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1 Montero's PH slam lifts Cubs over Dodgers 8-4 in NLCS opener
(12.99/13) Miguel Montero delivered a memorable swing, Javier Baez stole home with his daring dash down the line and Jon Lester turned in another steady performance on the mound. 2016-10-16 01:54 6KB www.charlotteobserver.com
2 4 dead, 9 injured after pickup truck flies off bridge, lands in park hosting biker festival in San Diego
(4.38/13) SAN DIEGO -- Four people are dead and nine others are injured after a pickup truck went off of a bridge in San Diego and landed in a park Saturday afternoon as a biker festival was underway. Fox 5 in San Diego reports the crash occurred on the... 2016-10-15 23:47 2KB fox13now.com
3 Saturday Night Live: Baldwin is back as Trump for 'worst ever presidential debate' (4.33/13) Debate hosts take a shot and introduce ‘President Hillary Clinton’ for debate featuring plenty of suspicious circling and even a bit of a dance 2016-10-16 02:50 4KB www.theguardian.com
4 China to launch manned spacecraft — Xinhua BEIJING, China — China will launch a manned space mission on Monday, official media said, as the Asian giant works towards setting up its own space station. Chinese (2.34/13) astronauts Jing 2016-10-16 00:00 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net
5 BRICS Leaders Discuss How to Shape Global Trade, Finance The leaders of five of the world's fast-rising powers were meeting Sunday in the (2.20/13) southwestern Indian state of Goa for their annual summit at a time when their ability to shape the global dialogue on international politics and finance is increasingly being questioned. Brazil, Russia, India,... 2016-10-16 02:34 4KB abcnews.go.com
6 India, US would be "best friends" if elected as prez: Trump Terming India as a "key strategic ally", Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump
(2.08/13) has promised that if voted to power India and the US would become "best friends" and have a "phenomenal future" together. ... 2016-10-16 01:10 840Bytes article.wn.com
7 Opinion Sound Off for Sunday, Oct. 16 JOHN GOT IT RIGHTSending thanks to John Haenn, who penned a letter to the editor in the Oct. 7 Times. He outlined clearly what the idea of conservatism is and how the left has been successful in selling to the public that food, housing 2016-10-15 23:38 5KB (2.08/13) www.delcotimes.com 8 Syria conflict: US Secretary Kerry to revisit London for talks
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9 Richard Panik’s Hat Trick Leads Blackhawks Past Predators
Scott Darling was sharp in making 33 saves. 2016-10-15 23:57 3KB chicago.cbslocal.com (2.06/13)
10 Levine: Miguel Montero Makes Most Of His Moment In October Spotlight
(1.15/13) This 2016 season has been a struggle for Montero, but he has kept a positive attitude throughout. 2016-10-16 02:27 3KB chicago.cbslocal.com
11 Emails show Clinton treading lightly with Wall Street talks
(1.03/13) WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton generally avoided direct criticism of Wall Street as she examined the causes and responses to the financial meltdown during... 2016-10-16 02:58 5KB www.dailymail.co.uk
12 Unstoppable! Beyonce powers through Tidal concert despite BLEEDING ear injury
(1.03/13) The 35-year-old pop diva's long plaited ponytail reportedly got caught in her earring 2016-10-16 00:43 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
13 Donald Trump's businesses have been impacted by his campaign, report says Donald Trump regularly touts his business success as a rationale for his campaign. In
(1.02/13) the first presidential debate, he got specific, speaking of the recent opening of the new Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington. "Under budget, ahead of schedule, saved tremendous money. I'm a year...... 2016-10-16 03:17 970Bytes article.wn.com
14 Itâs open war Crunch time for SA as ANC factions sharpen battle spears Gordhan fires salvo over R7bn âs uspiciousâ Gupta transactions. 2016-10-16 02:43 9KB www.news24.com
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15 Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel highlight red carpet arrivals at N. O. Film Fest screening The married couple both worked on 'The Book of Love,' which screened Oct. 15, 2016.
(1.02/13) 2016-10-16 02:20 1KB www.nola.com 16 Robbie Amell and Italia Ricci are married! The Flash actor and Designated Survivor actress said 'I do' on downtown Los Angeles on Saturday night. 2016-10-16 00:11 6KB www.aol.com (1.02/13)
17 Katy Perry glows in frilly gold gown at Children's Hospital Los Angeles gala honouring Drew Barrymore
(0.01/13) On Saturday night, Katy Perry gave a live performance at the Once Upon A Time gala thrown by Children's Hospital Los Angeles. The event took place at The Event Deck At LA Live. 2016-10-16 01:43 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk
18 Review: Sia bares soul without showing face at Palace When you’re headlining an arena but aren't very fond of performing or even showing
(0.01/13) your face, you have to get creative. 2016-10-16 01:34 4KB rssfeeds.detroitnews.com
19 Gatwick’s the best choice in many ways, but a Heathrow Hub fudge could sweeten the deal Rather than giving the green light to Heathrow, as is expected next week, Theresa May should consider an idea that has a chance of actually getting off the ground reasonably soon 2016-10-16 03:32 760Bytes article.wn.com
20 Entertainment Week in Pictures: 9-15 October Renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz showed off the works in her latest exhibition Women: New Portraits By Annie Leibovitz at the Frankfurt's 2016-10-16 00:00 885Bytes headlinenewstoday.net
21 Question stay-at-home dads hate Dad dilemmas: Stay-at-home dads have to wear the barbs, as well as the nappy- changes. Picture: iStock ADDRESSING an audience of successful businesswomen, the 2016-10-16 00:00 11KB headlinenewstoday.net
22 Bella Hadid steps out in skimpy crop top in New York after opening up about Lyme disease battle The 20-year-old, who recently opened up about her struggle with Lyme disease, showed off her lithe physique in a halterneck crop top and trousers. 2016-10-16 02:21 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
23 Liberal members should vote on NSW preselection reforms, says Sinodinos Cabinet secretary Arthur Sinodinos calls for all NSW members to been given a say on opening up MP preselection processes 2016-10-16 02:10 5KB www.theguardian.com
24 Clinton campaign tweets bizarre video of Hillary's high school best friend Hillary Clinton's lifelong friend, Betsy Ebeling, was featured in a video tweeted out by Clinton's administration. Ebeling told a story of how a breakup led to Clinton being asked to the prom. 2016-10-16 01:45 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk 25 Hilary Duff dons tight distressed jeans for casual shopping trip in Beverly Hills She was snapped in Studio City, California on Saturday morning grabbing a breakfast with her mother Susan. 2016-10-16 01:45 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
26 The rise of Ryan 'Fitzy' Fitzgerald as he celebrates his 40th birthday from Sydney Swans to Big Brother and now Nova In celebration of Fitzy's 40th birthday, we take a look back at his transformation from a cheeky Adelaide boy, into a media personality who seems to enjoy getting naked for the cameras 2016-10-16 01:35 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
27 Noelle Martin's horror after she discovered digitally altered pornographic images of herself online Noelle Martin, now 22, was just 17-years-old when her selfies were stolen from Facebook. The law student's face had been doctored onto photos of a naked model's body and used on porn sites. 2016-10-16 01:25 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
28 Antalya: Turkish Filmmakers Dazzle on the International Stage Despite the turbulence and terror surrounding the July 15 attempted coup in Turkey, the country’s filmmakers rose to new heights on the international fest circuit. And even after the failed coup, T… 2016-10-16 01:07 4KB variety.com
29 As Donald Trump made clear, smart businesses know only idiots pay tax The revelation that the US presidential candidate paid no federal taxes for 18 years will come as no surprise to the global corporations who funnel billions through tax havens 2016-10-16 01:00 14KB www.theguardian.com
30 Pia Muehlenbeck reveals the secrets to get the perfect Instagram photo From good lighting to smiling, Australian lawyer-turned model and Instagram star, Pia Muehlenbeck, speaks to FEMAIL about her tips for taking the perfect Instagram photo. 2016-10-16 00:31 3KB www.dailymail.co.uk
31 Leaving the EU mustn’t mean crashing the digital economy The industry is thriving in Britain – but it relies on exceptional overseas talent and international funding. Brexit has left the future of both uncertain 2016-10-16 00:30 4KB www.theguardian.com
32 Alaska town votes to change name to Inupiat Eskimo version ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Residents in the nation's northernmost community have voted to change the name of the Alaska town to its traditional Inupiat Eski 2016-10-16 00:24 5KB mynorthwest.com 33 Clinton campaign launches its latest tool to take down Donald Trump - a mocking comparison of how each of candidate has spent the last 50 years Clinton pitted photographs of herself in law school and addressing the Senate against a catalog of images showing Trump posing with beauty queens or promoting his many branded products. 2016-10-16 00:23 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk
34 Exclusive–Breitbart/Gravis Poll: Clinton Up 4 Points over Trump in Florida Exclusive–Breitbart/Gravis Poll: Clinton Up 4 Points over Trump in Florida 2016-10-16 00:16 4KB feedproxy.google.com
35 'Welfare mentality' must end: Coalition responds to report on rising poverty Research shows nearly 3 million Australians are living below poverty line – government says answer is to get people off welfare, not increase payments 2016-10-16 00:11 3KB www.theguardian.com
36 Bulls Beat Bucks, 107-86 Isaiah Canaan led Chicago with 25 points, while Doug McDermott added 22. 2016-10-16 00:09 1006Bytes chicago.cbslocal.com
37 Weekend Today show host is caught out by staff tinkering with the autocue Australian journalist Deborah Knight was about to present the latest weather updates when technical staff changed the autocue last minute to read: 'I'm Ron Burgundy'. 2016-10-16 00:06 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk
38 City to honor civil rights lion who changed Detroit landscape Remember that the American civil rights movement succeeded thanks to thousands of lions like they Rev. Nicholas Hood Sr. 2016-10-16 00:06 7KB rssfeeds.freep.com
39 Event in Sandy raises awareness, honors victims of domestic violence SANDY, Utah -- October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and to bring attention to what a big problem it is in Utah, Sandy City staged a somber ceremony this week. The statistics are troubling: 291 adults and 338 children were victims of... 2016-10-16 00:03 2KB fox13now.com
40 Michigan Modern architecture defines Detroit's growth period Michigan Modern, properly understood, remains our greatest architectural expression. 2016-10-16 00:03 4KB rssfeeds.freep.com 41 Welcome to Poundland, where life is bliss if you’re a foreign buyer The dramatic plunge in the value of sterling is an early indicator of the price to be paid for Brexit 2016-10-16 00:00 9KB www.theguardian.com
42 National briefs: Wells Fargo infamy may be repelling users Some consumers may be shying away from Wells Fargo after learning that employees used customers’ information to open sham accounts, according to new figures reported by the bank. The nation’s largest retail bank beat expectations when it reported more than $5.6 billion in profit for the... 2016-10-16 00:00 3KB www.post- gazette.com
43 Street style tip of the day: Caped We've been seeing this trend on the shoulders of every big time fashion personality and celebrity, literally. Cape your jacket or sweater for a chic look! 2016-10-16 00:00 942Bytes www.aol.com
44 Taylor Swift donates remainder of $1 million pledge to Louisiana flood victims Taylor Swift is making good on her promise and donated more money to the flood victims in Louisiana. 2016-10-15 23:58 2KB www.aol.com
45 Runway Fundraiser is fashion-forward: Shirley Wild On Sept. 15 the Jewish Family and Children’s Service held its annual Runway Fundraiser at the Center. Fashion design students from Long Beach City College Cal State Long Beach presented their exciting, innovative creations that were show 2016-10-15 23:36 5KB www.presstelegram.com
46 Sharp: Michigan State's dip can be short-lived if focus is on future The Spartans' fourth straight loss only further confirmed that the emphasis for the remainder of 2016 should be 2017. 2016-10-15 23:31 5KB rssfeeds.freep.com
47 Sampson County farmers feeling Matthew's impact Farmers in Sampson County continued to feel Hurricane Matthew's impact Saturday, one week after the storm wreaked havoc on North Carolina. 2016-10-15 23:29 623Bytes www.wral.com
48 A conversation with Evanston native, Tony-winner Jessie Mueller She’s firmly established herself as a Broadway leading lady, and yet, by her own admission, is still reconciling exactly what that means. 2016-10-15 23:23 2KB chicago.suntimes.com 49 Birmingham beauty comes with car lovers' dream garage, heated driveway In the heart of walkable Birmingham, this 4,600-square-foot house packs a stack of luxury detail into a city-size lot. 2016-10-15 23:19 3KB rssfeeds.freep.com
50 Lord Wolfson: ‘Inflation will be a plea subsequent year’ Lord Wolfson, the chief executive of Next, says the decline in the pound inevitably means there will be some inflation in the UK next year. Speaking at the 2016-10-16 00:00 892Bytes headlinenewstoday.net
51 Email About Qatari Offer Shows Thorny Ethical Issues Clinton Foundation Faced The email, released by WikiLeaks, indicated that Qatari representatives hoped to meet with Bill Clinton to present him with $1 million for his foundation. 2016-10-15 23:16 4KB www.nytimes.com
52 Amid fried chicken craze, foreign firms ruffle Korean feathers By Jane Chung SEOUL, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Don't count your chickens before they hatch. Global poultry producers hoping to cash in on South Korea's craze for fr... 2016-10-15 23:00 5KB www.dailymail.co.uk Articles
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1 /52 Montero's PH slam lifts Cubs over Dodgers 8-4 in NLCS opener (12.99/13) Miguel Montero delivered a memorable swing, Javier Baez stole home with his daring dash down the line and Jon Lester turned in another steady performance on the mound.
It all added up to another dramatic victory and business as usual this season for the Chicago Cubs, who are off and running in the NL Championship Series.
Montero snapped an eighth- inning tie with the third pinch-hit grand slam in postseason history, and Chicago beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-4 in the opener Saturday night, moving the Cubs a step closer to their first pennant in 71 years.
"We hang in there," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. "We don't give up. "
Game 2 is Sunday night, with the Dodgers once again in need of a clutch performance from ace Clayton Kershaw. Major league ERA leader Kyle Hendricks pitches for the Cubs, chasing their first World Series title since 1908.
Lester pitched six effective innings, and Dexter Fowler homered after making two diving catches in center field — breaking his belt on the second grab. Left fielder Ben Zobrist threw out Adrian Gonzalez at the plate, helping Chicago to its first NLCS victory in 13 years.
The Cubs pulled out 14 of their major league-best 103 wins this season in their final at-bat. They added two more in the Division Series against playoff-tested San Francisco, including a four-run ninth in the clinching Game 4.
And now, this.
"We've kind of proved we can overcome adversity in the game," slugger Kris Bryant said.
Chicago was swept by the New York Mets in last year's NLCS. Lester & Co. are back again and already in better shape following a crazy eighth inning.
In the top half, Gonzalez tied it at 3 with a two-out, two-run single off Aroldis Chapman.
Zobrist hit a leadoff double in the bottom of the inning before pinch-hitter Chris Coghlan was intentionally walked with runners at first and second and two outs, bringing up Chapman's spot in the batting order.
"That was the right thing to do," Maddon said. "I probably would have done the same thing. "
Maddon sent up Montero, who drove an 0-2 slider from loser Joe Blanton halfway up the right- field bleachers for his first hit of the playoffs.
"I trust Joe. I've trusted him all year long. He's been great for us," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. "Left a pitch up. ... It just didn't work out. "
The crowd of 42,376 at Wrigley Field roared as Montero rounded the bases and kept cheering until the veteran catcher popped out of the dugout for a curtain call.
"I never even thought I was going to hit at that point," Montero said. "To be honest, I thought Maddon put me out there just to bring the lefty and get (Willson) Contreras to pinch-hit for me, and they didn't bring the lefty for Contreras. "
Fowler homered on the next pitch as the Cubs rebounded quickly from a shaky bullpen performance. Hector Rondon allowed Andrew Toles' RBI double in the ninth before Chase Utley lined into a game-ending double play.
Chapman retired Yasmani Grandal on an inning-ending groundout in the eighth and was credited with the win.
"We'll be ready tomorrow," Gonzalez said. "This game gave us a lot of confidence. We know we can beat them. "
Lester and Baez helped Chicago to a 3-1 lead after seven. But the Dodgers rallied in the eighth, prompting Maddon to go to Chapman with the bases loaded and no outs.
The lefty struck out Corey Seager and Yasiel Puig before Gonzalez lined a 102 mph fastball back up the middle. A pumped-up Gonzalez celebrated at first base after delivering Los Angeles' first hit in 12 at-bats with the bases loaded in these playoffs.
But everything changed in the bottom half, leaving both managers to answer for several difficult decisions. Lester was replaced by a pinch hitter after just 77 pitches, and the intentional walk to Coghlan put the go-ahead run at third.
"A lot of that stuff was preplanned," Maddon said. "You look for situations. You're looking for the right matchups. But you don't know what he's going to do. ... You have to be able to react. "
Andre Ethier had a pinch-hit homer for Los Angeles, helped by a strong wind going out to left and left-center on a warm night at Wrigley Field. Kenta Maeda lasted just four innings in his fourth straight shaky outing dating to the regular season.
The last time Kershaw was on the mound, he got two outs for the save in Los Angeles' clinching Game 5 win at Washington on Thursday night. The taxing final victory over the Nationals left Roberts with few options for the NLCS opener, and the Cubs jumped on Maeda for three runs in the first two innings.
"There were a lot of pitches I left over the plate that they took advantage of," Maeda said through a translator. Bryant drove in Fowler with an RBI double in the first. Baez, one of the breakout stars of this year's postseason, added his own run-scoring double in the second, on a blooper into center over a drawn-in infield.
Baez was on third with one out when he initially broke for the plate with Lester squaring to bunt. Lester didn't get the bunt down, and catcher Carlos Ruiz threw to third baseman Justin Turner. Baez hesitated, then kept going toward the plate. He slid in safely before Ruiz could get the tag on him.
Baez became the second player to steal home for the Cubs in a postseason game, joining Jimmy Slagle in Game 4 of the 1907 World Series, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
"It was a safety squeeze. I went a little too early and I saw I couldn't get back," Baez said. "This is the big leagues and a rundown is too easy, so I kept going. "
HISTORIC SLAM
Montero's drive was the first go-ahead grand slam by a pinch hitter in postseason history. Mark Lewis and Ricky Ledee were the other pinch hitters to sock a playoff grand slam. Lewis connected for the Cincinnati Reds in a 1995 Division Series against the Dodgers. Ledee went deep for the New York Yankees in the 1999 ALCS vs. Boston.
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Dodgers: Kershaw pitched in all three Dodgers wins during the Division Series. The three-time Cy Young Award winner is 3-6 with a 4.79 ERA in 16 playoff appearances, including 12 starts.
Cubs: Hendricks, who went 16-8 with a 2.13 ERA this season, makes his fourth career playoff start. He left his Division Series start against San Francisco after taking a line drive off his right forearm.
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2 /52 2 /52 4 dead, 9 injured after pickup truck flies off bridge, lands in park hosting biker festival in San Diego (4.38/13) SAN DIEGO — Four people are dead and nine others are injured after a pickup truck went off of a bridge in San Diego and landed in a park Saturday afternoon as a biker festival was underway.
Fox 5 in San Diego reports the crash occurred on the Coronado Bridge, and the truck plunged 60 feet before landing in Chicano Park, according to San Diego Fire-Rescue.
The crash occurred Saturday around 3:30 p.m. local time as the La Raza biker festival was underway in the park. Hundreds of people were attending.
“It’s horrible,” Jake Sanchez, a California Highway Patrol Spokesman, told Fox 5. “Innocent people were down here having a good time — now, they’re gone.”
The pickup truck landed on its side and on top of four people. Medical assistance was provided but the four were killed as a result of the crash.
Police have arrested 24-year-old Richard Anthony Sepolio, a US Navy sailor stationed on Coronado, for allegedly driving under the influence. The man suffered major trauma and is being treated at a hospital.
Visit Fox 5 for updates and local coverage of this story.
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3 /52 Saturday Night Live: Baldwin is back as Trump for 'worst ever presidential debate' (4.33/13) Three episodes into the new season of Saturday Night Live , and the show, like many media outlets, is learning to navigate this most unusual political season. Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous. Needless to say, the 2016 presidential election could never be accused of subtlety, forcing SNL to take a page from some of its fellow late-night shows and move into more blatant commentary.
