo Christian [6] 10. Flint Powers Catholic [8] See More Sports News » High school girls volleyball rankings for week of Sept. 6 highschoolsports.mlive.com 2016-09-07 13:03 Patrick Nothaft highschoolsports.mlive.com
10 I'm back: Tina Dlangwana returns to the music scene A tragic accident north of Durban on Tuesday morning‚ which saw a four-year-old boy ripped from his mother’s arms in the back seat of the car and flung through the car’s windscreen‚ serves as a reminder of why young children should be restrained in cars.
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11 C-section babies more likely to be obese as adults – study — RT News The study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, examined 22,068 children born to 15,271 women. The children were then sent follow-up questionnaires over a 20-year period. The participants' responses showed that those born by C-section were 0.3 Body Mass Index (BMI) points heavier on average, compared to those born by vaginal birth. Overall, babies born by C-section were 15 percent more likely to be obese in adulthood. The researchers found that the link is not explained by having overweight mothers, or the fact that women with pregnancy complications – such as high blood pressure – are more likely to deliver by C-section. When children within a single family were compared, those born by C- section were a whopping 64 percent more likely to be obese than their siblings born by vaginal delivery. “With siblings, they have the same mother and home environment so the genetics, the feeding environment, are all controlled for,” said Audrey Gaskins, an epidemiologist at Harvard University and co-author of the study, as quoted by the Guardian. The researchers believe the answer could be down to bacteria in the birth canal which C-section babies are not exposed to during birth. According to the authors of the study, this bacteria colonizes the baby's gut and may change the body's metabolism. “Children born by vaginal delivery are primarily exposed to their mothers' vaginal and gut microbes, whereas children born by caesarean are primarily exposed to bacteria on their mothers' skin and whatever bacteria happen to be in the air in the operating room,” Gaskins told ResearchGate. “This initial difference in mode of delivery leads to changes in the type of bacteria living in children’s guts. Moreover, the pattern of gut bacteria that children born by C-section tend to have has been previously linked to greater risk of obesity later in life,” she continued. However, the researchers stopped short of stating that C-sections cause the higher risk of obesity, as participants' gut bacteria was not measured or compared, and other factors could be involved – such as the fact that caesarean babies are less likely to be breastfed, which also influences gut bacteria and protects against obesity. Gaskins said she and her colleagues hope to do a follow-up on the hypothesis that gut bacteria differences are behind the increased risk of obesity for those born by C-section.
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12 Trumped! Massive concrete wall planned for Calais to keep migrants out of Britain — RT UK The 13-foot-tall (four-meter-tall) concrete barrier will replace fencing that has so far failed to prevent migrants from jumping aboard trucks headed for the port. Construction on the wall, which will stretch over the half mile (one kilometer) approaching the ferry port, is set to begin this month. “People are still getting through,” Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill told the Commons home affairs committee on Tuesday. “We have done the fences. Now we are doing the wall.” Goodwill, who served as transport minister until July, when he took over as immigration minister, told MPs that the project is part of joint £17-million ($22.7- million) Anglo-Franco project to beef up security at the Channel ports. “We are going to start building this big, new wall as part of the £17 million package we are doing with the French. There is still more to do. We have also invested in space for 200 lorries at Calais so that they have somewhere safe to wait.” Construction of the wall, which will be built from smooth concrete to prevent scaling, is set to be completed by the end of the year. The move has been criticized by the UK’s Road Haulage Association as “a poor use of taxpayer money.” “The money to pay for a wall would be much better spent on increasing security along the approach roads,” a spokesperson said. Hundreds of truck drivers, shopkeepers, farmers, and police officers took part in a protest that blocked the road leading to the port of Calais on Monday demanding that the “Jungle” camp be shut down. Local activists estimate that the camp is now home to around 9,000 people, while government figures put the figure closer to 6,900. French Police Commissioner Patrick Visser-Bourdon has said the defenses of the port road were breached 22,000 times in June of this year, compared to just 3,000 times in January, the Telegraph reports.
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13 ‘Truth about my son will cast shadow on US,’ – jailed pilot’s mother warns Obama — RT Russian politics The woman, Lyubov Yaroshenko, told Izvestia Daily that she would exhaust all means to have her son returned to Russia, and even after failing to receive justice from the US court system, she still hopes that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama will help her. READ MORE: ‘There is no justice here’ – Russian pilot jailed in US tells of kidnap, torture & lies “ American lawyers have spent a whole year gathering proof that my son is not guilty or complicit in crimes he was convicted of. There are irrefutable facts that prove that the sentence passed by Judge Jed Rakoff was a mistake. I am confident that the truth will sooner or later become public and this will cast a shadow on the United States that declares itself a state with the rule of law with obligations to protect human rights all over the world ,” Yaroshenko wrote in her letter. She added that she was seriously concerned about her son’s health which was rapidly deteriorating and, in Yaroshenko’s own words, this has happened because of the poor prison conditions and inadequate medical assistance. “ As a mother I am praying to the Almighty to guide you, dear mister president to the path of mercy to my son who is dying in custody. I am praying that you receive the God’s blessing that is higher and more precious than the Nobel Prize on the day that Konstantin Yaroshenko gets to his native land, by your humane presidential will ,” Lyubov Yaroshenko wrote. She also reminded the US leader that Russian President Vladimir Putin had helped to secure the release of US citizen Kevin Dawes from detention in Syria at the request of the US, and the whole world expressed great respect for this humanitarian act. In comments to Izvestia, the woman added that she hoped President Obama would understand her grief and added that she was ready to walk to Washington on foot if this would help her son get back home. Yaroshenko was sentenced to 20 years in jail in the United States in 2011 for allegedly participating in a conspiracy to smuggle drugs into the country. The charges against him, however, are based on the testimony of US agents who launched a sting operation against him. He was arrested in Liberia and was flown to the US without any official extradition procedure, despite protests from Russia over alleged violations of the diplomatic code. The pilot himself has always maintained his innocence, and insisted from the very beginning that his case was not about drug trafficking. He says his poor command of English prevented him from understanding the nature of the suggestions made to him by undercover DEA agents. Yaroshenko’s defense team has repeatedly stated that the whole scheme was organized by US special services in an attempt to extract evidence against Russian citizen Viktor Bout, the owner of a transport company, who was also illegally extradited to the US and sentenced after a DEA sting operation. In May this year, Yaroshenko told the press that he would no longer appeal to American courts, as he considered them biased and politicized, and did not expect justice. READ MORE: Jailed Russian pilot Yaroshenko ‘abandons faith’ in US justice
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14 Human Settlements unveils new title deeds policy to tackle 22-year backlog In a radical departure from past practice‚ the Department of Human Settlements appears to be planning to build houses for specific beneficiaries in a bid to unravel a more than 22-year long backlog of 74,970 title deeds. This is the result of building houses‚ following which a process begins to identify beneficiaries and then allocate them title deeds - in some cases only years later. Of the almost 75 000 title deeds to be allocated‚ 71 090 are outstanding to beneficiaries belonging to the post-1994 period while the remaining 3 880 are outstanding pre-1994. Addressing members of Parliament’s portfolio committee on human settlements on Tuesday in Cape Town‚ acting head of department Ngoako Molokome revealed that it will be spending R62-million to allocate 34 444 title deeds in this financial year alone. “In the current financial year‚ the province has adopted an approach linked to mega projects that will be linked to subsidy approval which entails proactive allocation of houses and immediate application for title deeds. With this approach we want to hand over houses and title deeds simultaneously‚” Molokome told the committee. The department will spend an additional R330-million between 2017 and 2020 to allocate a further 183 334 title deeds. “In addressing the backlog of title deeds‚ the department in the first draft business plan for the 2017 Medium Term Expenditure Framework‚ allocated R330-milllion linked to 183 334 title deeds over and above the 2016-2017 allocation and projection‚” said Molokome in his presentation to the committee. “The department is in the process of appointing project management capacity that will segment conveyancers per region that will be allocated the backlog within the region starting from the second quarter (July-September) of the current financial year. “We are also appointing service providers to fast-track the proclamation of townships‚ which is partly the reason of the accumulating backlog. At present‚ approximately 56 townships have not been proclaimed.” Following frequent land and housing invasions - most recently in the Vlakfontein informal settlement and Kagiso Extension 13‚ both on the West Rand - the department is adopting a conciliatory approach that will allow occupants of invaded properties to fill in subsidy forms and be allocated title deeds‚ if they qualify. Housing beneficiaries who cannot be traced will be stripped of ownership of their homes. “Where there is a beneficiary who has been approved and holds a title deed and cannot be traced‚ a court order to effect cancellation of ownership must be obtained and thereafter identify projects for prioritisation of dispossessed beneficiaries‚” said Molokome. But the department will insist that beneficiaries abide by provisions of section 10 of the Housing Act‚ which forbids the sale of state-subsidised houses within a eight years of allocation.
2016-09-07 18:01 Olebogeng Molatlhwa www.timeslive.co.za
15 Prasa could partner with Chinese on Moloto Rail Development Corridor That’s according to the Presidency‚ which said on Wednesday that President Jacob Zuma attended the signing in Guangzho where he “has stopped…from Hangzhou where participated in the G20 summit”. “The construction of the rail development corridor is a direct response by government to excessive traffic congestion numerous fatal road accidents and general economic underdevelopment in the area‚” the Presidency noted. “When President Zuma undertook a monitoring visit to Kwaggafontein outside KwaMhlanga in Mpumalanga Province‚ residents once again asked for his intervention to provide safe and efficient public transport system along the Moloto corridor.” According to Prasa‚ the Moloto Rail Project’s “main objective is to ensure that passenger rail as the backbone of an integrated multi-modal transport system using proven state of the art rolling stock and equipment”. “The Moloto Development Corridor has its main objective to increase speed for buses from 70km/h to 120km/h and from 160km/h to 200km/h for standard gauge trains thereby reduce travel time for commuters‚” its website says. In 2014‚ Transport Minister Dipuo Peters said the feasibility study into the Moloto Rail Development Corridor was in its final stage. The project is estimated to cost more than R30-billion‚ and Peters said then that it “is aimed at developing a safe public transportation infrastructure‚ particularly rail infrastructure alongside the notorious Moloto road between Pretoria and Mpumalanga”. “It is painful for us that every time we have to go and pledge condolences and also to wish those who are injured speedy recovery. I think it's now time to act to make sure that people of that corridor begin to realise that government mean business‚” Peters told SABC at the time.
2016-09-07 18:01 TMG Digital www.timeslive.co.za
16 16 ‘Everyone is a SPY in SA’ – Twitter abuzz about ‘Public Protector in waiting’ #BusisiweMkhwebane The party on Tuesday dropped a political bomb by claiming Mkhwebane is a spy close to President Jacob Zuma. Advocate Mkhwebane is likely to be nominated by the National Assembly on Wednesday afternoon to replace the highly regarded advocate Thuli Madonsela‚ whose term ends next month. The National Assembly preference will then have to be ratified by Zuma. Bigger_Skeletons @Solomon_Madube seemed unconcerned about Mkhwebane’s alleged covert activities: “Everyone is a SPY in South Africa. #PublicProtector #BusisiweMkhwebane”. Ikaelelo @Dikhing was being a little bit more circumspect: “What if #BusisiweMkhwebane really is a spy?” Ilunga Ntengu @davxnt saw a dirty tricks campaign afoot: “This is slander‚ the dirtiest Politics there is. Why damage the credibility of #BusisiweMkhwebane before she even gets appointed?” Just Sayin... @ThaboLowe wasn’t so sure she should be given a chance‚ and reference the Eskom’s CEO in her tweet: “Im not singing no praises for #BusisiweMkhwebane till she proof herself. Made dat mistake with Brian Molefe.” TheTrillestTumi♛ @TumediTreezy‚ however‚ thought Mkhwebane has what it takes to fill Madonsela’s shoes: “An then there is #BusisiweMkhwebane‚ SA's next public protector. She is qualified‚ smart and powerful. #WomenPower #ProudlySouthAfrican”. Pitso M @KWAALITY_ sided with Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema: “DA is against mam Busisiwe and Mina I don't care as long Malema is willing to give her a chance to prove himself #BusisiweMkhwebane”. Moses Mapoo @Blaq_Mo noted that Wednesday would see the EFF voting with its adversary‚ the African National Congress: “Today 2/3 majority returns as EFF will vote with @MYANC for Public Protector in waiting #BusisiweMkhwebane. Historic”. Malema‚ just over a week ago‚ expressed misgivings about Mkhwebane because of her proximity to Zuma‚ but said he would back her. "If she tries any shenanigans the institution [Office of the Public Protector] will expose her for who she is‚" Malema said. Blazing Empress @BlazingEmpress quoted the Bard’s Hamlet: “To be or not to be the #PublicProtector ‚ that is the question #BusisiweMkhwebane”. K H A N Y I @KhanyieMahlangu thought it was all rather exciting and wanted the job when she was older: “what are the qualifications to be a public protector? I wanna be one when I grow up #BusisiweMkhwebane”.
2016-09-07 18:01 TMG Digital www.timeslive.co.za
17 Australia threat is real, after lone wolf attacks urged: PM Responding to an English- language online magazine that singled out prominent Australian locations at which to kill people, Turnbull said it was a "disturbing reminder" of the security situation. "We have a threat level of 'probable', so it is a real threat," he said late Tuesday when speaking to reporters in Vientiane, Laos. "The capacity of Daesh, of course, is much less than they proclaim it to be but we do have to be very alert to the actions of these lone actors," he said, using another name for the Islamic State. The first edition of the magazine Rumiyah released in English online on Monday called for attacks on the streets of Brunswick and Broadmeadows in Melbourne and Bondi in Sydney. "Kill them at the MCG, the SCG (Sydney Cricket Ground), the Opera House, and even in their backyards," it said. Turnbull said IS jihadists would "resort to terrorist activities outside of the Middle East" as they came under more pressure on the battlefield in Syria and Iraq. In relation to so-called "lone wolf" attackers, he said some individuals could be radicalised very quickly "and engage in very destructive, lethal conduct". But he added: "Every time there is a terrorist incident, wherever it is in the world, we learn as much as we can about it and then take those learnings to keep Australians more safe. " Australia's Justice Minister Michael Keenan said the latest threat did not change the fundamentals in Australia, where the terror threat was lifted to high in 2014. "This is not the first time that ISIL has called for attacks in Australia and I don't think it will be the last," he told the Nine Network on Wednesday. Officials say they have stopped 10 terror attacks in Australia in the past two years. Police chief commissioner for the state of Victoria, Graham Ashton, said while it was the first time such threats had been published in English rather than Arabic, the magazine "appears to be propaganda". Ashton said while police were taking the comments seriously, there was nothing to suggest any specific threat to the places mentioned. "If anything arises then we'll obviously be acting on it, but at this stage there is nothing of any concern," he told reporters.
2016-09-07 18:01 AFP www.timeslive.co.za
18 Volkswagen, China’s JAC in talks to make electric cars FRANKFURT, Germany — German automaker Volkswagen says it’s in talks about forming a joint venture to develop electric vehicles with China’s Anhui Jianghuai Automobile, or JAC. Volkswagen said Wednesday that the two companies had signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday to evaluate the possibility of joining forces to make zero-emission cars. Volkswagen is making a new push into electric vehicles, saying it will come up with 30 new models over the next ten years. The new emphasis on emission-free cars comes after the company’s reputation was damaged by a scandal over diesel vehicles rigged to cheat on emissions testing. Electric vehicles so far are not a major part of the global car market. But companies are working on them in hopes that battery range will improve, and to meet tougher emissions standards. TVJ
2016-09-07 18:01 Associated Press technology.inquirer.net
19 IG post confirms Ariana Grande’s relationship with Mac Miller Just after Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston announced their breakup, Ariana Grande and rumored boyfriend, Mac Miller, are officially a couple. The “Into You” singer, 23, posted a sweet snap on Instagram, certifying her relationship with the 24-year-old rapper. In the picture, captioned “Baby,” the lovebirds are seen wrapping each other on the wooden floor. The couple was rumored to be dating after they were seen dining at Los Angeles, walking hand in hand on the streets of New York and watching the recently concluded MTV Music Video Awards, People reported. Also, they got matching tattoos together, similar to what Rihanna and Drake had. Grande and Miller first met when they filmed a music video for their collaborated track, “The Way,” back in 2013. Just last month, Grande split with dancer Ricky Alvarez, her boyfriend for one year. She was also previously linked to hip-hop icon Big Sean. Gianna Francesca Catolico
2016-09-07 18:01 entertainment.inquirer.net
20 20 China under pressure at Asia summit over sea row Beijing came under pressure at an Asian summit Wednesday over its “illegal” island building in the South China Sea, after the Philippines produced evidence it said showed fresh construction activity at a flashpoint shoal. An artificial island at Scarborough Shoal could be a game changer in China’s quest to control the sea and raises the risk of armed confrontation with the United States, according to security analysts. READ: LOOK: Philippines accuses China of secret island building Beijing this week insisted it had not started building at the shoal — a move that could lead to a military outpost just 230 kilometers (140 miles) from the main Philippine island, where US forces are stationed. But the Philippines on Wednesday released images it said showed Chinese ships in the area that were capable of dredging sand and other activities required to build an artificial island. “We have reason to believe that their presence is a precursor to building activities on the shoal,” defense department spokesman Arsenio Andolong told AFP. “We are continuing our surveillance and monitoring of their presence and activities, which are disturbing.” China claims nearly all of the sea, through which $5 trillion in shipping trade passes annually, even waters approaching the coasts of the Philippines and other Southeast Asian nations. The competing territorial claims have long been a major source of tension in the region, with China using deadly force twice to seize control of islands from Vietnam. Illegal island building Tensions have escalated sharply in recent years as China has built islands on reefs and islets in the Spratlys archipelago — another strategically important location — that are capable of supporting military operations. The United States has reacted to that build-up by sailing warships close to the new islands, and sending warplanes over them, deeply angering China. A UN-backed tribunal ruled in July that China’s claims to most of the sea had no legal basis and its construction of artificial islands in the disputed waters was illegal. But Beijing vowed to ignore the ruling. China took control of Scarborough shoal in 2012 after a standoff with the Philippine Navy, and has since deployed large fishing fleets while blocking Filipino fishermen. Expanding that presence with a military outpost is vital to achieving China’s ambitions of controlling the sea, according to security analysts. US officials fear a Chinese military airfield at the shoal would enable Beijing to enforce a threatened air defense identification zone in the sea. An outpost at the shoal would also put Chinese fighter jets and missiles within easy striking distance of US forces stationed in the Philippines. US President Barack Obama reportedly directly warned his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, during a meeting in March not to push ahead with any artificial island building there. The United States, which is a treaty ally of the Philippines, has repeatedly said it does not want to fight a war over the shoal. But military skirmishes cannot be ruled out if China does start to build an island, according to security analysts. “We could witness a physical confrontation between Chinese Coast Guard and Filipino vessels backed up by the US Navy,” Carl Thayer, an emeritus professor at Australia’s University of New South Wales, told AFP. An Obama aide on Wednesday played down the significance of the Philippine photos, telling reporters the United States had not detected any unusual activity at Scarborough Shoal. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte had said he did not want to anger China by highlighting the territorial row at the summit of regional leaders in Laos this week. But the release of the photos came just a few hours before Duterte and other leaders from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations met China’s Li, in what his spokesman said was a deliberate move. The Philippines and Singapore, which this year is Asean’s lead negotiator with China, raised the dispute during the meeting. “What was underlined… was the importance of the rule of law and adhering to international bodies,” Duterte’s spokesman, Martin Andanar, told reporters in Vientiane. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also called on China to abide by the tribunal’s ruling, emphasising in his meeting with ASEAN leaders that the verdict was legally binding. Obama is also in Laos for the regional meetings, which will conclude on Thursday with an East Asia summit. But the US president cancelled his planned meeting with Duterte, during which the sea issue was to be discussed, after the volatile Philippine president called him a “son of a whore.” RELATED STORIES Asean leaders vow stronger regional cooperation Q&A on Scarborough Shoal, a flashpoint in Asia South China Sea: facts on a decades-long dispute Southeast Asia’s leaders in global spotlight RELATED VIDEOS
2016-09-07 18:01 Agence France globalnation.inquirer.net
21 LOOK: PNP releases sketch of male suspect in Davao bombing The Philippine National Police on Wednesday released the artist’s sketch of the man who left a black bag with an explosive inside it at the Roxas night market in Davao City on Sept. 2. The explosion at the crowded night market along Roxas Avenue claimed the lives of 14 individuals and injured 70 others. At a press conference in Davao City, Police Director Benjamin Magalong, deputy police chief for operations, presented the sketch of the suspect who was wearing a black face mask. Meanwhile in Camp Crame, Quezon City, PNP chief Dir. Gen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa said the sketch was based on the description of the witnesses, some of whom were survivors of the blast. Dela Rosa added the suspect might be a “student” of slain Malaysian bomb-maker Zulkifli Bin Hir or “Marwan” who was the target of the ill-fated operation in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, that killed 44 Special Action Force commandos in January 2015. This was based on the fragments of the explosive device gathered from the crime scene, which showed that the improvised bomb used was a 60 mm and an 81 mm put together into one. “Pinagbasehan doon yung trademark nung improvised explosives device na mortar round. Kanya kanyang signature ’yong mga bomb maker. That kind of bomb, it can be traced back to the Central Mindanao area where maraming naturuan si Marwan doon,” Dela Rosa told reporters. The police chief said the PNP was still in the process of tracing the location of the suspect. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte has offered at P2-million reward for the arrest of the culprits behind the explosion.
2016-09-07 18:01 Julliane Love newsinfo.inquirer.net
22 Phelps awakens late, steers Phoenix past Blackwater Eugene Phelps bucked a woeful first half and captained Phoenix to a 93- 81 victory over Phoenix Wednesday in the 2016 PBA Governors’ Cup at Ynares Center in Antipolo. Despite being held to his lowest output in a half with only eight, the 26-year-old import got his bearings back in the second half and finished with 29 points, 26 rebounds, and four assists. “Hulog ng langit sa amin si Phelps,” said coach Ariel Vanguardia, as the Fuel Masters racked up their third straight victory, and their fourth in five games after starting the conference with a 0-3 slate. READ: Phoenix begins long trek to q’final bonus Mark Borboran added 15 markers and six boards, while Simon Enciso got 12 points and four dimes in the win to improve Phoenix’s standing to 5-4, good for solo fifth place. The Fuel Masters easily turned a close 76-71 lead at the 7:49 mark to a 12- point edge, 83-71, with Phelps rocking the rim with 5:17 left to take the fight out of the Elite. With one game left in Phoenix’s schedule, Vanguardia is hoping to see more from his wealth of guards. READ: Phelps fuels Phoenix turnaround with another big game “Ang point guards ko is like a box of chocolates. If teams will pressure us the whole game, we’ll struggle. That’s why I’m challenging my them to lead this team.” The Fuel Masters return to action next Wednesday against Ginebra. Carlo Lastimosa paced Blackwater (1-8) with 18 points, seven assists, and four rebounds off the bench, while Art dela Cruz also had 18 markers and five boards. Debuting import Keala King tallied 14 points and eight rebounds, but that still wasn’t enough to stop the bleeding for the Elite who fell to their seventh straight defeat. The Scores: PHOENIX 93 – Phelps 29, Borboran 15, Enciso 12, Baguio 10, Buenafe 8, W. Wilson 7, Urbiztondo 6, Caperal 3, Cruz 2, Pennisi 1, Lee 0, Lanete 0, J. Wilson 0, Miranda 0. BLACKWATER 81 – Dela Cruz 18, Lastimosa 18, King 14, Pinto 9, Miranda 8, Sena 6, Gamalinda 4, Golla 2, Pascual 2, Eguilos 0, Reyes 0, Sumang 0. Quarters: 25-20, 47-41, 65-61, 93-81.
2016-09-07 18:01 Randolph B sports.inquirer.net
23 Ateneo nears Spikers’ Turf sweep Ateneo rallied from a fourth set defeat to nip National U, 16-25, 25-23, 25-18, 22-25, 15-11 and move within a win from retaining the Spikers’ Turf Collegiate Conference crown. The Blue Eagles unleashed a 66 spikes, 18 more than the Bulldogs, but still needed to go to a wringer before subduing NU in a one-hour, 53-minute affair. Marck Espejo hammered in 18 kills for 20 points while Rex Intal finished with 16 points, Josh Villanueva and Paul Koyfman fired 12 hits apiece and skipper Karl Baysa added 11 markers. The win put Ateneo a victory away from completing a sweep of the mid- season conference of Spikers’ Turf. The Eagles go for the clincher on Saturday. Bryan Bagunsan scored 17 points while Kim Malabunga backed him up with 12 for the Bulldogs, who struggled in their service reception and allowed the Eagles to score six aces.
