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Total 100 articles, created at 2016-05-29 00:03 1 Reuters: U. S. - powered by FeedBurner NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the summer beach season opens in the United States, at least one expert is predicting an... (3.23/4) 2016-05-28 08:11 583Bytes feeds.reuters.com 2 The Latest: Pilot who crashed in Hudson honored at ceremony

(2.17/4) The Latest on the fatal crash of a vintage World War II plane into the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey (all times local): 2016-05-28 13:24 3KB www.thenewstribune.com 3 Zika crisis: WHO rejects 'move Rio Olympics' call (2.12/4) More than 100 leading scientists say the Rio Olympics should be moved or postponed due to the Zika outbreak - but the World Health Organization rejects this. 2016-05-28 11:07 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 4 AP Top Entertainment News at 4:09 a.m. EDT

(1.06/4) Domestic violence accusations often leave permanent damage DMC: Commissioner should apologize for words about rap The Latest: Bratton says comments not about all in hip hop Chinese developer Wanda opens theme park to take on Disney Police test bullets from shooting at T. I.... 2016-05-28 04:09 1KB abcnews.go.com 5 Donald Trump backs out of debate with Bernie Sanders (1.03/4) Donald Trump has rescinded his offer to have a televised debate with Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. 2016-05-28 05:04 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 6 Donald Trump rally sparks clashes in San Diego (1.03/4) Skirmishes flare between supporters and opponents of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as he visits the city of San Diego in California. 2016-05-28 06:29 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 7 Cleveland Cavaliers reach second straight NBA Finals (1.02/4) LeBron James scores 33 points, Kevin Love adds 20 as Cavs beat the Toronto Raptors 113-87 in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals 2016-05-28 11:06 4KB www.cbsnews.com

8 Yahoo - Yahoo Statement Regarding Starboard Announcement

(1.00/4) --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- today noted Starboard Value LP's announcement of its intention to nominate nine director candidates for election... 2016-05-28 08:14 3KB investor.yahoo.net 9 Yahoo - Yahoo to Participate at the J. P. Morgan Global Technology, Media & Telecom

(1.00/4) Conference --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NASDAQ:YHOO) CFO will participate in a question-and-answer session at the J. P... 2016-05-28 08:14 1KB investor.yahoo.net 10 Brazil 'mass rape' video: President calls crisis talks (1.00/4) Brazil's interim President Michel Temer calls an emergency meeting of security officials after video of a gang rape of a teenage girl causes outrage. 2016-05-28 06:29 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 11 Enescu’s Oedipe at the Royal Opera House: a neglected work worth revisiting With the BBC Food’s collection under threat, here's (0.02/4) how to make the most of online recipes A new production of this little-heard Romanian piece shows that neglected doesn’t necessarily mean second-rate when it comes to opera. 2016-05-28 07:55 10KB www.newstatesman.com 12 Champions League Final: Five epic Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid face-offs

(0.02/4) Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are the first two sides ever from the same city to compete in a Champions League final. Let's look at the five of the best Madrid derbies ahead of their encounter 2016-05-28 19:42 3KB www.mid-day.com 13 Narendra Modi wishes Nawaz Sharif for open heart surgery

(0.01/4) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday extended his best wishes to his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif who will undergo an open heart surgery on May 31 2016-05-28 13:21 1KB www.mid- day.com 14 IPL 9: Virat Kohli doesn't compromise on technique: Sachin Tendulkar

(0.01/4) The iconic Sachin Tendulkar feels that India's current No 1 batsman Virat Kohli's secret of success is playing with a 2016-05-28 09:25 1KB www.mid-day.com

15 BSEB 12th Arts Result 2016: Bihar Board (biharboard.ac.in) Intermediate Arts results to

(0.01/4) be declared today at 3PM on biharboard.bih.nic.in The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) will declare the Bihar Board 12 th Arts Result 2016 today, 28 th May 2016 at 3PM. After the formal announcement, students can access the BSEB Intermediate Arts result at the popular Bihar Board result websites biharboard.bih.nic.in and biharboard.ac.in. 2016-05-28 08:44 2KB www.mid-day.com 16 Motorcyclist riding in group formation run over, killed Atlanta police aren’t sure which rider in a formation of more than 50 motorcycles ran over and killed a man Saturday morning. 2016-05-28 23:33 915Bytes www.ajc.com 17 11 hit by lightning in a Paris park, many at child’s party PARIS — A Paris city councilor says at least half a dozen children have been hit by lightning in a Paris park after a sudden storm overtook their birthday party. Councilor Karen Taieb says 11 2016-05-28 23:31 1KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 18 Number of younger people in nursing homes on the rise Travis Brown’s third-floor apartment in Bristol Township may not be fancy. But for him, it represents something very important. 2016-05-28 22:17 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 19 Florida K-9 that attacked neighbor girl now in Netherlands A central Florida police K-9 that attacked a 7-year-old neighbor girl last summer is now working in the Netherlands. 2016-05-28 22:17 2KB www.washingtontimes.com 20 Congress’ grade so far? Incomplete at best Congress is racing toward its summer break, but like a procrastinating college kid it has tons of work to catch up on to avoid a report card laden with grades of incomplete or even worse. 2016-05-28 22:16 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 21 Utah moon rock locked away during planetarium remodel A rare moon rock has gone under lock and key while Salt Lake City’s Clark Planetarium undergoes renovations for the next several months. 2016-05-28 22:16 1KB www.washingtontimes.com

22 Man faces life sentence for fatal robbery A man faces a mandatory life sentence for a Jacksonville fatal robbery. 2016-05-28 22:16 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 23 Education Department replaces career college chain monitor The Education Department has appointed a new lawyer to oversee the turnaround of schools once owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc., following an Associated Press review that found trouble at the schools and questioned the previous monitor’s independence. 2016-05-28 22:16 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 24 Loud but quiet: Hanover chat connects deaf community Jeff Wright realized he had an aptitude for sign language when the class he attended to learn signing dwindled down to a private lesson. He’d barely even noticed. 2016-05-28 22:16 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 25 Phoenix man indicted for soliciting underage girl online A Phoenix man has been indicted for allegedly soliciting an underage girl over social media for sexually exploitative images. 2016-05-28 22:15 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 26 ‘Everybody’s mother,’ keeper of mikvah, soon to retire The phone rings on a typically quiet afternoon, and Malka Markovic pushes back her chair and walks slowly but purposefully to the phone on the wall. The woman at the other end of the line makes an appointment for that evening, and the call is soon complete. 2016-05-28 22:14 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 27 High pollution advisory for Maricopa County this weekend The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has issued a high pollution advisory for Maricopa County this weekend. 2016-05-28 22:14 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 28 Larch inmates rehabilitate endangered Western pond turtles On May 17, the final day of their five-month stint at Larch Corrections Center, nine Western pond turtles lurked out of sight near the bottom of their tanks, just as wary of people as they were on day one. 2016-05-28 22:05 4KB www.washingtontimes.com 29 Saturday Sessions: Brett Dennen sings "Cassidy" The northern California native first burst onto the music scene back in 2004 with the release of his self-titled debut CD. His catchy folk tunes soon became a staple on many primetime TV dramas and motion picture soundtracks. Just last week, Dennen released his sixth full... 2016-05-28 23:51 1KB www.cbsnews.com 30 Fire ant attack adds new death to family's sorrow Alabama women mourned in joint funeral after back-to-back deaths 2016-05-28 23:51 2KB www.cbsnews.com 31 Donald Trump changes tune on man who "couldn't get elected dog catcher in Florida" Republicans are on edge about a possible party flip for Rubio's Florida Senate seat 2016-05-28 22:36 4KB www.cbsnews.com 32 Senior gets big apology after city worker seizes his American flags Contact WND Ken Dabelstein, 73, is a patriotic businessman who has lined his Westland, Michigan, property with 24 American flags every year for Memorial Day – for 30 years. But on May 24, he says, a city worker came to his store, Ken’s Country Produce,... 2016-05-28 20:35 2KB www.wnd.com 33 State chief justice sues over constitutional violations Contact WND Judicial officials in Alabama have launched what has been described as a “political” persecution of the elected chief justice of their Supreme Court. Then they created charges against him based on his administrative orders in managing the state’s court system. Finally, they hired the former legal director... 2016-05-28 20:34 9KB www.wnd.com 34 Kentucky joins lawsuit over Obama's transgender agenda Contact WND Kentucky has become the latest state to join in a lawsuit against the Obama administration’s transgender agenda. WND reported earlier this week that Texas took the lead in filing the legal challenge to Obama’s demands that businesses, government and schools cater to the preferences of those with alternative... 2016-05-28 20:34 6KB www.wnd.com

35 Gary Sinise: Join me in honoring America's greatest heroes Contact WND The nation will pause over the coming days to honor all Americans who have given their lives to defend the United States, and this year the National Memorial Day Concert will continue its legacy of saluting all who have worn the uniform with a special tribute to a man... 2016-05-28 20:34 5KB www.wnd.com 36 Police say Christians can't give atheists gift cards Contact WND Famous Christian filmmaker, author and evangelist Ray Comfort, whose common-sense attitude toward atheism is evident in his books “Nothing Created Everything,” “You Can Lead An Atheist to Evidence, But You Can’t Make Him Think” and “God Doesn’t Believe in Atheists,” is reluctantly canceling plans... 2016-05-28 20:34 5KB www.wnd.com 37 Homeschool your way out of Common Core Contact WND By Edward B. Driscoll Jr. Common Core is the educational standards program that everyone loves to hate – except the people who set policy for America’s public schools. That’s one reason why more parents are opting to homeschool instead. But homeschooling parents shouldn’t be complacent about... 2016-05-28 20:34 3KB www.wnd.com 38 VA makeover? Veterans reveal 1 simple fix for 'failing' health system Contact WND While Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald takes heat over his comparing of veteran wait times for health care to waiting in line at Disney parks, veterans groups say there hasn’t been much progress since the wait time scandal first erupted two years ago. “Not much has changed,”... 2016-05-28 20:33 3KB www.wnd.com 39 College prez offers 'healing space' after conservative star visits Contact WND Apparently conservative ideas have left students at a California college “feeling traumatized, feeling brutalized – physically, emotionally and mentally,” so to help soothe the offended students, the president held a “healing space” meeting. William Covino, the president of California State University, Los Angeles... 2016-05-28 20:33 5KB www.wnd.com 40 This might be Hillary's political waterloo Contact WND Summer in south-central Arkansas is hot, muggy, sweaty, sticky. The humidity is bad, too. The Hot Springs area, only a possum- throw from Bill Clinton’s boyhood hometown of Hope, is home to a cast of real characters: most upstanding citizens... 2016-05-28 20:32 4KB www.wnd.com 41 Ted Cruz bites back at Donald Trump over allegations his father had part in JFK assassination Presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz is biting back at Donald Trump on Tuesday after Trump hinted that Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, could be in some way be connected to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. 2016-05-28 19:08 2KB www.chron.com 42 Yahoo - Yahoo Sports Partners With NHL to Bring Fans Free, Live Out-of-Market Games & On-Demand Premium Content No Cable or Authentication Required, Alliance Offers New Opportunities for Advertisers to Connect with Fans --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ... 2016-05-28 11:09 4KB investor.yahoo.net 43 Report: Arlington High students accused of vandalizing rival Martin High Five Texas high school students are in hot water after they are accused of vandalizing their rival high school. 2016-05-28 11:05 1KB www.chron.com 44 Yahoo - Introducing Fair Play on Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy Yahoo Launches Key Changes in Daily Fantasy to Help Level the Playing Field for Fans Including Entry Limits, Labeling of Veteran Players and No... 2016-05-28 11:09 2KB investor.yahoo.net 45 Colombia's cinema museum: 'Where the magic begins:' An unusual museum is dedicated to vintage film projectors in the Colombian city of Cali - Frederick Bernas went to visit. 2016-05-28 05:04 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 46 Teacher arrested during LGBT-policy debate Contact WND (THE BLAZE) A school board candidate in Brevard County, Florida, was hauled away by police during a Tuesday meeting dealing with LGBT issues when he refused to cede his allotted speaking time. Dean Paterakis was asked by Brevard School Board chairman Andy Ziegler to vacate... 2016-05-28 02:45 1KB www.wnd.com

47 Tragically Hip: The most Canadian band in the world When the Tragically Hip lead singer said he was suffering from terminal brain cancer, Canada grieved, because the band mined the nation's cultural mythology. 2016-05-28 02:32 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 48 Syria war: Turkey anger over US commando photos Turkey calls the US "two-faced" over images appearing to show US commandos in northern Syria wearing Kurdish militia insignia 2016-05-28 06:29 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 49 Asia Times News & Features – Asia Times Japan’s lost decade has had far-reaching effects, and continues to impact women in the nation’s workforce. Today, many Japanese women leave... 2016-05-28 08:12 10KB atimes.com 50 Maine Sunday Telegram News The Senate also passed the Patents for Humanity Program Improvement Act (S. 1402), to allow the transfer of acceleration certificates awarded... 2016-05-28 08:08 14KB www.pressherald.com 51 Rewind: The birth of the World Cup, Barca lifting Champions League trophy and much more... May 28 is a significant date in football history since it was on this day back that the World Cup was born in the FIFA womb and Barcelona and AC Milan got to lift the Champions League trophy. Here's a look back to check out some interesting events... 2016-05-28 19:40 3KB www.mid-day.com 52 Littleport's hunger riots: Descendants mark 200th anniversary What does it mean to be descended from men hanged 200 years ago for rioting? 2016-05-28 11:07 7KB www.bbc.co.uk 53 Chavista military architect turns against successor: 'It's anarchy' One of Hugo Chavez's key allies, retired Maj Gen Cliver Alcala, criticises the leader's successor and says Venezuela is mired in "anarchy", as the BBC's Will Grant reports. 2016-05-28 11:04 6KB www.bbc.co.uk 54 Texas GOP to debate secession on convention floor Delegates at state convention for the Republican Party of Texas will have a chance to vote on Texas secession, after a platform item calling for independence passed a special committee on Wednesday morning. 2016-05-28 11:10 1KB www.chron.com 55 Abbott blasts Roberts, calls U. S. Supreme Court a 'political body' Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, wading into the battle over President Barack Obama's nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, said Thursday that high court "deserves to be swept up into the political process. " 2016-05-28 11:10 4KB www.chron.com 56 What people in the Middle East really think of Tony Blair's latest idea We road tested reactions to the former British PM's new plan to tackle extremism. 2016-05-28 04:54 858Bytes www.bbc.co.uk 57 Flexi-space room expansion suspended A halt is called to the deployment of a new, expandable "room" on the International Space Station when it fails to open up as expected. 2016-05-28 02:13 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 58 Search launched for ferry crewman off Pembrokeshire coast A major search is launched for a crewman who is feared to have gone overboard a ferry off the Pembrokeshire coast. 2016-05-28 02:13 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 59 Cleveland authorities to tout convention preparedness CLEVELAND (AP) — City officials plan to present an overview of security preparation for this summer's Republican National Convention in Cleveland, seeking to... 2016-05-28 17:07 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 60 Mamata and Mamta: A tale of two contrasting fortunes Mamata Banerjee and Mamta Kulkarni have been in the news for completing contrasting reasons lately. While Banerjee has built on her fame, Kulkarni has been dogged by controversy. Take a look 2016-05-28 16:08 3KB www.mid-day.com 61 Study: MRI scans prove schizophrenic brains attempt self-repair A team of researchers from around the world have come across an early sign of hope for patients diagnosed with schizophrenia using Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2016-05-28 14:54 2KB www.upi.com 62 DOD uses undisclosed files to defend sex assault testimony The Pentagon is relying on information it won't make public to dispute an Associated Press investigation that found the military misled Congress about sexual assault cases to blunt support for Senate legislation. 2016-05-28 14:49 6KB www.charlotteobserver.com 63 Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares book French Open third round spot Jamie Murray and Brazilian partner Bruno Soares are safely through to the third round of the men's doubles at the French Open after defeating David Guez and Vincent Millot. 2016-05-28 14:45 1KB www.dailymail.co.uk 64 Thousands Line State Street For Memorial Day Parade Earlier Saturday, wreaths were laid at Daley Plaza to honor service members who made the ultimate sacrifice. 2016-05-28 14:37 1KB chicago.cbslocal.com 65 Carly Reed emerging as UNC heads into women’s lacrosse title game There are no bigger stages in women’s lacrosse than the NCAA tournament final, which the third-seeded Tar Heels (19-2) will play in for the third time in four seasons. All three of those trips have culminated with meetings with Maryland (22-0)... 2016-05-28 13:57 4KB www.charlotteobserver.com 66 CBSE 10th Result 2016 (cbse.nic.in): CBSE Class X Board Results out on cbseresults.nic.in The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has been declared the CBSE 10th Result 2016 Today, 28 th May at 12:45PM. Post official declaration of the CBSE Class X Result, students can check the same online on the CBSE Board results official websites cbseresults... 2016-05-28 13:47 4KB www.mid-day.com 67 Watch Video: AB de Villiers will leave you spellbound with his new talent Royal Challengers Bangalore mainstay AB de Villiers is deadly with a bat, but he is equally effective and mesmerising with another instrument in his hand. Watch AB create magic with aguitar with his wife Danielle giving him company 2016-05-28 13:27 2KB www.mid- day.com 68 US hopes Pakistan understands India's use of civil n-energy With the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) set to have a meeting in June, the US said that it hopes Pakistan understands India's use of peaceful civil nuclear energy 2016-05-28 13:17 1KB www.mid-day.com 69 Argentine Court Sentences Ex-Dictator for Operation Condor Argentina's last dictator and 14 other former military officials were sentenced to prison for human rights crimes, marking the first time a court has ruled that Operation Condor was a criminal conspiracy to kidnap and forcibly disappear people across international borders. The covert... 2016-05-28 13:02 5KB abcnews.go.com 70 Emilia Clarke blushes as Matt LeBlanc uses his Friends chat up line Matt LeBlanc found himself recycling his former alter-ego Joey Tribbiana's famous chat up line 'How you doin'?' on Graham Norton's red sofa on Friday night, and it certainly seemed to work. 2016-05-28 10:03 4KB www.dailymail.co.uk 71 Hockey India inducts PSPB as associate member Hockey India today inducted Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) as an associate member, making it the 36th inclusion in this category 2016-05-28 10:01 1KB www.mid-day.com 72 Prasar Bharati entitled to advt free live feed of matches: SC In a jolt to Star Sports India Private Ltd, the Supreme Court today rejected its appeal challenging the Delhi High Court verdict asking it to share clean live feed without any commercial with public broadcaster Prasar Bharati or share revenue if signals have advertisements 2016-05-28 10:00 2KB www.mid-day.com 73 Eng vs SL 2nd Test: Cook, Hales, Root, Bairstow miss out on landmarks England captain Alastair Cook was still left searching for his 10,000th run in Test cricket as fellow opener Alex Hales, Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow all missed out on contrasting landmarks at the Riverside on Friday 2016-05-28 09:59 4KB www.mid-day.com 74 Joshna Chinappa pips defending champ Annie to reach Hong Kong final India's leading squash player Joshna Chinappa carved out a close win against defending champion Annie Au to enter the final of the PSA HKFC International here today 2016-05-28 09:58 1KB www.mid- day.com

75 EFF raps to the beat of the poor with new election song Red is for danger‚ Zupta must fall. 2016-05-28 09:51 1KB www.timeslive.co.za 76 French Open: Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis reach 3rd round Top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis defeated Japanese pair of Nao Hibino and Eri Hozumi in straight sets to reach the third round of the women's doubles event at French Open here today 2016-05-28 09:50 1KB www.mid-day.com 77 Rafael Nadal on pull-out from French Open: This is a tough moment Nadal nearly breaks down while announcing his pull-out from the French Open due to wrist injury; Spaniard says blow is not career- threatening though 2016-05-28 09:49 3KB www.mid-day.com 78 Muhammad Hafeez could be England- bound for knee-injury treatment The Pakistan Cricket Board is likely to send experienced batsman Muhammad Hafeez to England to seek treatment for a knee muscular problem, which threatens to keep him out of the Test series against England 2016-05-28 09:47 1KB www.mid-day.com 79 Jose Mourinho: Forget last three years at Manchester United Jose Mourinho has told everyone associated with Manchester United to forget the three-year period under David Moyes and Louis van Gaal as he looks to replicate the triumphant history that made the club a 'giant' 2016-05-28 09:46 2KB www.mid-day.com 80 Boot camp will not help Pakistan: Abdul Qadir Former Pakistan leg-spinner Abdul Qadir feels that the Pakistan Cricket Board's decision to have a boot camp at the Military Academy in Kakul will bring about no improvement in the performance of the national team on their tour to England this summer 2016-05-28 09:44 1KB www.mid-day.com 81 After Monty Panesar, now England's Graeme Fowler talks of depression battle Former England batsman Graeme Fowler said yesterday that Twitter conversations had prompted him to write a book, 'Absolutely Foxed', which chronicles his experience of depression 2016-05-28 09:40 2KB www.mid-day.com

82 Victoria Beckham's 2003 hip-hop album leaked online Singer-turned-designer Victoria Beckham made a hip-hop album in 2003 and it has been leaked online 2016-05-28 09:37 1KB www.mid- day.com 83 England footballer Ched Evans faces retrial for rape British footballer Ched Evans will face a retrial starting on October 4 for allegedly raping a 19-year-old woman, a court ruled yesterday 2016-05-28 09:35 1KB www.mid-day.com 84 Fake currency racket busted! Mumbai couple held for selling 'US dollars' at half price The Vasai Crime Branch Unit on Friday arrested two members of a gang who allegedly conned people by selling fake US dollars for Indian currency 2016-05-28 09:05 2KB www.mid-day.com 85 World's biggest cruise ship is 'a construction site' Some of the first paying passengers on the world's biggest cruise ship have described it as "a construction site" and a "serious risk to those on board". 2016-05-28 08:43 990Bytes www.bbc.co.uk 86 Roberto Saviano on living with death threats from the mafia Writer Roberto Saviano tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme about living for 10 years under threat of death from the mafia. 2016-05-28 08:41 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 87 Virginia woman arrested in $1 million handbag scheme A Thai national, living in Virginia on a student visa, was arrested by the Department of Homeland Security for a scam involving designer handbags and Chinese knockoffs. She was described as prolific in buying, returning and selling handbags. 2016-05-28 08:40 4KB www.digitaljournal.com 88 Narsingh Yadav better bet for Rio Olympics than Sushil Kumar, WFI tells HC Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav is a better bet than Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar in the 74 kg freestyle category at the Rio 2016, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) yesterday told the Delhi High Court 2016-05-28 08:40 2KB www.mid-day.com

89 Texas GOP platform says majority of Texans share homosexuality Journalists at the 2016 Texas GOP convention pointed and chuckled, but now the entire nation has caught on : the party's platform... 2016-05-28 11:10 2KB www.chron.com 90 Condom store now advertising Hillary Clinton-branded items An online retailer of prophylactics has announced a new line of Hillary Clinton-branded condoms titled "Slick Willy Wants Back In. " 2016-05-28 11:10 1KB www.chron.com 91 Man reunites tornado victims with lost photos Contact WND (Springfield News-Leader) Thad Beeler remembers standing in his parents’ house in Joplin in May 2011, the morning after a tornado roared through the city. Trees had collapsed onto the roof — which was good in a bizarre way, because that kept it from blowing... 2016-05-28 08:13 1KB www.wnd.com 92 Pair of melons fetch record $27,215 at Japanese auction Contact WND (Japan Today) A single pair of premium Yubari melons fetched a record 3 million yen at the season’s first auction in Sapporo on Thursday. The winning bid was placed by the buyer for a supermarket in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Fuji TV reported. The price was double last year’s. 2016-05-28 08:12 850Bytes www.wnd.com 93 Time-lapse captures monster supercell over Kansas Contact WND (Colossal) Over the past few days there have been several time- lapse videos circulating around the web of a supercell storm forming over the skies in Wyoming. While that video is incredible, this footage by photographer Stephen Locke, captured near Climax, Kansas on May... 2016-05-28 08:12 973Bytes www.wnd.com 94 Arizona hikers, campers warned about 'cartel assassins' Contact WND (KNXV) The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office is warning hikers and campers of a dangerous threat this holiday weekend — cartel assassins. Sheriff Paul Babeu is recommending anyone using back roads, campsites and trails in western Pinal County to be extra cautious and consider carrying a firearm... 2016-05-28 08:12 1KB www.wnd.com

95 Police cite nude man with 'bells hanging from his genitals' Contact WND (KSTU) A Riverton man was cited for lewdness involving a child Thursday after he was allegedly spotted by several people running on a trail while wearing nothing except for several bells that were hanging from his genitals. According to a press release from the Utah County Sheriff’s... 2016-05-28 08:12 1KB www.wnd.com 96 Vince Foster's sister condemns Trump for raising conspiracy Contact WND (MSNBC) Vince Foster’s sister on Thursday condemned Donald Trump for bringing up a discredited conspiracy theory regarding her brother’s suicide, calling the GOP nominee’s remarks “beyond contempt.” Trump in a recent interview with The Washington Post referenced the widely debunked theory that Foster, a former... 2016-05-28 08:12 1KB www.wnd.com 97 The World Cup you’ve never heard of, where the teams have no state Metro mayors can help Labour return to government At the Conifa world cup – this year hosted by the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia – ethnic groups, diaspora communities and disputed territories will battle for footballing glory. 2016-05-28 11:05 11KB www.newstatesman.com 98 US forces in Okinawa hold month of mourning for murdered Japanese woman (From Reuters) The U. S. military on Saturday announced a 30- day period of mourning at its bases on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, where the killing of a woman has reignited resentment of… 2016-05-28 06:37 2KB atimes.com 99 A bare apartment becomes a home, with help from friends A mother of four in Portland settles into a new couch and the prospect of a good night's sleep. 2016-05-28 04:00 4KB www.pressherald.com 100 Everyone’s geared up for the 100th Indy 500 Fans are excited, and so are the drivers, who want to win the historic race. 2016-05-28 04:00 4KB www.pressherald.com Articles

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1 Reuters: U. S. - powered by FeedBurner (3.23/4) NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the summer beach season opens in the United States, at least one expert is predicting an increase in shark attacks around the world this year that will surpass last year's record number.

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2 The Latest: Pilot who crashed in Hudson honored at ceremony (2.17/4) The Latest on the fatal crash of a vintage World War II plane into the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey (all times local): 4:15 p.m. Fellow pilots have paid tribute to a colleague who crashed a vintage plane into the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey by performing an aerial salute over the aviation museum where the plane was based. The ceremony honoring pilot William Gordon took place Saturday afternoon at the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale, New York. Gordon's single-seat P-47 Thunderbolt crashed into the Hudson on Friday. Gordon's body was recovered late Friday and the plane was pulled out of the water Saturday. American Airpower Museum board member Scott Clyman praised Gordon at the ceremony. Clyman said the 56-year-old Gordon had long been fascinated by World War II planes and "he quickly demonstrated the skill to master these demanding aircraft. " He said Gordon's loss "is deeply felt beyond words. " Noon Divers have retrieved the wreckage of a World War II plane that crashed into the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, killing the pilot. The plane was pulled out of the water at about 11:30 a.m. Saturday by divers with the New York Police Department and the Army Corps of Engineers. It was being taken to a heliport in Manhattan. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will examine the aircraft as part of its investigation. The single-seat P-47 Thunderbolt crashed at about 7:30 p.m. Friday. The body of pilot William Gordon was recovered hours later. Gordon had 25 years of experience as an air show performer. The plane was taking part in the American Airpower Museum's celebration of the P-47 Thunderbolt's 75th anniversary this weekend. --- 9:30 a.m. A veteran air show performer who died when a World War II plane crashed into the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey is being hailed as an "extraordinary pilot. " Scott Clyman of the American Airpower Museum said in a statement Saturday that Bill Gordon understood the "powerful message" that historic aircraft represent "in telling the story of American courage and valor. " Clyman says Gordon "was a nationally respected pilot. " Gordon's body was recovered hours after the vintage plane crashed on Friday. Authorities are expected to work Saturday at lifting the single-seat plane, a P-47 Thunderbolt. The American Airpower Museum is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the P-47 Thunderbolt this weekend. --- 8:15 a.m. Officials are expected to begin the task of raising the wreckage of a vintage World War II plane that crashed into the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, killing the pilot. Authorities are expected to work Saturday at lifting the single-seat plane, a P-47 Thunderbolt that crashed Friday. The American Airpower Museum is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the P-47 Thunderbolt this weekend. New York police say that scuba divers recovered the body of the pilot, identified as 56-year-old William Gordon, of Key West, Florida, about three hours after the crash. The P-47 was among three planes that had departed from Republic Airport in Farmingdale, on Long Island, just east of New York City. The other two aircraft returned to the airport and landed safely. The investigation into the crash is ongoing.

