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Total 100 articles, created at 2016-05-29 18:03 1 Duterte eyes Briones, Diokno for education, budget; nothing for Leni yet

(1.02/2) DAVAO CITY – Incoming President Rodrigo Duterte said on Saturday night he still had no Cabinet post to offer to Vice President-elect Leni Robredo. “Why should I talk to her? I have not 2016-05-29 18:02 2KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 2 ‘For the moment,’ Djokovic plans to compete at Rio Olympics (1.02/2) PARIS — Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic says canceling the Olympics "is unthinkable" and, "for the moment," he is still planning to compete at the Rio de Janiero Games, 2016-05-29 18:02 1KB sports.inquirer.net 3 Indian discus thrower Seema Punia qualifies for Rio Olympics

(1.02/2) gold medal winner Seema Punia today qualified for the Rio Olympics with a 62.62m effort at the Pat Young's Throwers Classic 2016 at Salinas (California) in the United States 2016-05-29 18:02 2KB www.mid-day.com 4 Video: This Week in History: May 29-June 4 ABC News' Jonathan Karl looks back at great moments in history, (1.02/2) politics and pop culture. 2016-05-29 17:28 1KB abcnews.go.com 5 IDF tank used in 1982 battle in Lebanon, famous for MIAs, to be returned by Russia News of the tank’s return comes on the heels of Netanyahu’s (1.02/2) scheduled visit to Moscow next month. 2016-05-29 15:49 2KB www.jpost.com 6 Reuters: Top News - powered by FeedBurner

(1.02/2) HASSAN SHAMI, Iraq (Reuters) - Servicemen from the U. S... 2016-05-29 13:45 576Bytes feeds.reuters.com 7 Palace denies US hand in arbitration case vs China (1.00/2) A PALACE official on Sunday denied that the United States is meddling in the ’ arbitration case against China over the disputed islands in the South China Sea. Communications 2016-05-29 17:47 2KB globalnation.inquirer.net

8 Minister's mystery trip: the love twist Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's late son was romantically involved with the Burundi woman she smuggled into (1.00/2) South Africa on an air force jet, sources said this week, and the couple had plans to marry. 2016-05-29 17:30 8KB www.timeslive.co.za 9 Express way! The many moods of Virat Kohli captured during IPL 9

(0.01/2) Royal Challengers Bangalore captain is famously known for his aggressiveness on the field during matche but its his various facial expressions that do the talking here 2016-05-29 16:00 1KB www.mid- day.com 10 John McDonnell's seminars are restoring Labour's economic credibility The Tinder dating app isn't just about sex – it's about friendship, (0.01/2) too. And sex The Shadow Chancellor's embrace of new economics backed by clear plans will see Labour profit at the polls, argues Liam Young. 2016-05-29 12:59 9KB www.newstatesman.com 11 Baldwin: Blatche ‘in good shape’ on Sunday hit the court with Gilas Pilipinas for the first time this year and national team head coach couldn't be any happier with what he saw. "He's 2016-05-29 18:02 2KB sports.inquirer.net 12 Ayo gets first taste of Ateneo-La Salle Aldin Ayo is still a stranger when it comes to the storied history between Ateneo and his new team . But as far as rivalries are concerned, it's something Ayo, a former 2016-05-29 18:02 1KB sports.inquirer.net 13 Filoil: Unbeaten Archers dominate Eagles What rivalry? The latest episode of green vs. blue was nothing but a one-sided affair. De La Salle University made a laughingstock out of Ateneo with a 98-66 beatdown, in the 2016 Filoil Flying V 2016-05-29 18:02 2KB sports.inquirer.net 14 Kris: I did not meet Trillanes in Hawaii ACTRESS Kris Aquino denied a report that she and defeated vice presidential candidate Senator Antonio Trillanes IV met in Hawaii to allegedly hatch a plot against President-elect Rodrigo 2016-05-29 18:02 2KB entertainment.inquirer.net 15 Duterte seeks early talks with communist rebels Incoming President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday he would seek an early start to peace talks with communist rebels and free detained guerrilla chieftains when he takes office in end-June. He 2016-05-29 18:02 3KB globalnation.inquirer.net

16 RC Cola-Army’s Gonzaga, Bautista rule PSL beach volley On shifting sands and gathering dusk Sunday, RC Cola-Army’s true grit and experience prevailed over all else. Jovelyn Gonzaga and Nene Bautista shielded everything thrown at them by an eager 2016-05-29 18:02 1KB sports.inquirer.net 17 : Bopanna-Mergea enter men's doubles quarters 's tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his men's doubles partner Florin Mergea stormed into the quarter-finals of the French Open tennis tournament on Sunday 2016-05-29 18:02 1KB www.mid-day.com 18 Blatche puts past behind, focused on leading Gilas in qualifiers Past is past, and this time, Andray Blatche's focus is solely on helping Gilas Pilipinas nab the lone ticket to the 2016 Rio Olympics at stake in the Fiba Olympic qualifying tournament in 2016-05-29 18:02 3KB sports.inquirer.net 19 Arvind Kejriwal's drug-menace barb drives wedge in Goa government Arvind Kejriwal's 35-minute speech has not only raised the rhetoric on the serious issue of drug proliferation and addiction in Goa but has also put the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government in a fix of sorts 2016-05-29 18:02 4KB www.mid-day.com 20 Free lunch for all would bust the fiscus If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. That adage comes to mind when discussing universal basic income - that is, cutting a cheque of the same amount to all citizens, regardless of earned income - the kind of initiative that Switzerland will be voting on next Sunday. 2016-05-29 17:50 4KB www.timeslive.co.za 21 South Africans who made history on Everest Controversy and camaraderie, as well as tragedy and triumph, coloured the two very different summits by South African teams on the world’s greatest mountain 2016-05-29 17:29 8KB www.timeslive.co.za

22 For 50 years, Prince George teacher has seen country evolve It was 1967. The Vietnam War was raging, college campuses were hotbeds of unrest and one of the most divisive presidential campaigns in American history was taking shape. 2016-05-29 17:26 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 23 CNN contributor Van Jones to speak at Middlebury graduation Vermont’s Middlebury College graduates its Class of 2016 this weekend and CNN political contributor Van Jones will be the commencement speaker. 2016-05-29 17:26 1002Bytes www.washingtontimes.com 24 Authorities ID body found with elderly stabbing victim in Atlanta Authorities have identified the body of the man found Friday in the home of an 89-year-old fatal stabbing victim in northwest Atlanta. 2016-05-29 17:25 953Bytes www.ajc.com 25 United beat Pirates to win The same man who brought pain to SuperSport United in their last Nedbank Cup final appearance three years ago is the same man who gave them a reason to smile here yesterday. 2016-05-29 17:24 5KB www.timeslive.co.za 26 WATCH: Thando, 6, reads about it in the Sunday papers On a Sunday afternoon while her friends are playing outside, six- year-old Thando Dhlamini reads the Sunday papers with her parents. The news and sport sections are her favourites. 2016-05-29 17:24 3KB www.timeslive.co.za 27 Rain washes out attempt to set record Greek sirtaki dance Torrential rain has dashed hopes in Romania of setting a Guinness Book world record for Greece’s famous sirtaki dance. 2016-05-29 17:23 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 28 Parishioners to leave closed church after 11-year protest For more than 11 years, a core group of about 100 die-hard parishioners of St. Frances X. Cabrini Church have kept their beloved parish open by maintaining an around-the-clock vigil in a peaceful protest of a decision by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to close it. 2016-05-29 17:23 2KB www.washingtontimes.com