2016-09-07 18:01 INQUIRER.net sports.inquirer.net
24 Bangladesh reassured of PH help to recover stolen money MANILA — The Philippines has reiterated that it is committed to help Bangladesh recover through proper legal procedures the $81 million robbed from its central bank by cybercriminals let February, which made its way into the domestic financial and gaming sectors. “We want to assure you that the Philippine government, including all its instrumentalities from the Central Bank, the DOJ [Department of Justice], DFA [Department of Foreign Affairs], and of course the AMLC [Anti-Money Laundering Council], are 100-percent behind you … We want to assure you that we will do everything that we can to assist you,” Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III told Bangladesh’s Ambassador to the Philippines John Gomes in a recent meeting. Dominguez nonetheless reminded Gomes that “recovery efforts would have to go through the proper legal procedures for Bangladesh’s own protection so that no other party could contest its rightful claim to this stolen money in the future,” the Department of Finance (DOF) disclosed in a statement. “We have a legal system that has to be respected and this system has to be followed so that whatever claim you are awarded, nobody can challenge that in the future,” Dominguez pointed out. To date, about $15 million were turned over for safekeeping by junket operator Kim Wong to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas during the height of the Senate investigation on the so-called Bangladesh Bank heist. The DOJ has already filed a petition seeking the Manila Regional Trial Court’s (RTC) nod to forfeit the $15 million in favor of Bangladesh. The DOF quoted DOJ chief state counsel Ricardo Paras III as explaining during the meeting that the DOJ”filed a petition in favor of Bangladesh on Aug. 26, after which the Manila RTC ruled on Aug. 30—or just four days later—that it was sufficient in form and substance.” “Under the Rules of Civil Procedure, the Manila RTC gave the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) 15 days to comment on the petition. The court will render a decision after the OSG files its comment,” Paras said. “After filing their [OSG] comment, we will now wait for the judgment of the court for the $15 million,” Paras added. Also, Paras said “another P107.35 million of the stolen fund, roughly equivalent to $2.3 million, was voluntarily frozen by Bloomberry Resorts and Hotels Inc. [operator of Solaire casino], which could go through the same legal procedures undertaken by the DOJ in returning the $15 million in favor of the Bangladesh government.” For Dominguez, “another target of the immediate recovery effort is the amount of $17 million,” which the DOF noted that Gomes had claimed during the Senate probe was in the possession of remittance company Philrem Service Corp. The DOF quoted AMLC Executive Director Julia Bacay Abad as saying that the $17 million allegedly still with Philrem was what “we’re still working on,” adding that the AMLC was “looking at the assets of the firm’s owners for possible forfeiture.” “The immediate objective right now is the $15 million plus the $2 million. We can assist you 100-percent on that. The AMLC, as they mentioned, is continuing the investigation for whatever balance there is. Maybe there’s another $17 million, but we’re going to continue seeking that and hopefully recovering that on your behalf,” Dominguez told Gomes. SFM
2016-09-07 18:01 Ben O globalnation.inquirer.net
25 Senate ethics committee to take up De Lima case Tuesday THE Senate committee on ethics and privileges is set sit down on Tuesday to decide on whether or not to give due course to the complaint filed against Sen. Leila de Lima over her alleged links to the drug trade. Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III, the committee chair, said Wednesday that the seven- member body will meet to decide whether the complaint, filed by lawyer Abelardo de Jesus in August, is sufficient in form and substance. He said the matter of jurisdiction might also be decided on the committee’s meet, its second this session. “We will decide on Tuesday morning what are the next steps that we will be taking… We’ll try to settle everything,” Sotto told reporters. He said the meeting will not be confidential. The complainant has not been invited, as the committee is still going to make initial discussions on the case. “We will act on the complaint first. We’ll inform him, we’ll decide what to do next in that particular meeting on Tuesday,” he said. The committee had first met on Aug. 30, an organizational meeting when members were given copies of the complaint. In filing the ethics complaint, De Jesus said he had no personal knowledge of De Lima’s alleged drug links and that he had based his complaint on President Duterte’s accusations against the Senator. In several public speeches, the President had accused De Lima of coddling drug lords and making a profit out of drug money at the national penitentiary during her time as Justice Secretary. The New Bilibid Prison, the country’s main correctional facility, is under the purview of the Department of Justice. During her time as justice chief, De Lima led raids in the crowded prison several times, leading to the discovery that high-profile convicts were still running the illicit trade behind bars. The crackdown also led to the bust of luxury villas, cash and other contraband. Faced with the President’s allegations, De Lima has issued repeated denials, saying she was being pilloried for her stance against Duterte’s bloody war on drugs. De Lima, chair of the Senate committee on justice and human rights, had earlier initiated an investigation into the spate of drug-related deaths since the President took office on July 1. Hearings were supposed to resume this week, but she agreed to suspend the proceedings in heed of Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano’s call for a break while Duterte is on his first overseas trip. Sotto did not comment when asked whether he believed the case complaint would proceed. “The last thing I would want to do is to unilaterally decide on anything in the committee on ethics. It’s a very serious and a different type of subject. It’s unlike any other committee in the Senate, where the chairman can be given full authority on everything,” Sotto told reporters “In this case, we’re talking about the situation and the stature of a member of the Senate. So the chairman cannot unilaterally act on anything. There must be a committee discussion on any committee decision. So my opinion is immaterial at this point,” he said.
2016-09-07 18:01 Tarra Quismundo newsinfo.inquirer.net
26 Pizza motivates employees to work harder than cash—study Hard work for slices of pizza. A recent study found that employees who were promised free pizza vouchers worked harder than if they were to receive cash bonuses. Dan Ariely, a psychology professor at Duke University, writes about his findings in his newly published book entitled “Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations”. Ariely conducted his research at a factory in Israel, where employees received messages telling them that once they achieve a certain amount of work done, they will receive a special prize. One group of workers were notified that they would receive $30 upon accomplishing a certain task, while another group was promised with a free pizza voucher. The third group would receive an encouraging text from their boss, and the last group had no incentives or rewards. According to the result, the pizza group dominated the experiment, with an astounding 6.7 percent increase in output compared with the bonus group’s 4.9 per cent productivity. After a few weeks, the “Well done!” text team finished with 6.6 percent increase, beating the fourth group, the New York Magazine reported. Making staff feel appreciated at work is a key to better work performance. Tangible things such as pizza and cash bonuses are just a second option for the workers. “Extrinsic motivators can stop having much meaning—your raise in pay feels like your just due, your bonus gets spent, your new title doesn’t sound so important once you have it,” Adam Grant, a psychology professor, told T he Wall Street Journal last year . “But the sense that other people appreciate what you do sticks with you,” he added. Gianna Francesca Catolico
2016-09-07 18:01 technology.inquirer.net
27 Imelda getting pension as widow of war vet, Medal of Valor awardee Former First Lady Imelda Marcos has been receiving pension from the government since 1994 for being a surviving spouse of a war veteran and a Medal of Valor awardee. According to Solicitor General Jose Calida, the former first lady has been getting P5,000 monthly pension since April 9, 1994, for being a surviving spouse of a deceased World War II veteran pursuant to Republic Act No. 6948 or the act standardizing and upgrading the benefits for military veterans and their dependents. During the second round of oral arguments on the question of whether her husband, former President Ferdinand Marcos, should be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, Calida said aside from the P5,000 allowance, Mrs. Marcos had also been receiving P20,000 monthly from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) as a surviving spouse of a Medal of Valor awardee. Calida said it was proof that the military acknowledges that the late dictator was a former soldier who fought during World War II. A Medal of Valor (Medalya ng Kagitingan) is the country’s highest military honor awarded for acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty. Under RA 9049, a Medal of Valor awardee is entitled to a lifetime monthly gratuity of P20,000 that is separate and distinct from any salary or pension the awardee is receiving from the government. The same law provides that “that in the event of death of the awardee, the same shall accrue in equal shares and with the right of accretion to the surviving spouse.” Marcos received a medal of valor award through General Order 167. Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo de Castro asked if a Medal of Valor recipient could be stripped of the award. “Once the Medal of Valor is awarded, it cannot be diminished. It cannot be nullified, it is a fait accompli (thing that has already happened) already,” Calida said.
2016-09-07 18:01 Tetch Torres newsinfo.inquirer.net
28 28 Pacquiao leaves for US, vows to return in time for Senate session Sen. Manny Pacquiao on Wednesday reaffirmed his vow to never miss a Senate session even while he is training for his comeback fight set on Nov. 5 in Las Vegas. This as he left Manila Wednesday night for a press tour in Los Angeles after attending the last Senate session for the week. He is due to attend to the promotional tour from Sept. 8 to 10 to drum up his bout against WBO Welterweight champion Jessie Vargas. “I’ll see you on Tuesday,” Pacquiao told reporters Wednesday. The Pacquiao-Vargas fight was firmed up in August, when the Filipino boxer-turned-legislator met with Top Rank promoter Bob Arum in Manila after weeks of being coy about his possible return fight. He promised that the bout and preparations it entails won’t disrupt his legislative work. “I will be back. I’ll just stay there for two days, because I cannot be absent here. There’s a lot of work to do,” the junior Senator said. Pacquiao has been squeezing in training while attending Senate committee hearings, sessions and other official functions. He said he goes on daily runs around his neighborhood in Makati City early in the morning, before proceeding to the Senate before 9 a.m., bringing along with him the boxing gear he would need for his night training. After the Senate session, he proceeds to a nearby gym to continue training for around two hours. “After jogging, I dress up then go to attend committee meetings, the session, and then go to training again. So you really need discipline to manage your time,” he said. He usually gets home at 9 p.m. Pacquiao even finds time to take his wife Jinkee on dates: on Tuesday, he posted a snap of their dinner on Instagram with the caption “Date with my wife after training.” “We went to dinner… [couples] need that. You really have to make time for each other,” said Pacquiao. Pacquiao has not missed a Senate session and has been actively participating in committee hearings and Senate inquiries, bent on making good his promise to turn around his dismal record as an absentee lawmaker during his time as Sarangani Representative.
2016-09-07 18:01 Tarra Quismundo sports.inquirer.net
29 ‘I told you so…drug charges are all made up,’ says De Lima “I TOLD you so,” Senator Leila de Lima said on Wednesday after another witness denied owning a bank account that would allegedly link her to the illegal drug trade. “Yun nga yun sinasabi ko sa inyo, manufactured ’yan. So saang galing na namang factory of manufactured evidence ’yan; ’yang mga ganyan,” de Lima told reporters. “I told you already, sawang-sawa na nga ako sa kakaulit, di ba? Sinabihan ko na rin ang Pangulo na mapapahiya talaga s’ya in the end,” she said. De Lima was reacting to her former employee’s (Jonathan Caranto) claim that he did not own the account at the Bando de Oro branch in Caloocan City, which supposedly contained millions of pesos from drug proceeds. READ: Mystery bank account not that of De Lima’s aide Earlier, another former employee, Edna “Bogs” Obuyes, also denied owning a bank account that would also allegedly link the senator to illegal drugs. Caranto and Obuyes are employees at the Department of Justice and they worked for de Lima when the latter was still the justice chief. This, De Lima said, only showed that the charges against her were all fabricated. No less than President Rodrigo Duterte had dragged her into the drug mess. “Ako pagod na. Pagod na ako kaka-deny. Pagod na ako kaya ayaw ko nang nakikinig, ayaw ko nang nagre-respond, nagre-react dahil puro naman talaga kasinungalingan yan,” she said. Asked if she is expecting more exposés against her, the senator said: “Hindi ko alam. Hindi ko po talaga alam. Hintayin na lang natin ang susunod na kabanata.”
2016-09-07 17:53 Maila Ager newsinfo.inquirer.net
30 World stocks drift as Fed rate outlook eases on service data HONG KONG — World stock markets meandered Wednesday after a weak report on U. S. service companies added to expectations that the Fed won’t move anytime soon to raise interest rates. KEEPING SCORE: European shares posted small gains in early trading. France’s CAC 40 rose 0.3 percent to 4,541.80 and Germany’s DAX rose 0.3 percent to 10,717.28. Britain’s FTSE 100 edged up less than 0.1 percent to 6,828.08. U. S. stocks were poised to open slightly higher, with Dow futures up 0.1 percent to 18,532.00 and broader S&P 500 futures rising 0.1 percent to 2,185.60. U. S. SERVICES DATA: A private monthly survey found that U. S. services companies expanded in August at the slowest pace in more than six years. The Institute for Supply Management’s services index came in at its lowest level since February 2010. Last month’s decline was also the biggest since late 2008, when the U. S. was gripped by a recession amid the global crisis. While Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen had said last month that the case for raising rates was becoming stronger, the numbers add to other recent evidence that the U. S. economy is still shaky and reduce expectations for such a move. ANALYST INSIGHT: The latest figures are “highlighting a continuing concern that the recovery in the U. S. economy may be losing steam,” said Nicholas Teo at KGI Fraser Securities in Singapore. “This, together with last week’s lower than expected payroll numbers, may in turn deny Mrs. Yellen of the confirmation she needs to lift rates later this month.” ASIA’S DAY: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index lost 0.4 percent to finish at 17,012.44 as the latest U. S. data pushed the yen higher, hurting shares of the country’s export manufacturers. South Korea’s Kospi fell 0.2 percent to 2,061.88 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dipped 0.2 percent to 23,741.81. The Shanghai Composite Index in mainland China climbed less than 0.1 percent to 3,091.93 and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.2 percent to 5,424.20. ENERGY: Benchmark U. S. crude oil futures added 46 cents to $45.29 in electronic trading in the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract added 39 cents to settle at $44.83 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, the benchmark for international oil prices, rose 54 cents to $47.80 a barrel in London. CURRENCIES: The dollar sank to 101.66 yen from 101.99 yen in late trading Tuesday. The euro slipped to $1.1239 from $1.1246. TVJ
2016-09-07 17:41 Associated Press business.inquirer.net
31 7 Chinese nabbed as PDEA, PNP shut down ‘shabu lab’ in Pampanga MAGALANG, Pampanga — A suspected shabu laboratory operating inside a piggery and poultry farm at a village here was shut down in a Wednesday (Sept. 7) morning raid by the police and agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). The laboratory was concealed beneath a warehouse in Barangay (village) Balitucan at the foot of Mount Arayat, and was three kilometers east of the regional police training center and the Central Luzon Drug Rehabilitation Center. Police detained seven Chinese nationals who were at the compound. They were identified as Luey Wang, Philip Chang, Wang Shi Xu, Alvin Wang who also used the name James, Xiao Po, Sonny Si, and a woman who identified herself as Susan. Five children, aged 7 to 15 years old, were also found at the compound and were taken into custody by social workers. The operation was led by Wilkins Villanueva, PDEA director for the National Capital Region, armed with a search warrant from a Cabanatuan City court. He said the Magalang laboratory was part of a network of five facilities that have been supplying drugs in Luzon. Wang said he operated the piggery for the last two years and said he had no knowledge about the laboratory under the warehouse where feeds were milled and mixed. SFM
2016-09-07 17:40 Tonette Orejas globalnation.inquirer.net
32 Henry Sy donates P100M innovation hub to Miriam College THE SM group has donated a P100-million innovation center – the Philippines’ first-of-its-kind integrated “makerspace” – to Miriam College on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of this educational institution originally built by Maryknoll nuns. The Miriam College-Henry Sy Sr. Innovation Center was turned over on Wednesday morning by the Henry Sy Sr. Foundation through SM Hotels and Convention Corp. president Betty Sy, an alumna of Maryknoll College (Class of 1974). The innovation hub stands on a 1,412-square meter lot near the entrance of Miriam College campus in Quezon City. “I have very good memories (of Maryknoll). It was a school that taught us to be ourselves, to be independent, to be fearless and conventional. That’s what I value about Miriam College. We knew it as Maryknoll College,” Sy told reporters at the sidelines of the turnover ceremonies yesterday. A “makerspace” is a place of innovation where a community of learners can gather to tinker, discover, create, collaborate and find solutions to various problems using the tools provided in its different work stations or laboratories. This is where emerging leaders in the country can transform ideas into tangible and viable products or services that can provide solutions to identified problems. For example, middle and high school students may conduct experiments or explore robotics and coding while college students taking up applied arts or entrepreneurship may use 3D printers to incubate new entrepreneurial ideas. The new hub is seen to immerse Miriam College’s students and faculty in 21st century disciplines under the acronym DREAM – design, robotics, engineering, entrepreneurship, arts and mathematics. “It is here at the Miriam College- Henry Sy Sr. Innovation Center where we will follow a new model of teaching and learning, one that brings change and improvement to current school and classroom practices- much like what our pioneering and progressive Maryknoll nuns did when they established their first mission school in Malabon in 1926,” said Miriam College president Rosario Lapus. In 1926, Sisters from the Maryknoll Congregation in New York initiated a teacher-training program for women in the Philippines in an old remodeled Augustinian Convent in Malabon. This was the Malabon Normal School (which eventually became St. James Academy). The school transferred sites several times until 1953, when its name was officially changed to Maryknoll College and laid down its permanent roots in Diliman (or Loyola Heights), Quezon City. In the 1960s, the Maryknoll congregation saw the readiness of the Filipino laity to continue the educational mission they had started, thereby turning over ownership and management of the school to lay administrators in 1977. It was renamed Miriam College in 1989. Lapus said this hub could be a “sacred space for imagining, designing and making” and was meant to honour and nurture young inventors, problem- solvers and entrepreneurs. SM Investments Corp. chief finance officer Jose Sio told reporters that the group had donated P100 million for this facility through the Henry Sy Foundation. “Education is the heart of the foundation,” he said. The makerspace, which is designed by renowned architect Ed Calma, features eight connected and creative learning spaces: -a fabrication laboratory (fablab), a small-scale creative workshop with tools that aim to make “almost anything” using advanced digital manufacturing technology; – an instrumentation laboratory (instrulab) for conducting investigatory projects and experiments; – an engineering and electronics laboratory ( [email protected] ), for exploring robotics and coding using digital devices and building tools; – a multi-media laboratory (multi-media lab) dedicated to the creation of new media and art forms as well as learning of web authoring, software development, animation, graphic and web designing and digital audio/video manipulation; – a performance laboratory for the interaction of art games and art production processes; – a kitchen and cafe (CCA Makers’ Cafe), a modern gastronomic science and food art laboratory; – a play loft with pocket classrooms that support design-oriented thinking; and, – an “innovatrium,” a state-of-the-art theater for holding symposia, workshop, conferences and training. The following partner-institutions equipped the laboratories with the latest tools in innovation and contributed to the development of its programs: Power Mac Center, Emerson Electric (Asia) Ltd., FELTA Multi-Media Inc., C&E Publishing; Center for Culinary Arts Manila; British Council; Bato Balani Foundation and Bangkok University.
2016-09-07 17:32 Doris Dumlao business.inquirer.net
33 DOLE releases financial aid to Davao blast victims The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said it would release financial assistance to the families of the fatalities and victims of the Davao city blast that claimed 14 lives. During the appropriations committee hearing of the proposed DOLE P13.293 billion budget for 2017, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the department would release P10,000 each for the families of the fatalities, and P5,000 each for the victims who were injured in the blast. “We are still looking for possible immediate assistance,” Bello told the lawmakers. He said the DOLE is looking at providing the victims “negosyo” cards for them to start their own business. Bello said some victims were barbecue vendors who do not own the stalls. READ: P2-M reward for bomber | Bloody Friday in Davao During the Department of Health’s proposed budget hearing on Tuesday, Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial said the department also released P10 million assistance fund to the Southern Philippines Medical Center and other regional health offices in Davao City where the survivors of the blast were confined. READ: DOH releases P10-M for Davao blast victims An explosion rocked the Roxas boulevard night market Friday night, claiming 14 lives and leaving 67 wounded. Police is investigating a supposed alliance between drug lords and the bandit group Abu Sayyaf in the attack. Police said the explosion was caused by a mortar round remotely detonated by a cell phone. The victims also sustained shrapnel wounds from the improvised explosive device. The blast compelled Duterte to declare a state of national emergency on account of lawless violence. JE READ: What is state of lawless violence? | So it’s now state of nat’l emergency in effect
2016-09-07 17:26 Marc Jayson newsinfo.inquirer.net
34 Mumbai: FIR against builder for FSI fraud that cost govt Rs 2,000 cr Nishant Agarwal, director of Nish Developers, is one of those booked The police recently registered an FIR against the directors of the firm that constructed the 61-storey super luxury project — One Avighna Park at Currey Road — for allegedly forging documents with the help of civic officials, to obtain a huge FSI (Floor Space Index) that allegedly caused the government a loss of nearly Rs 2,000 crore. The Kherwadi police registered the offence after RTI activist Vinod Mohanlal Jain, a Dadar resident, approached the Bandra Metropolitan magistrate court, which directed police to register an FIR. The court observed that the allegations made by Jain, who claims to have obtained documentary evidence from various departments through RTI, against the accused, namely — Nishant Agarwal, Hansa Agarwal, Jayprakash Khemka (all three directors of Nish Developers), Vivek Bhole (Architect), Nitin Gadkari Deputy engineer F-South BMC, Tamanwar (full name not known), executive and deputy chief engineer Bhogawat (full name not known) - disclosed a cognisable offence, and then directed a senior inspector of the Kherwadi police to lodge an FIR. The allegations In the complaint Jain alleged that M/s Nish Developers and Associates, which had taken the New Islam Mill-Haji Qasam Chawl under Urban Develoment Scheme (Cluster), showed that 46 Non Cess galas existed at the said land since before 1969, and tampered and submitted forged maps in the City Survey Land Record Department, and in the year 2009 applied for permission for redevelopment. The officials at the concerned department allegedly helped the developer by approving the forged maps and documents as true copy. As per Development Control Regulations 33(9) a developer gets FSI of 1.33 for redevelopment of structures after the year 1969. The accused, as per Jain’s complaint, with the help of forged maps, showed 46 Non Cess galas were there since before 1969 and succeeded in procuring permissions for 4 FSI constructions from MHADA and BMC. Jain in the FIR alleged that with 4 FSI the developer fraudulently managed to get permission for development of 9,68,898.64 sq ft from MHADA, but as rules applicable for structures after year 1969, the developer should have been given permission for development of only 3,22,153.90 sq ft with FSI of 1.33. This caused the government a loss of nearly Rs 2000 crore. Jain said, “I had complained to the MHADA CEO about this in June last year, but no heed was taken. Even police did not lodge my complaint, following which I approached the court, which directed police to lodge the FIR and investigate the matter.” Police said that they are investigating the matter and cannot share details at this stage. Repeated attempts to contact Kailash Agarwal of Nish Developers yielded no result.