In its obligatory debate cold open, a weary Anderson Cooper (Alex Moffat) and Martha Raddatz (Cecily Strong) did shots as they introduced the “the worst ever presidential debate”. Alec Baldwin returned as Donald Trump , and Kate McKinnon was introduced by the moderators as: “Can we say this yet?” “Probably fine.” “President Hillary Clinton.”
Baldwin’s Trump is still mostly facial expressions and excruciating pauses – more mimicry then genuine impression – while McKinnon’s Clinton feels lived-in and comfortable.
The sketch included some classic SNL elements, imitating the candidates’ awkward staging during the town hall debate, and brilliantly turning their decision not to shake hands into an awkward dance. But when McKinnon’s Clinton mocked the idea she would be intimidated by women like Paula Jones in the audience, the joke felt more like a Samantha Bee quip than an SNL line. It was a little jarring, but ultimately this shift could be a good thing; SNL has many funny people at its disposal with many varied strengths, and it will help them immensely to shake up even something as traditional as a debate satire.
Emily Blunt was a strong host, an immensely talented actor who was down for anything and flitted easily between melodramatic, goofy, sexy, and sweet. Unfortunately, her monologue was another musical number, this time a take on “Get Happy!” to cheer things up in the face of a grim news cycle. There were puppies and cookies, and while it was cute and chipper, it was immediately forgettable.
The first post-monologue sketch was, dispiritingly, about two hookers; the joke (helpfully summarized at the end of the sketch) was the duo’s long list of rules and requirements. Blunt’s goofy, mid-Atlantic-accented prostitute had a few good lines, while Leslie Jones got to be very funny with her quirks – “I can only role play as Stewie from the Family Guy” – but it didn’t have much to build to and ended blandly.
Pre-taped segments have been SNL’s strongest areas in the past decade, but this week’s R&B music video featuring five women in the Trump circle – Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Omarosa, and Tiffany Trump – began as a female empowerment video, with each saying “boy, bye” to The Donald, but didn’t commit to any strong idea and sold itself out at the end. Entertaining, but it was no Twin Bed.
Next, Vanessa Bayer ended up the lone audience member at a short film festival forced to ask questions to the dozens of cast and crewmembers on stage. Bayer’s deer-in-the-headlights performance was spot-on and made this weird, silly sketch work.
Weekend Update led with all things Trump, and co-host Colin Jost seemed, understandably, exhausted by the entire thing. Michael Che has found his footing as an update host, even if this audience seemed eager to find him shocking, groaning at some relatively harmless jokes. The most biting moment came from Bayer as a little girl doing the news in a sing-songy musical voice, who was outraged at Today co-host Billy Bush’s $10m payment “from this network!”, earning a well-deserved applause break.
Keen viewers – and many Twitterers – also caught onto the show’s new product placement in a few later, lesser sketches – a bizarre stream of characters pulling through a Burger King drive- thru, then a robot sketch that prominently featured the Hondo logo. Whether it’s meta-sketches or branded content, the 40-year-old institution is changing with the times.
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4 /52 China to launch manned spacecraft — Xinhua (2.34/13) BEIJING, China — China will launch a manned space mission on Monday, official media said, as the Asian giant works towards setting up its own space station.
Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong will be on board the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft as it blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi desert, the official Xinhua news agency reported Sunday.
They will arrive at China’s orbiting space lab Tiangong-2 within two days and stay for 30 more before returning to earth, according to the report.
Jing, a 50-year-old astronaut who has already been to space twice, will command the mission to the lab, which was launched in September.
He and Chen will carry out research projects related to in-orbit equipment repairs, aerospace medicine, space physics and biology, atomic space clocks and solar storm research, Xinhua reported earlier.
Beijing is pouring billions into its space program in a bid to catch up with the US and Europe.
It announced in April that it aims to send a spacecraft “around 2020″ to orbit Mars, land and deploy a rover to explore the Red Planet’s surface.
Beijing sees the military-run program as a symbol of China’s progress and a marker of its rising global stature.
The nation’s first lunar rover was launched in late 2013, and while it was beset by mechanical troubles it far outlived its expected lifespan, finally shutting down only last month.
But so far China has largely replicated activities that the US and Soviet Union pioneered decades ago.
It intends to set up its own manned space station by 2022, and eventually put one of its citizens on the surface of the moon. CBB/rga China to launch manned China to blast 2 astronauts China to launch manned China to launch manned spacecraft: Xinhua into space on Monday spacecraft space mission Shenzhou 11 article.wn.com article.wn.com digitaljournal.com on Monday article.wn.com
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5 /52 BRICS Leaders Discuss How to Shape Global Trade, Finance (2.20/13) The leaders of five of the world's fast-rising powers were meeting Sunday in the southwestern Indian state of Goa for their annual summit at a time when their ability to shape the global dialogue on international politics and finance is increasingly being questioned.
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa , or BRICS, face the tough task of asserting their growing influence as a power group even as they bridge their own trade rivalries to help grow their economies.
President Xi Jinping of China, Russian President Vladimir Putin , Brazilian President Michel Temer and South African President Jacob Zuma joined Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the summit venue in a five-star hotel in Goa's Benaulim village.
The group represents nearly half of the world's population and a quarter of its economy at $16.6 trillion. But BRICS are battling the economic slowdown and politically each member wants the others to support its policies — Russia on Syria, China on the South China Sea and India on its fight against terrorism.
The economic clout of the group has flagged in recent years with the slowdown.
In Russia, the decline in global oil and commodity prices coupled with biting Western sanctions have dealt a blow to the economy. The Chinese economy has slowed to its slowest pace in 25 years, although its 7 percent growth rate still places it among the fastest growing global economies.
South African remains caught in severe economic turmoil with the country's credit rating at risk of being downgraded to junk by year-end.
Brazil is only just emerging from months of the worst economic recession it has seen since the 1930s, a situation that was further worsened by recent political turmoil.
India, although the fastest growing country in the world at 7.5 percent annually, is grappling with widespread poverty and the challenge of strikes against militants in Kashmir.
When they sit down to talk, the leaders will attempt to push their own interests.
China, looking to expand access for Chinese goods, is keen that the BRICS adopt a free trade agreement that would open up their markets further. But the other members of the group, already burdened by cheap Chinese imports and huge trade deficits with Beijing, could shoot down any such proposal.
India would be looking at getting support for a strongly worded statement on global terrorism stemming from its own concerns about militants crossing the border from Pakistan into Indian- controlled Kashmir.
Other proposals that could find favor would be measures to promote business, such as easing visa regimes to allow long-term, multiple entry visas to business leaders.
The BRICS leaders could also push for more investments from China, especially in funding infrastructure projects, something that other BRICS countries are seeking. In this context, the group may decide to speed up disbursal of infrastructure financing through the New Development Bank that the BRICS countries set up in 2014 as an alternative to the International Monetary Fund.
The leaders are expected to push through a decision to create their own credit rating agency, one which they feel would treat developing countries more fairly, unlike the existing three main rating agencies that traditionally favor Western economies.
Another key outcome would be the setting up of a think tank to provide new ideas on multilateral funding to help shift the global dialogue on international finance.
BRICS leaders discuss how The Latest: BRICS leaders to shape global trade, interact with Bay of Bengal finance group cbs46.com heraldonline.com
2016-10-16 02:34 By abcnews.go.com
6 /52 India, US would be "best friends" if elected as prez: Trump
(2.08/13) Terming India as a "key strategic ally", Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has promised that if voted to power India and the US would become "best friends" and have a "phenomenal future" together. ...
Trump Pledges Strong U.S. Trump to Indian community: Trump pledges strong US Ties with India if Elected We are going to be best ties with India if elected President friends president article.wn.com cbsnews.com cnbc.com 2016-10-16 01:10 system article.wn.com
7 /52 Opinion Sound Off for Sunday, Oct. 16
(2.08/13)
Posted: 10/15/16, 11:38 PM EDT | Updated: 18 mins ago
Sending thanks to John Haenn, who penned a letter to the editor in the Oct. 7 Times. He outlined clearly what the idea of conservatism is and how the left has been successful in selling to the public that food, housing and happiness come from government. In reality, both parties are only interested in their own survival and do not govern according to the wishes of the governed. These elites are no longer public servants with a willingness to make the country better. We desperately need another George Washington to stop this downward spiral.
IMMORAL TIMES
I get so many requests for donations from so many charities, how can I know which ones are truly in need? I’d gladly contribute but I have to know that my donation is truly helping someone and not lining someone else’s pocket for themselves. Please tell us who are the good charities, and I’ll be glad to donate.
Yes I’d like to thank the Collingdale Police Department for helping me at my house last Sunday night. They were very prompt and very efficient. It’s good to know some people are on the ball, and I’m glad that it’s our police department. They’re very professional and very proficient. Thank you again.
My family is not deplorable because we believe our country is in decline. Clinton is lying to us. My uncle had a paper company in Erie. Another uncle rose to a high position in the Department of Labor and Industry in Harrisburg and an aunt is a local Catholic sister. We all believe Trump is the only one to help United States of America.
Please politicians make me sick. I’m in my 80s. Clinton is trying to find all the dirt she can on Trump, going back 11 years – give me a break. And everybody’s buying it. Don’t tell me men in this country haven’t talked dirty to somebody, laughed about it, gotten drunk in their life, etc., then get upset because this was on tape. She’s playing all the dirty tricks on him so she doesn’t have to say what she can do because she can’t do anything.
Maybe Bob DeNiro should worry less about Trump and more about the hit-or-miss roles he’s been taking over the last 25 years. Don’t throw away a good legacy, Bob. VITO CORLEONE
I haven’t seen one major newspaper or periodical or magazine come out and endorse Donald Trump for president. I’m in my seventh decade of life and I have never seen this before.
BABY BOOMER IN BOOTHWYN
You know if the Daily Times was smart they would endorse Gary Johnson or Jill Stein or nobody. Keep the controversy going, even in the next year no matter who wins. Doesn’t matter really does it? We’ve seen the same old political nonsense for years.
BOOTHWYN
It’d be great if your newspaper wasn’t so biased. If you’re going to write things bad about Donald Trump, you should write things bad about Hillary Clinton and her emails.
Why don’t they just get rid of all this high-tech junk? It’s hazards to your health and life. Just get rid of all this high-tech junk and Americans can stop being so lazy that they cannot even open a car door. High-tech junk – that’s all it is. Get rid of it.
I would like to know when they’re going to fix new Walnut Street in Darby. The dips on that road are horrendous. If you go too fast and don’t know about it, you could do damage to your car. Are they going to wait until the road collapses? They could at least put up warning signs.
To the Republicans that don’t have a backbone and are jumping ship on Trump: My presidential vote is for Trump, and the rest of my ticket going down will be straight Democratic if this keeps up.
Despite the current Donald Trump, the voters must not forget the more important Congressional election in which we decide whether to continue with the most hated do-nothing Congress in the history of our country or try to return to sanity and get the country back on track to recover from the last recession. Paul Ryan is trying to retain the status quo. We must not let this happen.
FRANK IN GLENOLDEN
I think it’s funny how all these Democrats complain about Trump saying that only he can fix the system (though I admit it’s a ridiculous statement), since wasn’t this the exact sentiment that their hero FDR used to get elected to four terms?
What I find truly disturbing about the Hillary and DNC email is that these people – career politicians and staffers – would actually put this stuff in writing. How out of touch with reality and full of yourself do you have to be to do that? They like to always say “it’s 2016” when they’re pushing some progressive agenda, shouldn’t they know that it’s 2016 and this can and quite possibly will get out? I can only conclude that they truly believe they are above reproach.
UPI Almanac for Sunday, Editorial Cartoon: Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016 Oct. 16, 2016 upi.com newhampshire.com 2016-10-15 23:38 www.delcotimes.com
8 /52 Syria conflict: US Secretary Kerry to revisit London for talks (2.06/13) US Secretary of State John Kerry is to accommodate French and German unfamiliar ministers in London after in a renewed try to attorney assent in Syria.
On Saturday he met Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, along with member from other countries with stakes in a five- year conflict.
Nothing petrify came from that though both a US and Russia spoke of “ideas” emerging.
A ceasefire brokered final month collapsed after only a few days.
Since afterwards Syrian forces, corroborated by Russia, have been bombing a city of Aleppo – a many high-profile bridgehead in a country’s polite fight – in what Washington has called a fight crime.
Aid agencies contend a 72-hour ceasefire is urgently indispensable to concede reserve in and civilians out of ravaged areas in a rebel-held and government-besieged easterly of a city, where 275,000 people live.
Mr Kerry’s talks with his French and German counterparts on Sunday will be hosted by a UK’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
No member of a Syrian supervision or antithesis will be present.
The BBC’s Geneva match Imogen Foulkes pronounced Mr Kerry will not arrive in London with a minute new assent devise for Syria, though instead with what he says are “fresh ideas”.
On Saturday Russia and a US were assimilated during assent talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, by countries who behind hostile sides in a war.
Representatives from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey were there. Iranian infantry are now ancillary Syrian forces, while Saudi Arabia is defending a opposition. Turkey is subsidy rebels who are now advancing on Dabiq , a mystic building of a supposed Islamic State group.
After 5 hours in Switzerland negotiations pennyless adult with no agreement on an finish to a bombing of Aleppo or on assist for Syria’s besieged towns. But all a diplomats concluded to continue talking.
Mr Kerry suggested there could be a new highway map for a ceasefire and a domestic transition for a country. The talks in London follow an puncture discuss in a House of Commons on Tuesday on a conditions in Syria .
During a discuss Mr Johnson pronounced he would like to see a criticism opposite bombings of Aleppo, that are being blamed on Russia, an fan of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, outward a Russian embassy.
But Moscow, that denies a claims, indicted him of “Russophobic hysteria”.
The United Nations has warned that eastern Aleppo, where an estimated 275,000 people still live, could face “total destruction” within dual months.
Last week, Russia vetoed a UN Security Council fortitude drafted by France job for an finish to a bombing in a city.
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9 /52 Richard Panik’s Hat Trick Leads Blackhawks Past Predators (2.06/13) CHICAGO (AP) — Richard Panik scored three goals for his first NHL hat trick, Scott Darling was sharp in making 33 saves and the Chicago Blackhawks earned their first victory of the season, 5-3 over the Nashville Predators on Saturday night.
Nick Schmaltz, one of four rookies in Chicago’s lineup, scored his first NHL goal and Brent Seabrook added a power-play score and an assist as the Blackhawks rebounded from a 3-2 loss at Nashville on Friday. Patrick Kane and Duncan Keith each had two assists.
Colin Wilson, Craig Smith and Viktor Arvidsson scored for the Predators.
Nashville trailed 3-0 after Schmaltz, Seabrook and Panik scored in a 3:43 span in the first period, and could never pull even in this one. The Predators outshot Chicago 36-27 and dominated in stretches, but were stymied by Darling in the backup goalie’s first start this season.
Nashville backup Marek Mazanec had 22 saves after Pekka Rinne stopped 22 of 24 Friday.
The Blackhawks scored on three of their first five shots to take a 3-0 lead and led by two after the first period as Darling stopped 15 of 16 Nashville attempts, including several nifty saves on point-blank chances.
Schmaltz opened the scoring 6:36 in when he plowed to the net off the left boards and beat Mazanec on the short side with a rising shot.
Seabrook’s power-play goal 1:43 later — from a faceoff and just 6 seconds into the advantage — made it 2-0. His shot from the right point deflected in off the stick of Nashville’s Mattias Ekholm.
Panik extended it to 3-0 at 10:19 when he drove to the net against defenseman Matt Carle, pivoted in front and slid in a backhander.
Wilson cut it to 3-1 with 1:29 left in the first by poking in a rebound of James Neal’s shot to complete a 3-on-1 break.
Darling came up with two of his best saves, close-in pad stops on Smith and Wilson seconds apart, with just over five minutes left in the second.
From a faceoff and 6 seconds into a power play, Smith cut it to 3-2 on shot from the right circle with 1:16 left in the period.
Set up by Marian Hossa’s pinpoint pass, Panik tapped in his second goal, on a power-play at 4:56 of the second to make it 4-2. But Arvidsson drove to the net, outworked Chicago defenseman Brian Campbell at cut it to 4-3 at 10:06.
Panik iced it when he completed his hat trick with 1:31 left after he was set up at the side of the net by Kane.
NOTES: Blackhawks rookie F Ryan Hartman, who left Friday’s game in the first period after blocking a shot by P. K. Subban, missed Saturday’s contest and is out day-to-day. “It’s positive news as far as the extent of the injury,” coach Joel Quenneville said. Dennis Rasmussen took his place in the lineup. … Chicago D Trevor van Riemsdyk was a healthy scratch for the second straight contest after playing in all 82 games last season. … Nashville D Anthony Bitetto sat out with an upper-body injury. The Predators Miikka Salomaki suffered an upper-body in the second period and did not return. … Although the announced United Center crowd of 21,665 was the Blackhawks’ 375th consecutive sellout, pockets of seats were empty as the Cubs hosted the Dodgers in Game 1 of the NLCS.
UP NEXT
Predators: Host the defending Western Conference champion Dallas Stars on Tuesday night.
Blackhawks: Host the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night.
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10 /52 Levine: Miguel Montero Makes Most Of His Moment In October Spotlight (1.15/13) By Bruce Levine–
CHICAGO (CBS) — In a season of physical and mental highs and lows, Saturday brought the sweetest of nights for Cubs catcher Miguel Montero.
Montero’s eighth-inning pinch-hit grand slam broke a 3-3 tie in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series, propelling the Cubs to an 8-4 win against the Dodgers. Montero’s homer came off righty reliever Joe Blanton, leaving Dodgers manager Dave Roberts to shake his head at what happened after Los Angeles had tied the game in the top half off Chicago closer Aroldis Chapman.
“I have trusted Joe all year long,” Roberts said after the devastating loss. “He has been great for us. He got ahead 0-2 and left a pitch up. I felt good before that knowing we forced Chapman out of the game. It just didn’t work out. Our guys fought hard. It was a well-played game.”
The 33-year-old Montero was almost left off of the NLCS roster because of back stiffness, but he got his moment in under the October moon and made the most of it. Montero struggled through much of the 2016 season with injuries and poor play, so him becoming the hero was a welcome sight to all of his teammates.
“He has grinded out at-bats all year in situations he was not accustomed to,” said Ben Zobrist, who started the eighth-inning rally with a double. “He is really reaping the reward of the attitude he has taken all season. He showed up all year as a professional, believing he could help the team and his teammates whether he felt good or not.”
Many players would have been bitter amid struggles and a reduced role as the Cubs carried three catchers for long stretches, but Montero kept a positive attitude. The Cubs’ training and medical staff helped get him on the field Saturday, and the rest was up to Montero.
“He was used to playing every day,” Zobrist said. “Instead of pouting about not playing, he takes the high road and he becomes a veteran leader on the bench. That is difficult to do when you are not playing as much as you normally do. He would not be doing what he is doing right now for us without that attitude he developed.”
Montero was a last-minute addition to the NLCS roster due to a locked-up back dating back to Tuesday in San Francisco.
“I don’t know where that swing came from,” Montero said of his grand slam. “My back felt pretty good, enough to play today. It has been tough. It’s been difficult. When you are used to playing every day and you have three catchers, you have to man up. That is what I have been doing this year. I have tried to be the best teammate I can be, and the times I do play, do my job.”
Montero’s blast marked the first time in Cubs postseason history that a grand slam provided the game-winning run. It will at least be a footnote in Cubs history for many years to come — and perhaps something more if Chicago can end its championship drought.
“I had missed a slider (early in the count) and in the back of my head I was saying, ‘I want that slider back,'” Montero said. “I guess he must have heard me. He threw it again, and luckily I hit the ball pretty good.”
Bruce Levine covers the Cubs a nd White Sox fo r 670 The Score and CBSChicago.com. Follow him on Twitter @MLBBruceLevine.
