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Total 100 articles, created at 2016-05-08 00:12 1 Reuters: World News - powered by FeedBurner MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican drug boss Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman has been moved from a jail in central Mexico to... 2016-05-07 18:49 624Bytes feeds.reuters.com (1.06/2)

2 ‘Benevolent dictator? There’s no such thing’ President Benigno Aquino III on Friday warned Filipinos that there is no such thing as a “benevolent dictatorship,” which is what Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, the front- (1.03/2) runner in 2016-05-08 00:11 8KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 3 LIVE updates: Donald Trump's visit to Washington Donald Trump is speaking in Spokane. He will make his way northwest to Lynden later for a second rally In Spokane, Trump supporters outnumbered protesters 2016-05-08 00:11 (1.02/2) 906Bytes mynorthwest.com 4 Saudi Arabia Ousts Longtime Oil Minister Saudi Arabia on Saturday announced the ouster of its long-serving oil minister as part of a larger ongoing government shakeup. A royal decree announced that Ali al-Naimi has (1.02/2) been replaced by former Health Minister and Saudi Aramco board chairman Khaled al- Falih. Al-Naimi has long been a... 2016-05-08 00:12 4KB abcnews.go.com 5 Canada's Fort McMurray wildfire 'to double in size' A huge wildfire which has devastated the Canadian oil town of Fort McMurray could (0.01/2) double in size over the next 24 hours, as evacuations continue. 2016-05-07 22:40 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 6 Yahoo - Yahoo Statement Regarding Starboard Announcement

(0.01/2) --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- today noted Starboard Value LP's announcement of its intention to nominate nine director candidates for election to Yahoo's Board of Directors at the company's 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The Board's will review Starboard's proposed director nominees and respond in due course... 2016-05-07 21:39 4KB investor.yahoo.net 7 Binay: I will win with more than 15 million votes Vice President Jejomar Binay on Saturday said he would win with more than 15 million votes in the May 9 polls. In an interview with reporters after his miting de avance along 2016-05-08 00:11 4KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 8 Mr. Bean joins Mr. Bean-nay Clutching a teddy bear, the man in a business suit and red tie walked into a restricted area behind the stage, seemingly out of place amid a sea of blue shirts. While he could be 2016-05-08 00:11 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 9 February Freeze Decimates the Peach Crop in Northeastern US The peach crop in much of the Northeast was decimated by sub-zero temperatures in mid-February in what one fruit tree expert describes as the Valentine's Day massacre of the peach blooms. Fruit tree field specialists say New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts lost 90... 2016-05-08 00:11 4KB abcnews.go.com 10 Far Right Rally Against Merkel's Migrant Policies in Berlin About 1,000 right-wing extremists and others protesting Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policies squared off with about 4,500 counter-demonstrators outside the Berlin chancellery on Saturday, chanting slogans at one another but being kept at a wide distance by police in full riot gear. ... 2016-05-08 00:12 2KB abcnews.go.com 11 Cairo Court Expels Diplomats From Hearing on Regeni Adviser An Egyptian appeals court expelled diplomats, journalists and family members from a hearing on Saturday over whether to extend the detention of a rights campaigner who had been advising the family of an Italian student found tortured to death in Cairo. Ahmed Abdullah, the head of the... 2016-05-08 00:12 3KB abcnews.go.com 12 5 Elderly Holdouts Fighting Closure of Assisted-Living Home The stately dining room at this once-bustling old-age home has been emptied, its floors ripped up. The tiny general store's shelves are barren, and the exercise room has gone silent. No one is leafing through the books of the library or digging into... 2016-05-08 00:12 7KB abcnews.go.com 13 Professor’s airplane math didn’t equal airplane threat An Ivy League professor said his flight was delayed because a fellow passenger thought the math equations he was writing might be a sign he was a terrorist. 2016-05-07 23:56 2KB www.washingtontimes.com 14 How Alaska’s population might change by 2045 Alaska’s population will continue to climb over the next 30 years, inching closer to the 1 million mark, a new report says. 2016-05-07 23:53 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 15 1 dead after shooting involving Florida deputies A handful of protesters gathered Saturday at the scene of a fatal deputy-involved shooting in St. Petersburg. 2016-05-07 23:53 2KB www.washingtontimes.com 16 Meth bust in Douglas County A Douglas County sheriff’s deputy pulled over a 2004 Lincoln Continental last month on I-20. 2016-05-07 23:42 853Bytes www.ajc.com 17 Injured veterans compete in Invictus Games at Disney World After suffering a noncombat injury during a motorcycle accident in 2014, Gabby Graves- Wake found herself at a crossroads during her recovery and rehabilitation. 2016-05-07 23:42 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 18 Man caught up in child porn crackdown gets prison sentence A New Jersey man swept up in a state child pornography crackdown is now headed to prison. 2016-05-07 23:42 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 19 Deputy, suspect wounded in southeast Oklahoma shootout Authorities say a McCurtain County deputy and a hit-and-run suspect were wounded in a shootout near Broken Bow. 2016-05-07 23:42 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 20 Poe attacks admin bet anew for ‘asking her to withdraw from running’ (UPDATE) Senator Grace Poe attacked the administration party anew on Saturday night, this time for allegedly trying to stop her presidential bid and now asking her to withdraw from the 2016-05-07 23:41 4KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 21 No mega blocks on Western Railway and Central Railway Main line After a very long time there wouldn’t be a mega block at least on the Western Railway and the Central Railway too wouldn’t be carrying out mega block on their Main line 2016-05-07 23:37 2KB www.mid-day.com

22 Center for Individual Freedom 'No Bankruptcy for Puerto Rico' | Campaign 2016 The Center for Individual Freedom released this ad on April 22 urging voters to oppose chapter 9 bankruptcy for Puerto Rico. 2016-05-07 23:27 898Bytes www.washingtonpost.com 23 Miss. State student dies in fall from stadium video board A Mississippi State University student died early Saturday after falling from atop a video board at the school’s football stadium, landing on a concrete structure roughly 20 feet below, the local coroner said. 2016-05-07 23:26 2KB www.washingtontimes.com 24 Tavares Mayor arrested on domestic violence related charges Tavares Mayor Robert Wolfe was arrested after his wife says he hit her and fired a gun. 2016-05-07 23:26 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 25 New equipment to speed up Great Plains Health lab results New equipment is expected to speed up laboratory results at Great Plains Health in North Platte. 2016-05-07 23:18 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 26 Binay asks Aquino to protect sanctity of ballot, uphold democracy Vice President Jejomar Binay on Saturday made an appeal to President Benigno Aquino III to protect the sanctity of the ballot and uphold democracy, the very legacy left behind by 2016-05-07 23:01 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 27 Jet Airways plane skids off runway, all passengers safe A Jet Airways aircraft with 66 passengers and four crew onboard skidded off the runway after landing at the Indore airport on Saturday evening 2016-05-07 22:58 1KB www.mid- day.com 28 German Jews call for dismissal of self-declared Jew-hating pastor Mushrooming anti-Semitism in Bremen. 2016-05-07 22:49 5KB www.jpost.com 29 Two killed as wall collapses in Mumbai; FIR lodged Two labourers were killed aafter a wall of a building collapsed in Kanjurmarg's Karvenagar in northeast Mumbai on Saturday, an official said 2016-05-07 22:43 1KB www.mid-day.com 30 North Korea Congress: Kim Jong-un praises nuclear tests North Korean leader Kim Jong-un opens the first party congress in decades by praising his country's nuclear achievements. 2016-05-07 22:39 718Bytes www.bbc.co.uk 31 Eyeless in Gaza The highest-paying jobs in Gaza are as diggers of Hamas attack tunnels. 2016-05-07 22:19 5KB www.jpost.com 32 Wits honors Esmé Berman for contribution to S. African art Berman said her graduation day had been “engulfed in hospitality, excitement and good wishes – hundreds of emails and Facebook messages.” 2016-05-07 22:03 5KB www.jpost.com 33 No holds are barred as Israel battles for a one billion dollar defense deal Defense Ministry officials hope that after the two years of relative stagnation in weapons sales, the figures will rise in 2016. 2016-05-07 21:26 9KB www.jpost.com

34 National Green Tribunal raps Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has come down heavily on the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) after it alleged that the group that had approached the panel were publicity seekers who used 5-year-old children to protest 2016-05-07 21:13 1KB www.mid- day.com 35 Stars light up last day of Poe campaign Celebrity endorsers showed up on Saturday at the miting de avance of Sen. Grace Poe’s team at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila. Among the stars who joined the final sortie of Partido Galing at 2016-05-07 21:12 1KB entertainment.inquirer.net 36 One Congress and 2 MNS corporators join BJP in Mumbai After several corporators from avrious political parties formally joined the Shiv Sena recently, one corporator from Congress and two from MNS defected and joined the BJP on Saturday 2016-05-07 21:04 2KB www.mid-day.com 37 Maine Sunday Telegram Business Those talks ultimately failed when the team confirmed Wednesday that the Pirates are being sold and will be moving to Springfield, Massachusetts, for... 2016-05-07 19:48 7KB www.pressherald.com 38 David Cameron under pressure to end tax haven secrecy PM faces call to force British territories to adopt anti-corruption laws after Panama Papers scandal 2016-05-07 20:54 7KB www.theguardian.com 39 UAB: Running back Greg Bryant dies after shooting in Florida WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — UAB running back Greg Bryant was shot and killed Saturday in South Florida, the school said. He was 21. Bryant, a former Notre D... 2016-05-07 20:51 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 40 Papal envoy preaches peace at Baltic NATO base Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin (L), Lieutenant-Colonel Francisco Dionísio, Portuguese Air Force Detachment Commander(C) and Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas (R) visit with the Portuguese Air Force, on May 7, 2016 2016-05-07 21:30 3KB www.digitaljournal.com 41 These beasts are beauties: India holds bovine beauty pageant Even beasts can be beautiful. 2016-05-07 18:38 2KB www.washingtontimes.com 42 Trump Rally prompts tougher law for blocking traffic The Arizona Legislature has passed a bill prompted by protesters who blocked roads before a March rally for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump. 2016-05-07 18:38 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 43 National Association of Convenience Stores Show 2015 – Las Vegas, Nevada National Association of Convenience Stores Show 2015 – Las Vegas, Nevada - Brenda Hyatt, Chief Editor/Journalist Donald Scelzo, Photographer Las Vegas, NV (Oct) The National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) Show was held... 2016-05-07 21:35 3KB worldnewsvine.com 44 Bosnia's 16-Century Ferhad Pasha mosque re-opens Thousands of people attend the re-opening of a 16th-Century mosque in Bosnia- Herzegovina which was destroyed during the war of the 1990s. 2016-05-07 22:40 2KB www.bbc.co.uk

45 Philippines election: Final rallies ahead of vote Candidates in the Philippines presidential election hold rallies in the capital Manila ahead of Monday's vote. 2016-05-07 22:40 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 46 'Solar kids' become paralyzed each night Contact WND (WVIT) The two brothers have come to be known as the “solar kids” and their case has completely mystified Pakistani doctors. Ages 9 and 13, the boys are normal active children during the day. But once the sun goes down, they both lapse into a vegetative state — unable to move or talk. Javed Akram, […]... 2016-05-07 08:52 1KB www.wnd.com 47 Fort Bend ISD police mistake middle schooler's $2 bill as counterfeit, investigate Fort Bend Independent School District police thought an eighth grader's $2 bill was counterfeit, prompting an investigation. Officers found out the bill was genuine when they took it to a nearby bank. 2016-05-07 15:32 2KB www.chron.com 48 World's worst airline, North Korea's oddball Air Koryo, is still in business The worst airline in the world flies regularly to only four or five destinations, departing from the despotic nation of North Korea. 2016-05-07 22:59 2KB www.chron.com 49 TV-radio listings: May 7 Col. volleyball NCAA beach semifinals truTV 2 p.m. Col. volleyball NCAA men's final ESPN2 7 p.m. Golf Wells Fargo Championship Golf noonCBS 2 p.m. Horse racing Kentucky Derby undercard NBCSN 11 a.m. Horse racing Kentucky Derby NBC 3 p... 2016-05-07 22:59 2KB www.chron.com 50 Five more local educators have been inducted into the Henderson County Education Foundation’s Hall of Fame, for special contribution to local education. KMorgan 1233 posts 2016-05-07 22:59 8KB www.thetribunepapers.com 51 Jeremy Corbyn hails 'incredible' victory of Bristol's new mayor Marvin Rees Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn hailed the election of Marvin Rees as mayor of Bristol describing his victory as "incredible". Mixed race Mr Rees, 43, was electe... 2016-05-07 20:44 5KB www.dailymail.co.uk 52 404. Page Not Found - Bloomberg Unfortunately, this page does not exist. Please check your URL. 2016-05-07 22:36 1004Bytes www.bloombergview.com 53 Man fires shot into bathroom when person took too long Contact WND (WVIT) Vernon police have arrested a man accused of firing a gun into a bathroom because he thought someone was taking too long using the facilities. Around 3 a.m. on Sunday, police were called to the Portico 1 Villa Apartments, 142 Vernon Ave., in the area of apartment #80 for a report of a highly […]... 2016-05-07 20:38 1KB www.wnd.com 54 The Latest: Bill easing dark money rules passes House The Latest on a bill that would ease rules on anonymous political spending (all times local): 2016-05-07 20:38 2KB www.washingtontimes.com 55 Shampooing hair without license could end in jail Contact WND (Forbes) When Tammy Pritchard was a young mother, shampooing hair provided much- needed income and even helped put her through college. Today, this part-time police officer wants to wash hair at a beauty salon operated by her friend in Tennessee. Unfortunately for Tammy, unlicensed shampooing is a crime, punishable by up to six months in jail. […]... 2016-05-07 20:38 1KB www.wnd.com 56 Jamie Vardy reflects on a special season for club and country Jamie Vardy's season and his role in Leicester's title has been so magnificent he says he could easily have been playing under a spell. 2016-05-07 20:36 6KB www.independent.ie 57 Locals need to step up, says Baguio For Alaska to equalize the best-of-7 Finals series on Sunday, the local supporting cast must be there for import Rob Dozier. Cyrus Baguio said that part of the Aces' undoing in their 2016-05-07 20:35 2KB sports.inquirer.net 58 US 'a better place than when I graduated by almost every measure', says Obama President Barack Obama said the US is "a better place today" than when he graduated from college more than 30 years ago, citing his historic election as "one indicator of 2016-05-07 20:31 6KB www.independent.ie 59 AGILA CARNIVAL 2015…Consolidating the Idoma Cultural Assets & Values AGILA CARNIVAL 2015…Consolidating the Idoma Cultural Assets & Values - By Ehis Agbon – Abuja, Nigeria-Wednesday 21 October, 2015 The Agila carnival organization has announced the kick-off of programmes for the 2015 Agil... 2016-05-07 21:35 3KB worldnewsvine.com 60 The New Cabal At NNPC | Kachikwu Superintending Over Corrupt Staff As IPMAN & AMFSON Gear Up For Mega Showdown. The New Cabal At NNPC | Kachikwu Superintending Over Corrupt Staff As IPMAN & AMFSON Gear Up For Mega Showdown. - Corruption at the NNPC, over the years, seems to be defiling all interventions by successive administrations in Nigeria as our investigation have revealed... 2016-05-07 21:35 5KB worldnewsvine.com 61 Vernon Davis, NFL players spoof fantasy players in 'Inside Amy Schumer' skit Vernon Davis, Michael Strahan, Tommy Bohanon and Greg Olsen had some fun with fantasy players on a skit for Comedy Central's 'Inside Amy Schumer.' 2016-05-07 20:29 3KB espn.go.com 62 Handless girl, 7, wins national handwriting competition Contact WND (ABC News) Virginia first grader Anaya Ellick, 7, has such good handwriting, she beat out 50 other youngsters from around the country to win a national handwriting contest. If that’s not impressive enough, Little Anaya was born without hands. “There is truly very little that this girl cannot do,” principal Tracy Cox of Greenbrier Christian […]... 2016-05-07 20:28 1KB www.wnd.com 63 Rule of law takes hit in court's order to commit perjury Contact WND In a case with major implications for free speech and due process, an appeal by Doreen Hendrickson, a mother jailed last year on “contempt of court” charges for refusing a federal court order to perjure herself, was officially denied. The court claimed that it did not... 2016-05-07 20:28 17KB www.wnd.com 64 Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán transferred to prison near US- Mexico border Sinaloa crime lord moved from maximum-security facility near Mexico City to prison across the border from El Paso, while lawyer remains baffled by decision 2016-05-07 20:28 3KB www.theguardian.com

65 Unions hail scrapping of English academy plans Teaching unions welcome a decision by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to scrap plans to make all state schools in England become academies. 2016-05-07 19:18 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 66 Watch out for nightmare traffic in Atlanta this weekend: Roadwork, closures to avoid | Spinning our Wheels Take a look at the list of this weekend’s planned roadwork and lane closures around metro Atlanta’s interstates, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation. Click here to get real-time updates on traffic conditions around the metro area Follow @AJCWSBTraffic on Twitter to get those... 2016-05-07 21:34 1KB commuting.blog.myajc.com 67 Bangladesh: Sufi Muslim murdered by suspected extremists A Sufi Muslim leader is hacked to death in Bangladesh in another attack which police suspect may have been carried out by Islamic extremists. 2016-05-07 22:40 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 68 Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg in single mothers plea Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg makes an impassioned plea on behalf of single mothers, ahead of Mother's Day in the US. 2016-05-07 22:40 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 69 Sir David Attenborough's travels around the world - in 60 seconds A s Sir David Attenborough turns 90-years-old , we take a quick look at some of his best moments during his travels over... 2016-05-07 20:24 1KB www.telegraph.co.uk 70 Rose Polge: Junior doctor had 'work-related anxiety', says sister A junior doctor whose body was found in the sea after a major search suffered from "work-related anxiety" her sister says. 2016-05-07 21:33 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 71 BMA to re-enter junior doctors talks with government The BMA says it will re-enter talks with the government over outstanding contract issues for junior doctors in England. 2016-05-07 21:33 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 72 10 things we didn't know last week The Borrowers would need to wear very thick coats, plus more news nuggets. 2016-05-07 21:33 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 73 HISD releases list of proposed school name changes The renaming of seven Houston ISD schools whose current namesakes had ties to the Confederacy could be completed Thursday when the district's board of trustees is expected to vote on recommended replacements. Yolanda Black Navarro became a community and city icon through her civic and political leadership... 2016-05-07 22:59 5KB www.chron.com 74 $20K reward offered in slaying of man defending mother A combined $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the capture of the person who gunned down a man defending his mother from armed robbers. 2016-05-07 11:47 1KB www.chron.com 75 Dueling protests to get in ‘Formation’ outside Beyoncé’s Houston concert Street demonstrations are planned tonight near NRG Stadium where Houston-born superstar Beyoncé Knowles Carter brings her Formation World Tour to a hometown audience... 2016-05-07 22:59 8KB www.chron.com

76 North Texas couple accused of killing baby, disposing her into trash An Abilene couple were indicted Thursday for allegedly killing their baby daughter in January. 2016-05-07 22:59 1KB www.chron.com 77 Yahoo - Lexus Revs Up Basketball Fans with New Campaign on Yahoo Sports and Launches Bracket Challenge New campaign promotes the all-new 2016 Lexus GS F timed with the 2016 Men's College Basketball Tournament --(BUSINESS WIRE)... 2016-05-07 21:39 3KB investor.yahoo.net 78 Yahoo - Introducing Fair Play on Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy Yahoo Launches Key Changes in Daily Fantasy to Help Level the Playing Field for Fans Including Entry Limits, Labeling of Veteran Players and No... 2016-05-07 09:56 2KB investor.yahoo.net 79 1st Muslim Miss USA converts to Christianity Contact WND (Fox News) Rima Fakih is believed to be the first Muslim to win the title of Miss USA when she was crowned the winner in 2010. Now, the beauty pageant winner has converted to Christianity, recently sharing a verse from Philippians on Twitter. Fakih converted to Christianity last month in preparation for her marriage in […]... 2016-05-07 20:19 1023Bytes www.wnd.com 80 Tell Congress to release secret pages of 9/11 report Contact WND The American public already knows that 15 of the 19 terrorists in the 9/11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia, the promoter worldwide of the radical Wahhabist interpretation of Islam. But 28 pages of top-secret information was left out of “The 9/11 Commission Report” that,... 2016-05-07 20:18 3KB www.wnd.com 81 GE chief addressing graduates at Clemson University The president and chief executive officer of General Electric is addressing graduates at Clemson University. 2016-05-07 20:17 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 82 New book details archaeology at NY’s Saratoga Battlefield A new book has been written on the archaeology conducted over the years at the site of the Revolutionary War’s Battles of Saratoga. 2016-05-07 20:17 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 83 After Sadiq Khan's victory, the Tooting by-election gives Tories a chance to make up for Zac Goldsmith's campaign - and hurt Jeremy Corbyn I n a way, Sadiq Khan's election as Mayor of London is all David Cameron's fault, because Mr Khan shouldn't have... 2016-05-07 20:16 5KB www.telegraph.co.uk 84 Yahoo - Yahoo Announces Editorial Plans for 2016 Summer Games --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ( : YHOO) today announced its full global editorial lineup for the 2016 in , including Olympic gold medalists and. Yahoo will send more than 15 experts and writers to Rio, plus another 15 video producers and crew to cover the Games from every angle... 2016-05-07 21:39 3KB investor.yahoo.net 85 Yahoo - Yahoo Sports Partners With NHL to Bring Fans Free, Live Out-of-Market Games & On-Demand Premium Content No Cable or Authentication Required, Alliance Offers New Opportunities for Advertisers to Connect with Fans --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ... 2016-05-07 21:39 4KB investor.yahoo.net

86 Yahoo - TUNE IN TODAY: Yahoo Hosts First-Ever Live Stream of Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting Live coverage begins at 10 a.m... 2016-05-07 21:39 2KB investor.yahoo.net 87 Yahoo - Yahoo Appoints Two New Board Members --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced that its board of directors has increased its size from seven to nine directors and appointed the following two new independent directors, effective. With the additions of Cathy and Eric, the board returns to the size it was on , prior to the resignations of and Charles Schwab..... 2016-05-07 21:39 3KB investor.yahoo.net 88 Ex-Shin Bet chief: Israel should help Gazan economy in addition to destroying tunnels Peri pointed to the economic destitution in Gaza as a key reason Hamas does not want to enter into another conflict with Israel. 2016-05-07 20:12 2KB www.jpost.com 89 Arlene Foster hails 'tremendous' DUP as powersharing with Sinn Fein continues Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster has hailed her party's "tremendous" performance in the Northern Ireland Assembly election after an unexpected repeat... 2016-05-07 20:10 7KB www.dailymail.co.uk 90 Theft in uniform: Some prescription thefts are inside job Who is stealing prescription drugs from the mail in metro Atlanta? 2016-05-07 16:51 6KB rssfeeds.11alive.com 91 Westville prisoners spend time with moms for Mother's Day Abongile Daniel dreams of one day making his mother proud to thank her for standing by him as he serves a 5-year sentence at the Westville Correctional Facility. 2016-05-07 20:00 3KB www.news24.com 92 Egypt court suggests death for 6 codefendants, but not Morsi An Egyptian court has recommended death sentences for six codefendants of Mohammed Morsi, but not for the ousted Islamist president himself in their trial on espionage charges. 2016-05-07 20:00 3KB www.news24.com 93 2 die in Toekomsrus bike crash Two people have died and another sustained critical injuries in an incident in Diamant Street, Toekomsrus, paramedics say. 2016-05-07 20:00 1KB www.news24.com

94 Asia Times News & Features – Asia Times MOSCOW–Russia pledged to view Japan as an “important partner” in Asia-Pacific and both nations renewed efforts to settle the territorial dispute over the Kuril... 2016-05-07 06:30 4KB atimes.com 95 Livonia - News Livonia - News 2016-05-07 18:51 2KB rssfeeds.hometownlife.com

97 Vincent Kompany to miss Euro 2016 through injury Belgium and Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has said he will miss Euro 2016 with a thigh injury sustained against Real Madrid earlier this week. Komp... 2016-05-07 19:53 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 98 Exeter thrash Harlequins to book home semi-final in play- offs England wing Jack Nowell raced in a hat-trick as Exeter celebrated their first appearance in the Aviva Premiership play-offs by booking a home semi-final wit... 2016-05-07 19:52 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 99 Amir Khan looks back at the best in bid to move forward with win in Las Vegas Amir Khan is taking inspiration from some of the world's most decorated fighters as he prepares to step up two weight divisions to challenge WBC champion Sau... 2016-05-07 14:35 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 100 ITV's new politics editor Robert Peston 'finds love again' ITV's new political editor - who starts his new Sunday morning politics programme tomorrow - has hinted he is dating Charlotte Edwardes, who he was pictured with in London last November. 2016-05-07 19:48 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk Articles

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1 Reuters: World News - powered by FeedBurner (1.06/2) MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican drug boss Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman has been moved from a jail in central Mexico to a prison in Ciudad Juarez, a northern city located on the U. S. border, but the move was not a prelude to extradition, authorities said on Saturday.

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2 ‘Benevolent dictator? There’s no such thing’ (1.03/2) President Benigno Aquino III on Friday warned Filipinos that there is no such thing as a “benevolent dictatorship,” which is what Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, the front-runner in the race for Malacañang, seems to be offering to them. “Underneath Duterte’s slogan, ‘tapang at malasakit’ (fearlessness and compassion) means benevolent dictatorship,” Mr. Aquino said three days before national elections that would decide who would take his place as leader of the Philippines. Mr. Aquino urged the voters to study Duterte’s provocative statements before casting their votes on Monday. READ: Aquino warns voters of PH’s possible nosedive under a Duterte admin The President said the slogan basically meant that if a citizen was “not a bad person, then he would not be affected” by strongman rule, for example, denying a suspected criminal due process or abolishing Congress, which is a coequal branch of government. “Can any of us live with his presidency if he actually carries out everything that he has been saying literally? And I guess I am allowing myself to reflect on the fact that this is the 30th year after Edsa and I would like to think that we have made substantial gains in the past six years,” President Aquino told Inquirer editors and reporters in an interview in Malacañang. Son of democracy icons Mr. Aquino, 56, has reason to be sentimental about the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution: He is the only son of democracy icons Ninoy and Cory Aquino. Ninoy Aquino was the leader of the opposition to strongman Ferdinand Marcos, suspected to be the mastermind in the senator’s assassination in 1983 that marked the beginning of protests that ended the 20-year dictatorship and catapulted his wife, Cory, to the presidency. President Aquino had tried, but failed, to get presidential candidates Mar Roxas and Sen. Grace Poe to unite to save the country’s democracy. Poe rebuffed Roxas’ offer of unity talks. READ: Aquino to voters: Urge Roxas, Poe to unite As if Duterte’s rise was not enough, Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the late dictator’s son, also shares the lead in voter preference polls for the vice presidential election with the administration’s candidate, Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo. “I am really hoping that we are not taking for granted things that we already have now. The religious part of me says God might be reminding us that to value our freedom again, perhaps it is time to remove it again. I hope it’s not like that,” Mr. Aquino said. The President urged families to discuss tomorrow’s elections and consider their choices for the country’s next leader. “Do we want a leader who cusses each time when our mothers have raised us instilling good values?” he said. While the late Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew has been described as a benevolent dictator who led the city-state to its much-envied prosperity, Lee at least had clear economic and political policies, he said. In contrast, Duterte has not spelled out any policy throughout the two-month campaign period and has instead relied on bombastic statements that draw cheers from his supporters, he said. “Let us listen to everything that he says. Some people treat it as a joke. But one thing that he said, which to me was serious, was the line about the fishes getting fatter …” Mr. Aquino said, referring to Duterte’s promise that he would kill tens of thousands of criminals and dump their bodies in rivers and in Manila Bay. READ: Duterte promises supporters to do to PH what he had done for Davao “I hope people would pause and think if this is really the solution to criminality,” Mr. Aquino said. The President criticized Duterte’s hollow campaign platform. “When you are trying to convince anybody, there has to be some vision. We used to complain about motherhood statements, such as education is the key. But [with Duterte], there are no even motherhood statements. I saw his ad repeatedly yesterday and tried to pick up things that he says… in the end he says ‘Let us fix this country,’” Mr. Aquino said, adding, “He does not utter motherhood statements. He is successful in being all encompassing while saying nothing.” The President said that Duterte appears to have left to his supporters the job of defining the problems that beset them and the change they want to see in the government. Difficult proposition “It seems that he has left everything to one’s imagination. Everybody that is receptive to that idea [of change] defines what it is. Everybody has his own imagination and paints the picture that he wants to see. That is a difficult proposition,” Mr. Aquino said. “My two questions to him (Duterte) would be: What does he intend to do and how does he intend to bring us there?” he said. Mr. Aquino acknowledged that the idea of “change has always been exciting.” “But I want to ask the people, change from what? The 4.6 million households being assisted, do we change that? The 7.7 million who crossed the poverty line, do we bring them back before the poverty line? The [improvement in] disaster reduction risk response, so let’s not make government proactive anymore?” Mr. Aquino said. He acknowledged that Duterte’s camp was successful in its “marketing campaign in branding themselves as very different from us.” “Somehow they have managed, and we have to give them credit for that. We will induce change, which is not defined, left to the imagination of the people, eyes of the beholder—that means traffic will be immediately solved, gone are the pushers and addicts, all these with different variations. It is quite hard to suppress somebody’s imagination,” he said. The President said that perhaps, one reason for people supporting someone who has yet to show his policies is that “there is a certain degree of comfort that the upward trajectory will continue and we can afford any leader.” “But is it that easy?” he said. The President said he was appalled by Duterte’s refusal to take back what he said about Australian missionary Jacqueline Hamill being so pretty even in death, that he should have been the first to rape her because he was the mayor. That Duterte “berated” the Australian and US ambassadors for commenting on his “rape joke” and saying he did not care if the two countries severed ties with the Philippines forced Mr. Aquino to “talk to [the two allies of the Philippines] to try to smooth any disturbance in the waters.” “The fundamental flaw in the argument that a country needs a benevolent dictator is that it assumes there is a perfect being that would make perfect decisions all the time. But man being an imperfect being cannot make a perfect decision,” the President said. Checks and balances Without Congress and the Supreme Court, there would be no checks and balances, the President said, stressing that the 1987 Constitution does not even have a provision that allows the Chief Executive to abolish his coequal branches of government. “What is the Constitution in its simplest form? It is how we all agreed to govern and interact with each other—resolve issues, define our rights and duties … And here we have somebody who aims to become President whose job is to execute the laws, then he is going, in a sense, say let us throw all of that out. So what do you replace it with? I don’t think he has ever been clear about what he is going to replace it with,” Mr. Aquino said. The President also pointed out that Duterte has the extreme right and extreme left with him in the campaign. “They have a common enemy,” the President said, referring to the middle ground, which government represents. “But when they no longer have a common enemy, they would end up fighting each other,” he added. TVJ RELATED VIDEOS Duterte to Filipinos: I am ready to be PH father newsinfo.inquirer.net

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3 LIVE updates: Donald Trump's visit to Washington (1.02/2) Donald Trump is speaking in Spokane. He will make his way northwest to Lynden later for a second rally In Spokane, Trump supporters outnumbered protesters while people in Lynden lined the streets in anticipation of the visit by the Republican presidential candidate. Keep up with the latest on Trump’s visit below

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4 Saudi Arabia Ousts Longtime Oil Minister (1.02/2) Saudi Arabia on Saturday announced the ouster of its long-serving oil minister as part of a larger ongoing government shakeup. A royal decree announced that Ali al-Naimi has been replaced by former Health Minister and Saudi Aramco board chairman Khaled al-Falih. Al-Naimi has long been a pillar of Saudi oil policy, leading the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources since 1995. Prior to that role he'd served as the president of oil giant Aramco. Under a new Saudi leadership led by King Salman, the king's son Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has largely been overseeing Saudi economic policy along with a handful of new ministers. The changes announced Saturday come as the government plans wide-ranging reforms aimed at overhauling the Saudi economy amid lower oil prices that have eroded state revenues. Saudi Arabia's dominant market share and historical ability to influence prices by loosening or tightening its taps gave al-Naimi exceptional influence at meetings of the oil cartel OPEC, where the kingdom is by far the largest producer and de facto policy-maker. His brief utterances on the sidelines of OPEC meetings often had the power to swing global oil prices. He has presided over a controversial strategy of keeping production levels high despite the drop in prices over the past two years in an effort to drive more expensive producers in the U. S. and elsewhere out of the market. That has led to a glut of supply. At a talk in February in Houston, he stood by that strategy, arguing that cuts by lower-cost producers like Saudi Arabia would simply subsidize higher-cost ones. "The producers of these high-cost barrels must find a way to lower their costs, borrow cash or liquidate," he said in Houston. "It sounds harsh, and unfortunately it is, but it is the more efficient way to rebalance markets. " Lower oil prices since mid-2014 pushed Saudi Arabia into a budget deficit of nearly $100 billion last year and a projected deficit this year of $87 billion. Despite efforts to limit reliance on its main export, oil accounted for more than 70 percent of the state's revenue in 2015. Among the changes planned by Mohammed bin Salman and announced last month was a plan to publicly list less than five percent of Aramco to create a massive sovereign wealth fund to develop its cities. Aramco boasts the world's largest oil reserves and produces some 10 million barrels of crude a day, giving it outsized influence over world energy markets. The deputy crown prince put the estimated value of Aramco at more than $2 trillion. A number of other royal decrees announced Saturday as part of the government's restructuring also saw several ministry names changed and the removal of six ministers, including al-Naimi. The other replacements include the ministers of hajj, commerce and industry, social affairs, health and transportation. Former Hajj Minister Bandar al-Hajjar, who helped oversee last year's tragic pilgrimage that saw more than 100 pilgrims killed by a crane collapse and more than 2,400 killed in a crush of crowds, was replaced by Mohammed Bintin. Also, new Energy Minister al-Falih was replaced as Health Minister by former Commerce and Industry Minister Tawfiq al-Rabiah. Former Social Affairs Minister Majed al-Qasabi was named Minister of Commerce and Investment, one of the newly named ministries. The Social Affairs Ministry will be combined with the Labor Ministry under a new ministry called the Labor and Social Development Ministry.