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3 Zika crisis: WHO rejects 'move Rio Olympics' call (2.12/4) The World Health Organization (WHO) has rejected a call to move or postpone this summer's Rio Olympic Games over the Zika outbreak. It said this would "not significantly alter" the spread of the virus, which is linked to serious birth defects. In an open letter to the WHO , more than 100 leading scientists had said new findings about Zika made it "unethical" for the Games to go ahead. They also said the global health body should revisit its Zika guidance. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said it sees no reason to delay or move the Games because of the mosquito-borne disease. The outbreak began in Brazil a year ago, but now more than 60 countries and territories have continuing transmission. Between February and April 2016, Brazil's health ministry registered 91,387 likely cases of the Zika virus. The number of babies born with Zika- linked defects stood at 4,908 in April. While Zika's symptoms are mild, in the letter the experts say it causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and may also cause a rare and sometimes fatal neurological syndrome in adults. The letter is signed by 150 international scientists, doctors and medical ethicists from such institutions as Oxford University and Harvard and Yale universities in the United States. They cite the failure of a mosquito-eradication programme in Brazil, and the country's "weakened" health system as reasons to postpone or move the Olympics in "the name of public health". Microcephaly: Why it is not the end of the world What you need to know Key questions answered about the virus and its spread Travel advice Countries affected and what you should do The mosquito behind Zika What we know about the insect Abortion dilemma Laws and practices in Catholic Latin America "An unnecessary risk is posed when 500,000 foreign tourists from all countries attend the Games, potentially acquire that strain, and return home to places where it can become endemic," the letter says. The biggest risk, it adds, is if athletes contract the virus and returned home to poor countries that have not yet suffered a Zika outbreak. They also express concern the WHO has a conflict of interest because of its partnership with the IOC. The Rio Olympics are due to take place between 5 and 21 August. In a statement, the WHO, which has declared the Zika virus a global public health emergency, said: "Brazil is one of almost 60 countries and territories which to date report continuing transmission of Zika by mosquitoes. "People continue to travel between these countries and territories for a variety of reasons. The best way to reduce risk of disease is to follow public health travel advice. " Several public health experts had previously warned that hundreds of thousands of people arriving in Rio would speed up Zika's spread and lead to the births of brain-damaged babies. But on Thursday, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose advice is quoted approvingly in the letter, said the threat did not warrant halting the Games. "There is no public health reason to cancel or delay the Olympics," Dr Tom Frieden said. However, he urged the US to act more quickly to prevent pregnant women contracting Zika, amid congressional deadlock over the release of $1.9bn (£1.3bn) in funding. And virology researcher Oliver Brady, from Oxford University, said the risk was comparatively low because the Olympics would take place during Brazil's winter. "We really think August is about 20 to 40 times lower risk than we see around now or in January where we see these large numbers of cases reported from Rio," he told the BBC. The Olympics have never been moved for public health reasons but Fifa relocated its 2003 Women's World Cup from China to the US because of the Sars epidemic.

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4 AP Top Entertainment News at 4:09 a.m. EDT (1.06/4) Domestic violence accusations often leave permanent damage DMC: Commissioner should apologize for words about rap The Latest: Bratton says comments not about all in hip hop Chinese developer Wanda opens theme park to take on Disney Police test bullets from shooting at T. I. concert in NYC Carlos Vives feels like a kid riding a bike with Shakira Ex- 'Glee' star Mark Salling indicted on child-porn charges Justin Bieber, Skrillex sued for copyright infringement Will Trump continue to dominate media in 1-on-1 match? 'Shield' actor's words used against him in murder trial

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5 Donald Trump backs out of debate with Bernie Sanders (1.03/4) Republican nominee Donald Trump has backed out of an offer to debate Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Mr Trump's campaign said it would be "inappropriate" to debate the second place finisher since Hillary Clinton is poised to win the nomination. Mr Sanders' campaign had said it was willing to participate in a debate with the billionaire businessman, who just cinched the Republican nomination. The debates would have included contributions to charity. The Sanders campaign said it would "look forward to a substantive debate that will contrast the very different visions that Senator Sanders and Mr Trump have for the future of our country. " Mr Trump had joked that he was willing to debate Mr Sanders during an appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel programme. If the drama over the on-again, off-again Trump-Sanders debate was the first skirmish of the Clinton-Trump general election battle, you can mark Mrs Clinton down as the winner. While Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump danced around the prospect of an unprecedented 1 v 2 pre-convention showdown, the former secretary of state didn't take the bait and held her tongue. Instead Mr Sanders comes off as a bit desperate, looking for any opportunity to take a moment in the spotlight, even if it would benefit the Republicans and undermine Democratic unity efforts. And Mr Trump was put in the unusual position of having to claim the event - which would have been compelling television that attracted an audience of tens of millions - was "inappropriate". Given that last month a near-hopeless Republican candidate, Ted Cruz, announced his vice-presidential running mate just days before dropping out, it would have been fitting if the primary season had concluded with the nearly vanquished Mr Sanders in a general-election style debate with Mr Trump. But it was not to be. Some ideas are just too far-fetched, even for this campaign. "As much as I want to debate Bernie Sanders - and it would be an easy payday - I will wait to debate the first place finisher in the Democratic Party, probably Crooked Hillary Clinton, or whoever it may be," the Trump campaign said in a statement. Mr Sanders told reporters on the campaign trail on Friday that he hopes Mr Trump changes his mind. "Well Mr Trump, what are you afraid of? " he said, calling him a "bully". Mr Trump called the Democratic nominating process "rigged" and that Mrs Clinton and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Deborah Wasserman Schultz would not allow Mr Sanders to win the nomination. He has taken to calling Mr Sanders "Crazy Bernie" in the past few weeks.

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6 Donald Trump rally sparks clashes in San Diego (1.03/4) Supporters and opponents of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump have clashed in the city of San Diego in California. Police declared a gathering outside the city's convention centre unlawful and made 35 arrests, as stones and water bottles were thrown. Mr Trump was in the city near the Mexican border to hold a rally ahead of the 7 June California primary. He has pledged to build a border wall to keep out illegal immigrants. The skirmishes flared as the convention centre emptied following Mr Trump's rally, and supporters and opponents met in the streets, jeering and heckling each other Dozens of police officers in riot gear had been deployed to separate them. Some protesters scaled a wall of the centre to throw water bottles at police. After ordering the crowds to disperse, police then moved them away from the city's Gaslamp Quarter. San Diego's population is about one-third Latino and hundreds of thousands of people cross the border with Mexico legally each day. One San Diego protester, Martha McPhail, told the local City News Service: "I am opposed to the hateful, bigoted, racist language of Donald Trump and his arrogance and intolerance. "I'm for all of our people - all races, sexes, genders, military veterans - and he's divisive. " But Trump supporter Riley Hansen defended the controversial businessman. "My Dad always told me you need a businessman as president. I like his policies," he told CNS. The San Diego Police Department said that 35 arrests had been made and there was no damage to property and no injuries reported. Mr Trump tweeted to the police after the event: "Fantastic job on handling the thugs who tried to disrupt our very peaceful and well attended rally. " Mr Trump told an earlier rally in Fresno that California had "no drought", despite the state seeing its driest ever four-year period. After speaking to farmers who complained of a lack of water for crops, he said: "They don't understand, nobody understands it. There is no drought. They turn the water out into the ocean. " The reference appeared to be about water discharged from the Sacramento River into the San Francisco Bay, partly to protect endangered species. Mr Trump said that if he came to power he would "start opening up the water" and ensure farmers had enough for crops. The comments sparked some mockery on social media - a number of tweets carried links to Charlton Heston in his role as Moses parting the Red Sea in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments. Mr Trump is running unopposed in California after his Republican rivals pulled out and he reached the number of delegates needed to secure the nomination. It has yet to be formalised. Earlier on Friday, Mr Trump backed out of an offer to debate with Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. "As much as I want to debate Bernie Sanders - and it would be an easy payday - I will wait to debate the first place finisher in the Democratic Party, probably Crooked Hillary Clinton, or whoever it may be," the Trump campaign said in a statement. Mr Sanders told reporters on the campaign trail that he hoped Mr Trump would change his mind. "Well Mr Trump, what are you afraid of? " he said, calling the Republican nominee a "bully". Mr Trump said the Democratic nominating process was "rigged" - and that Mrs Clinton and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Deborah Wasserman Schultz would not allow Mr Sanders to win the nomination. In fact, Mrs Clinton has a substantial lead among pledged delegates - those apportioned to candidates based on the results in each state - as well as the party representatives called superdelegates. She has received around 2.9m more votes than Mr Sanders during the primary season. The latest opinion polls suggest Mrs Clinton leads Mr Trump by about four percentage points.

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7 7 Cleveland Cavaliers reach second straight NBA Finals (1.02/4) It's the third finals appearance in team history for the Cavaliers. Cleveland lost to Golden State in six games last year and got swept by San Antonio in 2007. For James, it's his sixth straight trip to the finals, including four with Miami. He broke the 30-point barrier for the first time this postseason and finished with 11 rebounds and six assists. "I had to bring my game," he said. "I had to be in attack mode from the beginning. " Kyrie Irving had 30 points and J. R. Smith had 15 for the Cavaliers, who will face the winner of the Golden State-Oklahoma City series on Thursday. Cleveland would open at home against the Thunder but would be on the road against the 73-win Warriors, who trail 3-2 against Oklahoma City heading into Saturday's Game 6. The Cavs will be seeking to end Cleveland's 52-year championship drought, the longest by any city with at least three professional teams. No Cleveland team has won it all since the Browns blanked Baltimore 27-0 to win the NFL championship in 1964. LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, right, drives against James Johnson of the Toronto Raptors in the second half in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals during the 2016 NBA Playoffs at Air Canada Centre on May 27, 2016 in Toronto. Kyle Lowry scored 35 points and DeMar DeRozan had 20 as the deepest playoff run in Raptors team history ended, much to the disappointment of a sellout crowd of 20,605 dressed in red and white T-shirts that formed a maple leaf pattern on either side of the court. Fans stood and cheered "Let's go, Raptors! Let's go, Raptors! " throughout most of the final three minutes. Toronto prolonged the series with back-to-back home wins in Games 3 and 4 but never mounted much of a challenge to the conference champions in Game 6, falling behind by 21 in the third quarter. The Cavaliers came in 0-4 at Air Canada Centre counting the regular season and playoffs, but looked much more like the team that handed the Raptors a trio of lopsided losses in Cleveland this series. The Raptors trailed 88-78 on a jumper by DeRozan with 10:23 remaining but James scored six points in a 14-3 run that gave the Cavs a 102-81 lead with about 6 minutes left. James scored 14 in the first and five of Cleveland's nine field goals were from long range as the Cavaliers led 31-25 after one. After video review, the officials waved off a basket by Biyombo with 3:18 left in the period and gave him a flagrant foul for knocking down Love. Tempers flared again early in the second when Richard Jefferson reacted angrily to catching an elbow from Jonas Valanciunas as the two battled for a rebound. Patrick Patterson came over and shoved Jefferson out of the way. Both Patterson and Jefferson were given technical fouls. Cleveland made five more 3-pointers in the second and outscored Toronto 9-3 over the final 71 seconds to lead 55-41 at halftime. The Cavaliers made 10 of 15 3-point attempts in the first half, while Toronto was 2 of 12. The Cavs led 78-57 after a 3 by Love at 3:53 of the third but Lowry scored 15 points as Toronto closed the quarter with a 17-8 run, cutting it to 86-74.

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8 Yahoo - Yahoo Statement Regarding Starboard Announcement (1.00/4) --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- today noted Starboard Value LP's announcement of its intention to nominate nine director candidates for election to Yahoo's Board of Directors at the company's 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The Board's will review Starboard's proposed director nominees and respond in due course. Additional Information and Where to Find It (the "Company"), its directors and certain executive officers are participants in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders in connection with the Company's 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting"). The Company plans to file a proxy statement (the "2016 Proxy Statement") with the (the "SEC") in connection with the solicitation of proxies for the Annual Meeting. , , , , , , , Jr., , Ph. D. and , Jr., all of whom are members of the Company's Board of Directors, and , Chief Financial Officer, are participants in the Company's solicitation. Other than , none of such participants owns in excess of 1% of the Company's common stock. may be deemed to own approximately 7.5% of the Company's common stock. Additional information regarding such participants, including their direct or indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, will be included in the 2016 Proxy Statement and other relevant documents to be filed with the in connection with the Annual Meeting. Information relating to the foregoing can also be found in the Company's definitive proxy statement for its 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "2015 Proxy Statement"), which was filed with the on. To the extent that holdings of the Company's securities have changed since the amounts printed in the 2015 Proxy Statement, such changes have been or will be reflected on Statements of Change in Ownership on Form 4 filed with the. Promptly after filing its definitive 2016 Proxy Statement with the , the Company will mail the definitive 2016 Proxy Statement and a WHITE proxy card to each stockholder entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. STOCKHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE 2016 PROXY STATEMENT (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT THE COMPANY WILL FILE WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Stockholders may obtain, free of charge, the Company's preliminary proxy statement, any amendments or supplements thereto and any other relevant documents filed by the Company with the in connection with the Annual Meeting at the SEC's website (http://www.sec.gov). Copies of the Company's definitive proxy statement, any amendments or supplements thereto and any other relevant documents filed by the Company with the in connection with the Annual Meeting will also be available, free of charge, at the Company's website (http://info.yahoo.com) or by writing to Investor Relations, , , 94089. In addition, copies of these materials may be requested, free of charge, from the Company's proxy solicitor, , , 20th Floor, 10022 or (212) 750-5833. is a guide focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining our users. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses. is headquartered in , and has offices located throughout the , (APAC) and the , and (EMEA) regions. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the Company's blog (yahoo.tumblr.com).

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9 Yahoo - Yahoo to Participate at the J. P. Morgan Global Technology, Media & Telecom Conference (1.00/4) --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NASDAQ:YHOO) CFO will participate in a question-and-answer session at the J. P. Morgan Global in. The session is scheduled to begin on , at / . A live webcast of the session will be available on the Investor Relations website at http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/events.cfm? CalendarID=5. is a guide to digital information discovery, focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining users through its search, communications, and digital content products. By creating highly personalized experiences, helps users discover the information that matters most to them around the world -- on mobile or desktop. connects advertisers with target audiences through a streamlined advertising technology stack that combines the power of data, content, and technology. is headquartered in , and has offices located throughout the , (APAC) and the , and (EMEA) regions. For more information, visit the pressroom (pressroom.yahoo.net) or the Company's blog (yahoo.tumblr.com). and Yahoo Finance are the trademarks and/or registered trademarks of All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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10 Brazil 'mass rape' video: President calls crisis talks (1.00/4) Brazil's interim President Michel Temer has called an emergency meeting of state security ministers after a gang rape of a teenage girl in Rio de Janeiro triggered wide condemnation. He vowed to form a federal police unit to deal with violence against women. The girl, 16, believes she was doped after going to her boyfriend's house last Saturday and says she woke up in a different house, surrounded by 30 men. Hundreds of protesters on Friday demanded an end to sexual violence. The video of the attack was put on social media, shocking Brazil. Police are hunting more than 30 male suspects. Arrest warrants have been issued, including one for the boyfriend. "I condemn most forcefully the rape of the teenager in Rio de Janeiro," Mr Temer said. "It is absurd that in the 21st Century we should have to live with barbaric crimes such as this. " He said the authorities were working "to find those responsible" for the attack. Rio police chief Fernando Veloso told a news conference that investigators will review forensic evidence. "If these images hadn't been posted, maybe we wouldn't be here right now,'' he said, adding that many rapes go unreported. The rape is said to have taken place in a poor community in western Rio over the weekend. A 40-second-video was widely shared and followed by a wave of misogynistic comments, before the users' accounts were suspended. In a message posted on Facebook, the victim said she was thankful for the support she had received and added: "I really thought I was going to be badly judged. " She later said: "All of us can go through this one day. It does not hurt the uterus but the soul because there are cruel people not being punished!! Thanks for the support. " The girl's grandmother told Brazilian media the family had watched the video and cried. "I regretted watching it. When we heard the story we didn't believe what was happening. It's a great affliction. It's a depressing situation," she told Folha de S Paulo newspaper. The assault has provoked an online campaign against what campaigners call a culture of rape in Brazil. Experts say many cases of rape in Brazil go unreported as victims fear retaliation, shame, and blame for the violence they have suffered. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Rio de Janeiro on Friday night, waving signs saying "Machismo Kills" and "No means no. " In Sao Paulo, protesters erected a mural with messages including "My body is not yours. " Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's first female president, who was impeached last month, expressed outrage over the Rio case by changing her profile picture on Facebook. "Once more I reiterate my condemnation of violence against women," she wrote. There has been an outpouring of anger on social media. A collective of journalists has posted a satirical image of citizens donning devil's horns, condemning a rape victim for having provoked the attack. The inscription reads "No to sexism", and the images, clockwise from top right: "But look at her clothes…"; "She deserved it! "; "16 years old and already has a son…"; "Apparently she was on drugs".

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11 Enescu’s Oedipe at the Royal Opera House: a neglected work worth revisiting With the BBC Food’s collection under threat, here's how to make the most of online recipes (0.02/4) In the opening visual sequence of Oedipe , the Catalan theatrical group La Fura dels Baus has pulled off a startling coup de theatre. What first appears to be a projected image – an intricate terracotta frieze, busy with human life in all its forms, filling the full height and breadth of the Royal Opera House stage – is suddenly revealed as a tableau of living human figures. It’s a gorgeous piece of visual trickery, heightened by the audacity of its scale, but also something more. In this retelling of the Oedipus myth, the divide between history, sealed beneath layers of mud, and the lives lived above it, between Classical statues and their contemporary human counterparts, is porous. Tragedy bleeds down through the ages, staining each era red in its turn with death and dissent. Oedipe is the only opera by Romania’s national composer George Enescu (1881-1956). The product of over 20 years’ labour, it distils Sophocles’ three Oedipus plays into a swift, four-act drama that’s part opera, part meditative oratorio. But unlike Stravinsky’s “opera-oratorio” Oedipus Rex , Enescu’s characters are fully-formed humans – more sympathetic but also less biddable than their tragic archetypes. But it’s the music that makes the case for this little-heard work – ironic really, as the opera’s vast orchestral forces (including piano, harmonium, celesta, saxophone and musical saw) are largely responsible for its neglect. A rhapsodic score, rich in motivic interest, swirls in phrases that confound as often as they delight. Melodic dead-ends tease the ear, but so beguilingly under Leo Hussain’s precise baton that it doesn’t matter that musical journeys are often abortive or digressive. There are echoes of Wagner and Debussy here, but also Romanian folk-music and even Renaissance chant – all adding up to writing of filmic lushness. Chafing against this musical excess and outpouring are visuals devised by designer Alfons Flores. Dimly but evocatively lit by Peter Van Praet, stratified architectural structures come into view, imposing order on spaces otherwise dominated by dust and a rich red-brown mud that gradually coats all the cast. Times shift fluidly between scenes, now set in Classical Greece, now under Axis occupation during World War II, now in the present-day. In the vision of directors Alex Olle and Valentina Carrasco of La Fura dels Baus, Oedipe becomes a luckless everyman, blundering wildly through history yet always trapped in his own tragic narrative cycle. Some episodes emerge more clearly than others. Transforming the oppressive Sphinx (a cameo at once gorgeous and grotesque from Marie- Nicole Lemieux) into a Second World War fighter pilot, whose “wings” are those of her crashed bomber, works brilliantly, as does reimagining the Theban plague as a nuclear disaster, bright with hazard tape and smoky with burning bodies, but other scenes are less successful. The climactic parricide at the crossroads – a brutal, road-rage killing partially hidden in mist and backlighting – has curiously little of self-defence about it, undermining our hero’s subsequent claims of innocence, and the final scenes of Oedipe’s return to Thebes and his blinded vision of pastoral redemption lacks sufficient visual difference from the opening. Musically, Oedipe is proof of the fire-power the Royal Opera has at its disposal, with serious names taking all but the very tiniest of parts. Enescu’s score is rich in basses and baritones, and here each one brings a distinct vocal colour to the mix, starting with the indefatigable Johan Reuter – massive through the opera’s almost continuous vocal demands, and marshalling enough voice through the taxing first three acts to deliver the exquisite final aria with its new, lyrical quality. His heroic intensity is balanced by Samuel Dale Johnson’s smoothly patrician Thesee (richly even and untroubled) and an exciting, youthful Phorbas from In Sung Sim. John Tomlinson brings craggy, grizzled intensity to the role of Tiresias, while Stefan Kocan makes tremendous impact in his cameo as a Watchman. Sarah Connolly makes a fragrant, untouchable Jocasta, whose vocal lines unfold in unbroken arcs of melody, all legato seduction. We understand very well what drawn Oedipe to this glossy creature. Sophie Bevan’s Antigone, tonally richer than ever, is another highlight, a rare figure of light and hope among so many moral shades of grey. The Royal Opera House Chorus glue everything together as the cursed people of Thebes, their bolstered forces matching Hussain’s brass for power, and negotiating unison ensembles well from within the tricky spaces and sightlines of Flores’s set. Like last year’s Krol Roger , Oedipe is proof that neglected doesn’t necessarily mean second-rate when it comes to opera. An unknown piece by a little-known composer is a big risk, especially when it comes with such massive musical demands, but the Royal Opera have shown themselves willing to take it, to lead and educate their audiences rather than just satisfy commercial demand for endless Traviatas and Bohemes. Let’s hope it’s bravery that survives the imminent departure of the company’s artistic director Kasper Holten. I don’t think John Humphrys is much of a chef. Recently, as his Today co- presenter Mishal Husain was discussing the implications of the BBC’s decision to axe its Food website (since commuted to transportation to the Good Food platform, run by its commercial arm), sharp-eared listeners heard the Humph claim that fewer recipes on the web could only be a good thing. “It would make it easier!” he bellowed in the background. “We wouldn’t have to choose between so many!” Husain also seemed puzzled as to why anyone would need more than one recipe for spaghetti bolognese – but, as any keen cook knows, you can never have too many different takes on a dish. Just as you wouldn’t want to get all your news from a single source, it would be a sad thing to eat the same bolognese for the rest of your life. Sometimes only a molto autentico version, as laid down by a fierce Italian donna , rich with tradition and chopped liver, will do – and sometimes, though you would never admit it in a national magazine, you crave the comfort of your mum’s spag bol with grated cheddar. The world wouldn’t starve without BBC Food’s collection but, given that an online search for “spaghetti bolognese recipe” turns up about a million results, it would have been sad to have lost one of the internet’s more trustworthy sources of information. As someone who spends a large part of each week researching and testing recipes, I can assure you that genuinely reliable ones are rarer than decent chips after closing time. But although it is certainly the only place you’ll find the Most Haunted host Yvette Fielding’s kedgeree alongside Heston Blumenthal’s snail porridge, the BBC website is not the only one that is worth your time. The good thing about newspaper, magazine and other commercial platforms is that most still have just enough budget to ensure that their recipes will have been made at least twice – once by the writer and once for the accompanying photographs – though sadly the days when everyone employed an independent recipe tester are long gone. Such sites also often have sufficient traffic to generate a useful volume of comments. I never make a recipe without scrolling down to see what other people have said about it. Get past the “Can’t wait to make this!” brigade; ignore the annoying people who swap baked beans for lentils and then complain, “This is nothing like dhal”; and there’s usually some sensible advice in there, too. But what about when you leave the safety of the big boys and venture into the no man’s land of the personal blog? How do you separate the wheat from the chaff and find a recipe that actually works? You can often tell how much work a writer has put in by the level of detail they go into: if they have indicated how many people it serves, or where to find unusual ingredients, suggested possible tweaks and credited their original sources, they have probably made the dish more than once. The photography is another handy clue. You don’t have to be Annie Leibovitz to provide a good idea of what the finished dish ought to look like. Do a bit of digging as part of your prep. If you like the look of the rest of the site, the author’s tastes will probably chime with your own. And always, always, wherever the recipe is from, read it all the way through, even before you order the shopping. There is nothing more annoying than getting halfway through and then realising that you need a hand blender to finish the dish, just as the first guest arrives. Above all, trust your instincts. If the cooking time seems far too short, or the salt content ridiculously high, it probably is, so keep an eye on that oven, check that casserole, keep tasting that sauce. As someone who once published a magic mince pie recipe without any sugar, I’m living proof that, occasionally, even the very best of us make mistakes. Taxation without benefits: how our tax system increases inequality With the BBC Food’s collection under threat, here's how to make the most of online recipes newstatesman.com

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12 Champions League Final: Five epic Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid face-offs (0.02/4) Another classic Madrid derby will take place when Real and Atletico face off in the Champions League final for the second time in three years in Milan on tonight. As the two Spanish giants look to be crowned 'Kings of European football', let's take a look at five of the most epic Madrid derbies of all time between these two sides, which are the first ever from the same city to compete a Champions League final: European Cup semi- final, May 13, 1959 Real won 2-1 in the third leg The first time the two Madrid sides faced-off in European competition was the semi- finals of the European Cup in 1959. And the contest was so keen and epic that it needed three matches to decide the winner. Real won the first leg 2-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu before Atletico levelled the tie with a 1-0 win. It was before the away goals rule was in place and the two teams met again before Real's legendary Alfredo di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas inspired them to a 2-1 win in Zaragoza. Real ultimately won the competition for the fourth consecutive time that year. La Liga, October 30, 1999 Atletico Madrid won 3-1 This was the worst season in Atletico's history as it saw them being relegated from top flight football. But fans had one moment to cheer in the season when the Los Rojiblancos, who won just nine games in the La Liga that season, beat Real madrid, and that too at the Bernabeu. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scored a brace and Jose Mari the other after Fernando Morientes' opener for Real to give something for the fans to smile about. Copa del Rey final, May 17, 2013 Atletico needed extra-time to beat Madrid 2-1 After that win in 1999, Atletico didn't win another debry for the next 14 years. After losing 25 derbies, Atletico finally changed the script to beat Real, and that to in the Copa del Rey final, and to add insult to injury in Los Blancos' backyard of the Bernabeu. Atletico came from behind after Cristiano Ronaldo headed Real in front, but first Diego Costa levelled and Miranda handed Atletico a 10th Cup win when he glanced home Koke's cross in extra time. Champions League final, May 24, 2014 Real Madrid crushed Atletico 4-1 in extra-time Real were chasing La Decima and needed extra time to fulfill that dream. The final went to extra time thanks to an equaliser from Sergio Ramos in the stoppage time -- 93rd minute. But the The Whites then came back in style to crush Atletico Madrid in extra-time with Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo all netting to deliver Los Blancos' long-awaited 10th European Cup. Champions League quarter-final, April 22, 2015 Real Madrid won 1-0 in the second leg tie Less than a year from that heartbreak in Lisbon, Real Madrid once again got the upper hand in European competition as they broke a seven- game winless streak against Atletico to seal a 1-0 aggregate win aftr the first leg had ended goalless. Javier Hernandez scored the deciding goal a minute from time to seal the win. But Atletico's cause wasn't helped by the fact that they down to 10 men after Arda Turan was red-carded.

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13 Narendra Modi wishes Nawaz Sharif for open heart surgery (0.01/4) New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday extended his best wishes to his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif who will undergo an open heart surgery on May 31. Nawaz Sharif with Narendra Modi. File Pic/PTI "My best wishes to PM Nawaz Sharif for his open heart surgery on Tuesday. And for his speedy recovery and good health," Modi tweeted. Sharif, who is currently in London for medical check-up, was advised by doctors to undergo the surgery.

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14 14 IPL 9: Virat Kohli doesn't compromise on technique: Sachin Tendulkar (0.01/4) Dubai: The iconic Sachin Tendulkar feels that India’s current No 1 batsman Virat Kohli’s secret of success is playing with a “straight bat” and “visualising all three formats without ever compromising on his technique”. Sachin Tendulkar “Virat presents the straight bat and scores with good cricketing shots. He is a special talent and he works hard on his game. His discipline and commitment has to be emulated. He visualises different formats without ever compromising on his technique. In addition, he is very strong mentally and thrives in pressure situations,” Tendulkar told Gulf News. Tendulkar was all praise for the quality of cricket in the Indian Premier League (IPL), which he believes is on an upswing in recent times. “The level of competition in the IPL has been steadily growing. We have had last couple of seasons, where the last match of the pool has decided the final standings and the teams for the knockout phase. It is great for the tournament as the interest level is maintained throughout,” he said. Tendulkar said he is open to the idea of day-night Test cricket which he feels can make the format attractive for audiences. “Test cricket will continue to remain the challenge for any cricketer. It is appropriately called Test as the format tests your skill, temperament, capability and endurance. The changes being considered are to make it exciting for the audiences,” the 43-year-old said. IPL 9: Virat Kohli on his dream-run: There is scope for improvement mid-day.com 2016-05-28 09:25 By PTI www.mid-day.com

15 BSEB 12th Arts Result 2016: Bihar Board (biharboard.ac.in) Intermediate Arts results to be declared today at 3PM on biharboard.bih.nic.in (0.01/4) Finally the great news is about to arrive for all the students who are waiting for the Bihar Board Intermediate Arts Result 2016. The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) is all prepared to declare today, 28 th May 2016 at 3PM. BSEB Inter Arts Result can be found at the official portal of the Board. Alternatively, students can also check their Bihar 12 th Arts Results online at popular result website bihar12.jagranjosh.com . Get the Bihar Board 12th Arts Result 2016 at http://bihar12.jagranjosh.com How to check BSEB Intermediate Arts Result 2016 online? The Bihar Intermediate Arts Result 2016 will be available online at the below mentioned websites. In case a student is not aware of accessing the results online, here are the guidelines for it: * Visit bihar12.jagranjosh.com * Enter all the information asked * Submit the details * Get the BSEB Arts Result 2016 Students can save a copy of the BSEB 12th Arts Result 2016 in printed form and use the same as a reference. The saved copy can be used only till official documents are issued by the Board in support of the result. A Brief Look at BSEB Inter Arts Result of last year Last year the BSEB Arts Result was declared on 30 th May 2015. The overall pass percentage was recorded to be 85.17%. Brief highlights of Bihar Board 12th Arts Result for 2015 are mentioned below: After the declaration of BSEB Intermediate Arts Result 2016 Undoubtedly, the Bihar Intermediate result for arts stream is one of the most awaited and crucial results in a student’s life. The importance of this BSEB Arts result can be attributed to the pivotal role it plays in higher education. Using the Bihar Inter result, students can secure a seat in reputed colleges/ Universities for undergraduate programmes. Considering that the admission process for various core and technical undergraduate courses will begin immediate after the announcement of Bihar Intermediate Arts Result 2016, students are advised to begin their planning right away. In case of confusions, expert suggestions and feedback from career counsellors can be sought.