Cubs take 7-3 lead on grand slam by Miguel Montero latimes.com
2016-10-16 02:27 By Bruce chicago.cbslocal.com
11 /52 Emails show Clinton treading lightly with Wall Street talks
(1.03/13) WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton generally avoided direct criticism of Wall Street as she examined the causes and responses to the financial meltdown during a series of paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, according to transcripts disclosed by WikiLeaks. Three transcripts released Saturday as part of the hack of her campaign chairman's emails did not contain any new bombshells showing she was unduly influenced by contributions from the banking industry, as her primary rival Bernie Sanders had suggested. Still, her soft-handed approach in the speeches was likely to act as a reminder to liberals in the party of their concerns that the Democratic presidential nominee is too close to Wall Street to be an effective check on its excesses if elected. In October 2013, the transcripts show, Clinton told bankers she had "great relations" and worked closely with Wall Street as New York's senator, and said "the jury is still out" on whether the Dodd-Frank financial reforms put in place after the financial crisis had been the right approach. She said more openness from the start could have prevented the uproar on Wall Street over those reforms. "What happened, how did it happen, how do we prevent it from happening? You guys help us figure it out, and let's make sure that we do it right this time," she said. Working to relate her speech to her audience, Clinton in one speech likened her experience as secretary of state to business and finance, saying "it's like anybody's balance sheet," with both opportunities and potential liabilities. In one exchange, a conference participant from Texas told Clinton that she had "the honor to raise money for you" during her 2008 presidential campaign. Clinton responded, "You are the smartest people. " In the hard-fought Democratic primary, Sanders repeatedly called on Clinton to release the transcripts of her speeches to Wall Street, some of which earned her hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece. In an ironic twist, the transcripts ended up becoming public because her campaign aides had distributed them among themselves in an effort to prepare for any attacks she might face. Those internal campaign emails were then leaked in the hack of campaign chairman John Podesta's emails. Clinton's campaign neither confirmed nor denied that the speech transcripts and leaked Podesta emails are authentic, but there have been no indications that they were doctored before being released. Clinton's team has accused Russia's government of hacking Podesta's emails, and the Obama administration has formally blamed Moscow for a series of breaches affecting U. S. political groups. "There is no getting around it: Donald Trump is cheering on a Russian attempt to influence our election through a crime reminiscent of Watergate, but on a more massive scale," said Clinton spokesman Glen Caplin. The transcripts, all from 2013, include speeches and question-and-answer sessions with Clinton at a "Builders and Innovators Summit," an "Alternative Investment Management Summit" and a gathering of CEOS — all hosted by Goldman Sachs. A look at some of what Clinton said, according to the transcripts: ___ APOLOGY TOUR Clinton told the innovators summit she'd had to go on "The Clinton Apology Tour" after WikiLeaks in 2010 published diplomatic cables leaked by Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning. Clinton noted that the cables showed U. S. officials characterizing some foreign leaders as "vain, egotistical, power hungry, corrupt. And we knew they were. This was not fiction. " "I had grown men cry," Clinton recalled. "I mean, literally. 'I am a friend of America, and you say these things about me?'" ___ SYRIA Clinton, a few months after departing the State Department in 2013, told a Goldman Sachs conference in South Carolina that she would have liked to see the U. S. intervene in Syria "as covertly as is possible for Americans to intervene. " She added, "We used to be much better at this than we are now. Now, you know, everybody can't help themselves. They have to go out and tell their friendly reporters and somebody else: Look what we're doing and I want credit for it. " ___ FILIBUSTER Clinton appears to call for eliminating the filibuster rules in the Senate that make a 60-vote threshold necessary to pass most items rather than a 50-vote majority. Clinton says "we need to change the rules in the Senate" and say presidential nominees as well as "policies" deserve "an up-or- down vote. " Republicans are already incensed that Senate Democrats recently changed the rules to eliminate the filibuster for most nominations, an extraordinary step known as the nuclear option. __ CHINA In the June 2013 speech, Clinton said Chinese President Xi Jinping, who had taken over as the country's leader the previous fall, was "a more sophisticated, more effective public leader" than his predecessor, Hu Jintao. Clinton said she had watched Xi "work a room," adding, "you can have him make small talk with you, which he has done with me. " She said Xi's experience of visiting Iowa in the 1980s "was a very important part of his own development. " ___ Associated Press writer Jack Gillum contributed to this report. Thomas reported from White Plains, New York.
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2016-10-16 02:58 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk
12 /52 Unstoppable! Beyonce powers through Tidal concert despite BLEEDING ear injury (1.03/13) Beyoncé Knowles-Carter didn't let a bloody ear disrupt her Tidal X: 1015 performance onstage Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Saturday night. The 35-year-old pop diva powered through her set during her husband Jay Z's charity concert despite having her earring violently ripped off. The resulting injury was so bad it was dripping blood down the 20-time Grammy winner's neck, which horrified viewers watching the livestream. Some fans speculated that Queen Bey's long plaited ponytail was the reason for the painful wardrobe malfunction. '@Beyonce is a true performer because I'm pretty sure her braid has gotten caught in her earrings. And she bleeding down her ear #TIDALX1015,' a Twitter user called Christina wrote. Twitter user Shantia B gushed: 'Only Beyonce could continue to perform with a bleeding ear, phenomenal visuals, and a flawless performance... Real life goals.' Another fan called A Spooky Scamma tweeted: 'Beyoncé was bleeding and kept performing? Lemme think of an artist that would've kept going.' And Twitter user April Garza marveled: 'Beyonce's earring just ripped her ear & she's still performing perfectly on key.' Other social media supporters had more extreme reactions like 'she needs an ambulance' and 'somebody do something!' Hours earlier, the Ivy Park designer had been wearing both quadruple-ringed, bejeweled earrings on the black carpet. Stylist Ty Hunter selected the baubles as well as the ultra-sheer black-beaded gown and Louboutins Beyoncé slayed in before the Robin Hood Foundation benefit. The three-time Golden Globe nominee just concluded her $256M grossing Formation World Tour on October 7. Perhaps the mother-of-one will next attend the MTV Europe Music Awards - happening November 6 in the Netherlands - since she's up for five trophies. Beyonce starts bleeding after earring rips during Tidal concert, continues to perform like a queen aol.com
2016-10-16 00:43 Cassie Carpenter www.dailymail.co.uk
13 /52 Donald Trump's businesses have been impacted by his campaign, report says (1.02/13) Donald Trump regularly touts his business success as a rationale for his campaign. In the first presidential debate, he got specific, speaking of the recent opening of the new Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington. "Under budget, ahead of schedule, saved tremendous money. I'm a year......
Why Donald Trump’s political tirades could hurt his businesses feeds.nydailynews.com
2016-10-16 03:17 system article.wn.com
14 /52 Itâs open war (1.02/13) Pretoria - Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has fired a massive salvo at the Gupta family with a high court application which details R6.8bn in suspicious payments allegedly made by the family’s companies.
The application, lodged on Friday afternoon at the North Gauteng High Court, includes a certificate from Financial Intelligence Centre director Murray Michell. It lists 72 questionable payments that the banks reported were made by Gupta companies and in which President Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane also has a significant sake.
These payments could shed some light on why the country’s major banks closed the accounts of Gupta-owned businesses and why their auditors and JSE sponsor Sasfin terminated their relationships with them. Gordhan is asking the high court for a declaratory order “in the public interest” that he is neither empowered nor obliged to “intervene in the relationship between” the Guptas, their companies or the banks.
The Guptas have insisted that their accounts were closed “for no adequate reason”.
In his application, Gordhan attaches several pleading letters which Nazeem Howa, CEO of Gupta-owned holding company Oakbay Resources, wrote to him.
In the letters, Howa begs Gordhan to use his “strong relationship with the captains of industry” to help them save their employees’ jobs and convince the four major banks to reopen their accounts.
In his affidavit attached to the application, Gordhan says that in several “direct representations and demands to me as minister of finance ... Oakbay demanded that, on behalf of the government, I intervene with the banks to achieve a reversal of their decisions”.
After another letter from Howa, sent on April 17, which exhorted Gordhan to accept “our unequivocal apology”, Gordhan says he was “concerned to explore any respect in which I could properly, in terms of law, address the situation arising from Oakbay’s serious allegations concerning the banks”.
Gordhan details how he twice sought legal opinion – from Advocate Jeremy Gauntlett and Advocate Frank Pelser – about how he could do this, but they strongly advised him that he, or any other Cabinet minister, could not legally intervene.
“I encouraged Oakbay to ... approach a court. Finally, I requested Oakbay to desist from its attacks on the integrity of National Treasury in the public interest,” Gordhan wrote.
But Howa responded that they too had received legal advice and were told that any court application they launched against the banks would fail.
In June, Gordhan again received word from Oakbay – from Stephan Nel, the CEO of Sahara Computers, a subsidiary of Oakbay – again apologising for negative public statements, but “pressing me to ‘serve the national purpose’”.
Gordhan then received a letter from SA Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago in which he “raised his independent concerns regarding the deleterious effect on the banking sector of the contentions made by Oakbay”.
But in a statement to M-Net current affairs programme Carte Blanche, Howa let slip that one of the banks had told Oakbay that the reason it closed the companies’ accounts was that it was not allowed to do any business with people or companies it believed could be contravening one or more laws – including the Companies Act, the Prevention of Organised Crime Act, the Financial Intelligence Centre Act and the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act.
Gordhan then obtained a certificate from financial intelligence, detailing the more than R6.8bn of suspicious transactions “linked to Oakbay.
“Just one example is the reporting of an amount of R1.3bn as a suspicious transaction – in terms of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act – relating to Optimum Mine Rehabilitation Trust,” Gordhan said. Other entries on the list include 14 payments made by the Gupta family in their personal capacity, including one of R38m made by Atul Gupta. The document does not mention to whom.
Neither Atul Gupta nor family spokesperson Gary Naidoo could be reached for comment on Saturday.
Alliance at war
Tuesday’s announcement by National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams that Gordhan would be charged with fraud for signing off his former deputy Ivan Pillay’s early retirement, has sent shock waves through the ANC and its alliance partners.
The SA Communist Party (SACP) insists that Zuma must be made to pay if he removes Gordhan from office over an “illegitimate” charge by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
A seething Solly Mapaila, the party’s second deputy-general, told City Press that the political manoeuvrings by “criminal elements” close to Zuma were eroding the “entire movement”.
He said if Gordhan was axed, it would “amount to giving in to this criminal syndicate that wants to hijack our state institutions and movement”.
“This is clear political prosecution. Gordhan is at risk because he is the strategic enemy of the Guptas,” he added.
“To ask him to step aside would be to accept the wool that has been pulled over our eyes. If he is removed, so be it. But the president will bear the consequences of [what happens to] the movement. The ANC will have to accept that.”
The ANC, he said, had already faced the wrath of the electorate, who punished the party in the August 3 municipal elections.
Although Mapaila denied the Gordhan issue featured at the alliance secretariat meeting on Friday, City Press understands the issue was raised but postponed because the ANC was not prepared to answer to it immediately.
Jessie Duarte, the ANC’s deputy secretary-general, attended the meeting without secretary- general Gwede Mantashe, who was in China.
Mapaila said that if Zuma fired Gordhan and replaced him with “someone who will effect decisions that Gordhan has objected to” – in particular, those relating to the SAA and nuclear deals – “it would be clear as daylight whose interests they were serving”.
The SACP had grown critical of Zuma’s failure to distance himself from the Guptas, as well as the ANC’s failure to deal with allegations of state capture.
Outgoing Public Protector Thuli Madonsela was on Friday prevented from releasing her report on state capture following urgent court interdict applications from both Zuma and four-day finance minister Des van Rooyen.
The BBC reported on Friday that Madonsela was in possession of “cellphone evidence” – including SMSes – that placed Van Rooyen at the Guptas’ Saxonwold home the night before his appointment. Now the SACP is demanding a say in the hiring and firing of government ministers.
Zuma only informed alliance partners of his decision to fire Gordhan’s predecessor, Nhlanhla Nene, as finance minister an hour before making the announcement of his new appointee, Van Rooyen, that caused the country billions of rands in losses.
Mapaila said this was an insult and that Zuma’s consultations with alliance partners was merely cursory.
Mapaila and other SACP leaders and structures will be going to court to support Gordhan when he appears in court on November 2.
ANC asunder
A senior government minister said the party was divided, as some senior leaders believe that Gordhan should be brought to book regarding his alleged role in the formation of the so-called rogue unit at the SA Revenue Service. Others, however, believe that the charges are nothing more than political chess.
“There are those who have, even in our meetings, advocated for his removal and the others in his defence were saying there is no need to do that and to wait for the charges. Now we know the charge and we can see it’s nothing serious. I can say most are behind him,” said the minister.
The minister added that if Gordhan was removed, “it will feed into instability for the country that the ratings agencies don’t like”.
Ratings agencies are expected to revise their assessment of the country’s viability in early December.
“They believe if the country is politically unstable, it can’t meet its targets. That is a threat that is worrying,” said the minister.
If not Gordhan, who?
Among those expected to take over Gordhan’s job following a Cabinet reshuffle are ANC MP Sfiso Buthelezi and Eskom CEO Brian Molefe.
Allegations abounded that Molefe had been preparing to leave Eskom to the point that he even asked Gordhan’s office for information on SAA and the nuclear energy deal.
Van Rooyen faced similar allegations after he arrived at Treasury with two Gupta-linked advisers when he was appointed finance minister.
Molefe could not be reached for comment.
Cosatu says: Butt out of the law
Cosatu, meanwhile, has labelled those who have come out in support of Gordhan – including Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, who threw his weight behind him on Saturday – as factional. Spokesperson Sizwe Pamla told City Press that the Gordhan matter was a legal one.
“Those voices are factional. They operate in a political space. They are not legal experts. Why? What informs that support, what legal advice do they have? What are they going to benefit from taking such a public position?” Pamla said.
Some of the leaders include ANC stalwart Ahmed Kathrada, national executive committee members Max Sisulu, Enoch Godongwana and Jackson Mthembu.
– Hlengiwe Nhlabathi, Setumo Stone, S’thembile Cele and Abram Mashego
It’s open war city-press.news24.com
2016-10-16 02:43 www.news24.com
15 /52 Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel highlight red carpet arrivals at N. O. Film Fest screening (1.02/13) Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel were among the red carpet arrivals before the screening of "The Book of Love" on Saturday (Oct. 15) during the New Orleans Film Fest. The married couple both worked on the movie: She as a producer and actress, and he as music composer.
The movie, which isn't due out for wide release until Jan. 13, 2017, stars Jason Sudeikis and Biel as a married couple living in New Orleans. Tragedy strikes, and Sudeikis' character befriends a teenager, played by Maisie Williams, who he helps to build a raft so she might travel across the Atlantic in search of her father.
"The Book of Love" isn't the only reason Biel has recently spent time in New Orleans. She also appears in Rob Reiner's locally-shot journalism drama "Shock and Awe," which follows a group of reporters who in 2003 were skeptical of President George Bush's statements that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Justin Timberlake and his leather-clad wife Jessica Biel attend The Book of Love premiere in New Orleans dailymail.co.uk
2016-10-16 02:20 Chelsea Brasted www.nola.com
16 /52 Robbie Amell and Italia Ricci are married! (1.02/13) Congratulations are in order for Robbie Amell and Italia Ricci!
The Flash actor and Designated Survivor actress tied the knot Saturday night, ET can confirm.
WATCH: 'Chasing Life' Star Italia Ricci Found Her Real-Life Wedding Dress While Filming Season 2!
The couple wed in a romantic ceremony in downtown Los Angeles, according to Us Weekly. Ricci walked down the aisle in a gorgeous Rosa Clara dress, while Amell looked dapper in a Vera Wang tuxedo.
The pair exchanged vows in front a crowd of their closest friends and family, which included Victor Garber, Alexa PenaVega, Carlos PenaVega, and Laguna Beach star Talan Torriero, who couldn't contain his excitement en route to the nuptials.
It's been a long road to wedded bliss for Amell, 28, and Ricci, 29, who first started dating in 2008. The couple got engaged in August 2014, one month after celebrating their six-year anniversary.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - MARCH 04: Actors Italia Ricci and husband Robbie Amell pose together during the Ted Baker London's SS15 launch event at Avalon Hotel on March 4, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images for Ted Baker)
TORONTO, ON - FEBRUARY 17: (R) Actor Robbie Amell and (L) fiancee Italia Ricci attend the Canadian Premiere of 'The Duff' at Cineplex Scotiabank Theatre on February 17, 2015 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage)
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"She said yes!!!... I think. I can't really be sure," the actor captioned an Instagram photo of himself and his future bride after he proposed. "I'm going to marry my best friend. @italiaricci. "
ET caught up with the couple in January, where they couldn't help but gush about finally saying "I do. "
"[It'll be] classic and elegant -- I mean, I hope," Ricci said with a laugh. "As classy and elegant as you can get when there are burgers or pizza [being served] -- or maybe both. " WATCH: EXCLUSIVE: 'Supergirl' Star Italia Ricci Looks Terrifying in Silver Banshee Debut
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Robbie Amell and Italia Ricci tie the knot in romantic wedding ceremony after dating for EIGHT years dailymail.co.uk
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17 /52 Katy Perry glows in frilly gold gown at Children's Hospital Los Angeles gala honouring Drew Barrymore (0.01/13) On Saturday night, Katy Perry swung by The Event Deck at LA Live to perform at the Once Upon A Time Gala thrown by Children's Hospital Los Angeles. The 31-year-old was a showstopper on the red carpet, wearing a gold gown splattered with a glittering purple and green floral pattern. She posed for a selfie with a strapless Drew Barrymore, who'd turned up to be garlanded with one of the three Courage To Care Awards dispensed that evening. The Roar singer's dress featured translucent robe-like sleeves that fell a bit past the elbow and matched the frills that flowed from the hem and became a small train. Clear platform heels emphasised her already tall, slender physique as she stood for photographs, her hair bundled into an elaborate updo. Pink gems dangling from her extravagant earrings matched the gleaming pink strap that wound its way about her neck. Her nose ring was almost imperceptible. Meanwhile, the Charlie's Angels actress clashed a small pink clutch against her otherwise black ensemble. She took a selfie of her own with the Teenage Dream singer and posted it to Instagram, captioning: 'Oh yeah! And this happened!!! @katyperry my fellow @childrensla representative tonight at the gala!!! #loveher #roar me and my daughters listen to her with such joy!' Lacy sheer sleeves were speckled with a floral pattern, but the rest of the frock was solid. Her blonde hair she'd twisted into a single loose braid, which she then flung over her left shoulder, letting her right drop earring glitter under the lights. Perry posted a couple of selfie Snapchat updates of her own, in which she and the scion of the legendary Barrymore family mugged for the phone camera. In an adorable touch, Orlando Bloom's girlfriend earlier uploaded a couple of Snapchat posts in which she appeared all dressed for the gala, cradling her dog Butters. With the caption: 'don't guess who is who ok' scrawled across the bottom of the frame, she sang Beauty And The Beast, comparing her pet to the latter. Teri Hatcher stretched a sculpted porcelain leg out from the thigh slit of a crimson dress that accentuated her tiny waistline. Only one shoulder supported a pleated strap, and the Desperate Housewives star's wavy brown hair fell free. Pale gold- coloured stilettos completed the ensemble, artfully complementing a small silver clutch she held to her side in her left hand. Katharine McPhee's dirty blonde hair draped over her otherwise bare shoulders as she stood for the cameras in a pale purple dress encircled by multiple rows of frills. Stretches of faintly sheer fabric were speckled with large solid flowers. A gleaming gold bracelet glinted on her left wrist. Jamie Lee Curtis wore a simple black dress with padded shoulders and a V-neck that stopped just short of exposing a bit of cleavage. Black-rimmed spectacles and a black clutch added to the effect, along with a black ring on her little finger and black high-heeled shoes. Holly Robinson Peete, meanwhile, did show a fair bit of cleavage in a pink gown with a small bow of fabric right beneath the bust. Metallic nails complemented her glittering ring and the intricately designed earrings that dangled over her shoulders. Eric Stonestreet cleaned up nicely, wearing a classic tuxedo and, as the True Lies star had done, matching the black fabric with black-rimmed spectacles. Josh Gad, who was hosting the event, looked almost alarmingly similar, distinguishing himself by way of a white pocket square that added a particularly dapper touch to his outfit. Tina Knowles, mother of Beyoncé and Solange, held a gold clutch against her dark grey jumpsuit, which featured flared cuffs. Black open-toed platform shoes went stylishly with her shining black belt.
Drew Barrymore delights in strapless black gown as she collects award at Once Upon a Time gala dailymail.co.uk
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18 /52 Review: Sia bares soul without showing face at Palace
(0.01/13) When you’re headlining an arena concert but you’re not very fond of performing or even showing your face, you have to get creative.
“Creative” is certainly one word to describe Sia’s performance at the Palace of Auburn Hills Saturday night. Other words that come to mind are “audacious” and “frustrating.”