Saudi Arabia government overhaul sees oil minister removed bbc.co.uk 2016-05-08 00:12 By abcnews.go.com

5 Canada's Fort McMurray wildfire 'to double in size' (0.01/2) A huge wildfire which devastated the Canadian oil town of Fort McMurray could double in size over the next 24 hours, officials say. The blaze now covers an area larger than New York City and is being fanned by winds and feeding on dry vegetation. The flames are moving away from the town, most of whose inhabitants have reached safety. But many are still stuck north of Fort McMurray and evacuations by road and air are resuming. More than 80,000 people were evacuated from the city earlier this week. Thousands of people have been airlifted out but a mass convoy evacuating people from oil worker camps in the north was halted on Friday as huge flames flanked the road. At least 2,500 made it through the flame-damaged city and small convoys resumed early on Saturday. Another 4,000 people are also due to be flown out. There is growing concern over the air quality for those still north, CBC reported . The provincial government said on Friday that the fire had grown to 1,000 sq km (386 sq miles). Wildfire prevention manager Chad Morrison said there was a "high potential that the fire could double in size" by the end of Saturday. But he added that it would expand into a more remote forested area north-east of Fort McMurray. Dry conditions and 27C heat were expected during the day, but cooler temperatures would prevail and there was a possibility of rain on Sunday and Monday. Twenty minutes south of Fort McMurray, the road forks into two branches. By noon on Friday, both were ablaze on either side. We watched with the police as the skies filled with grey and black smoke and flames roared into the air, devouring even the tallest pine trees. The danger, said one officer, was "tentacles growing out of the fire", which could end up looping around and trapping people. There are no reports of injuries or deaths but several residents who may have survived the fire have apparently been spotted in Fort McMurray. Teams are now sweeping the city in case any homeless people were left behind. There is also concern about oil facilities, particularly near Nexen's Long Lake oil extraction site. "We're looking at a blast area of about 14 kilometres if that plant were to go," said Sgt Jack Poitras. No deaths or injuries have been reported. The provincial government has declared a state of emergency and will provide C$100m ($77m) in cash to evacuees. More than 1,000 fire fighters and 150 helicopters, 295 pieces of heavy equipment and 27 aircraft tankers have been deployed, according to the Canadian government. Despite the evacuation order, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said they found an elderly man and a family of five in Fort McMurray. They were led to safety. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said the damage was extensive and would take months to repair. She said: "The downtown is largely intact. The hospital is still standing. The telephone centre is intact. The water treatment centre is back up and running. Municipal buildings and the aeroplane remain intact. " The city is in the heart of Canada's oil sands country, and the region has the world's third-largest reserves of oil. As much as a quarter of the country's oil production has been halted by the fire, raising concerns about the effect on the Canadian economy. Two oil sand sites are directly threatened by the blaze while 10 operators have cut production. In a statement released on Friday afternoon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called upon Canadians to donate to charities assisting relief efforts. "To those who have lost so much: we are resilient, we are Canadians, and we will make it through this difficult time, together," he said. Are you in the area? Have you been affected? You can share your experience by emailing [email protected] . Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways: Or use the form below

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6 Yahoo - Yahoo Statement Regarding Starboard Announcement (0.01/2) --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- today noted Starboard Value LP's announcement of its intention to nominate nine director candidates for election to Yahoo's Board of Directors at the company's 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The Board's will review Starboard's proposed director nominees and respond in due course. Additional Information and Where to Find It (the "Company"), its directors and certain executive officers are participants in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders in connection with the Company's 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting"). The Company plans to file a proxy statement (the "2016 Proxy Statement") with the (the "SEC") in connection with the solicitation of proxies for the Annual Meeting. , , , , , , , Jr., , Ph. D. and , Jr., all of whom are members of the Company's Board of Directors, and , Chief Financial Officer, are participants in the Company's solicitation. Other than , none of such participants owns in excess of 1% of the Company's common stock. may be deemed to own approximately 7.5% of the Company's common stock. Additional information regarding such participants, including their direct or indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, will be included in the 2016 Proxy Statement and other relevant documents to be filed with the in connection with the Annual Meeting. Information relating to the foregoing can also be found in the Company's definitive proxy statement for its 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "2015 Proxy Statement"), which was filed with the on. To the extent that holdings of the Company's securities have changed since the amounts printed in the 2015 Proxy Statement, such changes have been or will be reflected on Statements of Change in Ownership on Form 4 filed with the. Promptly after filing its definitive 2016 Proxy Statement with the , the Company will mail the definitive 2016 Proxy Statement and a WHITE proxy card to each stockholder entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. STOCKHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE 2016 PROXY STATEMENT (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT THE COMPANY WILL FILE WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Stockholders may obtain, free of charge, the Company's preliminary proxy statement, any amendments or supplements thereto and any other relevant documents filed by the Company with the in connection with the Annual Meeting at the SEC's website (http://www.sec.gov). Copies of the Company's definitive proxy statement, any amendments or supplements thereto and any other relevant documents filed by the Company with the in connection with the Annual Meeting will also be available, free of charge, at the Company's website (http://info.yahoo.com) or by writing to Investor Relations, , , 94089. In addition, copies of these materials may be requested, free of charge, from the Company's proxy solicitor, , , 20th Floor, 10022 or (212) 750-5833. is a guide focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining our users. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses. is headquartered in , and has offices located throughout the , (APAC) and the , and (EMEA) regions. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the Company's blog (yahoo.tumblr.com).

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7 Binay: I will win with more than 15 million votes Vice President Jejomar Binay on Saturday said he would win with more than 15 million votes in the May 9 polls. In an interview with reporters after his miting de avance along Lawton Avenue in Makati, Binay said he would emerge the victor in the coming polls through his “silent majority.” “I will win more than 15 million (votes),” Binay said. In his speech, Binay said he would bank on his “silent majority” to become the country’s next president. READ: Binay vows to win by silent majority, warns against election fraud Binay confirmed the estimate also stated by his chief campaign adviser Ronnie Puno, the former Interior secretary behind Binay’s grueling campaign strategy around the country throughout the 90-day campaign. Puno told INQUIRER.net that their reports from the provinces are “good” and which show that most of the poor Filipinos would elect Binay, who is running under an anti-poverty platform by providing free and quality social services. Puno made his first public appearance during Binay’s miting de avance in Makati. Puno said Binay would get 15,365,272 votes on May 9, or 30 percent of the expected voters turnout – most of which would come from the sympathizers of the poor. “I don’t have a crystal ball but our reports are good from the provinces. 15,365,272 from all over the Philippines,” Puno told INQUIRER.net. “I think the people that sympathize with the poor will vote for Binay,” he added. Binay earlier said he would win by a margin of four million votes. READ: Binay: I will win by 4M votes Puno said in a five-person race, Binay will win as the “minority president.” “Because it’s a five-man race, for sure the winner, whoever he will be, it will probably be VP Binay, will be a minority president. People will really have to come together after elections,” Puno said. He said Binay need not unite with the other candidates to fight for democracy against survey frontrunner Rodrigo Duterte, who the other candidates fear would bring back dictatorship in the country. “We’re going to win. We don’t need to join anybody. If they want to join us, they’re welcome. They can join VP Binay so it can be a democracy for sure,” Puno said. Puno engineered the electoral wins of Presidents Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. In an interview with Inquirer editors and reporters on Friday, Pres. Aquino said he was talking with administration bet Mar Roxas and independent candidate Grace Poe to unite against Duterte, raising speculations the administration was pressuring Poe to back out to give Roxas the winning edge. READ: President asks Roxas, Poe to join forces vs Duterte Roxas and Poe are statistically tied in the surveys. Roxas said he was willing to have a dialogue with Poe to unite against a “looming dictatorship.” Poe said she was willing to talk but said she would not back out of the race. READ: Roxas to Poe: Let’s thwart ‘looming dictatorship’ For his part, Binay said he did not receive a message to join this united front against Duterte. “Problema na nila yun. Wala akong natatanggap na panawagan… Wala namang nakakaabot na balita na gusto magka-usap usap kami,” Binay said. He said he would not back down from the presidential race, despite his declining survey ratings and lost alliances. “Wala sa bokabularyo ni Jojo Binay na magwithdraw at tumakbo sa laban,” Binay said. READ: Binay urges Aquino: Call for clean polls instead of unity vs Duterte RELATED VIDEOS

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8 Mr. Bean joins Mr. Bean-nay Clutching a teddy bear, the man in a business suit and red tie walked into a restricted area behind the stage, seemingly out of place amid a sea of blue shirts. While he could be easily dismissed as an unwelcome outsider, Roger Ocampo, it turned out, is closer to the main man than one might think. Just a few hours ago, he was at Vice President Jejomar Binay’s house, he claimed. “He really liked my song.” After all, who could turn away “Mr. Bean,” err, “Mr. Bean-nay?” Ocampo has played the British comedy character for five years, from the suit and tie to the teddy bear and the mole, and has upped his act to back his bet, carrying his very own speaker on his belt that plays the Binay campaign jingle on cue. “I was for Noy-Bi before,” said Ocampo, in reference to his 2010 preference for President Benigno Aquino III and the Vice President. “Of course now that Binay is running for President, I am supporting him. Because it’s true. He’s the only one who has done something and who could do more,” he said, citing the lyrics of the Binay jingle. Ocampo is one of the volunteers supporting Binay’s candidacy, tailing the United Nationalist Alliance campaign where he could, still wearing his blazer despite the stifling heat. READ: Binay ends grueling campaign in Makati City “Look at how progressive Makati is. Senior citizens have their medicines delivered at their homes,” said Ocampo, 57, a father of two. Solo protest Ocampo, who claims he was dismissed from the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) after 15 years for waging a solo protest against its leaders, is pinning his hopes on Binay for the next six years. He regards himself as jobless, his livelihood of fishball vending and stand-up gigs largely unstable. While he said fighting corruption had cost him his Pagcor job, Ocampo has long brushed aside corruption allegations against Binay, saying: “The Senate had so many hearings but they did not find any strong evidence that Binay is corrupt.” And while his bet may be trailing in the surveys, Ocampo is not convinced. “I have done my own survey in subdivisions and asked residents if they had responded to any survey. But they said they haven’t. So how can these surveys be true?” he said. RELATED STORIES Binay: I will win with more than 15 million votes Binay asks Aquino to protect sanctity of ballot, uphold democracy RELATED VIDEOS

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9 February Freeze Decimates the Peach Crop in Northeastern US The peach crop in much of the Northeast was decimated by sub-zero temperatures in mid-February in what one fruit tree expert describes as the Valentine's Day massacre of the peach blooms. Fruit tree field specialists say New Hampshire , Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts lost 90 percent or more of the peach crop. Dan Donahue, commercial fruit tree specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension, says the Hudson River Valley lots 90 percent of its crop through a combination of the February deep- freeze and a cold snap in early April. New Jersey , the fourth-largest peach producing state after California, South Carolina and Georgia, lost about 40 percent of its crop in the southern region of the state, where 4,500 acres of peach trees are located, according to Win Cowgill, a commercial fruit tree consultant and Rutgers University professor emeritus. He estimates the northern part of the state lost 10 percent of its 1,500-acre crop. New Jersey in 2014 harvested more than 21 tons of peaches valued at about $28 million, according to the USDA's National Agriculture Statistics Service. "That Valentine's Day massacre really did us in," said Mary Concklin, fruit tree expert with the University of Connecticut cooperative extension. "So much for that peach cobbler this summer. " George Hamilton , field specialist for the University of New Hampshire cooperative extension in Hillsborough County, agreed. "This is not just a local event," Hamilton said. "We're seeing it all over the Northeast. The crop in the Hudson River Valley and other places in the Northeast got hammered. " Kay Rentzel, executive secretary with the National Peach Council, said Friday that it's too early to assess what effect the February freeze and low temperatures in March will have on the peach crop nationally. "We don't have the full reports in," Rentzel said. "There are some regions that are still blooming right now. In California and Georgia, they're already starting to harvest. The mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, we don't have a full handle on because of the earliness of the season. " Concklin, who estimates Connecticut lost 90 to 95 percent of its peach crop, said Massachusetts and Rhode Island didn't fare any better. John Rogers, owner of the centuries-old Rogers Orchards in Southington, Connecticut, said he lost all 30 acres of his peach crop and will likely have to buy peaches from the Deep South and California to offer his farm stand customers some product, albeit at a higher price. "Peaches are going to be more expensive," Rogers said. "Growers in the other regions know there's going to be a shortage. It's supply and demand. " The specialists say a few warm days with temperatures in the 40s and 50s preceding the February deep freeze, when temperatures dropped to minus 10 to 20 degrees or colder in New Hampshire and minus 8 in Connecticut, increased the peach trees' vulnerability to damage. Cowgill says southern New Jersey lost more of its crop than northern New Jersey because blooms on the southern trees were in full bloom. "They were a few days ahead and got hurt a little worse," Cowgill said. "It's all about when the flowers open and when the cold hits. " He said New Jersey was hurt more by temperatures in the teens and 20s at the end of March than it was when the February deep freeze hit the northern states. Cowgill said consumers buy almost 90 percent of fresh produce from chain stores and that won't change. He said New England peach growers don't harvest enough during a good year to be a factor in supplying chain stores. As for farm stands in New England and the Hudson River Valley, Cowgill says he already has New Jersey growers calling him for contacts to market their harvest up north.

2016-05-08 00:11 By abcnews.go.com

10 Far Right Rally Against Merkel's Migrant Policies in Berlin About 1,000 right-wing extremists and others protesting Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policies squared off with about 4,500 counter-demonstrators outside the Berlin chancellery on Saturday, chanting slogans at one another but being kept at a wide distance by police in full riot gear. Protesters from the far-right cheered and jeered as counter-demonstrators who tried to break through the police cordon were quickly overwhelmed and dragged away by officers. Occasional bottles and even a beer stein flew from the counter-demonstration but fell far short of the far-right march about 150 meters (yards) away, amid chants of "Nazis out. " On the other side, the right-wing demonstrators held signs with slogans like "No Islam on German Soil" and chanted "Merkel must go" while waving German flags. About 1.1 million migrants crossed into Germany last year raising concerns nationwide about how the country would cope with the influx. Still, the anti-Merkel rally drew only about a fifth of the numbers organizers had expected and three counter-protests drew about 7,000 people. Police said some 1,700 officers were on hand to keep the peace at those demonstrations, and seven other unrelated protests in the capital on Saturday. There were no immediate reports of injuries of either police or demonstrators.

2016-05-08 00:12 By abcnews.go.com

11 Cairo Court Expels Diplomats From Hearing on Regeni Adviser An Egyptian appeals court expelled diplomats, journalists and family members from a hearing on Saturday over whether to extend the detention of a rights campaigner who had been advising the family of an Italian student found tortured to death in Cairo. Ahmed Abdullah, the head of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, was arrested at his suburban home early on April 25 and stands accused of inciting revolt and terrorism. His detention came just hours before thousands of riot police stifled planned demonstrations in Cairo that were to be held in defiance of a protest ban to denounce President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's recent decision to surrender control of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. Abdullah entered the courtroom carrying a note on a small piece of origami that read in Arabic "truth for Regeni. " A fight broke out between bailiffs and lawyers in the chaotic chamber when activists tried to photograph Abdullah, with police confiscating phones temporarily to delete the photos. Lawyers from Abdullah's NGO had offered assistance to the lawyers of the family of the Italian doctoral student, Giulio Regeni, who was abducted in Cairo on Jan. 25. His body, bearing signs of severe torture, was found nine days later on the side of a suburban Cairo road. The city was on a police lockdown on Jan. 25 to prevent protests marking the anniversary of Egypt's 2011 uprising that overthrew longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak . Regeni's parents have said they were distraught over Abdullah's arrest. Their son's killing has poisoned Egypt's close relations with Italy , and prompted accusations that Egypt's security services were involved. Egypt has repeatedly denied this, and the Interior Ministry has suggested five members of a criminal gang police killed were responsible, releasing photos of Regeni's IDs it said was found at the house of a gang member's relative. The men's relatives say they were house painters merely heading to a job when they were killed, and witnesses have said the men were unarmed and tried to flee as police fired on them, confiscating footage from security cameras near the scene afterward. The diplomats at Saturday's hearing in Cairo's northern Abbaseya district, from Italy and Britain, had clearly identified themselves. Hours later, there was no word on whether Abdullah's detention would be extended. He was removed from the courtroom, where he had been held in a cage with some 30 other defendants. Italian investigators meanwhile arrived in Cairo Saturday to follow up on the Regeni case, with the Italian daily La Repubblica reporting that they were seeking additional documents and other evidence including some phone records not turned over during previous meetings. ——— Associated Press writer Colleen Barry in Milan contributed to this report.

2016-05-08 00:12 By abcnews.go.com

12 5 Elderly Holdouts Fighting Closure of Assisted-Living Home The stately dining room at this once-bustling old-age home has been emptied, its floors ripped up. The tiny general store's shelves are barren, and the exercise room has gone silent. No one is leafing through the books of the library or digging into a treat in the ice cream parlor or painting at an easel in the art room. All that remains are five women, ages 91 to 101, in the fight of their long lives. Two years after the sale of Prospect Park Residence was announced, nearly all of the assisted- living facility's 125 residents have long since heeded management's orders to leave. But five holdouts have refused, challenging the handling of the $76.5 million sale and sparking a web of litigation. Their fight sheds light on the rights of the elderly and the difficulty of transition in life's twilight. "I think we have that right to do what we want to do," said 93-year-old Annemarie Mogil, a retired social worker who has remained in her eighth-floor apartment at the home. "I've earned my rest. I worked hard. I deserve my peace. " As the building in the trendy Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn emptied, a small band of tenants decided to put up a fight. Local politicians came to their side and The Legal Aid Society filed suit on their behalf. As the months ticked by, they said management purposely worsened conditions in hopes of convincing them to leave. The holdouts said they were being bathed less frequently, saw housekeeping scaled back and central air conditioning cut off in favor of less-effective window units. They said hot water was tampered with. Those moves, opponents of the sale say, were orchestrated by building owner Haysha Deitsch even as he raised fees on the holdouts. He denied it, and in a countersuit against the families of the remaining residents, he called for $50 million in damages for their interference in the sale, "slanderous" allegations and resulting "mental anguish. " In an emailed reply to questions from The Associated Press, Deitsch said he always followed the law, that residents always got outstanding care and he never cut back services. Closing was not an easy choice, he said, but costs became untenable. He portrayed the remaining residents as unable to make decisions on their own, and represented by individuals with questionable motivations. "The representatives of those who remain are not negotiating in good faith. They repeatedly have changed their positions and moved the goal post," Deitsch wrote. "Those representing the remaining residents are acting out of greed and malice and appear unwilling to offer any compromise or reasonable position. " Deitsch said residents' complaints should really be with the Legislature and state regulators. New York City Councilman Brad Lander also sees lax state oversight, though he isn't letting Deitsch off the hook. "He is evil. He is acting in a way that I think is sociopathic. But the state health department has essentially taken the side of the sociopath," Lander said. Erin Silk, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Health, said she could not comment on active litigation. In court filings, the department defended the secrecy of closure plans, saying it "avoids chaos" of word trickling out. Prospect Park Residence filed a plan that, after some revisions, "was plainly consistent with the regulations," the department said. A Brooklyn state court judge ruled the initial closure plan inadequate and intervened on specific complaints, including the resumption of central air conditioning and consistent hot water. Families of the holdouts are fighting a new closure plan, saying appropriate new homes still have not been found for the remaining five. They say the options offered have been prohibitively expensive or excessively far or have other problems. "All of this is an effort to protect my mother from having to go into a storage facility," said Deborah Pollack, whose 98-year-old mother, Lillian Guide, remains at Prospect Park Residence. As hearings drag on, emptiness abounds in the building on coveted Prospect Park West. Mogil spends much of her day down the hall with her friend Alice Singer. They speak of the difficulty in moving to the home to begin with, but of growing to love its location and simple pleasures. They watch bikers, skaters and runners in the park below, witness the changing of seasons, hear the sounds of city life. It keeps them feeling alive. Singer, a retired bacteriologist with mild dementia, knows she might be seen as stubborn, but sees no good alternative. "When I grow up," the 91-year-old says with a straight face, "I'll find out if stubbornness is good or bad. " Mogil says she knows she needs to think what she will do if forced to leave, but it's too hard. "I don't even want to think of what moving again would do to me psychologically," she said. The experiences of those who have left — a group including Holocaust survivors, a Tuskegee airman and a floor full of people with advanced dementia — have been a cautionary tale for the holdouts. Fearful other facilities would fill up, many rushed into painful moves. In court filings, attorneys say one former resident experienced a psychotic break as a result of the move. Another, they said, was so traumatized that she suffers from panic attacks. Retired seamstress Gloria Russo loved her neighbors and the activities at Prospect Park Residence, and ambled the halls with a little white Maltese named Chloe in a basket attached to her walker. She became the facility's ambassador, showing prospective residents around and extolling the joy of living there. But when she learned the building's fate, Russo called her daughter, Laura Perry, sobbing, and fell into a depression, convinced she played a role in others' pain by convincing them to move there. "She said, 'They're closing! They're closing! Look what I did: People came here because of me,'" Perry said. Perry found her mother a new facility on Long Island, but she said she moved there a different woman — less outgoing and suddenly plagued by health problems. Less than a year after the transfer, she was dead at 91. She was "broken," her daughter said. ——— Sedensky can be reached at [email protected] or https:// twitter .com/sedensky

2016-05-08 00:12 By abcnews.go.com

13 Professor’s airplane math didn’t equal airplane threat PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An Ivy League professor said his flight was delayed because a fellow passenger thought the math equations he was writing might be a sign he was a terrorist. American Airlines confirms that the woman expressed suspicions about University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio. She said she was too ill to take the Air Wisconsin-operated flight. Menzio said he was flying from Philadelphia to Syracuse on Thursday night and was solving a differential equation related to a speech he was set to give at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. He said the woman sitting next to him passed a note to a flight attendant and the plane headed back to the gate. Menzio, who is Italian and has curly, dark hair, said the pilot then asked for a word and he was questioned by an official. “I thought they were trying to get clues about her illness,” he told The Associated Press in an email. “Instead, they tell me that the woman was concerned that I was a terrorist because I was writing strage things on a pad of paper.” Menzio said he explained what he had been doing and the flight took off soon afterward. He was treated respectfully throughout, he added. But, he said, he was concerned about a delay that a brief conversation or an Internet search could have resolved. “Not seeking additional information after reports of ‘suspicious activity’ … is going to create a lot of problems, especially as xenophobic attitudes may be emerging,” he said. American spokesman Casey Norton said the Air Wisconsin crew followed protocol to take care of an ill passenger and then to investigate her allegations. Norton wouldn’t specify the details of the allegations, but said officials determined them to be non-credible. The woman was rebooked on a later flight.

2016-05-07 23:56 - Associated Press - Saturday, May 7, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

14 How Alaska’s population might change by 2045 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Alaska’s population will continue to climb over the next 30 years, inching closer to the 1 million mark, a new report says. The state’s population is projected to increase by 162,200 from 2015 numbers to 899,825 people in 2045, according to a report released last week from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The population of Alaskans age 65 and older is the group expected to grow the fastest, and annual natural growth — births minus deaths — is expected to slow. Southeast Alaska is the only region in the state that is expected to lose population, and the Anchorage and Matanuska-Susitna regions are predicted to grow the fastest. The Mat-Su Borough is set to grow more than 80 percent between last year and 2045, the report said. Dan Robinson, director of research and analysis at the Labor Department and one of the people who worked on the report, said what will determine Alaska’s population more than births and deaths is migration in and out of the state, “and that’s a big question right now.” The report comes with the caveat that some events — such as the discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay in 1968 and the construction of the pipeline — can’t be foreseen and make migration unpredictable. That could throw off such projections that use hypothetical future trends. “You get, more than anything, a range of possibilities” from the report, Robinson said. Worries are rising about Alaska’s future as economists speculate about whether or not the state is already in a recession and lawmakers try to fix a $4 billion budget deficit. The Labor Department has also predicted that 2016 will bring the first annual jobs loss in the state since 2009. “We’ve heard some people mention concern about big population losses,” Robinson said. “It helps to put that in context.” Significant population changes in Alaska in the past came with the construction and completion of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, the oil boom and bust, wars and other economic swings. The last such population report came out in 2014, at which time the projection showed that Alaska’s population would hit 925,042 in 2042. Projections in the report are based on historical population data and fertility, mortality and migration rates. It uses Alaska’s population of 737,625 in July 2015 as the starting point. Two other scenarios show that, on the lower end, the state’s population could actually dip to 642,697 in 2045 if there is a net migration rate of negative 1 percent per year. On the other hand, it could reach as high as 1,247,887 with an annual net migration rate of 1 percent. The middle-of-the-road scenario uses a net migration of 0 percent because in recent years, Alaska’s net migration has “trended toward being neutral,” said Eric Sandberg, a demographer at the Labor Department who also worked on the report. Projections show the population of Alaska Natives in the state, including those who report more than one race, will grow from 143,868 in 2015 to 184,561 in 2045. Story Continues →

2016-05-07 23:53 - Associated Press - Saturday, May 7, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

15 1 dead after shooting involving Florida deputies ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A handful of protesters gathered Saturday at the scene of a fatal deputy-involved shooting in St. Petersburg. Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Spencer Gross said in an email that the man was shot overnight Saturday after threatening deputies with an assault weapon. Neither the deputies nor the suspect who was fatally shot were identified immediately. The man fatally shot had been a passenger in a car that deputies say was being driven recklessly and also matched the description of a stolen vehicle, Gross said. Officers and deputies on a vehicle-theft task force tried to stop the vehicle but it crashed into two police cruisers before taking off. The officers on the ground backed off their pursuit and a helicopter tracked the car from air, Gross said. Deputies and officers again tried to stop the car, and this time, the passenger ran out of the vehicle on foot carrying an AR-15 assault weapon. The suspect at some point turned and threatened the deputies with the weapon, Gross said, and the suspect was shot. At a news conference, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said four or five shots were fired. When asked if the suspect fired his assault rifle, Gualtieri said, “Not that we know of.” “When anybody is carrying an automatic rifle and points it at the police, it’s a very serious situation,” Gualtieri said. Local media reported that the protesters at the shooting scene said it’s only the latest chase involving Pinellas County deputies that resulted in deaths. Three teenage girls drowned earlier this year after they stole a car from a Pinellas County Walmart parking lot. Though the county sheriff’s rules forbid deputies from chasing stolen vehicles, some officers were trailing the car when the car plunged into a pond off a sharp turn in the road. Some protesters say the deputies didn’t do enough to rescue the teenagers, but Gualtieri said deputies waded into the water and tried to save the girls.

2016-05-07 23:53 - Associated Press - Saturday, May 7, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

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2016-05-07 23:42 Dan Chapman www.ajc.com

17 Injured veterans compete in Invictus Games at Disney World ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - After suffering a noncombat injury during a motorcycle accident in 2014, Gabby Graves-Wake found herself at a crossroads during her recovery and rehabilitation. The Marine, who suffered injuries to her legs, lower back and head, could have either been filled with self-pity or found the inspiration to push through during the recovery. She chose the more challenging path, joining up with the Wounded Warrior Regiment and Military Adaptive Sports Program to use sports as part of her rehabilitation. Graves-Wake will be among 500 participants in this week’s Invictus Games, an international Paralympic-style multisport event, at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. She will participate in wheelchair track, seated shotput and discus and cycling. “I do this because it means I have no excuse to sit down and say, ‘I feel sorry for myself. I can’t come back from an injury,’” said Graves-Wake, 22. “What this means to me is that I’m better than my injury, I’m better than I was before and I will continue to thrive, go on new adventures and experience new things and meet new people and have the time of my life.” The Invictus Games, a creation of Great Britain’s Prince Harry, gives wounded and sick military personnel and veterans a chance to compete. Athletes from 15 countries will compete in 14 sports starting Monday and lasting until Thursday. The Opening Ceremony kicks off the games Sunday evening with Prince Harry and first lady Michelle Obama taking part. “This is going to be something very special because there has never really been outside of the Invictus Games an international competition for injured veterans,” said Ken Fisher, the event’s chairman and CEO. “They have been using the power of sport to aid in their rehabilitation.” The United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands and Germany are among the countries participating in the Invictus Games. President Barack Obama and his wife put out a video challenging the other participating countries, and Prince Harry and Queen Elizabeth, as well as Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, have issued their respective challenges via video. For the athletes it’s just an opportunity to compete, serve their country and to regain that sense of team they once enjoyed in their respective military branches. “What it means for me is to be a part of group again because in the military you have this very close bond,” said Kelly Gerristsen, who will represent the Netherlands in powerlifting, sitting volleyball and rowing this week. “When you are leaving the army you are never going to find it again. To be a competitor over here and to have the bonding again, it’s amazing.”