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17 17 11 hit by lightning in a Paris park, many at child’s party PARIS — A Paris city councilor says at least half a dozen children have been hit by lightning in a Paris park after a sudden storm overtook their birthday party. Councilor Karen Taieb says 11 people in all were hit by lightning Saturday after seeking shelter under a tree at the Park Monceau, a popular weekend hangout for well-to-do families. Taieb says the precise breakdown of victims is unclear but that most were children. She said three had been taken to a Parisian hospital. Their condition was unclear. TVJ

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18 Number of younger people in nursing homes on the rise QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Travis Brown’s third-floor apartment in Bristol Township may not be fancy. But for him, it represents something very important. Freedom. A little over a year ago, Brown had vastly different accommodations. Estranged from his family and unable to care for himself following surgery to install a medication pump to control symptoms of cerebral palsy, Brown found himself living in a nursing home. He was only 28 years old. “It’s no place for a 28-year-old,” said Brown. “But it’s better than living on the street. You had to do what you had to do.” Brown stood out at the nursing home because of his youth, but his situation was by no means unique. While the majority of nursing home residents are over 75, the number of young adults living in such facilities is on the rise. In 2014, 15 percent of nursing home residents were between the ages of 31 and 64, up from 10 percent in 2000, according to data from the U. S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In Bucks County, roughly 7 percent of nursing home residents were in that age group as of February 2016, a number that has remained fairly steady over the years, according to data provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. But in Montgomery County, the percentage of younger residents has jumped from 5 percent in 2000 to 18 percent this year. Younger residents end up in nursing care often because they have no other options. Many have low-paying jobs or no jobs. Family members can’t or won’t take them in, because of financial difficulties, estrangement or the fact their homes aren’t handicapped accessible. “Primarily, the reasons we see (younger adults in nursing homes) is there’s been a lack of available options for them to receive services in the community,” said Lori Smetanka, executive director of the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, a Washington, D. C., consumer advocacy group. “What is available is very expensive, usually. What we’ve seen is that younger adults with disabilities have needed to enter a nursing home in order to receive the care and services they have not been able to get in other places, either due to cost prohibitions or because there’s just not the availability in less restrictive settings.” Younger adults who wish to move out of a nursing home often find the odds stacked against them, Brown said, because affordable housing is scarce. And affordable housing that’s handicapped accessible is even harder to find. “As soon as you say you’re disabled, to these apartment managers, when you mention the word ‘voucher,’ they say, ‘click, can’t help you,’ ” said Brown. While they get the care they need in a nursing home, young adults like Brown say it’s not the place for them. “Nursing homes are really set up for older people,” said Brock Eichenhofer, community outreach and development manager for JEVS Human Services, a Philadelphia nonprofit that provides services to those with disabilities and others facing socioeconomic hardships. “They don’t specialize in (housing) younger people. It’s a real culture shock, and depressing. They’re going into this situation where the median age is, like, 85, and you’re 28. They’re not set up to deal with that. They’ve never been in that situation before,” he added. Story Continues →

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19 Florida K-9 that attacked neighbor girl now in Netherlands ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A central Florida police K-9 that attacked a 7-year-old neighbor girl last summer is now working in the Netherlands. The Orlando Sentinel (http://goo.gl/H2co6Y) reports that Doki, a 2-year-old Belgian Malinois, has gone to the Dutch National Police. Doki was retired from the Wildwood Police Department after last July’s attack, where the dog jumped his officer’s backyard fence. He was returned to Southern Coast K9, based in New Smyrna Beach. He was later purchased by the European police agency. The family of Julianne Goodridge says the girl is still recovering and may need additional surgeries to cover prominent scars on her face. They say she often wakes up screaming and is undergoing therapy. The family has filed an intent to sue the city, police department and Southern Coast K9. “They (the Goodridge family) were extremely upset hearing the dog is back working. They are worried that what happened to Julianne could happen again,” family lawyer Bill Sublette told the Sentinel. “That dog was never adequately trained. . it never should have been put on a police department.” Officials say Doki had been with the department for about a year. Southern Coast K9 trainer Bill Heiser said he had never seen something like this in 29 years in the business. “Everyone blew it out of proportion. He’s a police dog and that’s going to happen. He’s a tool that law enforcement uses and sometimes you’re in control and sometimes you can’t be,” he said. Doki’s handler, Officer Roger Pelton, was found not at fault by his department for the attack. He had let Doki out into his fenced backyard. He told investigators the girl was in the yard of the vacant home next door and was trying to climb the fence and reached over. Pelton said that’s when Doki tried to bite her. As she abruptly backed away, Doki jumped the fence and attacked Julianne, biting her throat and clawing her. Pelton hopped the fence and pulled Doki off. Sublette denies Julianne was trying to climb the fence. He says she was trying to climb the tree her twin sister was in when Doki attacked. ___ Information from: Orlando Sentinel, http://www.orlandosentinel.com/

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20 Congress’ grade so far? Incomplete at best WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress is racing toward its summer break, but like a procrastinating college kid it has tons of work to catch up on to avoid a report card laden with grades of incomplete or even worse. An abbreviated work period this month produced mixed results at best - Congress exited Washington without acting on funding the battle against the Zika virus, for starters - and a full plate awaits when lawmakers return next month from a weeklong Memorial Day recess for a six-week sprint to political convention season and the traditional August vacation. Some signs are promising; others, not so much: ___ ZIKA President Barack Obama’s $1.9 billion request to battle the Zika virus has been sitting before Congress for more than three months, but in only the past few weeks have GOP leaders shown any sense of urgency about passing legislation in response. Zika can cause grave birth defects and be spread by certain mosquitoes. The House and Senate have passed competing measures, with the Senate approving a $1.1 billion bipartisan bill that closely tracks Obama’s request, at least if one counts the more than $500 million Obama has diverted from unspent Ebola funding toward the total. The House measure would provide $622 million and cuts further into Ebola accounts to help pay for it. A logical outcome would be to pass a measure relatively close to the Senate’s level on funding and include offsetting spending cuts as demanded by the House. But politics have infused the Zika measure, which isn’t helping. Negotiators have four weeks to reach agreement when they return if they are to meet a July deadline. ___ PUERTO RICO Legislation to ease Puerto Rico’s debt crisis has cleared one hurdle with easy approval in a House committee. The legislation now heads to the House floor, where Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., will try to unite his fractious caucus behind the bill. The bill to create a financial control board and restructure some of the U. S. territory’s $70 billion debt has support from House Republican and Democratic leaders, as well as the Obama administration. Some bondholders are lobbying against it, though, saying it gives the board too much power to decide what payments will be a priority. Senate prospects are unclear. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R- Ky., has suggested the Senate may take up the House bill once it passes that chamber. But some Senate Democrats have complained that the board would take away too much authority from the Puerto Rican government under the House legislation. When Congress returns in June, lawmakers will have just four weeks to act before Puerto Rico faces its largest debt payment of $2 billion on July 1. ___ Story Continues →

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21 Utah moon rock locked away during planetarium remodel SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A rare moon rock has gone under lock and key while Salt Lake City’s Clark Planetarium undergoes renovations for the next several months. The Salt Lake Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1P4TqF7) that the object was escorted by armed guards Friday to a downtown bank vault. The apricot-size rock has been on permanent loan from NASA since 1975. It is part of the 842 pounds of lunar rocks collected over the course of six Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972. Planetarium director Seth Jarvis says the first phase of the remodel will begin Monday and is expected to be completed in late October. The rock will move from its spot in a protective pyramid on the upper floor to a more prominent spot on the first floor.

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22 Man faces life sentence for fatal robbery JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A man faces a mandatory life sentence for a Jacksonville fatal robbery. The Florida Times-Union (http://goo.gl/rjY9Ho) reports that Carl Ezekiel Woods was convicted Friday of first-degree murder, armed robbery and armed burglary. His sentencing is scheduled for June 27. Prosecutors say 35-year-old Rolando Rafael Valencia was found dead in October 2014 at the Glenwood Apartments after neighbors heard several gunshots. Investigators learned that Woods went to Valencia’s home, robbed him and shot him three times before fleeing the scene. ___ Information from: The (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union, http://www.jacksonville.com

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23 Education Department replaces career college chain monitor WASHINGTON (AP) - The Education Department has appointed a new lawyer to oversee the turnaround of schools once owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc., following an Associated Press review that found trouble at the schools and questioned the previous monitor’s independence. Corinthian Colleges was one of the largest chains of for-profit colleges when it collapsed in 2015 amid allegations of fraud. The episode raised questions about whether the government should set higher standards for colleges accepting federal aid. The agency said Friday that Clark Kent Ervin, an attorney at Squire Patton Boggs LLP, will oversee the business practices of Zenith Education Group, an offshoot of a student-loan debt collection firm that took over Corinthian’s operations. His new role makes Ervin the government’s eyes and ears within Zenith, which receives tens of millions of dollars in federal student grant and loan dollars. Ervin is a former inspector general of the Homeland Security and State Departments who was ousted from his Homeland Security job in late 2004 after delivering reports highly critical of the agency under the Bush administration. Unlike the lawyers he will replace as monitor, Ervin does not appear to have a background representing for-profit colleges. But Squire Patton Boggs helped defend Corinthian in at least one case brought by students alleging that the school committed fraud. Some education advocates expressed skepticism of selecting a lawyer from the firm on the grounds that the firm’s past work to defend Corinthian’s schools posed a conflict of interest. “Is it possible for Zenith to find an independent monitor that did not work for Corinthian?” said David Halperin, a Washington attorney and writer who helped identify misconduct at Corinthian. The Education Department said it chose him from among seven candidates put forth by Zenith. In March, the Education Department announced it would replace the previous monitor, Hogan Marren Babbo & Rose Ltd. The announcement came after the AP found trouble at Zenith - including its flagship Everest College brand - which the monitor apparently did not. The AP reported that Zenith still recruited students through large-scale telemarketing, had not made major changes to its curriculum and retained senior Corinthian executives in key posts. Zenith also continued to recruit students using some of the same ads that Corinthian ran during the same daytime TV talk shows. The AP also raised concerns about Zenith’s relationship with Hogan Marren. Under the terms of Zenith’s initial arrangement with the firm, its lawyers had an attorney-client privileged relationship with Zenith and were not obligated to provide the government with access to their work product. In announcing the hire of Ervin, the Education Department explicitly ruled these things out. Ervin could not be immediately reached by phone or email. The Education Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the past legal work but said in its announcement of Ervin’s selection that he would have “full independence” in his monitoring work.

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24 Loud but quiet: Hanover chat connects deaf community HANOVER, Pa. (AP) - Jeff Wright realized he had an aptitude for sign language when the class he attended to learn signing dwindled down to a private lesson. He’d barely even noticed. “We were at Chapter 17, and I’m the only one showing up regularly,” Wright said of the course offered through his church, Hanover’s Hope Baptist. “It was just something I had a knack for.” Flash forward several years, and Wright is the facilitator for the Hanover Deaf Chat, an informal social gathering for the deaf and hard of hearing that meets the third Friday of each month at the Giant Food Store on Baltimore Street. The chat is an outreach of Hope Baptist Church, but it’s a non-religious gathering. Anyone is welcome, and those who can hear often outnumber those who are deaf, Wright said. The get-togethers also draw American Sign Language students, who are eager to practice in real life what is theoretical in school. ___ “Hearing people need to give the deaf community a chance.” Dani Martin, Deaf chat participant ___ On a recent Friday night, more than a dozen people form a half circle with their chairs by the fireplace in Giant’s café area. With its track lighting, silk flowers and racks of magazines on making hearty soups, the store is no hipster hangout, but no one seems to care. The room is simultaneously so loud — hands from multiple conversations moving in rapid signing, waves to get another person’s attention - and yet quiet, save for the pockets of laughter and occasional voices. In the “hearing world,” Wright said, frequent interactions with others throughout the day, like at the grocery store or coffee shop - “a little chitchat” - are the norm. Deaf people do not have that same opportunity, Wright said, particularly in rural Adams County, where the deaf community probably numbers around 10 people, an estimate he interprets from attendee Bill Lau, who is at the chat with his wife. Over the past two years, Wright said, the chat itself has grown, with attendance often numbering 20 or more people. On this particular Friday, many in the room are already regulars, but newcomers without a sign name are given one, said Robin Lawson, a church interpreter at Hope Baptist. Even though Lawson can speak fluently, she is not certified, she said, because she hasn’t taken the state exam. “Most times, deaf (people) have to give you your sign name; you can’t give it to yourself,” she said. Lawson demonstrates her own first name - forming the letter “R” in American Sign Language, then moving her fingers together to make a clothespin-like shape, a “bird tap,” she said, almost like she’s using chopsticks. At a table near the wall, Marta Galdamez and Vonda Altland sit with a small group of other attendees. Altland grew up in Hanover, Galdamez interprets, the only deaf member of her family. She’s a regular at the chat, often sporting a feline-themed hat that displays her love of cats (she has 12). Story Continues →

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25 Phoenix man indicted for soliciting underage girl online PHOENIX (AP) - A Phoenix man has been indicted for allegedly soliciting an underage girl over social media for sexually exploitative images. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said Friday that a state grand jury indicted 55-year-old Danny Lee Wallace on eight felony charges including computer tampering, aggravated luring and sexual exploitation of a minor. Police arrested Wallace last week following an investigation by a state task force that focuses on Internet-related crimes involving children. Wallace is accused of using a fake identity to message the victim through a social media app since last December. He also allegedly sent the victim pornographic images while asking for sex. Police say Wallace was found in possession of exploitive images from the victim. It was not immediately known if Wallace had an attorney.

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26 ‘Everybody’s mother,’ keeper of mikvah, soon to retire PITTSBURGH (AP) - The phone rings on a typically quiet afternoon, and Malka Markovic pushes back her chair and walks slowly but purposefully to the phone on the wall. The woman at the other end of the line makes an appointment for that evening, and the call is soon complete. For nearly 30 years, Markovic of Squirrel Hill has provided a steady, discreet service to Jewish women as the live-in supervisor of a mikvah, a small pool used for ritual bathing. With the imminent opening of a new mikvah elsewhere in the neighborhood, she’ll soon be retiring - at age 92. It’s the latest step in a long journey that began in her native Czechoslovakia in a poor yet close-knit village whose Jewish residents could only afford to heat the mikvah once a week by woodfire. That Jewish community was one of thousands throughout Europe that was destroyed in the Holocaust, the Nazi mass murder of Jews that Ms. Markovic survived but which claimed many in her family. “We were religious in Europe,” Markovic recalled, her words heavily inflected by her native Yiddish. Some other Holocaust survivors who “were religious in Europe, they came (to this country) and concluded, ‘This is what we went through,’ they didn’t want to be religious no more.” What they went through, she went through, too. She reached the opposite conclusion. “Because I figure, God let me live,” she said. “So I just continued to do it the way it was there.” It’s a way that includes the ancient Orthodox Jewish observances, among them religious purity laws that cover even the intimate cycles of life. And that’s where the mikvah comes in. The tiled pool, looking much like a miniature swimming pool, was installed decades ago in the two-story house where Markovic also lives. Under Jewish law, religiously observant married couples abstain from sex during a women’s menstrual cycle. To mark its completion, the woman goes to a mikvah for a full ritual immersion in the water. Given the private nature of the ritual, Markovic has provided sensitive and discreet oversight. She arranges the evening appointments and the preparations, and there’s little small talk as the women come and go. If a woman is running late, she doesn’t mind waiting, as she’s already at home. She has also done light cleaning and other maintenance, including plumbing and other repairs that contractors don’t get right, she said. Men also make mikvah appointments for exceptional occasions - such as when they’re getting married, or those converting to Judaism. But on a day- to-day basis, it’s women she has worked with. “She’s everybody’s mother, everybody’s grandmother, everybody’s great- grandmother. We will miss seeing her all the time,” said Judith Kanal, chairperson of the committee for the new mikvah of the local Jewish Women’s League. Kanal said that with the pool aging, and situated in a house that was not built to handle the moisture it produces, it was time to have a purpose-built structure constructed elsewhere in Squirrel Hill. The new building will have two pools, each backing up the other in case repairs are needed. Construction is nearly complete, but an opening date has not been set. Story Continues →

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27 High pollution advisory for Maricopa County this weekend PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has issued a high pollution advisory for Maricopa County this weekend. ADEQ officials say ozone is expected to jump above the exceedance threshold. They say hourly ozone values will ramp up by early afternoon and reach maximum values by mid-afternoon through early evening on both Saturday and Sunday. ADEQ recommends that residents in Arizona’s most populous county limit outdoor activity while the high pollution advisory is in effect, especially children and adults with respiratory problems. 2016-05-28 22:14 - www.washingtontimes.com

28 Larch inmates rehabilitate endangered Western pond turtles YACOLT, Wash. (AP) - On May 17, the final day of their five-month stint at Larch Corrections Center, nine Western pond turtles lurked out of sight near the bottom of their tanks, just as wary of people as they were on day one. The turtles went to the Yacolt-area state prison in December, not for society’s protection, but for their own. There they completed a final phase of rehabilitation from a mysterious disease that caused a number of quarter-sized lesions to grow on their shells and those of other endangered Western pond turtles, The Columbian reported (http://bit.ly/1ONc0MA). Last year, about 25 sick turtles were captured in the Columbia Gorge by biologists and brought to the Oregon Zoo in Portland for treatment. Later, nine of them were transferred to Larch. Two inmates, Terrell Hill, 34, and Joe Goff, 31, spent six hours per day ushering the animals through treatment - feeding them a diet of mealworms and mice, tending their wounds with iodine, and observing and documenting their recovery. Western pond turtles once inhabited wetlands from Baja California to Puget Sound. Habitat loss, invasive species and other factors have reduced their distribution to a few pockets around western Washington. Wildlife officials estimate that in the early 1990s, the number of Western pond turtles dipped to about 120 individuals in Washington. Statewide, there are now around 1,000 turtles living in the wild, but any new threat to the recovery process is troubling, and this new shell disease is no exception. At Larch, the animals lived in a small, dank outbuilding. Pairs of turtles, all about the size of a soup bowl, shared large troughs like neighbors share a duplex, each with its own side of the tub outfitted with a basking platform and a heat lamp. Although they’d been in the daily care of their two inmate handlers since they arrived, the turtles remained aloof. Only two of them showed enough personality to earn nicknames. One became known as “Stinky” for obvious reasons; the other was “Beast Mode” for its voracious eating habits. Hill, a self-described “city boy” who was raised in Seattle before going to prison in 2004, said that as a youth he didn’t spend much time around animals, besides cats and dogs. “I was nervous at the start” to work with turtles, he said. “I don’t think I touched one - except as a kid maybe one at the Woodland Zoo,” he said. “It’s been real nice, the experience.. This gives you some solace and reflection time and a little bit of empathy.” Goff grew up in a military family and moved around a lot but always found solace in the wilderness before enlisting in the military. After getting the job, he learned the turtles once inhabited part of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, where he first fell in love with the outdoors. “If I had to do a job in prison, I wanted to do the most beneficial one,” he said. “Taking care of turtles that are in prison to be rehabilitated, it feels like they’re the same as us.” Of the 28 inmates who applied, Goff and Hill were the only ones to get the job. Each applicant had to write an essay and have a job interview with prison management. “We try to make it as official as possible,” said Shawn Piliponis, classification councilor at Larch. The turtles came to Larch as the latest manifestation of the Sustainability in Prisons Project - a partnership between the Washington Department of Corrections and The Evergreen State College in Olympia. The project aims to bring education and conservation work into state prisons. The prison also grows narrow-leaf plantain, which is eaten by endangered Taylor’s checkerspot butterflies raised at the Oregon Zoo. Officials say the program benefits the conservation community by providing extra help and facilities and benefits inmates by fostering good behavior and teaching soft skills. “The guys are better off than when they came in because they learn patience and cognitive thinking and leave more educated,” Jeremy Barclay, communications director of DOC, said of the turtle rehabilitation program. Story Continues →

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29 Saturday Sessions: Brett Dennen sings "Cassidy" |The northern California native first burst onto the music scene back in 2004 with the release of his self-titled debut CD. His catchy folk tunes soon became a staple on many primetime TV dramas and motion picture soundtracks. Just last week, Dennen released his sixth full-length studio album, entitled "Por Favor," and it's already shot to number one on the iTunes singer-songwriter chart. Dennen joined "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to perform "Cassidy. "

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30 Fire ant attack adds new death to family's sorrow A joint funeral was held Thursday in Selma for the women, 29-year-old Kalyn Rolan and 53-year-old Roberta Lynn Duke, both of Prattville. Rolan's mother-in-law, Sheila Rolan, said she still can't believe both women died within a day of each other. "It's something I've never had to deal with, especially attending two funerals," said Rolan. "I loved her mother, and she was my daughter-in-law for 10 years. " Duke died May 19 after suffering from lung disease, Rolan said, and the younger woman was in rural Dallas County the next day with husband Brandon Rolan preparing for the funeral. The older woman had lived in a mobile home with the couple as her health declined, Rolan said. Kalyn was attacked while atop the remains of a large round hay bale. She was talking on a cellphone with a longtime friend, apparently about her mom's funeral arrangements, Rolan said. "Brandon said she was standing there with a stick talking on the phone. She was just beating the hay with the stick, Brandon said, and it stirred up the ants," Sheila Rolan said. "She ran off the hay stack, and they tried to get her clothes off to get the ants off her. " Coroner Alan Dailey said the woman was treated by volunteer firefighters and then ambulance workers during a 25-mile ride to a Selma hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Autopsy results aren't complete, he said, but it appeared the woman's airway closed from anaphylactic shock, a severe allergic reaction to the bites. "She had multiple bites around both ankles," Dailey said. "Those red ants are a problem all over the South. They're mean, and by the time you know you've been bit once they are all over you. " Kalyn Rolan had severe allergies to insects, shellfish and peanuts, Sheila Rolan said, but the day of her death she didn't have a medical device on hand that can be used to inject medicine to counteract allergic reactions. Relatives are now trying to raise $5,000 to pay for her funeral, and a fundraiser is planned Saturday at the Waffle House restaurant where Brandon Rolan works. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 90 to 100 people die annually in the United States from insect bites.

2016-05-28 23:51 AP www.cbsnews.com

31 Donald Trump changes tune on man who "couldn't get elected dog catcher in Florida" Donald Trump, who once said Sen. Marco Rubio " couldn't get elected dog catcher in Florida," is now pushing his former opponent to run for Senate re-election in the state. Trump sent a tweet late Thursday encouraging the Florida senator, who has said he would not run for a second term, to help "keep the MAJORITY" for Republicans in the upper chamber: Poll data shows that @marcorubio does by far the best in holding onto his Senate seat in Florida. Important to keep the MAJORITY. Run Marco! That's all despite Trump's long Twitter history of insulting Rubio -- once a rival for the Republican nomination before the Florida senator exited the race in March -- as a "joke," a "choker," and a "dishonest lightweight" who was "scamming Florida" while running for president. I will be using Facebook and Twitter to expose dishonest lightweight Senator Marco Rubio. A record no-show in Senate, he is scamming Florida Why would the great people of Florida vote for a guy who, as a Senator, never even shows up to vote - worst record. Marco Rubio is a joke! Lightweight Marco Rubio was working hard last night. The problem is, he is a choker, and once a choker, always a choker! Mr. Meltdown. Trump's recent social media turnaround is a reflection of Republican concerns on Capitol Hill, where party leaders are increasingly anxious about the GOP hold on Rubio's Senate seat. The cutthroat Republican primary unfolding between five candidates, some lawmakers fear, could diminish the party's chances against Democrats in November's Senate contest. After laying out worries over the Florida Senate race during a private lunch Thursday with other GOP senators, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell surveyed who in the room wanted Rubio to reconsider his decision to opt out of a re-election bid. According to a Politico report, virtually all the attendees raised their hands. Other Republican lawmakers also publicly echoed Trump's latest refrain, including Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are sharpening their attacks at they prepare to take the stage for tonight's GOP debate. Rubio campaign spokeswoman... On the Senate floor Thursday afternoon, Corker said he "strongly encouraged" Rubio to seek re-election. He followed that up with a statement later that day, where he praised the Florida senator as a "very valuable member of the Senate -- especially in his role on the Senate Foreign relations Committee, where he demonstrates a deep understanding of foreign policy. " And on CNN, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the Senate's No. 2 Republican serving as the party's majority whip, said he'd "like to see" Rubio reconsider. "It's obviously a very personal decision, but I think it would be good for the party. It would be good for the Senate. I'd like to see him do it," Cornyn said Thursday. "I hear a lot of buzz around here from members and others -- that's a conversation we need to have. " For his part, Rubio told reporters Thursday that it was "unlikely" he would enter the Senate race so late in the game. "I didn't think it was fair for me to run for president and freeze that seat in a competitive state. So I made my decision," Rubio said. "I don't have anything new to say from what I said in the past... I made that decision and I've lived by that decision. Nothing's changed. "

2016-05-28 22:36 Reena Flores www.cbsnews.com

32 Senior gets big apology after city worker seizes his American flags Contact WND Ken Dabelstein, 73, is a patriotic businessman who has lined his Westland, Michigan, property with 24 American flags every year for Memorial Day – for 30 years. But on May 24, he says, a city worker came to his store, Ken’s Country Produce, and claimed the U. S. flags were signage. The worker said Dabelstein was violating the town’s sign ordinance, according to Fox News’ Todd Starnes. “I told him the American flag is not a sign,” Dabelstein told Starnes. “It’s part of being a proud American.” The issue appeared to be resolved after the worker determined the flags could stay. But that wasn’t the end of it. On Thursday, a city ordinance officer confiscated his flags and refused to give them back, Dabelstein said. “She tore all my flags out – and brought them up to the counter,” the elderly man said. At that point, several customers attempted to get his flags back. “Customers tried to grab them out of her hand,” he told Fox 2 in Detroit. “She wouldn’t give it to them. She took the flags and literally threw them in the back of her truck.” Even Dabelstein told news reporters that he went after his flags. “I came running out here to get the flags, but I’m handicapped,” he said. But the woman got away with the flags. That’s when Dabelstein posted a message on Facebook: “The city of Westland removed my flags from my property – saying it’s signage.” “We’re an all-American city,” Dabelstein said. Then his Facebook post caught the attention of Westland City Council member Kevin Coleman. “What it sounds like to me is that it was probably a misunderstanding,” Coleman said. That’s when the mayor, William R. Wild, got involved and posted: “I agree. I’ll see if we can get them back.” “Some of these things that seem like common sense can get overlooked,” Coleman said. “On behalf of the city council, I want to apologize to Ken here.” Dabelstein accepted the apology, and he told Fox 2 he has many more. “I have 24 more,” he said. “I give them away to people. If you come in and need a flag for the cemetery, you get a free flag.” On Friday, several patrons dropped by and posed for photos with Dabelstein, who was draped in red, white and blue. Customers have been voicing their support for Dabelstein on Facebook and donating dozens of flags to his shop.