29 Beach Boys headlining Memorial Day concert The Beach Boys are headlining this year’s Memorial Day concert on the lawn of the U. S. Capitol. 2016-05-29 17:23 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 30 17-year-old gets degree in biology, physics and math While most 6-year-olds spend their summers playing outside, participating in sports or watching TV, 17-year-old Joseph Heavner of Clear Spring spent his childhood teaching himself mathematics and reading high-school textbooks. 2016-05-29 17:23 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 31 Bates College commencement hosts civil rights leader Lewis Civil Rights leader John Lewis is delivering the commencement address at Bates College. 2016-05-29 17:23 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 32 Habitat for Humanity opens ReStore, breaks ground on project New Castle County’s Habitat for Humanity affiliate recently doubled down on its efforts in Middletown. 2016-05-29 17:23 2KB www.washingtontimes.com 33 Anne Hathaway Cottage in Staunton turns into a tea room The Anne Hathaway Cottage on West Beverley Street has been transformed into a high tea room and it’s something straight out of England. 2016-05-29 17:23 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 34 Tennessee River lakes featured in new music, fishing show Coby Greer hasn’t done much fishing since he was a kid, but the up and coming county music artist was more than happy to discuss his career Tuesday while floating in a fishing boat on the Tennessee River. 2016-05-29 17:23 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 35 Body recovered in Oregon, believed to be homicide victim Police in Walla Walla, Washington, say they have recovered a body believed to be that a missing man who may be a homicide victim. 2016-05-29 17:23 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 36 National Guard Bureau picks Vermont soldier’s marching song The National Guard Bureau has chosen a song written by a Vermont solider to be its official march and organizational music. 2016-05-29 17:23 1013Bytes www.washingtontimes.com

37 Officials: Body of Canadian hiker found on Mount Washington New Hampshire Fish and Game officials say they have found the body of a Canadian hiker who had been missing for weeks. 2016-05-29 17:23 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 38 German nationalist slammed over black soccer player comment A top member of a rising German nationalist party drew sharp criticism Sunday for reportedly saying that many people wouldn’t want Jerome Boateng, a key player on Germany’s national soccer team whose father was born in Ghana, as their neighbor. 2016-05-29 17:23 2KB www.washingtontimes.com 39 Maine dental clinics to get $150K to improve low-income care The Maine Health Access Foundation is giving nearly $150,000 to nonprofit dental clinics around the state in an effort to make affordable dental care more accessible to low-income residents. 2016-05-29 17:23 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 40 The Latest: Thousands of Texas inmates being evacuated The Latest on severe weather and flooding around the U. S. (all times local): 2016-05-29 17:23 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 41 SA celebs fight back against excessive Photoshopping South African celebrities are fighting back against extreme Photoshopping by magazines. 2016-05-29 17:23 5KB www.timeslive.co.za 42 New Yorkers reminded patriotic flags are tax-free The state Division of Veterans’ Affairs is reminding New Yorkers over the Memorial Day weekend that the flags of the U. S., New York, military branches, military services and prisoners of war are exempt from sales taxes. 2016-05-29 17:22 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 43 Political candidates to hit Memorial Day parade routes The season of politicians marching in parades kicks off this weekend with the Memorial Day holiday. 2016-05-29 17:22 1KB www.washingtontimes.com

44 Darlington sheriff fires 2 deputies for campaigning for him Darlington County Sheriff Wayne Byrd says he fired two deputies for conducting campaign business for him while in uniform and using a county vehicle. 2016-05-29 17:22 1KB www.washingtontimes.com 45 Stop the war talk to save SA - Treasury Ahead of a crucial week for South Africa, National Treasury Director-General Lungisa Fuzile warned that political 2016-05-29 17:22 4KB www.timeslive.co.za 46 ‘Parliament TV must have age restriction’ James Selfe on the circus that is South Africa’s National Assembly 2016-05-29 17:21 5KB www.timeslive.co.za 47 Return to Vietnam In his mind, Skip Nichols often returned to Vietnam. 2016-05-29 15:29 4KB www.washingtontimes.com 48 After ‘long’ coach’s speech, Serena gets by at French Open PARIS — was ahead, yes, but hardly at her best, when claps of thunder and a heavy downpour interrupted her third-round French Open match at a critical juncture. So during what 2016-05-29 16:58 5KB sports.inquirer.net 49 To ease homeless issue, St. Petersburg mulls tiny homes Could tiny houses help alleviate St. Petersburg’s intractable homeless problem? 2016-05-29 15:29 3KB www.washingtontimes.com 50 Free agency beckoning, DeRozan sounds happy with Raptors TORONTO — For a guy about to hit free agency for the first time, DeMar DeRozan doesn't sound as if he's looking for a change of scenery. A day after the deepest playoff run in Toronto 2016-05-29 16:49 5KB sports.inquirer.net 51 Filoil: Red Lions maul Knights San Beda smelled blood and feasted on Letran, 84-70, in the Filoil Flying V Preseason Premier Cup Sunday at San Juan Arena. It was the first meeting between the two teams since the NCAA Season 2016-05-29 16:41 2KB sports.inquirer.net

52 Iran; Pilgrims will not attend haj in Mecca blaming Saudi 'Sabotage' Iran's official pilgrimage organization says Iranians wont attend annual Muslim pilgrimage, citing regional rivalry 2016-05-29 16:40 2KB www.jpost.com 53 CL final: Ronaldo says he had vision of scoring the winning goal for Real Having handed Real Madrid their 11th European title by converting the decisive attempt during the penalty shootout, star forward Cristiano Ronaldo said he had a vision that he will score the winning penalty in the Champions League final 2016-05-29 16:39 2KB www.mid-day.com 54 Pakistan govt gags PCB on cricket ties with India The Pakistan government has restrained its Cricket Board from initiating any dialogue with the BCCI on the issue of a long-pending bilateral series, which has been scuttled repeatedly on account of volatile political ties between the two nations. 2016-05-29 16:32 2KB www.mid-day.com 55 First Israeli ‘reuse’ of kidney saves brother after transplanted sister dies of stroke The kidney was removed from her body and flown to Israel, where it was transplanted into her brother. 2016-05-29 16:04 2KB www.jpost.com 56 Israeli gymnast wins bronze medal at European championships The 29-year-old Israeli registered a score of 15.300 points to finish in third place and collect his sixth career medal in the event. 2016-05-29 15:58 2KB www.jpost.com 57 SAA strengthens Mauritius route Due to growing demand‚ both from the continent and internationally‚ South African Airways (SAA) has strengthened its route to Mauritius. 2016-05-29 15:57 2KB www.timeslive.co.za 58 Rahul Raj Singh takes blessings from poor on his birthday Rahul Raj Singh, boyfriend of the deceased actress Pratyusha Banerjee, celebrated his 32nd birthday on Sunday by helping the poor in Mumbai 2016-05-29 15:53 1KB www.mid-day.com