2016-09-07 15:09 By A www.mid-day.com
35 Watch video: Miraculous escape for three men who collided with a lorry Video grab of the accident. It was a miraculous escape for three men whose bikes collided with a lorry in Medchal, Hyderabad on Wednesday. Watch video here The CCTV footage shows a lorry coming in full speed and ramming into a fence along with hitting at two bikes coming from the opposite side and one biker coming from the rear end. The two bike riders, one with a pillion are slammed by the lorry. However, neither of the three are hurt. The bikers then get up, dusts themself and leave. Other incidences Video: Miraculous escape for man after being run over by bullock carts Watch Video: Miraculous escape for two on scooty dragged under bus Caught on camera: Hit by car, minor has miraculous escape Video: Miraculous escape for two after car dashes into scooter
2016-09-07 15:07 By mid www.mid-day.com
36 Mumbai's forgotten Olympian Mary Dsouza Sequeira awaits state honours On Tuesday, Rio Olympians PV Sindhu and Sakshi Malik were honoured for their badminton silver and wrestling bronze medals respectively for the first time in Mumbai. Sindhu's felicitation at the opulent Crystal Room of the Taj was more significant to Mumbai since it was done at the hands of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and initiated by the Maharashtra Badminton Association. Our Rio achievers deserve the hosannas, even the plethora of decorations and while celebrations continue, it is also a time for sports bosses to reflect on cases of omission in terms of honours. One athlete, who sticks out in that missed list, is Mary Dsouza Sequeira. Mary (85) represented India in athletics as well as hockey in the 1950s and is an important part of Mumbai's sporting history. India's first double international would not have made it to the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games if not for the Rs 5000 which was raised through a dance in Bandra. She also represented India in two hockey World events — London 1953 and Adelaide 1956, the year in which she could have made her second Olympic appearance. But with no financial backing, Mary couldn't make it to the Melbourne Olympics. Only two female athletes made it to Helsinki - Mary and Nilima Ghose - and that makes them trendsetters in the sporting world of Indian women. Mary won the 200m bronze and was part of the 4x100m relay team which won silver at the inaugural Asian Games in 1951. From 1950 to 1957, she held National records in 100m, 200m and 80m hurdles. Eddie Sequeira, the former middle distance runner, who represented India at the 1972 Munich Olympics, said he didn't watch Mary run in competitions since he was very junior to her, but was fortunate to see her train. "She used to train very hard. She was fast in the truest sense and always wanted to win medals for the country," said Sequeira. In 2013, six decades after she kicked off her best sporting years as an India athlete, Mary was presented the Dhyan Chand award by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Recallng the function held in the Capital, Mary's daughter Marissa, who is collaborating with her mother on an autobiography, says everyone were wondering who this elderly woman was, but in Atlanta (where Mary is at the moment, visiting Marissa), "she is treated as a celebrity. " Mary's pioneering forays are highlighted by Marissa, who said, "My mum went to the first Asian Games, was part of the first female contingent to the Olympics, played in the first hockey women's tournament in Folkstone, England and the first women's hockey tournament in Australia. " Mary Dsouza Sequeira Recently, Mary got invited to premiere of Race, the biographical film on legendary American athlete Jesse Owens, who Mary knew. Since Mary couldn't travel to Atlanta, Marissa and her husband Carl Chinoy attended the function on her behalf. One of Mary's prized possessions is an autographed photograph of Owens interacting with her on his trip to India in 1955. In the evening of her life, Mary is content with all what sport has given her. However, she is not coy to state that she would be thrilled to see Maharashtra nominate her for the Padma Shree award be given the Jeevan Puraskar. Given her achievements on the athletic track and on the hockey fields, that is not asking for too much. We caught up with Mary for a chat facilitated by Marissa. Excerpts: Did you get a chance to follow India's 2016 Olympic show? I was glued to the TV and my computer. I was visiting my daughter and there is an NBC application where one could see the Rio Olympics online. It was great as I got to see track events on TV and at the same time, I would view hockey, basketball, volleyball, football and pause and go back and forth. Modern technology makes it so enjoyable. You don't miss anything and I could see many events. A page from the November 12, 1955 issue of Sport & Pastime magazine Two Indian women returned with medals – badminton player PV Sindhu (silver) and wrestler Sakshi Malik (bronze). Your comment? I am glad for the two medals, but I commend each and every athlete that donned the India colours. The motto of the Olympics, as Baron de Coubertin (the founder of Modern Olympic Games) said: "The important thing in the games is not to win but to take part. The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. " It is easy for non-athletes to judge, but as an athlete one understands the hard work and sacrifice that goes into being the best in your field. The competition at the world level is stiff and sometimes you can be the best and expected to win. But you choke, you have a bad start, you get nervous. A lot of things happen. We are human. The biggest regret in my sporting career is not winning the 100m at the 1954 Asian Games in Manila. I can recall my sadness and regret even today. I had the fastest time in Asia of 12.3 secs and I was the favourite to win. But the Sri Lankan athlete next to me flicked the start twice and was disqualified. I got nervous and had a late start and then tightened. The officials too were to blame as they had all the fastest runners from all the countries in one heat, then the second fastest and then the third. This was a disadvantage to all of us in the heats and went unnoticed. We went on to win gold in the 4x100m relay with three of the fastest women in Asia. Sindhu and Malik's medals apart, India's Olympic show was dismal. Would you put that down to a lack of encouragement by our officials and government? Today's athletes have much more than I did by way of funds, endorsements and prize money when they return. I almost did not make it to the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, as I came from a family of 12 children and my parents could not afford the Rs 5000. In 1952, that was a big sum of money. Friends and well wishers came to the rescue. A dance was held at St Andrew's in Bandra to raise funds for me. I was a teacher at St Joseph's Convent at the time and was only 21. Mary Dsouza Sequeira in her glory days as an India athlete and hockey player. Pics/Mary Dsouza Sequeira's personal collection What were the hurdles athletes like you faced in those days? There was corruption, regionalism, favouritism even in my day. I was supposed to go to the Melbourne Olympics in 1956 and held the Indian record at that time. I was in top form, having played hockey at a tournament in Australia. I was visiting my brother in England when the Bombay Athletic Association chief told me that they were not sending a female contingent to the Olympics as the government would not fund it. Hence, I stayed on in England only to discover that the official sent his one daughter to compete and the other one as the manager. We have some great former athletes like Adille Sumariwalla, who are part of administration now and it is beneficial to have people like him, who have players' interests at heart. Are you surprised that India has fallen to such depths in hockey, a sport you excelled in? Why do you think we don't match up to other teams? Field hockey has changed dramatically. It is played on Astro turf and the rules have changed. For one, the Asian/Indian style is not conducive to Astro turf. It favours the Western style of hit and run. It is a much faster turf. Moreover, it is expensive to get and maintain. Mumbai and major cities have a lack of open grounds and facilities. Colleges and schools cannot afford Astro turf. Build and the results will come. Mary Dsouza Sequeira with legendary American athlete Jesse Owens during his India visit in 1955 Are you disappointed that Maharashtra has not honoured you and that fact that the Central government appreciated your contribution to Indian sports very late? I was born and bred in Bandra. It is sad that my state of Maharashtra has not given India's first double International ANY recognition. I applied for the Jeevan Puruskar award and have not got a response. It would like to receive this honour while I am alive and not posthumously. I served my country and state as an amateur and is it too much for the state to recognise me? Women who went as substitutes in the team have got awards, but not me. I have no political influence. I am grateful to the Centre for recognising me so my kids and grandkids can feel proud of me. Tell us about your friendship with Jesse Owens. What sort of a man was he? Jesse Owens was a great athlete and a kind, generous person who came to India (in 1955) and shared his skills with us. His movie 'Race' shows the hardships he encountered to get to where he did. My daughter Marissa and her husband Carl Chinoy went to the premier of Race in Atlanta, hosted by USA Track and Field (USATF). Another great Olympian, who helped me was Harrison Dillard. He gave me his starting blocks at the 1952 Olympics as I did not have any. We too have a movie 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' and one on boxer Mary Kom. Kids of today should be inspired by these kind of Bollywood movies which are an integral part of India today. What's your autobiography going to be like? I am writing a memoir on my life and sports in India with my daughter Marissa. It addresses some of the cultural and social issues that I faced as an athlete. Yes, we have cultural issues, but the brave and beautiful women of India have always risen to the challenge. They often do jobs, take care of their families and perform as athletes. They are the true heroes of modern India. What changes would you like to see in Indian sport and what have you observed about the American sporting culture which produces results? In USA, there is no Sports Minister, no governing body. I see the commitment that my daughter Marissa puts into her kids' lives. My grandson Darius Chinoy runs track, so she became a USATF official to volunteer instead of sitting on the sidelines. She was an athlete herself and became a USATF coach, although she does not coach her son, so that she can be better informed. She became president of the High School Booster club to raise funds for the school and track & field athletes. Parents and grandparents are the kids' greatest cheerleaders and support in the West. My parents did not see me run or play hockey even once! In my time we had difficulties at various levels, but one thing that stood out was that the journalists always came to my help, be it to raise funds or report on my success. The reporting was fair and not sexually biased. I got adequate headlines as my male counterparts. The media published pictures to prove I was the winner when there was a cheating scandal and when I was being prevented to go to the Nationals. So be supportive of our athletes, a spirit of cooperation instead of criticism of our athletes will help. Don't forget India gave the world the Asian Games. I pray for my country that the best is yet to come.
2016-09-07 15:06 By Clayton www.mid-day.com
37 Fire breaks out in an old wooden building in south Mumbai, no casualties A major fire broke out in two storey old wooden building at Mazgaon in south Mumbai on Wednesday. No injuries have been reported. Fire officials try to douse the fire at Mazgaon. According to the fire brigade department, the fire started from second floor of residential Badookwala Building in Mazgaon. A cylinder blast is suspected to be the cause of fire. Around 8 fire engines, 7 water tankers and 1 ambulance were rushed to the spot for fire-fighting. A senior fire official said, "The fire is now confined to second floor of the building and we are using water to douse it. " The people who were evacuated from the building have been shifted to nearby school as alternate accommodation. Due to fire Mhatarpakhadi road is being blocked and motorists are advised to use diversion to avoid traffic jam.
2016-09-07 14:36 By Laxman www.mid-day.com
38 Watch Video: 108-feet tall eco-friendly Ganpati in Visakhapatnam Amidst the Ganesh Chaturthi fever, a 108-feet tall Ganesha idol has been installed at a pandal in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam city. Significantly, the idol is an eco-friendly one. The statue, which depicts the Vishnumurthy incarnation of Lord Ganesha, was built with the efforts of about 30 artists. Devotees thronged to visit the pandal located in MVP colony. The pandal has been set up by Maha Ganapathi Yuvajana Seva Sangam. Watch the Video
2016-09-07 14:25 By mid www.mid-day.com
39 Mothers are the Worst….to Other Mothers We already knew that Helicopter and Tiger Moms were a menace. Now, we have research to back up our anecdotal experiences. NPR interviewed the conductors of a study about leaving children alone. To sum up: Additional analyses suggested that it was indeed participants’ judgment of the parent’s immorality that drove up their assessments of risk. The authors sum up their findings like this: “People don’t only think that leaving children alone is dangerous and therefore immoral. They also think it is immoral and therefore dangerous.” So, the research conducted byAshley Thomas, Kyle Stanford and Barbara Sarnecka of the University of California showed that people are judgy about parenting generally and women, both parents and childless, particularly overstated risk to children: I guess what surprised me the most was the difference in responses that we got from different groups of participants — men vs. women and parents vs. nonparents. I expected that mothers would be less likely than other people to buy into this paranoid view that any child, of any age, left alone for any length of time is going to drop dead the minute the mother looks away. I guess I figured that I’m a mother, and I’m not hysterical about this, so I assumed that other mothers weren’t either. But I was wrong — mothers rated all the situations as more dangerous than fathers did; followed by childless women and finally childless men. The people with presumably the most child care experience (mothers) actually expressed the most exaggerated overestimates of risk. I was genuinely surprised by that. But I guess that’s because I was expecting people to be rational, and people are just not rational about this subject. There’s lots more at the link about how they set up the study, but just think of the Gorilla mom who was excoriated for not paying close enough attention to her four year old who fell into the gorilla cage. Here’s what I want to know: Why are people today, especially women, so judgmental compared to a generation ago? I have a couple theories: Kids are pretty resilient. People as the age, though, because more calcified–both in body and mind. Older parenting may not be so great for risk-taking and encouraging an open and freer environment for kids. Even as risks decline, the baseless fears and the moral nitpicking that goes with it seem to increase. Is it any wonder people are having less children?
2016-09-07 01:02 Melissa Clouthier spectator.org
40 Suspected Chlorine Gas Attack Hits Rebel- Held Aleppo Neighborhood Video Now Playing: Series of Attacks Leaves Kabul in Shock Now Playing: North Korea Launches Missiles as Obama Meets With G20 in China Now Playing: Obama and Putin Meet at G-20 Summit, Agree to Keep Working on Syria Pact Now Playing: 'Trump Who?' Residents of Hangzhou, China, on the US Election Now Playing: Boy Rescued From Ski Lift in New Zealand Now Playing: Dog Rescued From Rubble 9 Days After Earthquake in Italy Now Playing: Flying Along the Russian Border With US Air Force Now Playing: How to Become a Saint Now Playing: Everyone in This Chinese Village Seems to Know Kung Fu Now Playing: Mother Pleads for Safe Return of Daughter Held by Boko Haram
2016-09-07 14:17 ABC News abcnews.go.com
41 Yuvraj Singh, Jonty Rhodes visit Sachin Tendulkar's home for Ganpati India cricketer Yuvraj Singh and former South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes were among the 'sporting' guests, who dropped in to Sachin Tendulkar's Perry Cross Road bungalow in Bandra over the weekend to offer their prayers on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. Sachin Tendulkar offers prayers to Lord Ganesh at his home The Ganesh visit to Tendulkar's home is an annual affair which the cricket legend never misses. Tendulkar posted pictures of the idol and the two cricketers on his Twitter account yesterday.
2016-09-07 14:07 By Agencies www.mid-day.com
42 Watch Video: Student beaten by teacher for snapping plant stem In yet another shocking video of violence against children, a 13-year-old student was allegedly beaten up for snapping the stem of a plant. The incident occurred in Sitapur are of Uttar Pradesh. Watch Video below Also Watch: Udaipur school punishes students during assembly
2016-09-07 13:39 By mid www.mid-day.com
43 43 It’s hard to get rid of the governor of a central bank. Here’s why The finance ministry has been at the centre of this wave for nearly a year. The latest move against Gordhan comes against a backdrop of efforts to wrest control of this particular portfolio. The most spectacular was President Jacob Zuma’s decision in December 2015 to fire then Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene and replace him with someone more agreeable to his plans. That plan backfired. President Zuma had no option but to reappoint Gordhan, the previous Minister of Finance. But Gordhan is now back in the firing line after refusing to give ground to Zuma on some crucial issues. Rumours persist that the finance minister is about to be fired or charged – possibly even arrested – by the elite police unit, the Hawks. Is the Governor of the SA Reserve Bank next? This consideration comes on the back of political attacks directed at the country’s central bank by senior members of the governing African National Congress (ANC) aligned with Zuma. The Deputy Secretary General of the ANC Jessie Duarte has raised questions about the central bank’s role. She is suggesting that the bank serves partisan interests because it has private shareholders. It has also emerged that Mosebenzi Zwane, the Minister of Mineral Resources, tabled a working paper to the Cabinet recommending that the power to issue banking licences should be taken away from the SA Reserve Bank and given to the minister of finance. But can the Governor be removed as easily as a minister of finance? My reading of the SA Reserve Bank Act is that the answer is no. The current legislation makes no provision for the President to dismiss the central bank governor. Holding central bankers to account Central banks' governors need security of tenure once appointed. Security of tenure allows them the opportunity to conduct monetary policy in the interests of the whole country without fear of dismissal. Imagine a scenario in which a central bank governor was dismissed every time he or she took a monetary policy decision that the government disliked - for example by raising interest rates. This would render the job unworkable. Because of this, the appointment of central bank governors has been designed to ensure that they can get on with their mandate without political interference. The Governor of the SA Reserve Bank is appointed by the President of the Republic after consultation with the Minister of Finance and the Board of the South African Reserve Bank. Appointments are for an initial five years. Once the first term is served, the President can reappoint the Governor for an unlimited number of further terms, each of a maximum period of five years. So much for the appointment. What about getting rid of a governor? The SA Reserve Bank Act lists conduct that will render the Governor unsuitable to complete any term of appointment. Other than on these grounds, no provision is made for the dismissal of the Governor. So how would a governor would be removed if he or she was considered to be unsuitable for office? This is open to some debate, but it seems that there might be at least two possibilities: The government (including Parliament) or any other party can take legal action to have the governor declared unfit to hold office. The governor and his deputies serve as directors of the central bank. As such they are bound by rules which demand that they remain fit and proper to serve. The act sets out in some detail what fit and proper entails. It includes avoiding conflicts of interest between personal interests and the interests of the central bank and not working for a bank. If the incumbent falls short of any of these requirements, there is recourse to taking legal action against them. Parliament can amend the South African Reserve Bank Act to give the President power to dismiss the Governor. My understanding is therefore that the President cannot simply remove the Governor of the SA Reserve Bank. It would require - at a minimum - legal action or a parliamentary process. Central banks with shareholders Duarte’s main point of contention is that South Africa’s central bank has private shareholders which means that it cannot act independently. This is not true. South Africa isn’t the only country with a central bank owned by private shareholders. While most central banks in the world are publicly owned, there are a handful that aren’t. These include Belgium, Greece, Japan, Switzerland and Turkey. In the case of the US and Italy, only shareholding by commercial banks is allowed. In none of these instances is there evidence that private ownership affects the institutions' independence. In fact, it can be argued that a private ownership structure adds to the transparency and accountability of central banks. For example, the SA Reserve Bank publishes a comprehensive annual report for distribution to shareholders. In addition it has to hold an annual ordinary general meeting of shareholders at which the Governor responds to questions about the business of the central bank and the conduct of monetary policy. The link that Duarte tries to make between the central bank’s shareholding and its approach to exchange rate policy simply does not exist. The SA Reserve Bank made this point clearly in a statement it issued shortly after Duarte’s salvo. This points out that shareholders play no role in the formulation and implementation of monetary policy. On its approach to exchange rate policy, South Africa’s central bank takes a stance similar to most central banks in the world: namely, that any attempt to influence the value of a currency by intervening in the market is futile. China is an exception to this rule. It has a controlled economy and has substantial foreign currency reserves with which to support the yuan in the open market. The SA Reserve Bank serves the best interests of all South Africans. The Governer’s security of tenure supports the efforts of the central bank to contain inflation. At the same time a structure of private shareholders in the central bank helps to improve monetary policy transparency. This article first appeared in The Conversation
2016-09-07 13:35 Jannie Rossouw www.timeslive.co.za
44 Has Tom Wolfe discovered the real origin of human language? Poldark adviser: how to strip history down for the screen The resentment of elites is an ineradicable American trait; whether it is a virtuous or a vicious one depends on which part of the historical record you are looking at. A certain democratic orneriness is what allowed the Founding Fathers to throw off the yoke of King George, and in turn allowed the Jacksonian democrats to throw off the yoke of the New England federalists and Virginia planters. Each ruling clique must be made to answer the great American question: who are they to tell us what to do? Yet when that same question is posed against experts who demand that Americans reduce their carbon emissions, or give up their assault rifles, the consequences are not so pretty. Resentment of privilege shades into resentment of knowledge; the American who won’t be bossed around often ends up refusing to listen even to good counsel. Tom Wolfe will be for ever associated with the New Journalism, the vivid, first-person style of reportage he helped to pioneer in the 1960s. Yet what is new in Wolfe’s work is perhaps less important than what is old. He stands in the grand American tradition of mockers and scoffers, cracker-barrel sages who laugh at the professors in their ivory towers and the dudes wearing the latest fashions. In the past, he has targeted the art world (in The Painted Word ), limousine liberals (in Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak- Catchers ) and experimental novelists (in his 1989 essay-manifesto “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast”, which served to clear the ground for his own hard-headed fiction). To Wolfe, each of these small worlds is cut off from the sanity of the people by arrogance and fashion. And as intellectuals and artists are always prone to self-admiration, his strafing of their complacencies has been amusing and even useful. In his new book, however, he takes on better-defended targets, and comes off the loser. The Kingdom of Speech , though brief, is a hard book to describe, but at its heart it is yet another fusillade against experts, this time two of the very biggest: Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky. What ties them together, in Wolfe’s account, is that both were responsible for advancing false views of the origin of human language. Naturally, to know that their views are false, one would have to be in possession of the truth about one of the greatest scientific mysteries – how human language began, and what it is about our minds that allows us to use it so productively. A more modest writer than Tom Wolfe might hesitate to make such a claim. But by the end of this book, he is certain that, despite knowing basically nothing about biology or linguistics, he has figured out the problem that defeated the masters of these fields. Common sense triumphs over expertise. Anyone who has read an Oxfordian happily demolishing the claims of the Man from Stratford will be familiar with the tone and the technique. The Kingdom of Speech opens by recasting a scientific problem as a scientific scandal. “One hundred and fifty years since the Theory of Evolution was announced”, Wolfe writes, “and they had learned . . . nothing ” about the origins of language. “What is the story? What is it that has left endless generations of academics, certified geniuses, utterly baffled when it comes to speech?” Of course, the modern period has been anything but baffled when it comes to linguistic knowledge. But it suits Wolfe to treat it that way, and so you will find no reference in the book to Saussure or semiotics, Sir William Jones or Proto-Indo-European, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, or any of the other landmarks of modern linguistic research. Indeed, Wolfe goes so far as to say that the 77-year period between Darwin and Chomsky was “a dark age” for linguistics “comparable in the annals of science to the Dark Ages that descended upon Europe after the invasion of the Huns”. This is absurd as a historical claim, but it is a good description of the organisation of Wolfe’s own book, which treats of only two episodes. Significantly, each is structured as a David-and-Goliath story, in which a spunky outsider manages to outwit and shame a mandarin insider. The first of these is the extremely well-known rivalry between Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, which calls into play some of Wolfe’s favourite themes – class and expertise, male rivalry and humiliation. In Wolfe’s account, the rich and well-connected Darwin straightforwardly stole the credit for the theory of evolution from the poor, self-educated Wallace: “It was said that a British Gentleman could steal your underwear, your smalls and skivvies and knickers, and leave you staring straight at him asking if he didn’t think it had turned rather chilly all of a sudden.” And yet, at the same time, Wolfe does not seem to think that the theory of evolution was any great thing to have discovered, because he compares it mockingly with Navajo and Apache cosmogonies. The agent of cosmic development which the Navajos called Locust, he argues, Darwin merely “renamed Evolution”. Above all, evolution is suspect because, to Wolfe, it does not account satisfactorily for the origins of human language. He derides Darwin’s attempts in The Descent of Man to explain language as a descendant of bird-calls. He has no more use for the attempt by Chomsky, the great linguist (and political activist) of the 20th century, to elucidate the rules of universal grammar as the product of a “language organ” in the brain. When it comes to Chomsky, Wolfe once again finds an admirable antagonist: Daniel L Everett, whose research on the language of a particular Amazonian tribe was said to disprove Chomsky’s thesis about recursion as a basic feature of human language. The scientific matters at stake are well beyond the competence of either Wolfe or most readers, and they are presented in caricatured form. What energises Wolfe is the contrast, once again, between Chomsky, the tenured insider who works with his brain, and Everett, the outsider who actually gets out into the field and contends with the elements. Virtue triumphs over highbrow smugness, in Wolfe’s pages if not in the history books or the textbooks. Read this way, as a kind of populist fable, The Kingdom of Speech has some value. Scientifically it has none, and anyone really interested in either evolution or linguistics has many better places to turn. Adam Kirsch’s “Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas” is published by W W Norton Poldark returned to our screens in true swashbuckling style, much to the delight of its fans. A BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s historical novels, the first series was broadcast last year and proved a hit with Sunday evening audiences, pulling in more than 8 million viewers an episode. The drama soon became associated with a single image of lead actor, Aidan Turner, about to film a scene in which a shirtless Ross Poldark scythes a field. But there is more to Poldark than good looks – I have particular reason to know as historical consultant to the series. My research specialism is in 18th-century British history and given the popularity of Georgian drama I’ve acted as historical consultant to film, television and theatre regularly over the past decade. But Poldark has given me a unique set of experiences. The size of the audience outstrips any other productions I have contributed to previously, including feature films. With eight to ten episodes a series, the filmed content is also far more substantial. I’ve now consulted on three series for Poldark, equating to around 1,600 pages of Debbie Horsfield’s effervescent scripts. Certainly, the characters are highly fictionalised and romanticised. Poldark himself is by no means a real historical figure. But the historical context behind the drama is carefully construed in the original novels by Winston Graham and treated with equal respect in the production process of the BBC’s adaptation. Set against a background of the American Revolutionary War and then the French Revolution, Graham opened his novels in 1780s Cornwall, exploiting its dramatic local history of mining, smuggling, banking and a dominant gentry class as the springboard for the personal experiences of his fictional characters. From script to set I am often asked what the work of an historical adviser involves. In truth, there is no single answer because the role is determined by the different needs of each production. For Poldark, I’ve settled into a fairly regular pattern of involvement that begins with reading drafts of the scripts prior to filming. The script is not just the story, it is the blueprint for the entire production. I try to read each episode as closely as possible, checking the historical content from every angle, looking not just for the occasional anachronistic term, but for character development, locations, scene and prop details and context. I send back to the production team all the historical commentary I can think of – however significant or potentially pedantic – and leave the judgement calls to them. When the scripts are finished and the production prepares for filming, questions start to come in from the various departments as they prepare locations, sets and costumes. And once the cameras start rolling, attention turns to many of the smallest details: manuscripts seen on a desk or broadsides handed out in the street. During the filming of the second series, some of my favourite moments came from conversations with the graphic artist, Richard Wells, as we bounced emails around discussing the appearance of 18th-century pamphlets, advertisements, military commission letters, polling books and more. Many of these details might not be captured in the final shots, but each and every one was inspired by original artefacts and painstakingly recreated by the art department. Much of my academic research has focused on ideas of status and hierarchy in 18th-century Britain, and working with the Poldark production has given me the chance to consider how preoccupations with hierarchy and deference might be enacted in the most ordinary of ways – through words, greetings, gestures, emotional responses, motivations and aggressions. What might a flashy middle class man serve at a dinner party? How would a politician sign a letter? Would everyone know how to curtsy? How would a gentleman or lady meet an acquaintance on the street? What does a footman actually do? Would a woman get drunk in a tavern? What games might you see children playing? These are the kinds of questions that need answers in order to put period drama on to the screen. Reading Rousseau Over time I have become deeply invested in the characters, contextualising their worlds as I read a script to preempt later questions or to add in details that might otherwise be missed. In series one, for example, Elizabeth Poldark is seen reading Rousseau. Such a detail can create a raft of knock on considerations at any point in filming. Is Rousseau the right choice for her? Might it influence her choices? If we see a shelf of books in the background what else should be there? If the director wants a close up shot, which pages should be selected and why? One essential aspect of the storylines that I find particularly fascinating is the complexities of credit networks, local banking systems and the history of finance. We routinely see money changing hands, both paper and coins, in markets, private meetings, and at the gaming table. Surviving artefacts are, of course, key to the creation of the props required. Notes from 18th-century local banks provide the blueprint for the art department to produce replica money for the Pascoe and Warleggan banks featured in the Poldark plot. But what about the other details? I’ve used previous research into 18th- century account books to determine how much cash someone might carry in their pocket and to consider what everyday items might cost. Trying to establish what the interior of an 18th-century local bank might look like was a harder task, and for this I turned to archivists and other historians to canvas opinion. While images survive for 19th-century banks, 18th-century images are, by and large, restricted to the newly established Bank of England (hardly a model for an ad hoc regional bank in 1780s Cornwall). Sometimes even the most expert opinion can only offer a well-informed guess, rather than concrete evidence. Over the past two and a half years, I’ve considered the history behind each word, line, scene, character and context. Of course, as with any period production, it is impossible to create a perfect recreation of the past (and how can we ever know what that “perfect” recreation should be anyway?). Choices are always made for the purposes of plot, character, budget and schedule. The role of the historical adviser is to ensure that those choices are well informed and that they are just that: choices, rather than mistakes. Hannah Greig is a senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of York . This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
2016-09-07 13:04 Suzanne Moore www.newstatesman.com
45 The government must stop dithering and hold an Orgreave public inquiry Before Parliament broke for the summer recess, the new Home Secretary Amber Rudd said she would not "rush" any decision over whether there should be a public inquiry into what happened at Orgreave in 1984. She said she would consider the evidence over the break and meet those campaigning for justice. But the truth is we've been here before. Theresa May met campaign representatives in July last year when she was Home Secretary and promised to "carefully consider" the case. Nothing happened. And talking of the truth, the events of June 1984, when around 5,000 police officers confronted striking miners at the Orgreave coking plant, will remain a stain on the reputation British justice and policing until we establish the truth at a public inquiry. We know that mounted police officers charged picketing miners, assaulted them using excessive force and then committed perjury and perverted the course of justice. Those were the findings of the Independent Police Commission last year when it decided not to mount a formal investigation into criminal wrongdoing by police at Orgreave. My colleague and historian Tristram Hunt MP described the confrontation as "almost medieval in its choreography... at various stages a siege, a battle, a chase, a rout and, finally, a brutal example of legalised state violence. " In 1991, South Yorkshire Police paid out £425,000 in compensation to 39 miners who successfully sued for assault, malicious prosecution and wrongful arrest. Astonishingly, despite the payouts and the widespread allegations of the fabrication of evidence, the Force admitted no wrongdoing and no officer was disciplined. In January 2014, I launched Labour’s "Justice for the Coalfields" campaign. This followed a number revelations from newly released cabinet papers. Amongst other things they revealed the government did have a secret plan in 1984 to shut down 75 pits – contrary to denials at the time. There was confirmation that the government did indeed see the striking miners and their communities as the "enemy within" and even considered deploying the army to win what ministers saw as a political fight. And as part of the campaign, I led a debate on a motion in the House of Commons that highlighted the fact that the Thatcher government misled the public and importantly that they did seek to influence police tactics. At the time of the Strike, I was a boy who lived right by the site of the Yorkshire Main Colliery in South Yorkshire. I had family and friends on strike. Indeed, one of the abiding images from Orgreave was that of a striking miner, George Brealey, 'inspecting' a line of police officers in his toy police helmet with an NUM sticker on the side of it. That man was my neighbour. His garden backed onto my own childhood home and me and my brother used to play his young sons. Today as the MP representing so many former pit villages in Barnsley, I know the deep the sense of lasting injustice is over what happened at Orgreave. The impact of the Strike and the subsequent pit closure programme had a devastating impact on coalfield communities – damage from which many never recovered. We will never undo all the damage. But we can help rebuild trust and reconciliation by getting to the truth about Orgreave - the allegations of serious assaults, wrongful arrests and malicious prosecutions. Our new Home Secretary says Orgreave is "one of the most important issues in my in-tray" and she will apparently meet campaign representatives this month. As well as a new Home Secretary, South Yorkshire Police has a new chief constable in Stephen Watson. Both have a huge task to restore the Force’s battered reputation in the wake of Hillsborough. We know it took decades for the victims at Hillsborough to get justice. Orgreave campaigners have waiting more than 32 years and counting. For too long successive governments chose to ignore the terrible events at Orgreave. Until we get to the truth about the events of 18 June 1984, we will never get justice for the coalfields. The government must stop dithering and hold an immediate, swift and independent public inquiry. The victims of Orgreave - and coalfield communities across the country - have waited long enough.