2016-05-28 20:35 www.wnd.com

33 State chief justice sues over constitutional violations Contact WND Judicial officials in Alabama have launched what has been described as a “political” persecution of the elected chief justice of their Supreme Court. Then they created charges against him based on his administrative orders in managing the state’s court system. Finally, they hired the former legal director of the organization that filed the original complaint to prosecute Chief Justice Roy Moore. And he’s had enough. He filed a lawsuit on Friday in federal court explaining that the state process for handling, hearing, responding to and adjudicating complaints against him violates his constitutional rights. He’s asking the federal court to derail the process that state officials are pursuing, and he’s asking for damages, as well as immediate reinstatement. “The immediate and automatic disqualification of Chief Justice Moore from the office of chief justice has prevented him from serving the entire term of his elected office, even though he has not been tried on the [Judicial Inquiry Commission] charges, let alone convicted in the [Court of the Judiciary],” the new lawsuit filed in U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama states. Get the Whistleblower Magazine’s revelations about the SPLC, in its March 2015 edition of “The Hate Racket,” the complete story of how one group fools government into equating Christians and conservatives with Klansmen and Nazis â​ and rakes in millions doing it. “The immediate and automatic disqualification causes Chief Justice Moore substantial and irreparable harm because he is indefinitely prevented from exercising his duties and powers as the administrative head of the judicial branch,” it continues. He’s also prevented from sitting on cases, voting on cases and writing opinions and he’s suffered injury to his “reputation, good name, honor, and integrity.” All of this, the lawsuit brought on Moore’s behalf by officials with Liberty Counsel explains, was done without due process, as guaranteed by the U. S. Constitution. The complaint explains that when state charges were assembled against him, Lyn Stuart, who is acting chief justice as most senior on the bench, removed Moore’s votes from pending cases, withdrew his assignments, ordered his staff out of Moore’s office, stored his computer, canceled his login, removed programs from his computers and told Moore staff “although she would not tell them to refrain from speaking with him, they could not talk to him about Alabama Supreme Court matters.” “Chief Justice Moore’s office staff have been told that they effectively do not work for him anymore â​¦” Stuart even ordered that Moore “was no longer to have access to his office in the judicial building.” These events, the complaint alleges, violate the 14th Amendment’s Due Process clause. “The 14th Amendment forbids a state from depriving Chief Justice Moore of life, liberty or property without due process of law.” The state provision, Section 159 of the constitution, under which state officials are prosecuting him is therefore unconstitutional and should be dropped, it explains. “Any interest in the operations of the courts and the judicial conduct of judges does not permit the defendants to eviscerate Chief Justice Moore’s own fundamental due process rights,” the complaint states. The defendants are the Judicial Inquiry Commission, its chairman, Billy Bedsole; members David Scott, Randall Cole, Craig Pittman, David Thrasher, Ralph Malone, Augusta Dowd, Kim Chaney and David Kimberly, attorney general Luther Strange and Stuart. Stuart did not respond to a WND message requesting comment. The complaint warns the procedures give the JIC power to injure judges “based upon trivialities, viewpoint-based objections, differences in legal interpretation, political motivations, or, even worse, to protect itself from investigation of violations of its own rules.” The court filings also seek preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to protect the constitutional rights of Moore and “future Alabama judges.” The state essentially provides removal by impeachment â that is, charges from the state house of representatives for some offense like corruption, intemperance, moral turpitude or incompetency, followed by a conviction in the senate. The JIC’s issue with Moore involves his administrative order from last January “in which he wrote that the 2015 orders of the Alabama Supreme Court regarding same-sex ‘marriage’ remained in effect until the court held otherwise. Chief Justice Moore did not participate in the 2015 orders, which ruled that the state’s probate judges must uphold the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Act,” LC reported. “The charges against Chief Justice Roy Moore must be dismissed. The JIC has no jurisdiction over an administrative order of the chief justice. Only the Alabama Supreme Court has jurisdiction, and that court agreed with the order,” said Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel. “We are asking the federal court to strike down the automatic removal provision in the Alabama State Constitution and we are asking that Chief Justice Moore be immediately reinstated.” WND reported just a day earlier that the JIC had picked a man to prosecute Moore who formerly was legal director for the Southern Law Poverty Center, which filed the complaint against Moore. Get the Whistleblower Magazine’s revelations about the SPLC, in its March 2015 edition of “The Hate Racket,” the complete story of how one group fools government into equating Christians and conservatives with Klansmen and Nazis â​ and rakes in millions doing it. “I have almost no words for this corrupt and unjust system,” Staver said on Thursday. “We have said that the charges are politically motivated and that the JIC violated its own rules of confidentiality. You would think that the JIC would be astute enough to at least avoid an appearance of bias, but obvious the JIC does not care. This is a brazen act that calls into question the entire JIC process.” Judicial Inquiry Commission staff member Rosa Davis told WND that the commission doesn’t comment on such matters. But she enthusiastically defended Carroll, confirming to WND that he formerly worked for SPLC. She argued he later became a law school professor, dean of a law school and a magistrate judge. The SPLC advocacy by Carroll, Davis told WND, was “32 years ago.” She contended the “facts of his career since of that time speak for themselves.” On his Samford University bio page, however, Carroll boasts of his experience with SPLC as its legal director. The page says he teaches, or is interested in, mediation, evidence, trial practice, ethics and e-discovery. It states: “Judge Carroll is a frequent lecturer and panel member at national and local seminars on the subject of the discovery of electronically stored information, mediation, ethics and other topics relating to federal courts. He was the reporter to the committees of the Uniform Law Commission that drafted the Uniform Rules Relating to the Discovery of Electronically Stored information and the Uniform Asset Preservation Order Act. He was also a member of the Uniform Law Commission committee that drafted amendments to the Uniform Athlete Agents Act. He is currently a member of a committee drafting a model veterans court act and a committee judging a model equal rights act.” “The travesty of the politically motivated charges by the JIC against Chief Justice Roy Moore have become even clearer with the appointment by the JIC of a former legal director of the same organization that filed the charges. This is a miscarriage of justice of the highest sort,” said Staver. SPLC routinely blasts people and organizations who do not agree with its social agenda as “haters” and was linked in federal court to the gun attack several years ago at the Family Research Council headquarters in Washington, D. C. . “By falsely and recklessly labeling Christian ministries as ‘hate groups,’ the SPLC is directly responsible for the first conviction of a man who intended to commit mass murder targeted against a policy organization in Washington, D. C.,” Liberty Counsel has said. “On August 15, 2012, Floyd Corkins went to the Family Research Council with a gun and a bag filled with ammunition and Chick-fil-A sandwiches. His stated purpose was to kill as many employees of the Family Research Council as possible and then to smear Chick-fil-A sandwiches in their faces (because the founder of the food chain said he believed in marriage as a man and a woman). Fortunately, Mr. Corkins was stopped by the security guard, who was shot in the process. Corkins is now serving time in prison. Mr. Corkins admitted to the court that he learned of the Family Research Council by reading the SPLC’s hate map,” LC reported. Corkins later was sentenced to prison for domestic terrorism, after admitting on video he accessed the SPLC’s recommendations to pick a target for his attack. The SPLC identified FRC as a hate group because it holds to a biblical definition of homosexuality. Judge Roy Moore’s moral strength and legal brilliance shine through as he tells the story of his Ten Commandments monument battle: “So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom”

2016-05-28 20:34 Bob Unruh www.wnd.com

34 Kentucky joins lawsuit over Obama's transgender agenda Contact WND Kentucky has become the latest state to join in a lawsuit against the Obama administration’s transgender agenda. WND reported earlier this week that Texas took the lead in filing the legal challenge to Obama’s demands that businesses, government and schools cater to the preferences of those with alternative sexual lifestyles. A viral video from Family Research Council poked fun at Obama for having bathroom on the brain, as FRC chief Tony Perkins said, “We commend Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and these 10 other states for resisting the president’s locker room and bathroom decree that sacrifices the privacy and safety of children.” “In President Obama’s final drive to fundamentally transform America, he has pushed aside the concerns of parents and schools, the privacy and safety of students, and ignored the boundaries of his constitutional power.” The special Whistleblower edition “Trans-Mania” exposes the left’s “latest – and strangest – war on reality and normality.” A report from WAVE3 News in Kentucky now has confirmed that Kentucky is joining the action. “The federal government has no authority to dictate local school districts’ bathroom and locker room policies,” Gov. Matt Bevin said in a statement. “The Obama administration’s transgender policy ‘guidelines’ are an absurd federal overreach into a local issue.” Bevin said his administration will protect Kentucky’s control over local issues by joining the fight. “We are committed to protecting the Tenth Amendment and fighting federal overreach into state and local issues,” he said. The complaint charges the administration has “conspired to turn workplaces and educational settings across the country into laboratories for a massive social experiment, flouting the democratic process, and running roughshod over commonsense policies protecting children and basic privacy rights.” The original plaintiffs included Texas, Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arizona’s Department of Education, Maine Gov. Paul LePage, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah and Georgia. Officials later said Mississippi, too, was joining the effort. Critics have charged Obama is threatening the safety of students and trying to blackmail states with his threat to withhold federal funding for schools. “This lawsuit is challenging the way that the Obama administration is trampling the United States Constitution,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said. White House officials describe the issue as a civil rights matter, but critics argue Obama’s mandate sacrifices the privacy of hundreds of millions for the lifestyle preference of a few. WND reported how Washington is trying to make sexual alternatives mainstream. The conflict reached a high point in 2015 when the U. S. Supreme Court departed from millennia of precedent and the Judeo-Christian foundation of Western civilization to create “same-sex marriage,” a ruling condemned by a four-justice minority as unconnected to the Constitution. But that wasn’t the end, as the following headlines attest: The special Whistleblower edition “Trans-Mania” exposes the left’s “latest – and strangest – war on reality and normality.” The federal government made its latest move after North Carolina lawmakers adopted a law in March requiring people to use gender- designated public facilities that correspond to the gender listed on their birth certificate. The aim was to protect women and children from being confronted by a naked man. But the Department of Justice then threatened the state with financial penalties , claiming the law violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That argument presumes Congress, in 1964, wanted men to be allowed to use women’s restrooms and locker rooms and vice versa, which is ridiculous, contends Kellie Fiedorek, a legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which specializes in civil and religious rights. “North Carolina’s bathroom privacy law, HB2, fully complies with federal law,” Fiedorek said. “It’s absurd to assert, as the Department of Justice does, that by placing the word ‘sex’ in federal nondiscrimination laws, Congress intended to force states to open their restrooms to people of the opposite biological sex,” Fiedorek continued. “Gov. McCrory and the state of North Carolina are fulfilling their duty to protect the privacy rights of their citizens. On the new lawsuit, Perkins continued, “If the White House can dictate the policies for every school locker room, shower, and bathroom in America, what could possibly be beyond its reach? “We are also encouraged by the scores of state leaders who are standing up to the Obama administration’s unilateral redefinition of federal law. It is now time for Republicans in Congress, who have the constitutional authority as a coequal branch of government, to support these state leaders and bring the imperial White House under control.” The organization earlier poked fun at Obama with a video suggesting he has bathrooms on the brain. “So … while ISIS is infiltrating America … President Obama seems confused about human biology. While Russia taunts our military … President Obama is fighting for men to access to women’s locker rooms. While Iran and North Korea fire ballistic missiles … President Obama is demanding grown men have the right to use women’s bathrooms,” the video states. “Who knows what’s next? President Obama could issue an executive order wiping out single gendered bathrooms in national parks … or in federal buildings … or tell the TSA to stop requiring those who fly to declare their biological sex. It’s absurd.” The video:

2016-05-28 20:34 Bob Unruh www.wnd.com

35 Gary Sinise: Join me in honoring America's greatest heroes Contact WND The nation will pause over the coming days to honor all Americans who have given their lives to defend the United States, and this year the National Memorial Day Concert will continue its legacy of saluting all who have worn the uniform with a special tribute to a man who still serves decades after losing a leg in Vietnam. The National Memorial Day Concert takes place Sunday, May 29 at 8 p.m. on the lawn of the U. S. Capitol. It airs on PBS. Actors Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna will co-host the event, which will include acts such as the Beach Boys, Trace Adkins, two different “American Idol” performers and the National Symphony Orchestra. “I wouldn’t be anywhere else this weekend,” Sinise told WND and Radio America. “It’s become such a special way to highlight and honor the men and women who served our country and paid the ultimate price for our freedom.” Are you a patriotic American who loves to celebrate freedom? Check out the massive collection of flags, stickers, jewelry and patriotic gear at the WND Superstore! Sinise has strong family ties to veterans dating back to World War I. He became active in supporting Vietnam veterans in the 1980s, and his involvement skyrocketed after playing “Lt. Dan” in “Forrest Gump.” After 9/11, he devoted even more time to active-duty forces and veterans. He now heads the Gary Sinise Foundation and the Lt. Dan Band. Sinise said the National Memorial Day Concert is a terrific way of reminding Americans Memorial Day means more than a three-day weekend and the unofficial start of summer. “The freedom to enjoy the backyard and the barbecue and the ballgame and all of that comes with a cost,” he said. “The men and women who are a part of this concert, and the stories that we tell about those who have served over the years are very, very important.” Memorial Day is set aside for those who lost their lives in service to America, but Sinise himself will be leading a tribute to a living hero at the concert. “I’m going to be doing a story about a Vietnam veteran who lost a leg and ended up giving back by going to Walter Reed and supporting the Afghan and Iraq veterans who are coming back with injuries,” Sinise said. Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with actor Gary Sinise: That veteran is retired U. S. Army Capt. Jack Farley. He was serving as a battery executive officer, overseeing six howitzers on Jan. 10, 1969, when his life changed forever. “All of a sudden, we came under very heavy mortar and rocket attack. When we were attacked, my wonderful troops shot back,” Farley told WND and Radio America. “My men were at the guns, and I was out with them on the radio. All of a sudden, a mortar landed gimme distance from me. I remember flying through the air.” His time combat was over. “They took the leg off in Japan after gangrene set in, and I was medevaced to Walter Reed [Army Medical Center],” he said. “I spent a year-and-a-half learning how to use a new leg and then went about what I thought would be a normal life.” Farley started a family, went to law school and was eventually nominated to be one of the original judges on the U. S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. But he later discovered his greatest gift was reaching out to those who found themselves where he was in 1969. “I got involved working with other amputees,” he said. “When Iraq and Afghanistan started, I got called over to Walter Reed and really never left. I helped set up the amputee program. I was on the original board of directors. And I continue to train the amputee peer visitors at Walter Reed.” Are you a patriotic American who loves to celebrate freedom? Check out the massive collection of flags, stickers, jewelry and patriotic gear at the WND Superstore! With more than 1,500 service members enduring amputations as a result of their service, Farley said he and his friends help shepherd the vets through the process of dealing with such a major change in their lives. He said there are critical stages they must go through. “In the beginning, it’s enduring, getting through it. You’re all confused. You’re wondering what’s going on. You get into a stage of suffering. Gradually, you start to get into a stage of reckoning, becoming aware of this new reality. Then you reconcile. You put that loss into perspective. Finally, we hope that you’re getting into a normalizing,” Farley explained. Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with retired U. S. Army Capt. Jack Farley: He said some amputees reach an even more optimum level of “thriving.” “As they go through the process, often what we see, and I include myself in this group, is that having gone through this process you actually come out stronger. You can actually accomplish things that you might not have accomplished before,” he said. Farley said he is deeply honored to be a part of the National Memorial Day Concert, although he admits he’s a bit nervous about what Sinise might say since concert organizers will not let him read the script. The hero who continues to serve hopes the moment brings help to those who need it. “To the extent that any of my Vietnam colleagues can take any strength from it â​ just one of them â​ I’d be thrilled,” said Farley.

2016-05-28 20:34 Greg Corombos www.wnd.com

36 Police say Christians can't give atheists gift cards Contact WND Famous Christian filmmaker, author and evangelist Ray Comfort, whose common-sense attitude toward atheism is evident in his books “Nothing Created Everything,” “You Can Lead An Atheist to Evidence, But You Can’t Make Him Think” and “God Doesn’t Believe in Atheists,” is reluctantly canceling plans to give books and gift cards for Subway sandwiches to atheists at a coming rally in Washington. Police forced him to cancel, he explained to WND, because of the size of his contingency. More than 1,000 Christians had volunteered to help hand out the gifts to atheists who will be attending this year’s Reason Rally on the National Mall in Washington on June 4. The event, by its own description, is to “showcase the presence and power of the nonreligious voting bloc, and to demand that reason be put at the forefront of our public and political discourse.” “Not only are we celebrating our secular, atheist, agnostic, humanist, freethinking, and nonreligious identities, we are preparing to exercise our power at the voting box to bring good sense back to government,” the event’s promoters say. See Ray Comfort’s works at the WND Superstore. Speakers will include several members of the Wu-Tang Clan, physicist Lawrence Krauss, “Saturday Night Live” alum Julia Sweeney, paranormal investigator James Randi and poet Victor Harris. Comfort, whose programs, books, movies and outreaches are online at the Living Waters site, said there will be an estimated 20,000 atheists meeting at one end of the National Mall, and he is planning to film open-air preaching for his TV program, “The Way of the Master,” the same day near the Washington Monument. So he proposed giving away 5,000 copies of his new book about atheism, along with Subway gift cards totaling $25,000, as a gesture of Christian love. The book is called “Fat Chance: Why Pigs Will Fly Before America Has an Atheist President.” It’s a direct counter to one of key objectives of the Reason Rally. But he said the huge number of people who volunteered to join him apparently caused concern among Washington police. “To the D. C. police,” he said, “that constituted a protest and therefore we needed a permit to gather. We would have to stay at the other end of the National Mall, and they said that if we persisted to approach atheists to speak with them we would be arrested.” He still plans to be there with a crew of 17 people. “The Reason Rally is free and open to the public, so if any other groups of individuals show up on their own initiative they won’t need a permit either or be arrested if they approach atheists,” he said. “To authorities, Christians and atheists are enemies. So they want to keep us apart for the sake of peace, especially with more serious threats facing America,” he said. “That’s understandable. But at the same time I’m a little frustrated, because I have a very good relationship with atheists.” He noted that in 2001 he was flown from Los Angeles to Florida by American Atheists Inc. to speak. “They put me in a nice hotel and gave me a gift basket. Since then I have had meals with high-profile atheists, and I’ve been in correspondence with two of their top speakers at the Reason Rally, trying to figure out a time in our schedules when I can interview them,” he said. “In what is so often a cruel world, we tried to show a little kindness and it didn’t work. So it now looks like we will be eating Subway sandwiches for the next 40 years,” he said. The gift cards had been provided by a donor. He noted that he also still is being interviewed for a special documentary about the event, alongside Johnny Depp, Bill Nye and others. In his “God Doesn’t Believe in Atheists,” he addresses questions such as “Who made God?” and “Where did Cain get his wife?” Comfort uses humor, reason and logic to challenge the faith atheists have that there is nothing out there. Comfort is the founder and president of Living Waters Publications. After relocating from New Zealand to Southern California in the 1980s, he introduced a long line of pastors and churches to a biblical teaching he called “Hell’s Best-Kept Secret.” “The Way of the Master,” with actor Kirk Cameron, is broadcast in 70 nations, and he has written more than 60 books. With such topics as Hitler and the Bible, the Beatles and the Bible, and changing minds about abortion, Comfort regularly finds himself in conflict, even if friendly conflict, with an increasingly secular American society. He recently disputed with YouTube over a trailer for one of his movies. The trailer promotes Comfort’s film “Audacity,” which challenges the belief that homosexuality is unchangeable. According to Comfort’s Facebook page , YouTube explained in a message: “This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube’s policy against spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content.” Comfort invited the public to view the trailer on the movie’s website and “see if it’s spam, a scam or has commercially deceptive content.” The trailer is also available here: See all of Ray Comfort’s works, from “God Doesn’t Believe in Atheists” to “Nothing Created Everything,” in the WND Superstore.

2016-05-28 20:34 Bob Unruh www.wnd.com

37 Homeschool your way out of Common Core Contact WND By Edward B. Driscoll Jr. Common Core is the educational standards program that everyone loves to hate – except the people who set policy for America’s public schools. That’s one reason why more parents are opting to homeschool instead. But homeschooling parents shouldn’t be complacent about the threat posed by the Common Core crusaders, warns the e-book “Homeschooling: Fighting for My Children’s Future.” The companies behind college entrance exams are aligning their questions with the Common Core curriculum. “If your homeschooled children plan to go to attend college someday,” Paula Bolyard writes, “the way things currently stand, they will be tested on Common Core ‘achievements and behavior.’ That means you may need to consider altering your curriculum to align with the standards.” The essay is one of three on Common Core that Bolyard penned in the book, which includes 26 essays from the pages of PJ Media. Together they paint a picture of a public education system in turmoil and homeschooling as one way out of the mess. The section on Common Core opens with a list of the 10 worst homework assignments based on those standards. The examples are from eight states (Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Nevada, Ohio and Rhode Island) and cover several grades, illustrating the breadth and depth of Common Core’s reach. Most of the questions involved baffling approaches to math work. But one promoted Islam as a peaceful religion as part of a video about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and another pushed liberal ideology about climate change. The message to parents is that if they have children in public schools, they need to be diligent about not only what they are being taught, but how. “If your children are under the influence of this curriculum,” Bolyard said, “you may need to spend a significant amount of time debriefing them after school.” In the second essay, her warning to homeschoolers about the potential impact of Common Core on college admission focuses on two big ties between the two. First, David Coleman is not just a lead architect of Common Core standards; he is also president of the College Board, which designs and administers both Advanced Placement courses in high school and the SAT for college entrance. Then there is the ACT, “an active partner with the Common Core State Standards Initiative.” With a monopoly like that, no wonder parents need to think long-term about their children’s education – even if they oversee it directly as homeschoolers. The last essay points out that Common Core is so bad, it may create common ground for the left and the right. But conservatives need to be cautious, because advocates in the United Opt Out movement hate more than just Common Core. They also despise charter schools, merit performance for teachers, union reforms and other ideas that could improve public schools. “Many in the traditional public education monopoly believe that education should be all public, all democratic, all the time,” Bolyard said. “Any variation must be defeated and destroyed.” That includes homeschooling. Visit Amazon to download the Kindle edition of “Homeschooling: Fighting for My Children’s Future” for more insights into the dangers of Common Core. 2016-05-28 20:34 www.wnd.com

38 VA makeover? Veterans reveal 1 simple fix for 'failing' health system Contact WND While Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald takes heat over his comparing of veteran wait times for health care to waiting in line at Disney parks, veterans groups say there hasn’t been much progress since the wait time scandal first erupted two years ago. “Not much has changed,” said Concerned Veterans of America analyst Shaun Rieley, who served 10 years in uniform and did tours in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. But Rieley told WND and Radio America that anyone looking for quick or easy fixes will be disappointed. “There’s just real structural issues at the VA that can’t really be fixed in a couple of years and can’t really be fixed by just the changing of the secretary,” Rieley said. “A lot of these problems are systemic to the VA system overall,” he explained. “There’s a problem with VA being flexible enough to meet the demands of veterans as demographics change, as they move around, as they age and require more care.” Are you a patriotic American who loves to celebrate freedom? Check out the massive collection of flags, stickers, jewelry and patriotic gear at the WND Superstore! He said there are two major problems that endanger the health of veterans, starting with just getting into the system. “Delayed care is denied care, and denied care is bad care,” Rieley said. “It’s disingenuous to say the care is really great if you can get it. Part of the meaning of great care is being able to have access to it.” But is the care always great once you get access? Rieley said that’s another problem. “Part of the problem is it’s so inconsistent. In one area, the VA might be really, really great but in another area it might be really poor quality,” he said. Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with Shaun Rieley: He said the whole VA system stifles progress. “I think they are set up to fail,” Rieley said. “No matter how good their intentions are, the structure of the system too often undermines their ability to do their job.” Concerned Veterans for America is encouraging presidential hopefuls and members of Congress to pursue restructuring of the VA . “We recommend VA be pulled out of the Office of Personnel Management system, a federal government-controlled system for civil service, and that the governance be put in the hands of a nonprofit-style board of directors,” Rieley said. “It would bring a lot more accountability to the employees. It would allow it to function really as a health-care system that is chartered by and funded by the federal government, rather than a bureaucracy that is attempting to give health care.” What does Rieley want to hear from presidential candidates about this significant issue? “We would love it if someone were to take up our proposal,” he said, adding, “It’s very easy to give platitudes like, ‘We should take care of our vets,’ a pretty noncontroversial statement. But exactly how that’s done is a little less clear. … When veterans are still being delayed and denied care, platitudes aren’t a lot of help.” Are you a patriotic American who loves to celebrate freedom? Check out the massive collection of flags, stickers, jewelry and patriotic gear at the WND Superstore!

2016-05-28 20:33 Greg Corombos www.wnd.com

39 College prez offers 'healing space' after conservative star visits Contact WND Apparently conservative ideas have left students at a California college “feeling traumatized, feeling brutalized – physically, emotionally and mentally,” so to help soothe the offended students, the president held a “healing space” meeting. William Covino, the president of California State University, Los Angeles, held the meeting on May 17 after an on-campus lecture by conservative Ben Shapiro. During the meeting, Covino discussed with faculty members how the school could stop such speakers from visiting in the future. “I would have never invited anybody like Ben Shapiro on campus. Never,” Covino said in a video of the meeting released Thursday by the Young America’s Foundation. “He was invited by students, he was funded by students, he was supported by students. I would have never invited anybody like Ben Shapiro.” Watch the video of the meeting: Then professor Melinda Abdullah – chair of the Pan-African Studies department – chimed in. “This is kind of this ongoing conversation about the specificity of anti- blackness, and that’s I think what we see with Ben Shapiro,” she said. See what American education has become, in “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.” Then Abdullah called Shapiro a “neo-Nazi.” “I get he’s Jewish, so that’s ironic that I’m calling him a neo-Nazi,” she said. “But that’s basically what he is, the equivalent. A neo-KKK member — let’s call him that. “Students come into my office feeling traumatized, feeling brutalized — physically, emotionally and mentally,” Abdullah said. Concerned individuals may contact California State University, Los Angeles, President William Covino here. Then Covino said the college should implement “a kind of policy or process or set of criteria” that invited guests must meet if they will be allowed to speak at the school. “I’m convinced there will be a next time,” he said. “Very tragically and unfortunately, we’re in a kind of climate nationally and locally in which this kind of provocation is occurring.” As WND reported , a lawsuit has been filed against the university because a mob tried to prevent Shapiro from speaking in February. The conservative commentator and author spoke despite protesters setting off a fire alarm and barricading the from door to the auditorium , forcing attendees to use a back door. See a short video: At the time, Shapiro cited one of the university’s sociology professors, Robert Weide, who earlier had called YAF students “white supremacists” and invited them to fight him. The Alliance Defending Freedom filed the lawsuit against school officials “challenging the unconstitutional policies and practices of the university.” Shapiro’s speech, “When Diversity Becomes a Problem,” was supposed to be part of a free-speech event organized by Young America’s Foundation. “University officials first attempted to shut down the event,” ADF explained. “When those efforts failed, professors helped incite a mob of protesters to block entry to the venue.” “The cornerstone of higher education is the ability of students to participate in the ‘marketplace of ideas’ on campus,” ADF Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer said. “Instead, student groups and Mr. Shapiro encountered systematic and violent opposition to a free speech event promoting diversity of opinion. When public universities discriminate against points of view they don’t like, they violate both the First Amendment and a core purpose behind their own existence. This type of viewpoint discrimination cannot and will not stand.” The complaint explains CSU-LA officials called Shapiro “controversial” and charged the students $621.50 for security. Then, William Covina, school president, sent YAF an email canceling the event and imposing his own plan for a “more inclusive event” later in which Shapiro could appear “as part of a group of speakers with differing viewpoints on diversity.” But YAF held its event anyway – only to be confronted by “hundreds of protesters – aided by professors and faculty of the university.” See what American education has become, in “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.” In an interview with the Blaze, Shapiro reacted to the comments made in the “healing space” meeting. “It seemed more like brutality when students were being assaulted and hustled into my lecture two at a time through back entrances, when I required a phalanx of cops just to get on and off campus, and when the students were trapped in a room for fear of violence just for wanting to hear me speak,” he told the news site. “The video just demonstrates that the left will slander conservatives without evidence, then use that slander as the basis for censorship,” he said. “I pay these people with my tax dollars.” The Blaze noted that Abdullah’s Pan-African Studies department had hosted an event Wednesday featuring Angela Davis, an ex-convict and 1960s Communist Party USA leader.

2016-05-28 20:33 www.wnd.com

40 This might be Hillary's political waterloo Contact WND Summer in south-central Arkansas is hot, muggy, sweaty, sticky. The humidity is bad, too. The Hot Springs area, only a possum-throw from Bill Clinton’s boyhood hometown of Hope, is home to a cast of real characters: most upstanding citizens, but some living in on the underbelly of crime and good old-fashioned Southern corruption. Enter Bill and Hillary Clinton, and a woman they’d prefer to forget: Dolly Kyle. Kyle, with a law degree from SMU, survived an affair with the future governor and president. And then it got dirty. Kyle’s new memoir, “ Hillary: The Other Woman ,” is a journey down a dark alley of Clinton Corruption. Readers might put hands over their mouths from time to time, but one can’t look away. The book is that riveting. Kyle, who always called the president “Billy,” gives an up-close and very personal account of the ultimate Power Couple; Bill rising to national prominence after formative years in the South, and Hillary shedding her father’s conservatism for the radical leftist worldview she embraced in college and beyond. (David Schippers, chief investigative counsel for the Clinton Impeachment, wrote the foreword and says the committee intended to call Kyle to the witness stand in an anticipated trial.) In her book’s foundational chapter, Kyle digs down: Let loose the hound, Smithers. Kyle proceeds to peel back layers of the Clintons that only an early association could. The result is a profile of both of them that goes a long way in explaining why, as Kyle herself puts it, “[Hillary] is a liar and a frantically ambitious person who will do anything (including attacking women while purporting to support them) to assuage her unfillable, addictive, emotional need for power.” She then chronicles her involvement with the Clintons, and her observations of their public life together. It all makes “ Hillary: The Other Woman ,” perhaps the political thriller of the year. In Chapter 23, Kyle discusses a sordid episode in Billy’s life (okay, his whole life is sordid), in which rumors he fathered a child with a black prostitute reached the local media. Notice how Kyle exposes how Clinton even then was parsing words in legal-speak and Clinton-speak, when questions surrounded whether he had fathered a “black baby”: It’s sort of like in the first hours of the Monica Lewinsky story, Clinton sat with veteran journalist Jim Lehrer and declared there “is” no affair going on. That’s correct. At the moment he was sitting under the hot lights with Lehrer The Softball Thrower, the president was not engaged in an affair. How gross if he had been. The real story in “ Hillary: The Other Woman ,” and the valuable service Kyle provides, is the realization that Hillary is every bit as morally bankrupt as her husband. It is hard to imagine this book not stealing at least a few critical votes away from Hillary (provided she escapes the FBI investigation). There are so many stories told by Kyle about the Clintons that one has no choice but to see them as the amoral, serpent-like creatures they are. For example, while arguing with “Billy” one evening in 1974, as they headed to a campaign rally for famed Senator William Fulbright (who had done so much for the young Clinton’s own career), Kyle informed the calculating Clinton that it would be a show of disrespect if he didn’t at least make an appearance at the rally; Fulbright was locked in a tight Senate race that evening in May. “I don’t want to be seen with a loser,” Billy responded coldly. Kyle looked straight ahead, all the while feeling a cold stare from the “lumpy” Hillary Rodham in the back seat. The two women had just met. “ Hillary: The Other Woman ” is certainly lurid; no one is denying that. And, just like a Beyoncé halftime show, one can look away or turn the channel. But trust me: you won’t be able to look away from this book. It is the ultimate horror flick that makes you wince, briefly shut your eyes, and maybe even scream. And if the FBI doesn’t get her, Hillary Rodham Clinton might one day look back at this book as her political Waterloo. Discover how real and relevant Bible prophecy is to you with Jim Fletcher’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine): How to stop worrying and learn to love these end times”

2016-05-28 20:32 Jim Fletcher www.wnd.com

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

2016-05-28 19:08 By Craig www.chron.com

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

2016-05-28 11:09 investor.yahoo.net

43 Report: Arlington High students accused of vandalizing rival Martin High Five Texas high school students are in hot water after being accused of vandalizing a rival high school. On Wednesday, police discovered graffiti all over the walls at Martin High School in Arlington. The graffiti contained vulgar images and phrases like "trans only" on a locker room door and "whites only" near a water fountain, according to Fox 4 WAAP. Reportedly, investigators identified the suspects as students at Arlington High School: Cameron Bodenstab, 18, Christian Joeckel, 17, Hayden Honolka, 17, Ethan Sigmond, 18, and Ryan Westbrook, 17. The arrest affidavit states that Joeckel admitted to being picked up by a friend and participating in the graffiti. It was intended to be a senior prank. WAAP reports that the five will be charged with graffiti on school property, which is a state jail felony. Arlington ISD told WAAP that it will not tolerate vandalism and hate speech and the students will be disciplined.