59 Police kill 3 drug suspects in Bohol Philippine police have killed three drug suspects in a shootout, officials said Sunday, the latest such deaths after the election of tough anti-crime firebrand Rodrigo Duterte as President. A spate 2016-05-29 15:47 3KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 60 Fajardo feels no pain in knee, to return to Gilas practice Gilas Pilipinas can breathe that sigh of relief now. said that after an injury scare which prompted him to rest his swollen right knee, he will be good to go when the national team 2016-05-29 15:46 2KB sports.inquirer.net 61 WATCH: German MP gets pied in the face due to stance on Syrian refugees The man who threw the pie was swiftly taken away by security and offered no resistance. 2016-05-29 15:38 1KB www.jpost.com 62 NSRI assists stricken boat off KZN south coast The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) assisted a stricken boat experiencing motor problems off the Kwazulu-Natal south coast on Saturday. 2016-05-29 15:30 844Bytes www.timeslive.co.za 63 Prominent corruption-fighting police commander joins Yesh Atid Former founder of "Israeli FBI" Yoav Segalovitz announces that he is joining Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party. 2016-05-29 15:28 4KB www.jpost.com 64 Injured Lionel Messi 'is better' now, to testify in tax case The medical corps of the Argentine football team reported that Lionel Messi 2016-05-29 15:15 2KB www.mid-day.com 65 MEMORIAL Day – USA: Remembering Our Fallen: SAIPAN – 1944 Michael Jaron 2016-05-29 15:15 4KB www.jpost.com 66 Pagasa sees thunderstorm over Metro , nearby provinces The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said on Sunday that a thunderstorm is affecting parts of and nearby provinces. In an 2016-05-29 15:13 1KB newsinfo.inquirer.net 67 Vasai's PWD clerk files complaint against juniors for mental harassment A 32 year-old PWD department Vasai division lady clerk has filed complaint against three junior clerk including a lady typist attached to her department for allegedly mentally and physically harassing her 2016-05-29 15:05 2KB www.mid-day.com 68 Congolese man's murder: India to help family receive body The government on Sunday said it will help the family of the Congolese national Masonda Ketada Olivier, who was murdered here on May 20, to receive his mortal remains 2016-05-29 15:00 1KB www.mid-day.com 69 When Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid fans kissed... A Real Madrid fan poses at Piazza Duomo ahead of the UEFA Champions League final which will determine the football kings of Europe through a battle between Spanish rivals Real Madrid and Club Atletico de Madrid which took place at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milan, Italy on Saturday 2016-05-29 14:57 1KB www.mid- day.com 70 strikes: How might British travellers be affected? Q&A on the effect on Britons travelling in France following industrial action being taken by French workers, who are blockading oil refineries as part of their dispute. 2016-05-29 17:46 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 71 Japan parents left missing boy in woods 'as punishment' The parents of a seven-year-old boy missing in the mountains of northern Japan admit that they left him alone in the woods as a punishment. 2016-05-29 17:46 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 72 Escalation of Tory division over Europe Deputy political editor John Pienaar considers the tensions between rival factions in the Conservative Party over Europe. 2016-05-29 17:46 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 73 China Wanda City theme park opens in a battle with Disney China's richest man opens a huge entertainment complex in the city of Nanchang to compete with Disney, which is launching its own theme park next month. 2016-05-29 14:13 2KB www.bbc.co.uk

74 Indian police arrest five in over assaults on Africans Indian police say five people have been arrested over attacks in Delhi last week on Africans, assaults that have strained diplomatic ties. 2016-05-29 17:46 1KB www.bbc.co.uk 75 Three announces mobile ad-blocking trial Mobile service provider Three confirms it will advertising on its network for a day-long trial in June. 2016-05-29 17:46 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 76 German row over right-winger's 'racist' Boateng remark Comments by a senior leader of Germany's right-wing AfD party about football star Jerome Boateng are widely condemned as racist. 2016-05-29 17:46 2KB www.bbc.co.uk 77 DNA 'tape recorder' to trace cell history Researchers invent a DNA "tape recorder" that can trace the family history of every cell in a body. 2016-05-29 17:46 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 78 Who deserves a blue plaque? England's first blue plaque scheme celebrates its 150th anniversary this month having just unveiled the country's first commemoration to a food writer. But who qualifies for a plaque? 2016-05-29 17:46 8KB www.bbc.co.uk 79 Mumbai Police organises two day job fair at Worli Thousands of youngsters gathered at the two-day job fair at Worli Police Grounds organised by Tech Mahindra and the Mumbai Police which commenced on Saturday 2016-05-29 14:53 4KB www.mid-day.com 80 Cooling technologies set to become red hot sector Sainsbury's is trialling new food-cooling technologies that promise to be more eco-friendly than current alternatives. 2016-05-29 17:46 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 81 Giddy Amal Clooney enjoys date night with George in Rome They are Hollywood's power couple. And Amal Clooney and her silver-haired beau George, 55, decided it was time to slow things down a notch as they headed for date night at Dal Bolognese in Rome 2016-05-29 14:53 2KB www.dailymail.co.uk 82 Could we finally see the end of overcrowded trains? Britain's Network Rail has unveiled ambitious plans for an advanced digital signalling system that will allow 40% more trains to run on existing lines - cutting overcrowding and congestion. 2016-05-29 17:46 6KB www.bbc.co.uk 83 I had to leave my partner to lose weight Celena and her partner Pete separated for 10 weeks to break their bad habits and lose weight. 2016-05-29 17:46 7KB www.bbc.co.uk 84 Mental health support 'denied to children' Mental health services turned away more than a quarter of children referred for support without help in England in 2015, a report says. 2016-05-29 17:46 5KB www.bbc.co.uk 85 Child death inquiries will be overhauled, say ministers The system of inquiries into child deaths in England where neglect or abuse is suspected will be overhauled, says the government 2016-05-29 14:23 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 86 Gilas to hold closed-door practices starting Monday Gilas Pilipinas coach Tab Baldwin will start restricting public access to Gilas Pilipinas practices at Meralco Gym starting on Monday. "Starting tomorrow (Monday), all practices at the 2016-05-29 14:46 2KB sports.inquirer.net 87 Israeli flag stirs up controversy in Arab beach soccer tournament in Egypt Israel indirectly stirred up controversy during the opening ceremony of a beach soccer tournament in Egypt after the Israeli flag was featured in a documentary film presenting the tournament. 2016-05-29 14:40 1KB www.jpost.com 88 CBS News poll: What do Americans think of the 1945 use of the atomic bomb? President Obama will become the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, the city where the first atomic bomb was dropped 2016-05-29 13:32 1KB www.cbsnews.com 89 Missing Pakistani boy found in India two years later A Pakistani boy who went missing from his home in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan two years ago was found in India 2016-05-29 14:35 1KB www.mid-day.com

90 The story of Eve the Jurassic sea monster Piecing together the bare bones of a sea reptile that swam at the time of the dinosaurs. 2016-05-29 13:21 4KB www.bbc.co.uk 91 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... 2016-05-29 16:46 2KB www.chron.com 92 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. 2016-05-29 16:46 2KB www.chron.com 93 Internet fondly looks back at failed 'The Apprentice' pitch More than a decade ago, when Donald Trump was best known as a business magnate and reality TV star, he floated the idea of a race war on live television. 2016-05-29 16:46 1KB www.chron.com 94 Ted Cruz tells voters what really annoys his wife The Houstonians took questions from voters and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper during a town-hall meeting in New York on Wednesday, revealing tidbits about their marriage and the effect of the campaign on their family life. 2016-05-29 16:46 2KB www.chron.com 95 “I’m downloading stuff from first thing in the morning”: at 76, Radio 1 DJ Annie Nightingale is still raving Be transported to an ash-shrouded Iceland with Sjón’s new novel Moonstone The longest-serving Radio 1 DJ chats grime, sexism, and Donald Trump. 2016-05-29 17:47 13KB www.newstatesman.com

96 NewHeights Electric Sit to Stand Desk - In Photos: 6 Desks To Save You From Death By Sitting The power of NewHeights's desk is that it doesn't feel out of place in the average office. While some of the desks were more conspicuous, NewHeights felt as though it could be snuck into a cubicle without anyone noticing it could be easily electronically elevated until... 2016-05-29 16:41 1KB www.forbes.com 97 Here's What Your Doctor Makes - In Photos: What Does Your Doctor Make? In 2015, the MGMA survey found that median primary care physician compensation rose 4 percent to more than $250,000 while specialist compensation rose 3 percent to about $425,000. What does your doctor make? (All information from MGMA’s 2016 Physician Compensation and Production Survey.) 2016-05-29 16:41 1KB www.forbes.com 98 Hidden Islamic school exposed in heart of Brussels district that spawned ISIS attacks KMorgan 1264 posts 2016-05-29 16:47 2KB www.thetribunepapers.com 99 Obama Makes Historic Visit to Asia Obama strives for friendlier relations with its most longstanding adversaries. 2016-05-29 08:50 740Bytes abcnews.go.com 100 Verdun: France's sacred symbol of healing The site of the longest battle of World War One, Verdun has become a symbol of European reconciliation, says Hugh Schofield. 2016-05-29 16:41 5KB www.bbc.co.uk Articles