2016-09-07 13:04 Suzanne Moore www.newstatesman.com
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48 Mumbai attacks: US says wants to see accountability, justice Representational picture. Pic/AFP Washington: The US has reiterated that it wants accountability from Pakistan on the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that claimed 166 lives. "We've been very clear that we want to see accountability and justice in the case of the Mumbai attacks, and as you noted, there were American citizens who lost their lives in that - those terrible attacks," US State Department deputy spokesperson Mark Toner said in Monday's daily press briefing in response to a question about Secretary of State John Kerry's mentioning about US' efforts to bring to justice the perpetrators behind the attacks in which six Americans were also killed. Kerry was in New Delhi to attend the Second India-US Strategic and Commercial Dialogue on August 30. "We've long encouraged and pushed for greater counter-terrorism cooperation, and that includes the sharing of intelligence between India and Pakistan in that regard," Toner said. "That continues; those efforts continue. As I said, we want to see full accountability for these terrible attacks. " The four-day attacks starting from November 26, 2008, were carried out by 10 terrorists of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit. One of them, Ajmal Kasab, was captured and put to death under the Indian justice system while the other nine terrorists were killed by security forces. On April 9, 2015, the foremost ringleader of the attacks, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, was granted bail in Pakistan against surety bonds of 200,000 ($2,000) Pakistan rupees.
2016-09-07 13:32 By IANS www.mid-day.com
49 Rand slightly weaker after strong gains “With the lack of noise and negative headlines from the Presidency or the Treasury‚ the reasons for holding those long dollar positions dwindle‚” Standard Bank trader Warrick Butler said in a note. The rand has strengthened more than 30c against the greenback‚ buoyed in part by better-than-expected GDP figures and a weaker dollar. The dollar came under further selling pressure after the disappointing US services sector data on Tuesday dealt a blow to prospects of a US interest rate hike in September. “Overall‚ it seems like the market priced in too much of (a) potential rate hike by the Fed in September. Even at 25%... I guess that is too much for the market‚” Butler said. “My personal view is that if they don’t go now‚ they may not have the chance to go ever. The recent ISM (Institute of Supply Management) data in the US seem to point to dark clouds looming over the US economy.” At 9.10am‚ the rand was at R14.0089 against the dollar from R13.9777 at the previous close. It was at R15.7550 against the euro from R15.7340 previously‚ and at R18.7828 against the pound from R18.7906 previously. The euro was at $1.1246‚ from $1.1257 at its last settlement. - TMG Digital/BDlive
2016-09-07 13:31 Andries Mahlangu www.timeslive.co.za
50 Gabon election: Ali Bongo criticises EU over vote 'anomalies' Gabon President Ali Bongo has accused international observers who highlighted anomalies in the country's contested presidential election of bias. Mr Bongo criticised the European Union mission observing Gabon's election after questions were raised over his narrow victory. He also accused opposition leader Jean Ping of a "massive fraud". "If we want to address the anomalies, we must be clear, balanced and address any anomalies," he said. On Tuesday the EU questioned the legitimacy of the election results in Gabon on 27 August. The Constitutional Court is expected to meet on Thursday to consider a challenge by Mr Ping. Mr Bongo said he would respect the wishes of the court if it ordered a recount. The EU mission said there was a "clear anomaly" in the results from Mr Bongo's home province after official figures from Haut-Ogooue showed a turnout of 99.93%, with 95% of votes cast for the president. Sarah Crozier, from the EU team, said observers noted a much lower turnout nationally than was recorded in Mr Bongo's political base and that tabulations from his province showed anomalies for those who had not voted as well as the number of votes that were void. "With a turnout of 99.93% and 71,000 voters you would have only 47 people not voting, and we found there were polling stations declaring results [of those who did not vote] that were totalling a figure above that 47," she said. Mr Ping, who lost the election by less than 6,000 votes, has pointed to the results in the province as evidence of electoral fraud. He has called for a general strike and said that dozens of his supporters have been killed in violent clashes since the result was announced. The Gabonese authorities say three people have died and 105 have been injured in street violence and mass arrests have taken place. Other reports put the death toll at at least six.
2016-09-07 13:03 www.bbc.co.uk
51 Four youths try to drown cop during Ganesh festival in Thane Thane: A shocking video of a policeman being pushed into a lake and four youths of a local Ganesh Utsav mandal trying to drown him in Kalyan townwhip has gone viral in Thane. Representational picture. Pic/Ashish Rane The youths had earlier objected to being disciplined by the policeman Niteen Dondu Dagale. On the occasion of immersion of the Ganpati idols last evening, sub-inspector Dagale (38), attached to Kolsewadi Police Station in Kalyan, was on bandobust duty at Teesgaon Talao of the town. He was controlling the crowd assembled for the immersion and was disciplining the members of various mandals. The members of the Jari Mari Ganesh Utsav mandal were also asked to follow queue system. However, some youths of the mandal objected to being disciplined and picked up a quarrel with Dagale. Later, the youths allegedly pushed him into the lake. When Dagale tried to come out of the water, one of the four youths jumped in and again allegedly tried to drown him but in vain, a senior police officer said. Dagale, however, managed to save himself by swimming out of the lake. The video of the incident showed people indulging in revelry while no one came to the rescue of the police officer. The accused youths are said to supporters of a local politician. The Kolsewadi Police has registered offences against the four accused under IPC sections 307 (attempt to murder), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) read with 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention). A manhunt has been launched to nab the four youths, police added.
2016-09-07 13:29 By PTI www.mid-day.com
52 'Culture of drugs' at London's Fabric nightclub causes licence to be revoked One of the UK's most well known nightclubs is to close permanently after its licence was revoked. The decision to shut down Fabric was made by Islington Council in north London, which described a "culture of drugs" at the venue. The club was closed temporarily earlier this year after the deaths of two teenagers. The Metropolitan Police claimed keeping Fabric open would cause further drug-related deaths. Fabric co-founder Cameron Leslie said he was "gutted" at the decision. It has been criticised by several DJs and artists who have performed at the venue in the past. https://twitter.com/mistajam/status/773318280492769280 https://twitter.com/monki_dj/status/773317501673467905 https://twitter.com/grimmers/status/773387243662766080 A 28-day licence suspension was already in place at Fabric following the death of an 18-year-old last month. It sparked an online petition with 150,000 signatures and DJs like Annie Mac tweeting their support. Image caption Fabric is in Farringdon in central London A sub-committee at Islington council listened to more than five hours of material on Tuesday night and deliberated for an hour. "Searches at the venue were inadequate," the licensing committee chair, Flora Williamson, commented. "Deaths at the club involved people who were very young. " In its report, the council said: "The extent of the drug use was such that security and staff would have or should have been able to observe not only the use of drugs but also the effect of drug use on a large number of patrons. "Staff intervention and security was grossly inadequate in light of the overwhelming evidence that it was abundantly obvious that patrons in the club were on drugs and manifesting symptoms showing that they were. "This included sweating, glazed red eyes and staring into space and people asking for help. "A culture of drug use exists at the club which the existing management and security appears incapable of controlling. " Over the past four years there have been six deaths in relation to Fabric. Five of those were people under 25. The decision is expected to have a huge implication on the London nightlife scene, as well as other cities across the UK. https://twitter.com/SGLewis_/status/773314065229897734 "If it wasn't for places like Fabric we wouldn't have any of our cultural assets," said Alan Miller, chairman of the Night Time Industries Association. "We're going to challenge this. This is unacceptable. This isn't the last word. " London Mayor Sadiq Khan has criticised the decision to close the club and has issued a warning about the decline of the city's nightlife. "London's iconic clubs are an essential part of our cultural landscape," he said. "Clubbing needs to be safe but I'm disappointed that Fabric, Islington Council and the Metropolitan Police were unable to reach agreement on how to address concerns about public safety. "As a result of this decision, thousands of people who enjoyed going to Fabric as an essential part of London's nightlife will lose out. "The issues faced by Fabric point to a wider problem of how we protect London's night-time economy, while ensuring it is safe and enjoyable for everyone. " The mayor says that London has lost 50% of its nightclubs and 40% of its live music venues over the last eight years. "This decline must stop if London is to retain its status as a 24-hour city with a world-class nightlife," he said. London's Metropolitan Police defended its decision to ask for Fabric's licence to be revoked. A spokeswoman said: "Police felt the need to act due to concerns about the safety of those attending the club due to the supply of class A drugs in the venue and the recent deaths of two young men linked to the club. "We support this decision made by Islington Council's licensing committee. "London has a world-renowned night-time economy and people should be able to enjoy it safely, without concerns of serious crime. "The Met is committed to working in partnership with those responsible for this sector to ensure that this happens. " Find us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat Related Topics Policing Music
2016-09-07 13:04 By Daniel www.bbc.co.uk
53 Sports Direct faces shareholder revolt at annual meeting Sports Direct faces shareholder anger at its annual meeting with investors dissatisfied despite the firm's pledge to improve staff working conditions. Investors believe founder Mike Ashley, who owns 55% of the firm, wields too much control. Shareholders want to depose chairman Keith Hellawell. The board has stood firm, backing Mr Hellawell despite his offer to resign over the weekend. The meeting comes after a critical report by the chain's lawyers. Sports Direct commissioned its legal advisers Reynolds Porter Chamberlain to carry out the review after MPs said working practices at its warehouse in Shirebrook were closer to "that of a Victorian workhouse than that of a modern high street retailer". Mr Hellawell made his offer to step down over the weekend due to the shortcomings highlighted in the report, but the board, including Mike Ashley, asked him to stay, the company said . "He will stay in his role in order to assist with making further improvements," Sports Direct said. In a presentation released by Sports Direct ahead of its annual meeting, the firm insisted that despite speculation, billionaire founder Mr Ashley had no intention of taking the company private. It also warned that profits - using its preferred EBITDA measure - would be about £300m for the 2017 financial year, 21% below 2016's £381m. Following the trading update, Sports Direct shares dropped 11% to 312p in early trading before recovering slightly. The sportswear firm also said it would continue to employ the boyfriend of Mike Ashley's daughter to run its property arm. "As previously disclosed, our property team will continue to be led by Michael Murray and his remuneration will be decided at the board's discretion," it said in a presentation released ahead of the meeting. Sports Direct to put worker on the board Dominic O'Connell: Sports Direct review Views from Sports Direct workers Last year an investigation by the Guardian newspaper revealed that staff at its Shirebook warehouse were subject to lengthy security searches which, in some cases, resulted in their pay falling below the legal minimum wage. And a BBC investigation found ambulances were called out to Sports Direct's complex at Shirebrook, in Derbyshire, 76 times in two years. In Tuesday's report, Sports Direct pledged to abolish zero-hours contracts for its directly employed, casual retail staff, and make sure all staff were paid above the national minimum wage. Later, the firm said it would put a workers' representative on its board to "give workers a voice at the highest level and to help ensure that all staff are treated with dignity and respect". Ashley Hamilton-Claxton, corporate governance manager at Royal London Asset Management, which owns shares in Sports Direct, told the BBC on Wednesday: "We need fundamental change at the top and that starts with the chairman. " She said Mr Hellawell had "not shown sufficient leadership" and making "minor changes" to its employment practices were not enough. Sports Direct has already commissioned a second review of working practices to monitor progress, but Ms Hamilton Claxton said this review needed to be conducted under a new chairman "otherwise we are unlikely to see change". Shareholder Hermes also said it would vote against the reappointment of Mr Hellawell. "When we've met him he always comes across as an individual with the highest integrity [but] we believe now is the time for him to step down and be replaced by a strong, credible individual with strong experience of chairing a FTSE company," Leon Kamhi, the head of responsibility at Hermes Investment Management, told the BBC. The Institute of Directors (IoD) has also called for an overhaul of the way the firm is run. "It is good news that Sports Direct is responding to public and investor pressure to reform working practices at their facilities," said Oliver Parry of the IoD. "But this is only the first step towards restoring shareholder and employee trust in the management and board. "A radical overhaul of their corporate governance arrangements needs to be the next step," he added.
2016-09-07 13:04 www.bbc.co.uk
54 "48 Hours": A look back at "Jacob's hope" |"48 Hours" profiled a family's search for their missing son, Jacob Wetterling, in 1992. And Tuesday, the case finally came to a close. The man responsible for Wetterling's death made a full confession. Here is a look back at the "48 Hours" report from 1992.
2016-09-07 13:04 www.cbsnews.com
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56 Apple expected to unveil new iPhone 7 Wednesday is a big day in the tech world. Apple is holding its annual launch event where the new iPhone 7 is expected to be revealed. The much-heralded device comes just as rival Samsung has recalled its flagship Note 7 over battery issues. Many commentators expect Apple to have ditched the headphone jack, leaving only one port. The previous model - the iPhone 6S - was the world's bestselling handset, according to new research. The study, by Strategy Analytics, said 14.2 million copies of the phone shipped between April to June, accounting for 4% of the market. By contrast, the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge shipped 8.3 million units over the same period. However, both fell short of the earlier iPhone 6, which shipped 26.3 million units over the same months in 2015. "Smartphone growth is sluggish at the moment due to ongoing economic volatility worldwide, high ownership penetration in most major countries, and a lack of new innovation from device manufacturers," commented the market research firm's director Linda Sui. Dropping the headphone jack in the iPhone 7 would encourage consumers to use Bluetooth headphones or buy those compatible with Apple's Lightning port, which is also used for charging. However, old gear would not be completely obsolete, as Apple is expected to include an adapter jack. Camera quality is expected to be improved and this time round the upgrade might mean a two-lens clicker for some of the bigger models. Other handsets' dual-lens camera can take pictures with two different exposures, then combine the two images for improved picture quality - but it is unknown how Apple would implement the feature. Another year, another iPhone. But then, it's hardly just been "another year" for Apple, has it? Since last September, when we saw the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, the tech giant's world has been turned upside down. A war over encryption, a declining iPhone , a continuing struggle in China and, most recently, the tax bill to end all tax bills. Distractions, lots of them. And it doesn't look like the new iPhone is going to deflect much of that attention away. While we're used to saying "evolution, not revolution" in the smartphone market, this upgrade is not expected to turn many heads nor send customers running to the phone shop to upgrade. If, as we expect, the headphone jack is removed from the device, expect a lot of anger from those who don't want to be ushered into buying wireless headphones. Then again, Apple faced the same kind of anger when it rolled out the smaller "lightning" charging port, but everyone's just about got over that. Take a look at the "old" Apple charger and tell me it doesn't look almost comically massive. In hindsight, the right call. A better camera would go down extremely well - more photographs are taken with iPhones than any other device. But some reported leaks suggest only the larger, less popular iPhone size will get the new camera technology. Looking a bit further ahead, some are speculating that Apple is holding back this time around, instead saving new features for 2017 and what will be the iPhone's 10th anniversary. Other expected change include increased storage and better speakers. The new phone is also said to be water resistant, handling submersion for up to 30 minutes - a feature already offered by several of Apple's Android competitors from the likes of Samsung or Sony. Apple is thought to be sticking with its two sizes, meaning there would be an iPhone 7 and an iPhone 7 Plus. Neither is the design thought to be changing much, giving it the same overall look as the current models. Rumour has it there will be more colours available, for instance reintroducing black as an option. While the new models will be revealed to the world at the launch, consumers will have to wait a few weeks before they are shipped. Pre-orders are expected to open on Friday. The timing still is crucial. Samsung beat Apple by releasing its Galaxy Note 7 last month. The device was well received by users and critics alike and started selling well. But then reports about batteries heating up and sparking some fires prompted Samsung to launch an embarrassing recall last week - just days before the new iPhone makes its debut. While Samsung's battery problems might tilt some prospective buyers toward the iPhone 7, Apple depends on the ongoing success of its smartphones as they have become its biggest source of revenue. And after recent bad publicity ranging from issues around security flaws to tax problems , the world's most valuable listed company hopes the iPhone will be a hit.
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57 New Zealand tops global list for house price rises New Zealand, Turkey and Canada have seen the biggest leap in house prices over the past year, according to a new global ranking. Estate agents Knight Frank found property markets in the three countries grew between 10% and nearly 14%. While New Zealand comes in second after Turkey, it tops the list once the impact of inflation is stripped out. The average house price in Auckland hit NZ$1m (£554,000, $743,000) for the first time last month. Separate data shows house prices in the Auckland region rose 15.9% on last year, making them more than 85% higher than the previous market peak in 2007. The rise in New Zealand house prices has been fuelled by strong immigration, low interest rates and limited housing. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has consistently warned that the soaring prices are a risk to financial stability. On 1 October, new rules will come into effect to cool off the market by raising the down payment that residential property investors need to get a mortgage. New Zealand's property market is among some of the Asia Pacific region's star performers, which also include Australian cities such as Melbourne and Sydney. Price rises in these cities have been driven not just by domestic demand but overseas interest from Asia, especially China. "What's interesting is that we've seen governments and central banks in these western countries adopt some of the measures introduced in Asia to take the heat out of their property markets," Nicholas Holt, Asia Pacific Head of Research at Knight Frank told the BBC. "This is to address domestic concerns such as affordability, reduce speculation and prevent borrowers and banks from over extending themselves," he explained. In comparison, Taiwan is at the bottom of Knight Frank's ranking, with price falls of 9.4% over the past year. Hong Kong and Singapore have also seen significant reductions in house prices, according to Knight Frank.
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58 Apple tax: Irish parliament to debate European Commission ruling The Irish parliament has been recalled early to debate the European Commission's ruling that Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13bn (£11bn) to Apple. It follows the decision by the Irish government to appeal the ruling . On Tuesday night, members were given a 16-page Department of Finance document on the background to the ruling. The ruling itself is confidential. Last week, the government said a motion would come before the Dáil (parliament) on Wednesday seeking an endorsement of its decision to appeal. Previously, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said he was "very confident" the ruling would be overturned on appeal. He called the European Commission's decision "maddening" and "political". However, European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager rejected Mr Cook's claims. She said it was "a decision based on the facts of the case, looking into Apple Sales International, how they are arranged within Ireland, and the profits recorded there".