2016-05-07 23:42 - Associated Press - Saturday, May 7, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

18 Man caught up in child porn crackdown gets prison sentence TRENTON, N. J. (AP) - A New Jersey man swept up in a state child pornography crackdown is now headed to prison. Prosecutors say Nil Choudhury received a four-year sentence Friday. The 27- year-old Margate man will also have to register as a sex offender. Choudhury had pleaded guilty in March to distributing and possessing child pornography images and videos. Prosecutors say he used file-sharing software to download and distribute the items. Choudhury was among 25 people charged in February 2013 as part of “Operation Ever Vigilant,” a multiagency investigation led by the state police and the state’s Division of Criminal Justice. Authorities say a state police detective downloaded two child porn videos from a file-sharing network popular with sex offenders. The computer address from which the videos were downloaded was then traced to Choudhury’s residence.

2016-05-07 23:42 - Associated Press - Saturday, May 7, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

19 Deputy, suspect wounded in southeast Oklahoma shootout BROKEN BOW, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say a McCurtain County deputy and a hit-and-run suspect were wounded in a shootout near Broken Bow. The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife says game warden Mike Virgin and deputy Corey Sharrock went to the suspect’s home Friday and were met with gunfire when they arrived. Sharrock was shot just below his bullet resistant vest, but managed to return fire and shoot Charles Brown in the arm. Both are hospitalized in stable condition.

2016-05-07 23:42 - Associated Press - Saturday, May 7, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

20 Poe attacks admin bet anew for ‘asking her to withdraw from running’ (UPDATE) Senator Grace Poe attacked the administration party anew on Saturday night, this time for allegedly trying to stop her presidential bid and now asking her to withdraw from the race. In a speech at her team’s final sortie at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila, Poe talked about a candidate’s offer to unite against survey frontrunner Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. She did not name names but she was apparently referring to administration bet, former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, who made the offer to her through the media. READ: Roxas to Poe: Let’s thwart ‘looming dictatorship’ “Naniniwala ako sa unity at ako’y bukas sa pag usap kung ito ay sinsero pero kung ang pag uusapan natin ay para ako sumuko, kung pag-uusapan natin ay para isuko ko ang mga pangarap ninyo at aking paninidigan ay huwag na lang tayong mag usap,” she said in her impromptu speech. “Sa dinami-dami ba naman ng sinabi nyo sa akin, sa lahat ng problemang nadinig kong pinagdadaanan nyo, sa lahat ng mali sa sistema na tinatamasa natin ngayon, ngayon pa ba ako papayag na umatras para ipagpatuloy ang dati ng mali. Hindi!” Poe said she was open to unity if they would only discuss what would be good for the people. But no one, she said, should take away the right of the people to choose the leader that they want. “Naniniwala ako na ang bawat isa sa atin ay dapat may boses, at dapat may karapatan na mamili kung sino ang nararapat at pagkatapos ‘nun ay igalang, hindi pwedeng minamanipula ng iilang tao lamang ang mga nararapat tumakbo,” said Poe. She then reminded that it was the same people who wanted to stop her presidential run. “Kung naaalala ninyo, sila rin naman ang nagsampa ng kaso laban sa akin. Sila rin naman ang nagpa-disqualify sa akin sa Korte Suprema. Noong hindi gumana yun at ako’y tumakbo, ngayon nakikita nila may banta sa kabila, may banta raw sa ating demokrasya kaya kelangan ako’y umatras,” she said. “Mga kababayan, matagal ko ng sinasabi sa kanila na may banta sa ating demokrasya dahil hindi nila tayo pinakikinggan…” she added. Poe said her decision to run for president was probably one of the most difficult things that she and her family had been through but said she had already prepared herself for it. She said she never gave up her fight despite criticisms and false accusations hurled at her and her family. “Bakit ako nagdesisyong tumakbo bilang pangulo? Binabalikan ko ‘yon. Kasi mga kababayan, ‘nung ako ay nagdesisyon, napakalimitado ng ating opsyon,” she said. “Pipili lang ba tayo—pasensya na pero kailangan ihayag—pipili lang ba tayo ng isang corrupt? Pipili lang ba tayo ng isang palpak at mabagal na walang pakiramdam? O pipili ba tayo ng isang pumapatay na walang hustisya?” “Mga kababayan, hindi ako perpekto; walang taong perpekto sa mundo. Pero ako ay may takot sa Diyos at ako ay may takot sa inyo, na alam ko ‘pag hindi ko ginawa ang aking trabaho nang tama, mananagot ako sa Diyos at mananagot ako sa inyo at mananagot ako sa nanay ko,” she added. The miting de avance led by Poe and running mate, Senator Francis Chiz Escudero, started at 5 p.m and lasted for more than four hours. Ten of their 12 senatorial bets attended the event. Absent were reelectionist Senator Ralph Recto and former Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri. Celebrities supporting the candidates of Poe’s Partido Galing at Puso also joined the miting de avance, including superstar Nora Aunor, singer-composer Ogie Alcasid, Carmina Villaroel, Poe’s sister Lovi Poe, Heart Evangelista, wife of Poe’s running mate Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero, singer Angeline Quinto, former child star Niño Muhlach, Epy Quizon, and Ruby Rodriguez. RELATED VIDEOS

2016-05-07 23:41 Maila Ager newsinfo.inquirer.net

21 No mega blocks on Western Railway and Central Railway Main line Mega blocks on the suburban railway have become a regular feature for many years now; but then after a very long time there wouldn’t be a mega block at least on the Western Railway (WR). The Central Railway (CR) too wouldn’t be carrying out mega block on their Main line. “We are not implementing any mega block this Sunday but then the train services will operate as per Sunday timetable,” said R Bhakar, chief PRO, Western Railway. As per Sunday timetable there shall be 30 percent lesser train services operated unlike the daily 1306 services operated by them. On the other hand, no maintenance work shall be carried out as part of the mega block but then the important job would be done between Shahad and Ambivali stations. The CR will operate a special traffic and power block for 3 hours for launching of 24-meter long girder and foot over bridge girder at Kalyan station from 10am to 1pm. Due to this the train running will be affected during this block period wherein platforms 1, 1-A, 2, 3 and 4 at Kalyan will not be available. All Kalyan originating/terminating locals will be cancelled while Titwala, Asangaon and Kasara locals will be cancelled till this work is complete. All Ambarnath, Badlapur, Karjat and Khopoli locals will be running via platforms 5, 6 and 7 at Kalyan. The long distance trains for CST and Kurla LTT will arrive 25 minutes to 2.5 hours late.

2016-05-07 23:37 By A www.mid-day.com

22 Center for Individual Freedom 'No Bankruptcy for Puerto Rico' | Campaign 2016 - The Center for Individual Freedom released this ad on April 22 urging voters to oppose chapter 9 bankruptcy for Puerto Rico. () Center for Individual Freedom 'No Bankruptcy for Puerto Rico' | Campaign 2016

2016-05-07 23:27 The Washington www.washingtonpost.com

23 23 Miss. State student dies in fall from stadium video board STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi State University student died early Saturday after falling from atop a video board at the school’s football stadium, landing on a concrete structure roughly 20 feet below, the local coroner said. A statement from the university identified the victim as 21-year-old Andrew Scott Demboski of Ocean Springs. Oktibbeha (ock-TIB’-eh-hah) County Coroner Michael Hunt said Demboski had suffered a head injury in the fall. He landed on a concrete structure high above the ground, complicating emergency workers’ efforts to remove him and get him aboard a helicopter waiting to take him to a hospital. He was pronounced dead at the scene. “It does appear to be an accidental death,” Hunt told The Associated Press, adding that the body was being set to Jackson for an autopsy. Hunt declined to comment on how Demboski and two other students entered the stadium, referring those questions to university police. The university said an investigation was underway but no other information would be released until Monday. “Andrew was a very talented student. Our campus is saddened by this loss on the day of Spring Commencement, and we all mourn Andrew’s passing and are keeping his family in our prayers,” the statement from university spokesman Sid Salter said. Demboski was a junior environmental economics and management major. Hunt said Demboski fell after attempting to walk on top of the video board at Davis Wade Stadium, stepping onto a part of the structure that didn’t support his weight. ___ Information from: WTVA-TV, http://www.wtva.com

2016-05-07 23:26 - Associated Press - Saturday, May 7, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

24 Tavares Mayor arrested on domestic violence related charges TAVARES, Fla. (AP) - Tavares Mayor Robert Wolfe was arrested after his wife says he hit her and fired a gun. The Orlando Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1WftA3h ) reports prior to Friday’s arrest the Lake County Sheriff’s Office was already investigating an incident that was reported earlier in the week. Sharon Wolfe told investigators that Tavares Mayor Robert Wolfe hit her and threw an object at her while the two were out drinking at a bar. She says that Wolfe also shot a Beretta handgun she had purchased for him on their first wedding anniversary. Robert Wolfe allegedly fired the shot in the couple’s bedroom on April 24 and then pushed his wife. Sharon Wolfe told authorities she did not want her husband arrested. She only wanted the report filed on an informational basis. ___ Information from: Orlando Sentinel, http://www.orlandosentinel.com/

2016-05-07 23:26 - Associated Press - Saturday, May 7, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

25 New equipment to speed up Great Plains Health lab results NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) - New equipment is expected to speed up laboratory results at Great Plains Health in North Platte. The North Platte Telegraph reports (http://bit.ly/1TNsdoZ ) that the lab processes more than 3,000 tissue samples every month. Most samples require multiple slides, and each slide needed to be stained, cover-slipped and dried before it could be taken to pathology services. The process used to take six to eight hours. But on Thursday, laboratory staff cut the ribbon on a VENTANA HE 600 automated staining system, which will improve safety and save a substantial amount of time. Dani Franzen with Great Plains Health says the system will allow staff to do more than eight hours’ worth of processing in less than an hour. ___ Information from: The North Platte Telegraph, http://www.nptelegraph.com

2016-05-07 23:18 - Associated Press - Saturday, May 7, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

26 Binay asks Aquino to protect sanctity of ballot, uphold democracy Vice President Jejomar Binay on Saturday made an appeal to President Benigno Aquino III to protect the sanctity of the ballot and uphold democracy, the very legacy left behind by Aquino’s mother, the late President Cory Aquino whose administration ended the Marcos dictatorship. In his speech during his miting de avance on Lawton Avenue in Makati, Binay urged Aquino to use his remaining days in office to ensure clean and honest elections. “Mister President, ako po ay nakikiusap sa inyo, hindi bilang pangalawang pangulo, kundi bilang isang karaniwang Pilipino. Sana po ay gamitin ninyo ang inyong kapangyarihan bilang ama ng ating bansa upang tiyakin na malinis at mapayapa ang halalan sa darating na Lunes,” Binay said. “Sana naman po, sa natitira ninyong araw sa Malacanang, ay gugulin ninyo ito sa pagbibigay ng isang pamana sa taumbayan, isang pamana na kikilalanin at ipagmamalaki ng ating bansa at ng ating kababayan,” he added. Binay said the president should protect the legacy left behind by his mother Cory, the country’s democracy icon who was installed to the presidency by a people power uprising that toppled the dictatorial rule of Ferdinand Marcos, father and namesake of vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos. “Ito ang pamana nang pagtataguyod sa demokrasya at pagkilala sa tunay na tinig sa taumbayan sa darating na halalan. Ito ang naging pamana ni Pangulong Cory Aquino. Sana naman ay ito rin ang inyong maging pamana sa taumbayan,” he added. Binay urged the Commission on Elections to fulfill its mandate of ensuring clean and orderly elections, following reports that the testing of the vote counting machines turned out names different from the choice of the voters. He added that the police and military should serve the electorate and not the influential politicians. Binay told the voters that May 9 will be a day of their freedom—freedom to choose the leader the electorate believe would become the country’s next president. “Ito ang araw na malaya kayong makakapamili. Ito ang araw na malaya kayo sa dikta, bukod lamang sa dikta ng inyong konsensya. Huwag nating isuko ang kalayaang yan, kahit sa pera, sa dikta ng mga pulitiko, o sa pananakot ng iilang maingay,” Binay said. “Tumindig tayo at ipaglaban ang ating kalayaan,” he added. Binay was an activist-lawyer during the Marcos regime and was co-founder of Mabini, a group of lawyers giving free legal assistance to activists, human-rights victims and political prisoners. RELATED VIDEOS

2016-05-07 23:01 Marc Jayson newsinfo.inquirer.net

27 Jet Airways plane skids off runway, all passengers safe Indore: A Jet Airways aircraft with 66 passengers and four crew onboard skidded off the runway after landing at the airport here this evening. All passengers and crew have deplaned safely, Jet Airways said. "Jet Airways flight 9W-2793 from Delhi to Indore, has departed the paved surface after landing," Jet Airways said in a statement. All 66 guests and four crew aboard have been safely deplaned and taken to the terminal building, it said.

2016-05-07 22:58 By PTI www.mid-day.com

28 German Jews call for dismissal of self-declared Jew-hating pastor NEW YORK – The city of Bremen’s Jewish community blasted the local Evangelical Church for its failure to fire a pastor who openly declares himself an anti-Semite and plays a key role in stoking hatred of the Jewish state. “How should we accept a representative for dialogue, who is also responsible for dialogue for the Evangelical Church in Bremen with religious communities in Bremen – and should act in a neutral way – when he openly presents himself as anti-Semitic?” local Jewish leaders wrote in a letter on Tuesday to Edda Bosse, the president of the Evangelical Church in the city. “We decisively reject working with Pastor [Volker] Keller and are surprised how he continues to influence one of your communities as a pastor,” wrote Jewish community leaders Elvira Noa, Renata Bas and Dr. Grigori Pantijelew, as well as the city’s Rabbi Netanel Teitelbaum. The Jewish leaders continued, “We are shocked and appalled over Keller not only minimizing anti- Semitism but especially that he misused his position and acted in a way unworthy of his office.” Keller serves on Bremen’s Council for Integration and plays a role in the absorption of migrants from Muslim-majority countries. The Jewish leaders wrote that Keller “works with haters of Israel whose criticism of Israel is clearly anti-Semitic.” Keller co-founded the NGO Nord-Bremer Citizens against War, whose members demonstrate in front of stores in Bremen calling for Germans to not buy products from Israel. According to critics, Keller is part of a large anti-Israel network in Bremen that seeks to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state. The Bremen Social Democratic Mayor Carsten Sieling and the church have been swamped with criticism from Jewish human rights groups and from journalists who write about contemporary anti-Semitism. In a separate letter to Sieling, the Berlin office of the American Jewish Committee wrote, “In addition to his activity as a pastor in the city council for integration, Mr. Keller is active in the BDS movement, which calls for a total cultural, economic, academic boycott of the State of Israel.” In an email sent to The Jerusalem Post, Keller praised an allegedly anti-Semitic lecture in his church community building held by a hardcore BDS advocate and wrote: “Yesterday evening the anti-Semite Arn Strohmeyer delivered a lecture to me... Best wishes to Israel, Yours truly, Volker Keller, anti-Semite.” The crisis engulfing the Bremen Evangelical Church over Keller’s self-proclaimed anti-Semitism has been met with silence from the national Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) leadership. Emails to Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, the head of the EKD, were not answered. Carsten Splitt, a spokesman for Bedford-Strohm, told the Post on Friday that “the responsibility in this matter lies, on account of our federal structure, with the Bremen Evangelical Church... The EKD and the Bremen Evangelical Church are in complete agreement in the clear rejection of every form of anti-Semitism.” When asked about the Bremen Jewish community’s letter rejecting Keller, as well as the AJC complaint, Renke Brahms, the executive cleric of the Bremen Evangelical Church, declined to answer. Brahms told the Post last month that Keller’s email was meant to be sarcastic. Critics say there is a big anti-Semitism problem in Bremen, including municipality-subsidized anti-Semitic lectures and weekly calls to boycott Israel in the heart of the city that are met largely with indifference by politicians and non-Jewish civil society organizations. The municipality provides significant funding for the Bürgerhauses Weserterrassen cultural center where, according to the Bremen Jewish community, anti-Semitic lectures are held. Activists frequently march through stores to identity Israel merchandise for opprobrium. During the IDF’s Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in 2014, more than 400 anti-Israel activists marched in Bremen. According to a Bremen domestic intelligence, local anti- Israel activists traveled to Berlin to participate in the annual al-Quds protest calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. André Städler, a spokesman for Sieling, wrote the Post by email on Friday, “Bremen, over the decades, has been a stronghold of the fight against anti-Semitism, racism and contempt for humanity.” He added, “In Bremen we don’t tolerate anti-Semitism. We know that there is anti-Semitism. But anti-Semitism in Bremen does not get public platforms.” When asked whether Keller should be sacked, Städler declined to comment. The spokesman said that Bremen has as “an initiative to combat growing anti-Semitism by young Muslims... and there are places, including city hall, that clearly criticize anti-Semitism and also condemn BDS.” Writing on the website of the American magazine Tablet, Liel Leibovitz, authored an article about Keller titled, “A German pastor wants to make anti-Semitism great again.” Leibovitz wrote, “When a German pastor declared himself last week to be a proud anti-Semite, he might’ve given us our first glimpse at the brave new turn of Jew-hatred, an era far more candid and [palpable] than any most of us have experienced in our lifetimes.”

2016-05-07 22:49 BENJAMIN WEINTHAL www.jpost.com

29 Two killed as wall collapses in Mumbai; FIR lodged Two labourers were killed after a building wall collapsed in Kanjurmarg's Karvenagar in northeast Mumbai on Saturday, an official said. An FIR has been lodged against the site supervisor at Kanjurmarg police station. The accident took place around 9.30 am at the MMRDA Complex building No.3 when two workers were engaged in decentring work (removing wooden covers from dried cement walls). One of the victims, Indrajeet V. Chavan (20) was extricated froom under the debris and taken to Rajawadi Hospital where he was declared dead on admission. The other worker, identified as Mahesh K. Dashrath, who was trapped under the rubble, was taken to the Rajawadi Hopital, said an official of BMC Disaster Control. Dasrath was rescued at 08.10 pm by the fire brigade and was taken to the hospital where he was declared dead. Three fire tenders and personnel of other rescue agencies are engaged in the operations. (With Reporter's Inputs)

2016-05-07 22:43 By IANS www.mid-day.com

30 North Korea Congress: Kim Jong-un praises nuclear tests North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has opened the first ruling party congress in decades by praising his country's nuclear achievements. State television showed Mr Kim on stage speaking to rapturous applause at Pyongyang's House of Culture. John Sudworth reports from Pyongyang.

2016-05-07 22:39 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

31 Eyeless in Gaza Last week’s uncovering of the second Hamas attack tunnel within a few weeks was both good and bad news. It was certainly encouraging for an increasingly tense public to learn that the IDF’s tunnel detecting technology is better than ever; but discouraging to be reminded that the Islamist enclave on our doorstep continues to plot our destruction. Israel’s discovery of the shafts led to an immediate escalation by Hamas, which fired mortar rounds at troops searching for more of the tunnels Hamas has continued to build despite Operation Protective Edge. The mortar attacks were responded to with tank and aircraft fire, in tit-for-tat exchanges that indicate Hamas’s determination to prevent the uncovering and destruction of its only strategic threat to Israel. The increasing efficiency of IDF technology is seriously reducing the threat of terrorist incursion via tunnels. Hamas vainly tries to impede shaft detection by shelling anti-tunnel troops. The IDF returns fire and continues the grim search for the would-be conveyors of death from out of the ground, targeting Israeli civilians. The young soldiers are in a surreal movie, Raiders of the Lost Tunnels. Against the background of the current escalation, and the clamor of “Free Gaza” supporters among the BDS anti-Zionist crowd, Israel recently eased the transport of goods by truck to Gaza on the one hand, while an IDF general seriously proposed creating a Palestinian-designated port area in Ashdod for a similar purpose. It remains to be seen whether Hamas will be able to make the right choice between improving Gaza’s economy of and missing another opportunity to do right by its people. But while Israel tries to facilitate the transfer of civilian goods, Hamas last week tried to boost its military capability, in an unsuccessful bid to smuggle some 4 tons of rocket-manufacturing material – ammonium chloride – on a truck to Gaza. Instead of burying its foreign-donated treasure in deep tunnels, the Hamas leadership could be using the construction materials it siphons off legitimate shipments in order to build housing and provide employment. The highest-paying jobs in Gaza are as diggers of Hamas attack tunnels. That Hamas is still more concerned with mounting a futile military challenge to Israel – which its charter says must be destroyed – than with the welfare of its own people is part of the delusional character of the Palestinian leadership as a whole. But at least the territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority have enough to eat. According to the Israeli NGO Gisha – The Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, more than 70 percent of Gaza’s population depends on humanitarian aid from abroad. On the eve of 2014’s Operation Protection Edge, 57% of the population suffered from food insecurity. The unemployment rate was 38.4% in the fourth quarter of 2015 (compared to 18.7% in 2000). According to January 2016 data from Shelter Cluster, more than 100,000 Gazan housing units were damaged during the 2014 fighting. Some 11,000 of them were totally destroyed – of which 326 housing units were rebuilt. Of some 6,800 housing units that were severely damaged, 1,844 were repaired. In other words, Hamas has left 10,674 families homeless while using scarce construction materials to build attack tunnels. Israel’s growing expertise at destroying Hamas attack tunnels follows Egypt’s determined effort to destroy hundreds of the terrorists’ arms- and-goods-smuggling tunnels. According to the CIA, Egypt’s ongoing crackdown on Hamas’s smuggling network has led to increasing shortages of fuel, building material, and consumer goods. Maj.-Gen. (res) Yom Tov Samia, a former OC Southern Command, last week proposed that Israel permit the Palestinian Authority to operate a cargo terminal at Ashdod Port, where ships could unload goods bound for the nearby Gaza Strip. It is noteworthy that the proposal is for the Fatah-ruled PA, which would thereby gain a foothold in Gaza, misruled by its bitter Islamist rival Hamas. Samia’s plan followed the announcement by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon that half of some 800 trucks transporting goods to Gaza each day will be rerouted from the Kerem Shalom crossing in the Strip’s south to the Erez crossing that enters its north. Israel had halted commercial traffic through Erez in 2000 after the second intifada erupted, permitting only passenger transit. “This would be part of an overall plan, a comprehensive Israeli initiative,” Samia told a radio interview. “We need to do something,” he said. “We can’t just sit there and do nothing.” Syria was a state that disappeared into chaos; Gaza is a would-be Palestinian state that has yet to emerge from chaos.

2016-05-07 22:19 JPOST EDITORIAL www.jpost.com

32 Wits honors Esmé Berman for contribution to S. African art For Esmé Berman, a renowned Jewish South African art historian, March 30, 2016 was “the climactic moment” of her long career. It was on that day that Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) presented her with a Doctor of Literature degree (honoris causa) in recognition of her contribution to South African art. “I was honored by the rare – and unexpected – presence of the chancellor to confer my degree: the Honorable Dikgang Moseneke, the deputy chief justice of South Africa presiding in the highest court in our democracy, the Constitutional Court,” Berman told The Jerusalem Post in an interview last week. “A hero in South Africa, the learned Moseneke was a contemporary of Mandela and served time on the infamous Robben Island as a political prisoner. “As I am immobilized by Parkinson’s disease, following the citation I was wheeled across the stage to be handed my scroll by the chancellor and capped by the head of convocation. I was grandly ensconced in a scarlet and gold gown, capped with a black, velvet-tasseled tudor bonnet!” Berman, a distinguished writer, broadcaster, lecturer and consultant in South African art history who was born in South Africa in 1929, studied art at Wits and Trinity College in London. She was cited by Wits as being the first art historian to produce a comprehensive reference work of South African fine artists, Art and Artists of South Africa (published in 1970 and revised in 1983), a bestseller now in its fourth edition. The work has been a standard reference source for the past four decades and was the first of a series of encyclopedic works on South African artists authored by Berman. Together with Wits Prof. Karel Nel, she recently reintroduced the art of Alexis Preller in a deluxe, two-volume publication – a biography and annotated catalogue – which she launched at a major exhibition of his work in Johannesburg. Both the exhibit and the books were “landmarks” in the reassessment of an important South African artist, the university said in a statement. “Berman’s engagement with this project further enhances her contribution to the history of art in this country and deserves the recognition of being awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the university,” it said. Berman, who since turning 80 has penned a further five monographs on South Africa’s top artists, said her graduation ceremony “was quite different in mood from the staid rituals that I recall – primarily in the enthusiastic spirit of Black South Africa, epitomized in the introductory item – a performance of traditional songs by the Wits choir – a lively, melodious group, in variegated contemporary African attire, which combined with the glowing silk gowns of the senior academics to present a splendid tableau assembled on the Great Hall stage. The mix of the South African anthem with the Latin anthem of my alma mater was indeed a deeply moving moment.” Berman said her graduation day had been “engulfed in hospitality, excitement and good wishes – hundreds of emails and Facebook messages.” “After the ceremony, we hosted a euphoric party at one of our premier commercial galleries, graciously offered to us as the venue by owner Monna Mokoena, whose stable includes some of the most significant contemporary black South African artists exhibited at the most prestigious museums and galleries in the world,” she said. A mother of three and grandmother of two who lives in Johannesburg, Berman remembered the first pinnacle of her professional life, on November 20, 1970, when she first saw dozens of copies of her new book, Art and Artists of South Africa, in the window of the popular bookshop City Books in Johannesburg. “That sight eclipsed even the thrill of watching the same book scale the bestseller list repeatedly until the edition sold out two weeks before Christmas,” she said. “I could mention many moments of exceptional gratification during the past 66 years of active involvement in the art world – 16 of them in Los Angeles, and many of them associated with my activities as a speaker,” she added. “It was only quite recently, on glimpsing the row of heavy tomes that stretched across one of my library shelves – all of them by Esmé Berman – that it struck me that I could identify myself as an author. “It is as such that I am the subject of ‘Public Encounter – the life and work of Esmé Berman,’ due for release later this year. A collection of analytic and narrative essays by South Africa’s academic heavyweights, it is a book dedicated to my contribution to South African art history – annotated with vivid photographs spanning my career – and that of the South African art world across the 20th century. That publication would probably have headed my list of highlights before March this year, when I received the utterly unexpected but unequaled accolade from my alma mater.”

2016-05-07 22:03 STEVE LINDE www.jpost.com

33 No holds are barred as Israel battles for a one billion dollar defense deal IN EARLY April, the Defense Ministry published last year’s figures for weapon sales, which totaled $5.7 billion, almost the same as in 2014. This keeps Israel among the top 10 military exporters in the world even though arms sales comprise just six percent of its annual exports of goods and services. Nearly 40 percent of annual weapons exports are to Asia, in particular India, which is Israel’s second-largest single market after the US. Defense Ministry officials hope, however, that after the two years of relative stagnation in weapons sales, the figures will rise in 2016. In 2012 sales reached $7.4 billion. This hope is based on two recent major developments in India and Poland. Indian media recently reported that ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s planned first visit to Israel later this year, New Delhi is close to concluding three major deals with Israel, worth around $3 billion. These include joint development of a medium- range surface-to-air missile system for the Indian Army; the acquisition of 164 Litening-4 laser-designation pods for Indian Air Force fighters such as the Soviet-built Sukhoi Su-30 and the Anglo-French Jaguar, as well as 250 advanced Spice precision stand-off bombs, capable of taking out fortified enemy underground command centers, and 321 Spike anti-tank guided missile systems and 8,356 missiles. The same day the Defense Ministry announced the 2015 sales figures, Poland’s Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz visited Israel and met his counterpart Moshe Ya’alon. It was a brief one-day visit with one main purpose – to conclude a $1 billion weapons deal. The 67-year-old Polish minister, who has been in office just five months, is a controversial right- wing political figure. With the collapse of Communism in 1990, Macierewicz was elected to the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament. He has since served in various capacities in the Polish establishment, including as interior minister; heading the military counter-intelligence agency, and creating various political parties and groups with names such as “Polish Action,” the “National Catholic Movement” and the “League of Polish Families.” It can be discerned from the above that he is an anti-Russian Polish nationalist, radical right- winger and a pious Catholic. Born to a family of anti-Communist intellectuals, his father, a chemist by profession, fought during World War II in the anti-Nazi and anti-Communist Home Army (Armija Krayova) resistance movement. In 1949, when Macierewicz was one year old, his father was murdered by the security services of the Polish communist government. The son walked in his father’s political footsteps and became an ardent anti-communist. He was expelled from high school and universities and, in 1980, joined the Solidarity movement. He was harassed, occasionally jailed, escaped from prison and went into hiding for three years. A few years after Poland turned democratic in the 90s, Solidarity spilt into two wings. One is center-left of center and concentrates around the Civic Platform (PO) Party holding liberal beliefs in line with Western values. The other is the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) Party that heads the new government. Many Polish cabinet ministers, Macierewicz included, tend to believe in conspiracy theories. Thus, shortly before arriving in Israel, he told parliament that he had ordered an investigation into the 2010 airplane crash that resulted in the deaths of then president Lech Kaczynski and dozens of top government and military officials. Like some of his cabinet colleagues, he believes it was an “act of terrorism,” hinting that the hated Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the plane shot down. His visit should have raised special interest because of despicable anti-Semitic comments he made in 2002, during an interview with the notoriously anti-Semitic Catholic Radio Maryja station. A caller asked him what he thought about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the infamous anti-Semitic fabrication. Acknowledging that there is doubt about the document’s authenticity, Macierewicz said he found it interesting, adding that “experience shows that there are such groups in Jewish circles.” The Jerusalem Report asked the Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv to facilitate an interview with the minister to determine whether he still believes in a “Jewish conspiracy” and, if not, if he is ready to apologize for his comments. The request was declined. Instead, Macierewicz gave an interview to Channel One TV news in which he brushed off the question about his anti-Semitic remarks as being “taken out of context.” As expected, the visit went smoothly and his Israeli hosts, including Defense Minister Ya’alon, didn’t dare challenge him. It has been a tendency shared by most Israeli governments to sacrifice moral issues, historic precedents and even the memory of the Holocaust on the altar of weapons sales and security considerations. Thus, Israel did very little to protest the revisionist rewriting of history in the Baltic States or in central Europe, where Nazi collaborators and Jewish murderers are worshipped as heroes just because they also happen to be anti-Communist. The welcoming of the Polish defense minister was no exception. Defense Ministry officials had hoped the visit would wrap up the $1billion long-delayed deal to sell advanced Israeli drones to the Polish army, a NATO member. The previous PO-led Polish government had initiated an impressive effort to modernize and upgrade the Polish armed forces and planned to purchase drones for intelligence gathering, aerial reconnaissance and assault purposes. Israel, which is a world leader in drones, was quick to respond, and the two countries began arduous negotiations hampered by internal and external obstacles, which prevented the deal from materializing. First, the two leading Israeli manufacturers, Elbit Systems and Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI), rushed to offer their products but soon were at each other’s throats. The Polish media was filled with sensational stories about the no-holds-barred competition between the two Israeli rivals and there were rumors about bribes changing hands. At one point it became clear that the big loser would not be one of the companies, but rather Israel’s military complex and its reputation. The Defense Ministry stepped in ‒ acting as an arbitrator ‒ and arranged a deal. Elbit was given the go ahead to take part in the bidding while IAI was forced to pull out, but not before being promised by the ministry that it would be compensated with another deal in another country. Still, Elbit had to overcome an even bigger obstacle ‒ US defense giant General Atomics, the manufacturer of the Predator drone, had also set its eyes on the lucrative contract. It took more time and another round of secret talks ‒ this time between Israel, the US and Poland ‒ to cut a deal. It was agreed that the US administration would back off and, in return, Israel would not pursue its campaign to sell an anti-missile defense system to Warsaw. The Israeli system is based on technology used in the Iron Dome, for short-range missiles, and David’s Sling, which can intercept rockets and cruise missiles ‒ complementary systems that were developed by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Raytheon in the US. The deal is that the Polish government, instead, will procure the US Patriot anti- missile system, built by Raytheon, or Lockheed Martin’s Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). The contract is estimated to be worth $4 billion, including maintenance and overhaul. The three-way discussions between Poland’s PiS government, the US and Israeli authorities leave the competing French defense industry completely out in the cold. In order to sweeten the deal, Elbit teamed up with Polish military manufacturer PGZ and will build an assembly facility in Poland and has promised extensive transfer of technology as part of the package. If the deal indeed materializes, Elbit will supply at least 20 drone systems of its Hermes 450 and Hermes 900 models with ground stations and additional equipment. Poland will manufacture the secret encryption and communication systems. Poland has been considered one of Israel’s best friends in the EU and the two have very close military and intelligence cooperation. Polish pilots have conducted joint training exercises with their Israeli counterparts, while Polish special forces have trained with Israel’s elite units. Now, with right-wing governments in Warsaw and Jerusalem which, to a certain degree, have common ideological views, security cooperation has a good chance to improve. It is a historic irony that such a development is being led by a Polish minister who, at least in the past, said he believed in an international Jewish conspiracy. Yossi Melman is an Israeli security commentator and co-author of ‘Spies Against Armageddon.’ He blogs at www.israelspy.com and tweets at yossi_melman.