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1 Duterte eyes Briones, Diokno for education, budget; nothing for Leni yet (1.02/2) DAVAO CITY – Incoming President Rodrigo Duterte said on Saturday night he still had no Cabinet post to offer to Vice President-elect Leni Robredo. “Why should I talk to her? I have not considered anything for her because I’m more worried about where I would place the friends na nagkautang ako ng loob (to whom I owe a debt of gratitude),” Duterte said in a press briefing late Saturday evening. “I am not ready to offer anything to her,” he said. But Duterte announced that he was offering the education secretary post to University of the Philippines professor Leonor Briones. Duterte said Briones “is very quite familiar” with the problem in the education sector, particularly in the implementation of the K to 12 program, wherein “a lot of children will be marginalized and will not be able to enrol and a good number of teachers will lose their positions.” Duterte also said he was offering Benjamin Diokno the Department of Budget post. He said Diokno has held the position “of budget secretary for many Presidents.” Duterte also defended his choices of people who will be part of his Cabinet, saying these were his own decisions. “I am trying to explain or retort to these accusations that these are classmates, my friends…that is a very stupid allegation,” Duterte said. Duterte said he could have chosen from “a large portion of the population,” but he could only choose among people he personally knew, whose personalities and characters he understood. “My horizon … is limited to school, dormitory, friends and (fraternity) brothers,” he said. “You have to know the person and know the character,” he said of his choices, but stressed that many of his new appointees were not his “childhood friends.” SFM RELATED VIDEO

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2 ‘For the moment,’ Djokovic plans to compete at Rio Olympics (1.02/2) PARIS — Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic says canceling the Olympics “is unthinkable” and, “for the moment,” he is still planning to compete at the Rio de Janiero Games, despite worries about the Zika virus. Speaking at the French Open on Saturday, Djokovic added that people should not only be concerned about those who are going to Rio for the Olympics, but also the Brazilians themselves — “not talking about them too much.” Earlier Saturday, the World Health Organization rejected a call from 150 health experts to consider postponing or moving the Aug. 5-21 Olympics. Says Djokovic: “Honestly, I don’t know what to think anymore.” The No. 1 women’s tennis player, Serena Williams, says Zika has “been on my mind” and she will have to head to Rio “super-protected, maybe.” Estonian triplets running for Olympic glory in Rio bbc.co.uk 2016-05-29 18:02 Associated Press sports.inquirer.net

3 Indian discus thrower Seema Punia qualifies for Rio Olympics (1.02/2) New Delhi: Asian Games discus throw gold medal winner Seema Punia today qualified for the Rio Olympics with a 62.62m effort at the Pat Young's Throwers Classic 2016 at Salinas (California) in the United States. The 32-year-old Seema crossed the Rio Games qualification standard of 61.00m at the Hartnell College Throwers Complex with her season's best effort of 62.62m. She won the gold in the event and in the process pipped 2008 Olympic discus throw champion Stephanie Brown-Trafton of United States of America for the gold. Seema Punia This will be Seema's third Olympic Games appearance having taken part in 2004 and 2012 where she failed to get past the qualification round on both the occasions. She is the 19th Indian track and field athlete to have qualified for Rio Olympics. Seema, now training in the United States with funds provided by the Sports Ministry under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme, had won a gold in the in Guangzhou, China with a throw of 61.03m. She had also won a silver in the 2014 CWG with an effort of 61.61m. The -based athlete has a personal best of 64.84m which she did way back in 2004. She had also won a silver in 2006 Coomonwealth Games and a bronze in the 2010 Delhi CWG. She has over 10 career marks over 61.00m. An elated Seema, who made her Olympic debut in 2004, said, "There is a sea change from 2004 up to now. Discus throwing is my passion. This time I didn't have much time to prepare, but I already have a gut feeling that Rio will be my best Olympic Games. " Meanwhile, the 2010 CWG women's discus champion won the silver medal at a qualification competition held at Chula-Vista Olympic Training Centre, San Diego, with a throw of 57.97 metres.

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4 Video: This Week in History: May 29-June 4 (1.02/2) Transcript for This Week in History: May 29-June 4 Barack Obama will have enough delegates after the votes are counted to secure the democratic. Nomination for president. This week in history 2008. Barack Obama lost the South Dakota primary. Process he won enough delegates to clinch the democratic nomination over Hillary Clinton. Our quality. And our country are better off because of her and I am a better candidate for having had the honor to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. Clinton however did not concede the nomination for another five days. Giving continued hope to the eighteen million voters who supported her. This week in 1922. Iconic memorial to Abraham Lincoln was dedicated by president Warren Harding on the National Mall. Here you see Chief Justice William Howard Taft. Who S president eleven years earlier had signed the bill creating the memorial and Calvin Coolidge then vice president. Also in this shot leaking son Robert Todd Lincoln. And this week in 1968. Simon and Garfunkel song this is Robinson. Hit number one on billboard singles chart. Song from the movie the graduate became an anthem of a generation. One guy who wasn't thrilled with the song. Baseball legend showed a Maggio. It was very much alive and where the us. One song asked him. What this week in history. On Jonathan Karl. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

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5 IDF tank used in 1982 battle in Lebanon, famous for MIAs, to be returned by Russia (1.02/2) Amid growing ties between Jerusalem and Moscow, Israel announced on Sunday that Russia will return an IDF tank from the famous 1982 Sultan Yacoub battle in Lebanon, during which three Israeli soldiers — Zechariah Baumel, Tzvi Feldman and Yehuda Katz — disappeared. “I want to thank Russian President Vladimir Putin for responding to my request to give Israel the tank from the Sultan Yacoub battle,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. “For 34 years the families of the missing [soldiers] who disappeared without a trace, have had no burial plot to go to,” Netanyahu said. “The tank, which is the only evidence from that battle, will now be returned to Israel. " News of the tank’s return comes ahead of Netanyahu’s scheduled visit to Moscow in two weeks and as ties between Israel and Russia are growing. It will be Netanyahu's second trip to Russia in less than three months. Following his visit in April, Netanyahu said that he had spoken with Putin about increasing and improving security coordination between Israel and Russia regarding the ongoing civil war and Russian operations in Syria. An IDF delegation is already in Moscow to discuss the transfer of the tank, which has been in Moscow’s armory museum, to Israel. It was given to Russia by the Syrians but it is unclear if this particular tank was the one manned by the three missing soldiers. Eight tanks were lost and 30 soldiers were killed in the June 10-11 battle between Israel and Syria near Sultan Yacoub, a village in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley. Baumel, Feldman and Katz were photographed in Damascus on the day of their capture. They were also seen by several eyewitness including a Time Magazine reporter. Baumel was born in New York and held dual Israeli-US citizenship. His father Yona believed that his son, along with the two other missing soldiers, was held in Syria. For the rest of his life, until his death in 2009, Yona worked tirelessly to discover his son’s fate. Israel thanks Russia for returning tank from 1982 war dailymail.co.uk 2016-05-29 15:49 TOVAH LAZAROFF www.jpost.com

6 Reuters: Top News - powered by FeedBurner (1.02/2) HASSAN SHAMI, Iraq (Reuters) - Servicemen from the U. S.-led coalition were seen near the front line of a new offensive in northern Iraq launched on Sunday by Kurdish peshmerga forces that aims to retake a handful of villages from Islamic State east of their Mosul stronghold.