At times the 16-song, 80-minute show felt dynamic. At others it felt like a hoax being perpetrated on the audience, a light crowd that saw roughly a third of the Palace’s upper deck curtained off to crowds.
Sia was on stage, or at least someone that looked like her was; it was difficult to tell because a wig (underneath a giant bow that outdid even Aretha Franklin's at President Obama's inauguration) covered her face other than her mouth. She was tucked into a corner of the stage and she barely moved, other than a few arm movements during “Soon We’ll Be Found,” and she only briefly addressed the audience, offering a curt “Detroit, I see you!” an hour into the show (did she, from behind that wig?), a “thank you” to the audience and her openers near the end of the show and an “I love you, goodbye” at evening’s close.
There was no visible band. Songs were acted out on stage by interpretive dancers, all wearing a variation of the Sia black-and-white wig, and the action was projected onto video screens on either side of the stage. Or at least it looked like it was; the videos were actually pre-filmed bits that featured the likes of Kristen Wiig and Paul Dano, who most certainly were not the dancers on sta
To recap: artist was on stage but immobile and obscured, music was pumped in from somewhere else, dancers were different from those seen on the big screens. It felt a bit like Club Silencio from David Lynch’s “Mulholland Dr.,” where the performances are taped and everything’s an illusion.
It was certainly unique, unlike anything else unfolding in the arena sphere these days. It was the Australian singer and songwriter’s first area concert since a 2011 show at Saint Andrew’s Hall, back when she wasn’t as shy about showing her face. The years since have seen her become one of pop’s most in-demand songwriters, penning hits for David Guetta (“Titanium,” which she performed), Rihanna (“Diamonds,” which she also performed), Beyonce, J. Lo, Kelly Clarkson and others.
The songs were dramatic, building to bombastic choruses that played out like soul baring confessionals. They were all vocally challenging but Sia’s vocals were flawless and never wavered, scaling the high highs of “Chandelier” and the soaring peaks of “Fire Meet Gasoline.”
The dance routines were simple but effective; during “Diamonds,” a seated dancer waved his diamond-studded gloves at the spotlights and beamed light across the arena, and during “Soon We’ll Be Found,” a man projected large shadow puppets onto a wall which hung above the dancer on stage and controlled her movements.
It was an intimate, beautiful show rendered less effective by the size of the room. For those not on the main floor, sightlines marred the straight-ahead visual presentation of the plain white stage and plain white backdrop. It was essentially community theater on a grand scale, and while the sound certainly filled the room, the visuals left a lot to be desired. Something at the Fox Theatre or even the Detroit Opera House would have been a better fit.
During his exceptional hour-long opening set, Miguel offered plenty of charisma, energy and audience interaction. He told his personal story, got political by starting an anti-Donald Trump chant, spoke about the racial discord in America and hit the splits to boot. He was the opposite of Sia: If she didn’t want the spotlight on her at all, he couldn’t get enough of it. [email protected]
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19 /52 Gatwick’s the best choice in many ways, but a Heathrow Hub fudge could sweeten the deal Rather than giving the green light to Heathrow , as is expected next week, Theresa May should consider an idea that has a chance of actually getting off the ground reasonably soon
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20 /52 Entertainment Week in Pictures: 9-15 October Renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz showed off a works in her latest muster Women: New Portraits By Annie Leibovitz during a Frankfurt’s Kunstverein Familie Montez. The muster is furloughed 10 tellurian cities for a year and includes cinema of Aung San Suu Kyi, Adele, documentary builder Laura Poitras and ballerina Misty Copeland.
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21 /52 Question stay-at-home dads hate Dad dilemmas: Stay-at-home dads have to wear a barbs, as good as a nappy-changes. Picture: iStock ADDRESSING an assembly of successful businesswomen, a lady recently named in a list of a many successful women in Australian media knew there was no indicate revelation them about passion, expostulate or tips for business success.
Instead, Twitter Australia’s handling executive Karen Stocks told them something they didn’t know about her: how her father Danny is a adult in a family who stays home to lift a kids.
And how 10 years on, they’re over not a arrangement, that works a treat, though they are over a stereotypes.
They’re over Danny being asked when he’s going to “get a genuine job”.
Speaking about building her career, Stocks told a Telstra NSW Business Women’s Awards cooking a float hadn’t always been easy, “particularly when it comes to balancing a career with family life and a governmental expectations of what is deliberate suitable parenting”.
“It’s been tough. Not usually on me personally, though on my family by extension. Every time we are during a amicable entertainment and my father is jokingly asked when he’s going to get a genuine job. Every time my kids are told during propagandize by their “friends” that their mom spends time divided given she doesn’t adore them.”
Twitter Australia handling executive Karen Stocks: ‘The float hadn’t always been easy, utterly when it comes to balancing a career with family life and a governmental expectations of what is deliberate suitable parenting’. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
This was no mummy-guilt rant: Stocks was voicing a disappointment felt by many about a approach stereotypes impact stay-at-home dads.
Sure, paternity leave is there in a HR manuals, though few group use it. And many that do face judgment.
Some laugh and bear a “when are we removing a genuine job?” barbs. Others lie, like a bloke who explained his arriving deficiency to colleagues as a six-month surfing sabbatical, desiring it was some-more savoury than fessing adult he was going home. To be a parent.
‘WHEN ARE YOU GETTING A REAL JOB?’
Journalist, commentator and author Annabel Crabb researched a emanate for her 2014 book The Wife Drought and says stay-at-home father barbs like removing a genuine pursuit are a widespread phenomenon.
“There’s a lot of attitudes in Australia that confute a opinion of ourselves as a flattering egalitarian, equal society,” she says.
Expectations of what we consider is normal for women to do and what we consider is normal for group to do sojourn deeply entrenched.
“One of a clues is that we have a tenure “working mother” given a operative father is usually a dad,” Crabb says.
Last month, a Australian Bureau of Statistics expelled information display a series of dads regulating stretchable operative arrangements to caring for their children has doubled given a midst 1990s.
“Around 30 per cent of dads took advantage of stretchable work hours to demeanour after immature children (under 12), compared with 16 per cent of dads dual decades ago,” pronounced Director of Family and Community Statistics Lisa Conolly.
“The series of dads operative from home to caring for their children doubled from 7 per cent to 14 per cent, while dads who worked part-time to caring for their children rose from 1 per cent to 5 per cent.”
Which looks good on paper. But mums still do many of a child care, with many dads wise it in around work: 90 per cent of dads with children underneath 15 are employed (compared with 65 per cent of mums). And 92 per cent of those dads work fulltime (compared to 42 per cent of employed mums). Few group opt for time right out of a paid workforce to spin stay-at-home dads. Stocks says while workplaces are increasingly on house with a judgment of paternity leave — Twitter Australia offers 120 days for parental leave, regardless of gender — multitude is nonetheless to locate up, and on.
“The enlightenment in Australia means we onslaught with a judgment of group holding paternity leave. And we consider group onslaught with a judgment of holding it. We need to make them feel unequivocally gentle with that,” she says.
Stocks and her husband, Danny: ‘He gets to a theatre where he smiles and laughs it off or says: ‘I suspicion lifting kids was genuine job’. Source: Twitter Source: Twitter
“My father is an amazingly clever particular and that’s since he has been means to cope. He gets to a theatre where he smiles and laughs it off or says: ‘I suspicion lifting kids was genuine job’.
“The whole indicate of what we was observant is we have stereotypes for women, though we also have stereotypes for men. For women to mangle out of those stereotypes we need to concede group to mangle out of theirs as well.”
“We don’t hear about stay-at-home dads that often. we live and breathe it each day so that’s my reality, though we don’t see it personification out elsewhere.
“I demeanour brazen to a time when Danny and we can go somewhere and it’s not even commented on.”
“If we don’t perspective their purpose in a early stages of a child like we do a lady we are kind of environment them adult from behind to start off with.”
THE REALITY
In 60 per cent of Australian families with children underneath 15, a father works fulltime and a mom works part-time or not during all. But a surprisingly low 3 per cent do a reverse, Crabb detected while researching her book.
Anecdotally, group are demure to take advantage of a leave supplies they are entitled to.
“There are things that we are authorised to do, that we have a orthodox right to do, and there’s what we consider will indeed fly in your organisation,” says Crabb.
“The HR primer competence contend masculine employees competence request for parental leave, though all a investigate shows of all a group who wish to work reduction or some-more flexibly, nowhere nearby all of them indeed follow by by asking.
“Men who try to change a approach they work face all sorts of mostly tacit barriers, either it’s fear of being suspicion unambitious if they work part-time or flexibly, or removing humorous looks and comments when they spin adult during playgroup or during a propagandize gate.”
Stay-at-home father Paul Clarke, 35, hasn’t suffered a disastrous barbs, though was distressed about seeking his bosses for several months delinquent leave to caring for five-month-old son William, while his mother Victoria returned to run her burgeoning business.
“The association we work during has about 20 people and it’s a unequivocally friendly, family atmosphere,” he says. “The fears weren’t about them, that was about me,” he says.
“I felt it was a vast ask and we didn’t consider we had most in terms of a resolution to go to them with to cover my deficiency in a purpose (he is a comforts manager during a post-production company).”
“There was worry about how it would impact a purpose entrance up. But that was quashed as shortly as we spoke to my managers.
“My bosses are both family men. They done it easy. My colleagues were good too. Some of a comparison dads pronounced they would have desired a possibility to do a same thing when their kids were young.”
He’s had meagre hit with other stay-at-home dads, though a dual he did find had usually certain things to contend — in fact “they wished they could do it for longer”.
A month in, it’s a high training curve, though “so far, so good”, nonetheless a first-time father admits it helps that baby William is “a sincerely tractable bloke”.
“I feel unequivocally propitious to be doing this. Don’t get me wrong, this is work, though we didn’t go in awaiting it would be easy,” he says.
‘I feel unequivocally propitious to be doing this’: Stay-at-home father Paul Clarke, with mother Victoria and baby William. Picture: Supplied/Elena Nikolova Source: Supplied
Paul’s fears of seeking for time off are common in a multitude that works tough during creation it easier for mums to re-enter a workforce, though tough for group to temporarily exit it.
“We design that women when they have children will change a approach they work, though we don’t have an expectancy of that for group during all,” Crabb says.
“For all a arguments about women being reduction good during seeking for compensate rises and promotions during work, a thing they are good during is seeking for coherence — and especially given they are seeking on interest of their families, and group are unequivocally bad during seeking for that stuff. For some reason we still consider that’s a essential ‘lady’ thing to do.”
She likens a unfolding to 50 years ago, when women competence have been a usually womanlike applicant for a pursuit as they done their stairs into a workforce: “it was new and startling and they were shaken about what people competence think”.
“That’s where dads are at, and it’s unhappy given they skip out on a transitory time — lifting small kids doesn’t final forever, and it’s a cold thing to be around for.”
THE REACTIONS
The accepting to stay-at-home dads appears flattering most separate between genders.
“Women will approximate them and lick them to genocide and contend ‘you’re incredible, you’re amazing’, that is arrange of uncanny as well: over-congratulating a man for something they do themselves,” she says.
“There are stay-at-home dads who laughs about a fact they are constantly offering assistance from women during a propagandize gate.
“But they’re is also a bit of a bent for these guys to be deserted by their former workmates and cohorts in a workforce given a opinion is ‘he’s not operative any more’ and that’s utterly serious.” Stocks says women are some-more “bravo, good on you”, and she’s had copiousness of time to consider about a genuine pursuit barbs that come especially from men.
“When group doubt about genuine work we don’t know either it comes from them wondering ‘I consternation if we could do that … and would it be OK?’,” she says.
”Men who try to change a approach they work face all sorts of mostly tacit barriers,” says Annabel Crabb. Picture: Supplied Source: ABC
WINDS OF CHANGE
While a numbers of group opting to be stay-at-home dads stays next double figure commission points, Crabb senses a transition.
“We change by experience. People learn about what’s OK and not OK in out-of-date ways. In workplaces it’s by looking around during what other people do,” she says.
“I’m conference anecdotes from vast organisations who contend that when they make it transparent group are entitled to stretchable work or leave, one man will give it a shot, do it, come behind to work, and 6 months after a few other people apply. It’s a cluster settlement if we like.
“I see a larger corporate bargain of dual things: some-more investigate into what gender equivalence in organisations indeed means for their business models that shows lopsided care is bad for business; and a improved organisational approval of a fact stretchable work can work unequivocally good for companies.
“In a aged fashioned approach once it becomes profitable, blokes spin some-more meddlesome — that’s a bit tongue in impertinence apparently though it gives me certainty that we are in a state of transition.”
Paul Clarke is amatory spending time with baby William. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied 2016-10-16 00:00 admin headlinenewstoday.net
22 /52 Bella Hadid steps out in skimpy crop top in New York after opening up about Lyme disease battle Bella Hadid was looking good on Saturday night as she headed out in a sporty white ensemble. The 20-year-old, who recently opened up about her struggle with Lyme disease, showed off her lithe physique in a halterneck crop top and trousers. The white outfit perfectly showcased Bella's sunkissed skin and she added a pop of colour with red sunglasses and cherry lip gloss. The brunette beauty was seen leaving the Bowery hotel clutching a yellow rose, no doubt from one of her many admirers. Meanwhile the model spoke out about her struggle with Lyme disease at a gala event in New York on Thursday. The model, 20, was diagnosed with the ailment in 2012 and forced her to give up her dream of being an Olympic equestrian. 'My teenage years were taken from me,' she told the gathering for the Global Lyme Alliance Gala, according to People. Showjumping 'was my dream of my life and what I did every single day until I just stopped and realized I didn’t have the brain power to ride horses anymore, so that was the end of that,' she explained. Bella, whose mother Yolanda and younger brother Anwar have also been diagnosed with Lyme disease, was an honoree at the event hosted by the nonprofit that funds research and education about the tick-borne disease. 'I was forced to start homeschooling my second year of high school, which of course I didn’t want to do because I’d rather go hang out with my friends, go to parties,' she said during her speech. 'I know what it feels like to not want to get out of bed from bone pains and exhaustion and days on end of not wanting to socialize or be around people because the anxiety and brain fog just isn’t worth it.' Bella gave up her equestrian career in 2013 but it wasn't until two years later that she and her family went public with their health issues. Despite her illness, Bella like her older sister Gigi has become one of the most sought after models in the fashion world and is managing to pursue her high profile jet-setting career. Her mother Yolanda's search for treatment and even a cure were documented on Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills and via her social media accounts. The 52-year-old also spoke at the gala telling the audience that like other sufferers she has often wished 'to die of utter hopelessness and exhaustion.' 'It’s hard for people to understand the invisible disability that owns our life especially behind the beautiful face that shines so bright on the covers of magazines,' Yolanda said.
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23 /52 Liberal members should vote on NSW preselection reforms, says Sinodinos Cabinet secretary Arthur Sinodinos has called for all members of the New South Wales Liberal party to been given a say on reforms which would open up preselection processes for MPs.
If passed, the reforms, first recommended in John Howard’s reform report in 2014, would mean that every member would get a vote for the preselection of their local MPs.
NSW remains one of only two state divisions of the Liberal party that do not routinely allow each party member a vote on preselections.
Instead, candidates for parliamentary seats are chosen by a small core of delegates, including state executive members and influential members who are also lobbyists .
Sinodinos, who is a former president of the NSW party and a close ally of the prime minister, said similar reforms had already taken place in Victoria and they had “worked pretty well”.
“I believe there should be a vote of the division as a whole, all of the membership of the division, as to what the changes will be because then I think they will stick,” Sinodinos said.
“Doing it through state council is one thing but I think the membership as a whole [should vote] and I think we need to speed up the process of having plebiscites.”
Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott , Mike Baird and Liberal frontbencher Angus Taylor have all publicly supported a more open preselection process.
On Saturday Abbott addressed a “democratic convention” to push the reforms and Turnbull and Baird provided video messages to an audience estimated to be around 500 members. While Abbott emerged has as a strong supporter since he was deposed, he dragged his feet on reforms during his prime ministership.
On Sunday Sinodinos said the plebiscite reform had to go hand-in-hand with changes to stop potential members from being rejected so that existing members could not block others to maintain control over a branch.
Turnbull’s video message to the convention was taken from an address for the retirement of former Nationals leader Warren Truss.
Turnbull had praised the National party’s grass roots approach and said parties needed to give members more of an opportunity to have their opinions heard and valued.
“[Members] need to know that their views are important and all members are given a fair say in both policy formulation and the decision-making processes of their party,” Turnbull said.
“That means we have to explore the need to hold more open party forums, more frequent and direct access to MPs at meetings, it means more open delegate selection and preselection process.”
But there remains fierce opposition amongst Turnbull’s own moderate support base which controls the NSW party on the grounds that it will encourage branch-stacking – though no members would voice their opposition on the record. It is against the party rules for ordinary members to speak about party matters.
But Walter Villatora, president of Abbott’s Warringah federal electorate conference who organised the convention, told the audience that arguments against reform on the grounds it would allow factions to exert more control were nonsense.
“Can someone explain to me how the opponents of democratic reform can think that it is easier to exert control over 8,000 members across the entire state than 165 members that have been appointed over many years?” Villatora said.
“It’s time to get real and apply primary school maths. The more members that have a say, the harder it is to manipulate or branch stack the system – this is where the shift occurs from patronage to merit.”
The convention also heard from Victorian Liberal state executive member Marcus Bastiaan, who wrote in the Spectator on Saturday that since the state instituted the reforms in 2008, party membership was flourishing.
At the recent federal election, the Liberal party won their only Labor gain in Victoria while Bastiaan said the NSW division “suffered the party’s worst result – a seven-seat electoral wipeout”.
Bastiaan likened the involvement of lobbyists in the NSW party to the recent donation scandal that forced Labor senator Sam Dastyari to resign from the frontbench.
“Whether Dastyari’s actions were explicitly legal or not is secondary to the perception of wrongdoing,” Bastiaan wrote.
“The mere perception was sufficient cause for the public to lose faith and trust in Dastyari. In an era where a corporate brand matters almost as much shareholder returns, companies found to be employing lobbyists involved in the blatant manipulation of major political parties may well receive a similar fate to Dastyari.
“NSW leadership figures have an opportunity to draw a line in the sand and embrace a reform agenda as Victoria and other states have done. The Victorian example demonstrates that democratisation grows membership, increases fundraising capacity, develops campaign volunteerism and promotes excellence in candidates. Centralisation has proven to do the opposite.
“The consequences of continuing with the status quo are dire and will affect the party’s electoral outlook in the years to come.”
2016-10-16 02:10 Gabrielle Chan www.theguardian.com
24 /52 24 /52 Clinton campaign tweets bizarre video of Hillary's high school best friend Hillary Clinton's campaign tweeted out a video of the Democratic presidential nominee's lifelong friend who shared memories of breakups, prom dates and skateboarding. Betsy Ebeling, 68, Clinton's close friend since sixth grade at Eugene Field Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois, was featured in a one-minute video that was released on Saturday by the Clinton administration. In the video, Ebeling starts off by telling a short story about how a breakup led to a prom date, but only after Clinton showed off her skateboarding skills. 'She had broken up with this guy, whose name I can never, ever remember. Nice guy. But you break up with someone you don't go to the prom with them, right? 'So I said 'You have to go. It's senior prom,'' Ebeling continued. Ebeling, who was riding in a car at the time the video was shot, said that she decided to fix Clinton up with someone in their class. 'And he came over before asking her, and he had his skateboard,' Ebeling recalled as she giggled at the memory. She said during that time skateboards were pretty new and 'literally just boards with old rollerskates on the bottom'. Ebeling said the guy came over and asked Clinton did she want to go 'skateboarding'. 'Little did she know this was the test. If she passed this, then he'd ask her to the prom,' Ebeling said. During the video, Ebeling explained that the pair went to the Lutheran General Hospital where Ebeling said there was a 'long, curving cement driveway'. Ebeling, who has been held up throughout the campaign as living proof that Clinton is an honest person despite attacks on her character, called the driveway 'scary'. But she said the guy put Clinton on the skateboard and asked: 'Can you make it to the bottom?' 'And she did. So she got asked to the prom by him,' Ebeling said. Ebeling has been hailed as the antidote to the attacks that Clinton isn't trustworthy, according to Politico. Bill Clinton has even said before while supporting his wife on the campaign trail that 'she's still got the best friends that she had in grade school,' referring to Ebeling. He added that by definition Clinton is 'a trustworthy, reliable good person'. Ebeling told Politico earlier this year that though she is supportive of her friend often times it's hard for her to watch the attacks on Clinton. 'It's the blessing and the curse at the same time,' she said. 'It's wonderful to see her doing this, but it's very hurtful. I find this campaign very mean. More so than the other one.'