2016-05-07 21:26 YOSSI MELMAN www.jpost.com

2016-05-07 21:13 By A www.mid-day.com

35 Stars light up last day of Poe campaign Celebrity endorsers showed up on Saturday at the miting de avance of Sen. Grace Poe’s team at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila. Among the stars who joined the final sortie of Partido Galing at Puso were award-winning actress Nora Aunor and father and son Niño and Lorenzo Muhlach. Singers Ogie Alcasid and Angeline Quinto and rap group Salbakuta were among those who performed during the event. Also present at the gathering were actresses Lovi, Poe’s sister, and Heart Evangelista, wife of Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero, the presidential candidate’s running mate.

2016-05-07 21:12 Maila Ager entertainment.inquirer.net

36 One Congress and 2 MNS corporators join BJP in Mumbai After several corporators from various political parties formally joined the Shiv Sena recently, three corporators from Congress and MNS defected and joined the BJP on Saturday. Among those who joined the BJP was Dahisar MNS corporator Prakash Darekar. Ahead of the 2017 BMC elections, political parties have stepped up their strategy and are going all out to rope-in possible winning candidates from other parties. On Saturday, Congress corporator Kesarben Patel from K/East ward, MNS corporators Sukhada Pawar (H/East) and Darekar joined the BJP in a formal ceremony. City BJP chief Ashish Shelar tweeted a picture with the three, thus making the announcement. The exit of none of the three corporators was a surprise to their parties. It was an open secret about where Darekar’s loyalties lie for quite a while. His former-MLA brother Pravin had left the MNS to join the BJP in the past. Besides, after the recently concluded BMC budget, Darekar had accepted Rs 50 lakh from the BJP’s development fund. That was a clear indication of his defection and it was only a matter of time before he formally joined the BJP. Commenting on it, Darekar said, “Defections happen in politics over differences. It is a part of the game. My brother was in BJP already. Two brothers cant stay in different parties. I have not been promised a ticket. I’ll carry forward party responsibilities.” Pawar was expected to join the Sena instead of BJP. Pawar had voted for the Sena in the recently concluded ward council elections, thus sounding the bugle of rebellion. Since she had voted for the Sena, it came as a surprise that she joined BJP on Saturday. Pawar was not available for comment. Meanwhile, Patel’s entry into the BJP came as no surprise. “We have a lot of faith in Modiji and that is why she has joined party. She did what is in the interest of the people. She has not been promised a ticket at all. We will both serve the party and if the party gives her the responsibility of contesting elections, she will contest,” Patel’s husband Murji Patel said.

2016-05-07 21:04 By A www.mid-day.com

37 Maine Sunday Telegram Business Those talks ultimately failed when the team confirmed Wednesday that the Pirates are being sold and will be moving to Springfield, Massachusetts, for next year’s American Hockey League season. The departure results in the loss of the county-owned arena’s prime tenant. The Pirates played 38 regular-season games a year at the Portland arena, and business leaders say their presence was a key part of the city’s winter economy, filling bars and restaurants before and after games. Mitchell Berkowitz, chairman of the arena board, said the trustees didn’t need to know how much revenue the Pirates produced for the arena because “there were other techniques we could use” in the discussions. He said Thursday he still doesn’t know how much revenue the hockey games brought in, and otherwise declined to be specific about the trustees’ negotiating approach. Knowing how much the county made from the Pirates lease “isn’t the only direction I would use” in trying to fashion a deal with the team to prevent it from leaving the state, he said. Berkowitz also said he didn’t notify the city that the Pirates might leave because it was “speculative” that Portland officials could have done anything to convince the team to abandon the sale and remain in town. He invited the five county commissioners to a meeting to discuss the lease last week, Berkowitz said, and two attended. On Wednesday, Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling denounced the trustees’ failure to notify the city, saying he and other city officials were caught off-guard by the team’s departure. He also called for changes in the arena’s governing structure of nine trustees appointed by the Cumberland County commissioners and said the $100,000 limit on damages for breaking the lease was too low. “The governing structure over there I think has to be looked at so it’s a little more accountable to taxpayers, especially the biggest taxpayer in the pool,” Strimling said. “Portland taxpayers are putting money into that place and I’m pretty frustrated we had no warning, no voice at the table, no nothing in terms of the conversation.” DETERIORATING TEAM FINANCES Without knowing how much revenue the team brings in, it’s difficult to assess whether Strimling’s criticism of the $100,000 fee is warranted. Repeated calls Thursday seeking information on hockey revenues from Matt Hepich, general manager of the arena for the management firm Spectra, were not returned. The arena’s monthly financial reports reviewed by the Press Herald contain references to the amount of revenue above or below budget that comes in from hockey games, but not the actual or budgeted receipts. The lease calls for the team to pay the arena $1,000 per game, plus arena expenses, but there are complex revenue-sharing deals for concessions and ticket sales. Berkowitz said the team approached the trustees “in the last two or three weeks” to say the Pirates’ finances “weren’t sustainable” under the current lease structure, which was hammered out in early 2014 after long and occasionally acrimonious negotiations that included a lawsuit filed by the team against the county. The arena was, at the time, closed for a $34 million upgrade and the team flirted with moving to Glens Falls, New York. But businessman Ron Cain, who bought a majority stake in the team in late 2013, decided to keep the Pirates in Portland. During the recent discussions, the team told the trustees that the Pirates could be sold and moved out of Portland if there weren’t changes to address the team’s losses. Brad Church, the team’s chief operations officer, declined to provide details on the Pirates’ finances, but said expenses were increasing faster than revenues. Church said Thursday that county officials offered “concessions” on the lease terms, but neither he nor Berkowitz would say what changes were being considered. The trustees met twice to discuss changing the lease – once last week and again Monday, but both discussions were held in executive session. Berkowitz said he wouldn’t provide details on the lease changes the trustees considered because the team has not formally notified the county of the sale and relocation. Church told trustees Thursday that a letter of intent for the sale and move had been signed, but said he hasn’t actually seen the letter and doesn’t know who is buying the team or the location of the Pirates’ new home, However, Church said he is going to league meetings in Chicago next week to seek approval of the sale and relocation. Berkowitz said trustees felt pressured to come up with a proposal for the Pirates because they knew that AHL teams had to submit schedules to the league by May 10, next Tuesday. ARENA REVENUE FALLING SHORT Without knowing the hockey revenues, it’s impossible to say what impact the loss of the prime tenant will have on the arena’s overall financial situation. The arena posted an operating loss of $600,000, excluding an annual bond payment of more than $1 million related to the recent $34 million renovation, for the year ending June 30, 2015. The county is currently picking up nearly $3 million in costs that were expected to be covered by increased revenue from events at the arena, said County Manager Peter Crichton. When the arena was renovated, the hope was that more bookings and business would generate enough money to cover the cost of repaying the 25-year bonds sold to finance the work. Those annual payments are $1.9 million now and will rise to $2.1 million in the next few years. Additionally, Crichton said the arena lost $530,000 during the last calendar year, and had $450,000 in capital needs. All of those costs have been passed on to county taxpayers. In one bit of good news, Royce Cross, CEO of Cross Insurance, said his company doesn’t plan to reconsider its naming rights agreement with the arena despite the departure of the venue’s key tenant. Berkowitz said the arena has attracted some concerts and other performances to supplement the income from hockey, but that industry is in poor financial shape these days. He said Spectra, which was hired a year ago to manage the facility, has failed to meet performance benchmarks that would make it eligible for bonus payments, but he has faith in the company’s ability to run the arena and make it successful. Berkowitz also said that the goal of the renovation was never to make it a better place just for the Pirates. Before the renovations, the arena was unable to accommodate many traveling acts because of deficiencies in areas such as the loading dock and backstage facilities. Reconnecting with tour operators to promote Portland as a venue takes time, Berkowitz said, likening the situation to putting a new teacher in a classroom of struggling students. “Would you expect that the students after one year would move to an ‘A’?” he said. “It takes time to rebuild.”

2016-05-07 19:48 www.pressherald.com

38 David Cameron under pressure to end tax haven secrecy David Cameron is under intense pressure to invoke special powers that would force British tax havens to end their fiercely protected secrecy. In the wake of the Panama Papers scandal, which revealed the extent to which the likes of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) were being used to hide money offshore, the prime minister is being urged to set a timetable for imposing stringent anti-corruption laws on Britain’s tax havens. It is extremely rare for Westminster to impose such measures, but not without precedent. The UK forced its Caribbean territories to abolish the death penalty in 1991 and to decriminalise homosexuality in 2000. Before a major UK summit to be attended by 50 countries and international institutions, a powerful coalition of anti-corruption organisations is urging Cameron to take action that would, if they failed to do so voluntarily, force the overseas territories and crown dependencies to introduce central public registers of company ownership, allowing law-enforcement agencies to identify their true beneficiaries. Downing Street disclosed on Saturday that the presidents of Afghanistan, Colombia and Nigeria would attend the summit, along with the Norwegian prime minister, on Thursday. A spokesman said Cameron wanted all those present to sign the first global declaration against corruption, which would commit them to working together to tackle it, acknowledging that corruption undermines efforts to end poverty, promote prosperity and defeat terrorism and extremism. However, it emerged that the government was still only “in discussions with the overseas territories and crown dependencies” about their attendance, although a spokesman said he expected “a number to join”. The anti-poverty group ONE claims that the amount of money siphoned from developing countries now totals more than $1 trillion (£600bn), and that there is increasing evidence that British overseas territories are playing a role in hiding significant amounts of that cash in London. Among a series of demands, the campaign group is calling for a public register of beneficial ownership so that it is clear who owns trusts and companies. Saira O’Mallie, interim UK director for ONE, said: “The trillion-dollar scandal costs the world’s poorest dearly and this summit should be the moment to turn the tide. We’re calling on the prime minister to reclaim his leadership in the fight against corruption. “This isn’t an issue we can ignore; it’s in our own backyard, with the British Virgin Islands featuring again and again in the Panama Papers leak. By insisting on that information about who owns and controls companies and trusts, in both the UK and British overseas territories, we will send a clear message to the world that the UK does not tolerate corruption.” Rosie Sharpe, senior campaigner at Global Witness, said: “The corruption summit is a key test of the government’s willingness to tackle this problem where it matters most. David Cameron will shortly introduce public registers of the real owners of companies set up in the UK, and that’s a commendable first step – but, as the Panama Papers have shown, the real problem is in our tax havens. Until they enact the same measures, the UK can’t credibly claim to be leading the global fight against corruption.” A failure to take action against the tax havens would be seen as a personal setback for Cameron. Last year he accused some of them of failing to tackle tax evasion and money laundering and pledged a crackdown. Cameron was recently embarrassed when, in the wake of the Panama Papers leak, he admitted that he had sold shares in his father’s company, Blairmore Holdings , an offshore fund set up in the 1980s. The central role played by British overseas territories in London’s property market has been revealed in a new analysis of illicit global money flows published on the eve of the summit. Nearly three out of four properties in London sold to overseas companies between 1999 and 2014 were registered in the UK overseas territories and crown dependencies, where beneficial ownership need not be disclosed. The average price of properties purchased by those companies stands at £5.6m and is 33 times greater than the average in England and Wales in 2014. The flow of foreign money into London has been pinpointed as a key reason for spiralling house prices in the capital, where the average is now more than £500,000. A ComRes poll for Oxfam and Global Witness has found that 80% of people believe Cameron has a moral responsibility to ensure that the UK’s overseas territories are as transparent as possible. “David Cameron should listen to the huge public concern over Britain’s dirty offshore backyard and put an end to the secrecy that enables the rich and powerful to get away without paying their fair share of taxes,” said Nick Bryer, head of Oxfam’s inequality campaign. “Until tax haven loopholes are firmly closed, millions of the world’s most vulnerable people will continue to pay the price, as poor countries lose billions in potential tax revenue that could help to improve lives by providing medical treatment and a decent education.” The BVI, Cayman Islands and Jersey have all signalled that they will not sign the public registers scheme. The Isle of Man will share information only in private with organisations that have a legitimate interest. None is attending the summit. In a further snub to Cameron, it has emerged that Russia is sending only its deputy foreign minister, Oleg Syromolotov, to the London summit. The Russian foreign ministry issued a statement in which it said that while “decisions taken at the summit may be useful for the work of anti-corruption forums … they must not be imperative”. Robert Barrington, executive director of Transparency International , said: “I think you can say pretty clearly that an anti-corruption communique that Russia feels able to sign up to is simply not going to be strong enough.” Speaking before the summit, Cameron said: “The battle against corruption will not be won overnight. It will take time, courage and determination to deliver the reforms that are necessary. But we cannot hope to solve the major global challenges we face without tackling the exploitation, fraud and dishonesty at their heart. “For too long there has been a taboo about tackling this issue head on. The summit will change that. Together we will push the fight against corruption to the top of the international agenda, where it belongs.”

2016-05-07 20:54 Daniel Boffey www.theguardian.com

39 UAB: Running back Greg Bryant dies after shooting in Florida WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — UAB running back Greg Bryant was shot and killed Saturday in South Florida, the school said. He was 21. Bryant, a former Notre Dame player, and passenger Maurice Grover were found shot in a car along southbound Interstate 95 in West Palm Beach, police told The Palm Beach Post. Grover had minor injuries, police said. "We lost a member of our Blazer family today with the senseless passing of Greg Bryant," Blazers coach Bill Clark said. "We were so excited to recruit Greg, welcome him to Birmingham and to UAB football, and get to know him over the past several months. Greg was a very special talent and young man. He always had a smile on his face. While he was with us for a short time — too short — he was a big part of an exciting and historical time for our program and will always be a Blazer. " Clark said in an earlier statement that Bryant had been surrounded by family as he received treatment for gunshot wounds. Bryant was the biggest name in UAB's first recruiting class since the school restarted the football program. He spent last season living out of a hotel room in Miami with friends while attending classes at ASA College, playing in only one game. Bryant left Notre Dame after one season when he was ruled academically ineligible for the 2015 season. "Greg worked extremely hard this spring on the field and in the classroom," Clark said. "He told me his GPA this semester was the highest he has had in his life, and he was very proud. The light really went on for him here, and he had a bright future ahead of him. " Since UAB won't play again until the 2017 season, Bryant was allowed to enroll in January 2016 instead of possibly having to wait an extra year to get eligible elsewhere. He could become eligible to compete after spending an academic year at UAB. "Coach Clark, he really did me a favor, because I was living in hotels in Miami," Bryant told The Associated Press before national signing day in February. "He said I could come in as soon as the semester was over. Any other school I would have had to wait another semester and probably be enrolled by December. I just bought into what coach Clark was saying and I got in with a 2.0" GPA. He expressed optimism for his future in an April 18 post on his Twitter page: "Accomplished way to (sic) much to stop here. Got so much more to accomplish. "

2016-05-07 20:51 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

40 Papal envoy preaches peace at Baltic NATO base The most senior cardinal in the Vatican met NATO troops in Lithuania on Saturday, delivering a message of peace in the Baltic region amid tensions with Russia. Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin met Portuguese troops at the northern Siauliai air base which hosts NATO's Baltic air police mission patrolling the alliance's frontier with Russia. NATO jets at the base have been scrambled with increasing frequency to intercept Russian aircraft since tensions with the West soared after Moscow's 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine. "This visit is meant to be a meeting with persons who work here, and at the same time a sign of peace," the cardinal told reporters, speaking in English. "There are so many conflicts, so many clashes between peoples and persons that really we need mercy as an instrument of pacification and understanding," he added. Mercy is the official Vatican theme of Holy Year, which runs until the end of November. Lithuania and fellow Baltic EU states Latvia and Estonia have been alarmed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and support for pro-Kremlin rebels in eastern Ukraine. They have recently secured additional military resources from NATO, angering Moscow which accuses the US-led military alliance of trying to contain it ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Baltic states, who were under Soviet occupation during the Cold War, lack sufficient aircraft and allies have been guarding their skies since 2004 when the trio joined the defence alliance. Portugal and Britain took over responsibility for providing air policing from May, offering four fighter jets each in Lithuania and Estonia. Lithuania's foreign minister Linas Linkevicius, a vocal critic of Russia, said the cardinal's visit showed Vatican was attentive to regional security. "It can be seen as a certain political signal taking into account the importance of this mission to the security of the Baltic states," the minister told AFP on Saturday. Parolin on Saturday also met Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius and visited the Hill of Crosses, a famous Christian pilgrimage site. The cardinal, who is second only to Pope Francis, will celebrate mass at the central square in the capital Vilnius on Sunday and will meet the Baltic state's President Dalia Grybauskaite on Monday. Lithuania, where 77 percent of the three-million-strong population is Roman Catholic, has invited Pope Francis to visit the country in 2018 when it celebrates the centenary of its first restored statehood. The country has restored its independence from Moscow twice -- in 1918 and 1990.

2016-05-07 21:30 By AFP www.digitaljournal.com

41 These beasts are beauties: India holds bovine beauty pageant ROHTAK, India (AP) - Even beasts can be beautiful. Hundreds of cows and bulls walked the ramp in a north Indian town Saturday in a bovine beauty pageant aimed at promoting domestic cattle breeds and raising awareness about animal health. As farmers led their animals, the panel of experts judged the beasts for their size and overall looks, the length of their horns and, for the cows, their milk-yielding capacities. The judges selected 18 winners in various categories, choosing the healthiest and best-looking cows and bulls from more than 630 animals in the contest, held in the farming town of Rohtak in Haryana state. On the ramp, the bovines displayed their individuality. Some sashayed with casual grace, while others dug in their heels and had to be pulled and prodded by their owners to walk for the judges. The winners, representing three different breeds, carried home prizes and a winner’s sash. The farmers led their prize cows with pride at the sprawling grounds of the International Institute of Veterinary Education and Research. “I have brought my best cow for the show and she has won a prize,” Randhir Singh, a farmer from nearby Dwarka village, said as he pointed to a red ribbon tied around the head of his well- groomed cow, which won first place in its category. “I wanted my cow to win and she has done me proud.” Prem Singh, the Haryana official in charge of animal husbandry, said only indigenous breeds were allowed to take part in the contest because the state government was trying to popularize local breeds of cows. Farmers from all 21 districts of Haryana participated in the cattle show and pageant, the official said. In recent years, India has emerged as one of the world’s largest producers of milk, although yields from Indian cows are low compared to those in Europe or America. The government is trying to improve milk yields of domestic cows by offering better veterinary support and counseling to cattle farmers.

2016-05-07 18:38 A pair www.washingtontimes.com

42 Trump Rally prompts tougher law for blocking traffic PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Legislature has passed a bill prompted by protesters who blocked roads before a March rally for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump. House Bill 2548 increases the penalties protesters can receive for intentionally blocking access to a political campaign event or a government meeting or hearing. The maximum penalty was 30 days and will increase to six months in jail if signed by Gov. Doug Ducey. Republican Sen. John Kavanagh of Fountain Hills tacked the provision onto a measure about free speech on college campuses last month. Kavanagh called the behavior “corrosive to democracy.” Opponents say lawmakers should not criminalize the act of civil disobedience. The House passed the bill early Saturday. The Senate gave its approval Friday.

2016-05-07 18:38 - Associated Press - Saturday, May 7, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

43 National Association of Convenience Stores Show 2015 – Las Vegas, Nevada Brenda Hyatt, Chief Editor/Journalist Donald Scelzo, Photographer Las Vegas, NV (Oct) The National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) Show was held from October 11-14, 2015 at The Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. The 24,000 plus attendees sampled fresh baked cookies, pizza, quick serve foods, and just about every treat you will find in any convenience store located across the country. Convenience stores are a comfort and a necessity for every neighborhood when you need that last minute item for a holiday meal or a quick gas fill up on your way to or from work. Events and educational sessions provided information impacting retailers and industry experts and introduced new tech products and trends. Educational sessions included: Vapor, Smoke and Mirrors: Making Sense of FDA Tobacco Regulations; Keeping Your Operating Costs Under Control; and Grow Sales the Healthy Way, to name a few. Attendees looked for fresh and healthy products to offer in their stores as consumer demands are changing. When it comes to snacking, shoppers are purchasing more fresh and nutritious foods. Over 55 educational sessions provided information on unique innovations in retail and several breakout sessions explored nutritional initiatives in depth. More gluten free and healthy products were introduced at exhibitors’ booths this year. Steuben Consumer Products encompasses brands with beverages made with natural ingredients that incorporate a healthy halo. Many of their products are plant-based alternatives to dairy and include pistachios and walnuts. Visit www.steubenconsumerproducts.com or email Mark S. Woleben, Regional Sales Manager at: [email protected] for more information. A new product to the industry was UrgentRx, exhibited by Breakthrough Products, Inc. These pocket friendly, single-dose flavored powder medications don’t need water. Customers on the road can be prepared by just pouring the powders directly into their mouth. For more information, visit www.urgentRx.com. Quick serve product Chester’s Chicken provided a full restaurant experience for attendees. Their chicken is fresh, marinated and double- breaded, using a proprietary family recipe. The company has been a leader of quick serve restaurant (QSR) concepts for over 50 years. Contact franchise business consultant Sean Raeburn at: [email protected] for more information. NACS provides tools to assist businesses in their day to day operations and the industry is changing with changing consumer demands. So to be a step ahead of the game register to attend the 2016 show to be held in Atlanta, Georgia Oct 1-21st. For more information or to register go to: www.nacsonline.com .

2016-05-07 21:35 Brenda Hyatt worldnewsvine.com

44 Bosnia's 16-Century Ferhad Pasha mosque re-opens Thousands of people have attended the re-opening of a 16th-Century mosque in Bosnia which was destroyed by Serb forces during the war of the 1990s. The Ferhad Pasha mosque in Banja Luka is seen as a masterpiece of Ottoman architecture. It took 14 years to rebuild, mostly using original stones. More than a dozen of Banja Luka's mosques were destroyed during the war. The Bosnian Serb authorities say the re-opening demonstrates their commitment to ethnic tolerance. The mosque was blown up 23 years ago, at the height of the Yugoslav civil war when Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks), Croats and other non-Serbs were expelled from their homes in a tactic known as ethnic cleansing. Known as the Ferhadija, the mosque was rebuilt after architects managed to recover about two- thirds of the original stone and use plans drawn up when an earthquake damaged it in the 1960s. Saturday's re-opening took place amid tight security, with about 1,000 police officers patrolling the streets as buses arrived with Muslims from across the country. Traffic was barred from the city centre and alcohol consumption was banned. Turkey financed part of the rebuilding and outgoing Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu re-opened the mosque in front of a congregation of about 10,000 people. He said the new building sent a message of peace. "Bosnia-Herzegovina, with its Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox and Jews, is one body, one heart. If there is any attempt to split it up, it means that this one heart would be split," he said in an apparent reference to secessionist threats by Bosnian Serbs. Bosnia's Grand Mufti, Hussein Kavazovic, called the re-opening "a joyous day for all". Banja Luka's Orthodox and Catholic bishops added their congratulations - while the president of Bosnia's Jewish community said the co-operation showed how people should live in the region. The re-opening was also welcomed by the UN and the EU. At least 100,000 people in total died during fighting in the the Bosnian war. The conflict lasted nearly four years before a US-brokered peace deal brought it to an end in 1995. Banja Luka is the capital of the Republika Srpska - one of two entities comprising Bosnia- Herzegovina. It is estimated that now only about 10% of Banja Luka's pre-war Muslim and Croat population remain in the city.

2016-05-07 22:40 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

45 Philippines election: Final rallies ahead of vote Final campaign rallies are being held in the Philippines' capital Manila ahead of Monday's election. The current presidential frontrunner is outspoken 71-year-old mayor Rodrigo "Digong" Duterte. But current president Benigno Aquino is leading attempts to bring together other candidates to defeat him. The campaign has been marred by violence. On Saturday a mayoral candidate was murdered in the south. A gunman stormed the home of Armando Ceballos, standing as an independent in the town of Lantapan, and shot him dead, police said. It brings to 15 the number of people killed during the campaign. Correspondents say the Philippines has a long tradition of political violence and dozens are killed during each election campaign. On Monday voters will select a new president for a six-year term, as well as a vice-president, 12 senators and many local officials. More than 54 million people are registered to vote across the archipelago of 7,000 islands. Rodrigo Duterte, nicknamed "The Punisher" for his tough crime-fighting approach, has promised to eliminate crime and corruption within months of attaining office. However, his brash speaking style and contempt for political correctness has seen him compared to US Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. He recently joked that, as mayor, he should have been first to rape an Australian missionary murdered in a prison riot, but he later apologised. President Aquino called on Mr Duterte's rivals to agree on a plan to narrow the field of candidates and consolidate their votes. However, candidates including Grace Poe, Jejomar Binay and Miriam Defensor-Santiago refused to step aside. Mr Duterte's campaign said the attempt to form an alliance against him "reeks of the stench of defeat". The economy, crime, corruption, poverty and territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea are all major issues. Traffic jams and Duterte fans in Manila Filipino boxing youth and politician Pacquiao Election issues through emojis The fizzy drink and bun presidential poll Add BBC News on Snapchat: bbcnews. Who will lead the Philippines?

2016-05-07 22:40 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

46 'Solar kids' become paralyzed each night Contact WND (WVIT) The two brothers have come to be known as the “solar kids” and their case has completely mystified Pakistani doctors. Ages 9 and 13, the boys are normal active children during the day. But once the sun goes down, they both lapse into a vegetative state — unable to move or talk. Javed Akram, a professor of medicine at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, told The Associated Press on Thursday that he had no idea what was causing the symptoms. “We took this case as a challenge. Our doctors are doing medical tests to determine why these kids remain active in the day but cannot open their eyes, why they cannot talk or eat when sun goes down,” he said, as he visited the pair at his hospital.

2016-05-07 08:52 www.wnd.com

47 Fort Bend ISD police mistake middle schooler's $2 bill as counterfeit, investigate An eighth grader in the Fort Bend Independent School District wanted to get chicken tenders with her $2 bill last week. Instead, 14-year-old Daneisha Neal almost got slapped with federal charges on accusations of counterfeiting money. Related: Fake $20 bills in motel trash lead to Bryan couple's arrest Officials at Christa McAuliffe Middle School didn't believe her $2 bill was real when she paid for her lunch, prompting an investigation by the Fort Bend ISD police. "I went to the lunch line and they said my $2 was fake," Daneisha told KTRK. "They gave it to the police. Then they sent me to the police office. A police officer said I could be in big trouble. " The TV station reports that the school's counterfeit-detecting pen didn't work on the bill since it was printed in 1953, prompting the campus officer to test the bill at a bank. See also: 50 Cent claims stacks of Instagram cash were fake As soon as school district police had their suspicions allayed, school officials released a statement that Daneisha would not face criminal charges. "Within the same day of receiving the report, the investigating officer confirmed that the bill was not (counterfeit) and there was never any criminal charge / referral," the release states. Under federal law, anyone caught counterfeiting U. S. money or knowingly using forged money can face up to 20 years in prison and a fine. According to the U. S. Treasury , the last batch of $2 bills was printed in 2003. As of April 30, 2007, the value of $2 bills in worldwide circulation was more than $1.5 billion.