2016-05-28 11:05 By Heather www.chron.com

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

2016-05-28 11:09 investor.yahoo.net

45 Colombia's cinema museum: 'Where the magic begins:' When Hugo Suarez Fiat arrived at the workshop where he was repairing a classic car one Saturday morning in 2003, an unexpected discovery awaited him. Mr Suarez, a lawyer by trade and a mechanic by hobby, planned to inspect the paint job of a Ford Custom Convertible that he was restoring to its former glory. But instead he found two huge 1930s cinema projectors rescued from a nearby theatre, which was set to close down. The projectors had been left at Mr Suarez's workshop in the hope they would land in the right hands. They obviously did. "I saw those projectors, and I fell in love with them," recalls Mr Suarez. Some 13 years later, he has amassed over 100 more - and that is just part of his collection at Caliwood, as he has called the first cinematography museum in Colombia. Located in the eastern town of Cali, the museum boasts more than 600 exhibits, from posters to a mini cinema that screens films using antique projectors. It opened in 2008. As well as archiving analogue technology, the museum pays tribute to a golden generation of local filmmakers whose ideas defined Colombian cinema in the 1970s. One of them was Andres Caicedo, a maverick director who committed suicide at age 25 and whose Yashica Super 600 camera is one of Caliwood's most treasured possessions. Another of Mr Suarez's favourites is a Multilith Cameragraph 1450, built in the US in 1928. Billed by the owner as "the world's largest camera", it looks almost comically enlarged - even by vintage standards - and sits on an iron slider used to adjust focal length. Mr Suarez found it hidden above a recycling centre. He is constantly following "clues" to new items and recently acquired an Omega watch used by the 007 character in Bond films such as Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough. Perhaps the most mysterious piece is a Cali Magic Lantern, named after the city even though its true origin remains unknown. "We know it's a chimney lamp that was used to illuminate celluloid plates and project them on screen," explains Mr Suarez. "But we've not even been able to identify the country or company that made it. " He contacted museums in Spain and the US, with no luck, but vows to continue his quest for answers. The 67-year-old is a former commercial attorney who has clearly lost none of his appetite for closing cases. Mr Suarez is ably assisted by Santiago Cardenas, a projectionist with three decades of experience who shares the founder's obsession for all things cinema. They met completely by chance, before the museum existed. Mr Suarez's two original projectors were on display in the window of his downtown office; Mr Cardenas could not resist taking a closer look as he passed by. "The projector is where the magic begins," he says. "In cinemas, people always look back at where that primordial light is coming from. " As a child, Mr Cardenas made deliveries for his father's pharmacy. When a hung-over projectionist called for emergency headache pills on the job, young Santiago felt that magic for the first time. "I was nine years old, desperate to try… and he let me light the projector's lamp! " Mr Cardenas remembers, his eyes lit up in excitement. Years later, his projecting career was halted by the birth of a daughter. After dabbling in business ventures, Mr Cardenas spent 10 years training as a Catholic deacon, before leaving the church and returning to his original creed. "What I do now is another kind of vocation," says the 57-year-old, who joined Caliwood's full-time staff in 2012. "Being a projectionist is a trade, not a profession," he continues. "You're the last link with the dream factory that is a film. It's a huge responsibility, because you're in charge of bringing people into that cinematic universe. " At the museum, Mr Cardenas has meticulously restored dozens of projectors and films on 8mm or 16mm reels. Famous characters include King Kong, Charlie Chaplin, Donald Duck and Zorro; the programme changes every week. "This place is like a little time machine," he says. "It becomes a channel between kids and their grandparents, and helps people remember their childhoods. It's a window to the past. " And the Caliwood collection will surely continue to grow. Mr Suarez believes it could reach four times its current size with greater financial resources. "The museum makes you feel like it will never end. There are no limits," he says. "But just imagine… if those two projectors hadn't been left beside my car, all those years ago, we probably wouldn't even be here! "

2016-05-28 05:04 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

46 Teacher arrested during LGBT-policy debate Contact WND (THE BLAZE) A school board candidate in Brevard County, Florida, was hauled away by police during a Tuesday meeting dealing with LGBT issues when he refused to cede his allotted speaking time. Dean Paterakis was asked by Brevard School Board chairman Andy Ziegler to vacate the speaker’s podium for making so-called “inappropriate” remarks. “That’s what happened…we have a teacher who put his phone up on the big screen and showed, what students say, was his erect penis,” Paterakis said.

2016-05-28 02:45 www.wnd.com

47 Tragically Hip: The most Canadian band in the world When the Tragically Hip announced May 24 that their lead singer Gord Downie was suffering from terminal brain cancer, Canadians expressed an unusual amount of grief, says Jordan Michael Smith. Few rock bands are publicly mourned by the prime minister and other high-level politicians, comedians, and actors, alongside the country's most prominent musicians. But the Hip, as they are known, are not ordinary musicians to Canadians. Rather, more than any other artist, they have reflected the sense of what it's like to love and live in a small, beautiful, overlooked country. To understand why the Hip resonates, it's essential to understand Canada's place in the world. From Confederation in 1867 to the end of World War II in 1945, the country lived in the shadow of Great Britain. After the United States became the dominant world power, Canada became dwarfed by America. "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant," Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau told Americans in 1969. "No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. " American power is overwhelming, and Canada struggles to maintain a distinct identity in the face of a colossus. No part of the world escapes American culture - its music, movies, television, and fashion is embraced by all parts of the globe. Canada has fewer resources than most countries to preserve a separate national culture, being relatively young, small in population, and isolated geographically. Laws exist mandating that broadcasters feature Canadian-created content, but most culture consumed in Canada is American nonetheless. Even worse, many of the most talented and popular artists and intellectuals migrate to the US, unable to resist its mammoth market and influence. Most of the Canadian-born entertainers and thinkers best-known to the world - from Justin Bieber to Ryan Reynolds to Frank Gehry - live in America. Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Celine Dion all moved south of the border - the Canadian border - to achieve fame. Even Alice Munro, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize for her short stories about small town Ontario, attracted attention through the New Yorker magazine. The Hip never penetrated American consciousness, conversely. Nine of their albums have reached number one on the music charts in Canada; they have never broken even the top 100 in the US. They are even more obscure internationally. As a result, the band is like a secret handshake for Canadians, a way to establish an exclusive commonality among anyone between the ages of roughly 15 and 45. It helped that the Hip never seemed to care much about becoming worldwide superstars. They appeared once on Saturday Night Live - introduced by fellow Canadian Dan Ackroyd -and toured the US many times. But their base was always in Canada and they never left home for long periods of time. "[Interviewers] always ask us about our success or lack of success in the States, which I find absurd," Downie once complained. "While that is a story of the band, there are so many other stories. " What's more, the Hip mined and reflected Canadian mythology in their lyrics. Songs frequently have references to hockey, geography, history, and culture that are recognisable to Canadians but unknown to outsiders. One of the band's best-known songs, Courage, is subtitled "For Hugh MacLennan," a mid-20th Century Canadian novelist. Another, Bobcaygeon, name-checks Toronto and is named after a picturesque tiny town in Ontario. Downie sings in one song of Jacques Cartier, the French explorer who named Canada. He even mentions the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in another tune. The Hip treat their country the way Bob Dylan treats America: as a source of endless poetic fascination and mystery. And as with Bruce Springsteen, the band became a cherished national symbol, even if only to itself in this case. Lyrics aside, however, the Hip are fully American-derived. That reality is telling - it is difficult for even nationalist artists to avoid US impact, an inescapable closeness that breeds resentment alongside affection. The Hip play rock n' roll, after all, an art form that originated not in Montreal and Vancouver but in Memphis and Chicago. Their music is a combination of bar bands from the 1960s, stadium rock from the 1970s, and college rock of the 1980s. What's original comes from Downie, who interrupts his Canadiana-saturated lines with bizarre stories about whale tanks and double suicides. But originality is not the point. Cultural artefacts do not have to be artistically revolutionary to be meaningful. And there is no doubt about the Hip's meaning to millions of Canadians. In the cassette culture of the 1980s and 1990s, the group's shows were heavily bootlegged, with tapes of their concerts circulating among fans and records stores in the tradition of the Grateful Dead. They have sold more albums in Canada than global powerhouses like U2, and retail chains used to open stories at midnight when Hip albums were released to offer fans instant access to the new music. In 2013, Canada Post even released a stamp with a photo of the band. Asks Downie in one song: "What's a windswept face, the elusive presence of the sun, to the hard Canadian? " Canadians know the answer, even if nobody else does. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

2016-05-28 02:32 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

48 Syria war: Turkey anger over US commando photos Turkey has hit out at the US over images said to show US special forces in Syria wearing insignia of Kurdish militia, during joint operations against so- called Islamic State (IS). Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called the US "two-faced" and said the practice was "unacceptable". The images appear to show a US special forces soldier wearing the patch of the YPG, a Kurdish militia group. On Friday the US ordered its personnel to remove the patches. A US spokesman in Baghdad, Col Steve Warren, said the wearing of the patches was unauthorised, and admitted there were political sensitivities on this occasion which made the practice inappropriate. Turkish authorities accuse the YPG of being linked to the banned PKK Kurdish militant group, which the Turks, along with the EU and US, regard as a terrorist organisation. The Pentagon had initially said troops wore the insignia to blend in. The series of images, by an AFP photographer, show the US soldiers operating alongside members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed anti-IS Kurdish-Arab alliance dominated by Kurdish fighters. The SDF is largely comprised of the YPG and YPJ, the men's and women's wings of the Kurdish People's Protection Units. The US has publicly acknowledged that its troops are working alongside the YPG, but this is the first time images have emerged of apparent US troops wearing the militia insignia. Social media fears of Raqqa backlash The US military has refused to comment directly on the images but says it has about 300 troops in Syria in training and support roles but not participating in frontline combat. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said it is common for US soldiers to attempt to blend in with local partners. He said: "Special operations forces, when they operate in certain areas, do what they can to, if you will, blend in with the community to enhance their own protection, their own security". The images were taken about 30 miles from the IS stronghold of Raqqa. They emerged days after the SDF launched a military campaign to drive the jihadists back from territory north of the city. The ground offensive is being supported by air strikes from the US-led anti- IS coalition. Some observers were critical of the US forces' decision. Charles Lister, of the Middle East Institute, told AFP: "On a human level, I get it. They are probably doing it in some way to try and present [themselves] as a friendly ally to the locals. "But the broader reality here is that US-Turkish relations are already on a pretty low level, and I know for a fact that something like this will have stirred significant anger in Ankara - and that's not a good thing. "

2016-05-28 06:29 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

49 Asia Times News & Features – Asia Times Japan’s lost decade has had far-reaching effects, and continues to impact women in the nation’s workforce. Today, many Japanese women leave the workforce to raise a family, and struggle to return to work in the face of rigid gender roles and social expectations that women should be responsible for a family while working. A lack of available daycare facilities, aging parents’ care, and the absence of support from their husbands are further road blocks for women who desire career options in their lives. Sachi Maehashi, 34, has a law degree from a four-year college in Japan. Now married with two young children, Sachi wants to go back to work to rebuild her career. Here’s the reality check: Sachi needs to overcome a number of obstacles both physical and mental before she can even start looking for a job. “Women can’t be out there building their career unless they’re married to a very understanding husband, have parents who can look after their grandchildren, and also have a good work environment. I’m off that path already,” Sachi says. Sachi is having sleeping problems lately, which she thinks comes from her stress and depression. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is currently promoting more women to be in supervisory positions to reduce the gender inequality gap in the workplace. It’s an initiative to help revive the economic slump facing an aging population and a shrinking workforce. Abe set an ambitious goal that by 2020, women should hold 30% of senior jobs, compared to just over 8% in 2014 in private sector. “That’s a talk over the clouds completely and it doesn’t relate to me at all” laughs Sachi, referring to Abe’s ambitious plan. Sachi’s story is not uncommon. Her plight is shared by many highly- educated Japanese women/mothers who are eager to work but feel discouraged and even hopeless. Many feel trapped in cultural expectations of how women should be as wives, mothers, and daughters. For women who want to return to work face many challenges: lack of available space for children in the nursery, aging parents in need of care, and the absence of support by their husbands. Women are equal until college Thirty years after the first gender equality law in the workplace enacted here, Japanese women are still struggling to advance in their careers. A recent study by the World Economic Forum shows that Japan’s ranking in gender equality is very low. Japan placed the 104th place out of 142 countries in 2014, below that of Tajikistan and Indonesia. Women are more or less equal with men only up to college. They start their careers along with their male counterparts after college, but find themselves in a very different place 10 years later. After working six to seven years, many women get too exhausted or get sick, and start feeling pressured to get married and give up advancing in their careers. For women who are married and working, challenges are greater when they become pregnant. It’s very common for working pregnant women to face what’s called “matahara” or “maternity harassment” from their bosses or co- workers. Because of social repercussions and not wanting to be a “meiwaku” (causing someone the trouble by putting extra workload because of their pregnancy), many women end up leaving the workplace voluntarily. Women who continue to work after giving birth, they find out soon that their husbands are not very supportive. Even though men are allowed to take the paternity leave, no one takes advantage of it in fear that their career will be in jeopardy for career advances. Japanese men, in fact, are among the men who do the least amount of house chores in any developed country. In contrast, about 70% of Japanese women stop working compared with just 30% in the US. In fact, many of them never go back to work. “Die, Japan” Japan has been slow in creating space for children in the nursery for working parents. As of April 2015, there are more than 23,000 children on the waiting list for nursery, up 1,800 from the year before. Some months ago, a Japanese mother blogger wrote, “My kid fell through (from getting a space in a public nursery). Die, Japan.” This blog drew nationwide attention, prompting the country’s biggest economic daily to write a column about it. The blogger complained that whatever Prime Minister Abe is trying to do under his initiative, it’s just not possible. “(You politicians) are getting bribes and spending tons of money for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. You expect us to have babies, but there aren’t any nursery schools when it’s time to go back to work! Why don’t you slash the Olympics budget and make more nurseries so that people like us don’t have to lose our jobs! Fire half of the lawmakers, and you’ll have the money to build more nurseries!,” she wrote. So why are there not enough nurseries? Why doesn’t Japan spend enough money to improve the social infrastructure for working parents? Is it because Japanese politicians think this is a women’s issue but not a men’s issue or the country’s? Look at Japan’s parliament, and part of the answer is there: Female lawmakers make up only about 8%, ranking at 157th place out of 185 countries and areas surveyed by the World Bank. Young women in dilemma: work vs. marriage Working women in their 20s and 30s face increasing pressure to get married and have a family. By the age of 35, their parents, friends and others begin to worry about them being single. In contrast, men remaining single at the age of 35 is seen as quite normal. Some men even choose to marry in their late 30s or in 40s. One data bite shows about 43% of women living in Tokyo age 30 and 35 are still single. Kaori Nishihara, 37, who works at a leading travel agency say that she wouldn’t be here as a career woman if she had been married. She’s lived in China for a few years and traveled all over the world as part of her job, working many extra hours every day, sometimes on weekends. Kaori’s parents and her older sister, who is a full-time mother with two kids, are worried about her because they think time is running out for Kaori to have a good marriage. Surprisingly, some local colleges are giving lectures to female students about “how to plan their lives well” so that in the years ahead they wouldn’t have to marry too late and thus suffer from infertility problems. Some reports say that one out of every 24 children in Japan are born today through in-vitro fertilization. In 2013, the number of in-vitro fertilization attempted was 368,764 cases, 3.6 times more than 10 years before. Here’s another fact: Japan’s birthrate is 1.42, second lowest after South Korea, according to data. But why are colleges pressuring young women to marry and have kids early? Personal choices matter, but why is higher education putting more pressure on women rather than helping them make choices to live better and easier? The truth is this is not a women’s issue but a much larger issue that should be handled by society as a whole. The solutions should include the companies and the government. Why do women have to bear the responsibility alone? “I wasn’t a Superwoman” “I wasn’t a superwoman, you see,” says 45-year old former career-minded woman, who has a business degree from a four-year university. She’s worked for several multinational companies in Tokyo. “I went crazy working till late at night in my 20s and 30s, managing life with my little kids and husband. My husband has always been a traditional guy. So what can I expect from him? In the end, I decided to quit. I had no choice,” she said. Her husband works for one of Japan’s leading trading firms and comes home every night after 10 pm. He has no time for housework or spending time with children. “In Japan, men are encouraged to work hard and it’s okay if they sacrifice family life over work. But women are expected to do both — work and take care of the family. There is no way we can do all this.” She now teaches English part-time to some local elementary school children at home to balance work and family. An Internet company CEO (who is married to a non-Japanese) says she is lucky that her husband doesn’t hold a typical Japanese traditional view that women do most of the housework and child-rearing. She and her husband work full-time, and hired a cleaning lady for housekeeping and a nanny for their 1-year-old son. Her husband feeds kids breakfast and makes a lunchbox for her 7-year old daughter every morning. She says there are two mothers and two fathers in her family. Even under such a “gifted circumstance” as many Japanese women may see, she laments things could be better. “I think the social infrastructure in this country for women to hold a competitive position isn’t ready yet,” she says, adding that her climbing the career ladder wasn’t all that smooth and easy. “As much as your partner’s support is important, the social infrastructure set up by the government and companies really matter,” she says. She just returned home from a week- long business trip to the US, while the husband took care of the children and worked. As a mother of two daughters, I want to see this country change so that when my girls grow up, they can have a better environment in which they can pursue a career and be able to balance family life. Japanese people are traditionally known for having “gaman” and “taeru” mentality, holding back and persevere-and live-with-it attitude. I don’t want that for my girls. I want them to be freer, and live without rigid gender roles and social expectations. For that, changes must be made by the joint efforts by the government, corporate executives, and everyone involved. Because in the end, it does matter for the future of our country and our children for generations to come. Junko Ashida is a part-time English teacher and former journalist (Copyright 2016 Asia Times Holdings Limited, a duly registered Hong Kong company. All rights reserved. Please contact us about sales, syndication and republishing.)

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50 Maine Sunday Telegram News The Senate also passed the Patents for Humanity Program Improvement Act (S. 1402), to allow the transfer of acceleration certificates awarded under the Patents for Humanity Program. HOUSE VOTES House Vote 1 USING PHONE LOCATION DATA IN EMERGENCIES: The House has rejected the Kelsey Smith Act (H. R. 4889), sponsored by Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-Kan. The bill would have required that telecommunications providers give information about the call location of a telecommunications user to a police offer in an emergency situation or in order to respond to the user’s request for emergency services. Yoder said a federal rule requiring the delivery of location data to the police would speed responses to life and death emergencies, without endangering the privacy of consumers. A bill opponent, Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Md., said it did not adequately uphold Fourth Amendment rights because it did not require law enforcement to obtain retroactive court orders approving of emergency requests for location data. The vote, on May 23, was 229 yeas to 158 nays, with a two-thirds majority required for approval. NAYS: Chellie Pingree, D-1st District YEAS: Bruce Poliquin, R-2nd District House Vote 2 RULES FOR EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS: The House has passed the Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act (H. R. 3998), sponsored by Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N. J. The bill would require the Federal Communications Commission to begin consideration of rules for mobile phone service providers to operate during emergencies that cause mobile service outages, for providing mobile 911 services during emergencies, and for enabling emergency communications between public safety agencies and telecommunications service providers. Pallone said the FCC rules will save lives by making sure “that if one network goes down, its customers can access another network that is still operational” in an emergency. The vote, on May 23, was 389 yeas to 2 nays. YEAS: Pingree, Poliquin House Vote 3 AUTHORIZING INTELLIGENCE SPENDING: The House has passed the Intelligence Authorization Act (H. R. 5077), sponsored by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., to authorize fiscal 2017 spending on the CIA, FBI, and other intelligence and intelligence-related programs of the federal government. Nunes called the funding necessary to provide intelligence programs with the resources needed to preserve U. S. security at a time of heightened terrorism threats from Islamic State in particular. The vote, on May 24, was 371 yeas to 35 nays. YEAS: Pingree, Poliquin House Vote 4 ZIKA AND PESTICIDE USE: The House has passed the Zika Vector Control Act (H. R. 897), sponsored by Rep. Bob Gibbs, R-Ohio. The bill would block the Environmental Protection Agency and state governments from requiring a Clean Water Act permit for most discharges of authorized pesticides into navigable waterways. Gibbs said a recently imposed permitting requirement for pesticide use by hundreds of thousands of Americans meant “time and money that should be spent on eradicating mosquitos will be spent on bureaucratic paperwork instead,” with no associated environmental benefit and an increased danger of the spread of Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases. A bill opponent, Rep. Janet Napolitano, D-Calif., said the permit rule worked to improve the monitoring and control of pesticide applications that could endanger drinking water supplies. The vote, on May 24, was 258 yeas to 156 nays. NAYS: Pingree YEAS: Poliquin House Vote 5 REGULATING CHEMICALS: The House has passed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (H. R. 2576), sponsored by Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill. The bill would change processes for the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate chemicals, including tools for testing information on chemicals, attempting to improve the use of science in regulation, and updating the system of industry fees that funds EPA chemicals regulation. Shimkus said with its reforms to a regulatory system dating back to 1976, the bill would be “good for consumers, good for jobs, and good for the environment,” improving consumer safety while adopting more predictable and even-handed regulations. The vote, on May 24, was 403 yeas to 12 nays. NAYS: Pingree YEAS: Poliquin House Vote 6 CONTROL OF WASHINGTON, D. C., BUDGET: The House has passed the Clarifying Congressional Intent in Providing for DC Home Rule Act (H. R. 5233), sponsored by Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N. C. The bill would repeal a 2012 Washington, D. C., law giving the D. C. government autonomy over its own budget, and restore that budgeting authority to Congress. Meadows said the 2012 law was “illegal and, therefore, null and void” due to its attempt to usurp budgeting powers over D. C. assigned to Congress by the Constitution. An opponent, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D. C., said the 2012 law has been upheld in court, and called the bill a profoundly undemocratic move by Congress to reject efforts by D. C. residents to responsibly manage their own local government. The vote, on May 25, was 240 yeas to 179 nays. NAYS: Pingree YEAS: Poliquin House Vote 7 ENERGY POLICY BILL: The House has passed the Energy Policy Modernization Act (S. 2012), sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. The bill would direct the Energy Department to conduct various electricity storage and vehicle technology research programs, adopt new energy efficiency standards, increase cybersecurity requirements for the electricity grid, and require speedy reviews of applications to export liquefied natural gas. A supporter, Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., said the bill’s provisions will help keep energy affordable, improve energy security by protecting against various threats to energy infrastructure, and improve energy efficiency and the development of new energy technologies. An opponent, Rep. Bobby L. Rush, D-Ill., said the bill was a step backward in energy policy with its failure to “incentivize the development and the deployment of clean energy” and “loopholes to help industry avoid accountability and to avoid further regulation” that would improve public safety and the environment. The vote, on May 25, was 241 yeas to 178 nays. NAYS: Pingree YEAS: Poliquin House Vote 8 NORTH CAROLINA AND PUBLIC BATHROOMS: The House has passed an amendment sponsored by Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N. C., to the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H. R. 5055). The amendment would bar the bill from funding efforts to revoke federal funding previously awarded to North Carolina through energy and water agencies. Pittenger called the amendment a needed measure to stop the Obama administration from coercing North Carolina and other states that oppose administration legal beliefs concerning transsexuals and public bathrooms into falling in line with the administration. An amendment opponent, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, said it would prevent federal agencies from conducting responsible oversight of federal funds distributed to North Carolina because the agencies would no longer have the money needed to monitor use of the funds. The vote, on May 25, was 227 yeas to 192 nays. NAYS: Pingree, Poliquin House Vote 9 ESTIMATING HARM FROM CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS: The House has passed an amendment sponsored by Rep. Paul A. Gosar, R-Ariz., to the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H. R. 5055). The amendment would block funding for efforts to develop regulations or regulatory guidance related to the federal government’s social cost of carbon dioxide emissions estimate. Gosar said the Obama administration has attempted to use the estimate as the basis for unilateral and unauthorized efforts “to deceive the American people and to enact job- killing regulations” with the justification of preventing climate change. An amendment opponent, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, said “unchecked climate change would have a catastrophic economic and human impact here and across the world,” and the social cost of carbon estimate was a reasonable response to that danger. The vote, on May 25, was 230 yeas to 188 nays. NAYS: Pingree YEAS: Poliquin House Vote 10 BUYING IRANIAN HEAVY WATER: The House has passed an amendment sponsored by Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., to the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H. R. 5055). The amendment would bar funding for federal agencies to buy heavy water from Iran for use in nuclear energy facilities. DeSantis said “continuing purchases of Iranian heavy water would subsidize Iran’s nuclear program and allow them to maintain the threshold capacity” needed to potentially develop a nuclear bomb. An amendment opponent, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, said the purchases of Iranian heavy water give industrial users a critical product and ensure that neither Iran nor other countries can use the heavy water to develop nuclear weapons. The vote, on May 25, was 251 yeas to 168 nays. NAYS: Pingree YEAS: Poliquin House Vote 11 ENERGY, WATER SPENDING BILL: The House has rejected the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H. R. 5055), sponsored by Rep. Michael K. Simpson, R-Idaho. The bill would have provided $37.4 billion of fiscal 2017 funding for the Energy Department, Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, and various energy and water agencies. Simpson said it made balanced investments to back all kinds of energy development, including nuclear, fossil fuels, and renewable energy, and “takes a strong stand against the regulatory overreach and extreme application of laws that have been the hallmark of this administration.” A bill opponent, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, criticized its $248 million cut in funding for the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The vote, on May 26, was 112 yeas to 305 nays. NAYS: Pingree YEAS: Poliquin House Vote 12 RECONCILING VERSIONS OF HUD, TRANSPORTATION SPENDING BILLS: The House has passed a resolution to go to conference with the Senate to reconcile the two chambers’ versions of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H. R. 2577), including emergency supplemental funding for Health and Human Services Department measures to contain the Zika virus and treat Zika victims. A resolution supporter, Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., said the House version of the bill “acts responsibly by using existing funds designated for Ebola and other infectious diseases to pay for our response to the looming Zika threat.” A resolution opponent, Rep. James P. McGovern, D-Mass., criticized the House version for inadequately funding the response to Zika, which he called a “potentially devastating crisis.” The vote to go to conference, on May 26, was 233 yeas to 180 nays. NAYS: Pingree YEAS: Poliquin SENATE VOTES Senate Vote 1 MONITORING SEX OFFENDERS: The Senate has passed the Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act (S. 2613), sponsored by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. The bill would reauthorize through fiscal 2018 the federal government’s Sex Offender Management Assistance Program and Jessica Lunsford Address Verification Grant Program, and funding for the U. S. Marshals Service to apprehend sex offenders who do not register with local authorities. Grassley said reauthorizing the efforts will work to protect children from sexual predators and other violent criminals by keeping track of the location of registered sex offenders. The vote, on May 23, was unanimous with 89 yeas. YEAS: Susan Collins, R-Maine; Angus King, I-Maine Senate Vote 2 MANAGING RETIREMENT FUNDS: The Senate has passed a resolution (H. J. Res. 88), sponsored by Rep. David P. Roe, R-Tenn., disapproving of a proposed Labor Department rule defining the term “fiduciary” as it applies to financial advisers managing the retirement funds of their clients. A resolution supporter, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., said the rule was too complicated and too burdensome, especially for small businesses and their employees, who unlike large companies will have no chance of being exempted from its impositions. An opponent, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said the fiduciary rule will protect those saving for retirement from losing billions of dollars a year because their financial advisers have steered them into complicated investments with hidden fees and adviser commissions. The vote, on May 24, was 56 yeas to 41 nays. YEAS: Collins NAYS: King Senate Vote 3 REGULATING CATFISH IMPORTS: The Senate has passed a resolution (S. J. Res. 28), sponsored by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to cancel an Agriculture Department rule creating a special office for inspecting catfish imported from Vietnam and other countries. McCain said the rule, which took effect in March, wasted millions of dollars with no benefits for public health, and violated free trade rules by singling out Vietnamese exporters to pay high regulatory compliance costs that U. S. catfish farmers do not pay. A resolution opponent, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said the rule only applied an inspections regime for catfish imports that is similar to the inspections regime for domestic catfish, and that inspections of Vietnamese catfish have frequently found them to have contaminated substances, some of them cancer-causing. The vote, on May 25, was 55 yeas to 43 nays. NAYS: Collins YEAS: King Senate Vote 4 CONFIRMING NUCLEAR ENERGY DIPLOMAT: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Laura S. H. Holgate to serve as U. S. representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency. A supporter, Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., said Holgate had extensive experience in the Energy Department and Defense Department, with 14 years serving in senior positions “building and leading global coalitions to prevent states and terrorists from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction.” The vote, on May 26, was 67 yeas to 29 nays. YEAS: Collins, King

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51 Rewind: The birth of the World Cup, Barca lifting Champions League trophy and much more... May 28 is a significant date in football history since it was on this day back that the World Cup was born in the FIFA womb and then in Barcelona and AC Milan got to lift the Champions League trophy. Here are some of the interesting events that took place in soccer history on this day: 1928: The FIFA Congress in Amsterdam, with President Jules Rimet as the driving force, decided to organise and stage its own international football tournament, which came to be known as the World Cup. Frenchman Jules Rimet (L), head of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) hands over the World Cup trophy to Dr Raul Jude, president of the Uruguayan football association on July 5, 1930 in Montevideo. The trophy was to be presented to the captain of the winning team of the first World Cup, staged in Uruguay from July 13 to July 30. Pic/AFP 1980: English club Nottingham Forest won their 2nd consecutive European Cup, beating Hamburg 1-0 in the final in Madrid. 1982: Diego Maradona moved from Boca Juniors to Barcelona in football's first £5million transfer. 2002: Second-tier English side Wimbledon were given the green light to relocate to Milton Keynes despite vehement opposition from many of their supporters and the Football Association. 2003: AC Milan won the Champions League, beating Juventus 3-2 on penalties in the final after a goalless draw at Old Trafford. AC Milan forward Italian Filippo Inzaghi (R) and coach Carlo Ancelotti jubilate after winning the European Champions League Final against Juventus at Old Trafford Stadium on May 28, 2003 in Manchester. Pic/AFP 2007: Derby won promotion to the English Premier League after beating West Brom 1-0 in the Championship play-off final at Wembley. The promotion was short-lived as the following season saw them being relegated with a record low points total. 2010: Real Madrid and Inter Milan confirmed they had agreed a deal for coach Jose Mourinho to join the Spanish club. Barcelona's players celebrate with the trophy at the end of the UEFA Champions League final football match FC Barcelona vs. Manchester United, on May 28, 2011 at Wembley stadium in London. Barcelona won 3 to 1. Pic/AFP 2011: Barcelona won the Champions League by beating Manchester United 3-1 in the final at Wembley.