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7 Palace denies US hand in arbitration case vs China (1.00/2) A PALACE official on Sunday denied that the United States is meddling in the Philippines’ arbitration case against China over the disputed islands in the South China Sea. Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said that the US was only expressing its support for the peaceful resolution of the dispute by urging parties to respect the rule of law and adhere to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos). “Sa lahat ng ating nasasaksihan, wala naman tayong nakikitang patunay sa alegasyong iyan sa paglahok ng Pilipinas sa mga international meetings katulad ng Asean, Apec at iyong US-Asean Special Summit na ipinatawag ni President Obama noong nakaraang Pebrero,” Coloma said in an interview on dzRB. “Malinaw naman iyong pagpapahayag ng posisyon ng Estados Unidos na ang kanilang kinakatigan ay iyong mga prinsipyong tinalakay natin kanina, iyong kahalagahan ng paggalang sa rule of law, kasama nga diyan iyong batas na sumasaklaw sa mga karagatan o iyong UNCLOS,” Coloma added. He also said that the US merely joined other countries in supporting the principles of freedom of navigation and freedom of overflight. China’s Ambassador to the Netherlands Wu Ken said in a Xinhua report that the arbitration case filed by the Philippines in The Hague was “a legal monstrosity and reeks of hegemony from Washington.” Wu, in blasting the arbitration proceedings, said that “abuses of international law and a hegemonic mentality have no place in any South China Sea dispute.” The Chinese envoy also questioned Washington’s supposed “front stage” role in the dispute. “What ‘freedom of navigation’ is to be defended by American warships patrolling near Chinese islands and reefs? They slap a label of ‘militarization’ regarding China’s right to build facilities on its own territory. Take a look at the frequent U. S. military exercises in the South China Sea, what are they doing?” Wu said. AC/rga Palace: G7 declaration backs PH claim in sea dispute with China globalnation.inquirer.net 2016-05-29 17:47 Aries Joseph globalnation.inquirer.net

8 Minister's mystery trip: the love twist (1.00/2) Michelle Wege, 22, who the minister claimed to have rescued from an abusive father, was planning to marry Chumani, who was stabbed to death, allegedly by his friend Carlos Higuera, in Bezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg, in October last year. Businessman Laurent Wege, who made the startling claim this week, also lifted the lid on a business relationship with the minister gone sour, and denied Mapisa-Nqakula's claims that she had "rescued" Michelle from being abused by him. The father's claims about the real reasons for Mapisa-Nqakula's extraordinary actions contradict those she gave the Sunday Times last week. Michelle flew to South Africa on Mapisa-Nqakula's state jet in January 2014 after being arrested in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, for trying to board a plane to South Africa on a false passport. Mapisa-Nqakula claimed she had come to Michelle's aid because she was being abused by her father, and because she was good friends with her children. She said she had been en route to a meeting in Addis Ababa and had made a scheduled stop in Kinshasa to meet with officials. She denied she had flown there specifically to fetch Michelle. But Michelle's father told a very different story this week. "Michelle confirmed to me that she was engaged to the minister's late son. And I confronted the minister about her secret marriage arrangements for my daughter to her son," Wege said. Wege's claims that his daughter was in a romantic relationship with Mapisa-Nqakula's late son are supported by four other sources, two of them close to the minister's family. Three sources close to Mapisa-Nqakula's family made similar allegations to the Sunday Times last week. "We all know that the girl came to live with the minister because she was dating her son," a source said. "I have it on good authority that the minister was concerned about Michelle when she was arrested in the DRC because she was dating her son," another source said. And the last source said it was common knowledge in Mapisa-Nqakula's home that Michelle and Chumani were in a relationship. Mapisa-Nqakula this week refused to answer 10 questions sent to her by the Sunday Times, but a spokesman claimed that "the story is a well calculated plan to destroy her reputation". An e-mail from the minister's office to the Sunday Times yesterday said the story "is a political plot directed at the minister . .. we know who the conspirators are and know that you were chosen carefully to them in their plot". The e-mail added that the Sunday Times was throwing the allegation that her son had been dating Michelle "into the mix, knowing that he's no longer here to answer to it". The minister failed to mention that Michelle, who lives in her house, is still alive and can answer for herself. Wege told the Sunday Times that the minister had arranged with her sister, Nosithembele Mapisa, deputy ambassador to Burundi at the time, for his daughter to "run away" to the Congo, where she was arrested with fraudulent documents at Kinshasa International Airport as she was about to board a flight to South Africa. Mapisa was suspended for her alleged role in assisting Michelle source a fake passport, but was reinstated after more than a year, allegedly following political pressure. Mapisa-Nqakula said last Sunday that she had rescued Michelle from the Congo, where she had been detained for about 10 days, to help her "escape abuse at the hands of her father". But Wege this week vehemently denied that he had abused his daughter. He said Mapisa-Nqakula had other "underlying motives" when she went to the Congo to negotiate his daughter's release into her care. "The minister chose not to contact the Burundian government, which she has relations with, but preferred to smuggle a Burundian national out of the DRC who was supposedly accused of possession fraudulent Congolese documents," he said. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula during the funeral service of her son Chumani Nqakula on November 7, 2015 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Also in the picture, front right, is Michelle Wege. Image: Daylin Paul / Sunday Times "I came to South Africa twice while Michelle was with her and I stayed at the minister's house. I lived with them in the house. They never brought up that issue. " Wege said he had "a reciprocal business relationship" with Mapisa- Nqakula and that he was "shocked and surprised" by the minister's abuse accusations. "When the proper time and the right moment come I will tell the truth about how the minister and her sister are using my daughter to blackmail me. "The two Mapisa sisters are very manipulative and will say and do anything to get what they want. They will twist the truth to make their wrongdoings seem right to get what they want. "It is very disappointing that such a powerful, influential politician will use government resources and blackmail for personal gain and has no remorse for her actions. " Wege refused to explain the nature of his business relationship with Mapisa-Nqakula or how the minister and her sister were trying to blackmail him. "I love my daughter dearly and have always worked hard to provide her with the best opportunities. "Why would the minister risk her reputation and possibly her position to rescue a Burundian national she had known for seven months? " A source close to the matter claimed Mapisa-Nqakula had introduced Wege to South African businessman and politician Jabu Ngwenya, asking him to do business with Ngwenya. Wege said he "hosted Ngwenya in Burundi at the request of the minister", but refused to explain the nature of the business he and Ngwenya were pursuing. Ngwenya confirmed yesterday that he knew Wege, but said their business deal had not materialised. "I am in the catering business and I wanted to cater for the soldiers in Burundi. Wege promised to introduce me to the president of Burundi, but it never happened when I was there. " Ngwenya said Mapisa-Nqakula was his "chommie" but they had no business deals. Michelle Wege, who Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula helped get into South Africa, was spotted in Bruma, Johannesburg, on 21 May 2016. Image: IHSAAN HAFFEJEE "I know the minister like I know almost everyone in the cabinet, she is my chommie. " He confirmed that he went to Mapisa-Nqakula's house last Sunday after the story was published - to, he said, visit the minister's husband, who was ill with flu. Ngwenya said that although Wege "is a wonderful and great person", the way he does his business "left much to be desired". Mapisa-Nqakula last week accused Wege of also abusing Michelle's mother to the point that she committed suicide. Wege dismissed the accusation. "Michelle's mother died in hospital and I wasn't even in Burundi at the time, but in America. She wasn't my wife but a girlfriend," he said. Mapisa-Nqakula said last week that Michelle was in South Africa on a study permit that she had organised and that she was studying at Boston College. This week the Sunday Times established that Michelle attended classes at the college in Bedfordview for a few months last year and was not attending classes there this year - in possible contravention of immigration rules. This week, President Jacob Zuma's office refused to confirm whether Mapisa-Nqakula was granted permission to go to the Congo on January 28 2014, when she negotiated Michelle's release and gave her a lift in an air force jet. [email protected]