2016-05-07 15:32 William Axford www.chron.com

48 World's worst airline, North Korea's oddball Air Koryo, is still in business The worst airline in the world flies regularly to only four or five destinations, departing from the despotic nation of North Korea. Air Koryo, the state-run Korean airline, rates as the only 1-star carrier on flight consultancy firm SkyTrax. Much-maligned airlines like Spirit Airlines and RyanAir at least earn two stars, putting them on the same playing field as Iran Air and Cubana Air. While Air Koryo stands alone – at the bottom – the issues with the North Korean airline stems more from comfort than safety. Although passengers complain about flight attendants skipping safety instructions or condensation from cooling systems splashing on seats, Air Koryo’s only known fatal accident occurred in 1983. EERIE: North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' is the world's tallest abandoned building Still, the enigmatic airline founded in 1955 has some clear downsides. The Associated Press described Air Koryo as the world’s quirkiest airline in 2014, and the quirks were not exactly pleasant: In-flight entertainment is usually limited to the popular Moranbong Band girl group singing patriotic odes to the leader. Or North Korean cartoons, shown on drop-down screens attached to the cabin ceilings. On the less than two-hour hop from Beijing, there is a meal of sorts. It resembles a hamburger. It helps that Air Koryo updated its Russian-made fleet in 2010 with new Tupolev 204 aircrafts after the European Union banned the airline in 2006 for “serious and repeated safety deficiencies.” The Russian planes are not known for amenity. North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un also commissioned a makeover for Pyongyang's Sunan International Airport that was completed in 2015. Unlike his father, Kim Jong-Il, who was afraid of flying, his son has an interest in aircraft. TAKE OFF: The world's best airlines for 2016 The airline run by the hermit nation known for nuclear threats and human rights abuses doesn’t get out much. Air Koryo has regular routes to two cities in China, Vladivostok in Russia, and Bangkok. The enigmatic airline inside the secretive country also has a no-photography policy on flights. But apparently, as seen in the gallery, those restrictions can be relaxed depending on the flight. See the gallery above for a look around Air Koryo (and see its infamous in-flight hamburger).

2016-05-07 22:59 Matt Levin www.chron.com

49 TV-radio listings: May 7 Television Col. baseball Louisville at North Carolina St. FSSW Plus 11 a.m. Col. baseball Vanderbilt at Texas A&M SEC 2:30 p.m. Col. baseball Kansas St. at Oklahoma FSSW 3 p.m. Col. baseball Auburn at Alabama SEC 6 p.m. Col. softball Georgia at Alabama ESPN 11 a.m. Col. softball Texas A&M at Auburn ESPN 1 p.m. Col. softball Texas Tech at Oklahoma FSSW 1 p.m. Col. volleyball NCAA beach semifinals truTV 2 p.m. Col. volleyball NCAA men's final ESPN2 7 p.m. Golf Trophée Hassan II Golf 5:30 a.m.8:30 a.m. Golf Wells Fargo Championship Golf noonCBS 2 p.m. Golf Yokohama Tire Classic Golf 2 p.m. Golf Insperity Invitational Golf 4 p.m. Horse racing Kentucky Derby undercard NBCSN 11 a.m. Horse racing Kentucky Derby NBC 3 p.m. Motor sports Sprint Cup race FS1 6:30 p.m. Motor sports AMA Supercross FS2 9 p.m. FS1 10 p.m. Pro baseball Texas at Detroit FS1 noon Pro baseball Washington at Chicago Cubs FS1 3 p.m. Pro baseball Minnesota at Chicago White Sox MLB 6 p.m. Pro baseball Seattle at Astros Root 6 p.m. Pro baseball N. Y. Mets at San Diego MLB 9 p.m. Pro basketball Toronto at Miami ESPN 4 p.m. Pro basketball Golden State at Portland ABC 7:30 p.m. Pro hockey St. Louis at Dallas NBC noon Pro hockey Pittsburgh at Washington NBC 6:15 p.m. Pro hockey Nashville at San Jose NBCSN 9 p.m. Pro soccer Kansas City at Dynamo Root Plus 7:30 p.m. Soccer Manchester United at Norwich City NBCSN 6:45 p.m. Soccer Watford at Liverpool NBCSN 8 a.m. Soccer Bayern Munich at FC Ingolstadt 04 Fox 8:30 a.m. Soccer Borussia Dortmund FS1 8:30 a.m.at Eintracht Frankfurt Soccer Everton at Leicester City USA 11:30 a.m. Radio Horse racing Kentucky Derby 97.5 FM 4 p.m. Pro baseball Seattle at Astros 790 AM 6 p.m. Astros in Spanish 94.1 FM Pro soccer Kansas City at Dynamo 610 AM 7:30 p.m. Dynamo in Spanish 1010 AM

2016-05-07 22:59 Staff reports www.chron.com

50 50 Five more local educators have been inducted into the Henderson County Education Foundation’s Hall of Fame, for special contribution to local education. Of the five inductees, three are living retirees: former Upward Elementary principal Don George Bryant, exceptional children teacher Sharon Smith Burlingame, and East Henderson High School teacher and girls’ basketball coach Dorothy Louise Newman Whitmire. Louise is the fifth in the Whitmire family in the hall, joining Boyce, Bill, John and Shirley Whitmire. Inducted posthumously are Edneyville High School principal Phillip H. Croft and his wife, Hendersonville High (HHS) English teacher Christine McCorckle Croft. They were honored April 21 at Education Celebration, the 14th annual Hall of Fame induction banquet so named and now with Pardee Hospital as chief sponsor. Nearly 260 people attended (at $50 each) in 30-year-old HCEF’s chief fundraiser, in Blue Ridge Community College’s Conference, HCEF Exec. Dir. Paul Knott noted. In all, 119 local educators have been enshrined since 2003. Knott hailed their “dedication, love and commitment” in scholastic “trenches.” In a new HoF banquet tradition, there was recognition of 2015-16 teachers of the year from each of Henderson County Public School’s 23 schools. Also saluted was Peggy Marshall of Sugarloaf Elementary, as top principal in the county and WNC’s District 8 Region. Their Sam’s Club goody bags included an apple, candies, pens and binder clips. HCEF Board Pres. Dan Poeta credited their helping the county rank eighth best in academic achievement, among 115 districts statewide. Also, HCEF’s new David L. Jones Fund for Innovation among teachers (with over $6,000 in pledges) was unveiled. Supt. Jones is retiring effective July 1, after six years at the helm. Don Bryant The first inductee was Don Bryant. He was principal of East Flat Rock Elementary in 1989-93, then the first leader of Upward Elementary (‘93-05). He won principal of the year awards within the county, in 1998 and 2004. He is hailed for getting parents involved in student activities, and acting on teacher and student concerns. He was HCEF board president, in 2006-08. He has been Mountain Community Public Charter School’s development director. He is president of the Henderson County Association of Retired School Personnel. Bryant started a quarter-century career in 1980, as a guidance counselor at Rugby Junior High. He became Rugby summer school director, athletic director and assistant principal over nine years. Rugby students dedicated their ‘89 yearbook to him, for how “he graced our lives with quietness and dignity, and we felt as if he was a true friend.” He said it is critical for students to “learn how to learn, not just how to know.” The native of a small New England town had a stroke a month earlier, on March 6. Yet he spoke for a while, often quoting scripture to express appreciation for life and public service. Sharon Smith Burlingame made learning more rewarding for foster children, students with disabilities or others with challenges in school. “The sky was the limit for those kids,” she told the crowd. Balfour Elementary with Corum Smith as principal dared to “mainstream” severely deaf students, she noted. She taught hearing-impaired youths in mornings in Balfour, then in the 13 other county public schools in afternoons, in 1979-2008. Previously, she taught in Huron High in Ann Arbor, Mich., and in Fiji and Nepal. She helped implement pre-school classes for challenged “exceptional” children at Balfour then other elementaries, when it was first required in 1980. She went to UNC-CH and had master’s level training in teaching deaf students. She taught sign language to teaching colleagues. The former Local Interagency Coordinating Council leader urged agencies to ask for priority resources for youth. She recalled “joy that we all have looking at our community’s needs, and working together.” Louise Whitmire created the first school gymnastics program in the county, at East Henderson High School and showcased it to the public in a “Springnastics” with varying themes. She taught at East for 34 years, starting when it opened in 1960 and after a year of teaching in Virginia. She taught health, physical education, sciences and typing at East. Springnastics was a “good time,” Louise recalled to The Tribune. Youths liked bouncing off a trampoline and trying uneven bars and other events, she said. She debuted gymnastic shows in 1968, at halftime of basketball games. Her sister-in-law, Jimmie Lynn Whitmire, was her student. She praised resourceful Louise for using tractor inner tube and boxes, for vaulting over. Patsy Rhodes, who later taught, had Mrs. Whitmire for all four years at East. She called her “leading and encouraging, never pushy or demanding.” Gymnastics was Louise’s “pride and joy” for anyone in co-ed gym to try. She coached East girls basketball, oversaw cheerleading, was Student Council advisor, and led many school fundraisers. Rhodes cites Louise’s superb preparation and effort, as a coach and teacher. Also, “she was very sensitive to all our needs” and “gave the extra step for all of us.” Christine Croft Phillip and Christine Croft each “had a special love for what they did,” their daughter Cynthia Godehn told the crowd in accepting their honors. She said her parents met at a USO dance in Hendersonville during WWII; her father entered teasing “I’m here, girls!” Christine called him “Happy.” She was his “Doll Baby.” Phillip Croft Phillip Croft was Edneyville principal for 10 years, starting in 1967. He steered EHS’s expansion in numbers and academic quality. John Whitmire, who would coach boys’ basketball at EHS, recalled as a student how six-foot-four Croft was helpful and funny behind a gruff exterior with a Bronx accent. Croft taught science for the prior 10 years at East Flat Rock Elementary, then Flat Rock and East Henderson high schools. At East, he taught biology, chemistry and physics. In summers, he was a leader in his alma mater (Class of ’51) Western Carolina University’s prep Summer Demonstration School in science at WCU. He first taught at Christ School, in Arden. “Edneyville will fight any school anytime, anywhere!” was his battle cry at an area principals’ conference regarding athletic scheduling, Cynthia said. He fought the Nazis as an Army staff sergeant, in the fierce Battle of the Bulge. The high school drop-out got in gear and placed out of his first two years of college in a post- Army exam, Cynthia said. He earned a master’s in education at Columbia in NYC. He died in 1999; his wife died in 2001. Christine Croft, an HHS grad in 1935, taught English there in 1955-77. She was ahead of her time in cross-curricular teaching of literature, intertwining academic subjects around a theme and critical thinking. Tom Orr was her HHS English teaching colleague. Earlier, as her pupil, he relished how she could “make poetry spring to life, as she stood and recited to her class by heart from her ‘memory bank’ of poems and stories.” Cynthia was “mesmerized” by such recitations, in class. Since 1976, HHS has awarded the Christine Croft Cup to the entire class with most community service. She spurred selling of “victory ribbons” in homerooms ahead of football games, as Student Council faculty sponsor. Before her HHS stint Mrs. Croft taught in Flat Rock then Fletcher high schools and Rosa Edwards School. She taught 35 years in the county and nearly 40 overall, starting soon after World War II and ahead of her husband. Christine Croft removed her heels in the hall to silently sneak back into her room, “fling the door open and say ‘ahah, I caught you’ to chatterers, induction M. C. John Bryant noted. Orr was such a favorite student of her mother, Cynthia revealed, he was the only one she let address her at school as Christine or even “Crafty Croft.”

2016-05-07 22:59 www.thetribunepapers.com

51 Jeremy Corbyn hails 'incredible' victory of Bristol's new mayor Marvin Rees Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn hailed the election of Marvin Rees as mayor of Bristol describing his victory as "incredible". Mixed race Mr Rees, 43, was elected just hours after Sadiq Khan, a Muslim and son of a Pakistani immigrant, became the new mayor of London. Senior Labour figures like deputy leader Tom Watson and former leader Ed Miliband welcomed Mr Rees's victory, as did race campaigners who said he was a role model for black youngsters, Mr Rees, a married father of three, won 68,750 votes after second preferences had been counted, defeating the incumbent, Bristol First's George Ferguson, who finished on 39,557. Operation Black Vote said Mr Rees was the first person of Afro-Caribbean descent to be directly elected mayor of a major city in the whole of Europe and said his election in Bristol, which made its wealth from slavery, was symbolic. It is thought that a high turnout, combined with all-up council elections in Bristol may well have helped him beat architect Mr Ferguson, 69. Mr Corbyn had travelled to Bristol to celebrate with Mr Rees rather than appearing at the ceremony marking Mr Khan's historic success in London. The Labour leader said he was "proud" that both Mr Rees and Mr Khan had won their respective elections and criticised the Conservatives for their "nasty gutter politics". "Marvin Rees, a black man elected mayor of Bristol. I have been in Bristol quite a few times over the months supporting Marvin because he has this fantastic reach, a fantastic personality - this ability to unite the whole city, to unite people to face the problems we all have," he said. "Marvin is someone who is absolutely rooted in Bristol and its community. This incredible result that has been achieved here today is a huge thank you to everyone in the Labour Party in Bristol and all over the region. " Mr Corbyn said people were joining the Labour Party because they believed, like him, that Britain "could be so different" and were angry at the Conservative's election campaign in London. "It doesn't have to be unequal with a tiny minority at the top getting so much and the big majority at the bottom getting so little," he said. "They wanted the Labour mayor and they wanted things done very differently. They were saying they were so disgusted at the tactics used by the Tories in London in attacking Sadiq Khan and the way in which they tried to play the nastiest gutter politics that I have seen for a very long time. "It didn't work and people came out in unity for something different. "I have been in lots of places last week where allegedly there was a problem. I was in Carlisle, we won; I was in Rossendale, we won; I was in Burnley, we won; I was in Hull, we won; I'm here, we won; I was in London, we won. "We've had a huge result in Bristol, a huge result in London and we've had an increase in our vote since 2015 and I think we have shown we have an enormous reach across all sections of our community. " Earlier, Mr Rees spoke movingly of growing up in a council flat on a touch estate and being aware at a young age that he was different. "Forty years ago today we would probably be sat in a council flat in Lawrence Weston having just left a refuge in Exmouth," he said. "I was aware I was a brown kid, a mixed race kid, on a housing estate where there weren't many brown kids. "I was aware of people calling me names. I had a sense of vulnerability about the circumstances my mum was facing; that we had very little money. We could go to the refrigerator and there wouldn't be much there. "I think it is incredible that when I reflect back, coming from that background that while it presented me with many, many challenges and while Bristol has not always been a great place for me to live in, no city is perfect. "While it has presented me with those challenges it has also presented me with opportunities to stand here today as mayor-elect. " Mr Ferguson, who is well known for wearing red trousers, said he was now bowing out of politics. He was first elected to the top job in 2012 but some of his policies have proved controversial in Bristol. Simon Woolley, director of Operation Black Vote, said: "The symbolism of Marvin winning cannot be overstated. Bristol made its vast wealth in slavery. Slave owners such as Edward Colston have statues and institutions throughout the city. "Bristol has for some time struggled with acknowledging its dark past, much less effectively dealing with it. But with Marvin - a descendent of those enslaved - perhaps Bristol takes a truly redemptive step to modernisation. "This young black man is a worthy role model to inspire millions. "

2016-05-07 20:44 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

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53 53 Man fires shot into bathroom when person took too long Contact WND (WVIT) Vernon police have arrested a man accused of firing a gun into a bathroom because he thought someone was taking too long using the facilities. Around 3 a.m. on Sunday, police were called to the Portico 1 Villa Apartments, 142 Vernon Ave., in the area of apartment #80 for a report of a highly intoxicated man who shot a gun inside an apartment. Police said they located Shawn Cummins, 22, of apartment #80, and he was highly intoxicated.

2016-05-07 20:38 www.wnd.com

54 The Latest: Bill easing dark money rules passes House PHOENIX (AP) - The Latest on a bill that would ease rules on anonymous political spending (all times local): 9:38 p.m. The House has passed a proposal that would relax rules on anonymous political spending in time for the August primary election. The bill was amended Thursday to include borrowed language from a campaign finance rewrite that Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law earlier this year. That language increases the influence of dark money groups generally defined as tax-exempt organizations that spend money on elections and do not report their donors. The amendment cedes regulation of dark money and other nonprofit groups to the Internal Revenue Service, essentially doubling the amount these groups can spend on ballot measures. It also lets nonprofit groups spend more money influencing elections without having to reveal donors. Voters looking to overturn the campaign finance rewrite would now have to file two referendums to have the language overturned in two sections of law. The House passed House Bill 2296 on a 31-25 vote Friday. It now heads to the governor’s desk. 4:50 p.m. The Senate has approved a bill easing rules on anonymous political spending ahead of the upcoming primary election. The proposal includes an amendment that borrows language from a sweeping campaign finance overhaul that Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed earlier this session. It could have a significant impact on the state’s upcoming general election. The amendment cedes regulation of dark money and other nonprofit groups to the Internal Revenue Service, essentially doubling the amount groups with undisclosed donors can spend on ballot measures. Republican Sen. Steve Pierce of Prescott says his goal is to move up the date so the language can be used before the general election. Democratic Sen. Katie Hobbs of Phoenix says that adding the language the same language to a second bill will make it “all but impossible” for voters to attempt a referendum on the campaign finance bill. Story Continues →

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55 Shampooing hair without license could end in jail Contact WND (Forbes) When Tammy Pritchard was a young mother, shampooing hair provided much-needed income and even helped put her through college. Today, this part-time police officer wants to wash hair at a beauty salon operated by her friend in Tennessee. Unfortunately for Tammy, unlicensed shampooing is a crime, punishable by up to six months in jail. The Tennessee Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners can also impose civil penalties as high as $1,000 for those who dare to lather, rinse and repeat without a license. On Monday, Tammy partnered with the Beacon Center of Tennessee and filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Board in order “to vindicate the right of Tennesseans to pursue an honest living.”

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56 Jamie Vardy reflects on a special season for club and country Published 07/05/2016 | 20:36 Jamie Vardy's season and his role in Leicester's title has been so magnificent he says he could easily have been playing under a spell. The former non-league striker has had the ultimate Roy of the Rovers journey, sweeping all before him with 26 goals for club and country this campaign. He has become the frontman for Leicester's unlikely title tilt and will this summer head to Euro 2016 with England. "I think someone put a spell on me to make it happen this season, everyone works as hard as well as themselves and if someone is having an off game then we know we have someone behind us to pick us up and keep us going," he said on Sky Sports after a 3-1 win over Everton crowned Leicester's homecoming to the King Power Stadium. "It's been a very, very long and hard process to get where I am today. But I wouldn't have been able to do it without friends, and the team behind me as well so I'll go congratulate the boys now and get ready for the celebrations. "It (today) would have been a lot better if I didn't put the ball onto the helicopter (for a missed penalty) but it's an unbelievable feeling for everyone involved. I can't describe it with words. "But if it weren't for the lads here then I wouldn't have scored the goals I did. You don't get nowhere by not having the foundations. We're literally like brothers as soon as training is finished we're always in touch. "After the (Tottenham) result, the police had shut down the street outside my house. There were thousands of fans but it's been an unbelievable week so to top it off with this victory is great. " An emotionally drained Wes Morgan told Sky Sports 1: "To finally get my hands on the trophy, walking onto the podium, I had to hold back tears. "I held back the tears, finally got my hands on it, and lifted it up. Best feeling in the world. "Everyone's been going on about how I'm going to lift it, is it heavy, putting pressure on me to be fair but there's no better feeling. Champions of England. Something you remember for the rest of your life. "Hopefully we can crack on from here, big season next year but right now I just want to soak up the moment. The Leicester skipper also admitted that the squad always believed they could win the title. "I think it's the people around us who weren't really convinced we could do it but we know we could it. We played all the teams and we knew that on our day we could be better than all of them so we just continued to concentrate and ignore all the things around us and do our job. " "The togetherness of the team, we're such a tight bunch of guys, we do everything together and there's no egos in our team. We work so hard so we deserve it. "Champions League? I don't know what it feels like but I'm going to enjoy every minute of it. " Leicester city boss Claudio Ranieri was quick to thank the fans after lifting his first top flight crown in his lengthy managerial career. "The people are unbelievable, thank you to them because they have been behind us for the whole season," he said. "I think it was an amazing moment for me because I'm not the youngest but there is another test now. When you lift something special, when you're champions of England, the Premier League. Something special for everybody, especially for me, I won some cups, in England I lose in the final, in Spain, in Italy but to lift the trophy here is fantastic. " Despite the lack of major silverware in his managerial career, the 64-year-old believes his career starts now. "No, my career, I thought sooner or later, I will win a league title. Of course at the beginning, never did I think that we would reach this place. But slowly, I thought why not? This is a crazy season and we had fantastic consistency," he said. "We have a very good owner, behind the manager, the team. When I saw them, this is a very good dressing room, they work so hard. I tried to blend my Italian tactics, to be solid, strong. Then I say, 'free pizza if you keep a clean sheet' so they improve! " The Italian felt that their win at Manchester City was the key moment where the club really believed they could win the title. "I think when we win at Manchester City but also when we lose at 2-1 at Arsenal, I told my assistant, 'If Arsenal suffer so much, 11 against 10 then we can do something," he said. Press Association More in Soccer (2 of 20 articles) Belgium and Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has said he will miss Euro 2016 with a thigh injury sustained against Real Madrid earlier this week. Watch the moment Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri and captain Wes Morgan lift the Premier League trophy, as the team is crowned champions. 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2016-05-07 20:36 www.independent.ie

57 Locals need to step up, says Baguio For Alaska to equalize the best-of-7 Finals series on Sunday, the local supporting cast must be there for import Rob Dozier. Cyrus Baguio said that part of the Aces’ undoing in their 105-97 defeat to Rain or Shine in Game 1 was the lack of help from the usually red hot Aces offense. “Tingin ko kulang lang ang locals. Kailangan mag-step up yung iba para matulungan namin si Rob,” he said. Dozier kept Alaska afloat with his 41 points and 15 rebounds, but without enough help, he wasn’t able to save the Aces in the end. Baguio gave Dozier credit, saying the returning import is back to his championship form. “Maganda yung nilaro ni Rob kanina. Bumabalik na yung laro nya tulad nung nag-champion kami nung 2013.” The former UST stalwart also pointed out that poor defense keyed in their doom as the Aces allowed Rain or Shine to 48 percent shooting from the field including 14 out of 27 treys. “Yung defense talaga ang problema namin,” he said. “Tingin namin kaya naman eh, pero yung maliliit na bagay: miscommunication, maraming errors, di namin na-execute yung offense sa last three minutes. Mahirap talaga depensahan ang Rain or Shine kasi yung big man nila tumitira sa three points, ang hirap sa rotation dahil kailangan namin yung legs para humabol sa kanila. Doon kami nahirapan.” Baguio, however, remains confident that Alaska coaching staff will figure out a counter just in time for Game 2. “Sana magawan ng paraan ni coach sa next game. Yun talaga kasi ang laro nila: transitions and ball screens. Doon kami nadadali,” he said. “Mahaba pa yung series, marami pang mangyayari. Ang importante, positive pa rin kami na makakabalik pa kami.”

2016-05-07 20:35 Randolph B sports.inquirer.net

58 US 'a better place than when I graduated by almost every measure', says Obama Published 07/05/2016 | 20:31 President Barack Obama said the US is "a better place today" than when he graduated from college more than 30 years ago, citing his historic election as "one indicator of how attitudes have changed". But gaps persist, he told Howard University's Class of 2016, citing racism and inequality. In a commencement speech on Saturday at one of the nation's leading historically black schools, Mr Obama said there were no black chief executives of Fortune 500 companies and few black judges when Columbia University awarded him a bachelor's degree in 1983. "A lot of folks didn't even think blacks had the tools to be a quarterback," Mr Obama said. "When I was a graduate, the main black hero on TV was Mr. T. Rap and hip-hop were counter- culture. Now (Scandal and Grey's Anatomy producer) Shonda Rhimes owns Thursday night and Beyonce runs the world. " Today, he said, "we're producers, studio executives. We're no longer small-business owners, we're CEOs. We're mayors, representatives" - and someone in the crowd shouted out, 'President'. "I'm not saying gaps do not persist. Obviously, they do," Mr Obama said. "Racism persists, inequality persists. " He called on the university's 2,300 graduates to step up and take on the work of closing those gaps. "America needs you to gladly, happily take up that work ... so enjoy the party, because you're going to be busy," Mr Obama said. He cited income inequality, an issue in the presidential campaign to choose his successor in November, as well as disparities in unemployment, pay and criminal justice. He also listed disease and conflict worldwide, along with terrorism and climate change as other issues needing attention. "So make no mistake Class of 2016. You've got plenty of work to do," said Mr Obama, who was awarded an honorary doctorate of science degree. "But as complicated and intractable as these challenges may see, the truth is your generation is in a better position than any before you to meet those challenges. "America is a better place today than it was when I graduated from college," Mr Obama said, adding "by almost every measure". He said the country "also happens to be better off than when I took office, but that's a longer story". The line drew cheers and applause. "That's a different discussion for another speech," Mr Obama said. Mr Obama told the graduates to be confident and embrace being African-American and all that it entails, including "our particular awareness of injustice and unfairness and struggle. That means we cannot sleepwalk through life. We cannot be ignorant of history. We cannot meet the world with a sense of entitlement". He urged them to vote and not to fear opposing voices. Many in the audience of about 15,000 chanted "four more years" as Mr Obama received the honorary degree. He cited low voter turnout in general and among younger voters in particular for control of Congress switching from Democratic to Republican during his presidency. "You don't think that made a difference in terms of the Congress I had to deal with," Mr Obama said. "And then people wonder why Obama didn't get this done or that done. "Just vote. It's math. " Mr Obama, 54, opened by telling the graduates that most of them were just starting high school when he was first elected in 2008. "I used to joke about being old. Now I realise I'm old. It's not a joke anymore," he said. The address was the first of three commencement speeches Mr Obama has scheduled this spring, his final ones as president. Mr Obama is set to speak May 15 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and June 2 at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 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2016-05-07 20:31 www.independent.ie

59 AGILA CARNIVAL 2015…Consolidating the Idoma Cultural Assets & Values The Agila carnival organization has announced the kick- off of programmes for the 2015 Agila carnival since 3rd of October in Makurdi the Benue State Capital, North Central Nigeria, with the unveiling of events of activities lined up the Carnival and star prizes of this year’s carnival which includes a brand new Hyundai car, among various other prizes. The Agila Carnival which is a charitable venture is engineered to showcase the rich socio cultural heritage of the Idoma nation, encourage the patronage of Idoma land by people of Idoma extraction and friends of Idoma while empowering the youths of Idoma land especially the girl child, no wonder the 2015 edition of the carnival is themed Consolidating the Idoma Cultural Assets & Values The carnival which kicks off from 23 rd December in Otukpo, Benue state will feature what promises to be the biggest street party in Nigeria (Carnival Procession), A novelty football match, Cultural displays, Egbureke wrestling completion(cultural wrestling) and the Face of Idoma beauty pageant for young women of Idoma extraction among other competitive events. While unveiling the programmes for the Agila Carnival 2015 the president of the organization, Prince Edwin Ochai, said the carnival for this year will be taking carnival organization and execution to a new pedestal with the indication of interest of other international carnival organizers in the Agila carnival. Edwin Ochai, revealed that Agila Carnival is set to rival some of the most popular international carnivals like the Rio de Janeiro Carnival, Brazil; Venice Carnival, Italy; Trinidad and Tobago Carnival; and the Notting Hill Carnival, London. Also speaking at the unveiling ceremony the Vice President of the Agila Carnival Organization, Sony Otache aka Oga Landlord, informed the media that the 2015 Agila Carnival will surely set a new standards for other carnivals in Nigeria and Africa. While appreciating all the interested National and Multi-National Brands that are interested in partnering with the Agila Carnival he however reemphasised that interested partners should get in touch with the secretariat before the 15 th of November 2015 when the partnering brands will be officially unveiled. Oga Landlord, further encouraged all interested participants in the various competitions visit the Agila Carnival Secretariat or the carnival website for details of how they can register to participate in any of the competitions for an opportunity to win any of the prizes. Sony Otache, Concluded that all recreational, safety and security measures have been concluded to guarantee a fun filled Agila Carnival to remember. The Agila Carnival, which started in 2013, is an annual carnival that holds from December 23 rd to 25 th every year in Otukpo, Benue State, North Central Nigeria. Oturkpo is the capital of the Idomas, The second largest indigenous tribe in Benue state, North Central Nigeria.

2016-05-07 21:35 Ehis Agbon worldnewsvine.com

60 The New Cabal At NNPC | Kachikwu Superintending Over Corrupt Staff As IPMAN & AMFSON Gear Up For Mega Showdown. Corruption at the NNPC, over the years, seems to be defiling all interventions by successive administrations in Nigeria as our investigation have revealed that corruption in the corporation is at an all-time high. From our interaction with a cross section of stakeholders in the oil and gas sector we discovered that efforts to curd corruption in the corporation by the President Buharis’ administration is not yielding the desired result as staff of PPMC/NNPC have devised new ways of extorting monies from petroleum products marketers. Adebo Audu, an independent marketer in Warri, Delta state, South South Nigeria, revealed to our correspondent that staffs of PPMC/NNPC are responsible for the intermittent scarcity of the petroleum products. He said “PPMC staffs are frustrating Independent Marketers, why will they ask for a percentage of our profit before giving us allocation and when we refuse right in our presence they will tear the allocation. They only give product allocation to marketers that have given them a share of their profit upfront”. The rot, in NNPC, in recent times was blamed on, Kachikwu Ibe, the Minister of state for Petroleum who recently said the corporation was in the process of building 109 additional NNPC Mega station. While a section of the industry see this as a welcome development another section however see it as an unnecessary waste of scarce resources, yet another section see it as a plot to destroy IPMAN, Independent Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria and the Association Of Mega Filling Stations Owners Of Nigeria (AMFSON). Most Petroleum Products Marketers believe that this move by Kachikwu Ibe, was borne out of selfishness and wickedness, and flagrant disregard for the rule of law. A high ranking member of IPMAN in Kaduna wondered why the minister was thinking of establishing more mega stations when they have not been able to satisfy NNPC affiliate stations with products. While complaining about the unwholesome practices at the PPMC/NNPC under the watch of Kachikwu, he said the minister seem to be superintending over a new cabal at the corporation who specialize in extorting monies from IPMAN/ AMFSON members before issuing allocation of petroleum products. He lamented that he is given two allocations of Petrol (PMS) monthly and the profit from each truck is 80 thousand naira and asks “How can 160 thousand naira pay all my staff, service and maintain the stations and still keep me in business?” An executive of IPMAN in Kaduna, Bako Abdullahi Yelwa, opined that “for the PPMC to sue IPMAN to court, claiming that they don’t know us and they don’t have any business with us speaks volumes. It is under Kachikwu Ibe that we are hearing this, how can you claim you don’t know us and you have been doing business with us for over 30 years, Is it because he knows that we are the only ones that can expose all his corrupt practices since he was made the GMD and now the minister? More so, all the kerosene allocations he claimed to have allocated to marketers, since he became minister, are allocations he gave to his relations, friends and cronies. I challenge anybody to ask any marketer if they have gotten allocation” Similarly another Indigenous marketer, who does not want his name mentioned, described Kachikwus’ achievements as ignoble saying “There’s nothing to carry home about Kachikwus’ 6 months in office, his only achievement are confusion and contemplating the award of contacts for building of new empty PPMC/NNPC Mega filling stations with the aim of exterminating the existing Indigenous Independent Marketers despite their huge contributions towards the growth and development of the Nation”. He further said “With the present crashing down of crude oil price globally to its worst level of below $35 per barrel, Kachikwu should concentrate on constructing new simple modular Refineries & hasten to reactive the existing ones so that our local production can rise to cope with the nation petroleum products demands or even beyond. This will create more employments opportunities for many Nigerians in addition to boosting the nations’ economy. Kachikwu doesn’t care”. He concluded by saying that “No wonder, one can clearly understand the motives behind Kachikwus’ desperate efforts to destabilize the Indigenous Independent Petroleum Marketers in Nigeria and cover his masters looting and cheating to Nigerians”. While we await outcome of the suit instituted against IPMAN & by PPMC/NNPC we will however advice President Mohammadu Buhari, who is also the minister of petroleum resources, to put on hold all plans to build more NNPC mega stations until all refineries have been turned around, he should ensure that all independent marketers and PPMC/NNPC affiliate stations are supplied adequately with products and he should curb the new Cabal in the Oil & Gas Sector, made up of PPMC/NNPC staffs, from frustrating his efforts to rid the petroleum sector of corruption.