2016-10-16 01:45 Dailymail.com www.dailymail.co.uk
25 /52 Hilary Duff dons tight distressed jeans for casual shopping trip in Beverly Hills She was snapped in Studio City, California on Saturday morning grabbing a breakfast with her mother Susan. But later on Hilary Duff opted for some solo time as she took a stroll around the upmarket boutiques in Beverly Hills. The 29-year-old star of the TV Land series Younger wore some ripped cuffed jeans for the casual outing as she clutched her purse at the ready. Scroll down for video Hilary kept it low-key in a white t-shirt and long olive green cardigan and wore her tresses tied back from her face. Earlier she enjoyed a get-together with her mother Susan. This time she wore a long-sleeved striped white-and-black shirt with tight blue denim jeans and white sandals with embellishments, with a rose- colored purse. The Houston native wore her dark blonde locks down on the crisp autumn day. Susan, 63, wore a blue and black long-sleeved shirt with black pants and black shoes with a green-patterned purse. Hilary and her mother remain super- close, as the actress took to social media six weeks back to share a heartwarming selfie with her parent, captioning the shot: 'My mommy.' Around the same time, the Cheaper By The Dozen alum shared a tweet detailing her amusement with Susan's sense of humor. 'Soo my mom just created a bitmoji.. I thought it was important to let the world know she chose the shirt that says thug life on it,' she wrote in the August 31 tweet. Hilary's outing comes amid a busy time, as she's been hitting the gym with regularity as of late, keeping her curvy figure intact. Should she have any fitness questions, help is not far away, as she's been seeing an expert in the field named Jason Walsh, who owns West Hollywood's Rise Nation gym. 'It’s nice to have that excitement in my life,' she told New York's Fox 5 last month of her relationship with the trainer. 'We’ve known each other for a really long time and he’s a great guy and we have a lot of fun together.' The Lizzie McGuire actress's divorce with NHL player Mike Comrie was finalized in February, and the two share custody of their four-year-old son Luca. Like her mother Susan, she's a fiercely- devoted parent, and has even made major adjustments to her thriving career as such, putting her musical aspirations on the back burner as the boy grows up. 'I don't have dreams to go on a world tour anymore,' she told E! last month of the sacrifices she's making to stay involved with her boy. 'Maybe some day, but right now, my life is so full and busy enough with the show,' she said. 'I love music, it's in me, it's a part of me but I look at my kid and go, "You're a teenager already. " 'It's scary to think time is going by so fast and I want to be present for all of that.'
2016-10-16 01:45 Adam S www.dailymail.co.uk
26 /52 The rise of Ryan 'Fitzy' Fitzgerald as he celebrates his 40th birthday from Sydney Swans to Big Brother and now Nova He is the popular radio presenter who's been on the airwaves since 2004. And on Sunday, former AFL player-turned-breakfast radio host, Ryan 'Fitzy' Fitzgerald, turned the big 4-0. In celebration of the funnyman's milestone birthday, Daily Mail Australia takes a look back at his transformation from a cheeky Adelaide boy, into a media personality who seems to enjoy getting naked for the cameras. The host of the Fitzy & Wippa show on Nova 96.9 marked the special day at the beach with his wife of eight years Belinda 'Beejay' Fitzgerald and their two sons, Hewston, six and Lennox, three. However, the radio station decided to have a little fun, posting a flashback shot showing a curly haired teenager, years before he began rocking his now signature shaved head look. And it seems in the years since the plaid shirt photo of the former footballer was taken, he's grown in confidence, having happily stripped off in The Big Brother house on multiple occasions. The desire to bare all has continued through his radio career, with Fitzy stripping off earlier this year after he lost a bet, resulting to him getting naked in front of a room full of sketch artists. Along with his liking for getting nude, he also has a passion for stitching up his colleagues, including co-host Michael 'Wippa' Wipfli. Earlier this month, the funnyman started a campaign where he called on the pubic to take photos of the radio host whenever they saw him eating. At an earlier date, the pair photographed each other in a woman's revealing one-piece swimsuit for a hilarious shoot. Having now been a fixture on Sydney breakfast radio for six years, it's easy to forget his varied career beforehand. Fitzy played AFL for the Sydney Swans in 2000, but niggling injuries forced him into an early retirement after just 16 games across two teams - with the rising star 'traded' to the Adelaide Crowes in 2002. Two years after hanging up the boots, Fitzy made his debut in the entertainment industry, appearing as a contestant on Big Brother Australia. The flirtatious housemate, who wasn't afraid to kiss a fair few of the females on the show, also made a habit of dressing in women's clothing and showing his love for partying. After finishing up fourth on the reality TV show, he transition to radio, co-hosting Adelaide 91.9's breakfast show with Jules Schiller, Tony Moclair and Jodie Hill. As his radio career flourished, Fitzy returned to Sydney in 2011 to take on his current breakfast radio role alongside current co- star Michael 'Wippa' Wipfli. The pair also made the move into TV together this year, co-hosting Channel Nine's 20 to 1 series. While Fitzy, who once presented Big Brother's Friday Night Live, also makes regular appearances on Network 10's The Project as a guest panellist.
2016-10-16 01:35 Karishma Sarkari www.dailymail.co.uk
27 /52 Noelle Martin's horror after she discovered digitally altered pornographic images of herself online A teenager's selfies have been stolen from social media and published on a porn website. Perth woman Noelle Martin, now 22, was just 17-years-old when her selfies were stolen from Facebook, she told ABC's 7.30. In some of the images, the predators had doctored the Australian student's face onto photos of a naked model's body. 'I really was shocked, I felt like I wanted to vomit, my heart sank,' she told WAToday. Ms Martin had discovered images of herself about 2am at her university residence while playing around with Google's reverse image search, a tool which shows where an image has been published online. People had made lewd comments about her on the websites, she said. 'They were saying things like: "The amount of come that's been spilt over her could fill a swimming pool". Or: "Cover her face and we'd f*** her body". I was called trash, a sl**.' She was 18 when she discovered her image had been plastered on porn sites and has been fighting to have the pictures pulled ever since. One webmaster had even tried to blackmail her for more nude photographs for his private collection when she requested he take the photo down. Ms Martin said she was concerned she appeared to be voluntarily pictured on the porn sites. 'They can ruin a girl's life by this. They literally can ruin a girl's life by what they're doing,' she told 7.30. Ms Martin is the victim of parasite porn, where images are stolen and used or altered in a sexually explicit manner without consent. She is calling on the government to crack down on the practice. She had been to local and federal police, as well as other agencies, who had all referred her onto other departments. Ms Martin is now finishing off her law degree in Sydney and is campaigning for tougher laws with other victims of parasite porn.
2016-10-16 01:25 Tanya Li www.dailymail.co.uk
28 /52 Antalya: Turkish Filmmakers Dazzle on the International Stage Despite the turbulence and terror surrounding the July 15 attempted coup in Turkey, the country’s filmmakers rose to new heights on the international fest circuit. And even after the failed coup, Turks have continued to win accolades — most recently at the Venice Film Festival, where Reha Erdem won the Horizon section’s Special Jury nod with his fable-like “Big Big World.”
As prominent film industry multihyphenate Ahmet Boyacioglu puts it, these titles “are all very critical of Turkish society,” but “they are still being made,” the film fest programmer, producer, and promoter notes.
They were until recently, at least. Now the hope is that the Turkish government’s current crackdown against writers and academics who don’t toe its line won’t also mean a muzzle on filmmakers and the topics they depict such as the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which has always been a cinematic hot potato.
Variety looks at recent Turkish arthouse standouts, all of which are playing in Antalya’s national competition.
‘Rauf’
This melancholy coming-of-ager shows from first-time directorial duo Baris Kaya and Soner Caner, spotlights the Turkish-Kurdish conflict through a child’s perspective. Set in a Kurdish village in northeastern Turkey, it’s about a 9-year-old who gets kicked out of a school where the nationalist propaganda is part of the program. He becomes a carpenter’s apprentice and falls in love with his master’s 20-year-old daughter. “Rauf” premiered in the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation Kplus section to positive response, with critics noting it was more suitable for adult audiences.
‘Album’
This impressive debut by Mehmet Can Mertoglu is a social satire about a couple who conceal an adoption by staging a fake pregnancy with a phony photo album, fearing the social stigma still associated with infertility in Turkey. After making a splash when it premiered in May in the Cannes Critics’ Week, winning the section’s Visionary Award, “Album” has gone on to scoop the Heart of Sarajevo award for feature film at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival.
‘Dust Cloth’
Another praiseworthy debut, Ahu Ozturk’s “Dust Cloth” is an unsentimental drama about two Kurdish women who work as cleaning ladies and struggle to survive in contemporary Istanbul where their ethnic origins are a huge hindrance. After premiering in Berlin’s Forum section in February, “Cloth” went on to win kudos for local film, actress, and screenplay at the Istanbul festival.
‘My Father’s Wings’
Yet another first work getting notice on the fest circuit after bowing at Karlovy Vary, this drama by Kivanc Sezer is set against the backdrop of the current construction frenzy in Istanbul, where workers of the luxury high-rises have to contend with irregular wages and other hardships.
‘Big Big World’
Prolific auteur Erdem transposes fairy-tale tropes to a present-day setting in this tale of two orphaned siblings, a brother and sister, who escape from an unnamed Turkish city into the woods when the young girl is forced to become the second wife of the man who adopted her.
‘Clair Obscur’
Yesim Ustaoglu’s potent feminist drama, which premiered to positive reception in Toronto, is about the contrast between two women who embody different facets of Turkish society. Elmas, an 18-year-old Muslim trapped in a loveless marriage with a much older husband must clean house, give her mother-in-law insulin shots, and undergo what feels like rape every night. Her life is contrasted to that of Sehnaz, a glamorous psychiatrist who appears to be in control of her life.
‘Young Wrestlers’
In this documentary by Mete Gumurhan, 26 boys at the sports academy in the Turkish province of Amasya endure a lot to pursue their Olympic dream and face the challenges of adolescence in Turkey’s male-dominated society. After premiering to positive reception in Berlin’s Generation Kplus section, “Wrestlers” went on to score sales, and screen in Sarajevo.
2016-10-16 01:07 Nick Vivarelli variety.com
29 /52 As Donald Trump made clear, smart businesses know only idiots pay tax It was one of the highlights of an unedifying US presidential race. The subject: Donald Trump’s tax returns. Hammered by Hillary Clinton over the disclosure that he’d paid no federal tax, possibly for 18 years, Trump was unable to restrain himself.
There was no apology. That would have been out of character. Instead, the Republican nominee blurted out four words: “That makes me smart.” For once Trump – serial liar and alleged serial groper – had inadvertently revealed a great truth. In the 21st century those who dutifully pay taxes are dupes. We are the losers in a modern game in which only “smart people”, as Trump indelicately put it, know the rules. In fact, the rich and powerful quietly exited from the business of paying tax a long time ago.
The evidence is all around. A new study of America’s leading Fortune 500 companies reveals that 367 of them – some 73% – have at least one or more subsidiaries in tax havens. Some have hundreds. This allows them to legally ship profits offshore.
In Britain, meanwhile, it emerged that eBay paid just £1.1m in tax last year, despite telling US investors that the UK was its second largest market, generating revenues of £1.1bn. The cash originating in the UK flows to a parent company in Switzerland.
The mind-boggling scale of the problem is laid bare in a slew of books and reports that reveal the way in which multinational companies have excused themselves from paying vast amounts of tax.
The companies are a who’s who of global brands: Apple , Nike, Google, Pepsi, Pfizer, Walmart, Goldman Sachs, and practically every other multinational in business.
The detail can be complicated, but the method is simple – and legal. Companies set up subsidiaries in low or no-tax jurisdictions. These subsidiaries then charge the onshore parent for services or intellectual property or whatever, with the profits then funnelled legally offshore. US companies are only obliged to pay tax when they bring the money back. Which they don’t.
The study of America’s Fortune 500 companies shows that they collectively avoid an estimated $100bn in federal taxes each year. The most popular tax haven is the Netherlands. Bermuda and the Cayman Islands are not far behind.
The worst offender is Apple. It has booked $214.9bn offshore, a sum greater than any other company’s offshore cash pile. If these profits were held in the US they would incur $65.4bn in tax. The European Commission recently ordered Apple to pay Ireland $14.5 billion in back taxes ; its Irish subsidiaries were paying an effective tax rate of 0.005%. Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, dismissed the ruling as “political crap”.
As a result it is ordinary taxpayers who have to pick up the tab. Last year George Osborne introduced a “diverted profit tax” aimed at large companies that shift income artificially offshore. It’s unclear if the former chancellor’s initiative will work. Last weekend the Observer reported that Facebook had ended up with an £11.3m tax credit on its UK business. This is a company that made a global profit last year of $6.19bn.
The new books include a page-turning account of the investigation into the Panama Papers. And an enterprising account of the wealth management industry by a writer who spent two years undercover as a trainee.
Published last April, the Panama Papers were the fruits of a thrilling journalistic investigation. The papers – some 11.5m leaked documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca – give an unprecedented insight into the offshore world. They expose something obvious, previously hidden in plain sight. Namely that the global offshore industry – centred in tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands – was not, as had been thought, a shadowy but minor part of our economic system. Rather it was the system. It is this system that has allowed the burden of taxation to move inexorably from multinational corporations and the well-off to the “unsmart”: the dupes; you and me.
The journalists who unearthed this bitter truth were Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier of Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung . (They are not related, but their German and international colleagues fondly nickname them the “brothers Obermay/ier”.) The paper, based in Munich, has an excellent track record of working on difficult and important investigations.
Reporters often get offered information, stuff. I know from previous investigations that this often turns out to be disappointing. As Obermayer recounts, in early 2015, late one evening, he received an anonymous message. It said: “Hello. John Doe here. Interested in secret data?” Obermayer replied: “Always interested in secret data. What is it?”
The “it” turned out to be bigger than anyone might have imagined. The source – his or her identity remains unknown – had got hold of Mossack Fonseca’s entire internal database. The legal practice was founded in 1977 by an ambitious Panamanian lawyer and the son of a Waffen SS officer. It specialised in setting up anonymous offshore shell companies.
The source’s motivation was simple. Like Edward Snowden , who lifted the lid on mass electronic surveillance, John Doe was a whistleblower. He/she wanted to expose the scale of injustice of the offshore tax system. Mossack Fonseca denies any wrongdoing.
The leak was an act of bravery and amounted to the biggest data dump ever, delivered in real- time instalments. We got a whopping 2.6 terabytes. This was far larger than the top-secret Snowden files or the diplomatic cables leaked in 2010 by an unhappy US army private, Chelsea Manning , which revealed Washington’s frank views of its global friends and enemies.
The Panama Papers include records of 214,000 offshore companies, names of real or “beneficial” owners, and passport scans. There are bank statements, electricity bills and email chains. Often these are between Mossack Fonseca’s head office in Panama and “intermediaries”, typically other lawyers, accountants and banks.
Behind them were a large and diverse group of affluent individuals. We looked, naturally enough, for politicians and those holding public office. But the majority of names in the database belonged to what you might call the non-famous international rich. There were French dentists, Spanish lawyers and Swiss aristocrats, all seeking to minimise their taxes.
The leak led to a year-long international collaboration in 80 countries. Süddeutsche Zeitung shared its material with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which is based in Washington.
The ICIJ in turn gave access to the data to 100 media organisations and nearly 400 reporters. In Britain that was my newspaper the Guardian and the BBC.
The journalists gave the leaked files a name. The Panama Papers was a conscious echo of the Pentagon Papers: volumes of secret documents leaked in 1971 by Daniel Ellsberg which revealed the true US war in Vietnam. Ellsberg swiped a mere 7,000 pages. We had enough reading material to last us about 25 years.
I found myself back in the Guardian ’s investigations “bunker”. (Actually, it had a bucolic view of Regent’s canal in London: houseboats, joggers, coots.) In 2013 I’d been part of a small group which had studied the Snowden files here. We speculated at the time that MI6 had taken up residence in the flats opposite.
This project was different. By means of a secure platform, called the iHub, journalists were encouraged not to compete with each other but to share information and to swap leads and tips. We did, in a flurry of encrypted emails. There were clandestine reporter meetings in Washington, Munich, and London.
Early on we looked for Trump. Perhaps the database would point us towards his alleged secret fortune? It didn’t. I did dig up a Russian businessman escaping from Moscow who wanted to buy an apartment in the Trump Ocean Club tower in Panama City. (The agent knocked off $200,000, offering the Trump penthouse for a bargain price of $2.31m.)
Other themes gradually became clear. Britain, it turned out, didn’t just feature via UK Crown dependencies like Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. Rather, it was the heart of the Mossack Fonseca multiverse. True, many of those diverting funds offshore were located in far-away kleptocracies: Russian oligarchs, African despots, and bagmen for Syria’s murderer-president Bashar al-Assad.
But it was British lawyers, banks and company formation agents that were facilitating this global tax avoidance. Often, the enablers were top London law firms. Their websites look eminently respectable: a view of Georgian stucco, offices in exclusive postcodes, a smart Farrow and Ball front door with neatly topiaried trees.
The leaked documents told a different story. Sometimes, the lawyers would lie about their clients’ identities and connections. Under banking regulations firms were meant to declare if a client was a politically exposed person or “PEP”. This would lead to stricter checks. The solution was to say nothing in the paperwork about a client’s PEP status. In return, big fees.
There may not have been bodies on the streets of Belgravia or Knightsbridge. But it was hard to escape the dispiriting sense that the British were the biggest crooks on the planet. Behind the facade of legal piety we were enabling an orgy of transnational theft, and the looting of entire continents such as Africa.
The California-based French economist Gabriel Zucman estimates that 8% of the world’s wealth – $7.6tn (£5.3tn) – is currently stashed in tax havens. Zucman puts the loss to global tax revenues at $200bn per year. That includes $35bn in the US and $78bn in Europe. What might we do instead with this money?
As President Obama noted tax avoidance was a huge global problem, made worse by the fact that offshore structures are perfectly legal. Many of these havens operate under British jurisdiction. More than half of Mossack Fonseca’s companies are registered in the British Virgin Islands, a territory administered from London. The BVI has stubbornly rejected calls for greater transparency. Successive British governments have failed to act.
We spent most of our bunker hours working the big names. They included David Cameron, who features indirectly, as well as a host of other colourful figures including Iceland’s prime minister and Vladimir Putin’s KGB-turned-oligarch pals.
The database revealed that the offshore fund run by Cameron’s late father Ian had paid no British tax. For three decades. The fund, Blairmore Holdings Inc, had gone to absurd lengths to pretend that it was based in the Bahamas, another major tax haven.
It hired a small army of Bahamas residents to sign paperwork. One of them was a part-time bishop. All of this was legal – but a pantomime designed to keep Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs at bay.
In the run up to publication, slotted for 3 April, we had two worries. One, that our investigation might itself leak. Journalists are a gossipy bunch. Two, that nobody would care. After all, when the Guardian published Snowden’s revelations of state spying in 2013 most people in Britain – the land of James Bond – reacted with a weary shrug.
In the end we needn’t have worried. In Iceland the prime minister resigned. In Argentina there were protests. In Azerbaijan a small war suddenly initiated – so some believed – to distract from revelations featuring the president and his daughters. In China censors blocked the words “Panama Papers” and jammed the website of the Guardian. In Russia officials fumed about a western “spy” conspiracy.
Downing Street refused to answer questions about Cameron’s tax affairs, saying that they were a “private matter”. Eventually Cameron came clean: he’d owned shares in his father’s tax haven fund. He sold them for £31,500 just before becoming prime minister in 2010.
Cameron was reluctant to acknowledge what was obvious: that part of his family’s fortune came from privileged offshore wealth.
Viewed in retrospect, this was the beginning of the end of Cameron. Weeks later he hosted a global anti-corruption summit in London. He announced a clampdown on offshore havens. The UK would introduce a new register that would compel foreign companies owning British property to declare their owner, thereby cleaning up London as a centre for international money- laundering.