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52 Littleport's hunger riots: Descendants mark 200th anniversary It resulted in five men being hanged on the scaffold and a mixed legacy of shame and pride. But what triggered a Cambridgeshire village to go on a three-day rampage soon after the end of the Napoleonic Wars? The rioting broke out in Littleport on 22 May 1816, when about 100 people armed with pitchforks, cleavers and guns smashed windows and broke down doors, stealing money, food and goods from their wealthier neighbours. Resident Elizabeth Little described Thomas South brandishing his cleaver and when she asked if he wanted bread or meat, he replied: "No, we want money". He demanded £1, but on being told Mrs Little only had 10 shillings, took that instead. Littleport's vicar tried to restore order by reading the Riot Act - the 1714 legislation had made it a crime for a crowd of 12 or more to refuse to disperse when ordered to do so by a magistrate. Instead, the mob overwhelmed him, ransacked his house and he was forced to flee for Ely with his family. The next day the rioters also set off for Ely, armed with a 8ft (2.4m)-long water-fowling firearm called a punt gun, which they had loaded on to a stolen wagon. More than 300 people eventually participated in the riot, which was put down on 24 May by the Cambridgeshire Militia and the 1st (Royal) Regiment of Dragoons. One rioter was killed, a soldier who had survived the Battle of Waterloo was maimed for life and 82 prisoners were committed to Ely Gaol. On 28 June 1816, five men were hanged, "having been convicted of divers Robberies". Death sentences were actually given to a total of 23 men and one woman, although the majority had their sentences commuted to transportation to Australia or imprisonment. The Littleport Riots were not isolated events, but part of "a wave of unrest" from 1815 onwards, according to Anglia Ruskin University historian Rohan McWilliam. "There was economic dislocation after the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the introduction of the Corn Laws in 1815, which increased taxation on wheat," he said. "Labour wages weren't keeping up with the cost of living, while poor harvests exacerbated the situation. " Previously common land, on which labourers could grow crops or keep livestock to supplement their wages, was being enclosed by landowners. Their employment conditions had also changed, said University of Hertfordshire historian Katrina Navickas, to "daily hirings instead of yearly hirings - in essence, the introduction of a type of zero-hours contract". This was exacerbated by a breakdown of the Poor Law, which was supposed to help the most vulnerable based on need with small sums of money and "in kind" goods such as shoes. Dr Navikas said: "Inflation is high after the Napoleonic Wars inflation and just the bare minimum is paid because ratepayers are saying they're paying too much. " And then to tighten the screw still further, the Game Laws passed in 1816 restricted the hunting of game to landowners, with transportation the penalty for poaching - or even being found in possession of a net at night. The disturbance broke out when a group of mostly unemployed men met at the Globe Inn, for a meeting of the village Benefit Club. Patricia Collins, whose ancestor William Beamiss was its treasurer and later hanged, said: "Members made contributions so they could draw out money when they were in need - but the problem was everyone was in need and the money had run out. " Feelings boiled over and the men left the pub and began intimidating their neighbours, fuelled by drink - and fury over the low wages, the high price of food and spiralling unemployment. Research done by Cambridgeshire Archives suggests that vicar John Vachell was a particular target because "he was a local magistrate and well known for his harsh sentencing". John Denniss feels proud to be descended from one of the executed men, but many of his forebears saw the story differently. They "were ashamed" and even slightly changed the spelling of their surname from Dennis to Denniss, he said. He believes his ancestor, the Globe's publican John Dennis, "was prepared to stand up for people worse off than him". Miss Collins prefers to see contemporary parallels. She said: "They were people driven to desperate straits and it's good to bring this story into the public eye at this time, when there are so many food banks. " Jeremy Sallis is descended from Little Sallis, a trial witness who told the court he saw about 100 people, armed with weapons, smashing windows and looting in Littleport. He was brought up believing his ancestor was a rioter, and only recently discovered "his evidence convicted people". A spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire Archives said: "The government was genuinely worried by the danger of violent protest getting out of hand - the revolution in France was still fresh in everyone's mind and any challenge to the Establishment was seen to contain the seeds of revolution. " Justice was meted out by a government-appointed special commission, which set aside the Isle of Ely judge Edward Christian, the brother of Mutiny on the Bounty's Fletcher Christian. A contemporary account described how on the scaffold, John Dennis, Isaac Harley, Thomas South, William Beamiss and George Crow "endeavoured to shake hands with each other, but having their arms pinioned they were prevented from so doing". Miss Collins said: "John Denniss and William Beamiss were supposed to know better, because they were a publican and a shoemaker and were a bit older than the others - so they are supposed to have led them astray. " In Littleport, there is still a belief their rioters were "martyrs and made an example of", according to Deb Curtis from the Field Theatre Group, which has received a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to make a film about the disturbances. Prof McWilliam does not agree - pointing to the execution of 19 men in the anti-mechanisation Captain Swing riots of 1830. "Both the Littleport and Swing riots were protests at the increasing impoverishment of the rural poor and the government used the force of the scaffold to clamp down on unrest," he said. "The rioters felt the full force of the Bloody Code, with 200 offences leading to execution. " He also points to the violence used to disperse unemployed Lancashire mill workers when they tried to march on Parliament in 1817 and the force used during Manchester's Peterloo Massacre of 1819. By 1820, there was even an attempt to overthrow the government in the Cato Street Conspiracy. After the executions, an inscription was put on the side of Littleport parish church, listing the men's names and crimes and ending, "May their awful fate be a warning to others. " The vicar, Mr Vachell, was one of many who sought compensation for the destruction of his property - and received £708, which is about £50,000 in today's values. Littleport Parish also agreed to pay £5 a year to the Waterloo veteran whose arm was injured in the riot and later amputated. Miss Collins said the men had tried to help themselves through periods of unemployment or sickness by paying into the Benefit Club. "In today's terms, they weren't shirkers, they were workers who were looking after each other, but the need was so great the money had run out," she said. And while former shop steward Mr Beamiss knows there was a time when his family were ashamed about their connection to a man who joined - and possibly led - the mob - he believes his ancestor "fought for the underdog".

2016-05-28 11:07 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

53 Chavista military architect turns against successor: 'It's anarchy' In the popular retelling of modern Venezuelan history, Hugo Chavez was once a disillusioned soldier with grand plans. Quietly and methodically, he formulated a secret group called the MBR-200 to force the country's leadership from power. The attempted coup in February 1992 ultimately failed but it projected the socialist leader onto the national consciousness, where he remains to this day. At his side in that insurrection was a young captain, Cliver Alcala. Few military men in Venezuela can legitimately claim to be an original architect of the Chavista project within the armed forces, but retired Maj Gen Alcala certainly can. "My role in Chavismo dates back to over 20 years" he says in Caracas, no longer dressed in his military fatigues but the pinstriped suit and pink tie of a civilian. "When Comandante Chavez started the MBR-200, I was a 19-year-old cadet. Today, I'm 54. " While in power, there was little that Chavez valued more than loyalty. And as Alcala quickly climbed the military ladder, he strove to provide it through open demonstrations of unwavering support. He is often credited with being the first to publicly declare the armed forces "Bolivarian" and "revolutionary". But today he is excoriating about the direction the government of President Nicolas Maduro is taking and the role of the military in the current political and economic crisis gripping the country. Mr Maduro succeeded Chavez, who died of cancer three years ago. "This isn't Chavismo," Gen Alcala says of the socialist leadership. "It's anarchy. " "Over the past three years, we have entered a maelstrom of anarchy in which a group of compatriots that once supported the revolution - both civilians and military - thought they could install an anarchic ideology in the country. " "And so they have. " He immediately begins to list problems, with corruption at every level of government, and accuses the military of standing idly by as Rome - or in this case Caracas - burns. Rocio San Miguel, who runs a Venezuelan NGO on military affairs, believes Gen Alcala is trying to position himself "as an alternative figure in the case of an eventual collapse by Nicolas Maduro". He denies having such presidential aspirations but does he now back the opposition's calls for a recall referendum which might see Mr Maduro go before the end of his term? "The constitution is clear. The president says the recall vote is just 'an option'. It's not optional. "Irrespective of the fact that a group of people might not want it, it's permitted under the constitution. " The military have always played a vital role in Venezuela since its independence in the 1800s. "Colombia is a university, Venezuela is a barracks," says the retired Major General, citing a line often attributed to Simon Bolivar. But today, the extent to which militarisation has become the norm in Venezuela is self-evident in Caracas. As tensions run high amid the long queues, food shortages, blackouts and rampant inflation, there are military checkpoints on the road up from the airport and the National Guard toting machine guns outside supermarkets and stores. Last weekend, the government ordered what were supposed to be the biggest military exercises the country had ever seen - denounced as a "show" by critics like Cliver Alcala. The BBC requested an interview with the ministry of defence for this article, but has so far received no response. One soldier, a lieutenant in the Venezuelan army, spoke on the condition of anonymity. In his late 20s, he is looking for a route out of the country as he believes the extent of the politicisation of the armed forces is harming the institution. "The military environment exists under the slogan 'Viva Chavez!'" he explains. "They try to impress those ideas on everyone in the ranks and there is no freedom of thought or expression within the Venezuelan army. " Every morning, he says, the first slogan the assembled troops hear is "Chavez Lives" to which they must respond: "the struggle continues. " Recently, key opposition leader, Henrique Capriles Radonski told the BBC that the armed forces in Venezuela would soon have to pick a side. "Either they're with the constitution or they're with Maduro. " A military coup was "in the air", he added. But the young lieutenant disagrees, saying the authorities have worked out how to avoid a repeat of the short-lived putsch against President Chavez in April 2002. "Historically, all the coups in Venezuela have been military ones", he explains in the airless living room of an apartment in downtown Caracas. Today he says most soldiers are not expecting an uprising from the armed forces because "the top brass receive greater benefits in salary, in subsidised food, in housing, a car - whatever will keep them from bringing a battalion out onto the streets". His former superior, Gen Alcala concurs. "I don't think there'll be a coup. In fact, I'm convinced there won't be. The armed forces are now divorced from such actions and any adventures would be stopped before they began. " "We went through this process 24 years ago, in 1992," he says, referring to his participation in Hugo Chavez's doomed first bid for power. Some still hold out hope for a negotiated political solution to Venezuela's woes. But the executive and the National Assembly remain at loggerheads, and people on the streets are getting desperate. "Nicolas Maduro is refusing to recognise the will of the Venezuelan people," says Gen Alcala. "He's basically saying that the Venezuelan people made a mistake. Well, the people don't make mistakes. Leaders make mistakes. "

2016-05-28 11:04 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

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

2016-05-28 11:10 By Dylan www.chron.com

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

2016-05-28 11:10 By Kevin www.chron.com

56 What people in the Middle East really think of Tony Blair's latest idea Tony Blair told This Week's World that his foundation's new initiative aims to tackle Islamist radicalisation through counter-extremism education programmes. We asked people in the Middle East what they thought of the former British prime minister and his new initiative - and showed them his picture. You can watch This Week's World every Saturday on BBC Two and BBC World News. Catch up with the latest episode on BBC iPlayer , or on YouTube oustside the UK.

2016-05-28 04:54 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

57 Flexi-space room expansion suspended The deployment of a new, expandable "room" on the International Space Station was suspended on Thursday when it failed to open up as expected. Astronaut Jeff Williams began inflating the module, but controllers eventually told him to stand down after 3.5 hours of extremely slow progress. Installed in a compact form, the vessel is supposed to stretch to 4m in length with a volume of 16 cu m. But as Williams squirted air into the module, it stretched only a few cm. Engineers will review the data and hope to resuming the expansion, but Nasa said later in the day that any such attempt would not take place on Friday. A briefing on the status of the operation is scheduled for 12:00 US eastern time (17:00 BST) on Friday. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module is a demonstrator for the type of habitats that may be used to build future orbiting labs. It is possible such rooms could even make for more living space during the many months it would take humans to travel to Mars. The Beam was taken up to the station last month and connected to a berthing point on the Tranquility module. If and when the astronauts can get the new room filled out, it will undergo two years of tests. Engineers want to know if the structure is as robust as traditional metal modules. Astronauts will not actually go in the Beam that often, given its experimental nature. And when they do, it will be to have a quick look around to check its integrity. Nothing will be stored in the room, either. Most of the time, the hatch to the Beam will remain closed and controllers on the ground will monitor its status through a series of embedded sensors. These will track temperature, pressure, radiation and impacts. The Beam has been produced in a partnership between the US space agency (Nasa) and American entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, who built his fortune on the back of a budget hotel chain. His ambition now is to take that accommodation experience into orbit. Although the vessel attached to the space station is only a little bigger than a broom cupboard, the businessman has plans for expandable modules that are substantially bigger. He hopes to rent these out to anyone who wants to use them for science and even tourism - as hotels in space. Already, Robert Bigelow has a rocket booked for 2020, to take up his BA- 330 model, which, as the designation intimates, has a volume of 330 cubic metres (12,000 cu ft).

2016-05-28 02:13 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

58 Search launched for ferry crewman off Pembrokeshire coast A major search has been launched for a crewman who is feared to have gone overboard a ferry off the Pembrokeshire coast. The alarm was raised several hours after the Irish Ferries service from Rosslare arrived in Pembroke Dock, when it was realised the man was missing. He was last seen about 45 minutes before the ferry docked at 12:45 BST. The Coastguard Rescue Helicopter 187 from St Athan has been searching an area several miles off St Anne's Head. RNLI lifeboats have also been involved in the search which was called off for the night at 22:00 BST and is due to resume at first light on Friday. An Irish Ferries spokesman said after the vessel sailed for Rosslare later in the afternoon it was realised that the man was not at his post. The crewman had worked for the company for more than a year and was part of the catering staff on the Isle of Inishmore ferry. A "top to bottom, thorough search" was carried out and when the man was not found Milford Haven Coastguards were alerted. The vessel was given authority to continue to Rosslare, where a further search was carried out without success. The spokesman added: "We are naturally very distressed this man is missing and we have no reason to jump to any conclusions and we hope he is found alive and well. "Authorities have been notified on both sides of the Irish Sea. " A Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokeswoman said: "HM Coastguard has been coordinating a search off the Pembrokeshire coast today for a crew-member of a ferry who may have gone overboard late this morning. "The UK Coastguard St Athan helicopter has been involved in the search for the missing man, along with Angle lifeboat and two lifeboats from St Davids. "

2016-05-28 02:13 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

59 Cleveland authorities to tout convention preparedness CLEVELAND (AP) — City officials plan to present an overview of security preparation for this summer's Republican National Convention in Cleveland, seeking to counter continuing concerns about readiness to host the event expected to bring 50,000 visitors to northeast Ohio. A press release from Mayor Frank Jackson's office said Tuesday's session will cover public safety, medical services, emergency management and more. The release stated that "despite rumors" to the contrary, Cleveland police are on track with preparedness goals and are continuing to sign agreements with outside agencies for assistance. The release Friday evening came after the Greensboro, North Carolina, police department rescinded its offer to send 50 police officers to the convention, citing worries about insurance coverage and Cleveland's preparations for the convention that begins July 18. A Cleveland police union official has said repeatedly that officers aren't being properly trained for unruly protest crowds. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign has been targeted for protest and demonstrations. Steve Loomis, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, charged Friday that the city has been "absolutely irresponsible. " The city's release said no outside agencies have directly expressed preparedness concerns.

2016-05-28 17:07 Associated Press www.dailymail.co.uk

60 Mamata and Mamta: A tale of two contrasting fortunes Mamata Banerjee and Mamta Kulkarni have been in the news for completing contrasting reasons of late. Back in the 90s, both were hugely popular, but while Banerjee has built on her fame, Kulkarni has been dogged by controversy. We take a closer look at their profiles. File pic/AFP Mamata Banerjee: She was, on Friday, sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the second consecutive time. Banerjee has been the CM of West Bengal since 2011, and is the first female politician to hold the office. Back in 1997, Banerjee founded Trinamool Congress (TMC), after separating from Indian National Congress (INC). In 2011, Banerjee created Indian political history as the TMC-Congress alliance in West Bengal pulled off a landslide victory defeating the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front government, which was in power for a record 34 years. Pic/AFP Banerjee has also served as the Minister of Railways twice. In fact, she is the first woman Railway Minister of India. In 2012, Time magazine named her one of the '100 Most influential People in the World'. Also, in an internal poll by 'India Against Corruption' she was named India's most honest politician. Pic/Santa Banta Mamta Kulkarni: She starred in a number of commercially successful Bollywood films in the 90s – ‘Waqt Hamara Hai’ (1993), 'Krantiveer' (1994), 'Karan Arjun' (1995) and 'Sabse Bada Khiladi' (1995). She even won the New Face of the Year award for her performance in 'Aashiq Awara' (1993). Her later films however did not work, and by the turn of the millennium, she was a forgotten name. Mamta has begun making headlines again, but for all the wrong reasons. In November 2014, she was reported detained in Kenya along with her husband Vijay 'Vicky' Goswami, a notorious drug lord wanted by 6 countries, on the grounds of alleged drug trafficking. Goswami’s name has also surfaced in the Rs 2000 crore Thane drug racket, which was busted recently. Cops found out that around 100 kg of ephedrine was smuggled to Goswami out of Gujarat in the last three months. Pic/Santa Banta The latest in the Mamta saga is that the Thane police has summoned a top Mumbai builder, Shabbir Patel, for questioning in the drug racket case. Patel had sold three flats to Mamta, and is alleged to have had business transactions with her husband, Goswami. His name popped up during investigation into Kulkarni and Goswami's ties in India. Police said he has sold three flats in Versova through his realty firm, Oscar Builders Pvt Ltd, to Kulkarni.

2016-05-28 16:08 By mid www.mid-day.com

61 Study: MRI scans prove schizophrenic brains attempt self-repair WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- A team of researchers from around the world have come across an early sign of hope for patients diagnosed with schizophrenia using Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The team, from the United Kingdom and China have shown proof brains may have the ability to repair themselves and fight off the mental illness. Following 98 patients with schizophrenia and 83 without, the team used MRI technology and a special method called "covariance analysis," to distinguish the increase of brain tissue. This is the first time such a method has been used to prove the brain's ability to reverse the illness' effects, and opens doors to possible cures. "Even the state-of-art frontline treatments aim merely for a reduction rather than a reversal of the cognitive and functional deficits caused by the illness," said research team member Dr. Lena Palaniyappan, Medical Director at the Prevention & Early Intervention Program for Psychoses at London Science Centre. "Our results highlight that despite the severity of tissue damage, the brain of a patient with schizophrenia is constantly attempting to reorganize itself, possibly to rescue itself or limit the damage," Palaniyappan said. Now that the research team has found that brain tissue can indeed repair itself, even at a minimal rate, their next step is reportedly to continue regularly scanning the brains of patients with early schizophrenia. "These findings are important not only because of their novelty and the rigor of the study, but because they point the way to the development of targeted treatments that potentially could better address some of the core pathology in schizophrenia," explains Dr. Jeffrey Reiss, another member of the research team from the London health Sciences Centre. "Brain plasticity and the development of related therapies would contribute to a new optimism in an illness that was 100 years ago described as premature dementia for its seemingly progressive deterioration," he said. The study outlining the discovery was published in the current issue of the journal Psychology Medicine under the title "Dynamic cerebral reorganization in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia: a MRI-derived cortical thickness study. "

2016-05-28 14:54 Marilyn Malara www.upi.com

62 DOD uses undisclosed files to defend sex assault testimony The Pentagon is relying on information it won't make public to dispute an Associated Press investigation that found the military misled Congress about sexual assault cases to blunt support for Senate legislation. In a report sent Thursday to a bipartisan group of senators, the Pentagon refers to undisclosed files about several of the cases to challenge AP's findings. But the response, which faults AP for inconsistencies and misunderstandings, fails to conclusively counter the investigation. The report also criticizes a separate examination of the cases by the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders. The group's president, retired Col. Don Christensen, fired back at the Pentagon in a statement Friday. "The Defense Department repeatedly accused Protect Our Defenders of misunderstanding the military justice process," he wrote. "Yet they are the ones who mischaracterized this process to Congress in the first place. " Christensen is the former chief prosecutor of the Air Force. Defense Department spokesman Eric Pahon said the importance of protecting the privacy of sexual assault victims "inevitably limits the ability of the department to release certain information. " Even as the department pushed back, the report acknowledged difficulties in pinpointing its own records. An attorney who oversaw the Air Force's sexual assault cases had died, the department said, leaving that service "unable to determine with certainty" the cases in question for that service. AP's investigation and the study by Protect Our Defenders focused on congressional testimony and correspondence delivered three years ago by then-vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Navy Adm. James Winnefeld. He cited dozens of sexual assault cases involving service members to illustrate for lawmakers that military commanders are more willing to punish sex offenders than civilian district attorneys and local police forces are. Winnefeld retired from military service last year. The Pentagon delivered the report on the eve of a Senate vote on legislation that has divided the chamber and led the military to warn of severe consequences if it's ever signed into law. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N. Y., would strip commanders of their power to decide whether sexual assault cases should go to trial and give that authority to seasoned, independent military trial lawyers. Protect Our Defenders supports Gillibrand's bill. Senior Pentagon officials have argued that commanders are essential to maintaining good order and discipline in the ranks. Removing them from the decision to prosecute would mean fewer sex offenders will be caught and convicted, they said. Her legislation was first introduced in the spring of 2013 and has won support from at least 50 senators. But it has twice failed to meet a 60-vote filibuster threshold. Another vote on the bill is expected early next month. AP's investigation, published last month, was based on records obtained by Protect Our Defenders last year through the Freedom of Information Act. The amount of documents was small compared with the number of cases. The group filed the requests with the military services shortly after Winnefeld warned the Senate Armed Services Committee about the perils of Gillibrand's bill. He told the committee in July 2013 that there were 93 sexual assault cases that military commanders insisted on taking after local district attorneys refused. The bulk of the cases involved soldiers. "I worry that if we turn this over to somebody else, whether it is a civilian DA or a nonentity in the military, that they are going to make the same kind of decisions that those civilian prosecutors made," Winnefeld said. "I worry that we are going to have fewer prosecutions if we take it outside the chain of command. " Among the records Protect Our Defenders received were summaries of the outcomes of many of the cases Winnefeld referred to in his testimony. The summaries, which were prepared by the military services at the Joint Staff's request, presented an often unflattering image of local law enforcement. The documents buttressed the Pentagon's position that Gillibrand's bill would result in fewer sexual assault prosecutions. In a number of the summaries, the steps taken by civilian authorities were described incorrectly or omitted, according to AP's investigation. Other case descriptions were too imprecise to be verified. Also, there's nothing in the records supporting Winnefeld's testimony that commanders intervened directly and insisted that the cases be prosecuted. The Pentagon report contested several of those conclusions. However, it cited "underlying case files" that weren't part of the records provided to Protect Our Defenders even though the group asked for "any and all documents and data" related to the cases. Pahon said the Defense Department "has no reason to believe that the (military) services withheld information that was responsive" to the records requests submitted by Protect Our Defenders. In other instances AP has obtained detailed records through FOIA about sexual assault cases to include investigative reports, trial transcripts, and pre-trial agreements. The Navy judge advocate general's office last year ordered the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to release investigative reports after AP appealed NCIS's refusal to do so. NCIS blacked out all the names in the reports, including the accused.

2016-05-28 14:49 By RICHARD www.charlotteobserver.com

63 Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares book French Open third round spot Jamie Murray and Brazilian partner Bruno Soares are safely through to the third round of the men's doubles at the French Open. The fourth seeds defeated French pair David Guez and Vincent Millot 6-2 7-6 (7/5) having twice recovered from a break down in the second set. Murray is currently ranked third in the world but has the chance to move back to No 1 with a good run at Roland Garros. Since reaching the third round in Paris last year, the Scot has made the final at every grand slam, winning his first title with Soares at the Australian Open in January. The pair have not lost a slam match together, taking their unbeaten run to eight matches.

2016-05-28 14:45 Pa Reporter www.dailymail.co.uk

64 Thousands Line State Street For Memorial Day Parade (CBS) — Thousands on Saturday lined State Street downtown for Chicago’s annual Memorial Day parade, said by the city to be the largest of its kind. Area high school marching bands, drum and bugle corps took part, along with a number of veterans’ groups and 6,000 junior ROTC cadets. Mixed in among the bands and marchers was a procession of antique military vehicles to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the USO of Illinois. And Macy’s brought from New York its century-old 48- star flag, which is some 5,000 square feet in size and is said to be the world’s largest American flag. More than 80 Macy’s associates carried the flag down State Street. Earlier Saturday, the mood was somber at Daley Plaza, during a wreath-laying ceremony honoring service members who made the ultimate sacrifice.