2016-05-07 21:35 Ehis Agbon worldnewsvine.com

61 Vernon Davis, NFL players spoof fantasy players in 'Inside Amy Schumer' skit Vernon Davis might have found his next career, not that he or the Washington Redskins want it to begin anytime soon. In a spoof that appeared on Comedy Central's "Inside Amy Schumer," Davis is among a group of pro athletes playing in a fantasy league that involves regular Joes. The skit, which wasn’t exactly G-rated, had some funny moments, and the athletes -- including former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, New York Jets fullback Tommy Bohanon and Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen -- played their roles well, looking very much like fantasy football players watching a game at a bar. But rather than watching a game, they watched average workers going through their daily lives. The skit opens with three men who are fantasy football players, with one ripping Davis for dropping a pass. As one of the three men drops his beer, the camera cuts to the athletes watching these three guys on TV. After a not-so-clean word, the attention turns to their fantasy teams. Bohannon to Davis: “Who do you got this week?” Davis: “I got Werzbowski.” Bohannon: “Are you kidding me?” Davis: “I like him. I think he’s a solid emailer. His most recent reply all got a lot of LOLs and even one ROTFLMAO.” Strahan: “Werzbowski is the WOAT: Worst. Of. All. Time. He sucks! He still has an egg as an avatar on Twitter, man. Twitter.” Then we see Werzbowski at his cubicle -- who looks like a real-life Dilbert -- talking to his mom on the phone. When he says something to a co-worker about not accepting a LinkedIn request, Davis groans. Bad news for his team. “I gotta bench this guy,” Davis says, his face showing his annoyance with Werzbowski’s performance. The spoof closes with the group watching a man walking to a bar. It takes him a few tries before he realizes he has to pull the door open -- and when he does, it’s their bar he’s entering. They react as if they’re big fans who are equally excited yet trying to play it cool. Then Davis approaches him. “Hey, man, aren’t you Dennis Huggins?” Davis says. “Yes, yes,” Huggins replies. “I don’t mean to sound weird, but you’re my hero, man,” Davis says. That’s when Olsen comes over, interrupts and asks for a selfie with the group. “We could never do what you do,” Davis says. If you watch it, be prepared for some nasty language. After all, these are some ticked-off fantasy players.

2016-05-07 20:29 John Keim espn.go.com

62 62 Handless girl, 7, wins national handwriting competition Contact WND (ABC News) Virginia first grader Anaya Ellick, 7, has such good handwriting, she beat out 50 other youngsters from around the country to win a national handwriting contest. If that’s not impressive enough, Little Anaya was born without hands. “There is truly very little that this girl cannot do,” principal Tracy Cox of Greenbrier Christian Academy in Chesapeake told ABC News, noting it was her idea to have Anaya enter the competition, which is open to students in kindergarten to eighth grade.

2016-05-07 20:28 www.wnd.com

63 Rule of law takes hit in court's order to commit perjury Contact WND In a case with major implications for free speech and due process, an appeal by Doreen Hendrickson, a mother jailed last year on “contempt of court” charges for refusing a federal court order to perjure herself, was officially denied. The court claimed that it did not have to rule on the illegality or unconstitutionality of the court order that was supposedly violated, or on whether it was appropriate for the trial court to instruct the jury not to consider the legality of the demands. If the ruling is allowed to stand, observers and legal experts warned of potentially devastating consequences to the rule of law, due process of law, judicial integrity, freedom of speech, and all of Americans’ constitutionally protected rights. Basically, the government could force anyone to say anything, under oath, critics of the ruling observed. The attorney representing Hendrickson, Mark Cedrone, even compared the government’s efforts to force his client to say what the government wants to Islamic Shariah law demanding the affirmation of Allah. The panel of the Sixth Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati that upheld the lower-court ruling did not cite Islamic law. Instead, it relied on an obscure legal theory to justify its decision to avoid ruling on what experts say are the key issues. Developed by the courts themselves to justify judicial power, the rarely used doctrine is known as “collateral bar.” In essence, the doctrine purports to allow court orders to stand and is aimed at ensuring that courts’ effective authority is upheld. However, the Supreme Court has ruled that transparently invalid orders are not shielded from review by the collateral bar doctrine, something the family and its supporters say the appellate court refused to recognize. Nonetheless, reliance on that doctrine is how the three-judge panel, in ruling to uphold Hendrickson’s conviction for contempt, was able to side-step the real issue in the case: whether violating a court order to commit perjury, or any other crime, in defiance of the most well- established constitutional protections, is a valid reason to jail somebody. The lower court claimed that, “it is not a defense to the crime of contempt that the court order that the defendant is accused of violating was unlawful or unconstitutional.” The defense was hoping to see that order overturned. Trust the government? Maybe you shouldn’t. Read the details in “Lies the Government Told You,” by Judge Andrew Napolitano. Indeed, critics of the ruling have been quick to point out that the actual U. S. statute defining criminal contempt, 18 U. S. C. Sec. 401(3), makes clear that it only applies to lawful orders. It refers to “disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.” (emphasis added) With its controversial ruling, though, the appellate court panel upheld the unprecedented doctrine that courts can essentially issue any lawless or even unconstitutional order, and expect it to be obeyed without question, regardless of its validity. Experts and observers warned of potentially far-reaching consequences for all Americans if the new doctrine is allowed to stand. Hendrickson speaks from prison In an exclusive statement provided to WND from federal prison, Hendrickson, a mother of two, slammed the justice system and highlighted the implications of allowing the rulings to stand. “Not only I, but the Founders as well, have been betrayed by both the Department of Justice and the courts,” she said. “Natural rights, such as those of free thoughts and words, are sacred and inviolable, but these two branches of our government have trampled on my natural rights in nefarious pursuit of financial and political goals.” While Hendrickson is scheduled for release in less than six months, if she continues refusing to commit perjury as demanded by the court order, she will be ordered back to prison. But she has not lost hope. “While the worst of the punishment imposed on me for having the audacity to exercise my rights is nearing its end, it’s important to me to continue efforts to have this conviction overturned,” she explained. “Honestly, at this point in my life, I couldn’t care less about having the tag ‘felon’,” she added. “But I’m frightened for my kids and, by extension, the rest of America.” “When I was surrounded by assault rifles, arrested and taken away in June 2013, I never in a million years would have thought a federal judge would allow a trial to proceed on a contempt charge that was brought simply as a result of me exercising my First Amendment right to free speech,” Hendrickson continued. “But that’s just what happened. “First, me,” she said. “Next, who?” Possibly you, she warned. Get the hottest, most important news stories on the Internet – delivered FREE to your inbox as soon as they break! Take just 30 seconds and sign up for WND’s Email News Alerts! “Thus far, the DoJ attorneys, the District Court and the 6th Circuit appeal panel have defied innumerable Supreme Court rulings that the right to free speech shall not be abridged,” Hendrickson continued, referring to the countless times the Supreme Court has upheld the First Amendment-protected right to speak, or not speak, freely. “The en banc 6th Circuit has the opportunity to correct the lower courts,” she concluded. “For all our sakes, I hope they don’t fail to take it.” Commit perjury, or go to jail As WND reported in February, the Hendrickson case surrounds the 2002 and 2003 tax returns filed by Hendrickson and her husband. Five years later, a federal court and the federal government ordered Hendrickson to sign a revised form under penalty of perjury — a form that she believed to be inaccurate. Because signing something one believes to be false under oath is a serious crime, the mother initially refused to comply. Eventually, she obeyed the order to avoid punishment, but noted that the sworn statement was being compelled by authorities and was made under duress. Because of that decision, she has been sitting behind bars for “contempt of court” for over a year. Hendrickson was never even accused by the government of tax evasion or filing false tax returns, much less convicted of such crimes by a jury. Her sole “crime” was to refuse to sign, under penalty of perjury, a declaration that she believed to be untrue, which would have itself been a serious criminal act punishable by law. Both Hendrickson and her husband, Peter, however, along with their supporters across America, believe that the real reason the courts and the federal government have gone to such lengths in this case is a book he wrote. Basically, they argue that the government hopes to suppress arguments made by Mr. Hendrickson in his book “Cracking the Code – The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America.” WND has not read the book or independently verified its arguments, but it reportedly argues that the federal government has been overcharging most Americans on their taxes using deceptive practices. The federal government sought to suppress the book, unsuccessfully, in court. When that failed, the Hendrickson family and its supporters argue, authorities decided to go after the family and attempt to force Mrs. Hendrickson to swear falsely under oath that she believes what the government says. Critics have slammed the proceedings as a sham. Some observers have even called for criminal charges against those involved in the legal assault. Brian Wright, a longtime liberty activist who attended Hendrickson’s original trial, was so moved by the “travesty” he observed in the trial that he decided to write a book, “The Motor City Witchcraft Trial(s),” outlining alleged abuses behind the case. He told WND that all of the officials involved in the “crime of suborning Doreen’s perjury” should be indicted, convicted and imprisoned for their “heinous act of violence.” Implications for free speech and due process The family and its growing numbers of supporters across America, more than a dozen of whom have contacted WND about the case, warned that if the government can compel speech and perjury in the Hendrickson case, it can do it in any case. The rule of law, as well as key constitutionally protected rights enshrined in the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments, are all under threat. That should terrify everyone, observers said. Journalist and documentary maker Shane Trejo was so moved by what he perceived as the injustice in the case that he created a video to showcase it and spread awareness. “Seeing the Soviet-style show trial first hand was a real eye opener for me,” Trejo told WND. “It showed that these judges and prosecutors will do anything to protect their federal gravy train — even if it means destroying the life of an innocent woman.” “The rule of law is officially dead in what was formerly the land of the free,” he added. Pete Hendrickson’s “Lost Horizons” newsletter, which has kept supporters of the family updated on the case, also outlined some of the implications. “If the state gets away with dictating Doreen’s testimony in this case, it will soon be dictating the testimony and ‘admissions’ of anyone it chooses to target for property-seizure, compelled waiver of rights or simple punishment,” the report said, urging people to take action. “If the damning ‘testimony’ is not made, trial for ‘contempt’ follows, and the unlawfulness of the order will be off the table for the jury, just as in Doreen’s trials,” it continued. “The only thing that will matter is that the false testimony was not made as commanded.” “This ploy will be used to control testimony about others, or concerning matters of public policy, also,” the newsletter argued. “And the public will never know.” The report also noted that authorities wanted to cover up even the fact that they had compelled Doreen Hendrickson to perjure herself, by refusing to allow her to note that the statements were made under duress. “One feature of Doreen’s case was that she was ordered not only to swear she believes what she does not, but to conceal the fact that what she said was not her own testimony, and that she was forced to say it,” the newsletter added. It concluded: “The potential for evil here is unprecedented.” Husband speaks out on targeting In a recent interview with WND, Pete Hendrickson, Doreen’s husband, outlined what he said were some of the implications of allowing the rulings to stand. Among other key concerns, Pete Hendrickson said the legal foundation has now been established for the government to compel anyone and everyone to say under oath what the government wants them to say in court – even in contests with the government. “No tyrant could hope for a better tool than what is being made judicial precedent in Cincinnati in the case of United States v. Doreen Hendrickson,” he told WND. “The case should be re-titled United States v. America.” The decision by the appellate panel “pretends that some arcane judicial doctrine [collateral bar] legitimizes its turning a blind eye to the fact that what’s being done to my wife by the lower courts and the DOJ is illegal,” he continued. “The panel pretends that this doctrine somehow works to allow enforcement of court orders which are expressly forbidden by the Constitution,” Pete Hendrickson said. “This is a transparently false.” Not only are the orders given to Doreen Hendrickson simply “not authorized.” “They are specifically prohibited,” he said, noting that the government cannot command people to say and swear to believe what it wishes. Such orders “cannot be lawfully made, not even by some ‘interpretation’ or ‘construction’ of the Constitution,” Hendrickson said, citing the First Amendment and countless Supreme Court rulings. In short, he argued that the “corrupt” appellate panel started with the knowledge that the orders are illegal, and it does not even try to excuse them or argue that they could be anything but illegal. “But rather than do its duty in light of that knowledge, and declare the orders void and have Doreen instantly released, the panel struggles to construct a rationale for its refusal to do so,” he said, arguing that the goal was to preserve his wife’s conviction “at all costs.” Pete Hendrickson said the reasons for the illegal orders and the effort to let the conviction stand are obvious. The government hopes, he argued, that the “abuse” of his wife will deter others from investigating what he called the “misapplication of the income tax over the past 75 years” by the a “swollen and arrogant Leviathan state.” He also said that the “vile crime” was committed by the government even while it admits the accuracy of his arguments by routinely approving tax refunds to those who have studied his work. Countless people have posted pictures of their successful filings and refunds on the Internet, he and his supporters point out. “But even the tax issue and the effort to hide information from the American people that motivates this judicial corruption pales in the face of the limitless mischief to which this panel decision opens the door,” Pete Hendrickson said. “While the tax issue is huge, the proposition that people can be forced to make testimonial declarations dictated by the government –and even in legal contests with the government itself – should be scaring the pants off every person in the country.” Pointing to the Founders, he highlighted the fact that they enshrined the prohibition on infringements against freedom of speech in the very first amendment to the U. S. Constitution — something required before the states even agreed to ratify it. “Anyone with even a rudimentary imagination can readily grasp how this power will be used to circumvent every right and utterly destroy all remaining limits on state power,” he said. “And this will be accomplished without dissent,” Pete Hendrickson concluded. “Dissenters will be ordered to declare the opposite of what they really believe, just as was Doreen, or thrown into prison for refusing to do so, just as was Doreen.” The implications for freedom are enormous. Shariah-style forced speech? Doreen Hendrickson’s attorney was surprised that the appeals court panel upheld the lower court’s decision to punish a person for refusing to commit perjury in the face of a judicial order. “I can’t help but believe that Doreen Hendrickson is being penalized for the content of her speech,” Cedrone, the defense lawyer, told WND. “The matter here is simple,” he said. “Mrs. Hendrickson has been punished simply for refusing to say that which she indisputably disbelieves.” “The court of appeals has affirmed her conviction for politely disobeying an order requiring her to state under oath that her earnings are subject to the income tax, a proposition with which she disagrees,” Cedrone continued. “In certain countries where Shariah law controls, if one disavows Allah as god, they are subject to death,” he said. “In the United States if one refuses to agree and declare under oath that all earnings are subject to the income tax, they go to jail.” “One might suggest the comparison is melodramatic, but is it really?” The entire case, he said, “represents a shameful abuse of public authority.” Options going forward While Doreen Hendrickson is set to be released on September 4 if all goes according to plan, that is not the end of the story. As a condition of her supervised post-incarceration release, authorities are still purporting to require that she commit perjury by claiming under oath to believe something she does not in fact believe. The alternative, though, is being locked up again. For how long remains unclear, though it would be at least another 10 months. With the March 11 decision by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to deny Hendrickson’s appeal, she is running out of options on the case. One avenue being pursued is to have the full appeals court agree to rehear the case, en banc, and overrule the panel and the lower court. A motion has already been filed requesting a re-hearing by the entire appellate court. So far, it is not clear whether the full court will take on the case and overrule a panel of its own judges, but it is extremely rare for that to happen. Another option, if that fails, could be the U. S. Supreme Court. However, the high court only agrees to hear a tiny fraction of the appeals that reach it, making it an exceedingly difficult and expensive alternative. The family and its supporters, meanwhile, are working to raise public awareness about what they say is a grave injustice, in hopes of eventually securing justice somehow. Trust the government? Maybe you shouldn’t. Read the details in “Lies the Government Told You,” by Judge Andrew Napolitano.

2016-05-07 20:28 www.wnd.com

64 Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán transferred to prison near US- Mexico border Convicted drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, who twice pulled off brazen jailbreaks, was transferred to a prison in northern Mexico near the Texas border early Saturday. Lawyers for Guzmán, who was recaptured in January, have filed multiple appeals against their client being sent to the US, and Mexican officials have said it could take as long as a year to reach a final ruling. There was no immediate indication that the transfer could be a sign that the process is nearing conclusion. The Sinaloa cartel boss was moved from the maximum-security Altiplano lockup near Mexico City to a prison in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, a security official said, without giving a reason for the transfer. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The Interior Department said the move was due to work being done to reinforce security at Altiplano. Mexico’s National Security Commission said in a statement that the transfer was in line with security protocols, and it has rotated more than 7,400 inmates nationwide as part of a strategy implemented last September. José Refugio Rodriguez, an attorney for Guzmán, confirmed that he was sent to the Cefereso No9 prison. He said Guzmán’s defense team was not notified beforehand, and one of his lawyers was traveling to Juárez to try to meet with their client. “I don’t know what the strategy is,” Refugio said. “I can’t say what the government is thinking.” Mexican security analyst Alejandro Hope called it plausible that Guzmán was moved due to upgrades being done at Altiplano, but said officials also may have feared the possibility of another jailbreak attempt. “The more he remains at a single prison, in a single cell, the more the chances that he will rebuild the conditions that led to his escape,” Hope said. “So this also might be a deliberate attempt to destabilize any such plans.” “The surrounding environment is risky because El Chapo certainly has a lot of people in Ciudad Juarez, so it seems like a relatively odd choice,” Hope said. “Probably the other alternatives were not any better, whatever their objective was.” Michael Vigil, the former head of international operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, said Guzmán was moved because of security concerns. Vigil, who said he had been briefed by Mexican officials, did not specify those concerns or say whether Mexican officials had information about possible new escape plots. He also did not specify the officials with whom he spoke. Guzmán faces charges from seven separate US attorneys’ offices, including in Chicago, New York, Miami and San Diego. El Chapo first broke out of a Mexican prison in 2001. He was recaptured in 2014, only to escape the Altiplano lockup the following year through a mile-long tunnel dug to the floor of the shower stall in his cell. Mexican marines re-arrested him in the western state of Sinaloa in January, after he fled a safe house through a storm drain. He was returned to Altiplano, where officials beefed up his security regimen. Guzmán was placed under constant observation from a ceiling camera with no blind spots, and the floors of top-security cells were reinforced with metal bars and a 16-inch layer of concrete.

2016-05-07 20:28 Associated Press www.theguardian.com

65 Unions hail scrapping of English academy plans Teaching unions have welcomed the government's decision to ditch plans to force all state schools in England to become academies. They said the move was recognition that "one size" did not fit all schools. Ministers said the government had listened to critics but the goal to turn schools into academies remained. Schools judged by Ofsted to be good or outstanding will now not have to become academies, nor will small rural schools have to join a multi-academy trust. The forced academisation proposals had been opposed by some Conservative MPs and councillors, as well as by unions and others. The government argues that academies drive up standards by giving more power to head teachers and allowing them to be more innovative. Critics have contended that academisation amounts to privatising the education system and say it is simplistic to say academies raise standards. Cabinet minister Michael Fallon told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We have now decided, having listened to parents and governors and our backbenchers that there is a better route to it, which is not forcing every school immediately to become an academy. " He said academisation would now focus only on schools that were "clearly failing". Asked whether ministers had tried to "bury" the announcement on a busy day for news, Mr Fallon said it would not have been "legally" possible to issue it in the preceding days because of the "purdah" restrictions on the activities of civil servants in election periods. Paul Luxmoore, executive head teacher of the Coastal Academies Trust in Kent, told Today he was "dismayed" at the policy reversal. "We've reached the tipping point, where local authorities - who have been delivering school improvements to schools until now - no longer have the capacity, or the money to do that effectively. Hence the government policy to make all schools academies over the next four years was entirely predictable and entirely sensible," he said. "I think they've lost their courage to go ahead with it because of all sorts of other political reasons [that have] very little to do with education. " Andy Miller, head teacher at St Nicholas Church of England Primary School in Blackpool, said the forced academisation plan had been a mistake. "I would argue that head teachers, their governing bodies and their parent community actually know what's best for individual schools - rather than somebody in Westminster saying this is good for all of you," he said. National Association of Head Teachers president Kim Johnson said his organisation wanted ministers to understand "that actually there isn't a case of one size fits all" for schools. "We're the intelligent practitioners and we want that opportunity, at the table with government, to further those discussions. " Tory backbencher Graham Brady, who welcomed the abandonment of the plans, said that "the more that we can have these debates and discussions before legislation is brought forward, the better". Alasdair Smith, from campaign group Anti Academies Alliance, said: "We've known for more than 30 years exactly what improves schools, and it's not rocket science, it's high quality teaching and learning and good leadership. "The government has not been pursuing that agenda, they've been pursuing structural change, and they've ignored high quality teaching, and high quality leadership, and that's why the policy is now in tatters. " Academies are independently run - but state-funded - schools, overseen by a not-for-profit business, known as an academy trust. They are often part of a chain. Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said scrapping the plans was "frankly a humiliating climbdown for David Cameron and his education secretary". However, the government said it would push forward with compelling academy conversions in two areas: The government also announced measures to protect small rural schools including extra financial support and a requirement that any closure would have to be agreed by the local authority and the regional schools commissioner.

2016-05-07 19:18 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

66 Watch out for nightmare traffic in Atlanta this weekend: Roadwork, closures to avoid | Spinning our Wheels Still like to read the newspaper in the familiar page-by-page format? Great news! Digital versions of today’s paper are available on your computer or tablet. And it’s included in your subscription. Traveling brings us joy. In fact, just planning a vacation can relieve stress and make us happy. Wondering where to go? Our special digital presentation will inspire that next journey, whether you’re staying close to home or traveling across the globe.

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67 Bangladesh: Sufi Muslim murdered by suspected extremists A Sufi Muslim leader has been hacked to death near the north Bangladeshi town of Rajshahi in what police say may be another attack by Islamic extremists. The body of Mohammad Shahidullah, 65, was found by villagers in a pool of blood in a mango grove, police say. His murder comes amid rising concern over the rise in violence against religious minorities. A wide range of people have been attacked in recent years including secularists, bloggers and academics. Among more than 20 people killed by Islamic militant groups are members of religious minorities, although this is believed to be the first attack on a Sufi Muslim. Sufism is popular in rural Bangladesh but considered deviant because of its mysticism by many of the country's majority Sunni Muslims. The cleric was a local leader with a small following. Police say they still do not know who killed him but it could be the work of Islamic extremists. A liberal professor was killed in the same way in the same area last month. In the most recent murders before Saturday, a Hindu tailor was killed in Tangail and a week before that leading gay rights activist Xulhaz Mannan and his friend were brutally murdered in the capital Dhaka. So-called Islamic State have said they carried out many of the attacks, but the authorities deny the group is active in the country. A Bangladeshi militant group affiliated to al-Qaeda, Ansar al-Islam, has also said it carried out some of the killings. The government denies it has not done enough to stop the killings and has blamed all the attacks on opposition parties or local Islamist groups. It has been strongly criticised for not being able to prevent the violence or bring perpetrators to justice. Opposition parties deny the claims. Bangladesh has myriad extremist groups and there have been few convictions.

2016-05-07 22:40 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

68 Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg in single mothers plea Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has made an impassioned plea on behalf of single mothers, in the run-up to Mother's Day. In a post on the social media site , Ms Sandberg said the odds were stacked against single parents in the US. She called on the government to introduce paid maternity leave. Friday's appeal comes a year after the executive's husband, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Goldberg, died in an accident in Mexico. Since then, Ms Sandberg has raised the couple's two children on her own, as well as continuing to work for Facebook and running the women's support group Lean In. She said that, before her husband died, "I did not quite get it. I did not really get how hard it is to succeed at work when you are overwhelmed at home. " Road-testing the Sandberg philosophy San Francisco approves paid parental leave She said she was fortunate not to have to face the poverty that many single parents were burdened with, and the "impossible choices" resulting from such things as illness and food insecurity. She said the US was the world's only developed economy that did not provide paid maternity leave, and that large numbers of single mothers had no safety net. "Almost a third of working mothers don't have access to any kind of paid leave to care for themselves or their families if someone gets sick," she said. "Instead of providing support, we all too often leave the families who are struggling the most to fend for themselves. "The odds are stacked against single mothers in this country. Yet so many give everything they have and go on to raise incredible children. " In the past, some critics have suggested that Ms Sandberg's Lean In philosophy, advocating a pro-active attitude in the workplace, was irrelevant to most women because they lacked her resources and her social position. But US media commentators said her admission that she had not previously understood the difficulties of single parenthood was significant. "Well, duh, you might say, and Sandberg understands how you might have that exasperated reaction," writes Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post , citing the fact that her loss was cushioned by her wealth and support network. "But this is precisely Sandberg's goal," Marcus adds, "to leverage her atypical platform to bring heightened attention and understanding to hurdles faced by single mothers lacking her resources. "

2016-05-07 22:40 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

69 Sir David Attenborough's travels around the world - in 60 seconds A s Sir David Attenborough turns 90-years-old , we take a quick look at some of his best moments during his travels over the years. From Africa to Indonesia, to the Antarctic, the veteran broadcaster and naturalist first appeared on our television screens more than 60 years ago in Zoo Quest - a series of nature documentaries for the BBC where he travelled with staff from London Zoo to tropical countries to capture an animal for the zoo - an accepted practice at the time. H e has then gone on to define the genre of wildlife documentary with a vast number of popular series. Watch the video above to see some of Sir David Attenborough's best moments around the world in pictures.

2016-05-07 20:24 Claire Lomas www.telegraph.co.uk

70 Rose Polge: Junior doctor had 'work-related anxiety', says sister A junior doctor whose body was found in the sea suffered from "work-related anxiety", her sister has said. Dr Rose Polge, 25, who worked at Torbay Hospital in Devon, was found off Portland Bill, Dorset, in April. Hazel Polge, who said her sister worked long hours, has set up a fundraising campaign to help "prevent such a tragedy" happening again. Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust refused to comment about Dr Polge's health or work situation. More than £4,000 in donations has been raised for mental health charity Mind and Dartmoor Search and Rescue, which helped look for the missing junior doctor. Dr Polge's car and hoodie were found near Anstey's Cove, Torbay in February. Writing on a fundraising website, Miss Polge said: "All Rose's colleagues are missing her hard work, friendliness and approachability. "Her stunning smile, infectious enthusiasm, kindness and inquisitive nature made her popular with all people she met. " She said she was a "sweet, beautiful, kind, loving woman" and "she will never be forgotten". Regarding the fundraising, she added: "Even if just one person was saved, to their family that would be everything. " Dr Rob Dyer, medical director at the hospital trust, said: "Our thoughts continue to be with Rose's family and loved ones as they struggle to come to terms with her loss. "I believe they are entitled to privacy and I do not wish to comment publicly about Rose's health or work circumstances. "I know from experience just how challenging the demands of the role [training as a junior doctor] can be [and] at Torbay Hospital, we take our duty of care to staff very seriously. " The BBC understands a note found in Dr Polge's car related mainly to personal issues, but included a passing reference to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Friday 12 February - Rose Polge's car is found in a car park near Ansteys Cove in Torbay Saturday 13 February - The family and boyfriend of Dr Polge join more than 100 people searching the area around Ansteys Cove Sunday 14 February - Torbay Hospital confirms that Rose Polge works there as a junior doctor. Monday 15 February - Colin Smith of Royston Hockey Club, where Dr Polge played, said: "We just don't know what we can do. " Tuesday 16 February - Dr Polge's family release a statement saying they are "overwhelmed" by the support from her friends and colleagues Friday 19 February - Police announce hunt for Dr Polge has been scaled down, saying there is "no structured search going on" Friday 1 April - A woman's body is recovered from the sea east of Portland Headland in Dorset Monday 11 April - Police announce the discovery and say relatives of Dr Polge have been informed Monday 18 April - Police confirm the body is that of Dr Polge

2016-05-07 21:33 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

71 BMA to re-enter junior doctors talks with government The BMA has said it will re-enter talks with the government over outstanding contract issues for junior doctors in England. The union says these include Saturday pay and a fair contract that does not discriminate against women and others. BMA junior doctors' committee chairman Johann Malawana said he hoped "real progress" could now be made. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday he wanted written agreement the talks would be held in good faith. He said he wanted assurances by the end of Saturday that the union would negotiate "constructively". The BMA agreed to temporarily suspend planned industrial action in an attempt to reach a compromise. Dr Malawana said: "The BMA has agreed to re-enter talks with the government on outstanding issues in this dispute, which include, but are not limited to, unsocial hours. "Junior doctors' concerns extend far beyond pay, and our principle in talks will be to deliver a fair contract that does not discriminate against women or any other group, one which addresses the recruitment and retention crisis in the NHS and which provides the basis for delivering a world- class health service. "The BMA will also call for any contract offer - agreed or not - to be put to a referendum of junior doctors, as is usual following a contract negotiation. "We hope that with both parties back around the negotiating table, real progress can now be made to ending this dispute through talks. Negotiations over the contract broke down in February and junior doctors have staged several strikes since then. Ministers said on Thursday they would re-start talks if they could focus on Saturday pay and unsocial hours. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges said there should be no preconditions. Mr Hunt had accused the BMA of refusing to negotiate over Saturday pay and said he would press on with introducing the contract. The BMA said there were wider unresolved issues over working hours and it was unfair to impose a contract rather than continue discussions.