It was a start. But Cameron stopped short of compelling British overseas territories from outing the real owners of offshore firms. Without a public register the offshore industry – with its satellites of lawyers and banks – was free to carry on as before. The BVI, meanwhile, boycotted the London summit and stayed at home.
The picture, then, is a lousy one. But the Panama Papers offer a few rays of hope. In recent years the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and western governments have tried to clamp down on tax evasion, mindful of the billions being lost during a time of austerity. Pressure has been growing on offshore centres to swap information. Increasingly, the Swiss and others are complying.
All this has induced a degree of paranoia among Mossack Fonseca’s well-heeled clients. Emails show that the super-rich have adopted various protective strategies to stop the tax man from knocking. Some of them use fake names. We found Harry Potter, Winnie Pooh and Daniel Radcliffe. (Not the real one.) Plus Isaac Azimov, who turned out to be a tax lawyer from Barcelona.
Offshore agents report that their Italian clients are going to desperate lengths to avoid being caught. When visiting Switzerland they leave the Ferrari behind and take a less conspicuous car. They also seek to cover their trail by “layering”: using a chain of offshore companies, rather than just one, to bury an asset.
Still, the past six months have seen a victory of sorts for those of us, the little people, who do pay our taxes. From now on, the super-rich and other characters who use exotic offshore structures will be a nervous bunch. How long, they must be wondering, before the next leak?
2016-10-16 01:00 Luke Harding www.theguardian.com
30 /52 Pia Muehlenbeck reveals the secrets to get the perfect Instagram photo Lawyer. Designer. Blogger. Businesswoman. Model. Is there anything Pia Muehlenbeck can't turn her hand to? Apparently not. The 24-year-old Sydney resident and social media star has just been announced as the official 2016 Mumm Melbourne Cup Carnival ambassador. Pia Muehlenbeck shot to fame after she quit the corporate world and a junior lawyer job at law firm, Kardos Scanlanto, and developed her blog and sportswear brand, Slinkii. Run by the 24-year-old and her partner, Kane Vato, the line offers sustainable sports luxe activewear and yoga mats. These days, Pia spends the majority of her time designing, running the Slinkii business, blogging and modelling. 'I'm living my dream,' the 24-year-old told Daily Mail Australia. 'I used to work super long hours when I was a lawyer, and it was so tiring. These days, while I'm working super hard - and it's not all lounging about on a beach - I am doing something which I love. I wouldn't swap it for anything.' According to Pia, who currently boasts more than 1.4 million followers on Instagram , social media has been crucial to her success. 'Back when we started Slinkii, and were trying to promote the brand through social media as we had no funding, we would spend a whole weekend on the beach to try and get one perfect photo,' she said. 'These days, we favour a more relaxed approach to getting that human shot.' The 24-year-old said she remembers the moment her super-popular Instagram account really exploded: 'I was in Barcelona with my mum on holiday, and I uploaded a photo of me when my partner phoned and said I should take more as the shot was going really well on Instagram. 'After that, I spent some time going out and posing on our yoga mats in Europe,' she laughed. With regard to advice for aspiring social media stars, Pia told Daily Mail Australia that it pays to be patient: 'It was harder to get from 0 to 10,000 followers than it was to go from 10 to 100,000 and from 100,000 to a million,' she said. 'My advice for people wanting to take a good photo is to take advantage if there's some good light and smile. Smiles are so underestimated, but they always look good.' For her first visit to the Melbourne Cup on November 1, Pia said she is already pretty organised: 'I'm so excited for the Cup and to be partnering with Mumm, I've already got my outfit pretty much planned out,' she said. 'I think the rules of Racing dressing are becoming less important, and people are being more playful with their outfits. 'I'm certainly planning to wear something that might surprise some!'. Pia Muehlenbeck will act as the 2016 Mumm Melbourne Cup Carnival ambassador and host the marquee on AAMI Victoria Derby Day and Emirates Melbourne Cup Day. To mark the partnership, Pia and Maison Mumm will collaborate on a custom-designed swimsuit, which will be unveiled inside the Club de la Plage marquee.
2016-10-16 00:31 Sophie Haslett www.dailymail.co.uk
31 /52 Leaving the EU mustn’t mean crashing the digital economy W hen my co-founder (also husband) Joe White and I sold our technology business, Moonfruit , in 2011 we made an active choice to remain in the UK to invest in its technology and business ecosystem – both with our time and capital. It determined our choice of acquirer, Yell Group, who had headquarters in London and Seattle. We wanted to give back to the UK, especially as I am a child of south-east Asian immigrants, grateful for the opportunity the UK had provided for them and their family. Joe is a child of Kiwi and Cornish(!) immigrants who feel the same. We also felt that the UK, within Europe, was the right place for our children to grow up. The freedom for them to travel, study, work and set up businesses across Europe would give them the opportunity to explore in a rapidly shrinking, globalising world.
I sit here today and hope we have not made the wrong decision. Tech City data shows the digital sector in the UK is growing over 32% faster than the wider economy, and is creating jobs 2.8 times faster, too. The estimated turnover of UK digital tech industries reached £161bn in 2014. The UK’s rise over the past five years has been nothing short of meteoric. Our internet economy, as a percentage of GDP, continues to lead the G20. The truth is that the digital sector will eventually just be subsumed into being the business sector, as every company and organisation will be enabled by technology in some form – from web, mobile and Wi-Fi today to the internet of things , artificial intelligence , voice and virtual reality in the future. In fact, 41% of digital tech economy jobs exist in what are thought of as traditionally non-digital industries – such as the public sector and financial services.
But this economy is hungry for talent and skilled resources. Brexit potentially throttles this growth in three ways. First, demand already outstrips the supply of skilled digital talent in the UK. Talent is needed in both businesses and academia. The digital tech industries are creating employment opportunities and accounting for 1.56m jobs across the UK. At Entrepreneur First, we are building the next generation of deep tech companies pushing the boundaries of AI, virtual reality, space, and computer vision. We have a £40m fund we invest to support these companies. Every one of these is incorporated in the UK. So far they have created £535m of value. They employ staff and sell services, both of which contribute to UK tax revenue. We train 200 individuals a year and turn them into 40 companies. 50% are UK citizens, 25% are EU non- UK, and 25% are recruited from the rest of the world. Our arms are open to EU talent. But, in the future, what will this mean in terms of time line and visas?
Second, Brexit may stall international funding. Last year saw a record high for investment in UK startups of $3.6bn. European funding to the UK would be at risk if we are not part of the EU. Investment activity backed by the European Investment Fund represented 41% of total investments in Europe in 2014. The EIF has anchored several of the largest UK tech venture capital funds, who have reported that the EIF are cautious to commit until there is a clearer roadmap for Brexit.
Finally, being out of the EU might reduce market opportunities for UK companies, with fewer customers and more complex regulation to trade. We hope that our 2011 decision was not the wrong one but we will fight to keep the UK as a digital world leader by investing in talent, innovating with universities and engaging with government.
Wendy Tan White is general partner at Entrepreneur First
2016-10-16 00:30 Wendy Tan www.theguardian.com
32 /52 Alaska town votes to change name to Inupiat Eskimo version ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Residents in the nation’s northernmost community have voted to change the name of the Alaska town to its traditional Inupiat Eskimo name.
A slight majority of voters in the largely Inupiat city of Barrow approved efforts to change the community’s name to Utqiagvik (oot-GHAR-vik) in their local election Oct. 4. The vote was tight, with 381 in favor of the name change and 375 against it.
“Basically, it reinforces the cultural identity of the people,” said Mayor Bob Harcharek, who is not Native. He noted that early day missionaries set up schools in the area where students were forbidden to speak in their native language and were punished if they did so. “It caused some social psychological problems.”
Barrow City Council member Qaiyaan Harcharek, the mayor’s son, introduced a local ordinance in August that began the process ratified by voters. The younger Harcharek is Inupiat on his mother’s side.
“We are now in an era where the reclamation of tradition is critical to the perpetuation of identity as Iñupiat,” he wrote in an email Friday to The Associated Press. “The people of Utqiagvik voted to regain our traditional name. Hopefully, it signifies the beginning of a decolonizing revolution. Regaining our traditional names is just one step towards that healing!”
Another Alaska community in recent years to change its name is the western Alaska village now known as Numan Iqua, which was known as Sheldon Point until voters approved the new name in 1999.
Barrow’s vote follows a high profile name change in Alaska. Last year, the Obama administration decided to bestow the traditional Alaska Native name to North America’s tallest mountain, from Mount McKinley to Denali, an Athabascan word meaning “the high one.”
There’s also an ongoing effort to rename Devils Tower National Monument, a giant rock butte in northeast Wyoming. Local American Indians and others are seeking to have it switched to Bear Lodge.
Among those unhappy with the Barrow change is William Phillips, a non-Native local married to an Inupiat woman. Phillips, who voted against the change, owns the Barrow Souvenirs and Gifts shop and is a 22-year resident of the town located more than 700 miles north of Anchorage.
“I think it’s stupid,” he said Friday. “I don’t understand how it got passed.”
He hasn’t decided if he’ll change the shop’s name as well.
Phillips believes the name change will come with enormous cost to the city to make changes reflecting the new name. It also will be a huge inconvenience to residents who will now have to change documents such as drivers’ licenses. While understanding why people voted for the change, Phillips doesn’t believe everyone considered the practical impact.
“Most of the yes votes probably were proud Native people who think they’re going to revitalize their culture,” he said. “And in fact there’s other ways to do that instead of putting all the expenditures right back in the community that we can’t afford already.”
The city is following state code to implement the change in the Arctic Ocean coastal town of nearly 5,000. Bob Harcharek said a notification was mailed as required to the lieutenant governor’s office this week, noting the name change becomes official 45 days after notification.
Claire Richardson, spokeswoman for Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, said the paperwork has not yet been received.
The town was named in 1826 for Sir John Barrow, 2nd Secretary of the British Admiralty, according to the state’s community database and other sources.
It’s not immediately clear what the city’s new Inupiat name means.
Some say it means “a place where snow owls are hunted” while others say it essentially means a place for gathering potatoes, even though potatoes are not native to the area.
With the name change, the town also is seeking state approval to change its stop signs to the Inupiat word: “Nutqagin,” the mayor said. If necessary, the English word “Stop” also will be added, but it will be much smaller than the Native word on the red octagonal sign.
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2016-10-16 00:24 By Associated mynorthwest.com
33 /52 Clinton campaign launches its latest tool to take down Donald Trump - a mocking comparison of how each of candidate has spent the last 50 years 'says that he will make contestants' bathing suits.. smaller' and heels...higher'. It concludes: 'We have a choice in this election between a proven leader with decades of experience - or Donald Trump.' The tool, which has gained the approval of amused Twitter followers, comes in the midst of a nightmare week for Trump's campaign. Since the emergence of a 2005 tape in which he boasted about making unwanted advances on women, nine have come out to claim they were victims of the behavior he described. He has denied each of their separate allegations and on Saturday suggested the election was 'rigged'. A ninth woman came forward on Saturday to allege he had made uninvited sexual advances on her. Cathy Heller told The Guardian she was attending a Mother's Day lunch at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997 when he kissed her on the mouth without her consent. His campaign, which has issued denials of every accusation of sexual misconduct leveled against him this week, batted it away. Heller donated $2,700 to Clinton's campaign earlier this year. She has also tried to have her husband's family's membership fees to Mar-a-Lago reimbursed. On Friday, Clinton told supporters somberly she took 'no satisfaction' in the accusations leveled against her opponent. 'This election is incredibly painful. I take absolutely no satisfaction in what is happening on the other side with my opponent. 'I am not at all happy about that because it hurts our country, it hurts our democracy, it sends terrible messages to so many people here at home and around the world,' she said at a fundraising event in Seattle. Clinton took a seven-point lead in a national poll commissioned by Fox News on Thursday. Rasmussen Reports, another respected pollster, put Trump ahead by two per cent. 2016-10-16 00:23 Jennifer Smith www.dailymail.co.uk
34 /52 Exclusive–Breitbart/Gravis Poll: Clinton Up 4 Points over Trump in Florida Clinton was the choice of 46 percent to Trump’s 42 percent, said Doug Kaplan, the managing partner of Gravis Marketing , the Florida-based polling firm that conducted the poll. The poll carries a 2.3 percent margin of error with a 95 percent level of confidence.
Kaplan said Libertarian Gary Johnson was the choice of two percent, Green Party nominee Dr. Jill Stein , one percent.
“This is another state where we saw a shift away from Trump,” he said.
In our Oct. 4 poll, Clinton was up 47 to 45, but since then, Trump has lost support and Clinton has held hers, he said.
In this poll, the presidential preference was asked once in the middle of the survey.
“In a state Obama won by one percent in 2012, the Clinton camp will be celebrating this poll,” he said.
The next chance for Trump to recover his positive momentum is the Oct. 19 Presidential Debate held at University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace.
“Can Trump pull an ‘art of the comeback’ with Fox host Chris Wallace as the debate host?–Of course,” he said.
The referendum to legalize marijuana for medical use is on the ballot and has the support of 54 percent of the voters with 35 percent opposed. In 2014, a similar referendum garnered 57 percent of the vote , falling just shy of the 60 percent threshold required for the referendum vote to become law.
Kaplan said the marijuana poll numbers show a real gender gap.
“The ‘No’ side is effective with suburban women, when they emphasize the effects of marijuana on children,” he said.
“It looks like it will pass this time, but barely,” he said. “We believe it will pass based on a younger demographic voting this year and a different campaign run by John Morgan .” Morgan is the founder and senior partner at Morgan and Morgan , a personal injury law firm with more than 300 attorneys in Florida and other states. Morgan has been the state’s leading advocate for legalizing medical marijuana, but in the 2016 campaign, he has stepped away from the spotlight. Kaplan said Florida does have a libertarian streak that has become more significant in the last 10 years.
In the Senate race, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio leads his Democratic rival Rep. Patrick Murphy with 44 percent to Murphy’s 36 percent.
The race is made more interesting by the 19 percent of the voters who said they were undecided.
One clue of how the undecideds will break is in the favorables.
Twelve percent of the voters have a strongly favorable opinion of Murphy and 20 percent have a strongly unfavorable opinion.
Rubio is a much better known politician, who ran for his party’s presidential nomination, and before running for the Senate in 2010 he was the speaker of the state’s House of Representatives.
Thirty-three percent of the voters have a strongly unfavorable opinion of Rubio, which is down from 44 percent in the Oct. 4 poll. Twenty percent of the voters have a strongly favorable opinion of Rubio, just about the same as the 19 percent in the Oct. 4 poll.
In the Oct. 4 poll , Murphy’s strongly favorable was 13 percent and his strongly unfavorable 25 percent.
Kaplan said, “Rubio looks like he is in good shape.”
“However, if you add his 17 percent somewhat unfavorable rating to his 33 percent strongly unfavorable–a 50 percent disapproval has to be concerning,” he said.
“Rubio has universal name approval. Murphy does not,” he said. “Murphy will try and ride Clinton’s coat tails. She will have to have a six-point victory in Florida for Murphy to have a chance.”
The poll was conducted using a combination of automated telephone calls and an internet panel of cell phone users with the results weighted to match a proprietary turnout model.
2016-10-16 00:16 by feedproxy.google.com
35 /52 'Welfare mentality' must end: Coalition responds to report on rising poverty The federal government has defended its approach to tacking welfare following the release of new research showing nearly 3 million Australians are living below the poverty line.
A new Australian Council of Social Service (Acoss) report says this figure includes 731,000 children – a 2% increase in the past decade.
The chief executive of Acoss, Cassandra Goldie, said the alarming results should act as an urgent appeal to senators to reject further cuts to family payments, currently before the upper house. The assistant minister for social services, Zed Seselja, said the government was very committed to finding ways to encourage people to look after themselves and get people off welfare if they didn’t need to be on it.
“Our opponents on the left have pushed, I think, a welfare mentality in this country,” Seselja told Sky News on Sunday. “We simply can’t go on assuming huge numbers of Australians welfare will just become the norm.”
He said the government is committed to an “investment-led approach” which could result in more training, more mentoring and more opportunities for internships.
Labor’s spokeswoman for families and social services, Jenny Macklin, responded by saying that the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, had failed to show leadership on tackling poverty and inequality.
“Instead, Mr Turnbull wants to make cruel budget cuts that will hurt vulnerable Australians even more,” she said in a statement.
But Dr Goldie is becoming increasingly frustrated with such debates.
“We frame it as if it’s the fault of the individual, you’re either lazy, not working hard enough, not retraining hard enough, but the basic numbers are there,” she told ABC television.
“One job available for every five people conservatively is the estimate looking for paid work.”
She said former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke reduced child poverty by a third after setting it as a core goal of his government.
“But over the last 10 years we’ve seen no change in the level of poverty among the Australian population as a whole – but children are really at risk,” Goldie said.
She said the cuts stripping another $60 a week from single parent families and the proposal to withhold Newstart support for young people for up to four weeks would likely lead to increased poverty.
Goldie said the overall picture from the past decade was one of persistent and entrenched poverty across the community with an increase in child poverty, which she described as a national shame.
Those most at risk were children in lone parent families who are three times more likely to be living in poverty than those from couple families,
Goldie said those doing it toughest were overwhelmingly people living on the $38 a day Newstart payment, 55% of whom were in poverty. That was followed by families on the parenting payment (51.5%), the majority of whom were lone parents with children.
2016-10-16 00:11 Australian Associated www.theguardian.com
36 /52 Bulls Beat Bucks, 107-86 (CBS) Giving four key players the night off to rest, the Bulls beat the Bucks, 107-86, in preseason action Saturday night in Milwaukee.
Chicago left Dwyane Wade and Jimmy Butler home, while Rajon Rondo and Taj Gibson didn’t play either. The Bulls used a 37-7 margin in the fourth quarter to earn the victory and were led by Isaiah Canaan’s 25 points. Doug McDermott added 22 points, and Jerian Grant had 13.
Now 3-2 in the preseason, the Bulls host the Hornets on Monday night at the United Center.
2016-10-16 00:09 chicago.cbslocal.com
37 /52 Weekend Today show host is caught out by staff tinkering with the autocue Journalist Deborah Knight got quite the surprise when producers fiddled with the autocue and caused her to read out the wrong name. The Weekend Today show co-host was presenting the latest weather updates when technical staff changed the autocue last minute to read: 'I'm Ron Burgundy'. The newsreader soon realised the prank attempted to cover up the slip by adding: '...that was on the TV last night as well'. Scroll down for video As he finished off the sports news, Nine Network journalist Peter Stefanovic introduced the weather segment with: 'I believe it's Deb'. Mr Stefanovic and staff can be heard giggling in the background as she read out the incorrect name. Let's take a look at the weather... It is me Pete,' she said. Ron Burgundy is a fictional character from the blockbuster hit Anchorman portrayed by Will Ferrell. He is the anchorman of fictional KVWN Channel Four News. Along with her co-host duties for Weekend Today, Ms Knight is a fill in presenter on Today, Nine News Sydney and A Current Affair. Knight is married to Lindsay Dunbar and together they have three children Darcy, Elsa and Audrey.
2016-10-16 00:06 Tanya Li www.dailymail.co.uk
38 /52 City to honor civil rights lion who changed Detroit landscape The Rev. Nicholas Hood Sr. didn’t just look for opportunities to improve people’s lives; he created them.
The civil rights activist, who died in the spring, fought alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the battle for equal treatment for all Americans and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the civil rights organization that changed lives across the South and eventually the nation.
But what must not be lost to history is what he did here, in his adopted hometown of Detroit.
Hood was a New Orleans preacher in 1958 when he was invited to become pastor of Plymouth United Church of Christ. He was so impressed with the men of the church that he accepted the job within days.
And he got to work right away.
His first sermon in September 1958 was titled “Are You a Spectator or Participant?” He made clear which he was within months of his arrival, according to his memoirs. After reading that the city planned to raze low-income black housing in midtown Detroit to build a medical center, his first question was: What will happen to those residents? According to his papers, when he learned that there was no plan to relocate the residents, he formed a coalition to fight for new housing as well as ensure that black churches in the area could stay.
His Fellowship of Urban Churches represented thousands of members from varied congregations. Their battle cry, according to his papers, was: “Urban Renewal is Negro Removal; but we are going to make it work for us as it has worked for others!”
The coalition was successful in pushing the city to change the plan. Hood then established the Plymouth Nonprofit Housing Corp., which built hundreds of apartments across the street from the Detroit Medical Center.