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9 Express way! The many moods of Virat Kohli captured during IPL 9 (0.01/2) Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli is famously known for his aggressiveness on the field during matches. However, it is rare to capture the Indian batsman with different facial expressions. The RCB skipper was recently caught on camera with various moods. Some pictures were at a press conference while others were during a training session and an IPL match. Royal Challengers will face off against Sunrisers Hyderabad as both teams will look to claim their maiden Indian Premier League title today. IPL 9 final will be competitive, qualitative: RCB skipper Virat Kohli mid-day.com 2016-05-29 16:00 By mid www.mid-day.com

10 John McDonnell's seminars are restoring Labour's economic credibility The Tinder dating app isn't just about sex – it's about friendship, too. And sex (0.01/2) It’s the economy, stupid. Perhaps ‘it’s the economy that lost Labour the last two elections, stupid’ is more accurate. But I don’t see Bill Clinton winning an election on that one. Campaign slogan theft aside it is a phrase Labour supporters are all too familiar with. Whatever part of the ‘broad church’ you belong to it is something we are faced with on a regular basis. How can Labour be trusted with the economy after they crashed it into the ground? It is still unpopular to try and reason with people. ‘It was a global crisis’ you say as eyes roll. ‘Gordon Brown actually made things better’ you say as they laugh. It’s not an easy life. On Saturday, the Labour party took serious steps towards regaining its economic credibility. In January a member of John McDonnell’s economic advisory committee argued that “opposing austerity is not enough”. Writing for the New Statesman , David Blanchflower stated that he would assist the leadership alongside others in putting together “credible economic policies.” We have started to see this plan emerge. Those who accuse the Labour leadership of simply shouting anti-austerity rhetoric have been forced to listen to the economic alternative. It seems like a good time to have done so. Recent polls suggest that the economy has emerged as the most important issue for the EU referendum with a double-digit lead. Public confidence in the government’s handling of the economy continues to fall. Faith in Cameron and Osborne is heading in the same direction. As public confidence continues to plummet many have questioned whether another crash is close. It is wise of the Labour leadership to offer an alternative vision of the economy at a time in which people are eager to listen to a way by which things may be done better. Far from rhetoric we were offered clear plans. McDonnell announced on Saturday that he wants councils to offer cheap, local-authority backed mortgages so that first-time buyers may actually have a chance of stepping on the housing ladder. We also heard of a real plan to introduce rent regulations in major cities to ease excessive charges and to offer support to those putting the rent on the overdraft. The plans go much further than the Tory right-to-buy scheme and rather than forcing local authorities to sell off their council housing stock, it will be protected and increased. It is of course important that the new economics rhetoric is matched with actual policy. But let’s not forget how important the rhetoric actually is. The Tory handling of the economy over the last six years has been dismal. But at the last election they were seen as the safer bet. Ed Miliband failed to convince the British public that his economic plan could lead to growth. The branding of the new economics is simple but effective. It does the job of distancing from the past while also putting a positive spin on what is to come. As long as actual policy continues to flow from this initiative the Labour leadership can be confident of people paying attention. And as economic concerns continue to grow ever more pessimistic the British public will be more likely to hear the Labour party’s alternative plan. The first time I met someone using Tinder, the free dating app that requires users to swipe left for “no” and right for “yes” before enabling new “matches” to chat, it was an unqualified success. I should probably qualify that. I was newly single after five years in a committed relationship and wasn’t looking for anything more than fun, friendship and, well, who knows. A few weeks earlier I had tried to give my number to a girl in a cinema café in Brixton. I wrote it on a postcard I’d been using as a bookmark. She said she had a boyfriend, but wanted to keep the postcard. I had no date and I lost my page. My Tinder date was a master’s student from Valencia called Anna (her name wasn’t really Anna, of course, I’m not a sociopath). When I arrived at the appointed meeting place, she told me I was far more handsome IRL (“in real life”) than my pictures suggested. I was flattered and full of praise for the directness of continental Europeans but also thought sadly to myself: “If only the same could be said about you.” Anna and I became friends, at least for a while. The date wasn’t a success in the traditional sense of leading us into a contract based on exclusivity, an accumulating cache of resentments and a mortgage, but it had put me back in the game (an appropriate metaphor – people speak regularly of “playing” with the app). According to Sean Rad, the co-founder who launched Tinder in late 2012, the service was invented for people like me. “It was really a way to overcome my own problems,” he told the editor of Cosmopolitan at an event in last month. “It was weird to me, to start a conversation [with a stranger]. Once I had an introduction I was fine, but it’s that first step. It’s difficult for a lot of people.” After just one outing, I’d learned two fundamental lessons about the world of online dating: pretty much everyone has at least one decent picture of themselves, and meeting women using a so-called hook-up app is seldom straightforwardly about sex. Although sometimes it is. My second Tinder date took place in Vienna. I met Louisa (ditto, name) outside some notable church or other one evening while visiting on holiday (Tinder tourism being, in my view, a far more compelling way to get to know a place than a cumbersome Lonely Planet guide). We drank cocktails by the Danube and rambled across the city before making the romantic decision to stay awake all night, as she had to leave early the next day to go hiking with friends. It was just like the Richard Linklater movie Before Sunrise – something I said out loud more than a few times as the Aperol Spritzes took their toll. When we met up in London a few months later, Louisa and I decided to skip the second part of Linklater’s beautiful triptych and fast-track our relationship straight to the third, Before Midnight , which takes place 18 years after the protagonists’ first meet in Vienna, and have begun to discover that they hate each others’ guts. Which is one of the many hazards of the swiping life: unlike with older, web- based platforms such as Match.com or OkCupid, which require a substantial written profile, Tinder users know relatively little about their prospective mates. All that’s necessary is a Facebook account and a single photograph. University, occupation, a short bio and mutual Facebook “likes” are optional (my bio is made up entirely of emojis: the pizza slice, the dancing lady, the stack of books). Worse still, you will see people you know on Tinder – that includes colleagues, neighbours and exes – and they will see you. Far more people swipe out of boredom or curiosity than are ever likely to want to meet up, in part because swiping is so brain-corrosively addictive. While the company is cagey about its user data, we know that Tinder has been downloaded over 100 million times and has produced upwards of 11 billion matches – though the number of people who have made contact will be far lower. It may sound like a lot but the Tinder user-base remains stuck at around the 50 million mark: a self-selecting coterie of mainly urban, reasonably affluent, generally white men and women, mostly aged between 18 and 34. A new generation of apps – such as Hey! Vina and Skout – is seeking to capitalise on Tinder’s reputation as a portal for sleaze, a charge Sean Rad was keen to deny at the London event. Tinder is working on a new iteration, Tinder Social, for groups of friends who want to hang out with other groups on a night out, rather than dating. This makes sense for a relatively fresh business determined to keep on growing: more people are in relationships than out of them, after all. After two years of using Tinder, off and on, last weekend I deleted the app. I had been visiting a friend in Sweden, and took it pretty badly when a Tinder date invited me to a terrible nightclub, only to take a few looks at me and bolt without even bothering to fabricate an excuse. But on the plane back to London the next day, a strange thing happened. Before takeoff, the woman sitting beside me started crying. I assumed something bad had happened but she explained that she was terrified of flying. Almost as terrified, it turned out, as I am. We wound up holding hands through a horrific patch of mid-air turbulence, exchanged anecdotes to distract ourselves and even, when we were safely in sight of the ground, a kiss. She’s in my phone, but as a contact on Facebook rather than an avatar on a dating app. I’ll probably never see her again but who knows. People connect in strange new ways all the time. The lines between sex, love and friendship are blurrier than ever, but you can be sure that if you look closely at the lines, you’ll almost certainly notice the pixels. Are 50 per cent of misogynistic tweets really sent by women? The Tinder dating app isn't just about sex – it's about friendship, too. And sex newstatesman.com 2016-05-29 12:59 Laurie Penny www.newstatesman.com