2016-05-07 21:33 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

72 10 things we didn't know last week 1. The Borrowers would be deaf, virtually blind and need to wear extremely thick coats. Find out more (Daily Telegraph) 2. A hamster called Marvin belongs to the Royal household. Find out more 3. The Orcadian island of Mama Westray doesn't exist, but it has a very professional-looking tourist brochure. Find out more 4. Labradors might be hard-wired to overeat. Find out more 5. Cycling is always the best option for your health in London, but not in Dehli, Doha or Karachi. Find out more (New Scientist) 6. Spanish bishops consider it a sin to illegally download films. Find out more (The Local) 7. Air rage is more common on flights with a first-class cabin. Find out more (Gizmodo) 8. There aren't enough people in the world to literally cry a river, but if each cried 55 tears they could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. Find out more (University of Leicester) 9. Crocodile eyes are fine-tuned for lurking. Find out more 10. Two-dollar bills are legal tender in the US, but not everybody knows that. Find out more (Boing Boing) Seen a thing? Tell the Magazine on Twitter using the hashtag #thingididntknowlastweek Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

2016-05-07 21:33 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

73 HISD releases list of proposed school name changes The renaming of seven Houston ISD schools whose current namesakes had ties to the Confederacy could be completed Thursday when the district's board of trustees is expected to vote on recommended replacements. The suggested names were produced by committees of parents, teachers, students, alumni and community leaders. The list of the proposed new names was announced by the district Friday: Margaret Long Wisdom High School (to replace Robert E. Lee High School ) Margaret Long Wisdom was a lifelong Houston resident and educator. She taught history, government and journalism for 38 years in HISD at Lanier Middle School , Milby High School , Lamar High School and Lee High School. She received many honors, including Teacher of the Year and the National Right to Work Committee Award; she was appointed to the Texas Close Up Board by Gov. Bill Clements ; and she was recognized by Houston Magazine as one of Houston's most interesting people in 1984. She ran for the Texas House of Representatives in 1964, and she helped organize the Congress of Houston Teachers , serving as president of that organization. Yolanda Black Navarro Middle School of Excellence (to replace Stonewall Jackson Middle School) Yolanda Black Navarro became a community and city icon through her civic and political leadership. She served Houston on the Metro Board and the Houston Parks Board and was a candidate for Houston City Council. Before her death, she chaired Mayor Annise Parker 's Hispanic Advisory Committee. She was founder of the Association for the Advancement of Mexican-Americans. Navarro was the recipient of the Mayor's Lifetime Achievement Award and the East End Chamber of Commerce Small Business Award. Heights High School (to replace John Reagan High School) The Houston Heights neighborhood in which the campus is located was established in 1896 by Oscar Martin Carter . Carter set out to create a planned community where entrepreneurs and working people alike could live and work in health and safety as neighbors. In 2013, the Heights was fourth on CNN Money's list of Top 10 Big City Neighborhoods. Audrey H. Lawson Middle School (to replace Richard Dowling Middle School) Audrey H. Lawson was a community activist and wife of the founding pastor of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. Lawson was a social worker by profession who started two charter schools and turned the Ensemble Theater into one of the most successful African-American-owned theater companies in the country. Throughout her lifetime, she supported children and families; she created countless community education and outreach programs that touched the lives of thousands of young Houstonians. Bob Lanier Middle School (currently Sidney Lanier Middle School) Bob Lanier served as mayor of Houston from 1992 to 1998. His popularity cut across racial, ethnic and partisan divides. Lanier won many awards recognizing his achievements, including the Hubert Humphrey Civil Rights Award and the Urban Beautification Award. Northside High School ( currently Jeff Davis High School) The Northside neighborhood in which the campus is located is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Houston, an area known for its rich cultural history. The neighborhood's development began in the 1880s when Augustus Chapman Allen , one of the original settlers of the Houston area, began building on the first plot in the neighborhood. The neighborhood was near the Hardy Railway, which was also developed during that period. In the late 1800s, the area was settled primarily by immigrant railroad workers from Europe. Staring in the 1940s, a large Mexican and Mexican-American immigrant population settled in the area. Many families who settled in the Northside neighborhood during that time have a continued presence in the area and have served in a variety of public offices. In 2011, the Northside neighborhood was added to the National Register of Historic Places . Earlier this year, the HISD board approved renaming the former Grady Middle School as Tanglewood Middle School . Meyerland Performing and Visual Arts Middle School (to replace Sidney Johnston Middle School) Meyerland, the neighborhood of more than 2,000 homes in which the campus is located, was developed in 1955 by the Meyer family. The school is home to a performing and visual arts magnet program.

2016-05-07 22:59 By Mike www.chron.com

74 74 $20K reward offered in slaying of man defending mother A combined $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the capture of the person who gunned down a man defending his mother from armed robbers. "Our entire community should be angry and outraged at this," community activist Quanell X said Friday near the scene in southwest Houston where James Weldon Ecford, 25, was shot and killed on April 11. Ecford jumped into action when he heard his mother screaming after being grabbed outside their home in the 8500 block of Sands Point. The two men began fighting until the assailant pulled out a pistol and fired. Ecford was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The gunman also fired at Ecford's mother but missed. He then got into the back seat of a waiting vehicle and fled, Houston police said. "All he was doing was what any son would do – protect his mother," Quanell said. On Friday, volunteers passed out fliers with a sketch of the gunman. "My son didn't deserve this," said Ecford's father, Weldon James Ecford, who also goes by James. Anyone with information is asked to contact Houston police at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.

2016-05-07 11:47 By Mike www.chron.com

75 Dueling protests to get in ‘Formation’ outside Beyoncé’s Houston concert Street demonstrations are planned tonight near NRG Stadium where Houston- born superstar Beyoncé Knowles Carter brings her Formation World Tour to a hometown audience. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. About 1½ miles away, the Coalition of Police and Sheriffs – known as COPS – will hold a 7:30 p.m. press conference and "surprise" that requires darkness to challenge the pop priestess' Black Lives Matter, Black Panther and other political themes they considered "anti-police" during her halftime Super Bowl performance in February. Leaders of law enforcement organizations in Miami, New York and other cities urged officers nationwide to boycott working security for Beyoncé when the tour launched in April. In response to the COPS demonstration, members of the Nation of Islam will gather at 6:30 p.m. at Kirby and Murworth to support the singer and have asked her fans (presumably the unfortunate ones without concert tickets) – collectively called "The Beyhive" – to swarm with them in counterprotest. Robert S. Muhammad, a Houston activist who is the southwest regional representative for the Nation of Islam and its leader, the Min. Louis Farrakhan, said the organization has dispatched its men – called the Fruit of Islam – to protect Beyoncé as her Formation tour travels across the nation. He said the show of support also reinforces the message that the Nation of Islam will not "allow uniformed, armed members of law enforcement to intimidate our cultural icons. " Muhammad said the Super Bowl performance was pro-black and not anti-police. "That was a tribute to the women of the Black Panther Party," which was founded in 1966 as a black social justice movement and celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, he said. "It's anti- police brutality. " The COPS demonstration is set for 1320 South Loop West. "The police union is offended at her antics, I guess, or her anti-police rhetoric that she used prior to the Super Bowl when she released her video and then at the Super Bowl when she performed her anti-police, Black Lives Matter movement and, in our mind, when she pledged her Black Panthers allegiance while wearing bullet bandoliers (a pocketed belt for holding ammunition)," said Burt Springer, a former law enforcement officer and the COPS general counsel. "We will have a little 15-to-20 minute press conference... and then our little surprise that will show everyone that the police can make an impact regardless of where they're at. They don't have to be immediately at the scene to cause any problems. " Beyoncé commented on the Super Bowl performance during a wide-ranging interview that appears in the May 2016 edition Elle magazine. "I mean, I'm an artist and I think the most powerful art is usually misunderstood. But anyone who perceives my message as anti-police is completely mistaken. I have so much admiration and respect for officers and the families of officers who sacrifice themselves to keep us safe. But let's be clear: I am against police brutality and injustice. Those are two separate things. If celebrating my roots and culture during Black History Month made anyone uncomfortable, those feelings were there long before a video and long before me. I'm proud of what we created and I'm proud to be a part of a conversation that is pushing things forward in a positive way. " Houston Police Officers' Union President Ray Hunt, whose 5,100 members work at the Houston Police Department, said his organization did not boycott Beyoncé or the extra security work offered at NRG. "This is all voluntary and my information is that the spaces quickly filled up," he said. "If this was a protest of someone who was advocating killing cops and claiming that we just routinely violate people's rights, I'm sure you'd have a lot of people refusing and we'd probably be saying that we wouldn't want our officers working there, but we haven't seen that with her. " Hunt said he's gotten "at least 10 different interpretations" of Beyoncé's Super Bowl halftime performance and accepts the singer's explanation of her intended messages. "They have made it a belief that the halftime performance was anti-police and they have their right to believe it," Hunt said of the COPS union. "They've said they're going to do some type of surprise. The surprise better be legal because they are going to be subject to laws just like everyone else. " COPS is a Houston affiliate of the International Union of Police Associations – which is chartered by the AFL-CIO. The local organization has about 1,000 members. According to its web site, members of the board of directors include officers from the Pasadena Police Department, HPD, the Harris County Sheriff's Department, the Metro Police Department and several Harris County constable's offices. The union, founded in 2004, has never had a demonstration in its dozen years of existence. "We have not had any reason to have any kind of protest," Springer said, but answered affirmatively when asked if it took actions by a music icon to move them to the streets. "Yes. Yes. That's exactly right," the union representative said. "The first thing we will submit to is that it was a brilliant move to release the lyrics of the song Formation. The lyrics have nothing to do with any of the anti-police rhetoric. Nothing. Then, the video was released on Saturday before the Super Bowl. The video Formation... with the little boy, like three or four years old, with the black hoodie with his hands up in the air standing in front of about 20 riot-gear police officers with their hands up in the air. Black paint on the wall saying 'Stop shooting us'. ... She is on a New Orleans police car that's sinking in the flood indicating that the New Orleans police just let people drown (following Hurricane Katrina). ... Just all kinds of stuff that wasn't necessary for the song and it didn't go with the lyrics. ... What statement was she trying to make? " Springer said the people he knows were expecting a rehash of the video during the live Super Bowl performance. "Oh no," he said. "We got the Black Panthers. She and her dancers were dressed like Black Panthers. They had the one black glove on with which they did the Black Panther salute. .... They formed a black X for Malcolm X. " Does Beyoncé not have a right to the imagery, costuming, gesturing and messaging of her own art? "Yes. Absolutely – as an artist and as a citizen," Springer said. "The fact that she's able to get it out to millions of people just makes it better for her and worse for the people who don't agree with her. And that's fine, because the people I represent make sure the right that she has is protected. But, with every word you express yourself under the First Amendment, there are other words that can come back at you that you don't agree with you – and that's all we're doing. " Beyoncé's camp has not issued a statement about either hometown demonstration. Springer also questioned why the Nation of Islam was responding to their protest. "There was certainly no need for Louis Farrakhan to call out his legions of Fruit of Islam," the COPS lawyer said. "We don't call on our members to do anything but show up. He's calling on his members to show up and protect Beyoncé. " Muhammad emphasized that the 6:30 p.m. demonstration isn't simply about Beyoncé. "It is about our cultural icons and artists who may express social justice issues, speak to poverty, speak to inequities, injustice or police brutality," he said. "Everyone has a right to protest, but I have a right to say: You will not intimidate our cultural icons when they speak to our condition. We got her back. "

2016-05-07 22:59 By Cindy www.chron.com

76 North Texas couple accused of killing baby, disposing her into trash An Abilene couple were indicted Thursday for allegedly killing their baby daughter in January. Amber Craker, 18, and Damian Cate, 22, were charged with first-degree felony murder charges and second-degree felony of "fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse," according to the Abilene Reporter-News . A preliminary autopsy report found the baby was stabbed at least three times in the neck, chest and the back. A court document shows Cate held the baby while Craker stabbed her. Cate is also accused of cleaning up the blood and "assisted in putting baby in the trash can. " Caker was found incompetent to stand trial last month and is committed to North Texas State Hospital. She was ordered to the mental hospital April 7 and will stay there no longer than 120 days. Cate is lodged in the Taylor County Jail on a $300,000 bond.

2016-05-07 22:59 William Axford www.chron.com

77 Yahoo - Lexus Revs Up Basketball Fans with New Campaign on Yahoo Sports and Launches Bracket Challenge New campaign promotes the all-new 2016 Lexus GS F timed with the 2016 Men's College Basketball Tournament --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced today that Lexus is a presenting sponsor of Tourney Pick'em and will also launch "GS F The Bracket," a custom Lexus branded game around the 2016 Men's College Basketball Tournament. In addition to Lexus connecting with fans through display, native and video advertising, "GS F The Bracket" asks fans to pick which games will reach a combined 60 points the fastest for an opportunity to win a GS F-inspired luxury vacation. "Working with , we have the opportunity to engage millions of college basketball fans and highlight the Lexus GS F," said , Lexus general manager of consumer and product marketing. "A car that goes 0-60 in 4.5 seconds deserves the spotlight while we give fans a fun and fast way to get into the games this month. " Every year, is the ultimate destination for millions of sports fans during the Men's College Basketball Tournament. As a sponsor of Sports' Tourney Pick'em, Lexus's digital campaign includes display ads driving to "GS F The Bracket" game, pre-roll video ads and branded integrations, and native ad placements targeted to the GS F audience. As part of this, Lexus will be integrated within the "Tourney Bracket Live" show on. "We're helping brands like Lexus connect with the millions of fans that visit every year to create brackets tied to one of their favorite basketball events," said , Chief Revenue Officer,. "Sports fans are incredibly passionate on and we're committed to bringing them new experiences that make their favorite games even better. " To sign up for "GS F The Bracket," fans can visit GSFtheBracket.com beginning. Each round, players can select which matchup will reach a combined 60 points the fastest. Fans are encouraged to make their picks for each round but can join the game at any point before. "The phenomenon of college basketball fans and their brackets create an unparalleled level of engagement each March," said , Chief Creative Officer, , agency of record for Lexus. "With ‘GS F The Bracket,' there's a logical connection between the speed of offense that sports fans find with college hoops and a high-performance car like the Lexus GS F. " is a guide focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining our users. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses. is headquartered in , and has offices located throughout the , (APAC) and the , and (EMEA) regions. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the Company's blog (yahoo.tumblr.com). Lexus launched in 1989 with two luxury sedans and a commitment to pursue perfection. Since that time, Lexus has expanded its line-up to meet the needs of global luxury customers. Lexus is now going beyond its reputation for high quality vehicles with the integration of innovative technology, emotional exterior and interior designs, and engaging driving dynamics and performance. With six models incorporating , Lexus is the luxury hybrid leader. Lexus also offers seven F SPORT models and two F performance models. In , Lexus vehicles are sold through 236 dealers who are committed to exemplary customer service.

2016-05-07 21:39 investor.yahoo.net

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

2016-05-07 09:56 investor.yahoo.net

79 1st Muslim Miss USA converts to Christianity Contact WND (Fox News) Rima Fakih is believed to be the first Muslim to win the title of Miss USA when she was crowned the winner in 2010. Now, the beauty pageant winner has converted to Christianity, recently sharing a verse from Philippians on Twitter. Fakih converted to Christianity last month in preparation for her marriage in Lebanon next week to Wassim Salibi, a wealthy Christian music producer, Christian Today reports. 2016-05-07 20:19 www.wnd.com

80 Tell Congress to release secret pages of 9/11 report Contact WND The American public already knows that 15 of the 19 terrorists in the 9/11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia, the promoter worldwide of the radical Wahhabist interpretation of Islam. But 28 pages of top-secret information was left out of “The 9/11 Commission Report” that, according to some informed Congress members, contain evidence the kingdom’s rulers were involved in the attacks. Now, a new petition enables you to urge Congress to do everything it can to declassify the section and open it to the public. Join the effort to get the 28 pages of secret details about 9/11 made public! The petition calls “on the Congress of the United States to pass a resolution urging the president to declassify the entire 28-page section on foreign government support of the 9/11 hijackers produced by the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001.” The calls for Barack Obama to release the section is growing. Former Florida Democratic Sen. Bob Graham has pressed the documents to be made public, as both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations refused. Administration officials claimed it would jeopardize national security. But critics have contended that the secrecy is a “calculated move” to hide Saudi involvement in the mass murder. On the other side, the New York Daily News reports, are CIA officials who say the documents should be kept secret , because they contain “inaccurate information.” CIA chief John Brennan said: “This chapter was kept out because of concerns about sensitive source of methods, investigative actions. The investigation of 9/11 was still underway in late 2002.” Sebastian Gorka, who wrote “Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War,” said in a Breitbart report that what probably will be found is at least “connections between two of the hijackers and the Saudi embassy in Washington. “So there are potentially some very embarrassing things in those 28 pages,” he said. Join the effort to get the 28 pages of secret details about 9/11 made public! The London Daily Mail said families of 9/11 victims are infuriated with their government “for ‘siding with Saudi Arabia’ over a congressional bill that could incriminate Saudi officials for the deadly attacks.” The report quoted Mindy Kleinberg, whose husband died in the attacks, saying “it’s stunning to think that our government would back the Saudis over its own citizens.” The petition states: Join the effort to get the 28 pages of secret details about 9/11 made public! 2016-05-07 20:18 www.wnd.com

81 GE chief addressing graduates at Clemson University GREENVILLE, S. C. (AP) - The president and chief executive officer of General Electric is addressing graduates at Clemson University. Jeffrey R. Immelt delivers the commencement address and receives an honorary degree Saturday morning during ceremonies at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in downtown Greenville. It’s the first of three commencement ceremonies that Clemson is holding. There are also afternoon and an evening ceremonies. About 2,600 bachelor’s degrees are being awarded as are 550 master’s degrees and 85 doctoral degrees during the three ceremonies.

2016-05-07 20:17 - Associated Press - Saturday, May 7, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

82 New book details archaeology at NY’s Saratoga Battlefield STILLWATER, N. Y. (AP) - A new book has been written on the archaeology conducted over the years at the site of the Revolutionary War’s Battles of Saratoga. “The Saratoga Campaign: Uncovering an Embattled Landscape” was released on Tuesday. It was edited by National Park Service archaeologist Bill Griswold and Donald Linebaugh of the University of Maryland. The book presents new insights about the two battles fought at Saratoga in September and October 1777, ending in an American victory. Griswold and Linebaugh focus on battlefield archaeology at Saratoga and the contributions of archaeologists who have conducted excavations in key areas of the battleground, located in the town of Stillwater. Griswold and Linebaugh will discuss their book at the battlefield’s visitors’ center on June 4.

2016-05-07 20:17 - Associated Press - Saturday, May 7, 2016 www.washingtontimes.com

83 After Sadiq Khan's victory, the Tooting by-election gives Tories a chance to make up for Zac Goldsmith's campaign - and hurt Jeremy Corbyn I n a way, Sadiq Khan's election as Mayor of London is all David Cameron's fault, because Mr Khan shouldn't have been in a position to compete for the job in the first place. Let me explain that. Mr Khan is, for now, the MP for Tooting in south London , the seat where he was raised. He'll resign soon, and there'll be a by- election. More about that in a moment. Arguably, Mr Khan shouldn't have held that seat, which he first took in 2005 under different boundaries. Arguably, it should have fallen to the Tories in 2010, but it didn't: Mr Khan clung on with a majority of 2,500. It was just one of several winnable seats the party didn't win, failures that led to the Coalition with the Liberal Democrats. Why didn't the Tories win? Much as in the recent mayoral election, the answer was down to candidate selection. In 2010, the Tory candidate in Tooting was Mark Clarke, now best known as the " Tatler Tory" and one of the few people ever to be expelled from the party for life. M any London Tories (and not a few Labour people too) believe that a combination of Mr Cameron's lacklustre national campaign and Mr Clarke's performance as a candidate in Tooting in 2010 saved Mr Khan's political life and cost the party the constituency. Whispers on the Labour side suggest another factor was Mr Khan's relatively relaxed approach to campaigning during the 2005 - 2010 Parliament. By the time the 2015 election came round, Mr Khan was a much more energetic campaigner, and the Tories' new candidate Dan Watkins again fell short by 2,500 votes, but not for want of trying: none of the complaints made about Mr Clarke's performance in 2005 have been made about Mr Watkins in 2015, and the latter remains well-regarded by local Tories. W hich brings us to the by-election, where Mr Watkins will surely be the Conservative candidate again and will surely have a very good chance of winning. Not least because CCHQ will throw the kitchen sink at the by-election, which will probably be held in early June. Simply, Tooting is the sort of seat that the Conservatives should take if they really want to ram home the point that Jeremy Corbyn is a disaster for Labour and costs the party marginal seats. Take Tooting and you scare the wits out of people such as Gisela Stuart and Jess Phillips in Birmingham; Tulip Siddiq in Hampstead and Peter Kyle in Hove can pack their bags too. Socio-economic change may well be on the Tories' side too. Tooting used to be solidly working class, home to a large Irish population, and British Asians many of whom with roots in the Punjab. (Mr Khan's parent's moved to the area from Pakistan.) Many of those people remain, and the by-election will be an interesting test of how badly Zac Goldsmith's mayoral campaign has "contaminated the Tory brand", to use the Cameroon phrase . Winning the by-election would allow Mr Cameron to put that story to bed; losing might lead to talk that Mr Goldsmith has done lasting harm to a party that made significant advances with non- white voters last year , and signal another reversal of Mr Cameron's modernisation project. B ut is should also be noted that the black magic of the London property market is changing Tooting on an almost daily basis. Tooting Broadway, once home to Robert Lindsay's proto- Corbynite Wolfie Smith, now bristles with hipster cafes and single young professionals wondering if they can afford one-bed flats for £450,000. Streets that used to be majority-Asian, including the one where Mr Khan's family life, are now full of middle-class professionals willing to pay £1 million and more for perfectly ordinary 3-bed terraced houses. Perhaps the Conservatives should have won in Tooting last year. The fact that they didn't says a lot about Mr Khan's tenacity and resourcefulness. How will Labour fare without him? The answer probably depends on how closely the party's candidate and campaign in the by- election are associated with Mr Corbyn and his Left-wing agenda. My suspicion is that a Corbynite candidate will not prosper in a seat that is gentrifying fast, traditional Labour voters being displaced, often voluntarily, by rising property prices. Maybe Team Corbyn will see things differently, seeking to make the by-election a litmus test of what they say is their leader's electoral appeal. If so, they will be taking a very big risk. Winning the Tooting by-election would pour salt on the Tory wound opened up by Mr Khan. But losing it to an incumbent Conservative Party would be very bad news indeed for Mr Corbyn and his party. By-elections are rarely consequential, but Tooting might just matter more than most. Whoever loses it will feel some real pain as a result.

2016-05-07 20:16 James Kirkup www.telegraph.co.uk

84 84 Yahoo - Yahoo Announces Editorial Plans for 2016 Summer Games --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ( : YHOO) today announced its full global editorial lineup for the 2016 in , including Olympic gold medalists and. Yahoo will send more than 15 experts and writers to Rio, plus another 15 video producers and crew to cover the Games from every angle. Yahoo's focus for the 2016 will be to tell compelling stories and produce instant reactions across all content platforms. "We will use our world-class reporting to seek out the unscripted moments that make the so riveting," said , Vice President,. "We're poised to offer our most comprehensive coverage ever with a relentless emphasis on mobile-first content. We look forward to Shawn (gymnastics) and Summer (swimming, host) along with Canadian Olympian ( ) providing insider commentary on Yahoo's global stage. " Yahoo's experts will create unique content for Yahoo's global audience leading into the and throughout the. Content from Yahoo's talent will include video originals such as Instant Reactions, Power Rankings, Yahoo Sports Rio 101 and the Yahoo Sports , while Yahoo's award-winning writers like , , and will create in-depth features to tell the untold stories of Olympians and how medals were won or lost. Former Canadian national team and pro soccer goalkeeper will bring expert analysis to Yahoo Canada and host "Bring Your Eh Game" podcasts throughout the games. Finally, Yahoo's and based production teams will create three daily shows in Spanish and English, as well as documentary-style video content capturing the lively and colorful environment on the ground at the Games. Yahoo Summer Games coverage can be found across platforms from its custom destination page featuring medal counts and on the app. will also translate its coverage into a variety of languages to reach its over one billion unique users worldwide. Yahoo's editorial staff will work around the clock to make sure fans across the globe won't miss any piece of the action or unique story whether they're cheering for the , , , , , etc. is a guide focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining our users. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses. is headquartered in , and has offices located throughout the , (APAC) and the , and (EMEA) regions. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the Company's blog (yahoo.tumblr.com).

2016-05-07 21:39 investor.yahoo.net

85 Yahoo - Yahoo Sports Partners With NHL to Bring Fans Free, Live Out-of-Market Games & On-Demand Premium Content No Cable or Authentication Required, Alliance Offers New Opportunities for Advertisers to Connect with Fans --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NASDAQ:YHOO) and the (NHL®) today announced a strategic alliance to deliver premium sports content to Yahoo Sports' millions of users. Now fans can access live, out-of-market games for free on , throughout the week, no cable subscription or authentication required. will offer unique advertising opportunities for brands to connect with their audiences, alongside and within this live and on-demand sports contents. Beginning , , in collaboration with the , will live stream an "Game of the Day" to hockey fans in the , up to four days a week, along with delivering in-game highlights for each game. This is in addition to the Wednesday and Sunday national games currently promoted by to its fans in partnership with. will also provide condensed games, "Best of the Day" and "Best of the Week" top plays and postgame highlights. also will continue to bring fantasy hockey highlights and our season-long game to fans around the world. "This alliance brings us one step closer to providing fans a live professional sporting event every day, on , completely frictionless and for free - no cable subscription or authentication required," said , VP, Media Partnerships at. "We remain committed to delivering the best digital content to our users and advertisers, and the NHL's premium content nicely complements our offering of live and on-demand partner content, including Yahoo/MLB's Game of the Day, content and our recently announced deal with the TOUR. " Building on the success of the NFL live stream on which drew more than 15 million viewers, is introducing new video advertising opportunities that will run within commercial breaks during the live streams of live sporting events, which includes and MLB games. Brands will have new ways to connect directly with an engaged audience of sports fans around this live video programming on , while using Yahoo's audience insights and retargeting capabilities to engage with viewers after a game concludes. The (NHL®), founded in 1917, consists of 30 , with players from more than 20 countries represented across team rosters, competing for the most revered trophy in professional sports - the Stanley Cup®. Each year, the entertains hundreds of millions of fans around the world. The League broadcasts games in more than 160 countries and territories through its rightsholders including /NBCSN in the , Sportsnet and in , and Viasat in the. The reaches fans worldwide with games available online in every country including via its live and on-demand streaming service NHL. TV™. Fans are engaged across the League's digital assets on mobile devices via the free app; across nine social media platforms; on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio™, and on NHL.com, available in eight languages and featuring an enhanced statistics platform powered by SAP, providing the definitive destination for hockey analytics. A historic media rights partnership between the and MLBAM has transformed the fan experience across the League's digital and broadcast assets, with an emphasis on deeper access into the game and enhanced storytelling. To celebrate the NHL's international diversity, the World Cup of Hockey will return in September, 2016, a best-on-best international tournament featuring eight teams comprised of the world's best hockey players. On Founder's Day in , the League will celebrate its Centennial anniversary, commemorating 100 years of hockey. The is committed to giving back to the community through programs including: Hockey is for Everyone™ which supports nonprofit youth hockey organizations across ; Hockey Fights Cancer™ which raises money and awareness for hockey's most important fight; NHL Green™ which is committed to the pursuit of sustainable business practices; and a partnership with the , which is committed to supporting the LGBT community and fighting homophobia in sports. For more information, visit NHL.com. and the NHL Shield are registered trademarks of the. All Rights Reserved. is a guide focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining our users. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses. is headquartered in , and has offices located throughout the , (APAC) and the , and (EMEA) regions. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the Company's blog (yahoo.tumblr.com).

2016-05-07 21:39 investor.yahoo.net

86 Yahoo - TUNE IN TODAY: Yahoo Hosts First-Ever Live Stream of Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting Live coverage begins at 10 a.m. ET on Saturday (4/30) Interviews with: , Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; , Series Creator, "Breaking Bad" & "Better Call Saul"; , Chair, CEO and Chief Designer, Kathy Ireland Worldwide; , Sr. Partner, , and many more --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tune in as (Nasdaq:YHOO) hosts the first-ever live stream of Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders meeting today, , kicking-off with live coverage and analysis from Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief , on-the-ground at CenturyLink Center Omaha. Audiences will be able to watch live on Yahoo Finance - across desktop, tablet and mobile - as Chairman and CEO and his right-hand man share their unscripted views on the company, the markets, the economy, and whatever other topic that may come up. Watch the live stream here: http://yhoo.it/BRKLive Throughout the Preshow and Halftime Report we'll also feature a number of live and pre-taped interviews with the Yahoo Finance editorial team, including: , Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; , BNSF CEO; , CEO; , CEO; , CEO; , CEO; songwriter, and long-time Buffett friend ; author and international speaker ; legendary business journalist ; Sr. Partner, , ; BRK-B shareholder and series creator of "Breaking Bad" & "Better Call Saul" ; Chair, CEO and Chief Designer of Kathy Ireland Worldwide, ; and many others. The shareholders meeting live stream will be available in both English and Mandarin, and will be delivered in 1080p HD quality. Embeddable VOD replay will be available on Yahoo Finance for 30 days following the meeting. For more information, and to register for regular updates on the Berkshire on Yahoo Finance, go to: http://yhoo.it/BRKLive Follow the conversation on Twitter with @YahooFinance #BRKLiveStream

2016-05-07 21:39 investor.yahoo.net

87 Yahoo - Yahoo Appoints Two New Board Members --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced that its board of directors has increased its size from seven to nine directors and appointed the following two new independent directors, effective . With the additions of Cathy and Eric, the board returns to the size it was on , prior to the resignations of and Charles Schwab. "Eric and Cathy are both highly respected, experienced practitioners in their fields, and we welcome them to Yahoo's board of directors," said , chairman of the board at. "Today we are at an important juncture in Yahoo's transformation, as we execute on our refined strategy and explore strategic alternatives for the company. " "Today we are expanding our board of directors with additional expertise to help advance our strategic goals as continues its transformation. We are pleased to welcome and to our board," said , CEO of. "I am honored to join the board of a company I have observed and admired over the course of my career," said. "As the technology landscape continues to change, I am excited to work with the board and management during this important time. " "I am delighted to have the privilege to serve on the board. The opportunity to work with my fellow directors and the management team to guide into its next chapter is exciting," said Ms. Friedman. held numerous positions over a 23-year investment banking career with Morgan Stanley, including Managing Director and Head of and Co-Head of the Biotechnology Practice, where she was strategic and transaction advisor to many of the most important companies in the sector. Friedman is a director of XenoPort, Inc., EnteroMedics Inc., GSV Capital Corp., Innoviva, Inc. (formerly Theravance, Inc.), and Radius Health, Inc. served as the Chief Financial Officer of until its acquisition by Avago in February of this year, the President and Chief Executive Officer of , and as the Chief Financial Officer of Brandt also served as Vice President and Partner at. Brandt is a director of Lam Research Corporation and Dentsply Sirona Inc. is a guide focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining our users. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses. is headquartered in , and has offices located throughout the , (APAC) and the , and (EMEA) regions. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the Company's blog (yahoo.tumblr.com).

2016-05-07 21:39 investor.yahoo.net

88 Ex-Shin Bet chief: Israel should help Gazan economy in addition to destroying tunnels Former Shin Bet chief and Yesh Atid MK Yaakov Peri said in a statement on Saturday that in addition to operational activities against Hamas terror tunnels, Israel would do good for itself if it worked towards alleviating the economic crisis in Gaza. "Hamas is not interested at this point in time in another confrontation with Israel," Peri said in a statement. "They are afraid of losing what they consider to be their most strategic weapon, the tunnels, and l by firing mortars to they are expressing this concern. " Peri pointed to the economic destitution in Gaza as a key reason Hamas does not want to enter into another conflict with Israel. "Israel would be wise if in addition to continuing operational activities against the tunnels, it worked to alleviate the economic situation and open avenues which would allow the residents of Gaza an easier and more comfortable future. " Peri also said that following Operation Protective Edge, it was the responsibility of the Israeli government and its leader to work towards achieving these goals immediately and towards securing a more comfortable future for the people of Gaza. Peri's statement was made in response to the discovery of a Hamas tunnel into Israel on Thursday. The IDF uncovered the tunnel stretching from southern Gaza into Israel. Hamas persisted in cross-border mortar attacks, sparking Israeli retaliatory strikes, as the security situation threatened to escalate further. Throughout the day on Thursday, Hamas fired mortars at IDF positions on four occasions, as it did on Wednesday, prompting tank and IAF air strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza. Palestinian sources said a woman was killed in one of the tank shell strikes on Thursday. On Thursday afternoon, the IAF launched its third wave of air strikes on Hamas targets in the space of 12 hours, in response to mortar fire. Two earlier waves of air strikes targeted Hamas targets in the early hours of the morning.