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59 59 Australia's PM gives terror warning at Asean summit Australia will offer more help to South East Asian countries to prevent terror attacks across the region. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is set to discuss security with other leaders at the Asean summit in Laos. Mr Turnbull has signalled he would like to expand Australia's counter-terrorism arrangements with Indonesia, Malaysia and other neighbouring countries. It comes after the so-called Islamic State threatened "lone wolf" attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. Mr Turnbull said that such a threat should be taken seriously after IS suffered losses on battlefields in Iraq and Syria. "As it is rolled back, as its territory is being taken back - it will resort to terrorist activities outside of the Middle East," he said. "But we do have to be very alert to the actions of these lone actors - individuals who ... for a variety of reasons, may be radicalised. " The Australian government is taking measures to prevent foreign fighters who could be recruited from South East Asia and Australia and Mr Turnbull is arguing for more intelligence sharing. Mr Turnbull named the 2002 Bali bombings as an example of the danger posed to the region. The attacks killed 202 people, including 88 Australians and 27 Britons. "When there is terrorist activity in our region, very often, almost invariably in a large-scale attack, Australians can be put at risk and have, indeed, lost their lives," he said. "We're all in it together, it's got to be a very strong full-court press against terrorism. We're committed to that and I'm looking forward to some very candid and constructive discussions over the next few days. "
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60 60 Tromp family: The mystery of a tech-free road trip gone wrong A family of five who disappeared on a tech-free road-trip, turning up one by one after a week-long odyssey of more than 1,600km (995 miles) which ended with a police investigation and two family members in psychiatric care. This was a missing person mystery that held Australia spellbound, writes Trevor Marshallsea. The Tromp family were by all accounts a normal, hard-working household. Mark Tromp, 51, and wife Jacoba, 53, had established a successful redcurrant farm and earth-moving business at their property in Silvan, on the outskirts of the Victorian capital, Melbourne. But with little warning, on Monday 29 August they and their three adult children - Riana, 29, Mitchell, 25, and Ella 22 - got into a car and headed north. They didn't just leave their family farm, they had fled. Police, later called to the home to investigate, found passports, credit cards and mobile phones had been left behind. This was to be a cash-only, "off the grid" road trip, with no way of being followed. It was later revealed Mark and Jacoba had been suffering increasing signs of stress and paranoia. According to media reports, at least one of them had become convinced someone was out to kill them, and take their money. The only phone not left behind belonged to Mitchell. He appeared to be the only one in the family not swept up in the belief that they were in danger. He later said he had gone along to ensure they would all be safe, but that his parents became increasingly delusional and hard to tolerate. Some 30km away from home, they made him throw his phone out of the car window. They were apparently convinced it was being used to track them. The family drove, in Ella's silver Peugeot SUV, through that first day and night until reaching the New South Wales town of Bathurst, 800km away, to the west of Sydney. It was there at 07:00 on Tuesday that Mitchell left the family. Later on Tuesday morning, the remaining four Tromps headed east from Bathurst to a popular tourist spot, the Jenolan Caves. It was there that Riana and Ella decided to also part from their parents. They did this by stealing a car. The two sisters drove south to the town of Goulburn, where they reported their parents had gone missing. The story made its way into the media and a bemused Australian public wondered how a family could have become so strangely separated, and separately lost, on what was at first thought to have been a driving holiday - and in their own country. This was not remote territory, not the vast Australian outback. At all times they were close to large towns. In Goulburn, Riana and Ella decided to part ways at a petrol station, with Ella saying she wanted to go home to feed her horses. She became the first Tromp to be located when she arrived back at the family farm on Tuesday night and found police there. Mitchell would arrive home the following morning, having taken a series of trains. While Mitchell and Ella appeared reasonably unaffected mentally, the same could not be said of Riana. She had climbed into the back of a utility vehicle in Goulburn, and was only discovered there by the male driver after he had driven almost an hour away. He pulled over and found Riana to be in what he called a catatonic state, saying she did not know her name, nor where she was. Riana was later taken to Goulburn hospital, where she remains in mental health care. Police say she has been spared charges over the stolen vehicle for mental health reasons. Ella, however, has been charged with car theft. As media interest grew, and an interstate search began, Mark and Jacoba drove back toward Melbourne from the Jenolan Caves. A day later on Wednesday, 600km south in the Victorian town of Wangaratta, they too became separated. Jacoba headed north again, by means which are still a mystery, and was found the next day 350km away in Yass, wandering in an agitated state. She was taken to a hospital there, and later moved to Goulburn to be with daughter Riana, as the pair continued mental health treatment. Mark had stayed in Wangaratta. After dangerously tailgating a young couple, he was seen fleeing from Ella's Peugeot. Police also began investigating a number of break-ins in the town, including at a motel, though it's unclear if they were related. Back at Silvan, Mitchell and Ella made an emotional appearance before the media, saying they were baffled by their parents' "paranoid" behaviour. "I've never seen anyone like this or anyone conduct themselves in this way. I just really want my dad to be found," Mitchell said. "He's not dangerous, he's my mate, my father. I love him. " The last piece of the unusual puzzle was put into place on Saturday evening, six days after the episode began, when Mark Tromp was found beside a road near Wangaratta airport. He was questioned by police, assessed by a mental health officer, then released into the care of his police officer brother - showing the middle finger to photographers as he was driven away. He later released a more contrite statement, apologising for "the hurt and concern caused by these events". He paid respect to the community resources devoted to his family's aid, as the public attempted to make sense of the drama. Police do not believe there was any real threat to the family. One investigating police officer from the Silvan district described it as "the most bizarre case I've seen in 30 years". Sgt Mark Knight, who knows the family, said they had no diagnosed mental health problems. There was no evidence of drug-taking, as some social media theories had suggested, the family had no debts and did not belong to any religious groups. "This is just a massive meltdown, I'm sure of it," Sgt Knight said. Mitchell and Ella Tromp admitted it was hard to explain. 'I've never seen anything like it. It's really hard to explain or put a word on it but they were just fearing for their lives and then they decided to flee," Mitchell said. "It was a build-up of different, normal, everyday events - just pressure - and it slowly got worse as the days went by. " While some ponder whether the family may have been affected by chemicals used on their farm, media reports say police are also contemplating whether the family suffered from collective delusions, in an episode of "folie a deux". The French term, meaning "madness of two", covers a rare psychological condition occurring almost exclusively in close-knit families. It was originally coined to describe a 19th Century French couple who began exhibiting paranoid and delusional behaviour. While doctors were unable to tell which of them had become psychotic first, it was clear they had fallen into a cycle of reinforcing each other's delusions. The full reasons for the Tromps' very public meltdown might never be known, however. Police say no further charges are expected to be laid, and that the issue is now simply a family affair.
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61 Australian senator resigns over Chinese payments scandal Australian opposition senator Sam Dastyari has resigned his frontbench role over a foreign donation scandal involving Chinese companies. The Labor senator was heavily criticised for allowing the Yuhu Group to pay for a legal bill in late 2014. He also admitted asking a Chinese government-linked group to pay a personal travel debt of A$1,670 ($1,280; £956). The payments were first reported by Australia's Fairfax media. There is now an investigation into whether the New South Wales senator broke federal and state political party rules. "It is clear that the ongoing examination of my behaviour is taking attention away from bigger issues facing Australia and Australians," he told a news conference on Wednesday. "I made a mistake and I'm paying the price". Labor leader Bill Shortern had said he would not sack Mr Dastyari and that he deserved a second chance.
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62 Mexico's Hurricane Newton: Two die at sea Hurricane Newton has left two people dead in western Mexico. It also felled trees and damaged power lines after making landfall on Tuesday. The people who died were in a fishing boat that capsized in the Gulf of California. Three are still missing. Officials said the five had ignored warnings against going to sea and had taken their shrimp fishing boat out. The hurricane registered wind speeds of 150km/h (90mph) as it approached the state of Baja California Sur. It made landfall near the popular resort of Cabo San Lucas, which sustained serious damage to homes, shops and hotels when the stronger Hurricane Odile hit in 2014. Although some hotel windows broke and power and phone lines were cut, the resort was spared the extensive damage of two years ago. President Enrique Pena Nieto tweeted that Newton had caused only "minor damage to infrastructure". Twelve shelters were opened in the Los Cabos municipality as the wind grew in strength late on Monday. Newton reached hurricane force over the Pacific. Motorists queued to fill their cars with fuel ahead of the hurricane's arrival. But thousands of tourists who were in town spent the night safely in their hotel rooms, the authorities said. Hurricane Newton weakened as it moved north along the Baja California peninsula. The hurricane may regain strength as it goes over the ocean again and makes a second landfall in northern Mexico. US authorities have warned there is a risk of flash flooding and landslides as Newton heads towards the south-western US state of Arizona.
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63 63 Adventurers recreate Inuit kayak crossings to Scotland Two adventurers have kayaked from Greenland to Scotland, a journey of about 1,200 miles (1,931 km). Olly Hicks and George Bullard took 66 days to complete the paddle. The adventure was to show that Inuit did the same journey in kayaks made of sealskin and driftwood in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Mr Hicks was inspired by a story of what is said to be an Inuit man who came ashore at Belhelvie in the 1700s. The man, who was found exhausted on the shore near Aberdeen, died a few days later. The kayak he was found with is in the care of the University of Aberdeen. There are also historical accounts of Inuit, known at the time as Finnmen paddling to the Orkney Islands. Starting out from Greenland on 1 July, Mr Hicks and Mr Bullard paddled to Iceland and then crossed a stretch of open ocean known as The Devil's Dance Floor to the Faroe Islands. The first part of Scotland they reached was the small island of North Rona off the north Highland coast. On Sunday, Mr Hicks, from Thorpeness, Suffolk, and Mr Bullard, of Gressenhall in Norfolk, completed their paddle when they came ashore at Balnakeil Bay near Durness in Sutherland. Mr Hicks said: "Overall the expedition was like the curates egg - good in parts. "It was a really tough trip physically and perhaps more so mentally, but we're both delighted to have pulled it off against improbable odds - and hopefully reawakened the legend of the Finnmen. " He added: "We are delighted to have successfully completed this original adventure that's been over five years in the planning and not only by George and I, who only had to paddle, but to the dozens of people who supported and backed the project in one way and another. "It's testament to the goodwill and magic generated by feats of human endeavour.''
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64 Ankara seizes Deutsche Welle footage containing interview with Turkish minister — RT News When Deutsche Welle reporter Michel Friedman traveled to Ankara to meet with Akif Cagatay Kilic on Monday, he asked the youth and sports minister about topics ranging from July’s attempted coup and subsequent arrests, massive layoffs, the country’s media situation, and the position of women in Turkey. Although Friedman expected to be able to keep the interview tape, which was scheduled to air on a program called “Conflict Zone,” the journalist and his crew were told they couldn’t leave the Ministry for Youth and Sport until the video had been turned over. A statement from Kilic’s press officer, Übeydullah Yener, said the interview tape was taken because Friedman asked questions that had not been previously cleared. “There was no authorization for the interview. The questions asked were not the ones that were planned. Mr. Friedman himself knows exactly why this happened. Some statements were right out allegations. In such a situation, there was no authorization granted,” Yener told Deutsche Welle’s Turkish language department. The ministry later explained its position in a post on its website, in which it blamed Deutsche Well for the unpleasant incident, claiming that Friedman had “overstepped the mark with expressions and accusations.” It also maintained that the move to take the video had been in line with a policy stipulating that interviews require “authorization,” which also exists in Germany. An official from the ministry also denied that the footage had been “confiscated,” telling AP that “no force” had been used and that the outlet had turned over the video after agreeing to a request not to air the interview. Monday’s row has prompted the director general of Deutsche Welle, Peter Limbourg, to speak out against Ankara. “What we are experiencing constitutes an act of the Turkish regime’s coercion,” Limbourg said. “It cannot be that a minister willingly responds to an interview and then tries to block the transmission in such a manner just because he did not like the questions posed.” Immediately following the incident, Deutsche Welle appealed to the Turkish ministry of youth and sports, as well as to the Turkish directorate-general for press and information, demanding that the video by released. A deadline set for Tuesday at noon passed without any response, however. There have also been several phone calls between the German media outlet and ministry representatives, who continue to insist that the Ministry for Youth and Sport will not agree to the interview being broadcast. Ankara’s confiscation of the tape has prompted many outraged Germans to take to social media, including Greens politician Cem Özdemir, who tweeted: “Is the government going to allow the public service broadcaster to be bullied in Turkey?” The ex-editor-in chief of Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper, Can Dündar – who was jailed along with a colleague in 2016 after the paper published a report alleging that Turkish government trucks were transporting weapons to rebels in Syria – was seemingly unsurprised by Ankara’s move, tweeting “Welcome to Turkey, folks!” with a link to the story. The German Journalist Union also took to social media, tweeting: “We demand an immediate release of the interview. The federal Foreign Office must take action.” This latest scandal comes just months after Ankara submitted a formal complaint against German comedian Jan Böhmermann in April, which called for him to be prosecuted for writing a satirical poem about Erdogan that was aired on German television in March. While Chancellor Angela Merkel maintained that the Germany’s constitution allows for freedom of opinion and art, she eventually allowed the suit to go through when pressed by Turkey, saying that the issue was a matter for public prosecutors and courts, rather than governments. Erdogan eventually dropped the lawsuit, along with a number of other suits that had been filed against those accused of insulting him. Turkey’s stance on press freedom has come under scrutiny in recent months. Dozens of arrest warrants were issued for journalist following the failed coup in July, with many put behind bars. Many of the journalists were from Zaman, a newspaper that Erdogan referred to as the “flagship media organization” of alleged coup mastermind Fethullah Gulen. The paper was seized by the Turkish government in March. In June, Turkish authorities detained and charged two journalists and an academic with spreading “terror propaganda” after the group took part in a solidarity campaign supporting a pro-Kurdish publication. In April, Turkey refused entry to German TV journalist Volker Schwenck, who was on his way to the Turkish-Syrian border to report on refugees. Around the same time, Dutch-Turkish journalist Ebru Umar was briefly detained for tweeting critical comments. Prominent Turkish journalist Hamza Aktan was also detained and questioned for pro-Kurdish tweets that he posted and reposted in 2015. Meanwhile, the relationship between Germany and Turkey remains tense. That tension was exacerbated after German authorities failed to allow Erdogan to speak to his supporters at a Cologne rally in July via video link, as well as a symbolic resolution Germany made declaring that the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces had been “genocide.”
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65 Media Finally Interested in Apparent Pay-For- Play Donations Scrutiny for thee, but not for she. Donald Trump dismissed allegations of impropriety on Monday, saying his foundation’s $25,000 donation to Florida’s attorney general had nothing to do with her office mulling an investigation into Trump University. The Republican candidate’s press secretary confirmed to NBC News that Trump paid a $2,500 fine over the donation to a campaign group linked to AG Pam Bondi. News of the fine — levied after an ethics group complained that the donation had not been disclosed to tax officials — was first reported by The Washington Post. A Trump Organization confirmed the candidate reimbursed the foundation for the fine. The newspaper also reported that Trump’s foundation listed the donation as intended for a charity with a different — albeit similar — name to Bondi’s political group. Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks confirmed to NBC News that Trump had paid the fine but dismissed the incident as “minor.” “This was a minor issue that was brought to the attention of the Foundation and addressed immediately,” Hicks said in a statement. After months of spraining their necks to look away from the fact that the Clinton Global Initiative was nothing more than a pay-for-play slush fund when Hillary Clinton was America’s top diplomat, the MSM finally has something it feels safe to inspect. The double standard here is egregious even by what pass for the standards of the modern Democrat Media Complex. That they feel so comfortable being duplicitous indicates just how little they think of the American electorate. While it is true that we are getting to the time in every presidential election cycle that the most people pay attention to, it isn’t far- fetched to assume that this election has probably gotten more attention, if not scrutiny than previous contests have. The dynamic is definitely shifting a bit, and even casual observers of the news are no longer beholden to the biased leftist outlet, but those outlets probably still have a fair amount of influence. Which is precisely why they’re doing this. The phrase that gets worn out whenever one of the Clintons is in any kind of government office is “appearance of impropriety”. These appearances were everywhere when Granny Maojackets was at State. The number of official business meetings that just happened to immediately precede or follow donations to Clinton Global redefined “coincidence”. If you are a consumer of center-right online media, you are well aware of all this. Those who rely on more mainstream choices may have vague remembrances of such things, but they don’t seem that important because they were only mentioned once. That’s how the MSM plays the bias game. They will report something, they just won’t repeatedly hammer it into the public consciousness. That way they can say that they did their jobs but the public didn’t find it all that important. This completely glosses over the fact that they dictate much of what the public does find relevant simply by the amount of airtime and repetition they give it. Each appearance of impropriety surround the woman who would be Queen is quickly left behind by the MSM. This Trump situation with Pam Bondi will get the “pitbull sinking its teeth into steak” treatment, however. What’s new with this story is the fact that the media is really tipping its bias hand now. Until recently, whenever something mildly or greatly damning about Hillary came to light, Trump would give the media a pass by saying or doing something stupid to distract everyone. Sure, they could have reported on both candidates but we all know how this game is played. There’s no reason to make a rigged game easier for those doing the rigging, which is precisely what Trump was doing. Now he’s moved into a more serious mode, and they have to find more creative ways to ignore the Hillary debacle du jour. Hillary has coughing fit that looks like it’s an audition for a TB ward? “Let’s talk about Pam Bondi!” This isn’t a new story that just popped up today. I wrote about it last March. What it is rather is a desperate distraction from the fact that Hillary Clinton’s health probably qualifies her for little more reading to school children and, oh yeah, her rapidly disappearing lead in the polls. If Trump and Bondi are guilty of a little pay-for-play they should be held accountable. This post isn’t meant to excuse them. If, however, the former Secretary of State who is running for president was selling favors on an international scale that might just be a bigger deal.
2016-09-07 13:04 George Neumayr spectator.org
66 Morning Bulletin: Snapchat expected to make $1bn on ads in 2017, porn-site Brazzers hacked, lost Doctor Who episode to be animated & Microsoft develops Slack rival Snapchat’s advertising revenue is expected to reach almost $1bn next year according to a number of reports, including Tech Crunch. Analysis from eMarketer estimates that the business will make $366.69m in 2016 and almost triple that next year with $935.46m as a result of its millennial audience. Meanwhile, Snapchat is also reportedly developing a Google-glass style augmented reality headset. Speculation about the technology was heightened further when the company joined wireless technology body, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. Victoria’s Secret has begun to advertise its products by having its models seemingly wearing their underwear as outdoor clothing. A number of adverts have appeared on the brand’s Facebook page, reports Business Insider, portraying the models out on city streets in with underwear on display. This prompted a number of negative comments in response. People traveling to the United Arab Emirates have been advised by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office against criticising or ridiculing the Emirati government on social media. According to Middle East Eye, the guidance also cautions travelers not to take pictures of women on beaches and not to criticise companies based in the region online as well. The BBC has confirmed rumours that it is to animate the lost Doctor Who adventure The Power of the Daleks, after it was wiped in the 70s. BBC News has said that Patrick Troughton’s first outing as The Doctor will be released on the BBC Store on 5 November, 50 years to the minute that the first episode aired. Microsoft is developing a rival to office messaging system Slack according to The Next Web. The competitor would be seen as a new addition to the Office360 package, although the company has yet to comment on the reports. Porn site Brazzers has been hacked, exposing the email addresses, usernames and passwords of nearly 800,000 users, says news site Motherboard. The data was taken from an associated forum Brazzersforum.
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67 Ted Baker takes ‘massive step up’ in content ambition as it adopts cinematic approach for shoppable film campaign Ted Baker is embarking on its largest marketing campaign to date as it rolls out an intricate, espionage- themed campaign that utilises shoppable film technology and Google’s voice search functionality to realise its content ambitions. The global ‘Mission Impeccable’ campaign is underpinned by a cinematic short film that is entirely shoppable, and is based on a fake villain, named The Needle, who has stolen classified fashion information from espionage body ‘T. E. D’. The campaign, which is running in 50 countries, kicked off in July with a tongue-in-cheek ‘take over’ by ‘The Needle’ on Ted Baker’s social media channels, that encouraged consumers to take part in puzzles and competitions to win prizes. The full Autumn/Winter push officially rolls out today (7 September) with a shoppable film, in an exclusive collaboration with Selfridges.com in the UK and Nordstrom.com in the Americas. The campaign comes as Ted Baker looks to improve the quality of its content creation as its global footprint grows – the campaign film was executive produced by director Guy Ritchie – and to reflect “where we feel we are as a brand”. “We took the view that we’ve learnt a lot in the past, certainly from the last two seasons, and the work that we have done with moving image to that point,” Craig Smith, global brand communication director at Ted Baker told The Drum. “What we have agreed, is very clearly, that mobile, moving image and content are fundamental to a brand nowadays and we’ve said is, ‘OK we are going to really invest properly in level of content production, breadth, scope and where that lives’. This is the first example of where we feel we are at as a brand.” Ted Baker has also worked with Google to create what it claims is a ‘world- first’ fashion application of Google App’s voice search, to enhance the retail experience. To use the functionality, consumers need to use Google’s voice search to say out loud different spy-themed code words that can be found displayed in Ted Baker’s high street store windows. Once searched for, a display ad will appear in Google and when clicked reveals if the consumer has won a prize that can be claimed in the particular store they are visiting. The campaign comes at a period of exponential growth for the retailer, which saw sales increase 26.5 per cent to £321.9m in its full year results in January, this despite shunning traditional advertising methods, instead favouring social led marketing campaigns. Reaction to the social activity for the Mission Impeccable campaign so far has been going “incredibly well” with thousands of people interacting with the ‘takeover’. “The reason why these worlds work so well is because people can play along, they are not responding to a line they are really in the world,” Nik Roope, executive creative director at Poke (the agency behind the work), told The Drum. “From an imagery point of view we have really gone to town to make this beguiling, highly stylised and slightly retro espionage. It doesn’t feel like a below the line, half-baked quiz mechanic it really feels like the beating heart of the whole thing”. “Tonally this is much darker, but in essence the conceptual approach is the same, Ted Baker has taken a massive step up in ambition, and there is a darker subject matter is leading the way.” The three-minute campaign film, directed by Crowns & Owls, will be released at 2:30pm on the Ted Baker website, Selfridges.com, Nordstrom.com and on YouTube.
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68 Amazon UK launches free restaurant delivery service for Prime members Amazon is looking to take on the likes of Just Eat and Deliveroo as it launches a free one-hour restaurant delivery service for Prime members in London. The company's 'Amazon Restaurants' service will be made available to Prime subscribers and will see the e-commerce giant deliver orders over £15 free of charge via its Prime Now mobile app. Those living at select postcodes in the capital will be able to enjoy food from local restaurants including eastern European specialists Baltic Restaurant and Michelin star Indian restaurant Benares. Planet Hollywood and Strada, are among those which have also partnered with Amazon to bring food to Londoners. Amazon Restaurants was launched in Seattle a year ago and has been rolled out to 14 more cities around the world since. "London offers some of the best cuisine from around the world, so we’re delighted that Amazon Prime customers can now enjoy food from their favourite restaurants via Amazon’s ultra-fast Prime Now service,” said Al Wilkinson, UK head of Amazon Restaurants, Amazon. "Based on our own research into what is important to consumers in food delivery, our team have hand-picked a selection of the best quality local restaurants in London. We’re excited to be helping many of these small businesses start offering home delivery for the very first time. " Amazon's move into the crowded market comes as the supermarket continues to expand what it provides for customers. Earlier this month it launched its Dash buttons in the UK , and rumour has it that is is looking to add a standalone streaming platform and click-and-collect grocery hubs to its offering.