That apartment complex now bears his name.
And beginning today, so will the street that runs in front of them. The city — and his longtime church — will celebrate the new street signs at a special service at 1:45 p.m. today at his church at 600 E. Warren. An outdoor ceremony was moved to the church because of expected inclement weather. Dr. Charles Steele, president of the national SCLC and retired U. S. Sen. Carl Levin will be among the speakers.
The city and church also will recognize, for the first time, all living past Detroit City Council members.
When Hood passed last spring, the Rev. Charles G. Adams, pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit, called him “one of the city’s most well-respected icons … a trailblazer and a civil rights leader who loved this city.”
Hood also paved the way for black leadership, becoming only the second African-American member of the Detroit City Council, then the Detroit Common Council. He served for 28 years, but inspired decades of more leadership by others.
“He is one of the reasons I am a councilman,” said District 3 Councilman Scott Benson, whose office spearheaded the sign dedication ceremony.
Hood's son, the Rev. Dr. Nicholas Hood III, followed his father's footsteps into the ministry and to City Hall as a councilman. But he said the greatest lesson his father taught him was how to lead, particularly during the movement.
"It was perhaps one of the greatest educations I could have, to both learn about the depth and complexity and energy and drive of my father," he said, recalling how his father took him along to development and political meetings where he watched firsthand the work that went into progress.
"My dad was a master at delegated leadership," Hood III said. "In terms of both church lay leadership and the development of the Medical Center Courts Apartments, the Medical Center Village (now City View), the grocery store (across the street from the church) and the Cyprian Center (a facility for developmentally disabled people), he exerted a similar vision and reliance upon leaders that he delegated authority to. "
Hood III said he wasn't aware of how important his father was — and the magnitude of the work he was doing — until they arrived in Detroit.
"I was 8 years in New Orleans so when he was in the thick of the movement in the South I was not aware of it," he said. "But in Detroit, I became very, very aware of it. ... He carried those relationships from the South to the North, and the SCLC leaned on my dad to help raise money for the movement in the South. "
Hood Sr. did that through rallies and fund-raisers at the church, mirror events of efforts across the country that made the movement successful. But Hood III said that, even with the amount of work his father was doing, he still put family first. When Hood III and members of the jazz band he played with had gigs, "He would drive us to our engagements and come back and pick us up. "
"And I didn’t realize that, on those Saturday nights, it might be 2 in the morning, and he had to preach early the next day. Still, after picking us up, he would take us to to the Esquire Deli at Dexter and Leslie, and we would get corned beef sandwiches in the middle of the night. And he had to get up and preach the next day! That was one of his ways of keeping in touch with my brother, Emory, and me and the other guys in the band. "
I am not surprised by that memory that I heard for the first time. Hood Sr. was not a stranger to me. I attended the church, where he was pastor emeritus, for 14 years. He was a defining presence in the pulpit, and later in the pew, as he switched from dispensing wisdom from the altar to sharing wisdom in conversations.
Despite knowing him for years, I didn’t realize how much I didn’t know until three years ago when I interviewed him for public radio about the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech on the Washington mall.
I sat in a Detroit studio with the then 89-year-old and heard him describe what he did that day.
He climbed a tree and looked out over hundreds of thousands of people to hear his friend and fellow minister dare us to see better, to dream bigger.
I imagined him as a younger man facing difficult choices: to be involved or not be involved, to fight for better or not fight for better — and always choosing to fight.
I saw him, for the first time, as that young man on the front lines of a national battle that changed the way I would live decades later.
That conversation, that moment, was the first time I realized that he was one of the lions.
Yes, we sometimes forget that the American civil rights movement had thousands of lions, icons of various stature, in cities across America, fighting for rights promised, but not recognized enough.
Their legacies now create the historic fabric of that struggle.
Some people celebrate one lion, the big lion, the best-known leader. But the big lion always stands guard over a pride.
Today we’ll be honoring a member of the pride, making sure his name stands guard forever over space here in Detroit where he helped lay justice.
2016-10-16 00:06 Rochelle Riley rssfeeds.freep.com
39 /52 Event in Sandy raises awareness, honors victims of domestic violence SANDY, Utah -- October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and to bring attention to what a big problem it is in Utah, Sandy City staged a somber ceremony this week.
The statistics are troubling: 291 adults and 338 children were victims of domestic violence in Utah last year.
To raise awareness about the extent of the problem, and to remember the victims, a pin wheel display represented each of the child victims and balloons were placed for each of the adult victims. Several people who have experienced domestic violence were brave enough to tell their own, very personal stories.
"He threw the dinner that I made on me, poured beer on me, stabbed me with knives and forks, beat me with weight scales, tied me up and tried drowning me in boiling water, tried putting me in the oven and raped me at knifepoint,” said Marlene Bankston.
As hard as it was to tell her story, Bankston said it's important for victims of abuse to speak out if they hope to break the cycle of violence.
"They feel like they're stuck, they're trapped really, and I definitely felt like that for a long time, but it's hard to get out and speak up for yourself,” Bankston said.
The fact that so many victims keep everything inside is why events like this one are so important. "It's embarrassing and it's hard to talk about, so that's why we're here today: to make sure people are aware, even in Sandy that it is happening, and hope that this puts a face on domestic violence and people are aware about what's happening and get the help they need,” said Lexi Ney, a victim advocate with the Sandy City Police Department.
Support for domestic violence victims is available through the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition. Visit their website or call their hotline at 1-800-897-5465.
2016-10-16 00:03 FOX 13 fox13now.com
40 /52 Michigan Modern architecture defines Detroit's growth period A link has been posted to your Facebook feed.
I’m always shocked when critics of the mid-20th Century architectural style known as Michigan Modern decry that period as a silly time of tail fins on cars, uncomfortable furniture, and shiny, kitschy buildings.
Shocked, because I think Michigan Modern, properly understood, remains our greatest architectural expression.
Here’s the key: while other modernists elsewhere were sticking to the established International style, otherwise known as the glass box, the Michigan modernists retained the simplicity and efficiency of modernism but fused it with an artisan’s love of color, texture, and materials.
So Eero Saarinen’s General Motors Technical Center broke new ground not only with its famous “floating” staircases but with the bright enamel tiles that faced many buildings and the unique window designs that adapted automotive window technology to building design.
Now an encyclopedic new book on the period brings this important design phase into sharper focus. “Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America,” was edited by Amy Arnold and Brian Conway of the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office. The book, published by Gibbs Smith and running to 352 pages, sells for $50 and packs an astonishing array of photos, essays, interviews, and perspective on the architecture, automotive and furniture design, fabrics, and more of the period roughly from the 1940s through the 1970s.
Michigan led the design world in this period with architects like Eero Saarinen and Minoru Yamasaki, furniture makers at Steelcase and Herman Miller in west Michigan, fabric makers like Ruth Adler Schnee, and so many more players too numerous to name.
Recently my colleague at the Free Press Bill Laitner wrote about Southfield’s collection of Mid- century Modern building s and quoted Joe Odoerfer, associate dean and professor at the University of Detroit Mercy's school of architecture, who criticized the style as overly dependent on automotive design for its inspiration.
"That’s probably why Detroit architects played such an important role in the period. Glass and metal buildings, like new cars, look great when they're first built, but they age poorly and require a lot of maintenance. Capturing the aesthetic of the moment can help sell cars, but in architecture it creates buildings that look as ridiculous in hindsight as a 1961 Corvair," Odoerfer said.
But I see far more in Michigan Modern than mimicking the land yachts that car companies were turning out in that period. For me, Michigan Modern probably dates to the 1940s when Eliel Saarinen, Eero’s father, created the Cranbrook Museum and Library in Bloomfield Hills. It combined the clean lines of modernism with a warmth of rich materials in a stunningly beautiful site.
Other masterpieces followed: Eero’s GM Tech Center, Minoru Yamasaki’s McGregor Memorial Conference Center on Wayne State’s campus. These buildings dared to be beautiful as well as efficient, to be monumental and significant in an unashamed way.
Michigan Modern gave way to lesser periods — the silliness of the Post-Modernists who slathered their buildings with a rash of faux historical imagery. Today’s computer-generated designs, all swoops and curves, often represent architectural stunts more than useful buildings.
True, some of the modernist experiments of the 1950s and ’60s, even in Michigan, proved silly. But overall the period gave us an authentic blend of the artisan and the machine, the craftsman and the computer. It was humanism at its best.
If you want to read more about it, check out the new book by Arnold and Conway. It’s worth a read.
2016-10-16 00:03 John Gallagher rssfeeds.freep.com
41 /52 Welcome to Poundland, where life is bliss if you’re a foreign buyer M armite, Brexit : both are sticky, strongly flavoured and loved or hated in about even measure. So it is rather appropriate that the row and ensuing panic over a hike in the price of the yeasty spread was the moment when we could say that we passed peak euphoria for the Brexiters.
In the immediate aftermath of the referendum, they felt entitled to be extremely pleased with themselves. They won when most of them expected to lose. They destroyed the prime minister who tried to stop them and punched the establishment in the mouth. Remainers who had warned that divorcing the EU would unleash severe economic shocks were left looking a bit foolish because those consequences did not materialise immediately.
The Outers had a success during the referendum in persuading many voters to ignore the “so- called” experts on the other side and their cautions that there would be a steep bill to pay. You may recall that some of those much-derided experts did predict that Brexit would trigger a fall in the value of the pound with the result that the prices of many household goods would go up. You may also recall that this was dismissed as “scare-mongering” by “Project Fear”.
Now some of the consequences of Brexit are beginning to knock on the door. The loudest knock – more of an almighty crash, actually – is the tumble in the value of the pound. It has slumped a long way against the euro and plunged even more dramatically against the dollar. “Take back control” served the Outers well as a referendum campaign slogan. It was probably their most effective persuader. It was also a highly misleading guide to what would happen in a world in which a government does not have unalloyed sovereignty even over its currency. A pound is only worth as much as the world is willing to pay for it. If the world starts to believe that Britain’s economic prospects have darkened and that the country has become a less attractive destination for foreign investment, then the world will be less inclined to hold pounds. If the world starts to think that Britain is becoming less politically stable, a more unpredictable place to do business and a more risky country to lend to, then the world will be even less enthusiastic about owning pounds.
The slumping value of sterling tells us that this is exactly what the world now thinks. Markets are reacting to a government that is on a trajectory towards a “hard” Brexit that will be incompatible with remaining within the single market and may well see Britain’s departure from the European customs union as well. Companies are becoming spooked as they grasp how protracted the negotiation with the EU is going to be. Those company bosses who have managed to secure time with the ministers in charge of the process come away not reassured by the conversations, but more disturbed. They shudder that the people who are supposed to be directing the process don’t really know what they are doing or agree with one another about where they are headed.
The pound has become a “political currency” and not in a good way. It would be a mistake to think that the rest of the globe follows every cough and splutter of our domestic debates, but they do hear enough of it to catch the general drift. The noise coming out of the mouths of senior Tories at their party conference was belligerent enough to be heard everywhere. It broadcast the message that Mrs May’s Britain is turning hostile to talent and investment from abroad. The government has since rowed back on some of it, executing a forced retreat from the idea of compelling businesses to declare how many of their staff are from other countries, but the overall tone still echoes in everyone’s ears.
The martial music played by senior Tories is now being reciprocated from the other side of the channel. There is a toughening of the language being used by EU leaders and even by figures who were originally seen as conciliators. Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, has generally been regarded as more sympathetic to Britain and more willing to help achieve a gentle uncoupling rather than an acrimonious rupture. A member of the cabinet to whom I spoke recently identified Mr Tusk as the man they hoped that they could do business with rather than Jean-Claude Juncker and a European commission that is seen as determined to follow a “punishment strategy” of maximising the pain inflicted on Britain for jilting the EU. Yet it was Mr Tusk who last week made a point of ridiculing the “cake philosophy” of Boris Johnson, as in you can have your cake and eat it. Oh no you can’t, retorted Mr Tusk. He invited any adherents to the foreign secretary’s brand of magical thinking to conduct a simple experiment. Buy a cake, consume it and then take a look at what is left on the plate. The choice for Britain, he declared, was not soft or hard Brexit, but hard Brexit or no Brexit. That is a precise echo of what the hard Brexiters in Mrs May’s government are saying.
The Brexiter ministers continue to insist that ultimately the EU will want to give Britain a sweetheart deal. Everything coming back from the other side suggests the opposite and for entirely understandable reasons. European leaders are not wavering in the clarity with which they declare that Britain cannot be seen to get a better deal from being outside the EU than it had as a member. They will be able to give that message in person to Mrs May this week when she travels to Brussels for her first European Council as prime minister.
There is a risk to making any comment on the falling pound; the risk is to be accused of being a poor loser, a “Remoaner”, a miserable naysayer who refuses to embrace the wonderful vista of opportunities that are presented by having a collapsing currency. It is true that there are some upsides to a plunging pound. It will make some British exports more competitive, provided that their manufacture doesn’t rely on a lot of imported parts. Higher prices for things made abroad may encourage Britons to reduce their appetite for imported goods, which would help to close our yawning trade deficit. The cut-price pound will also make Britain a bargain destination for tourists. Nigel Farage will be able to celebrate all the extra foreigners that Brexit is drawing to our shores.
But it is another delusion to think that devaluation is a perfect economic tonic. If it were that, Britain should already be the envy of the world. Since we came off the gold standard in the 1930s, when a pound bought five dollars, this country has experienced a lot of devaluations, planned and unplanned. If making your currency cheaper was the route to riches, our streets ought to be encrusted with diamonds by now.
The main political consequence of a falling pound will be felt in a spike in inflation. We will be paying more for petrol, clothing, food, electrical goods and all the other stuff that this country buys from abroad. Inflation, which has been dormant for a considerable period, is set to have a resurgence in its salience as a political issue. The governor of the Bank of England is right to say that these price rises will inflict the hardest hit on those least able to bear it, because people on lower wages spend proportionately more of their income on the things that are going to get more expensive. A rise in inflation will also impact on the cost of anything that is index-linked, which means paying more for everything from rail fares to water. It is already worrying ministers that increased inflation will also have a significant knock-on effect for the government’s finances, which weren’t exactly in rude health before this happened. Among other things, it will make it more expensive for the government to keep its pricey promise to increase the state pension by at least inflation. It will add further pressure on public services, not least the NHS. If the cost of living is going up, public sector workers will think they deserve a compensating rise in pay and will become seriously discontented if they don’t get it. Mrs May inherited a policy of freezing benefits and credits for lower-paid workers. The pain for those subjected to that freeze will be increased if their cost of living is escalating. Private sector workers will either extract wage rises from their employers to offset increases in prices, with all the further consequences that has, or they will suffer a degradation in their living standards. The number of people who are only “just about managing”, to use Mrs May’s phrase, will increase. So will the number who can’t manage.
But I don’t want to sound like a “Remoaner”, so I am delighted to report that there will be one group of people for whom a plunging pound is very good news indeed. London property has just become massively cheaper if you are a foreign buyer. For holders of dollars and euros and other “citizens of the world”, the sale is now on. Britain is becoming a poundland bargain – so long as you don’t actually earn your living here.
2016-10-16 00:00 Andrew Rawnsley www.theguardian.com
42 /52 National briefs: Wells Fargo infamy may be repelling users Some consumers may be shying away from Wells Fargo after learning that employees used customers’ information to open sham accounts, according to new figures reported by the bank.
The nation’s largest retail bank beat expectations when it reported more than $5.6 billion in profit for the past three months. But the bank’s earnings report also hinted that Wells Fargo may have some trouble convincing people to open new accounts in the wake of the scandal.
The number of checking accounts the bank opened in September fell by 25 percent from the same time last year, the company reported Friday. Credit card applications filed during the month dropped by 20 percent from a year ago. And the number of visits customers had with branch bankers also fell by 10 percent from last year.
On Friday in Maricopa County, Ariz., the U. S. government hit a clean energy milestone: What officials are calling the largest procurement ever of renewable energy by the federal government, in this case from a desert solar array.
The new 150-megawatt, or million-watt, Mesquite 3 solar array is located in Arizona, but the electricity it generates will be sent to California’s electric grid and will power roughly one-third of the electricity needs of 14 naval installations in the state, including San Diego’s naval base and the Marines’ Twentynine Palms and Camp Pendleton.
The U. S. Education Department published regulations last week governing programs that prepare new K-12 teachers, a long-delayed effort meant to ensure that graduates emerge ready for the nation’s classrooms. The new regulations, at least five years in the making, require each state to issue annual ratings for teacher-prep programs within their borders. The ratings aim to serve as a snapshot of how novice teachers perform after graduation.
SAN FRANCISCO — A six-month study by the U. S. Justice Department released last week found that San Francisco’s Police Department disproportionately used force on people of color, and stopped and searched them more often than it did white people.
Federal officials reviewed 548 use-of-force cases between May 2013 and May 2016, finding 37 percent of the people whom city police used force against were African-American, a larger percentage than for any other ethnic group. Nine of the 11 people who were killed during use- of-force incidents in that time frame were people of color.
Also in the nation ...
Passengers and flight crews will be banned from bringing Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on airline flights under an emergency order issued Friday by the Department of Transportation in response to reports of the phones catching fire. ... Delta Air Lines says it is investigating after a young, black, female doctor complained a flight attendant refused to let her help during an in- flight medical emergency. ... Verizon’s top lawyer says it has reason to believe Yahoo’s recently disclosed data breach has a “material” impact on Verizon’s pending $4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo. ... Two men in California were charged with hate crimes on Friday in connection with an attack on a Sikh man, punching him in the face and using a knife to cut up to 10 inches of his hair, which was unshorn by religious mandate, a prosecutor said.
2016-10-16 00:00 Compiled from www.post-gazette.com
43 /52 Street style tip of the day: Caped I hunted down these Zara items and created this look for under $110. I paired the coat, top and bag with my favorite denim and heels. How's that for great finds?
To find out all the details about this outfit on Melanee Shale, click here! 52 Weeks of Chic highlights the very best of street style every day this month. See all the looks here.
2016-10-16 00:00 AOL Staff www.aol.com
44 /52 Taylor Swift donates remainder of $1 million pledge to Louisiana flood victims Taylor Swift is making good on her promise.
The 26-year-old singer has donated the remainder of her $1 million pledge to four charities benefiting those affected by the Louisiana floods.
WATCH: Taylor Swift Makes Donation to Hospital in Godson's Name After Visiting Him in the ICU
Swift first made her pledge in August. Two months later, she has divided up her donation to Convoy of Hope, The Life of a Single Mom and YWCA Greater Baton Rouge. The "Bad Blood" singer also gifted $100,000 to Habitat for Humanity, which hopes to rebuild 100 homes in Baton Rouge by the end of 2017, and donated $50,000 to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank in August.
"The generous donation from Taylor Swift could not have come at a better time for our organization," reads a post on YWCA Greater Baton Rouge's website. "These funds will be put to great use as we continue working to restore our Early Head Start facility that was damaged during the historic flooding last month, and continue our critical work of providing access to high quality early childhood services... Thank you, Taylor Swift, and to all those at the Taylor Swift Foundation, for your kindness and generosity in these challenging times. "
WATCH: Taylor Swift Facetimes With Terminally Ill Fan, Donates $5,000 to Family of Girl Who Died in Car Accident
The Life of a Single Mom has released a similar statement: "Our hearts are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support for single moms. We are grateful to Taylor Swift for reaching out to help us ensure that no single mom walks alone during this very difficult time. The devastation across southeast Louisiana has been unbelievable. We are thankful for the opportunity to serve more single moms with this gift. "
PHOTOS: Taylor Swift and her pals step out for concert
Swift announced in a statement to ET in August that she would be donating $1 million to Louisiana flood relief, recalling how welcoming her fans were when she visited the state during her 1989 World Tour last year.
"We began the 1989 World Tour in Louisiana, and the wonderful fans there made us feel completely at home," she said. "The fact that so many people in Louisiana have been forced out of their own homes this week is heartbreaking. "
WATCH: Taylor Swift Leaves Young Cancer Patient 'Literally Speechless' With Christmas Surprise
2016-10-15 23:58 AOL Staff www.aol.com
45 /52 Runway Fundraiser is fashion-forward: Shirley Wild By Shirley Wild
Posted: 10/15/16, 8:36 PM PDT | Updated: 16 secs ago
On Sept. 15 the Jewish Family and Children’s Service held its annual Runway Fundraiser at the Center.