11 Baldwin: Blatche ‘in good shape’ Andray Blatche on Sunday hit the court with Gilas Pilipinas for the first time this year and national team head coach Tab Baldwin couldn’t be any happier with what he saw. “He’s good,” said Baldwin of the naturalized center, who arrived in Manila on Friday. “It’s a different Andray than last year.” READ: Baldwin says Blatche ‘looks good’ as he rejoins Gilas And it seems like the Syracuse, New York native didn’t miss a beat, getting himself back in the groove with his old teammates. “The great thing about Andray is his attitude. He really does love this group of guys and he loves this environment,” Baldwin noted. Baldwin is happy to have someone like Blatche, who is eager to lead the Philippines in the Fiba Olympic qualifying tournament here in July where a spot in the Rio Olympics is at stake. “Two years ago, we had a great player. Last year, we had a guy who’s out of shape but still gave everything he had. This year, he’s in good shape. He’s not in peak condition, but we got five weeks to get him there,” he said. Blatche took criticisms last year after showing up in practice out of shape two months before Gilas Pilipinas competed in the 2015 Fiba Asia Championship in China. Despite his weight issues, Blatche was still able to help the team finish with the silver medal. READ: Overweight Blatche back to boost Gilas Olympic bid But this time, Blatche knows he can’t leave anything to chance with the country up against some of the world’s best in the qualifiers. “He’s obviously done the work at home. There’s no waiting around for him,” Baldwin said. “We’re moving forward. He’s good, his commitment is where it’s always at, and he’s just gonna get better and we’re gonna get better.”

2016-05-29 18:02 Randolph B sports.inquirer.net

12 Ayo gets first taste of Ateneo-La Salle Aldin Ayo is still a stranger when it comes to the storied history between Ateneo and his new team De La Salle University. But as far as rivalries are concerned, it’s something Ayo, a former head coach of Letran, is all too familiar with. Ayo won the NCAA title in his first and only season with the Knights last year and it came at the expense of arch nemesis San Beda. “Yung sa pre-game kanina, sinabi ko wala akong ideya kung ano meron sa Ateneo versus La Salle, pero may ideya ako sa rivalry,” said Ayo as his Green Archers crushed the Blue Eagles, 98-66, Sunday in the Filoil Flying V Preseason Premier Cup at San Juan Arena. “In terms of rivalry pag may ganong laro, everything levels out, walang ranking na pinag-uusapan. Pride lang ng school.” Ayo may have said rival teams are in an equal playing field but his Green Archers proved they are in a higher echelon after dominating the Blue Eagles from the opening tip. 2016-05-29 18:02 Bong Lozada sports.inquirer.net

13 Filoil: Unbeaten Archers dominate Eagles What rivalry? The latest episode of green vs. blue was nothing but a one-sided affair. De La Salle University made a laughingstock out of Ateneo with a 98-66 beatdown, in the 2016 Filoil Flying V Preseason Premier Cup Sunday at San Juan Arena. It was never a competitive match up as the Green Archers cruised to a 5-0 record to clinch a quarterfinals slot while Ateneo dropped to 3-2 and was left to wonder what happened. DLSU head coach Aldin Ayo said La Salle is still working on its team chemistry, but the Archers played as if they have that aspect of the game already figured out with the way they dominated the Blue Eagles from start to finish. “We’re working on our team chemistry, that’s why ganun ka intense laro namin,” said Ayo, whose team limited the Blue Eagles to 39 percent shooting. “Gusto kasi namin palagi na maganda kinalabasan, we want to make it a habit every time you play basketball, we play with the system and play good basketball.” La Salle out-rebounded Ateneo 53-37, 23 of which came on the offensive glass. Ben Mbala was a man among boys as he recorded 28 points, 16 rebounds, and three blocks for the Green Archers, while Jeron Teng added 24 points, four rebounds, and four assists. Thirdy Ravena and Chi Ikeh led the Blue Eagles with 10 points apiece.

2016-05-29 18:02 Bong Lozada sports.inquirer.net

14 Kris: I did not meet Trillanes in Hawaii ACTRESS Kris Aquino denied a report that she and defeated vice presidential candidate Senator Antonio Trillanes IV met in Hawaii to allegedly hatch a plot against President-elect Rodrigo Duterte. In an Instagram post on Sunday, Aquino denied that she uttered anything against the tough-talking mayor. She even said that she wanted to undergo an on-the-job training under Duterte’s guidance in Davao City. “Check every post, interview, speech, kahit pa print pa natin lahat ng text messages ko – I have never spoken against President-elect Duterte– hanapin nyo pa his Kris TV guesting when we taped in Davao & I said wish kong mag OJT sa city hall nya,” the actress said. The presidential sister said that she decided to break her silence to stop “malicious liars” from concocting “teleserye plot twists.” “I debated whether to address this chismis about Sen. Trillanes & me, heard about it yesterday from a cousin, a close friend, and an ABS coworker. I realized I’d let the malicious liars succeed by keeping quiet because by ignoring the made-up Hawaii meet up – may maniniwala & may madadagdag na teleserye plot twists,” she said. She then took a swipe at her detractors. “Kung gagawa ng script para siraan ako, mas galingan nyo naman please???” Aquino said. The report came from TahoNews.com, a website which claims to publish “mostly real” news. In its disclaimer page, it urged its readers to “be responsible enough to do a research first before they believe and share the post.” Kris and her sons went to a vacation in Hawaii after helping in the campaign of former Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas and Vice President-elect Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo. AJH/rga

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15 Duterte seeks early talks with communist rebels Incoming President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday he would seek an early start to peace talks with communist rebels and free detained guerrilla chieftains when he takes office in end- June. He also offered safe passage for Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the insurgency who fled to European exile nearly 30 years after the failure of initial attempts to end one of Asia’s longest armed insurgencies. Duterte is betting on his close friendship with Sison, his former university teacher, to bring a swift political settlement to a rebellion that has killed about 30,000 people by official count and impoverished vast swathes of the country. “I will… give him (Sison) a safe-conduct pass,” the soon-to-be president told a midnight news conference in his southern hometown of Davao. He said Benito Tiamzon and his wife Wilma Tiamzon, the detained alleged leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing the New People’s Army, would also be let out to take part in the peace talks. Incumbent President Benigno Aquino revived peace talks soon after taking office in 2010 but shelved them in 2013, accusing the rebels of insincerity in efforts to achieve a political settlement. The talks got bogged down after the communists demanded the release of scores of their jailed comrades whom they described as “political prisoners,” which the Aquino government rejected. Duterte, who met a rebel emissary in Davao 10 days ago, said he would also be sending out two members of his cabinet to Norway for preparatory meetings with the exiled rebel leaders. Norway had acted as go-between in failed peace talks between the Aquino government and the rebels. “I have commissioned them to go to Oslo… to go there for the framework and agenda that (we) will talk about,” Duterte added. He said the two cabinet emissaries would then “maybe accompany Jose Maria Sison home.” Should his emissaries be able to hammer out an agreement, “then I will release all the political prisoners,” Duterte said — the rebels’ term for their jailed comrades. The rebels have hailed Duterte’s earlier offer for a ceasefire, as well as to allow the rebels to nominate their allies to four positions in his cabinet. However they have also urged him to release all detained rebels that they said numbered more than 500. RELATED STORIES Duterte says communist leader Joma Sison welcome home Joma Sison hopes to end exile under Duterte Joma Sison: Duterte victory good for national unity

2016-05-29 18:02 Agence France globalnation.inquirer.net

16 RC Cola-Army’s Gonzaga, Bautista rule PSL beach volley On shifting sands and gathering dusk Sunday, RC Cola-Army’s true grit and experience prevailed over all else. Jovelyn Gonzaga and Nene Bautista shielded everything thrown at them by an eager tandem of Foton’s Cherry Rondina and Patty Orendain to crown themselves the queens of the 2016 Philippine Superliga Beach Volleyball Challenge. Before a huge Sunday crowd at SM Mall of Asia Sands, Gonzaga and Bautista fought off sustained attacks by Rondina and Orendain to score a 21-18, 18-21, 15-13, triumph. Gonzaga, who kept her unblemished stint in the beach competitions, slumped on the sands as Bautista dropped on her after their opponents fumbled a return at match point.