2016-05-28 14:37 chicago.cbslocal.com

65 Carly Reed emerging as UNC heads into women’s lacrosse title game North Carolina junior Carly Reed’s path to a regular role on a team contending for a national championship was anything but smooth. In some ways, though, it’s made the midfielder’s emergence in recent weeks something to appreciate even more. “Learning over my sophomore year that I had to stay focused, you never know any day they might need you and you have to work your hardest every single day,” Reed said. “Now that we’re here on the big stage, I know I’ve put in the work so I know I deserve to be out there.” There are no bigger stages in women’s lacrosse than the NCAA tournament final, which the third-seeded Tar Heels (19-2) will play in for the third time in four seasons. All three of those trips have culminated with meetings with Maryland (22-0), which enters Sunday’s title game as the top seed and winners of 26 in a row dating back to last year’s tournament. Reed enjoyed the best game of her season in Friday’s 12-11 semifinal defeat of Penn State, matching a career-high with five goals. She has 27 on the season, the fifth-most on the team despite not entering the Tar Heels’ starting lineup until April 23. With Penn State’s defensive attention centered on the likes of Molly Hendrick, Marie McCool and Aly Messinger, Reed scored four goals in the first half against the Nittany Lions. “I just kept going. I was like ‘OK, I’m right in front of the goal, I might as well shoot,’” Reed said. “We have seven threats out there every day and everyone’s looking at Aly and Marie because they’re going to beat their girl one-on-one, so I know my girl is going to have to slide and I just have to do my job and finish.” Reed came to Chapel Hill as a scorer, and a prolific one at that. She completed her career at St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes High School in the Washington suburbs with 475 goals, the second-most in girls high school lacrosse history. She found a role out of necessity as a freshman, scoring 35 goals as a reserve as the Tar Heels dealt with a rash of ACL tears. But last year, she played more sparingly, appearing in half of North Carolina’s games and finishing with eight goals and two assists. “Every player has moments where they are forced to decide ‘Am I going to frigging put my cleats in and dig in and be serious and committed about becoming the player I have the potential to be, or am I going to just make excuses because I’m not getting what I want on game day?’” North Carolina coach Jenny Levy said. “The kids who really cross those thresholds and really dig in and work become really valuable because that struggle is the best teacher.” It proved to be the case for Reed, who played primarily at the offensive end in high school but was converted into a midfielder this year. That proved crucial when Sydney Holman was lost for the season to injury in mid-March. It would be another month before Reed cracked the starting lineup, after which she had four goals and an assist in the ACC title game against Syracuse before Friday’s stellar showing. “She’s the kid who stays late at practice and shoots on the goalies,” Levy said. “She’s always trying to find somebody to hang around for an extra 30 minutes to work on shooting and finishing. When we transitioned her into a midfield player, she was like ‘What do you mean I’m not on offense?’ (We said) ‘But your speed is so great.’ We really had to convince her that she could be a great middie.” Reed credits Holman’s support for helping her navigate the final half of the season. But the success is also earned, and it’s helped to put the Tar Heels within a victory of their second national title. “It feels awesome, but I’m not going to be satisfied with my success until we win,” Reed said. “I’ve worked so hard this year that (come) Sunday, I’m not going to be happy with my hard work until we get the win and the time runs out.”

2016-05-28 13:57 By Patrick www.charlotteobserver.com

66 CBSE 10th Result 2016 (cbse.nic.in): CBSE Class X Board Results out on cbseresults.nic.in The CBSE Class 10 Result 2016 are just about to knock your doors! As per the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) notification, the CBSE Class X Result 2016 has been declared Today, 28 th May 2016 at 2PM. This news has certainly brought back the lost smiles of nearly 15 lakh students who are waiting anxiously for their CBSE result. As per the general trend, the CBSE Class 10 th Result 2016 will be officially announced from the Delhi office of the board for all the 10 regions. Following this, students will be able to check their marks / grades and calculate CGPA by logging on the official website of the CBSE results cbse.nic.in, cbseresults.nic.in. Students can also get the updates on about CBSE 10 th result on cbse10.jagranjosh.com . Get most reliable updates on CBSE 10 th Result 2016 @ http://cbse10.jagranjosh.com As per the official data released by the CBSE, nearly 15 lakh students from class are anticipating their CBSE Result on 30 th May. This year, the CBSE Secondary School (Class 10) Certificate Exam was conducted in the month of March. The coveted examination began on March 1 and continued till 28 th March 2016. Since the successful completion of CBSE Board Exams, students have been patiently waiting for the declaration of CBSE 10 th Class Result 2016. Steps to check CBSE 10 th Result 2016 online Immediately following the official announcement of the CBSE Class 10 Result 2016, the same would be made available to nearly 15 lakh students online. Considering the criticality of the CBSE Results, lakhs of students will try to check the outcome of their hard work online. Such heavy online traffic rush might cause some technical problems or network slowdown issues on the official website. However, if encountered with such a problem, students are advised to keep patience and avoid panic. Soon all the problems will be resolved and you will be able to check your CBSE Result 2016. We also advise students to keep important details like admit card number and date of birth details ready beforehand to beat the online rush on the CBSE Result day. To avoid any last minute chaos or problem, students can also follow the simple steps given below to check their CBSE Class 10 Result 2016: * Step 1: Visit cbse.nic.in, cbseresults.nic.in * Step 2: Click on the relevant link for CBSE 10 th Result 2016 * Step 3: Fill out all the necessary details like Admit Card Number, Date of Birth etc * Step 3: Click on the ‘Submit’ Button Once you click away the 'Submit' button, the result will be displayed on the computer screen immediately. Following it, students can simply download a copy or take a printout of the result mark-sheet from the website for the future reference. A Look at previous years' CBSE 10th Class result The period prior to the declaration of CBSE Result is always full of anxiety and stress. Students are under immense pressure to perform well in these career defining exams. However, at times, students over estimate their performance and are disappointed by the ultimate outcome of the CBSE 10 th Result day. With an aim to help students get a fair bit of idea about the CBSE 10 th Result, we have provided last year’s result data below: Students can have a look at it and frame realistic expectations for the upcoming CBSE 10 th Result 2016: * Result date: 28 th May, 2016 * Total number of candidates: 13,73,853 * Overall pass percentage: 97.32 % * Overall pass percentage in CBSE 10 th Result 2014: 98.87% * Decline in overall pass percentage: 1.55% * Pass percentage for female candidates: 97.82% * Pass percentage for male candidates: 96.98% * Number of students with perfect 10 CGPA: 94,000 Mid-day Team wishes all the students loads of success and good luck for the coming result! 2016-05-28 13:47 By A www.mid-day.com

67 Watch Video: AB de Villiers will leave you spellbound with his new talent Royal Challengers Bangalore mainstay AB de Villiers is a true all-rounder. He can play cricket, was a champion in the junior level in South Africa in hockey, badminton, swimming, athletics, tennis and rugby. He even was an exceptional student who once received the prestigious national medal from the Late Nelson Mandela for a science project. Give ABD a bat and he is deadly, but the South African can be deadly with another instrument as well. AB has revealed another new talent and it will leave you stunned. De Villiers is deadly with the guitar too. ABD recently shared a video of him playing the guitar and singing a duet with his equally talented wife Danielle. The duo are seen performing the Ronan Keating song 'When You Say Nothing At All' and ABD's baritone with Danielle's sweet voice is a perfect duet. ABD says he learnt this was the first song he learnt to play on the guitar as a 11-year-old and that "everyone knows this song", before leaving people spellbound with his effortless guitar work and melodious voice. RCB, who face Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 9 final will be hoping that ABD can work some that same magic on the cricket field on Sunday and inspire them to their maiden title.

2016-05-28 13:27 By mid www.mid-day.com

68 68 US hopes Pakistan understands India's use of civil n-energy Washington: With the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) set to have a meeting in June, the US said that it hopes Pakistan understands India's use of peaceful civil nuclear energy. "This is not about an arms race and it's not about nuclear weapons," Mark C. Toner, deputy spokesperson in the US State Department, said at his daily press briefing on Friday in response to a question about India's inclusion in NSG during the meeting. "This is about the peaceful civil use of nuclear energy, and so we would certainly hope that Pakistan understands that," he said. Toner said that deliberations in the June NSG meeting about the prospects of new members joining the group were an internal matter among the current members. "I don't have much to say beyond that other than that I think they meet regularly," he said. "This is not a specific meeting, I believe - not set up to particularly talk about this issue (of India's membership in the NSG)," he added.

2016-05-28 13:17 By IANS www.mid-day.com

69 Argentine Court Sentences Ex-Dictator for Operation Condor Argentina's last dictator and 14 other former military officials were sentenced to prison for human rights crimes, marking the first time a court has ruled that Operation Condor was a criminal conspiracy to kidnap and forcibly disappear people across international borders. The covert operation was launched in the 1970s by six South American dictatorships that used their secret police networks in a coordinated effort to track down their opponents abroad and eliminate them. Many leftist dissidents had sought refuge in neighboring countries and elsewhere. An Argentine federal court on Friday sentenced former junta leader Reynaldo Bignone, 88, to 20 years in prison for being part of an illicit association, kidnapping and abusing his powers in the forced disappearance of more than 100 people. The ex-general who ruled Argentina in 1982-1983 is already serving life sentences for multiple human rights violations during the 1976-1983 dictatorship. In the landmark trial, 14 other former military officials received prison sentences of eight to 25 years for criminal association, kidnapping and torture. They include Uruguayan army colonel, Manuel Cordero Piacentini, who allegedly tortured prisoners inside Automotores Orletti, the Buenos Aires repair shop where many captured leftists were interrogated under orders from their home countries. Two of the accused were absolved. The sentences are seen as a milestone because they mark the first time a court has proved that Operation Condor was an international criminal conspiracy carried out by the U. S.-backed regimes in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. "Operation Condor affected my life, my family," Chilean Laura Elgueta told The Associated Press outside the court room. Her brother, Luis Elgueta, had taken refuge in Buenos Aires from Gen. Augusto Pinochet's forces, only to be forcibly disappeared in Buenos Aires in 1976 as part of Operation Condor. "This trial is very meaningful because it's the first time that a court is ruling against this sinister Condor plan," she said. The investigation was launched in the 1990s when an amnesty law still protected many of the accused. Argentina's Supreme Court overturned the amnesty in 2005 at the urging of then-President Nestor Kirchner. "Forty years after Operation Condor was formally founded, and 16 years after the judicial investigation began, this trial produced valuable contributions to knowledge of the truth about the era of state terrorism and this regional criminal network," said the Buenos Aires-based Center for Legal and Social Studies, which is part of the legal team representing plaintiffs in the case. During the case, several defendants either died or were removed from the judicial process. Since the bodies of many victims have never been found, Argentine prosecutors argued that the crime of covering up their deaths continues today, and that statutory time limits don't apply. The victims included Maria Claudia Irureta Goyena, the daughter-in-law of Argentine poet Juan Gelman, who was pregnant when she was kidnapped and held for months inside Automotores Orletti before an Argentine air force plane took her to Uruguay. She gave birth there, and then was disappeared. Decades passed before her daughter, Macarena Gelman, discovered her own true identity. A key piece of evidence in the case was a declassified FBI agent's cable, sent in 1976, that described in detail the conspiracy to share intelligence and eliminate leftists across South America. Operation Condor was launched in November 1975 by Chile's Pinochet, who enlisted other dictators in South America. But the covert program went much further: The U. S. government later determined that Chilean agents involved in Condor were behind a car bombing that killed the country's former ambassador Orlando Letelier and U. S. citizen Ronni Moffitt in Washington, D. C., in September 1976. Operation Condor's agents also tracked other exiles across Europe in efforts to eliminate them. "This is a great ruling, with stiff sentences," Luz Zaldua, a lawyer representing families of the victims. "It has established that Condor was a supranational criminal association, and that's important — not just for our country but for all countries that have been part of this operation. " ——— This story has been corrected to reflect that Ronni Moffitt was not an aide to the former ambassador. —— Associated Press video journalist Paul Byrne and AP photographer Natacha Pisarenko contributed to this report.

2016-05-28 13:02 By abcnews.go.com

70 Emilia Clarke blushes as Matt LeBlanc uses his Friends chat up line It worked for superstars Elle Macpherson and Jennifer Aniston in Nineties sitcom Friends - so why wouldn't it work on Game Of Thrones star Emilia Clarke? Matt LeBlanc found himself recycling his former alter-ego Joey Tribbiana's famous chat up line 'How you doin'?' on Graham Norton's red sofa on Friday night, and it certainly seemed to work. Repeated at her request, the Top Gear presenter, 48, left 29-year-old English actress Emilia blushing, proving that it's still got some impetus. Scroll down for video 'I have one slight request from you,' she teased. 'Would you be able to ask me how I am doing?' she continued, to the sound of a whooping crowd. 'It works!' she said, as she shared in a coquettish giggle with stunning actress Kate Beckinsale, who gleefully concurred. Soon to debut his new motoring TV role alongside Chris Evans this weekend, Matt confessed that he's never been able to ditch the NBC comedy references. He said: 'Friends just follows me around. I was recording a piece to the dashboard camera of the broken down car while being towed and driving past were two guys in a plumber's truck who shouted out, "How you doin? " We kept it in the show.' On the hand, Emilia - who was there to promote her new role in book-to-big-screen flick Me Before You - says she barely gets recognised for Game Of Thrones character, Daenerys Targaryen. Emilia said: 'I can be with other cast members and people come and ask me to take the photo for them. Occasionally there is a "Damn it" when they realise.' And, recalling a coincidence that happened whilst filming in Spain, she says, 'We were booked into this lovely little hotel only to find ourselves in the middle of a Game of Thrones themed wedding. 'We spent ages trapped in our room hiding from drunk wedding guests who were trying to find us.' That wasn't the end of the revelations on Friday night because as they shared the sofa with the big stars, actress Kate - who dazzled in a black Dsquared2 dress - dropped the bombshell that she was told to 'work out' if she wanted to win a role in 2001 Hollywood action movie, Pearl Harbour. The talented actress, 42, detailed her shock at being told by the movie's director, Michael Bay, that she may need to shed the pounds if she wanted to bag her breakout role. Kate explained how she became Lieutenant Evelyn Johnson: ' I don't think I fitted the type of actress Michael Bay, the director, had met before. 'I think he was baffled by me because my boobs weren't bigger than my head and I wasn't blonde. 'I'd just had my daughter and had lost weight but was told that if I got the part I'd have to work out and I just didn't understand why a 1940s nurse would do that. 'And then, when we were promoting the film, Michael was asked why he had chosen Ben (Affleck) and Josh (Hartnett) he said, 'I have worked with Ben before and I love him and Josh is so manly and a wonderful actor'. 'And then when he was asked about me, he'd say, 'Kate wasn't so attractive that she would alienate the female audience. He kept saying it everywhere we went and we went to a lot of places.' The film, which documented the Japanese Navy's military strike against the US in 1941, was Kate's first major role and saw her play Nurse Lt. Evelyn Johnson. It was only her second part in a major Hollywood film - after 1999's Brokedown Palace, which saw her and Claire Danes co-star as teenagers jailed in Thailand on drug-smuggling charges. Since then she has appeared in more than twenty projects, including Underworld, Laurel Canyon and Everybody's Fine.

2016-05-28 10:03 Becky Freeth www.dailymail.co.uk

71 71 Hockey India inducts PSPB as associate member New Delhi: Hockey India today inducted Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) as an associate member, making it the 36th inclusion in this category. With this inclusion, PSPB can now take part in all the annual National Championships which are being conducted by HI. PSPB was established in June 1979 and registered through Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 as extended to the Union Territory of Delhi. Presently, a 12-member organisation (ONGC, IOCL, HPCL, OIL, GAIL, EIL, CPCL, MRPL, NRL, Balmer Lawrie and PLL) form the PSPB. HI secretary general Mohd Mushtaque Ahmad welcomed PSPB for their entry as an associate member. "The Petroleum Sports Promotion Board has produced some talented hockey players in the past. PSPB has contributed immensely in the development and promotion of Indian hockey," he said.

2016-05-28 10:01 By PTI www.mid-day.com

72 Prasar Bharati entitled to advt free live feed of matches: SC New Delhi: In a jolt to Star Sports India Private Ltd, the Supreme Court today rejected its appeal challenging the Delhi High Court verdict asking it to share clean live feed without any commercial with public broadcaster Prasar Bharati or share revenue if signals have advertisements. "From our ... discussion, it becomes clear that the sharing of the signals has to be without any advertisements and if the advertisements are also to be included in the signals, there has to be sharing of the revenue," a bench of Justices A K Sikri and Prafulla C Pant said while dismissing the appeal of Star Sports India Private Ltd. The Delhi High Court had in 2013 held whosoever airs a live broadcast of sporting events of national importance must share the same with Prasar Bharati without any commercials. The private broadcaster has been seeking a direction to Prasar Bharati not to insist on live signal of international cricket matches of India without any commercial. Referring to provisions of the Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act, the apex court concurred with the findings of the High Court and said that the contents are to be "mandatorily shared" by the private broadcaster with Prasar Bharati and they have to be "without its advertisements". The apex court listed out the pursposes of some provisons and said that they aimed to achieve goals like providing "access to largest number of listeners and viewers on a free- to-air basis". "The principle of purposive interpretation, in this context, meant that Prasar Bharati was supposed to telecast these matches for the benefit of general masses spread throughout India, who otherwise do not receive signals of private channels like the appellant or are not having financial capacity to pay for these channels. "Thus, it was a larger public interest which was sought to be served and noble objective was kept in mind while enacting the statute," it said.

2016-05-28 10:00 By PTI www.mid-day.com

73 Eng vs SL 2nd Test: Cook, Hales, Root, Bairstow miss out on landmarks Chester-le-Street: England captain Alastair Cook was still left searching for his 10,000th run in Test cricket as fellow opener Alex Hales, Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow all missed out on contrasting landmarks at the Riverside on Friday. Yet for all those setbacks, England still ended the first day of the second Test against Sri Lanka on 310 for six. Alastair Cook Moeen Ali was 28 not out and Chris Woakes eight not out, with Sri Lanka paceman Nuwan Pradeep taking three for 69 from 19 overs. England's total was all the more significant given Sri Lanka had been dismissed for 91 and 119 during an innings and 88-run defeat in the first Test of this three-match series at Headingley last week. Sri Lanka's catching had let them down in Leeds, but on Friday they held three tough chances. "It was a brilliant day for us," Sri Lanka left-arm spinner Milinda Siriwardana told BBC Radio's Test Match Special after stumps. "We got six wickets and the conditions are good," added Siriwardana, who marked his recall in place of the dropped Dasun Shanaka with two for 35 in eight overs Friday. "We fielded really well, we took the half-chances. " Cook, who won the toss in overcast conditions that offered some swing movement, was out for 15 -- five shy of the 20 runs he needed to become the first England batsman to reach 10,000 in Tests. And for the second time in as many innings, Hales fell in the 80s when in sight of a maiden Test century. Meanwhile Root's 80 meant he had failed to convert seven of his last eight Test fifties into a hundred. Cook was out when recalled paceman Suranga Lakmal, in for the injured Dushmantha Chameera, had him well-taken low down by diving second slip Dimuth Karunaratne as the left-hander carelessly pushed away from his body. New batsman Nick Compton, playing for his Test place after his duck at Headingley, was out for nine when he top-edged a hook off Pradeep and Lakmal, after the ball had gone over his shoulder, held a stunning two-handed catch at long leg that left him facing the boundary and just inches from the rope. Hales, 45 not out at lunch, completed a 131-ball fifty with eight fours. Having made 86 at Headingley, he went into the 80s on Friday with a straight six off Siriwardana's fourth delivery of the day. But next ball Siriwardana had his revenge when Hales's fiercely-edged cut was superbly caught one-handed by Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews at slip. Hales was out for 83, having added 96 with Root. "When you get in you want to make a big score, but I'd have taken it at the start of the day," said Hales. "It's was my own fault, I probably try to hit it too hard. Mathews, at slip, went a little deeper and took a brilliant catch. " Root in common with Compton, was surprised by a Pradeep bouncer. He could neither pull nor cut as the ball got 'big' on him and spooned a simple catch to cover. Sri Lanka did not have long to wait until England's 219 for four became 227 for five. James Vince, in his second innings in Test cricket, had struck four fours on his way to 35. But he was out when his hard-hit drive off Siriwardana was expertly held by a diving Lahiru Thirimanne at short cover. Bairstow's century at Headingley -- his Yorkshire home ground -- had won him the man- of-the-match award. Promoted up the order in the absence of the injured Ben Stokes, Bairstow was just two runs away from a fifty on Friday when he bottom-edged a cut off Pradeep and was caught behind. Bairstow ran Sri Lanka ragged with his speed between the wickets, but the tourists admirably got through Friday's 90 overs without conceding a single wide or no-ball. 2016-05-28 09:59 By PTI www.mid-day.com

74 Joshna Chinappa pips defending champ Annie to reach Hong Kong final Hong Kong: India's leading squash player Joshna Chinappa carved out a close win against defending champion Annie Au to enter the final of the PSA HKFC International here today. Joshna Chinappa Joshna, the lone Indian left in the draw after the exit of teammate Dipika Pallikal, won the crucial points against the higher-ranked opponent from Hong Kong in the semifinal lasting an hour. The eventual scoreline read 8-11 11-9 12-10 7-11 11-9 in favour of the Indian. Joshna had also got the better of Annie in the recently held Asian Team Championship in Taipei. "Every point was fought to the max, just happy to get through to my biggest ever PSA final," said the World No.13 after reaching the summit clash of the USD 25,000 event. Joshna has so far won 11 PSA titles. Joshna, seeded third, faces top seed Joelle King of New Zealand in the final tomorrow. Joelle saw off the challenge from Australia's Donna Urquhart with a 11-8 10- 12 11-6 11-6 victory.

2016-05-28 09:58 By PTI www.mid-day.com

75 EFF raps to the beat of the poor with new election song A new buzz sound by the Economic Freedom Fighters has been launched to back up the party’s election campaign. The song‚ already available on Youtube‚ reflects the tone of the Economic Freedom Fighters and is titled 'EFF I Trust'. With a young rapper "telling it like it is"‚ the tune expresses the frustration of poor people in the country in a number of lines. “Sibhatal’itax but asitholi nax” translated means "we pay tax but get nothing out of it". It also raises the issues that the party of red berets has been pushing the ANC on in Parliament. Among them are the Fees Must Fall campaign and the “filth” of Nkandla and "Zuptas". The song compares wealth disparities along racial lines with the words “our (black people's) roads are still gravel while people in suburbs live in small heavens”. Reaction to the song was largely positive on Twitter in the first hours of it going public. Amongst the comments were: @Sihle said 'Dancing to the EFF hip hop song'. @Setlola Mamabolo commented 'EFF I Trust is a lit fam. Make yourself a favour and check it out'.

2016-05-28 09:51 Penwell Dlamini www.timeslive.co.za

76 French Open: Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis reach 3rd round Paris: Top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis defeated Japanese pair of Nao Hibino and Eri Hozumi in straight sets to reach the third round of the women's doubles event at French Open here today. Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis. Pic / Getty Images The Indo-Swiss pair got the better of the Japanese pair 6-2 6-0 in a lop- sided match in the second round here. Sania and Hingis will next take on Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova of Czech Republic. Earlier in the day, India's Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna sailed into the men's doubles third round with their respective partners. Sixth seeds Bopanna and Florian Mergea defeated the French pair of Gregoire Barrere and Quentin Halys 6- 3 6-4 in the second round here. Paes, playing with Polish partner Marcin Matkowski, too won their second round match comfortably. The 16th seeds beat the Austrian-German combine of Julian Knowle and Florian Mayer 6-4, 6-3 on Court 14 at Roland Garros.

2016-05-28 09:50 By PTI www.mid-day.com

77 Rafael Nadal on pull-out from French Open: This is a tough moment Paris: Nine-time champion Rafael Nadal withdrew from the French Open with a left wrist injury yesterday, but insisted the heartbreaking setback did not mean the end of his career. Rafael Nadal "It’s not broken, but if I continue to play it will be 100 percent broken in a few days," said an emotional Nadal, the fourth seed. "To win the tournament I need five more matches, and the doctor says that’s 100 per cent impossible. This is a very bad position, but that’s life. "It’s obvious that if it’s not Roland Garros I would not take risks on playing the first two days, but it is the most important event of the year for me so we tried our best. " Nadal, a 14-time Grand Slam title winner, has been plagued by injuries throughout his career, affecting his knees and wrist. A right wrist injury forced him to skip the 2014 US Open. Despite his latest setback, the charismatic Spaniard said he will keep playing although his participation at Wimbledon next month is now in serious doubt. ‘It’s not the end’ "Nine times in my career I have been able to be healthy here in Paris and win this tournament," he said. "This is a tough moment and the toughest press conference I have ever had to give but it’s not the end. " Nadal had coasted through the first two rounds in Paris dropping just nine games but revealed he had needed pain-killing injections in his wrist to take part. "We took risks yesterday. That’s why we played with an anesthetic injection, so without feeling at all on the wrist," added Nadal, wearing a bandage on the wrist and appearing close to tears. Nadal explained that the left wrist had been a problem for a number of days. He underwent an MRI on Friday and "the image showed it was getting worse". "Yesterday night I started to feel more and more pain, and today in the morning I felt that I could not move the wrist. " Nadal has been forced to skip nine Grand Slam tournaments in his career through injury as well as having to sit out the defence of his Olympic title in 2012. After looking down and out in 2015 when he lost his French Open title and slumped to his lowest ranking in a decade, he had appeared reborn this season. He captured the Monte Carlo and Barcelona titles to equal Guillermo Vilas’s record of 49 claycourt titles. Setback after milestone The Spaniard had won the 200th Grand Slam match of his career on Thursday — just the eighth man to achieve the feat — when he beat Facundo Bagnis of Argentina. Nadal, who won the first of his French Open titles as a 19-year-old in 2005, said his latest injury setback was not career threatening. "It is not the end. I feel myself with the right motivation and the right energy to be back in Roland Garros the next couple of years," he said.

2016-05-28 09:49 By AFP www.mid-day.com

78 Muhammad Hafeez could be England-bound for knee-injury treatment Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board is likely to send experienced batsman Muhammad Hafeez to England to seek treatment for a knee muscular problem, which threatens to keep him out of the Test series against England. Muhammad Hafeez PCB’s medical panel are not satisfied with the progress made by Hafeez from his injury which he picked up during the Asia Cup and forced him to miss the last two matches of the World T20 in India. An official source in the PCB told PTI that chief selector, Inzamam-ul-Haq and the national team captain, Misbah-ul-Haq were both concerned with the fitness of Hafeez and had suggested to the board that if required he should be sent abroad for treatment. "Hafeez, 35, is suffering from a condition known as femur muscle which is best treated in the United Kingdom," the source said.

2016-05-28 09:47 By PTI www.mid-day.com

79 Jose Mourinho: Forget last three years at Manchester United London: Jose Mourinho has told everyone associated with Manchester United to forget the three-year period under David Moyes and Louis van Gaal as he looks to replicate the triumphant history that made the club a "giant. " Scarves with new manager Jose Mourinho’s image are displayed for sale outside Man United’s Old Trafford Stadium yesterday. Pic/AFP Talks with Mourinho started on Tuesday but it took until Friday for the terms of the contract to be ironed out and United their new manager on a three- year deal, with an option to stay at the club until at least 2020. "I feel great," Mourinho told the club's in-house television station MUTV. "I am in the right moment in my career because Man United is one of these clubs where you need really to be prepared for it because it is what I used to call a giant club. And giant clubs must be for the best managers and I think I am ready for it, so I could say I am happy, I am proud, I am honoured, I am everything. " United have failed to make European football’s top table in two of the three seasons since Sir Alex Ferguson retired — a period of dissatisfaction Mourinho: "We can look at our club in two perspectives. One is the past three years and another is the club history. I prefer to forget the past three years, I prefer to focus on the giant club I have in my hands now. I think what the fans are expecting me to say is that I want to win. "So, yes, I want to focus on the history of this giant club and give what I have and what I don’t have, so I will give absolutely everything to try and go in the direction we all want. "

2016-05-28 09:46 By PA www.mid-day.com

80 Boot camp will not help Pakistan: Abdul Qadir Karachi: Former Pakistan leg-spinner Abdul Qadir feels that the Pakistan Cricket Board’s decision to have a boot camp at the Military Academy in Kakul will bring about no improvement in the performance of the national team on their tour to England this summer. Abdul Qadir “What is the purpose of this boot camp? It has been organised to improve fitness of the players but to me the most important area in which our players need to work on and improve for the England tour is in the batting or skills department,” Qadir said. 2016-05-28 09:44 By PTI www.mid-day.com

81 After Monty Panesar, now England's Graeme Fowler talks of depression battle London: Former England batsman Graeme Fowler said yesterday that Twitter conversations had prompted him to write a book, ‘Absolutely Foxed’, which chronicles his experience of depression. Graeme Fowler. Pic/Getty Images “At the end of every season, come September, in the first week I would lock myself in the house. I’d get a huge pile of videos and watch films for the week,” Fowler told BBC Radio’s Test Match Special in an interview during the lunch break of the first Test between England and Sri Lanka in Durham. “I took that as recharging my batteries. Was that a precursor to mental health issues? I don’t really know.” He added: “I didn’t find writing about it cathartic. When I was depressed I was on Twitter, firing things into the dark. I got messages of support coming back. It was helping me and helping them. That’s how the book came about.” Fowler, who made his name with his native Lancashire, played 21 Tests for England from 1982-85. As an opening batsman, he was good enough both to score a Test hundred against the formidable West Indies pace attack at Lord’s in 1984 and a double century against India in Madras a year later. Fowler, set to become a mental health ambassador with England’s Professional Cricketers’ Association. Fowler’s interview came a day after England left-arm spinner Monty Panesar, now trying to revive his career where it all began with Northamptonshire, following spells with Sussex and Essex, said he had experienced paranoia and anxiety while suffering from mental health problems.

2016-05-28 09:40 By AFP www.mid-day.com

82 82 Victoria Beckham's 2003 hip-hop album leaked online London: Singer-turned- designer Victoria Beckham made a hip-hop album in 2003 and it has been leaked online. Victoria Beckham The 17-demo tracks were reportedly written with Roc- A-Fella co-founder Damon Dash. As well as collaborating on a fashion line, it turns out they were making music together. Now some of those demo tracks from their time in the studio have been released online, reports Mirror.co.uk. Last month, a demo disc which contained tracks that would have featured on her hip-hop influenced album “Come Together”, was auctioned off on eBay and some of them have found their way onto YouTube and SoundCloud.

2016-05-28 09:37 By IANS www.mid-day.com

83 England footballer Ched Evans faces retrial for rape London: British footballer Ched Evans will face a retrial starting on October 4 for allegedly raping a 19-year-old woman, a court ruled yesterday. Judge Nicola Davies also said the retrial for the former Wales international would be held in Cardiff. Evans was released from prison in October 2014 after serving half of a five-year sentence for raping the woman in a hotel room in Rhyl, north Wales in May 2011. He has always protested his innocence and the conviction was overturned on appeal last month.