2016-05-07 20:12 ROSIE PERPER www.jpost.com

89 Arlene Foster hails 'tremendous' DUP as powersharing with Sinn Fein continues Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster has hailed her party's "tremendous" performance in the Northern Ireland Assembly election after an unexpected repeat of its best ever Stormont haul. The 38 seats won by the party is the same number it secured in 2011 in an election many, including party strategists, viewed as a one-off historic high water mark. While much of the campaign focused on whether Sinn Fein could eclipse the DUP as the region's largest party - a possibility Mrs Foster herself repeatedly warned of - in the event the gap between the two main Stormont parties actually grew, albeit slightly. Sinn Fein's 28 seats was one short of its tally in 2011. It was also shy of the significant 30 seat threshold that would have handed the republican party extra power to veto Assembly legislation. In an election that saw most of the main parties consolidate their seat strength, there were also some notable victories for the smaller parties, with the People Before Profit Alliance (PBPA) and Green Party both winning two seats each. The DUP's showing is undoubtedly a strong validation of Mrs Foster's leadership, coming six months after she replaced the retiring Peter Robinson. "It has been a tremendous election and I feel very energised by the fact the people have put their trust in us," said Mrs Foster, who topped the poll in her own Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency. "It's a strong endorsement of the direction of travel. We set out a five-point plan for a safer, stronger Northern Ireland, that is what have discussed right across the country as I criss-crossed across the country. "We got a very warm reception for it and that has shown in the ballot boxes. "The people have spoken, we have now received mandates and we must now put those mandates into action. " Mrs Foster will now return as Stormont First Minister. The former Ulster Unionist, who defected to the DUP in 2004, said she "wanted to get things done" in the term. "I am very determined, and I am incredibly proud to be the leader of this great wee country that we call Northern Ireland and I am looking forward to leading it over the next mandate," she said. Over the coming days, the emphasis will shift to negotiations between the main parties on the shape of the new coalition administration, its agreed programme for government and which parties will take on which ministerial portfolios. Two things are different in the wake of this election - firstly, the talks on the programme for government are taking place before the executive is formed and, secondly, parties can now avail of the recently-established option of forming an official opposition rather than entering the executive. Of the 108 candidates elected to Stormont, the DUP has 38, Sinn Fein 28, the Ulster Unionists 16, the SDLP 12, Alliance eight, PBPA two, Greens two, with the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) and independent Claire Sugden winning one each. The SDLP and Ulster Unionists both had disappointing elections. The SDLP, the once dominate power within nationalism, has dropped two seats on its 2011 tally. Though the UUP repeated the 16 seat haul of 2011, it did not make the in-roads leader Mike Nesbitt had confidently predicted. Reflecting on the outcome, Mr Nesbitt said: "Not great but not bad". For the Alliance Party, which also won eight seats in 2011, it was a case of "as you were". Long time Sinn Fein Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said he was pleased with his party's performance, insisting it had to viewed in the context of the "challenges" the executive had faced in the last mandate, highlighting the economic downturn and UK Government "austerity policies". "That is pretty remarkable performance given the challenges we have faced over the course of the last Assembly term," he said. The Sinn Fein veteran said he was now looking forward to the "new Assembly and new executive" and focusing on what could be delivered. Whatever the exact make-up of the next power sharing administration, it is sure to face vocal criticism from the opposition benches. The two seat pick- up by the socialist People Before Profit Alliance was a remarkable feat for a party with no previous representation in the chamber. PBPA's Gerry Carroll topped the poll in Sinn Fein's west Belfast heartland while veteran civil rights campaigner Eamonn McCann won a seat for the party in Foyle. The Green Party also secured two seats in the new mandate, with party leader Steven Agnew and Clare Bailey winning through. Jim Allister, leader of the TUV and arch-critic of the last administration, retained his seat, though failed to bring any colleagues in with him. Ms Sugden, who was co-opted during the last term into the seat held by the late independent David McClarty, won a berth at Parliament Buildings in her own right. Among the high-profile political casualties were independent unionist John McCallister, who lost his South Down seat after nine years, and outgoing DUP MLAs David McIlveen and Ian McCrea. Former SDLP deputy leader Dolores Kelly also lost out in Upper Bann after being edged out for the sixth seat by outgoing Sinn Fein education minister John O'Dowd. The Alliance Party's Naomi Long and Sinn Fein's Michelle Gildernew will be making a return to the Stormont benches after previously serving as MPs. Jenny Palmer, who quit the DUP amid allegations she had been bullied, took a seat from her former party when she was elected for the Ulster Unionists in Lagan Valley. Former DUP health minister Jim Wells, who was embroiled in a series of controversies in the last term, was also re-elected in South Down. The SDLP faced a tight battle to retain its single seat in West Belfast with Alex Attwood narrowly pipping the DUP's Frank McCoubrey by 89 votes. In South Belfast, Claire Hanna, who was co-opted into the Assembly when former SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell stood down, proved successful in her first test at the Assembly polls and was elected just after midnight. Her running mate, former television reporter Fearghal McKinney was eliminated at stage 10. Colum Eastwood, who was embarking on his first election as SDLP leader, retained his seat in Foyle. Sinn Fein's Culture Arts and Leisure Minister Caral Ni Chuilin was also returned for another term in North Belfast, as was Gerry Kelly. Former DUP political adviser Emma Pengelly, who was co-opted into the last Assembly, won a seat in her own right in South Belfast, as did former DUP Belfast deputy mayor Christopher Stalford. The turnout of 54.91% was down, but only slightly, on the 55.64% in the 2011 Stormont election.

2016-05-07 20:10 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

90 Theft in uniform: Some prescription thefts are inside job Who is stealing prescription drugs from the mail in metro Atlanta? The 11Alive Investigators have discovered often times the thief is wearing a uniform. Chief investigator Brendan Keefe found the simple trick some postal workers use to tell if your medications are worth stealing. Packages are disappearing from doorsteps across the nation. It’s the ultimate grab bag – maybe there’s something valuable inside. Some thieves follow the delivery trucks. Others drive them. That’s right – hundreds of postal workers every year are stealing the very deliveries they’re supposed to safeguard. “Not just one month, but over the next year and a half, it happened every month,” veteran Steve Waller said Each month the VA hospital would ship prescription pain meds to his home. But they’d never arrive. “Each time the tracking numbers would go into the local post office and just disappear,” Waller said. A mail sorter admitted stealing Waller’s oxycodone, but they didn’t catch her for a year and a half after he alerted the postal inspector general. 11Alive asked Waller whether he thought resources in the Office of Inspector General (OIG) played a role in the time it took to catch the thief. “That’s one of the things the inspector general mentioned, that they’re understaffed; they couldn’t cover because it was so widespread; they couldn’t cover each individual instance,” he said. Last year, OIG records show more than 500 postal workers were convicted for mail theft - a 27 percent increase from the year before. The amount of fines, recoveries and restitution payments tripled to more than $30 million - from mail thefts that were all an inside job. “Every prescription I have has got to go through the mail,” John Lyons said. Lyons was waiting for this delivery of prescription pills but the $500 shipment vanished off camera and off his porch. “First she puts my paper mail in the box, then she knocks on the door, immediately rings the bell, turns around for a second and then just walks away.” And what did she do with the box? “It’s clearly in her hand as she walks off the porch,” Lyons said. A letter carrier walking off with a package could be planning to deliver it the next day. But that didn’t happen. And more importantly somebody signed for it just seconds later. “Yes, just seconds after,” Lyons said. “The time stamp on the film shows that was exactly when she claims I signed for it.” The letter carrier walks off with the box as the surveillance camera’s clock hits 4:28 p.m. – the same time postal records show an invisible John Lyons signing for the medication. “It said that John Lyons – myself - had signed for it, but the signature was clearly not mine,” he said. Here they are, the signature from the mail receipt on top and the one from his driver’s license on the bottom. Confronted with the mismatched signatures, and the video, OIG investigators wrote to Lyons that “she eventually admitted falsifying your signature.” So without that camera, it would have been his word against the letter carrier. “It took jumping through so many hoops before they would even believe me,” he said. Even now, information about the carrier or actions taken against her have not been made available by the United States Postal Service, Postal Inspector Service or the OIG who is handling the investigation. To cut down on mail theft, the prescription companies send medications in plain unmarked packages with no company name, just a return address. Shaking the bag, a potential thief might hear pills inside. But they have no way of knowing if the hidden pills are valuable narcotics or worthless allergy medications. Yet, to an experienced postal worker, the bags might as well be invisible. The dishonest ones have a simple shortcut to see inside the shipment to know for certain if the prescription is worth stealing. “This was only with my narcotic pain medication,” Waller said. “Never my cholesterol medicine or my blood pressure medicine - only the medication I had to sign for.” “Signature required” - those two words appear only on Schedule II controlled substances shipped by the Veterans Administration or Express Scripts. No signature is required for all other prescriptions. So thieves stealing medications left on the front porch are guaranteed to be disappointed. That signature is a dead giveaway. “Oh yeah, sends up a red flag,” Waller said. “This must be important, he has to sign for it.” Both Waller and Lyons had their Schedule II prescriptions taken by postal workers, yet they haven’t seen a dime from the postal service. “Once I proved everything I said, and had video footage and documents backing everything up, they still told me there’s nothing they can do,” Lyons said. This was their response despite a postal working being convicted of stealing the medication. “Because the package was not insured by Express Scripts, that there was nothing they could do for me,” Lyons said. And that’s the key: Express Scripts and the VA do not send their medications through the U. S. Mail with the optional insurance. Not only are the victims out the money, they’re out the meds. Both men were forced to get new prescriptions from their doctors who at first suspected the victims of lying about the missing narcotics. So is it a systemic problem? Postal workers have been convicted from coast to coast for stealing prescriptions. As for how the problem can be solved, it’s tough because many insurance plans require mail order prescriptions but they don’t insure those shipments. One thing they could do is require a signature for all prescription shipments eliminating that secret code to detect narcotics. But that could leave many patients without their needed medications because someone would have to be home when all pills are delivered.

2016-05-07 16:51 TEGNA rssfeeds.11alive.com

91 Westville prisoners spend time with moms for Mother's Day Durban - Abongile Daniel dreams of one day making his mother proud to thank her for standing by him as he serves a five-year sentence at the Westville Correctional Facility. The 20-year-old was among the inmates who spent a few hours with their mothers and other maternal figures at the Durban prison on Saturday in a bid to repair broken bonds while behind bars. Department of Correctional Services spokesperson Thulani Mdluli said the aim of the programme was to repair and reinforce relationships between mothers and their sons, who are often disowned when they are imprisoned. "There are also many who have been rejected who need guidance and interaction from a maternal figure, especially considering that many are imprisoned for rape or other crimes against women," he said. Bulelwa Daniel travelled for four hours from the Eastern Cape to visit her son. "I am so happy to see him. He looks so well," she told News24. Finding ways to make things right Abongile was imprisoned after he killed a man in a bar fight a few years ago. "What happened changed my life. Not for the worse, but for the better," he said. "God had a plan for me. I have been spending my time here making peace with what I did and thinking of ways to move forward. My life doesn't end here. I am finding ways to make things right. " Abongile is an active participant in rehabilitation programmes at the prison and says he finds them enriching. He recently passed Matric and qualified for access to Bachelor degree studies, which Bulelwa describes as one of her son's biggest achievements. ‘She is my pillar of strength’ Abongile said he hoped to honour his mother by going to university once he is released and eventually work with other inmates as a facilitator. "She went through a lot with me. I did wrong, but my mom never stopped supporting me during my trial and also now that I am behind bars. She is my pillar of strength. "I want to show her how much I value her. And there is no better way than to make her proud of me by becoming someone better. " Bulelwa drives to KwaZulu-Natal twice a month to spend an hour with her son. "I am always happy to be with him. He is working hard to make something of himself," she said. Bulelwa worries about how Abongile will be received in their community once he is released, but believes that standing by him will encourage him to make better choices. 'I don't want to disappoint her' Abongile said his mother's support was invaluable. "I will do everything to not disappoint her again. I am using this as an opportunity to turn things around. I can't turn back the hands of time and undo what was done, but I can learn from it. " Mdluli said in addition to the prisoners' mothers, other local women were also identified to be invited to interact with the inmates. "It is hoped to encourage them to get to know and 'adopt' [prisoners], especially one of the juvenile boys, who may not have the support of their families. "There is a difference between a maternal and paternal influence. Having a positive female role model for guidance can hopefully improve the offender's decisions and avoid recidivism. "

2016-05-07 20:00 www.news24.com

92 Egypt court suggests death for 6 codefendants, but not Morsi Cairo - An Egyptian court recommended death sentences on Saturday for six codefendants of Mohammed Morsi, but not for the ousted Islamist president himself in their trial on espionage charges. The presiding judge in the trial asked the mufti - the country's official interpreter of Islamic law - to consider death sentences for the six codefendants, saying the court would convene again on June 18 after the mufti's response. It will then pronounce its verdict and sentence for the remaining five defendants, including Morsi, on charges of having supplied Qatar with classified documents. Egyptian law requires the mufti to sign off on death sentences. His opinion is not binding but is usually respected by courts. Three of the defendants sentenced to death were tried in absentia and identified by the prosecution as journalists who helped relay the documents to Qatar. Qatar was a main backer of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement while he was in power between 2012 and July 2013, when the military overthrew and detained him. He has already received sentences in three separate trials. He has been sentenced to death for his alleged role in prison breaks and attacks on police stations during the 2011 uprising that overthrew veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak. Prison escape Morsi was one of the leaders of the Brotherhood who had been jailed during the 18-day uprising, escaping with thousands of inmates who broke out of prison. He was also sentenced to life in prison for espionage on behalf of Iran and militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas, and received a 20 year term for deadly clashes outside the presidential palace in 2012 between his supporters and opponents. The Qatar espionage case stems from allegations that aides passed on classified state secrets to Doha using intermediaries. The six facing a death sentence include Ibrahim Mohamed Hilal, whom the prosecution had identified as a senior editor with the Qatar-based channel Al-Jazeera. He is not in Egypt and was tried in absentia. An Al-Jazeera official said he is "an adviser" to the channel's chairperson. Journalists jailed Another, also tried in absentia, is Jordanian citizen Alaa Omar Mohamed Sablan, identified by the prosecution as an Al-Jazeera producer. Asmaa Mohamed al-Khatib, identified as a reporter with the pro-Brotherhood Rassd news outlet, was also sentenced to death in absentia. They were alleged to have assisted in relaying the classified material to Doha. Egypt had cracked down on Al-Jazeera and imprisoned three of its journalists in Cairo, including Australian Peter Greste and Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, before releasing them by presidential decree. The defendants will be able to appeal the rulings before the court of cassation, and those tried in absentia can win a retrial if they hand themselves in. Egyptian courts have sentenced hundreds of Morsi supporters to death since his overthrow, but many have appealed and won new trials. A police crackdown on his supporters has killed hundreds of protesters, while a jihadist insurgency has killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers.

2016-05-07 20:00 www.news24.com

93 2 die in Toekomsrus bike crash Toekomsrus - Two people died and another sustained critical injuries in an incident in Diamant Street, Toekomsrus on Saturday, paramedics said. ER24 spokesperson Chitra Bodasing said paramedics found a bike several metres away from the patients. Three people were found lying on the road. Two men were declared dead on the scene. "A woman believed to be about 30 years of age was found to have sustained critical injuries," Bodasing said. She was treated and transported to the Leratong Hospital for further medical care. Authorities were on scene for further investigations.

2016-05-07 20:00 www.news24.com

94 Asia Times News & Features – Asia Times MOSCOW–Russia pledged to view Japan as an “important partner” in Asia-Pacific and both nations renewed efforts to settle the territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands. As Russian President Vladimir Putin met visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on May 6 in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, the meeting was not expected to mark a breakthrough in efforts to settle decades-long dispute over the Kuril Islands. However, the top level bilateral talks lasted three hours and appeared to indicate improving atmosphere of conversation as Russia apparently departed from its earlier hard-line stance. Putin described Japan as Russia’s “important partner” in Asia-Pacific, while Abe noted progress in bilateral relations, in accordance with the Kremlin’s press-service. After the talks, Abe mentioned a “new approach” to the territorial dispute. However, details of this new approach are yet to be disclosed. Yet despite encouraging rhetoric, notably talk of the “new approach,” strictly speaking, on May 6 both sides only agreed to continue negotiations. Talks on the peace treaty are due to be continued by deputy foreign ministers of Russia and Japan in June, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced following talks in Sochi. Putin and Abe also agreed to resume meetings of foreign and defense ministers in a so called 2+2 format, Lavrov said. The Russian media outlets largely welcomed the meeting in Sochi. The official RIA Novosti news agency highlighted Abe’s “new approach” to the territorial dispute. NTV television channel noted “constructive” talks on the Kurils. In recent years, attempts to organize a meaningful meeting between the leaders remained slow to materialize. Most recently, Putin was due to travel to Japan in late 2015. However, the visit was postponed as talks between diplomats did not entail any progress on the territorial dispute. Last year, Moscow became upset by Japan’s support of the Western sanctions against Russia. Hence the Kremlin tried to take a more hard-line stance on the territorial dispute. In August 2015, the bilateral political ties reached new lows after Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev traveled to the Kuril Islands despite vocal objections from Japan. The Kremlin insisted that the country’s top officials would keep visiting the disputed Southern Kurils despite Japanese protests. In August 2015, Medvedev stated that Russian officials “visited, visit and will visit” the Kuril Islands and ordered cabinet members to travel to the islands more frequently. However, in recent months the Kremlin apparently dropped the hard-line tactics. Russia’s top officials refrained from high-profile visits to the Kuril Islands. In April 2016, Putin argued that a compromise solution over the disputed Kuril Islands “can and will be found.” In recent years, Russian officials have urged to develop bilateral trade and economic ties so as to create conditions for signing the peace treaty eventually. But Moscow has been refusing to discuss a return to Japan of four islands, Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan and Habomai, known as the Southern Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan. Moscow has consistently dismissed Japan’s insistence to return all four islands. Moscow was also keen to develop the Kuril Islands without reliance on foreign investors. In August 2015, the Russian government approved a new program to develop the Kuril Islands in 2016-2025. The program is expected to cost 70 billion rubles (more than $1 billion) in federal and regional grants and subsidies to finance infrastructure development, residential and road construction. The Kremlin was also keen not to create an impression that the latest reconciliatory tone towards Japan was an attempt to overcome the perceived international isolation of Russia. Lavrov said that the Western sanctions imposed on Russia and supported by Japan were not discussed at all at the meeting in Sochi. However, the Kremlin was apparently interested in closer ties with Japan even at the cost of the “compromise solution” of the territorial dispute. Sergei Blagov is a Moscow-based independent journalist and researcher. In the past three decades, he has been covering Asian affairs from Moscow, Russia, as well as Hanoi, Vietnam and Vientiane, Laos. He is the author of non-fiction books on Vietnam, and a contributor of a handbook for reporters. (Copyright 2016 Asia Times Holdings Limited, a duly registered Hong Kong company. All rights reserved. Please contact us about sales, syndication and republishing.)

2016-05-07 06:30 atimes.com

95 Livonia - News This feed's current articles are shown below. Subscribe for updates to all the content available in this feed, or click through here to see the original article. IKEA has unveiled its latest investment in its Canton store Two students at Cambridge High School in Garden City were taken into police custody Teaching with Heart and Soul Award goes to Julie Folkert The Alden Development Group wants to build a five-story building on property Canton’s Firefighter of the Year led effort to form honor guard Township residents and officials are seeking more county money to fix streets Redford Union school officials call for transparency in determing if it should combine with South Redford. This is the third and final month of the summer with a Supermoon. It's when a full or new moon coincides with the moon's closest point to Earth in its orbit. Basically, the moon appears bigger and brighter than usual in the night sky. Police believe the body, belonging to a Milford man, had been there for weeks. Claire Daugherty has been riding horses since the age of 9 A 19-year-old woman told police her boyfriend choked her and threatened her A drug collection program has shattered old records in Canton Redford Township Trustees set to vote on changes to Allison Park concession stand plans. Ashley Dorsey was sentenced to several months in jail, as well as probation. Alleged victim says she’s in an arranged marriage, beaten repeatedly at home Students from North Farmington won three awards at the county CSI contest. Baseball player Chase Every has often wondered why there’s no flag at ballfields. The robbery occurred at a gas station early on May 1; the clerk there was threatened. Volunteer extraordinaire encourages parents to take the leap, spend time at schools Eloise fire: man pleads guilty to arson, sentencing set for May 25

2016-05-07 18:51 rssfeeds.hometownlife.com

96 Norwegian championship results and standings May 7 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Norwegian championship matches on Saturday Saturday, May 7 Brann Bergen 1 IK Start 0 Stromsgodset IF 3 Lillestrom 1 Viking Stavanger 2 Tromso 0 Standings P W D L F A Pts 1 Rosenborg Trondheim 8 6 1 1 14 3 19 ------2 Odd Grenland 8 5 2 1 10 4 17 3 Molde 8 5 2 1 15 10 17 ------4 Stromsgodset IF 9 5 2 2 14 9 17 ------5 Brann Bergen 9 5 2 2 9 7 17 6 Viking Stavanger 9 5 1 3 10 10 16 7 Lillestrom 9 3 4 2 17 13 13 8 FK Haugesund 8 4 1 3 15 12 13 9 Sarpsborg 08 8 3 3 2 11 7 12 10 Tromso 9 2 3 4 5 15 9 11 Sogndal 8 2 2 4 4 8 8 12 Aalesund 8 2 1 5 10 10 7 13 Bodo Glimt 8 2 1 5 10 13 7 ------14 Valerenga Oslo 8 2 0 6 7 13 6 ------15 Stabaek 8 1 1 6 7 14 4 16 IK Start 9 0 4 5 5 15 4 1: Champions League preliminary round 2-3: Europa League preliminary round 4: Europa League depending on domestic cup 14: Relegation play-off 15-16: Relegation Next Fixtures (GMT): Sunday, May 8 Odd Grenland v Bodo Glimt (1330) Aalesund v Sogndal (1600) Rosenborg Trondheim v Stabaek (1600) Valerenga Oslo v Sarpsborg 08 (1600) FK Haugesund v Molde (1800) 2016-05-07 19:55 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk

97 Vincent Kompany to miss Euro 2016 through injury Belgium and Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has said he will miss Euro 2016 with a thigh injury sustained against Real Madrid earlier this week. Kompany lasted only a few minutes of City's Champions League semi-final second leg in Madrid on Wednesday before he went down with a thigh problem and was forced off. It was the latest in a line of frustrating muscle injuries for Kompany, who missed large parts of City's stuttering season with calf problems. On Saturday night, he wrote on his Facebook page: " I'll miss the Euros. To me that's very sad news. " Kompany's future at City - where Pep Guardiola will replace Manuel Pellegrini in the summer - has been questioned by some given his injury woes, but the 30-year-old vowed to return stronger. His Facebook post continued: "I could be standing here, feeling sorry for myself. I could fear for my career, as others may do. I could give up. "That is not me. I decide on my future. " Kompany has suffered five different injuries this season, appearing in only 22 of City's 57 matches. Kompany travelled back with City from Madrid, but has since returned to Spain for treatment on his injury. The defender, capped 70 times by Belgium, said: "I remain calm and positive. I will continue to follow my path and I will do so with more conviction than ever. "I trust my friends and team-mates to do well and do us proud at the next European Championships in France. I am now officially their most fervent supporter and I will be there to support them. "

2016-05-07 19:53 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

98 Exeter thrash Harlequins to book home semi-final in play- offs England wing Jack Nowell raced in a hat-trick as Exeter celebrated their first appearance in the Aviva Premiership play-offs by booking a home semi-final with a 62-24 win at Harlequins. Director of rugby Conor O'Shea's farewell game at the Stoop turned ugly early on for Quins, who can still qualify for the Champions Cup should they beat Montpellier in the Challenge Cup final. James Short, Nowell and Dave Ewers crossed in the first half with Danny Care responding just before half-time. But Exeter, who will host a Wasps side in the semi-finals they beat 24-3 just a week ago, raced out of the blocks after the break with a second Short try sandwiched between two Nowell scores. Further tries came through Will Chudley, Julian Salvi, Phil Dollman and a sublime Henry Slade, the outside centre an outlet all afternoon, while Kyle Sinckler and Winston Stanley grabbed Harlequins' consolations. Nick Evans opened proceedings with a fourth-minute penalty before Short started the Chiefs assault six minutes later. Taking advantage of the space afforded to him on the left wing, Short burst over the line and two minutes later, Nowell added a second try out on the right following a series of pick-and-goes from close quarters. Steenson kicked just one conversion from three but Chiefs were nonetheless storming to a home semi- final, as Nowell harried Ross Chisholm out of play following a brilliant Slade kick to set up the third try in the 20th minute. From the lineout, Chiefs needed just two phases before flanker Ewers barged over, and Steenson found his kicking boots to complete the conversion and stretch the lead out to 17-3. Harlequins would have hit back almost immediately if not for superb Chiefs defending on the line led by Nowell, just as his England team-mate Care looked to have squirmed through. Replays proved inconclusive and no try was awarded. In the final minute of the half Care got his rewards, however, Mike Brown and Marland Yarde linking up before setting the Harlequins skipper away - Evans added the conversion. Exeter wrapped up the bonus point three minutes into the second half when a long pass thrown over the head of Chisholm fell to Nowell, who ran over untroubled. Short followed suit shortly after with his second as he evaded the tackle on the left touchline to cross over before Steenson made it 29-10 with a fine touchline kick. Nowell crossed for his third try on 53 minutes in what was to be his last action of the match. Harlequins responded through replacement prop Sinckler but Dollman then sliced through a wilting defence and the half-ton came up when Chudley went in under the posts. Slade was soon set away for his score on the right and while Stanley's try reduced the gap momentarily, the Chiefs scored an incredible 10th effort in the corner seconds later through Salvi.

2016-05-07 19:52 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

99 Amir Khan looks back at the best in bid to move forward with win in Las Vegas Amir Khan is taking inspiration from some of the world's most decorated fighters as he prepares to step up two weight divisions to challenge WBC champion Saul Alvarez in what could be his defining fight. Khan would join a small group of illustrious names including the great Roy Jones Jnr, Michael Spinks, Manny Pacquiao and others who, without so-called 'tune-up' fights, jumped up two divisions to secure significant wins that are widely considered their greatest. In the same way Spinks and Pacquiao were major underdogs in their respective 1985 and 2008 fights against Larry Holmes and Oscar De La Hoya, few give Khan much chance of defeating Mexico's highly- rated 'Canelo' Alvarez in Las Vegas on Saturday. The 29-year-old is driven by the fact such occasions made those fighters' careers and reputations, however, and speaking to Press Association Sport, he said: "The greatest fighters in the world, like (Jones Jnr, Spinks and Pacquiao), by winning the fights they did, became great names. "Going into this fight with Canelo and winning this fight, in good style, definitely will get me to one of the best fighters in the world, and also a fighter that will also be remembered. "I'm moving up two weight categories for the middleweight world title, and on paper, if someone just mentioned it to you, you'd be like 'no chance', but with the way I've been working hard, as an underdog fighter, I just want to prove people wrong, I just want to go in there and I want to win this fight, and I want it more than Canelo wants it, I want it really badly. "I've never felt like this for any fight, I've worked so hard, and I want to make sure I don't make any mistakes. "This is the fight that does it now. If you look back in the history books you have the likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Muhammad Ali, they had fights like this to take them to that next level. I think that's the fight for me now. "By me winning this fight, it will definitely take me up there, and be one of the biggest wins in boxing. It'll be a win that people will always remember. " When Khan lost for a second successive fight - the third of his professional career and also the second by knockout - against Danny Garcia in 2012, it seemed highly unlikely he would ever be involved in a fight of such magnitude. He believes the example he has since set in rebuilding his career demonstrates that even heavy defeats need not be permanently damaging, and that other fightes should not be discouraged if the same happens to them. "There are a lot of fighters who when they get beaten, find it hard to get back to the top again," Khan, who is four years older than Alvarez, added. "For me it's happened twice before. Obviously when the (Breidis) Prescott fight happened I had to rebuild my whole career, and then I went on and won titles. "The second time was when I lost to (Lamont) Peterson and Garcia, back-to-back, and now I'm back here, fighting in one of the biggest fights this year, and also against one of the best fighters out there. "This is maybe a good message to send: it doesn't matter if you get beaten, it's always how you come back from defeat and how hard you train, there's always a way back. "For me, I've proved that, not once, not twice, but three times, I've always come back stronger and on top again. "

2016-05-07 14:35 Press Association www.dailymail.co.uk

100 ITV's new politics editor Robert Peston 'finds love again' Robert Peston is rumoured to have found love again, four years after the tragic death of his beloved wife left him devastated. ITV's new political editor - who starts his new Sunday morning politics programme tomorrow - has hinted he is dating Charlotte Edwardes, a freelance journalist who he has known for more than a decade. The first hint they might be more than just friends came when the two were pictured walking in London together in November, apparently deep in conversation. In an interview with the Telegraph , Peston refused to go as far as to confirm he was dating Ms Edwardes, who he met while working for the newspaper, but did reveal: ‘She is brilliant and funny, and we are very close.' The BBC's former economics editor, who left the broadcaster last year, has previously spoken of how difficult he found the months and years after wife Sian Busby's death, losing weight and even developing an extreme form of arthritis. Sian died of lung cancer, despite never having smoked, which left Peston and sons Max and Simon bereft. The couple were married for 14 years, having first dated at university before splitting up. He told Red Magazine: ‘The truth is, grief is a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible thing. It’s taken me a f*** of a long time to develop strategies to try not to feel lonely. 'Finding things you like doing, seeing friends. For quite a long time I couldn’t do those things, because I’d lost the ability to do those things, and so you have to reacquire it.’ Last June, he told to Radio Times he was ready to find love again - having recovered a little from the 'terrible, terrible shock' of Sian's death. 'It's a hope, yes,' he told the magazine. 'I don’t want to sound too sentimental, but the one thing that kept me going is my two amazing boys, and they have consistently given me pleasure and pride – and I don’t think I would have coped without them. 'Something – touch wood – will come along and hit me in the face any second.'

2016-05-07 19:48 Flora Drury www.dailymail.co.uk

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