Fashion design students from Long Beach City College Cal State Long Beach presented their exciting, innovative creations that were showcased on the runway by professional models.
A look at this year’s Fall fashions, as provided by Macy’s at Los Cerritos Center, was presented by Long Beach resident Bonnie McCarthy, a veteran fashion industry and design writer and editor.
An array of delicious salads provided by Sofia Riley of TGIS Catering. The winning ticket for the priceless New York Experience that includes a visit to Marie Claire’s fashion and beauty closet was won by LBCC design student Lindsey Sheesley.
It was a sold-out event with 225 attending raising over $47,000 to enable JFCS to continue its 58-year tradition of providing affordable, professional and compassionate counseling and social services to people in Long Beach and 22 surrounding communities, without regard to religion, ethnicity, economic status, disability, or sexual orientation.
Seen at the scene: Underwriters and producers David and Wendy Manasse Wiese and their children Alexa and Brett with Alexa assisting with graphic design and Brett in charge of music. JFCS board President Rick Burney and wife Linda, committee members Judy Carey-Fisher, Silvia Kahn, Sheryl Stewart, Hyra George, Kathryn Miles, and Pattie Davidson. In attendance were Mollie Smith, dean of the School of Career and Technical Education at LBCC; CSULB Fashion Merchandising and Design faculty members MyungHee Sohn and Jung Mee Mun; Bonnie Lowenthal, Nancy Schneider, Gail Levy, Helen Ansel, Debbie and Rob Feldman, Julie Kinsbursky and Loren Miner.
Marlene Temple combines her love of friends and of causes in her annual open house party which she has dubbed “The Last Time Summer Celebration.” It might be noted this is the fourth “last time” get together!
Held on Sept. 25, it was an evening of beautiful summer weather filled with sunshine and smiles creating “old memories to recall/new memories to create and forever friends to enjoy.”
The 150 guests generously donated an abundance of toys and books for all ages for the Stramski Children’s Developmental Center at Miller Children’s Hospital.
Entertainer Ron Johnson serenaded the guests, beautifully presented delectable hors d’oeuvres, and a taco bar were provided by the Grand. The ever popular martini luge was accompanied by margaritas.
Seen at the scene: Beverly O’Neill, Bob and Mary Alice Braly, Tony, Elena, Billy and Karen Gagliardi, Jim and Gail Gray, Cecil and Beverly Cook, Larry and Sande Rice, Ron and Glory Horn, Don and Barbara Hall, Paul Diego, John and Joan Knight, Nancy Koblensky, Fred and Charlene Gamm, Bob and Anne Emigh, Jim and Sherry Loos, John and Carolyn Faber, Leslee Martin, Gary Lee Wolf and Carl Lee, David and Kay Berg, Kevin and Dee McKinney, Carolyn Powers, Paul and Lorie Merrill, Norm Rasmussen, Terry and Joyce Krauss, Carolyn Maney, Jerry and Sharon Civalleri, Fred and Lynn Danielson and Jeannine Ricord.
Sept. 17 found 60 Las Damas de la Plaza supporters raising their glasses, tasting incredible food, enjoying a fun and relaxing evening, and raising over $8,000 to support Community Hospital Long Beach.
Featured were wines of the Southern Hemisphere from South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina and Australia, with Dan Ray talking about the origins of those wines.
Catering featured a fabulous pairing of food and wine by Gary Kuhn and Jeff Tarantino.
Harpist Ellie Choate provided background entertainment for the full house attending.
Jan Young with Arch won the opportunity drawing of the seven wines that were served, Diane DeWalsche with Tom Kennelly won a wine tasting party and Marlene Temple won the premium Australian wine.
Seen at the scene: Councilperson Daryl and Cheryl Supernaw, Ernie and Jackie Kell, CHLB Foundation Chair Alan and Vicki Anderson, Vice Chair Ross and Sandy Riddle, Foundation Executive Director Matthew and Clare Faulkner and Jean Bixby Smith. The Las Damas Committee: President Bev and Cecil Cook, Vonda Lia, Nell Kariger, Linda Taylor, Nancy Eilers, Vera Harrison, Phyllis Bowles, Marilyn Lonsdale, Beverlee Manis, Emily Chronister, Fran Bylund and Peggy Miller.
News of social events with charitable purposes may be sent to Shirley Wild at [email protected] or by fax to (562) 594-9668. Please include a contact phone number. Send high-resolution jpeg photos, by attachment, to [email protected] and include group name and identification of individuals from left. Call Shirley at (562) 594-9468 for more information. Please check the website for coverage of additional events: wwwpresstelegram.com/social.
2016-10-15 23:36 By Shirley www.presstelegram.com
46 /52 Sharp: Michigan State's dip can be short-lived if focus is on future Embed
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EAST LANSING – Mark Dantonio was right.
It CAN get worse.
Still searching for rock bottom, Michigan State plunged a few depths lower today, further wallowing into the abyss of self-pity. The Spartans tried a new quarterback, but still had the same issues with poor interior line performance, a defensive secondary with more leaks than a colander and a senior class that simply isn’t up to the challenge of its predecessors.
Can everyone stop with the nonsense that something’s salvageable with this season?
It’s over. It’s done. It was done two weeks ago. Wipe your eyes. Blow your nose.
While there remains nobility in fighting the futile battle because of the educational merits of adversity, there’s also a realistic point of diminishing value in a season that’s already fallen far past disappointing. After the Spartans’ 54-40 loss to Northwestern – giving Dantonio his first four-game losing streak as a head coach – their season has free fallen toward disastrous.
“This is something that we’re not used to here,” senior middle linebacker Riley Bullough said. “It’s tough to deal with. This is a program that’s accustomed to winning. But we’re not getting it done.”
When asked to pinpoint the most serious cause for this season wildly careening off the tracks over the past month, Bullough didn’t single out a particular culprit.
“It’s everything,” he said. “It’s everybody. We’re not getting it done.”
The Spartans can’t run, can’t pass, can’t block, can’t tackle and can’t get off the field defensively on third down.
They can’t win another game playing like that.
“It’s hard believing that we gave up 54 points at home,” senior defensive back Demetrious Cox said. “We take pride in our defense, but we’re not executing the way we’re supposed to do. It’s disappointing because we know that we can play better than what we have. All we can do is keep working to climb our way out of this hole.”
Enemies of the past eight years will take out their vengeance on the Spartans currently curled up in the fetal position. And there’s little they can do about it.
But this can become a one-year aberration.
But that’s solely up to Dantonio.
Dantonio should have a serious discussion with his coaching mentor, Nick Saban. If not for Saban, Dantonio doesn’t rocket up to the top of the list of the three-person Michigan State football coaching search committee 10 years ago. But Saban’s also the correct example of a successful head coach who doesn’t let stubbornness overrule his common sense.
Saban hired Lane Kiffin as offensive coordinator three years ago because he knew that — if he didn’t adapt to more spread, empty backfield, offensive formations — Alabama couldn’t keep its competitive edge over the rest of the SEC as well as the rest of the country. Saban wasn’t necessarily a big fan of Kiffin’s often-prickly personality. And Saban never has been an offensive risk-taker.
But Saban was smart enough to know that programs that don’t constantly evolve get left behind.
Michigan State is at that crossroads. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed.
“We need to be honest with ourselves,” Dantonio said.
But that starts with Dantonio being honest with himself.
In the absence of former defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi, there isn’t another assistant coach on the current staff secure enough in his job status to confront Dantonio, challenging him if he thinks certain schematic changes are necessary.
The Spartans’ better players are their youngsters on both sides of the ball. That’s a testament to Dantonio’s improved recruiting the past three years — at least if you believe the hyperbole of the recruiting rankings. The overall quality of talent from top to bottom in this program has improved. But it risks being wasted in 2017 and beyond unless Dantonio surrounds himself with offensive and defensive coordinators who can best utilize the upgraded athleticism among the freshmen and sophomores.
This senior class for Michigan State is awful. Sorry, but it’s the truth. Northwestern regularly picked on Cox. The Wildcats’ biggest pass plays came on Cox’s side of the field. They converted on better than half of their third-down conversions. When they needed a first down, they looked to where Cox was on the field and targeted him.
He’s a good kid. He was voted co-captain. He has worked hard. But he’s one of the many veteran liabilities exposed over this four-game slide.
Dantonio assures everyone that he’ll fix what’s troubling his program. Nobody doubts he can. But that first requires a proper diagnosis of the problem.
2016-10-15 23:31 Drew Sharp rssfeeds.freep.com
47 /52 Sampson County farmers feeling Matthew's impact A friend wanted you to see this item from WRAL.com: http://wral.com/16121270
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2016-10-15 23:29 WRAL www.wral.com
48 /52 A conversation with Evanston native, Tony-winner Jessie Mueller The intervalny.com website that describes itself as “a virtual home for female voices of the theatre, with the goals (in part) of changing the conversation around women in theatre by asking smart ladies smart questions for a smart audience,” talked to Evanston native and Tony Award-winning actress Jessie Mueller in an inverview posted earlier this week.
Mueller, who won the Tony for best actress in a musical for her portrayal of the title role in “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” is currently starring on Broadway in “Waitress,” the Sara Bareilles musical based on the 2007 film of the same name, comes from a family of thespians, who have made their mark on Chicago’s stages (no stranger herself to Chicago’s theater audiences, Mueller won her first Jeff Award in 2008 for her role as Carrie Pipperidge in “Carousel” at Court Theatre). She’s the daughter of actors Jill and Roger Mueller; her brothers Andrew and Matt are also accomplished actors, and her sister Abby, stepped into the role of Carole King for the national touring production of “Beautiful,” which played here last year.
In the interview, Mueller talks about staying true to herself as a person and an actress:
“I think I got really lucky in that people didn’t know what to do with me. I never felt like I was the pretty ingénue, so I think I figured out — whether I was really conscious of it or not — that’s not what my calling card is, so I’ve got to figure out something else. I have to do something different than other people do. Growing up, as a young girl, you see all these images out there, and I just felt like, “I don’t look like that. I don’t look like a musical theatre girl.” I think, in the beginning, I was really afraid that that was going to be a roadblock for me because in my mind I thought, “Well, I don’t look right and I don’t sound like everybody else.” I think I learned, too, like most of us do, no one else sees us the way we see ourselves. I think in a lot of ways, like I said, I got lucky that people were confused by me, and in a way, that ended up being a really good thing for me, because I didn’t feel like I had one thing that I was good at or one thing I was supposed to develop because I didn’t really have anybody saying that to me.”
2016-10-15 23:23 Miriam Di chicago.suntimes.com
49 /52 Birmingham beauty comes with car lovers' dream garage, heated driveway A link has been posted to your Facebook feed.
On a quiet, dead-end street in the heart of walkable Birmingham, this 4,600-square-foot house packs a stack of luxury detail into a city-size lot.
When the owners found the house, a builder had started it on spec. They stepped in to order extensive trim and millwork, paneling, wainscoting, coffers and arches. The effect throughout is dressy and traditional. It's for sale at $2.5 million.
The husband is a major auto racing figure, and car aficionados will like the two-car garage that's fully turned out with heating, cooling, electricity, water, and a charging station for electric cars. It's finished well enough to be a room in a house with heated tile floor, paneling and wallpaper.
The compact city yard also has a meticulous finish. A slate driveway leads up to the house, then curves off to become a walk around the side and ends in a large slate patio in back. This patio is about 25 feet by 18, supported by columns and sheltered by a vine-covered pergola, a cocoon- like space that feels very private because of tall fences and evergreens.
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"You have total privacy," the wife said. "That's unusual for Birmingham. "
The driveway, the walks and the patio are all heated for shovel-free maintenance. "It's a real manageable house," she said. "You can drive right in from the heated driveway to the heated garage and you're in the house. "
Enter from the front door and you see two consecutive entry halls with an arched door between.
The first part, the vestibule, is paneled from top to bottom with the paneling painted a light tone. Beyond the arched door, the paneling drops down to become wainscoting. This wainscot continues through most of the main floor and becomes a distinguishing feature.
Near the entry is an office or library, fully paneled with cherry with built-in bookshelves and cabinets and a coffered ceiling.
Next is the formal living room, a parlor-like gathering space for smaller groups. Behind that is the formal dining room, which has an arch of wide wood trim painted white, a crystal chandelier and three French doors to the slate patio beyond.
The kitchen and breakfast space are 26 feet long with a window seat at the far end of the room. The cabinets are mahogany, the counters granite, the appliances high-end, including a warming oven and an ice machine.
Beyond the kitchen is a family room — a place for larger gatherings — with 12-foot Paladian windows and walls of built-ins that include shelves, cabinets and a TV-entertainment wall. The patio is just outside.
The second floor has a large owner's suite with a large bath and two walk-in closets. The laundry room is upstairs here, plus three more bedrooms with walk-in closets and two more full baths.
The lower level has been finished with a large open space for parties or relaxing. It has a full bar, a kitchen, a large built-in TV, and a fireplace in an open space with slate flooring. There's a workout room, a wine cellar and a wood-lined sauna.
2016-10-15 23:19 Judy Rose rssfeeds.freep.com
50 /52 Lord Wolfson: ‘Inflation will be a plea subsequent year’ Lord Wolfson, a arch executive of Next, says a decrease in a bruise “inevitably” means there will be some acceleration in a UK subsequent year. Speaking during a launch of a Wolfson Prize , that is looking during ways to solve a problem of a UK’s packed roads, he told a BBC’s economics editor Kamal Ahmed a pivotal thing was to come adult with ways to opposite inflation.
2016-10-16 00:00 admin headlinenewstoday.net
51 /52 Email About Qatari Offer Shows Thorny Ethical Issues Clinton Foundation Faced In April 2012, representatives from Qatar were apparently hoping to get “five minutes” with former President Bill Clinton while in New York to present him with a $1 million check for his foundation as a birthday gift from the previous year.
While it is unclear whether that meeting ever took place, the offer, mentioned in one of thousands of hacked Clinton campaign emails released by WikiLeaks last week, was an example of the complex ethical issues the Clinton Foundation faced in managing relationships with foreign governments when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. It also raised questions about whether the foundation had fully followed procedures it had voluntarily agreed to in order to avoid those very issues.
The foundation’s ties to foreign governments and financiers have long been fodder for Mrs. Clinton’s critics — chief among them Donald J. Trump — who contend that foreigners used donations to the foundation to curry favor with the Clintons while Mrs. Clinton was the country’s top diplomat.
Emails released this year from Mrs. Clinton’s time at the State Department showed that foundation donors sought and in some cases obtained meetings with department officials. None showed that Mrs. Clinton made decisions based on contributions to the foundation, and the Clinton campaign has said she never did.
But the appearance of special access was enough that the foundation announced this summer that if Mrs. Clinton is elected president, the foundation will cease accepting foreign donations.
Similar concerns were in the air in 2009, when Mrs. Clinton took office as secretary of state. So the foundation agreed then that it would ask the State Department to review donations from any new foreign government donors, or from existing donors that were looking to expand their giving significantly.
A State Department spokesman, Mark C. Toner, said on Saturday, “We do not have a record of a submission” from the Clinton Foundation related to a 2012 donation from Qatar. In a hacked email from April 2012 released by WikiLeaks last week, Amitabh Desai, the Clinton Foundation’s foreign policy director, wrote to senior foundation aides that he had recently met with ambassadors from several nations, including Qatar, while in Washington.
Referring to Mr. Clinton by his initials, he wrote that Qatar “would like to see WJC ‘for five minutes’ in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC’s birthday in 2011.” He also said that Qatari officials “would welcome our suggestions for investments in Haiti” and that they have “allocated most of their $20 million but are happy to consider projects we suggest.”
Qatar had donated to the foundation since 2002. The country, a tiny oil-rich Persian Gulf monarchy, has a complicated diplomatic relationship with the United States; it is an ally, but it has also been suspected of quietly supporting militant Islamic groups.
Clinton Foundation officials said Saturday that they did not have to clear the $1 million gift with the State Department because it was not a “material increase” from Qatar’s previous donation levels.
The claim, however, was impossible to verify because the foundation is not required to publicly report every donation it receives and has not done so.
“Qatar has been among our hundreds of thousands of donors who have supported the Clinton Foundation’s overall humanitarian work, including making lifesaving H. I. V./AIDS treatment available to millions of people in more than 70 countries, combating childhood obesity here in the United States and working to empower girls and women around the world,” said Craig Minassian, a spokesman for the foundation.
2016-10-15 23:16 By www.nytimes.com
52 /52 Amid fried chicken craze, foreign firms ruffle Korean feathers By Jane Chung SEOUL, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Don't count your chickens before they hatch. Global poultry producers hoping to cash in on South Korea's craze for fried chicken and beer face a market crowded with local birds that have clipped prices and profits for Korean growers. The popularity of the combination, known as "chimaek", has boomed in recent years, fuelled by its appearance in a hit South Korean television drama and an explosion of restaurant chains. Chimaek stores now dot Korea and their ubiquitous delivery services shuttle freshly fried chicken and beer to homes, offices and picnics. At a Seoul outlet of the popular BBQ chain recently, Kim Chang hoo said he and his colleagues had planned to go to a sushi restaurant for a company dinner, but decided instead on chimaek - a mashup of chicken and maekju, the Korean word for beer. "I cannot help think of chicken, even when I'm eating sushi," Kim, 24, said. "I don't know if it's just me, but chicken always comes to my mind and is always delicious. " The craze has pitted domestic chicken producers in an increasingly tough battle for market share, prompting an over-supply and a drop in farm prices. Now imports are set to rise as South Korea lifts bans on overseas suppliers who are attracted by still low per capita consumption rates. South Koreans ate 14.2 kg (31 pounds) of poultry meat each in 2015, a near three-fold increase since 1990 according to OECD data, but only half the global average of 28.6 kg per person. South Korea's market for chicken is expected to grow 5 percent to 1.01 million tonnes this year and a further 3 percent in 2017, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), boosted by the chimaek craze. GAME OF CHICKEN Supply is currently dominated by the country's three biggest producers - Harim Co Ltd, Dongwoo Co Ltd and Maniker Co Ltd. All have seen their earnings hit in the first half of this year as they ramp up production to secure market share. Park Ju-No, the managing director at Harim, acknowledged producers were engaged in a "game of chicken", each holding a potentially dangerous course in the hope their rivals flinch first. "We think it's more crucial to focus on quality differentiation to survive instead of adjusting production, even though it contributes to a glut," said Park. Park expects the imbalance to ease in the second half as the number of slaughtered chickens drops in summer, but sees the market over-supplied again next year as imports from the United States and Thailand resume. In July, Asia's fourth-largest economy lifted ban on chicken imports from the United States, imposed due to a bird flu outbreak in 2015. It is likely to resume imports in November from Thailand, banned since a 2004 bird flu outbreak, according to Korea's Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency. FLY ABROAD Overall South Korean chicken imports are expected to rise 9 percent to 130,000 tonnes this year, and a further 8 percent in 2017, due to the resumption of U. S. chicken imports, the USDA report showed. Analysts said the increase in chicken imports could squeeze domestic producers with lower prices. U. S. suppliers might also find conditions challenging. "It's going to be a tougher market because the U. S. only had to compete against Brazil before, but now there are more competitors like Denmark and sooner or later Thailand," said Jenis Bae, manager at KTSC, who has imported U. S. chickens for almost 20 years. Still, the competition is good for consumers and restaurants drawn to the chimaek boom. Even global giant KFC recently opened its first "KFC Chimaek" outlets in South Korea, offering set menus such as two pieces of fried chicken, cheese fries and a glass of draft beer for 7,500 won (around $7). Major Korean franchises are now expanding their overseas stores, particularly in China where the TV show "My Love from the Stars" is wildly popular and its heroine's chimaek cravings strike a chord with viewers. "We learned the food culture of South Korea from Korean soaps," Gu Chenghu said at a chimaek outlet in Shanghai. "Also many young people are willing to try something fresh. So it's very popular. " Genesis BBQ, Korea's top fried chicken franchise now has 350 stores abroad in 30 countries including China and the United States. It wants to grow to 50,000 stores by 2020, company director Kwak Sung-kwon said. "Our aim is to having more stores globally than McDonald's ," he said. ($1 = 1,114.7500 won) (Additional reporting by Xihao Jiang in Shanghai; Editing by Jack Kim and Lincoln Feast)
2016-10-15 23:00 Reuters www.dailymail.co.uk
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