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69 Apple’s tax affairs have not shaken its loyal customer base Last week Apple was ordered by the EU to pay around €13bn (£11bn) in back taxes in Ireland. This news led to a wave of negative press for the tech giant. But has this story damaged the company’s public perception? The BrandIndex buzz score measures whether people have heard anything positive or negative about a brand in the previous two weeks. As may be expected, the general public have seen and heard a lot of negative coverage about Apple in the past fortnight, with its score going from positive territory (5.7) to negative (-2.9). Yet despite falling by 8.6 points in 10 days, this is not even the brand’s lowest buzz score in the past two years. Back in October 2014, when its tax affairs were previously in the news, it saw scores of -14.4, but it quickly recovered. However, with the new iPhone set to launch in the coming days, arguably of more concern to the brand will be the reaction of its current customers to the tax story. YouGov data shows that Apple has traditionally had the most loyal consumers. Fully 85 per cent of iPhone customers thinking about upgrading plan to get an Apple device. Among major competitor brands, an average of 63 per cent plan to stick with their device manufacturer next time around. Yet, the brand’s buzz score among current customers has fallen by a greater amount than among the public as a whole, declining by 14.2 points. That Apple customers are picking up on news about the brand more than the public at large is not a surprise – this is the case with most brands. It should be noted, though, that despite the fall its buzz scores among people who own Apple products are still positive. There have also been declines in current customers’ impression and satisfaction scores, and over the past three months neither score has been lower. However, it must be emphasised that they have declined from an impressively high starting point (+70 and above) and are now merely very high (around +60). So, while those with Apple products have a slightly less positive impression of the brand and are marginally less satisfied customers, they still have an overwhelmingly positive view on both fronts. The most significant figures in the BrandIndex data are current customers’ purchase intent and consideration scores. Consideration measures which brands people would think about buying while purchase intent assesses which brands consumers are most likely to buy next time they make a purchase in the sector. Naturally, consideration scores are usually higher than purchase intent scores. On both fronts, the tax story has had no discernible impact among Apple customers. The average purchase consideration score for the past three months is 65.8 and in the past week it has bounced around between 67.2 and 65.0. Similarly the average for purchase intent is 38.9 and in the past seven days it has been between 37.4 and 40.6. So while the tax story was big news, it has made very little impact upon those people most likely to buy Apple products – its current customers – on the measures that assess whether it is likely to suffer a sales hit. Should its new products not sell as well as previous iterations, it will not be because of its wrangles with the European Union. Sarah Murphy is director of YouGov BrandIndex UK
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70 Why Pernod Ricard is confident spending money on targeted ads despite growing industry unease Pernod Ricard has brushed aside growing concerns that the use of targeting advertising on social media is proving unsuccessful and is instead confident that the tool can help the drinks business to better reach consumers over traditional advertising. The business is continuing to shift its media spend towards digital and has upped its digital across the medium in the UK from 31 per cent to 40 per cent year-on-year in 2016, with a chunk of this focussed on targeted adverts. Speaking to The Drum at the Pernod Ricard 2015/2016 full year results breakfast, UK managing director Denis O’Flynn said that although there is a limit to the amount of data brands can gather and “slice and dice” to see the ROI of targeted advertising on platforms such as Facebook, its tracking tools suggest that the approach is proving successful. “I think there will be a limit to the amount of data that you have and how you can actually slice and dice that data, but certainly all the trends would indicate that the more targeted approach should work better than a blanket post.” Pernod Ricard currently does this based on geographical location as well as by age and profile. For example, if the drinks company wanted to promote its premium scotch brand Chivas, it would look to target consumers living in London or the South East areas. “We work with retailers on targeting and specifically there are certain programmes on sociomantics that we use to absolutely target the consumer…Our percentage spend on that whole area is increasing, how far it goes to replacing traditional media I don’t know, but at the moment the 40 per cent seems to feel about right as we sit at the moment. It’s a case of let’s review it as we go but it certainly is working.” O’Flynn’s comments come at a time when advertisers are starting to question whether they have over-invested in digital. Last month, the biggest advertising spender in the world, Procter & Gamble said that it would be moving away from Facebook targeted advertising after admitting that the technique did not prove as effective as the company thought it would be. Marc Pritchard, global marketing officer at P&G, told the Wall Street Journal that the company would not be cutting back on Facebook ad spending overall, but that “we targeted too much and went too narrow.” He went on to say that P&G is looking to find a balance between getting the most reach with the right precision. While the maker of Absolut and Jameson doesn’t have the same $7.2bn advertising clout that P&G reportedly spent in 2015, digital media is a growing focus for its brands and the company will no doubt be closely watching its effectiveness. As an example, in the UK Pernod Ricard spent 50 per cent more on digital media for Absolut compared to the same period last year. “We are permanently measuring our social media activity. We have social media measuring tools and all of our teams have big screens watching the activity of their brands. All of this is at the heart of what we are trying to do,” said Laurent Lacassagne, chairman and chief executive at Chivas Brothers. “Digital media is very targeted, more than traditional media and secondly it is measurable as long as you find the right KPI. [It is more effective] than an ad in the newspaper when you don’t know who read it or who bought the product.” Elsewhere, Pernod Ricard is exploring how it can apply its recent Internet of Things (IoT) activity with its Malibu brand to other drinks products in its portfolio to bring the “product, experience and consumer all together”. Last month, it dived head long in to the IoT space and rolled out 40,000 NFC enabled Malibu bottles in the hope that it could eventually treat each one as a media buy. Once tapped the bottles allowed consumers to access five different digital experiences including instant win prizes and a holiday to Barbados. “I think that as messaging on product, whether that be to do with the product itself, health guidelines, how to mix it, how to serve it, all of that information is going to be required in the future and I think it’s going to be via some sort of smart technology,” added O’Flynn. Across the business Pernod Ricard is planning to use its staff to become brand ambassadors and is encouraging them to share more content with one another on social media via its partnership with LinkedIn. The move is part of the company’s wider efforts to bolster its corporate image that has already seen its chief executive Alexandre Ricard do more on various social networks.
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71 Singapore marketers on health of industry in the island city state The drum caught up with senior marketers from Singapore to get their take on the countries strengths, weaknesses and the current state of its talent pool Katie Ewer, strategy director, JKR Singapore Optimistic, fearless, competitive... Singapore’s entrepreneurial spirit is evident in the brave brand building that happens here and in the creativity that fuels it. The city may not have hundreds of years of design pedigree like, say, London or Berlin has, but it is only 51 years old after all. Its youth is part of its strength and is the thing that gives it ambition and imagination. I believe Singapore’s only just beginning to find its creative voice and that makes it a really exciting time to be working in the creative industries here. Miranda Dimopoulos, chief executive, IAB Singapore The marketing landscape in Singapore has dramatically changed over the past few years as digital changes constantly along with it. Marketers who are adapting fast and combining digital and data with their marketing efforts are the ones who are excelling in their field. There is also a tug of war at the moment between traditional and new media. This isn’t just in terms of ad spend, but also in mindset. There are brands, agencies, publishers and platforms who are adapting rapidly to meet the needs of our beautifully diverse region through education and inspiration. Those who aren’t making the most of the opportunities in Singapore as a global and regional hub will be far behind. Janice Chan, senior digital marketing director, Starwood APAC There is an increasing sense of urgency, perhaps on the cusp of panic, to get all marketers up to speed with digital. Media is creating buzz about the lack of engagement from consumers and touting that brand marketers are missing the mark on how to truly be prepared in the digital world. Luckily there is a lot of talent and experts who have been in Asia, and especially Singapore, for a while who can help. Singapore has established itself as a hub for tech in Asia. With so many tech-based multinational corporation setting up their Asia Pacific headquarters here, Singapore has grown a lot of Asian market experts and imported a lot of top talent from abroad. Also, the Singaporean government provides grants and support to innovation and startups. Tim Chan, creative director, Govt Cautiously optimistic. The economy isn’t exactly booming, so clients are looking for value. Agencies are struggling to really grow, so everyone’s just slow dancing till things pick up a little more. It’s really a “get it done better but get it done cheaper” mood at the moment. Rosalynn Tay, chief executive officer, Dentsu Aegis Network Singapore Singapore’s marketing scene is very vibrant, especially the burgeoning startup scene. In fact, the startup scene should start looking to get marketing talent to give their businesses a needed boost. Singaporeans are also increasingly moving towards cause-marketing where brands are immersing themselves in conversations around issues that affect the lives of their consumers. The high number of sign-ups for ‘Company of Good’, which the Dentsu Aegis Network is a founding member of, is testimony to this. There’s a lot of room for growth and opportunities and, overall, the mood is very positive. Katie Ewer, strategy director, JKR Singapore As anyone with a moment’s spare time will tell you, Singapore loves to eat. Food and beverage is extremely innovative, fiercely competitive and attracts creative excellence. If you want a world class design for your restaurant, bar or food brand, you could do much worse than to look to Singapore for creative origination and prototyping. There isn’t a better place in the world to test drive a new concept. Miranda Dimopoulos, chief executive, IAB Singapore The ability for multinationals, local businesses and startups to all thrive in the same environment is incredible. Singapore has cemented itself as a great hub for innovation, investment and technology. The country is currently focusing on investing in analytics talent, skills and capabilities, which are all necessary for the smart nation to lead in APAC. With spend in the region increasing exponentially, there is healthy competition to raise the bar, which is a win for consumers and businesses alike. Tim Chan, creative director, Govt We seem to do really well in making the best of what we have, just like the country has historically. In the face of increased client demands, tight budgets and limited media spend, we adapt quite admirably, even if that’s not ideal. The best work in recent years is more commonly the result of trying circumstances rather than sizeable budgets. Rosalynn Tay, chief executive officer, Dentsu Aegis Network Singapore Singapore is an excellent springboard for marketeers. The country provides an excellent ecosystem in terms of infrastructure, financing and governmental support. There are many incubator programs and platforms to test-bed, develop and adapt products especially for startups. Singapore is a digital and mobile country which means technology is advanced enough and constantly improving to provide excellent network connectivity to resources. Singapore and Asia present many opportunity gaps for marketeers to fill in. While a lot of the work is inspired by what’s been done in the US or Europe, there’s room for adaptation in Singapore and eventually Asia. Katie Ewer, strategy director, JKR Singapore Branding is still very young in Singapore and the region – at least versus more established marketing disciplines such as advertising. Partly as a result of the industry’s youth, design is still undervalued by many clients – perceived as something that the printer does, rather than something that effects genuine brand change. Historically, design was something ad agencies offered – and indeed many of them are offering it again, forced into diversification by a fragmented media context and a fiercely competitive market. Singapore has some genuinely famous home-grown design talent, but it should have a lot more. It’s nascent and it’s fragile. How scary. How exciting. Miranda Dimopoulos, chief executive, IAB Singapore One major problem we’re seeing is that many businesses fail to democratize their data or educate their teams outside of research and analytics domains on how to derive insight to drive real results for their businesses. The IAB SG is currently investigating why companies are not harnessing the power of their data and why they remain stuck in traditional organizational structures. For many companies today, data assets are stuck in silos of traditional research and analytics/IT departments. These silos are reinforced by a range of factors, including but not limited to existing talent, roles and responsibilities, hiring plans, profit and loss, vernacular, jargon and office culture. We are in the technological age now, but businesses seem to still be designed for the industrial age. Tim Chan, creative director, Govt Innovation and entertainment. For the former, most clients are understandably nervous about taking a step into the unknown technologically, when there’s so much riding on the bottom line and regional accountability. For the latter, there's a demand for content-based work, but most of them are still just ads masquerading as content. Rosalynn Tay, chief executive officer, Dentsu Aegis Network Singapore Despite Singapore being one of the most connected countries, many companies are still apprehensive about going to digital. Also, female representation: Singapore, south-east Asia’s’s most advanced economy, is behind only South Korea and Japan when it comes to female representation. The general consensus is that companies with females on board tend to see a higher return. A Korn Ferry study of 2014 annual reports in 10 economies found that companies with at least 10 per cent female board members delivered a 14.9 per cent return on equity in 2014, compared to 12.6 per cent for those without. Women also provide more diversity not just in terms of gender, but in their ideas and contributions to the company. There are efforts to increase female board membership in Singapore and it has been on the rise in Singapore, albeit slow. Women’s representation has increased from 8.8 per cent in 2014 to 9.5 per cent in 2015. Katie Ewer, strategy director, JKR Singapore One thing’s for sure – nobody’s going to find that young creative rock star by sitting behind their desk moaning about a lack of talent. Singapore’s a small city with a stupidly high number of agencies, so yes it’s harder here to find good talent than it is, say, in London, New York or Sydney. But there’s no doubting the city’s commitment to nurturing a world class, vibrant creative scene in Singapore. Miranda Dimopoulos, chief executive, IAB Singapore Although we have a great pool of talent in Singapore, the digital industry is constantly changing and so are the skills required to match that. The rules of digital advertising change every year – the metrics, the technology, the buzzwords, the platforms – staying on top is more important than ever. By educating professionals in the digital advertising field, companies operating in the market can compete with regional and international players. The IAB Singapore is working to unlock and challenge talent in the digital space by providing opportunities, training and mentorship from some of the top companies in Singapore and the world. John Hadfield, chief executive officer, BBH Asia Pacific One can never do enough to attract and nurture the very best talent, especially if you want to be a global hub. All interested parties realize that more needs to be done. So it's great to see that government agencies such as EDB (Economic Development Board), category bodies such as the IAS (Institute of Advertising Singapore) and the most enlightened Agencies are all taking action. Tim Chan, creative director, Govt We don't think that fresh talent is a problem. Somehow, there are always enough young grads crazy enough to want to be in advertising. But nurturing them seems to be a long-standing problem. Most agencies and leaders simply don't spend enough time training, mentoring or investing in long-term progression of their people. As a result, there's a lack of talent in the capable, senior end of things, especially creatives. Most simply grow disillusioned and eventually leave. Rosalynn Tay, chief executive officer, Dentsu Aegis Network Singapore At Dentsu Aegis Network we’ve seen really talented professionals, many of whom also have regional experience, so there’s no lack of talent. The answer is to do both – continuing to nurture young talent while being open minded to incoming talent from other markets. Cutting edge work and innovative ideas come from a robust and competitive environment, so the mix is necessary and healthy. I also firmly believe that our young talent has to be given the exposure in a vibrant agency environment. This article was originally published in the Singapore supplement of The Drum and is available for free on The Drum app which can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play. For more news and insights on marketing across APAC sign-up to The Drum's newsletter here .
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72 Georgia Nicols horoscopes for Sept. 7, 2016 Avoid shopping or big decisions from 7:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Chicago time. After that, the Moon moves from Scorpio into Sagittarius. This is an excellent day to discuss practical matters with friends and partners. You might clarify how to approach the division of labor between you and others or how to share expenses. People want to cooperate. They especially want to shoulder their share of responsibilities. It’s easy to get along with co-workers today because they want to be cooperative. Look for ways to help others. In turn, accept help that is offered to you. A relationship with someone older will be warm and possibly even cozy. Dare we say more? (Not a peep.) You will enjoy teaching children today or doing something that is constructive and supportive to kids. Likewise, you will enjoy making vacation plans or doing work that leads to creative projects. A romantic relationship with someone older might begin. You won’t mind working today if you can do something to make your home look more attractive. You want to solidify your home base in a more financially secure way. You also want to create a feeling of a solid refuge for your family. Of course! This is a strong day for writers and people who use their communication skills for work — selling, marketing, teaching and acting. It’s also a good day to state your case about something because you will be reasonable, and at the same time, charming and diplomatic. This is a fortunate day for business and commerce because the vibes are good and practical concerns are strong. You will enjoy buying art objects and things of beauty. However, do make note of the Moon Alert above. Whatever you do will have a long-lasting influence. Take a realistic look in the mirror today and ask yourself what you can do to improve the impression you create on your world. Whatever you come up with will be doable and realistic. If you need to buy something, you will be successful, and at the same time, you won’t go overboard. This is a busy, popular time for you. However, today, if you get a chance, you will actually enjoy working alone or behind the scenes so that you can catch your breath. Research will go well. Some of you might have a secret love affair with someone older. Your relations with friends and members of groups are good today. People will be supportive to you, especially older people. Ask for their help. Furthermore, share your hopes and dreams for the future to see what their feedback is. It could be illuminating. Others might want your creative input on something today — design, layout, furniture arrangement, whatever. Your relations with bosses and authority figures are good today because you appear wise, practical and reasonable, which, for the most part, you are! You’re in a practical frame of mind today, which is why you can take care of the necessary details for future travel plans or big ideas related to publishing, the media, medicine and the law. This is also an excellent day to seek out the advice of someone older regarding getting further education. This is a good day to talk to banks and financial institutions if you want to borrow money or make financial plans. (Check the Moon Alert.) People are impressed with your solid approach to things. They especially like that you want to save for the future. Actor Toby Jones (1966) shares your birthday today. You are self-sufficient. In fact, you have a secret mysterious side. You are excellent at providing advice for others. You are a perfectionist with a gifted imagination. This year you will be a student and a teacher. You will be excited as you start to see the fruits of your efforts for the past six years. Expect your well-earned rewards soon!
2016-09-07 13:11 Georgia Nicols chicago.suntimes.com
73 Dear Abby: Hubby's former fling attends family events Fast-forward three decades. His family, unaware of their illicit and illegal relationship, regularly invites Nicolle to our family functions. They even call her by that pet nickname, unaware of the connotations. Their affair ended years before I met my husband. But whenever she is around, she follows him like a lost puppy. Even though she’s only in her second trimester, her “baby bump” is conspicuous, and it seems people (friends, family and complete strangers) can’t help but comment that she seems “ready to pop.” When they learn she still has many weeks to go, invariably people ask if she’s having twins (she’s not). Her grandmother went so far as to ask for ultrasound photos to prove she’s carrying only one baby. She needs to remember that there is no end to the insensitive personal comments that people make, and that it’s important to keep her sense of humor and keep in mind she’ll have to hear them only for a few more months. He’s not fat, but he’s not thin either. He has gray hair on his chest. It looks awful and it’s embarrassing. To order “How to Write Letters for All Occasions,” send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U. S. funds), to: Dear Abby — Letter Booklet, P. O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and handling are included in the price.
2016-09-07 13:09 Abigail Van chicago.suntimes.com
74 Green Mountain Madness Okay, some might not consider Vermont paradise in January. Deep, white- out winter beauty is not for everybody. But Vermont is indeed a beautiful place of clean, small towns, deep woods, pleasing mountain vistas, and a glorious history. I’ve been to Vermont numerous times, including in January, and have found it simpatico (make that sympathique). For most of its history, Vermont has been populated almost exclusively by self-reliant patriots. But alas, thanks to an invasion of leftists from other states, and young, real Vermonters leaving the state in search of better job opportunities, it has an iffy present and a bleak future. The change has been pretty rapid, as these things are measured. Vermont went from being a reliable Republican win in presidential elections as recently as 1988, to becoming a reliable two to one win for Democrats now. In 2012 Barack Obama beat New Englander Mitt Romney 199,239 to 92,696. Small numbers, so you can see how it doesn’t take long to alter things in a state with a population — 626K and change — that is about half that of the Florida county I live in. For TAS readers who missed it last week, I lift up John Calvin’s “Vermont’s Pride Goeth Before Its Self-Destruction.” It’s not a happy read, but it’s a fair analysis of how leftist carpet-baggers are squeezing the life out of one of the most charming places in the lower-48. They’ve done it in Vermont, as they’ve done it elsewhere, through the usual devices: high taxes, crack-pot left social engineering, and endless nanny-state requirements and government programs that are vile to red-blooded Americanos, but cat-nip to Ben and Jerry’s, PBS tote-bag types who have been invading Vermont in recent years, mostly from New York and Massachusetts. Calvin catalogues some of the more absurd desecrations. As usual, when the left invades, the first to fall are the universities. No different in Vermont. Imagine a three-day guilt trip, pity-party, and nagging session called “Examining White Privilege,” put on at the state-supported University of Vermont. This in a state where more than 96 percent of residents tell the U. S. Census Bureau that they are white. It’s not yet a hate-crime to be Caucasian in Vermont, but the red-hots at UV are working on it. Then there’s the UV women’s basketball team that canceled a game with the University of North Carolina scheduled for this December because folks in that benighted Southern state insist that men stay clear of the ladies’ room. I mean, how can a gal play basketball with a clear conscience knowing that there are no five-o’clock shadows in the women’s loo? (You don’t absolutely have to be clinically insane to be a progressive in good standing. But it makes it easier.) Like Calvin, I too visited Vermont recently (so recently as to have been early August) to reacquaint myself with old friends, many of whom I had not seen since the eighties. The central event of the trip was to attend a 100th birthday celebration for the father of a long-time friend. The do was held in the social hall of a Catholic Church in Alburgh, Vermont, population 503, and right down the street from the Quebec border. Alburgh took no notice of us, even though the 50 or so attendees, mostly from elsewhere, must have tripled the normal Saturday traffic. The guest of honor, we’ll call him George (cuz that’s his name), was an infantry squad leader on Okinawa in the last big island campaign of the Pacific war. There he saw things no one should see. He’ll talk about it if you ask (sometimes if you don’t), and he doesn’t sugarcoat things. He still says “Japs” (and some other stuff that send Ben and Jerry’s types to their fainting couches). He’s entitled. Some call him irascible. I prefer to style him plain- spoken, and a great American. Because when not defending his country in his long and eventful life, he worked enough different jobs to start his own business, to help raise three sons, to pay his bills and his taxes, and to never ask more of his country than he gave it. This was the way of things with most old Vermont stock before the invasion. Most of the attendees, there to honor this worthy patriarch, are themselves Vermonters from generations back. They all hunt, fish, have dogs (the area is the center of the Black Labs Matter movement), and work for a living, for others or at their own businesses, which they built with no help from the carpetbaggers and their onerous government policies. They usually vote for the most conservative candidate on offer, and, to my knowledge, none lives in Burlington or Chittenden County, where most of the invaders congregate. I salute these last-of-the-breed Vermonters, and sympathize with their efforts to keep up the old ways. But as they are made politically and culturally irrelevant, they increasingly feel like remnants. Foreigners in their own state and country. In the late, great Florence King’s phrase, expatriates in situ. Just because it’s almost certainly a lost cause doesn’t make it a bad one.
2016-09-07 13:04 Larry Thornberry spectator.org
75 When Malcolm Muggeridge Met Mother Teresa Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa Sunday. She was a celestial figure to many, for sweating away in Calcutta with “the poorest of the poor.” By that oft-used term was meant the poor for whom a government “poverty line” would be a luxury. Mother Teresa took in street urchins, the hopelessly sick, and the dying — lost souls who were at death’s door. They were the poor that we Americans can hardly imagine. For the most part, one has to travel to the slums of “backward” countries to encounter them. I first became aware of Mother Teresa when, in the early 1970s, I became friendly with Malcolm Muggeridge, the uniquely eloquent British journalist armed with a satirical style and biting wit. By the time I knew him he had become a major figure on the BBC, a memoirist whose memoirs had gained international literary acclaim, and a champion of Mother Teresa. In the 1930s he, a minor figure on the international left, had blown the whistle on communism as practiced in the Soviet Union, even before George Orwell. His colleagues in the British press did not welcome his revelations. His filings from Russia and Ukraine were making life difficult for them to practice their trade in Moscow, for he was exposing the famine in Ukraine that Stalin insisted did not exist. Good old Walter Duranty filed stories in the New York Times from Moscow reporting that there was no such famine, much as in late 1984 — just before the Soviet Union went belly up — John Kenneth Galbraith reported the Russian economy to be humming along brilliantly, Moscow’s department stores brimming with goods and its streets crowded with gleaming new vehicles. The piece, published in the New Yorker, continued with this gem: “[T]he Russian system succeeds because…” Duranty won a Pulitzer for his reportage. Galbraith is still honored in Academe as one of the 20th century’s premier economists. Muggeridge is pretty much forgotten now, but he was not in the early 1970s. By then he had produced a BBC documentary on Mother Teresa along with other BBC documentaries on religion and ancient times. He wrote books about her and he appeared frequently in America on the lecture circuit and on television. Bill Buckley featured him on his show, Firing Line. Malcolm had by then given up on communism thirty years before, and in the 1960s he gave up on pot, zoo sex, and other excesses of the 1960s youth culture, soon to be 1970s adult culture, then the culture. He was a somewhat unlikely champion of Mother Teresa. He himself was a reformed participant in his generation’s bohemian excesses but remained a rude and raucous contrarian. Still he adored the saint of the Calcutta slums. “Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me,” was one of her favorite sayings he said, and he tried to live the same way. Following her he lived simply, abstemiously, and prayerfully. Taking Malcolm to a chic restaurant could present problems. I blame it all on Mother T. He quoted her often, marveling at how she got supplies to what became a series of convents in 138 countries. At the time of her death in 1997 her order, the Missionaries of Charity, included thousands of religious, mainly women, intent on serving the poorest of the poor. “The Lord will provide,” she told Malcolm, though she did keep Ronald Reagan’s telephone number on her Rolodex along with doubtless the numbers of countless other world figures. In the last days, as her fame spread she acquired critics. Some medical experts who questioned her facilities’ hygiene, local Calcuttans who suspected her of giving their city a bad name, right-wing Hindus who believed she was intent on converting their co-religionists, feminists who think abortion is the true Eucharist. Her answer to all of them was as it had been for earlier critics, “We are not social workers, not teachers, not nurses or doctors; we are religious sisters. We serve Jesus in the poor. Our life has no other reason or motivation. This is a point many people do not understand.” For days now I have been reading all the commentary about this singular woman of God. Of course, I also have been thinking of my old friend Malcolm who had spent so much time with her. Yet one comment I cannot fathom. It came from Pope Francis. He said on Sunday: “She made her voice heard before the powers of this world, so that they might recognize their guilt for the crime of poverty they created.” “Their guilt?” “The crime of poverty they created?” Who is his Holiness talking about, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, the corner pickpocket, members of the local drug cartel, George Soros? Could someone send the Vatican a book on economics, with the statistics about the reduction of world poverty over the last thirty years? Much of it has been achieved with market economics. As Steve Moore has written so many times, free market capitalism has done more to alleviate poverty in the world than any other system known to man, including charity.