2016-05-28 09:35 By AFP www.mid-day.com

84 84 Fake currency racket busted! Mumbai couple held for selling 'US dollars' at half price The Vasai Crime Branch Unit yesterday arrested two members of a gang who allegedly conned people by selling fake US dollars for Indian currency. It is suspected that multiple cases may be registered against the duo in different police stations The police arrested Mohammed Munir Hussain and Salma Alam at Vasai, while the mastermind, Aamin, is still at large. Mohammed Hussain and Salma Alam after arrest According to police, Hussain and Alam's modus operandi was to approach people and tell them that they have come from abroad, and are carrying dollars with them. They would then convince people to exchange dollars at cheaper rates. The dollars were fake. According to Vasai Crime Branch sources, Aamin met a taxi driver, (the complainant) Sheikh Ashraf Jamil Ahmad (40) last week at Andheri West. He took Rs 500 from Sheikh in exchange of $20 and subsequently told him (Sheikh) that he had around R6 lakh worth US dollars which he could give him for Rs 3 lakh. Aamin gave Sheikh's mobile number to Hussain who began calling him occasionally. Sheikh got suspicious and informed the local Crime Branch unit. The police laid a trap, and Sheikh asked Hussain to get the US dollars, as he was ready to buy them. Hussain and Alam landed along with a bundle of US dollars. It was later found that newspapers pages in the size of currency notes were bundled with notes of one or two dollars in the front and at the back, to make it look like a bundle of dollars. Police says According to an official from the Crime Branch, "We got a complaint from the taxi driver and laid a trap to catch the couple. The mastermind of the gang is still absconding. We will arrest him soon. " The couple hail from Nalasopara and eight notes of $20 were recovered from their possession. "The Manickpur Police station is investigating in the case and both are in their custody. They were booked under various sections of IPC including 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 34 acts in furtherance of common intention," he said.

2016-05-28 09:05 By Samiullah www.mid-day.com

85 World's biggest cruise ship is 'a construction site' Some of the first paying passengers on the world's biggest cruise ship have described it as "a construction site" and a "serious risk to those on board". Harmony of the Seas left Southampton on Sunday, but a number of passengers have complained about closed attractions and ongoing work. Royal Caribbean Cruises said final finishing touches are being made, but added that this was a "pre-inaugural" sailing. The firm said that the health and safety of passengers was its primary concern. Duncan Kennedy reports.

2016-05-28 08:43 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

86 Roberto Saviano on living with death threats from the mafia Speaking out about the mafia can come at a price and for writer Roberto Saviano that has meant 10 years living under police protection. In a book published in 2006, he exposed the activities of the Camorra, a mafia organisation based in Naples, described as Italy's most bloody and ruthless criminal group. Matthew Price spoke to Mr Saviano, for the Victoria Derbyshire programme, about living with a death threat from the mafia. Watch Victoria Derbyshire weekdays from 09:00-11:00 BST on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel. Follow the programme on Facebook and Twitter , and find all our content online.

2016-05-28 08:41 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

87 Virginia woman arrested in $1 million handbag scheme - A Thai national, living in Virginia on a student visa, was arrested by the Department of Homeland Security for a scam involving designer handbags and Chinese knockoffs. She was described as prolific in buying, returning and selling handbags. Arlington - A Thai national, living in Virginia on a student visa, was arrested by the Department of Homeland Security for a scam involving designer handbags and Chinese knockoffs. She was described as prolific in buying, returning and selling handbags. According to It is further alleged Smatsorabudh also purchased a large quantity of knockoff handbags from China and Hong Kong. She would then take one of these knockoffs to the department store that sold her the designer bag and obtain a refund. Smatsorabudh would then sell the original expensive handbag to unsuspecting people on online sites such as eBay. Smatsorabudh travelled to 12 states to return the designer handbags to the retailers who made the initial sale. Investigators It was determined she bought at least one designer handbag a week during 2014 and 2015. She was one high-end department store's top customer throughout the world. During this time, it is estimated she pocketed at least $1 million from the scam. The fraud was discovered by investigators employed by one of the retailers. The Arlington County Police Department and undercover DHS agents investigated and later arrested the woman for wire fraud. Smatsorahbudh appeared in an Arlington court yesterday and was remanded in custody until next Wednesday when she is due to be arraigned. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison. Praepitcha Smatsorabudh, believed to be in her 40s, was arrested in Arlington, Virginia by DHS on Thursday and has been charged with wire fraud. According to court documents , Smatsorabudh purchased designer handbags made by Gucci and Fendl as well as other brands from high-end department stores online. The average price of these purses was $2,000. It is further alleged Smatsorabudh also purchased a large quantity of knockoff handbags from China and Hong Kong. She would then take one of these knockoffs to the department store that sold her the designer bag and obtain a refund. Smatsorabudh would then sell the original expensive handbag to unsuspecting people on online sites such as eBay. Smatsorabudh travelled to 12 states to return the designer handbags to the retailers who made the initial sale. Investigators traced the online purchases to Smatsorabudh's home in Arlington and her workplace. In one case, the DHS determined Smatsorabudh purchased a Celine Ring handbag from a department store in October 2015. A few weeks later she returned the bag for a refund and then in December she advertised the sale of a Celine Ring handbag on eBay. It was determined she bought at least one designer handbag a week during 2014 and 2015. She was one high-end department store's top customer throughout the world. During this time, it is estimated she pocketed at least $1 million from the scam. The fraud was discovered by investigators employed by one of the retailers. The Arlington County Police Department and undercover DHS agents investigated and later arrested the woman for wire fraud. ABC reports Smatsorabudh sent an email in 2014 to one of the foreign suppliers of the knockoff handbags. In the email she wrote, "The best fake bag I've ever seen! Can you send me more...from this factory? They make bag IMPaCABLE (sic)!!!! "Smatsorahbudh appeared in an Arlington court yesterday and was remanded in custody until next Wednesday when she is due to be arraigned. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison.

2016-05-28 08:40 www.digitaljournal.com

88 Narsingh Yadav better bet for Rio Olympics than Sushil Kumar, WFI tells HC New Delhi: Wrestler Narsingh Pancham Yadav is a better bet than Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar in the 74 kg freestyle category at the Rio 2016, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) yesterday told the Delhi High Court. Sushil Kumar Yadav, who has secured Olympic quota for India by winning a bronze medal in the world wrestling championship 2015, was the “most suitable wrestler” and a better candidate compared to Sushil, who had “consistently” avoided to face him during the last two years in selection trials, the WFI said. Narsingh Yadav Sushil pleads for a trial Sushil countered the claims and alleged that he was not considered for a trial to have a chance to represent India at the Olympics in the 74 kg category as he had not participated in the cash-rich ‘Pro-Wrestling League’. “They (WFI) cannot take such an arbitrary stand that since you (Sushil) have not participated in the Pro-Wrestling League so you will not be given a chance to have a trial. Sushil is only asking for a trial,” senior counsel Amit Sibal, appearing for Sushil, told Justice Manmohan. WFI, however, maintained that Yadav was the best wrestler to represent the country in this category and the selection has been made in a fair and transparent manner. “The respondent number 5 (Yadav) has been found to be the best wrestler to represent India in the upcoming Olympic games. “The selection has been made in a completely fair and transparent manner. No allegation of any bias, favouritism or any other prejudice have been made in the petition,” WFI said in its affidavit filed in the court. The court will continue the hearing on May 30.

2016-05-28 08:40 By Agencies www.mid-day.com

89 Texas GOP platform says majority of Texans share homosexuality Journalists at the 2016 Texas GOP convention pointed and chuckled, but now the entire nation has caught on : the party's platform calls "the majority of Texans" gay. It's a grammatical error. It was unintentional. Most Texans probably aren't gay, but who knows. The language adopted by the party in Dallas last weekend reads: "Homosexuality is a chosen behavior that is contrary to the fundamental unchanging truths that has been ordained by God in the Bible, recognized by our nations [sic] founders, and shared by the majority of Texans. " The key error there is the verb "has. " The authors probably meant it to apply to the "unchanging truths," but in English we can't say unchanging truths "has. " That would be "have. " So the sentence says that homosexuality has been ordained by God and is shared by most Texans. Writing in the Washington Post, University of Minnesota Law School professor Dale Carpenter raised an important question : how exactly do Texans share their homosexuality? "Perhaps it means that there is a certain amount of homosexuality that most Texans pass around to each other. If someone doesn't seem to have enough, one Texans may loan or even give another Texan some of his," he wrote. "Of course it should be emphasized that a majority but not all Texans share homosexuality. There may be some who hoard it. " The grammatical gaffe also made headlines in Reuters , NPR , the Huffington Post and scores of other publication, in what amounts to some embarrassing coverage of the Texas GOP. But according to Willie, this is nothing new.

2016-05-28 11:10 By Dylan www.chron.com

90 Condom store now advertising Hillary Clinton- branded items An online retailer of prophylactics has announced a new line of Hillary Clinton-branded condoms titled "Slick Willy Wants Back In. " Priced at around $10 for a five-pack, RipnRoll.com is really just selling regular condoms with gawdy packaging. They did the same with Donald Trump not too long ago as well. Some of the slogans include, "Because Willy wants back in" and "You've got Mail. " RELATED: The 22 strangest Ted Cruz products you can buy online The online condom store says it's satirical, but I don't think they know what that means. Satire certainly does involve using humor and exaggeration to ridicule its subject, but it does so to bring attention to a problem and generate discussion. What are we bringing to light or what social critique are we making by plastering Trump and Clinton caricatures on a condom wrapper? In any case, you don't have to pay $10 for condoms. There are locations in the Houston area that give them away.

2016-05-28 11:10 By John www.chron.com

91 Man reunites tornado victims with lost photos Contact WND (Springfield News-Leader) Thad Beeler remembers standing in his parents’ house in Joplin in May 2011, the morning after a tornado roared through the city. Trees had collapsed onto the roof — which was good in a bizarre way, because that kept it from blowing away. There was damage, but on the wall, pictures of Beeler as a kid were still hanging. The home next to Beeler’s parents was simply gone, only the center stairwell still standing. Beeler remembers looking at it and realizing that any pictures hanging on the neighbors’ walls were gone, too. “I didn’t have any idea that that thought would actually mean something later,” Beeler said.

2016-05-28 08:13 www.wnd.com

92 Pair of melons fetch record $27,215 at Japanese auction Contact WND (Japan Today) A single pair of premium Yubari melons fetched a record 3 million yen at the season’s first auction in Sapporo on Thursday. The winning bid was placed by the buyer for a supermarket in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Fuji TV reported. The price was double last year’s.

2016-05-28 08:12 www.wnd.com

93 Time-lapse captures monster supercell over Kansas Contact WND (Colossal) Over the past few days there have been several time-lapse videos circulating around the web of a supercell storm forming over the skies in Wyoming. While that video is incredible, this footage by photographer Stephen Locke, captured near Climax, Kansas on May 10th of this year, is even more astounding. A massive vortex of clouds, rain, lightning, and a clearly visible sunset to boot. (via Vimeo)

2016-05-28 08:12 www.wnd.com

94 Arizona hikers, campers warned about 'cartel assassins' Contact WND (KNXV) The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office is warning hikers and campers of a dangerous threat this holiday weekend — cartel assassins. Sheriff Paul Babeu is recommending anyone using back roads, campsites and trails in western Pinal County to be extra cautious and consider carrying a firearm if they are in any wilderness areas. According to PCSO, Mexican cartels are sending the “sicarios” — groups of assassins — to kill rivals trying to steal their drugs. The armed enforcers are expected to target “rip crews”, who ambush other transport gangs to take their drugs and money.

2016-05-28 08:12 www.wnd.com

95 Police cite nude man with 'bells hanging from his genitals' Contact WND (KSTU) A Riverton man was cited for lewdness involving a child Thursday after he was allegedly spotted by several people running on a trail while wearing nothing except for several bells that were hanging from his genitals. According to a press release from the Utah County Sheriff’s Office, police were called to the Diamond Fork hot pots in Spanish Fork Canyon Thursday just before 5 p.m. after reports, “a man was running around naked with bells hanging from his genitals.” Several witnesses between the ages of 8 and 16 told deputies they had seen the man, who was later located fully clothed near the trailhead parking lot. The suspect, 64-year-old Kenneth Allen Beck of Riverton, “told Deputies he just likes doing what witnesses described to see their reaction.”

2016-05-28 08:12 www.wnd.com

96 Vince Foster's sister condemns Trump for raising conspiracy Contact WND (MSNBC) Vince Foster’s sister on Thursday condemned Donald Trump for bringing up a discredited conspiracy theory regarding her brother’s suicide, calling the GOP nominee’s remarks “beyond contempt.” Trump in a recent interview with The Washington Post referenced the widely debunked theory that Foster, a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton, was actually murdered. Trump called circumstances of Foster’s 1993 death “very fishy.” “In this interview, Trump cynically, crassly and recklessly insinuated that my brother, Vincent W. Foster Jr., may have been murdered because ‘he had intimate knowledge of what was going on’ and that Hillary Clinton may have somehow played a role in Vince’s death,” Foster’s sister, Sheila Foster Anthony, said in an op-ed published in The Post Thursday.

2016-05-28 08:12 www.wnd.com

97 The World Cup you’ve never heard of, where the teams have no state Metro mayors can help Labour return to government Football's European Championship and the Olympics are set to dominate the back pages over the next few months. How will Team GB fare in Rio? Will the zika virus stop the tournament even going ahead? Will the WAGS prove to be a distraction for the Three Lions? And can Roy Hodgson guide England to a long-awaited trophy? But before the sprinters are in their blocks or a ball has been kicked, there's a world cup taking place. Only this world cup is, well, a bit different. There's no Brazil, no damaged metatarsals to speak of, and no Germany to break hearts in a penalty shootout. There’s been no sign of football’s rotten underbelly rearing its head at this world cup either. No murmurs of the ugly corruption which has plagued Fifa in recent years. Nor any suggestion that handbags have been exchanged for hosting rights. This biennial, unsung world cup is not being overseen by Fifa however, but rather by Conifa (Confederation of Independent Football Associations), the governing body for those nations discredited by Fifa. Among its member nations are ethnic groups, diaspora communities or disputed territories with varying degrees of autonomy. Due to their contested status, many of the nations are unable to gain recognition from Fifa. As a consequence they cannot compete in tournaments sanctioned by the best-known footballing governing body, and that’s where Conifa provides a raison d’être. “We give a voice to the unheard”, says Conifa’s General Secretary, Sascha Düerkop, whose world cup kicks off in the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia at the end of this week. “We are proud to give our members a forum where they can put themselves on the map. “From that we hope to give back in the long run and invest in the football infrastructure in our member nations to help them grow.” The two week footballing celebration starts with an opening ceremony before Kurdistan and Székely Land kick off the tournament. It follows on from 2014’s maiden competition which saw The County of Nice avenging a group stage defeat to Ellan Vannin from the Isle of Man, to take the spoils in the final via a penalty shoot-out. There were some blowout scores of note however, with South Ossetia smashing Darfur 20-0 and Kurdistan beating the Tamils 9-0 at the event which took place in Östersund, Sweden. Neither of the finalists will be returning to the tournament – throwing down the gauntlet to another twelve teams. This, the second Conifa world cup, is testament to the ever-expanding global footprint of the tournament. Abkhazia will welcome sides from four continents – including Western Armenia, the Chagos Islands, United Koreans in Japan and Somaliland. Despite the “minor” status of the countries taking part, a smattering of professional talent lends credibility to the event. Panjab can call on the experience of ex-Accrington Stanley man Rikki Bains at the heart of their defence, and the coaching savoir-faire of former Tranmere star Reuben Hazell from the dugout. Morten Gamst Pedersen, who turned out for Blackburn Rovers over 300 times and was once a Norwegian international, will lead the Sapmi people. The hosts complete the list of teams to aiming to get their hands on silverware along with Padania, Northern Cyprus, and Raetia. A quick glance down said list, and it’s hard to ignore the fact that most of the nations competing have strong political associations – be that through war, genocide, displacement or discrimination. The Chagos Islands is one such example. An archipelago in the Indian Ocean, Chagos’ indigenous population was uprooted by the British government in the 1960s to make way for one of the United States' most strategically important military bases – Diego Garcia. Ever since, they've been campaigning for the right to return. Their side, based in Crawley, has crowdfunded the trip to the tournament. Yet most of its members have never stepped foot on the islands they call home, and which they will now represent. Kurdistan’s efforts to establish an independent state have been well-highlighted, even more so given the last few years of conflict in the Middle East. The hosts too, broke away from Georgia in the 1990s and depend on the financial clout of Russia to prop up their government. Despite that, Düerkop insists that the event is one which focuses on action on the pitch rather than off it. “Many of the nations are politically interested, but we are non-political,” he says. “Some of our members are less well-known in the modern world. They have been forgotten, excluded from the global community or simply are ‘unpopular’ for their political positions. “We are humanitarians and the sides play football to show their existence – nothing more, nothing less.” The unknown and almost novel status of the tournament flatters to deceive as Conifa’s world cup boasts a broadcast deal, two large stadiums and a plush opening ceremony. Its aim in the long run, however, is to develop into a global competition, and one which is content to sit below Fifa. “We are happy to be the second biggest football organisation,” admits Düerkop. “In the future we hope to have women’s and youth tournaments as well as futsal and beach soccer.” “Our aim is to advertise the beauty and uniqueness of each nation.” “But the most important purpose is to give those nations that are not members of the global football community a home.” George Weah, the first African winner of Fifa World Player of the Year award remarked how “football gives a suffering people joy”. And after speaking to Düerkop there’s certainly a feeling that for those on the game’s periphery, Conifa’s world cup has an allure which offers a shared sense of belonging. It certainly seems light years away from the glitz and glamour of WAGs and corruption scandals. And that's because it is. But maybe in a small way, this little-known tournament might restore some of beauty lost by the once “beautiful game”. 2017 will mark the inaugural elections of directly-elected metro mayors across England. In all cases, these mayor and cabinet combined authorities are situated in Labour heartlands, and as such Labour should look confidently at winning the whole slate. Beyond the good press winning again will generate, these offices provide an avenue for Labour to showcase good governance, and imperatively, provide vocal opposition to the constraints of local government by Tory cuts. The introduction of the Mayor of London in 2000 has provided a blueprint for how the media can provide a platform for media-friendly leadership. It has also demonstrated the ease that the office allows for attribution of successes to that individual and party – or misappropriated in context of Boris Bikes and to a lesser extent the London Olympics. While without the same extent of the powers of the sui generis mayor of the capital, the prospect of additional metro-mayors provide an opportunity for replicating these successes while providing experience for Labour big- hitters to develop themselves in government. This opportunity hasn’t gone unnoticed, and after Sadiq Khan’s victory in London has shown that the role can grow beyond the limitations – perceived or otherwise - of the Corbyn shadow cabinet while strengthening team Labour’s credibility by actually being in power. Shadow Health Secretary and former leadership candidate Andy Burnham’s announcement last week for Greater Manchester was the first big hitter to make his intention known. The rising star of Luciana Berger, another member of Labour’s health team, is known to be considering a run in the Liverpool City Region. Could we also see them joined by the juggernaut of Liam Byrne in the West Midlands, or next-generation Catherine McKinnell in the North East? If we can get a pantheon of champions elected across these city regions, to what extent can this have an influence on national elections? These new metro areas represent around 11.5 million people, rising to over 20 million if you include Sadiq’s Greater London. While no doubt that is an impressive audience that our Labour pantheon are able to demonstrate leadership to, there are limitations. 80 of the 94 existing Westminster seats who are covered under the jurisdiction of the new metro-mayors are already Labour seats. While imperative to solidify our current base for any potential further electoral decline, in order to maximise the impact that this team can have on Labour’s resurgence there needs to be visibility beyond residents. The impact of business is one example where such influence can be extended. Andy Burnham for example has outlined his case to make Greater Manchester the creative capital of the UK. According to the ONS about 150,000 people commute into Greater Manchester, which is two constituency’s worth of people that can be directly influenced by the Mayor of Greater Manchester. Despite these calculations and similar ones that can be made in other city- regions, the real opportunity with selecting the right Labour candidates is the media impact these champion mayors can make on the national debate. This projects the influence from the relatively-safe Labour regions across the country. This is particularly important to press the blame of any tightening of belts in local fiscal policy on the national Tory government’s cuts. We need individuals who have characteristics of cabinet-level experience, inspiring leadership, high profile campaigning experience and tough talking opposition credentials to support the national party leadership put the Tory’s on the narrative back foot. That is not to say there are not fine local council leaders and technocrats who’s experience and governance experience at vital to Labour producing local successes. But the media don’t really care who number two is, and these individuals are best serving the national agenda for the party if they support A-listers who can shine a bright spotlight on our successes and Tory mismanagement. If Jeremy Corbyn and the party are able to topple the Conservatives come next election, then all the better that we have a diverse team playing their part both on the front bench and in the pantheon of metro-mayors. If despite our best efforts Jeremy’s leadership falls short, then we will have experienced leaders in waiting who have been able to afford some distance from the front-bench, untainted and able to take the party’s plan B forward.

2016-05-28 11:05 Laurie Penny www.newstatesman.com

98 US forces in Okinawa hold month of mourning for murdered Japanese woman By AT Editor on May 28, 2016 in Asia Times News & Features , Japan (From Reuters) The U. S. military on Saturday announced a 30-day period of mourning at its bases on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, where the killing of a woman has reignited resentment of the heavy U. S. military presence in the region. People protest against the US military presence in front of the US Kadena Air Base in Cyatan The Marine Corps commander in Japan said Saturday the measures are not punishment but an effort to show respect for the victim’s family and mourn with the people of Okinawa. A 32-year-old American civilian working at a U. S. military base in Okinawa was arrested this month for dumping the body of the 20-year-old Japanese woman, a procedural step in murder cases. The attack stoked anger in Japan, prompting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to protest about the killing during talks with U. S. President Barack Obama ahead of the Group of Seven summit in central Japan. Read More Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Share on Skype (Opens in new window) More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Related ‹ Udta Punjab: expletives, drugs and politics Win 18-karat gold chicken nugget at McDonald’s › Categories: Asia Times News & Features , Japan Tags: Month of mourning for Okinawan woman , US bans celebrations for Okinawan woman , US cubs in Okinawa base , US Gen explains Okinawa curbs , US Marines mourns for Okinawa woman , US marines mourns with Okinawans Related Articles Japan’s rigid gender roles hamper women’s career progress Pakistan fails to seal F-16 deal after financing row with US, says report Mountain village in China to finally get a set of stairs Crime journalist shot dead in Philippine capital N. Korean leader’s aunt runs dry-cleaner in US: Washington Post Indian states must take steps against attacks on African nationals

2016-05-28 06:37 By AT atimes.com

99 A bare apartment becomes a home, with help from friends Bibiche Bekoka held the right side of her back and winced as she slowly lowered into a foldout camping chair in her living room. For the past two months, she had been sleeping on an air mattress with her 15-year-old daughter, Gabriella, and 3-year-old son, Prince. Her two middle children, 8-year-old Angelina and 10-year-old Allegra, had been sharing the bottom of a set of bunk beds because there was no mattress on top. The girls didn’t mind as much, because they could stay up talking about their favorite band, One Direction, and what they miss about South Africa. “It’s kind of fun,” Allegra said. But when Bekoka woke up Monday, it hurt to walk. Relief, however, was coming. Furniture Friends, an organization that collects and delivers donated furniture in the Portland area, was scheduled to bring a shipment the next day to their apartment on outer Congress Street. Since they had moved there in April, the children had been fighting over the two blue camping chairs that came from a pastor at their church and a Prince-sized, orange plastic one from Goodwill. Allegra and Angelina usually ate dinner on their bed or the floor. Still, it was better than being at the family shelter, even though they each had their own beds there, Bekoka said. “Everyone is using the bathroom. We are sharing the pots. We are sharing the plates. You are sharing everything,” she said in a thick accent that her children don’t have. Bekoka and her family fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo for South Africa 12 years ago for their safety – the same reason they came to Maine in January, though, this time, her husband didn’t join them. The pizza is better in South Africa, Angelina said, but otherwise she’s happy here. She’s already friends with half of her class, she said. Her oldest sister, Gabriella, is playing high school softball, and Allegra likes the snow. When the girls are at school, Prince and their mother are mostly at home, if not at doctor’s appointments or the grocery store. Bekoka can’t save for a car until she gets a job, and she still has to wait a few more months before she can apply for a work permit. She hopes to find a job in information technology, which she studied in South Africa. Until that happens, she plans to volunteer. But her first priority, after applying for asylum and getting medical check- ups, was to have furniture in their home. “It’s difficult. We almost don’t have the family meal,” she said of not having a table to gather around. She asked a young man she’d met at her new church, First Assembly of God, to come help with the delivery. Tutuma Alberto arrived in Maine a month ago from Mozambique. When he and Bekoka realized they both spoke French, they started talking. Soon after he got to her apartment Tuesday morning, it became clear his help wouldn’t be needed. As a moving truck pulled into the driveway, a school bus with 10 volunteers parked out front. From the time the first mattress came through the door, Bekoka’s mouth spread into a smile that didn’t go away. She occasionally broke into laughter as the stream of furniture flowed through the apartment. There were box springs, bureaus, tables and chairs. Between directing the volunteers, she clasped her hands to her chest watching the bare rooms become a home, where her family could eat together and sleep apart. Only two wooden chairs came with the dining room table but they could use the foldout ones around it, too, now that the living room had a full-sized couch and an upholstered chair. In the master bedroom, suitcases that overflowed with whole wardrobes were pushed aside to make room for the dressers where the clothes could finally be put away. Bekoka folded up the deflated air mattress that never stayed blown up all the way, and in came a double bed that she’d have all to herself. Prince bounced around among the volunteers setting up the frame. Then, in minutes, they were gone and the apartment was quiet again. Bekoka went to sit down on her new couch, worn but undamaged, with room for three. She sank into the middle cushion and leaned back, letting her head fall over the top. Still smiling, she let out a sigh. “It feels good,” she said. Were you interviewed for this story? If so, please fill out our accuracy form Send questions/comments to the editors.

2016-05-28 04:00 www.pressherald.com

100 Everyone’s geared up for the 100th Indy 500 INDIANAPOLIS — Tony Kanaan spent the final practice before the Indianapolis 500 talking to the racetrack. He wanted to be kind to the old lady, to land in her good graces before the historic 100th running of “The Greatest Spectacle In Racing.” “I think this track will pick the winner. Whatever she picks, it’s going to be a very lucky guy,” Kanaan said Friday after landing atop the leaderboard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. “I’m trying to massage the track a little bit, talk to her nicely and then see if she will pick me on Sunday.” Kanaan has led a total of 715 miles around the sprawling speedway, but it took him 12 tries to win the checkered flag. That 2013 victory was the most important of his career, and the Brazilian is eager to try for another in front of the first capacity crowd in the history of a race that was first run in 1911. There could be more than 350,000 people on hand on what is expected to be a warm, sunny day that will be marked by celebration. “I’m so humbled to be part of this, I’ve always wanted to be in this race since I was a little kid,” he said. “I never really came to this place until I raced in 2002, so I haven’t experienced what it’s like when this place is sold out. I’ve been here for 15 years and I’ve never, never seen anything like this. I hope it’s the big jump we need to bring the 500 back to where it belongs.” This centennial running has turned a special event into a once-in-a-lifetime experience. At least 100,000 fans poured into the speedway Friday for Carb Day, the traditional final day of practice. Everyone wants to be part of the show, and every driver wants to win this race. Marco Andretti has been preparing for Sunday for an entire year. His family suffers from the notorious “Andretti curse” that has produced just one victory – Mario Andretti in 1969 – despite numerous chances to win. Michael Andretti returned from retirement in 2006 to race against his son, an Indy 500 rookie, and the curse struck again. Michael Andretti held a late lead, only to be passed by his son, and then Sam Hornish Jr. went roaring by and passed Marco at the finish line. Another Andretti defeat. “I think about it still every day,” Marco said. “See, this place was really, really tough to us. We’ve been healthy as a family with all the tries, over 70- something tries, we’re blessed to be healthy. But man, we’ve had a lot of plane rides home talking about how we didn’t win it, and that’s getting old.” This is the one he really wants for his family. “Just to put your mark on the 100th would be huge. I keep saying, ‘It’s only right an Andretti wins the 100th,’ ” he said. Andretti is like the 32 other drivers in the field in their desire to become the 100th face on the famed Borg-Warner trophy. Among those eyeing the winner’s bottle of milk Sunday is Graham Rahal, who is trying to win his first Indy 500 on the 30th anniversary of the race won by his father, Bobby. More than anything, Rahal is striving to help IndyCar and its cornerstone event use the 100th running to strengthen the series and ensure that the Indy 500 remains a fixture in American sports. “I put a lot of pressure on myself to try and help this sport grow. If we could win it, obviously it would be a great platform to do even more of that,” Rahal said. “Whoever wins this thing needs to be on top of their game and promote like crazy and work hard. I really hope it’s an American, honestly. This is going to be a big one. They’ve captured that audience again that maybe we had lost there for a little bit. Now we’ve got to keep their attention and keep it going.” Were you interviewed for this story? If so, please fill out our accuracy form Send questions/comments to the editors.

2016-05-28 04:00 By JENNA www.pressherald.com

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