2016-09-07 13:04 R. spectator.org
76 Planned Parenthood Fights (and Loses) Battle to Limit Parents’ Sex-Ed Rights Late in July, Alaska state Rep. Wes Keller’s (R- Wasilla) House Bill 156 was passed into law, enabling parents to opt their children out of standardized testing and other activities, classes, and programs they find objectionable. HB 156 also requires schools to notify parents of any curriculum involving sexual behavior and to make the curriculum available for parental review. Keller said he worked harder on passing this bill “than any bill I’ve ever worked on.” “The reason is because of the intense opposition by Planned Parenthood,” Keller told me in an interview. “The Planned Parenthood group is claiming they got 4,800 people to call the governor to encourage him to veto the bill. That kind of opposition has an impact.” Why is Planned Parenthood so against giving parents a say in what their children learn? Why does the organization, which has “parent” in its very name, so distrust parents to raise their own children and have them taught as they see fit? Planned Parenthood is afraid that by giving parents a choice in what their children learn, parents will opt Planned Parenthood right out of existence. Planned Parenthood receives half-a-billion dollars from the government each year, funding they’re afraid they’ll lose if parents are empowered to control their children’s education — thanks to laws such as HB 156. After the Alaska Legislature passed HB 156 earlier this summer, Susan Reeves, “a parent and grandparent of students in Alaska public schools,” wrote an op-ed in the Alaska Dispatch News urging Gov. Bill Walker (I) to veto the bill “to keep Alaska healthy.” Reeves wrote, “The need for sex education in Alaska is clear. We lead the nation in rates of chlamydia and are near the top in rates of gonorrhea. We are well above the national average on teen pregnancy.” Leading the nation in chlamydia, gonorrhea, and teen pregnancy after years of sex education training in the schools? Keep up the good work, Planned Parenthood. Reeves goes on to lambaste HB 156 for making sex ed “the most rigorously regulated subject in the state, applying an unfair level of scrutiny present in no other part of our education system.” Does Reeves want our children to be taught any old thing about human reproduction by anyone who feels compelled to take the reins? Parents should be informed about and involved in every aspect of what their children learn. Is Reeves afraid parents will learn too much about what their children are actually being taught? What are sex educators hiding? Kansas parent Mark Ellis made national headlines in in 2014 when he found out his middle school daughter was being taught about “oral sex,” “anal sex,” and “masturbation” in her public school. Ellis’s discovery sparked national outrage and brought attention to explicit materials students are exposed to in public schools. The controversy also inspired a bill that is intended to make it easier for parents to protect their children from information they consider harmful. “This heavy burden is meant to do only one thing: stop sex ed for students in Alaska,” Reeves wrote. “HB 156 would institute some of the strictest standards on sex ed in the country and leave young people uninformed and at risk.” Reeves is wrong. If sex ed for students in Alaska is stopped, it’s because parents made the choice to educate their children about sex how, when, and in what manner they see fit—without interference from an organization with a very clear agenda. If Planned Parenthood is doing such an exemplary job in Alaska, Ms. Reeves and Planned Parenthood have nothing to fear. But judging by the panicked reaction they had to the passage of HB 156, I believe Planned Parenthood does indeed have something to fear.
2016-09-07 13:04 Teresa Mull spectator.org
77 Conservatism’s Loss: The Passing of Phyllis Schlafly “Conservative Activist Phyllis Schlafly Dead At 92- one is not supposed to speak ill of the dead. So no comment then,” tweeted out former tennis star Martina Navratilova on Monday night. Even in death Phyllis Schlafly threatens and unnerves feminists. Such vicious tweets are a twisted tribute to her effectiveness as a foe of liberalism and speak to a political relevance that remained until the end of her life. The liberal elite often joins Tom Brokaw in waxing nostalgic about the patriotism, virtues and dignity of the “greatest generation” but deplored them in Phyllis Schlafly, whose life testified to that generation’s values. An engine of activity into her nineties, Schlafly continued to work after even some of her Baby Boomer feminist critics had retired. The irony was lost on them that she embodied their slogans about “leaning forward” and “having it all” better than they did. She put family first and work later and enjoyed a life rich in both. Many of them put work first and delayed family and ended up with neither. Caricatured as an enemy of “choice,” she simply proposed rational ones, which took into account real differences between the sexes. “I consider you a traitor to your sex,” Betty Friedan said to Schlafly in a debate, as many of the obituaries recall. “I’d like to burn you at the stake.” Amidst the ruins of modern feminism, many of its disillusioned acolytes would like to hurl a similar epithet at Friedan. The liberation that she promised them hasn’t come and created a new and deeper form of unhappiness. Schlafly had predicted this disillusion, saying that the feminism of Steinem and Friedan would create far more problems than it solved. “A lot of people don’t understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it’s not that at all,” she once said. “It is about power for the female left.” It is not concerned with the good of women, she said, but with pushing an ideology that amounts to a “fight with human nature” that falsely calls differences between men and women “just a social construct.” As America reels in disorientation from the new world of transgender bathrooms, gay marriage, and women in combat, the wisdom of her lonely and successful struggle against the Equal Rights Amendment deserves newfound appreciation. She saw it all coming and delayed it for decades while many Republicans sat on their hands. In Republican politics, she threw out an anchor that stopped the drift of the party toward an embrace of abortion rights. The sturdiness of the party’s pro-life plank is due in no small part to her persistence. And long before the rise of the Tea Party and Donald Trump, she had put her finger on the problems of insecure borders, the loss of national sovereignty, and imperial courts. She wrote countless columns and books on these subjects (I wrote one with her on Obama’s assault on religious freedom), many of which were dismissed as “alarmist” even as their warnings came true. In a rare perceptive comment from the mainstream media, the Atlantic Monthly traced her enduring relevance to a refusal to accept “progressive consensus” as a fact before which all must bow: “While some progressives may believe their worldview will inevitably dominate American politics, Schlafly’s achievements are a cautionary tale for the self-satisfied: Just when you might have thought you won the political battle, some nice lady from Illinois might set her social-security card on fire on national television, and the outcome might be anyone’s guess.” Schlafly popularized the politics of common sense. The energy of the Trump campaign largely derives from that kind of populism disdained by elites. (Typical of Schlafly’s indefatigable career is that a book which she co- authored with Brett Decker and Ed Martin, The Conservative Case For Trump, appeared a day after her death. In the media’s lengthy obituaries about her — the New York Times oddly said that she displayed a “moral ferocity reminiscent of the ax-wielding prohibitionist Carry Nation” — one can almost hear the liberals breathing a sigh of relief. They view her with an admixture of fear, admiration, and contempt. They assume the principles to which she drew attention are now passé in the “fundamentally transformed” America of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. But as the failures of liberalism multiply, her legacy is more likely to grow. The truth never completely goes out of fashion, as she understood, and while the elite may discard it, the people inevitably turn back to it for warmth.
2016-09-07 13:04 George Neumayr spectator.org
78 She’s Leaving on a Jet Plane of Her Very Own I cannot stop thinking about Hillary’s new plane. So many questions, so many hypocrisies, my head feels like a chicken cooking on a rotisserie just thinking about it. They say imitation is the best form of flattery and Hillary is the great imitator, so enjoy your Mini-Trump. But before we start, I think it’s important to note that anytime someone gets a new plane it’s of paramount importance that it be named. Since Trump is already taken, and Mini-Trump is too tacky, and since you Ms. Hillary don’t have one creative bone in your body, I think it would be a great public service if I offered you a naming suggestion. The most obvious suggestion, to me at least, would be Con Air, but let’s get back to the obvious questions and sickening hypocrisies. Who exactly is paying for Con Air? I don’t begrudge anyone getting something new, but since you represent the 99 percent and have adopted so many of Bernie Sanders’ fiscal and social platforms, exactly who flipped the “Bill” for this? Don’t kid yourselves folks, this is a huge issue. I want to know where the money came from. I’m assuming it’s not a plane time share. Who’s paying for the fuel? And that leads to the next issue. What about that little climate change and carbon footprint thing you guys love to talk about? Did I miss the memo that there are now electric and hybrid planes? Do you realize how many people’s educations you could have paid for with that plane? How many lives could have been saved had that money been given to the Clinton Foundation. Think of all the starving children that could have been fed with how much Con Air costs. I also find it extremely racist that your plane is white. Think about that missed opportunity for pandering. Are you not well enough to travel by existing means? Is there perhaps a makeshift hospital room in the back of that plane? It’s just curious as to why now? I mean, seriously, could you imagine the uproar if Donald Trump started to dress like a condiment. I’m really not into conspiracies. I don’t think Elvis is alive. I know we landed on the moon, but this plane thing is just all too suspicious. But the media is just all too happy with that comfy seat. So why even ask? Is Bill allowed on the plane? Are there only male flight attendants? Not that Bill discriminates, but is he allowed to go to the bathroom unattended? Again, who paid for this plane, and why is not one liberal asking this question? All of you Bernie supporters, does this not irk you in the slightest? All you climate change fanatics, HELLO. Let’s be clear, Hillary getting a plane is the definition of hypocrisy, and it’s sickening, and my suggestion to Mr. Trump is that he use this for all the frequent flyer mileage points he can. Or in this case frequent flyer favors. By the way, who decorated that plane? Is a blue motif Hillary’s best backdrop, or do the seats’ colors change with her different condiment attire, or is it mood color? I don’t begrudge Hillary for getting a plane. I think it’s great that others can afford for her to have one. I just don’t want someone who has their own plane to ever talk about the ills of the wealthy. I don’t want someone who has their own plane to ever preach the gospel of climate change and the damaging of an ice cap somewhere. Hey, obviously Hillary needed her safe space, or sterile room, and since reporters won’t ask out of fear of being ejected, and you know there is an ejection button, aka “the Bill button,” on that plane, it’s left to us common folk to wonder, and ask. But, I’m going to ask everyone, not just conservatives, whose plane would you rather be on, Trump Air or Con Air?
2016-09-07 13:04 Judah Friedman spectator.org
79 Texas Hides Behind Its Bottles It’s been a busy summer for booze-related litigation in Texas. I’ve written previously about the successful challenge by craft brewers to a 2013 law that makes them give away their distribution rights, and about a challenge to an overbroad interpretation of regulations preventing alcohol distributors from owning stock in grocery-store companies that sell alcohol. Now, a new alcohol-related regulatory controversy may be headed to the Supreme Court. This case involves a theme that has otherwise been much in the news: protectionism. The Constitution greatly limits states’ legal ability to favor in-state businesses at the expense of out-of-state businesses. Opposition to this kind of internal protectionism was one of the main motives behind the crafting of the Constitution in the first place. Laws that treat in-state and out- of-state businesses differently are subject to judicial scrutiny under the so- called “dormant” meaning of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause. When it comes to alcohol, however, things are a bit more complicated. Before Prohibition, federal legislation limited the ability of states to put special restrictions on out-of-state alcohol companies. Courts held repeatedly that, while a state could ban alcohol sales altogether, it couldn’t ban out-of-state sales while leaving in-state sales legal. Then Prohibition happened, and the whole issue became moot. Soon, however, the country came to its senses, and replaced the 18th Amendment (authorizing Prohibition) with the 21st Amendment. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th, obviously, but it also preserved the right of states to enact alcohol prohibition if they wished. Section 2 of the 21st Amendment states as follows: Section 2 has created a fair amount of controversy over the extent to which state alcohol regulation is exempt from the ordinary anti-protectionist scrutiny under the Commerce Clause. In Granholm v. Heald, for example, the Supreme Court struck down a pair of state restrictions that made it effectively impossible to import wine into Michigan and New York. On the other hand, the Supreme Court also indicated that it was legitimate for a state to maintain a “three-tiered” system for alcohol (where the manufacture, distribution and sale of alcohol must each be handled by different entities) and suggested that a state could require alcohol distributors to be in-state businesses. As a result, the legality of interstate alcohol sales often turns on arcane technicalities. My wife recently celebrated her birthday and one of her presents was a gift card for an online wine retailer. When she went to redeem the card, however, she found out that the site was prohibited by Texas law from selling to her. She was understandably indignant. The ambiguity involved in the law is best illustrated by a Texas case that may be headed to the Supreme Court. Twenty years ago, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals enjoined a Texas law imposing a one-year residency requirement for companies that seek a distributor’s license. This law, the court found, served only a protectionist purpose and so violated the Commerce Clause. In the wake of Heald, though, the Texas Package Store Association sued to reopen the case, arguing that the court had only applied scrutiny to laws discriminating between in and out-of-state manufacture of alcohol, while allowing discrimination for distribution. The Texas Package Store Association has now asked the Supreme Court to take the case, which could provide some much needed clarity to this area of the law (or not; the Supreme Court is like that sometimes). Regardless how the Court rules, these sorts of protectionist rules need to go. As with so many other parts of the code, arcane rules designed to favor one set of businesses over another do a disservice to the vast majority of Texas consumers. This column previously appeared on the R Street Institute blog.
2016-09-07 13:04 Josiah Neeley spectator.org
80 Hillary and Obama Want to Make Dying Even More Expensive If Hillary Clinton wins the election, a lot of bad things will happen on taxes, not least of which is a big hike in the death tax. Hillary wants to apply the death tax to smaller estates and raise the tax rate to 45%, which means that when you count the state estate taxes, the government will take more than half of many ranches, farms, and businesses. Apparently, this will ring the bell for tax fairness. It gets worse. The Obama administration doesn’t even want to wait for the election in November. The Wall Street Journal reports this week that Obama is seeking a “stealth death tax increase” by using its executive authority to change the death tax rules. As the Journal explains: Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is up to his usual tricks, trashing established interpretations of tax law to bypass the legislative branch. Not even Mr. Lew has the gall to claim he can raise the federal death-tax rate of 40% without congressional approval. So the game here is to contrive ways to expose more of the value—or imagined value—of an estate to IRS revenue collectors. Last month Mr. Lew’s Treasury announced a proposed rule to close what it calls an estate and gift tax “loophole.” Until now, the IRS permitted realistic values for portions of closely held corporations and partnerships. It’s not clear how much money this will raise from a parent’s estate, but raising money may not even be the purpose here. The goal of the death tax is to confiscate wealth. This news comes on the 100th anniversary of the estate tax, which has become the unfairest tax in the IRS catalog of revenue raisers. Donald Trump gets this. He wants to eliminate this tax because a lifetime of paying income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, dividend taxes, capital gains taxes, payroll taxes, and employee taxes should be enough. Almost every small business association in America agrees and has endorsed the Trump plan. Many small business owners who want to pass their family legacy on to their kids and grandkids (what is wrong with that?) tend to be asset rich but cash poor, meaning that although their businesses may appear quite valuable on paper in many cases they lack the cash to shell out 40% of a business’s’ value to the IRS when the parent owner dies. When the kids don’t have the cash on hand to pay a sizable tax bill on their parents’ life savings, they must sell off equipment or land, lay off workers, and in the worst cases dissolve the family business to pay Uncle Sam’s ransom. What a travesty. Sell the farm to pay the taxes to Uncle Sam! Amazingly, this tax raises almost no revenue. In 2014 the estate tax collected – hold on to your hats – 0.43% of all federal revenues. It raises less than the government spends every 48 hours. To get that tiny morsel of revenue, the tax does substantial damage. When the death tax is high, two things happen. First, really rich people like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates engage in complicated and costly estate tax planning with the best lawyers money can buy to avoid paying the tax. Both Gates and Buffett put billions into a massive charitable foundation, run by family members, in part to avoid death taxes. So the super-rich almost always find ways around this sinister tax. It’s the smaller businesses without clever tax accountants that get clobbered. A 2010 report found that the life insurance industry collects almost as much as the government does per year from the perpetuation of the death tax. No wonder Warren Buffett, who owns seven life insurance companies through his behemoth Berkshire Hathaway, is seen cheering on Hillary’s calls for taxing even more businesses at an even higher rate. According to the same report, the Buffett life insurance cabal funded a perky public relations campaign to retain the death tax. He lobbies for a tax he finds every loophole to avoid. Hillary Clinton may be the biggest hypocrite of all. She says the Trump plan is a tax break for millionaires and billionaires like him. Yet Hillary and Bill have gone to great lengths to shelter their own fortune from the death tax, by using sophisticated trusts and moving their New York home into the Clinton Foundation to shield it from taxation, according to a Bloomberg analysis, all while pushing for higher death taxes on small businesses. The Clintons want one set of tax laws for the rest of the country while they and their friends skate free under a separate set of rules. Family businesses owners who are too busy sweeping up the shop floor or herding cattle to mount a coordinated national public relations response are collateral damage. Five Democratic members of the Senate including Sens. Wyden (D-OR), Murray (D-WA), Nelson (D-FL), Feinstein (D-CA), and Manchin (D-WV) have previously voted to abolish the death tax. Senator McConnell would be wise to bring the House-passed bill to the floor this fall to put Senators on the record again. Meanwhile voters don’t buy into the liberal death tax raid. The public is overwhelmingly in favor of Mr. Trump’s plan to kill the death tax. Consistently 60-70 percent of voters when polled favor full repeal of the federal estate tax. New polling this year by YouGov, the same pollster used by the liberal New York Times, has shown that voters from purple Virginia, to red South Dakota, to blue Washington state support repeal (66 percent, 74 percent, and 56 percent respectfully). Voters maintain a strong instinctive feeling that no person should have to visit the grim reaper and the tax man on the same day. Also, most Americans may not be rich, but most want to be rich, and if they get there, they don’t want the government helping itself to half the spoils. Even Hillary’s Veep pick, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia gets it. Upon the elimination of the Virginia death tax a few years ago, he beamed: “I applaud lawmakers for repealing Virginia’s estate tax. This action protects family- owned small businesses and farms, and helps keep the Commonwealth competitive with more than two-dozen other states that have already taken this action.” He should educate his running mate. Even socialist Sweden and formerly communist Russia have abolished their estate taxes because these nations realized the tax was hurting their economy. It’s a sad day in America when the Swedes and the Russians have a less confiscatory tax system than the land of the free.
2016-09-07 13:04 Palmer Schoening spectator.org
81 WATCH: An artist worth his salt Pretoria - The discovery of spilled salt in the storeroom of a shop gave birth to an art form that has brought fame for a Pretoria artist. “I was working as a merchandiser at a retail outlet. One day I walked into the storeroom and I was bored as hell,” Percy Maimela says. "I saw salt on the ground and I had an idea.” He was determined not to let a lack of materials like pencil and paper, or brushes and paint, stop him. Using salt and the ground is like using pencil on paper, he says. “If you give me black ash, or call me to the moon without my pencil, I will use whatever I find to make it work.” He realised in primary school that he was more skilled at art than his classmates. “I remember in Grade 3, my drawing was more advanced than my classmates’. When they would draw a one-dimensional picture, I would draw a two-dimensional one. I kept practising until I reached a certain level and now I have to push myself to another level,” Maimela says. Since he first discovered “ground art” two years ago, he has had many requests, from individuals and companies, to demonstrate his talent. He did a portrait of anti-apartheid activist Lilian Ngoyi for News24. It took him about 30 minutes. He found a picture on the internet and started by sprinkling salt to create the eye. Some of his portraits take 15 minutes, others over three hours. Art allows him to see the world through God’s eyes. “For me, art opens up my eyes and imagination regarding the beauty that exists in life and also provokes my emotions,” he says. Maimela plans to travel the world to teach people to make a living creating art. “I want to open my own gallery and teach people how to make a living out of art, rather than relying on the old methods where we go to school, become workers, retire, and die. I left my job to pursue art and enjoy my life,” he says.
2016-09-07 13:03 www.news24.com
82 I don't want to see where my hand no longer is - Kosie Polokwane - Kosie Wessels' wounds are healing but he does not want his bandages to be removed. The 7-year-old boy "does not want to see where his hand was amputated", his mother Caroline Strydom told Netwerk24 . It will take four weeks to determine whether he can get prosthesis, Netwerk24 reported. His hand was amputated on Saturday after it was blown off by a firecracker. Kosie found the cracker in his sister's bedroom. He held it in his left hand and lit it with his right. The hand was left hanging by a piece of skin after the explosion and could not be saved by doctors. He also sustained burn wounds to both arms and his stomach. Doctors say his wound would have to heal completely before they can look into getting him a prosthetic hand. Mediclinic Limpopo, where the little boy is recovering, gave him a certificate of bravery for progressing so well. Members of the public have donated money for his treatment at the hospital. Strydom, who wrapped her own shirt around her bleeding son's hand after the accident and stopped a car to beg for a ride to the local provincial hospital, had to see a counsellor on Monday to help her through the traumatic experience. She said the doctors might send her son home on Wednesday. "I don't know when he will be able to return to school. The doctors said other kids might bump into him and his stump could start bleeding again. "
2016-09-07 13:02 www.news24.com
83 Wounded LAX agents recall chaos as shooter pleads guilty LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Speer had just helped a shell-shocked passenger run away from a gunman at Los Angeles International Airport and thought they were in the clear. That’s when Speer, an officer with the Transportation Security Administration, watched as a bullet ripped through the calf of another passenger. “A split second before I could say, ‘Oh my God,’ I felt boom, boom in the back and upper left arm. I was thrown forward from the blast,” said Speer, who ran wounded into a convenience store amid the chaos. Speer hid behind a pillar as the gunman moved through the terminal, asking people if they were TSA agents and letting them go when they said no. The gunman, Paul Anthony Ciancia, pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez and 10 other charges stemming from the Nov. 1, 2013, attack motivated by anger over the security measures imposed on airline passengers. Speer, another TSA agent and a teacher survived gunshot wounds. Ciancia, 26, showed no emotion during the hearing as survivors and Hernandez’s family members cried listening to prosecutors describe the attack in detail. The bespectacled, soft-spoken Ciancia was spared the death penalty by entering the plea. But he faces a mandatory term of life in prison on Nov. 7. “I’m satisfied,” Speer said. “Unfortunately we can’t bring Gerardo back, but this is probably the next best thing.” The other agent who survived, Tony Grigsby, said the sentence was fair and brings closure to his family, which includes a mother and a sister who are also TSA agents at the same airport. “He caused a lot of pain to a lot of people,” Grigsby said. “I’m never going to get back my friend. I’m never going to get back the moments that I lost to this man making this decision.” But, he added, a life sentence is much easier to secure than the death penalty. Had Ciancia chosen to go to trial, he would have faced overwhelming evidence, including a note he wrote about the attack, receipts for the gun and ammunition he bought to carry it out, and surveillance video that all but captured the entire incident. Ciancia first used a semi-automatic rifle to fire on Hernandez, who was manning a document-screening podium. He wounded the 39-year-old father of two before he headed up an escalator to the main security area. When he turned around to see Hernandez moving, he returned and fired more shots at point-blank range. Hernandez was hit 12 times in all and died. Ciancia then returned to the upper level, where terrified passengers and TSA agents were running for their lives. Police shot and wounded Ciancia in the food court, hitting him four times. Officers found a duffel bag Ciancia dropped that had 500 rounds of ammunition inside and a handwritten note saying he wanted to kill TSA officers for treating Americans like terrorists. “I want to instill fear in your traitorous minds,” the note said. “I want it to always be in the back of your head just how easy it is to take a weapon to the beginning of your Nazi checkpoints.” Ciancia, an unemployed motorcycle mechanic living in Los Angeles after growing up in Pennsville, New Jersey, signed the note with his name, adding underneath, “Pissed-off Patriot.” Hernandez’s wife, Ana Machuca, declined to comment after Ciancia’s hearing. But she told The Associated Press last week that no sentence would bring peace for her family. “My husband died, and my children lost their father,” she said. “There isn’t anything anyone can do for us.” Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
2016-09-07 12:53 By Associated mynorthwest.com
84 Alaska pot regulators poised to approve retail licenses JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The board regulating Alaska’s fledgling legal marijuana industry is expected to approve licenses this week for the state’s first retail marijuana outlets. The state’s Marijuana Control Board also is expected to discuss whether certain retail stores will be given permission to have areas where customers can light up — a key issue since tourists and others would otherwise be prohibited from doing so in public. Here is a look at where Alaska stands on marijuana sales: Q: WHAT’S HAPPENED SO FAR? A: Regulators have been writing rules for the industry since last year, after a voter initiative approved recreational use of marijuana by those 21 and older. The Marijuana Control Board has approved about 50 licenses for marijuana business operators so far, but no licenses have been approved yet for retail outlets. Starting Wednesday, the board will consider dozens more license applications, including requests from people who want to open stores to sell marijuana and those who want to manufacture marijuana products. Q: WHEN WILL I BE ABLE TO BUY MARIJUANA AT A RETAIL STORE? A: That’s not clear. Retail stores should open by year’s end, but the timing will depend in part on when stores have a supply of marijuana approved by laboratories that is legal for sale, said Cynthia Franklin, director of the state Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office. The marijuana board has focused first on licensing people to grow marijuana and the labs that will test it. The next step is to approve the retail outlets and product manufacturers. Q: WILL ALASKA ALLOW POT CAFES? A: That is one of the biggest unanswered questions that the Marijuana Control Board has before it. Earlier this year, it proposed allowing cannabis shops to sell marijuana for use at the shops — like bars sell alcohol. But the board retreated from that stance in July after one member expressed concerns and proposed a narrower plan that would allow people to buy marijuana products to smoke, inhale or consume in food, like a brownie, in an authorized store and go into a separate area to partake. They would be allowed to take resealed unused portions with them. The board has been trying to find a way to accommodate tourists. Public consumption is banned except for in authorized stores, and the proposed rule for onsite use has yet to be finalized. Franklin said many people who have submitted comments on the proposal oppose allowing people to smoke marijuana in authorized stores. If Alaska approves allowing people to consume marijuana in the stores, it would be among the first U. S. states approving recreational pot use at retail marijuana outlets. Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
2016-09-07 12:52 By Associated mynorthwest.com
85 Crime against women: These 5 acid attack cases shocked the nation With Ankur Panwar being convicted for murder in the Preeti Rathi acid attack case, which took place in Mumbai in 2013, we look at five acid attack cases in India that were shocking in every sense. Preeti Rathi: The incident occurred on May 2, 2013 when Preeti alighted from the Garib Rath Express at Bandra Terminus. A man who had covered his face with a handkerchief came forward and flung acid on her face. Preeti had gotten a job as a Lieutenant in Indian Navy. She came to Mumbai to join in the INHS Asvini, the naval hospital at Colaba. Ankur’s mother used to visit Preeti’s house, as they are family friends. As her own son was unemployed, she used to taunt him and compare him to Preeti. This caused Ankur much anger. Ankur was a hotel management graduate from a private university in Orissa and spent a huge amount on his education. Yet, he was jobless and his parents’ taunts got to him. Ankur Panwar (face covered) Ankur’s mother came to know that the Preeti’s salary would be around Rs 50,000. She taunted him on his inability to get a job. This angered him a lot. Hence, he decided to vent his fury on Preeti. Ankur stole battery acid (sulphuric acid) from the nearby office of Delhi Electricity Supply Undertaking. His mother had told him that Preeti was taking the Garib Rath to Mumbai on May 1. He got into the train without a ticket and was searching for the right moment to throw the acid at her. As soon as Preeti got down at Bandra Terminus, he tied a handkerchief to cover his face and attacked her. Jerrit John Aryanka Hosbetkar: On November 6, 2012, Jerrit John (46), the owner of the No Nonsense, a production house, allegedly flung acid at his former girlfriend, city-based cyclist, Aryanka Hosbetkar (27) at her residence in Worli with a corrosive chemical in the presence of her mother and friends. According to the prosecution, John fled the scene after attacking Hosbetkar. She suffered injuries on her eye and tongue, but she was later discharged from hospital on the same day. Prior to the attack, their relationship was strained after Hosbetkar found out that Jerrit was married and had a five-year-old son. On November 11, 2012 John was arrested by Dadar police station and was booked under sections 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 379 (theft), 341 (wrongful restraint), 452 (trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint). The charge of attempt to murder against John was added by police after eleven days. He was convicted in October 2015. Haseena Hussain: Back in 1999, Haseena was an 18-year-old B. Com. student, and a computer professional in Bengaluru. When he was in her first year of graduation, she got a job in a software centre, which was run by a former Indian Air Force employee named Joseph Rodriguez. After the company began running into losses, Haseena left the job. Joseph was adamant on having her back in his company, but she refused to stay on. The snub is said to have hurt Joseph’s ego. On April 20, 1999, Haseena left her house at Jalahalli in Bengaluru. At around 8 am, when she reached the office gate, a motorcycle-borne man splashed acid on her face with a jug on her and sped away. Haseena lost her eyesight, and was bed-ridden for nearly 10 years. In addition, the attack left her with a hole in her head and her nose while one of her earlobes was dissolved together. Laxmi: In 2005, a 16-year-old Laxmi was attacked by a man more than twice her age, after she rejected his advances. The attack took place in the crowded Central Delhi area during daytime. The spurned man, along with his brother's girlfriend, approached Laxmi, and threw acid on her face. Following the attack, Laxmi was left with disfigured face, ears, hands and chest. Instead of losing heart though, she has since turned into a social activist, who works for the welfare of acid attack victims. Meena Soni: Meena was married off at the age of 16 in Lucknow, and soon after their wedding her husband quit work. Meena later became the breadwinner of the family as they had kids as well. But, this hurt her husband’s male ego, and they would have constant fights over the issue. In 2004, after 15 years of their marriage Laxmi’s husband poured acid on her face while she was asleep, and then himself committed suicide. Meena suffered 75 per cent burns on her face. She, however, picked up the pieces, and is now working for undertrial women in jails.
2016-09-07 12:44 By mid www.mid-day.com
86 Cheteshwar Pujara can't spot googly with pink ball Greater Noida: India's Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara (nicknamed Chintu) on Monday raised a few concerns like "picking the googly", "spotting the seam" while batting against pink ball under lights during the Duleep Trophy game between India Blue and India Green. Cheteshwar Pujara Pujara scored 166 off 280 balls for India Blue and batted long enough to air his observation on the topic. "This was my first game with the pink ball, enjoyed batting on this wicket, not much help for the fast bowlers. The most difficult session was the third one, under lights, when they took the second new ball, it moved about, it came on faster. So I think the third session is the most difficult one," Pujara told official broadcasters Star Sports. "Even when I was facing spinners, it was very difficult to pick the googly, under lights. A little difficult to pick the seam on the pink ball," the 28-year- old added. Pujara was disappointed to get out for 166.
2016-09-07 12:44 By PTI www.mid-day.com
87 Mashaba insists things are not as bad as they have been made out to be in Bafana Mashaba gave the impression at the post-match press conference for Bafana’s 1-0 Nelson Mandela Challenge victory against Egypt on Tuesday night of being oblivious to the tide of opinion — public‚ and reportedly in the corridors of Safa — turning against him. If Mashaba had a good PR manager‚ they would have advised the coach to admit to the mistakes made in Bafana’s failed 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign that ended with a whimper with Friday’s 1-1 draw against Mauritania in Nelspruit. And to profess that there was a plan to rectify those errors for the World Cup 2018 qualifiers that start next month. This is what the South African public needs to hear as Bafana sit at yet another crossroads‚ with Safa apparently in two minds on whether to give Mashaba a chance to replicate his 2015 Afcon qualifying success for Russia 2018‚ or go another route. Instead‚ Mashaba‚ confronted with the possibility that his future as Bafana coach might be in question‚ was defensive‚ claimed there was no problem‚ and pointed again to the supposed scoring problem — one that was somehow overcome reaching Afcon 2015. The coach was asked what he had learnt from the games against Mauritania and Egypt‚ given they served as preparation for the Russia 2018 qualifiers. “I don’t want to keep repeating this thing of failing to score because one of the biggest journalists says I have been talking about this thing since I was employed‚” Mashaba replied. “Mauritania — we created more chances than them. But we couldn’t score. We missed a penalty. “And missing penalties does not just happen with Bafana. One of the world stars — Roberto Baggio — he hit the birds. Not even near the goal. “And the second thing we learnt is: have a big heart. We were all over Mauritania but they never gave up. “Against Egypt‚ I told you we were playing against one of the highly tactical sides [in Africa]. You saw it. “Fortunately we scored from a cross — it shows something is happening. But we lack shooting. Those are the things we learnt in these two games.” The official stats for the Mauritania game were that there were six shots on goal‚ three from either side. Mashaba appears to continue to miss the point that it was his admitted refusal to research the opposition that has been pointed to as the biggest reason Bafana failed to reach Gabon 2017. “In all the games that we played — indicate one‚ tell me which game‚ except the one in Mauritania‚ that we played badly in?” he questioned. “We are happy to say that we need to work on something. But we are happy with the boys’ performance — there is just nothing that we need to worry about except the scoring of goals. “We qualified for the 2015 Nations Cup when we were only two months old in the team. “We raised false hopes and people thought we had arrived. “Not having qualified [for 2017] was not our wish. Unfortunately it didn’t go well. With time we will make sure that we qualify.” Mashaba was pleased at the performance against Egypt. “If I had to talk about the match I would say what a great performance again from our players‚” Mashaba said. “The good thing is we scored an early goal‚ and consolidated for the entire 90 minutes. “A good thing is we have roped in young players. And all six to seven of them played very well. “But there are those few things that we need to work on – the question of when we lose the ball. It becomes a problem – we find ourselves wanting. “But most unfortunately‚ again‚ those are things not to be addressed in the national team. Those things need to be addressed at club level.” Should Mashaba be called to a meeting with Safa this week‚ he will need a far more convincing argument. At the very least‚ to admit that something has gone wrong and needs to be put right. He might address the apparent lack of faith — by their last two performances on the field — his players seem to now have in their technical team. For if he’s not convincing‚ Safa might have cause to believe that this is not the man to take Bafana through a winnable World Cup qualifying group.
2016-09-07 12:44 Marc Strydom www.timeslive.co.za
88 Ricky Ponting feels let down by Australia's loss to Lanka Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting is unhappy with his country's comprehensive 0-3 whitewash by Sri Lanka in the recently-concluded Test series in the Emerald Isle and said today he was particularly disappointed that it came against an inexperienced home side. Ricky Ponting "I was disappointed with the result. I think the most disappointing thing for me was the fact that it was a very young, inexperienced Sri Lankan team as well and they were able to beat the Australian team very comfortably," Ponting told reporters here on the sidelines of the launch of the BSchool Flagship five- day Residential Executive Leadership Programme in Tasmania in 2017. "The conditions were very challenging, but as Australian players now you know that those are the sort of conditions you are going to confront when you go anywhere in the sub-continent. I was really happy and pleased to see them bounce back in the one-dayers the way they did," said the two-time World Cup winning captain. Australia were thrashed by 106 runs at Pallekele in the series opener and slumped to bigger defeats - by 229 and 163 runs in the second and third Tests at Galle and Colombo, unable to counter the guiles of left-arm spinner Rangana Herath, who grabbed 28 wickets at a measly 12 runs per victim. Ponting said the Aussies have a lot of work to do if they aimed to do well against India when they tour this country in the New Year. Australia were thrashed 0-4 on the last trip in 2012-2013. "They play India in India pretty soon as well. So if that group of players think they can compete here (India) then they have a lot of work to do, both technically and the way they approach those conditions," he remarked. "It is always going to be the biggest hurdle for the Australian players to play the spinning conditions well and it is probably something that we never mastered. We might have never mastered those conditions, but, say around 7 to 10 years ago, we managed to be ultra competitive," Ponting said. "I still believe this current group of Australian players are good enough to win in the sub-continent. They just have to tweak their game a little bit, maybe think about their approach a little bit differently and I am sure they can win here," he added. The former Australia skipper felt that India's Test captain Virat Kohli led the team in the same manner in which he batted, aggressively. "I can see the way that he plays, it comes through a little bit through in the way he captains the side. He is very aggressive, wears his heart on his sleeve and is animated. That's the way he bats and that's the way he captains because that's his personality," Ponting said. Ponting, who has been the head coach of Mumbai Indians in IPL for the past two seasons, said he could not single out the reason for Rohit Sharma's modest show at the Test level as compared to his outstanding ODI figures. Rohit, the only batsman in the history of the game to hit two double centuries in ODIs including a world record high 264 -- averages 42 in the 50-over format and 32 in Tests. "I have seen Rohit up very close. I have worked exceptionally hard on his batting and his leadership around the team. He is one of the nicest people that I have met in the game and is one of the most talented people I have seen in the game. (But) I still haven't been able to put a finger as to why he hasn't been able to really dominate red ball cricket like he has with the white ball," Ponting said. Ponting, who scored 13,378 runs with 41 hundreds in 168 Tests averaging over 51, sounded optimistic that Rohit can improve his Test record. "I know he is a determined young man and he works hard at his game and if he keeps working as hard as he does with the talent that he has, then I think he can actually become a very good Test player for India," said the Tasmanian.
2016-09-07 12:39 By PTI www.mid-day.com
89 Coast Guard's Last Lightkeeper Looks to 300- Year Milestone A singular lighthouse and its unique keeper are celebrating a milestone. Boston Light, the nation's first and oldest lighthouse station, turns 300 on Sept. 14. Sally Snowman, the Coast Guard's last resident keeper, is helping with celebrations. Events are planned for downtown Boston's waterfront and other parts of mainland Massachusetts. The lighthouse's beam — visible for 27 miles — will even be ceremonially re-lighted at sunset. "How many things established 300 years ago are still functioning as they were intended to be? " Snowman said to a reporter making a recent visit. "It was a major aid to navigation in 1716, and that's exactly what it's doing today. For me, that's mind-boggling. " The 65-year-old former college instructor has been keeper for 13 years and is the light's first female keeper. The Coast Guard has phased out resident keepers at all light stations save for Boston Light because Congress in 1989 mandated the Guard specifically staff and keep the light public in perpetuity. Snowman, dressed in the Colonial dress and bonnet she wears on lighthouse tours, said she loves the solitude her job often affords. "Island living is something that suits my personality," she said. "I'm an introvert by nature, and I've always been able to entertain myself. It's no problem to just leave me here. Just airdrop my food, and I can stay here forever. " Snowman and her husband, James Thomson, a volunteer assistant keeper, live on Little Brewster Island from April to October with a rotating cast of volunteers, some of whom also spend nights on the island which is about nine miles from downtown Boston. Boston Light has been a central part of Snowman's life. The Weymouth resident, who holds two doctorate degrees and taught at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts, started volunteering there over 20 years ago and became a paid civilian employee in 2004. She and Thomson married on the island in 1994 and have written three books about the lighthouse. A spiritual person who drums, chants and meditates on the island, Snowman said she often senses spirits and other ghostlike presences. It's not surprising, she said, since Boston Light's first two keepers drowned and many more perished in nearby shipwrecks over the years. Snowman also believes she was a keeper in a past life. "The first time I went up there, I just felt like I had done it a thousand times before. There was just something intuitive about it," she said of the lighthouse tower, which was built by the British, destroyed by them during the Revolutionary War and rebuilt by the new American nation in 1783. Time on the island is roughly divided between busy tour days and quieter weekdays. Friday through Sunday, guided tours swell the roughly 3-acre island's population. More than 200 people visit or work there on a given summer weekend, Snowman said. Monday to Thursday, Snowman and a pair of volunteers typically do routine cleaning and maintenance in the 89-foot lighthouse tower, as well as the keeper's residence, fog signal building, cistern building and boathouse. "We're in a marine environment, so we need to keep on top of things," Snowman said. But even with the regular routine, she admitted, it's easy to slip into island time. "Everything is done just a little bit slower. If it's really hot in the middle of the day, we take a siesta. We work earlier in the day or work later into the evening," Snowman said. "We don't have the hum of the mainland, the cars and the noise level of humanity. What we have is the wind and the sea and seagulls. " ——— Follow Philip Marcelo at twitter.com/philmarcelo. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/journalist/philip-marcelo
2016-09-07 12:38 By abcnews.go.com
90 Four bodies of children found in Bihar Patna : Bodies of four minor children were found near a road at Lakhisarai district in Bihar on Wednesday. The bodies belonged to two male and two female children who are yet to be identified. The incident created sensation and panic among local residents, police said. "We have recovered bodies of four children aged between 18 months to four years from near Kiul-Bichwe road after receiving information from locals here," a district police official said. Hundreds of people gathered at the site in Lakhisarai as the news spread. Police have registered a case and started investigation.
2016-09-07 12:37 By PTI www.mid-day.com
91 91 HC questions DDCA's move against Justice Mudgal New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Monday asked a top official of Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) and its advocate why contempt proceedings be not initiated against them for making comments in a letter accusing Justice Mukul Mudgal of "deliberately and willfully disobeying" judicial orders appointing him as an observer to oversee the functioning of the cricketing body. The High Court was aghast as DDCA President SP Bansal and advocate Gautam Dutta, who has given legal opinion, were contemplating moving a contempt petition against Mudgal, retired Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court, for allegedly breaching its order by overseeing the administration of the DDCA. Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Deepa Sharma took note of the submissions of Justice Mudgal's counsel that Bansal and Dutta have deliberately interpreted wrongly the interim orders relating to the former judge to show that he has only been asked to oversee the holding of matches at Ferozshah Kotla and was never assigned to interfere into other affairs of DDCA. "Prima facie it amounts to contempt of court's order. It is aimed at obstructing the court's proceedings. Notice is issued to advocate Dutta and Bansal for their replies on as to why contempt proceedings be not initiated against them for interpreting the court's order," the bench said.
2016-09-07 12:34 By PTI www.mid-day.com
92 2 men shot in Chatham Two men were wounded in a Chatham neighborhood shooting Tuesday night on the South Side. The men, ages 31 and 38, were standing on the sidewalk at 8:55 p.m. in the 700 block of East 79th Street when someone inside a yellow car nearby fired shots in their direction, according to Chicago Police. They both suffered gunshot wounds to the legs, police said. The younger man was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, while the older man was treated at Jackson Park Hospital. Both of their conditions were stabilized.
2016-09-07 12:33 Ashlee Rezin chicago.suntimes.com
93 Badminton tourney: Abhishek Kulkarni, Neha Pandit emerge champions Winners of the Maharashtra Senior State Selection badminton tournament Abhishek Kulkarni (left) and Neha Pandit (extreme right) pose with their trophies along with MLA Aslam Shaikh Neha Pandit and Abhishek Kulkarni clinched the women's and men's singles titles respectively in the 2nd Maharashtra Senior State Selection badminton tournament held at the Goregaon Sports Club. In the women's title clash, the second seeded Neha beat Shruti Mundada 21-17, 21-15 to win the women's crown. In the men's final, Abhiskek defeated Arijeet Bose 17-21, 21-9, 21-17. Meanwhile in the men's doubles final, Abhidnya Sawant and Prasad Shetty outclassed Eshan Naqvi and Varun Khanwalkar 21-11, 21-8 to emerge victorious. Manasi Gadgil and Mrunmayi Saoji won the women's doubles crown by beating Bhagirathi Sharma Bande and Ishani Savant 21-10, 21- 14 in the final.
2016-09-07 12:32 By A www.mid-day.com
94 EPL clubs obsessed with making money: Paul Scholes London: Former England midfielder Paul Scholes claims many Premier League clubs are so obsessed with making money they are sacrificing the quality of football being played on the pitch. Paul Scholes The 41-year-old said he would rather watch his National League North side than the English top flight. In an extract published by the Guardian from new book Class of 92: Out of our League, former Man United player Scholes said: "I don't find elite football as interesting to watch, especially in England. "There needs to be a real step up in quality in England. Other than Sergio Aguero, Kevin De Bruyne and David Silva, we don't have the best players. "I enjoy watching Salford more. But I genuinely get more enjoyment from watching even my son's team, Royter Town. It's just entertainment. "
2016-09-07 12:31 By PA www.mid-day.com
95 Kush shines in Cambridge's 5-0 win over St Joseph's Kush Govil scored a hat-trick as Cambridge School (Kandivli) hammered St Joseph's High School (Orlem) 5-0 to seal Last-16 berth in the Divisional Sports Office's Mumbai Suburban (Taluka) U-14 football tournament at St Francis D'Assisi High School ground (Borivli) yesterday. In other matches, Aaron Pinto's brace helped Don Bosco High School (Borivli) beat Swami Vivekanand International School (Borivli) 3-0 with Miraj Salunke scoring the opening goal for the Bosco outfit. Vibgyor High School (Goregaon) beat Ryan International (Malad) 1-0 via a goal for Karm Mulchandani.
2016-09-07 12:29 By A www.mid-day.com
96 PV Sindhu: Ready to shoulder responsibility in absence of Saina Nehwal PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal. Pics/Sayyed Sameer Abedi India's Rio Olympics silver medallist PV Sindhu is willing to shoulder the responsibility in the absence of the injured Saina Nehwal in the upcoming opens. Saina, who recently underwent a surgery of the right knee, is expected to be out of action for the next three months. "Definitely, now after my silver, responsibilities will be high. I have to work harder and harder to achieve more in the coming years. This is just the beginning. I have to be a little more focused," Sindhu told reporters during a media interaction after the felicitation ceremony yesterday. After becoming the first women to clinch silver at the Olympics, Sindhu is happy with the way the government has been awarding athletes who not only have won laurels but also have achieved commendable feat at Rio. "It's a very good motivation for many of them. In the coming years there will be many more players coming out," she said. Sindhu heaped praise on her coach and also her parents P Vijaya and PV Ramana, who were present at the event. "It is because of Gopi sir's hardwork and sacrifice that I am here today. I started playing at the age of eight and a half, and they (parents) are volleyball players. They didn't question my move to play badminton. It is also because of their support and motivation that I am here," she said.
2016-09-07 12:28 By Noel www.mid-day.com
97 DSO TT: Srushti powers RA Podar's victory vs Jai Hind Srushti Haleangadi Bespectacled Srushti Haleangadi played a stellar role in RA Podar Junior College (Matunga) 3-1 win over Jai Hind College (Churchgate) in the girls' U-19 final of the Divisional Sports Office's Mumbai table tennis tournament. Srushti won both her singles by beating Payal Bohrao and Vidhi Dhoot of Jai Hind.
2016-09-07 12:28 By A www.mid-day.com
98 Time to focus on my future, says Sushil Kumar "Whenever my country will provide me with an opportunity to wrestle, I will have to do well," says Sushil Kumar, the man of steel from India's wrestling alliance. The two-time Olympic-medallist — whose demand for a trial to pick the right candidate for the 74kg category bout in Rio Olympics raised eyebrows (leading to rejection) — has been nominated for Padma Bhushan. "I have resumed training in New Delhi," he says with shining eyes. India wrestler Sushil Kumar is determined to leave the past behind. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar His poise and artwork that vanished from the wrestling canvas is likely to be in the revival mode. "You all know what happened during the Rio episode, the world is aware what Indian wrestlers went through. There were a few people who stood by me. Today, once again I feel the love is back, India is with me. Hence, I thought it's time I focus on my future and forget about Rio," adds Sushil, whose name for the same honour was discarded two years ago. However, Sushil learnt his lessons from the Rio fiasco. "I should have abided by the federation and played in the matches they asked me to (including Pro-Wrestling League). Had I done that, I probably wouldn't have faced what I did. People said I was competing with Narsingh Yadav but that's not the story. I stood for him and I will always support him. He is my mate. Nonetheless, none of us could participate in Rio. I don't think that was a right decision," says Sushil, the only Indian athlete to have won two medals at the Olympics — bronze in Beijing (2008) and silver in London (2012). A few days ago, Yogeshwar Dutt — Sushil's friend and accomplice — redefined sportsmanship. The Indian wrestler donated his London Olympics medal (upgraded to silver from bronze) to the family of the deceased wrestler, Besik Kudukhov, the actual winner of the silver medal. The incident, which occurred in the 60kg freestyle event four years ago, suddenly turned heads. "I salute Yogeshwar for his gesture. Kudukhov was a world champion. What is the point in bringing up his dope test after these years? Four years is a long time. He wasn't caught then and today, he is no more. I have shared rooms with Yogeshwar, he kept India before everything else," says Sushil, who also praised Sakshi Malik and PV Sindhu too. "I met both of them and told them to maintain the continuity. The medals should be repeated. They saved our nation's honour by bagging the medals at the right time," he adds.
2016-09-07 12:27 By Wriddhaayan www.mid-day.com
99 Rafael Nadal to lead Spain vs India in Davis Cup Madrid: Rafael Nadal has been named in Spain's Davis Cup team to play India in their world group play-off tie in New Delhi on September 16-18. Fifth- ranked Nadal, who was upset by France's Lucas Pouille in the US Open on Sunday, will be joined by 13th-ranked David Ferrer for singles duty with Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez slated for doubles. Rafael Nadal. Pic/AFP "The return to the team of Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer is the big news of the Spanish team which will travel to India for the play-off," the Spanish tennis federation announced on Tuesday. Nadal added the Olympic doubles gold to his 2008 singles crown last month after being forced out of Roland Garros and Wimbledon because of a wrist injury. The 30-year-old Spanish superstar -- a 14-time Grand Slam champion -- suffered a shock 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (8/6) fourth round exit in the US Open to 22-year-old Pouille. His early elimination, however, boosted his chances of a return for Davis Cup duty for the five-time champions against three-time runners-up India. It will be the third meeting between the two countries and first since 1965 with Spain leading 2-1.
2016-09-07 12:25 By AFP www.mid-day.com
100 Central matters: Cubs chasing division history down stretch MILWAUKEE – Even with Tuesday’s loss, the Cubs are on historic pace in NL Central play this season. Their 38-17 (.691) mark against division foes – the best intra-division record in baseball – would be the best in the NL Central since division play was expanded in 2001 with the unbalanced schedule. In fact, their .691 percentage would rank third all-time in the 23 rd -year division, in range of the 1995 Reds’ record of .714 with 21 division games remaining. “It’s the reason why we’re so far ahead,” second baseman Ben Zobrist said. Dexter Fowler and the Cubs are trying to catch the 1995 Reds for best division record in NL Central history. And you don’t have to look that far back in history to see the importance. Last year, the Cubs (97 wins overall) and Cardinals (100) both went 46-30 in the division. The Pirates roasted almost everybody they played outside the division but lost the division title by two games because of a 34-42 record against Central opponents. Not that even the Cubs saw this coming when the season started. “At the start of the season, I would have thought it would have been tighter come this time of the year,” Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist said. “If you were basing it off last year, you would have said, `Man, it’s going to be the same.’ But it hasn’t been the same as last year.” The Cubs can make it unlike any year in the division before, if they do well enough in their final five against the Brewers, six against the Cardinals, six against the Reds and four against the Pirates. 2016-09-07 12:24 Gordon Wittenmyer chicago.suntimes.com
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