2016-05-29 18:02 Marc Anthony sports.inquirer.net

17 17 French Open: Bopanna-Mergea enter men's doubles quarters Paris: May 29 (IANS) India's tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his men's doubles partner Florin Mergea stormed into the quarter- finals of the French Open tennis tournament here on Sunday. The sixth-seeded Indo- Romanian pair outclassed the United States's Brian Baker and New Zealand's Marcus Daniell 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-1 in one hour and 48 minutes in the third round to enter the last eight stage. Florin Mergea and Rohan Bopanna Bopanna and Mergea got their match off to a positive start, taking an important 4-2 lead over their opponent and from there on the duo broke Baker-Daniell’s serve twice to win the first set comfortably by a healthy 6-2 margin. In the second set both the sides displayed their best on the court, winning each game to make it 6-6 and take the set to a tie-breaker. Baker-Daniell were the dominant side in the tie-breaker as the duo played sensibly to edge past Bopanna-Mergea 7-4 to win the second set and level things up 1-1. In third and final set, the sixth-seeded pair broke their opponents twice to take a handy 5-1 lead and from there on served brilliantly to win the last game and the set 6-1.

2016-05-29 18:02 By IANS www.mid-day.com

18 Blatche puts past behind, focused on leading Gilas in qualifiers Past is past, and this time, Andray Blatche’s focus is solely on helping Gilas Pilipinas nab the lone ticket to the 2016 Rio Olympics at stake in the Fiba Olympic qualifying tournament in July. “I’m not here to talk about last year. I’m here to talk about this year and what’s our focus on moving forward, what we need to do to win,” Blatche said on Sunday after participating in his first practice with Gilas Pilipinas this year. Blatche arrived in Manila on Friday and the Syracuse, New York native is happy to be back on the court with some of his old teammates. “It’s good to have some of the guys back that I played with and competed in the World Cup,” he said. It’s good to have June Mar (Fajardo) and LA (Tenorio) back.” June Mar Fajardo and LA Tenorio sat out last year’s Fiba Asia Championship campaign, where the country once again settled for the silver medal. Since leading the Xinjiang Flying Tigers to the semifinals in the Chinese Basketball Association , the 29-year-old Blatche said he kept working on his game even when he got back home after his Xinjiang Flying Tigers were eliminated in the semifinals of the Chinese Basketball Association last March. “I spent most of the time with my family, but I put a lot of work, a lot of shots so I don’t lose rhythm and lot of stuff on the court. I just tried to stay on my rhythm from the CBA season, keep my hands on the ball,” he said. Blatche is optimistic of Gilas Pilipinas’ chances in the qualifiers and his confidence draws from the system of head coach Tab Baldwin. “It was pretty good. We have a new system of plays that me personally am trying to get accustomed to,” he said. “I actually like it. It gives me a chance to get my teammates open shots.” But Blatche knows getting the job done won’t be easy. He understands that Gilas’ road to Rio is a steeper mountain to climb than the path it took in the Fiba Asia Championship where the team failed to gain an outright berth to the Summer Games after losing to host China in the gold medal match. “Times are different. This year, we’re facing teams which are better than the ones in Fiba Asia. Everything has to be as one. The competition level is much higher and the stakes means a lot more. This is us getting a second chance,” he said. 2016-05-29 18:02 Randolph B sports.inquirer.net

19 Arvind Kejriwal's drug-menace barb drives wedge in Goa government Panaji : Whether Arvind Kejriwal's AAP will bloom or go bust in Goa in the upcoming assembly polls is a question with no fixed answer. But what is certain is that his 35-minute speech has not only raised the rhetoric on the serious issue of drug proliferation and addiction in the state but has also put the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government in a fix of sorts. Arvind Kejriwal Less than a week after Kejriwal's indictment of the Congress and the BJP rule for their inability to rein in drug use in Goa, Art and Culture Minister Dayanand Mandrekar has virtually confirmed the extent of the narco menace, claiming there is very little the incumbent government could do about it. Drugs, he says, are easily available in the state capital as well as in educational institutions. "What can be done about it? Drugs are available night and day at the DMC college in Mapusa, where not just youngsters but students are also getting spoilt," said Mandrekar, a legislator from the Siolim assembly constituency that is home to popular beaches like Anjuna, Vagator and Chapora and where rave parties are hosted regularly. When contacted, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said he did not agree with his minister. "I do not agree with his views," Parsekar said. Interestingly, Mandrekar claims no drugs are sold in these raves or beach parties, as he prefers to call them. "Beach parties do not have drug use. Users take drugs elsewhere and then come to a beach party," Mandrekar said. Along the coastal areas, Mandrekar believes that the drug issue is linked to "white" foreigners. "Even if they take drugs here, only white foreign people consume drugs," he said. The extent of Goa's drug trade was indicated in a legislative committee report tabled in the assembly in 2013. The explosive findings were released to the media but the BJP-led state government continues to sit on the report. It alleges that a DGP (director general of police) rank officer is the kingpin of the police-drug mafia nexus and names a former home minister and his son for their links with Israeli drug peddlers. Interestingly, BJP leaders had promised a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the police-politician-drug mafia nexus ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Subsequently, the then chief minister Manohar Parrikar told the Goa assembly that there were "organised gangs which specialise in distribution of drugs in the State". BJP lawmakers like Mandrekar and Calangute MLA Michael Lobo have alleged that drug mafias operate openly in Goa. "The Nigerian and Russian mafia are going unchecked because the police are scared of them. The Nigerians are very organised. If you go into Tito's lane at night, there are Nigerians openly asking tourists if they want 'coca', which is the street name of cocaine," Lobo had said. The Congress said the drug trade was rampant in Goa and had urged that Mandrekar should be questioned for his revelations. "It is strange that such comments admitting that the government cannot do anything about drug trade in Goa come at a time when the Modi government has completed two years at the centre. The Anti-Narcotics Cell of the Goa Police should question Mandrekar now for he seems to know how the trade is being conducted," Goa Congress secretary Durgadas Kamat told IANS.

2016-05-29 18:02 By PTI www.mid-day.com

20 Free lunch for all would bust the fiscus That's right: every adult Swiss citizen - even the multimillionaires who sport Breguet watches - could potentially receive an equal monthly payment from the government. Proponents of universal basic income argue that giving citizens money directly is an effective poverty relief measure, can improve incentives to work and offers a way to streamline a plethora of income-support programmes, all while removing the stigma associated with receiving them. Such reasoning, however, may run into political and economic headwinds. In a presentation to the Canadian Association for Business Economics, University of British Columbia Professor Kevin Milligan explained why it is unlikely that any basic income initiative will receive sufficient support or accomplish all its goals. Any such plan would involve trade-offs that should prove distasteful to either the left or the right, if not both. Milligan noted that it's important to distinguish between universal basic income and minimum-income guarantees. Under the latter, there would be a phase-out threshold whereby those who earned in excess of a certain amount wouldn't receive any income supplement. For instance, under a 100% phase-out rate set at R250,000 a year, an unemployed individual would receive R250,000, a person earning R150,000 would get R100,000 and anyone making R250,000 or more wouldn't get a cent. Ontario, for instance, plans to pursue a minimum- income guarantee pilot programme in a select community. However, no basic income initiative needs to be that black and white; it could be designed so that the size of the cash payment decreases gradually as earned income exceeds select thresholds, in the same fashion as marginal rates increase under a progressive tax system. For example, an individual making nothing might receive R250,000, someone earning R250,000 a year might receive an additional R150,000 as an income supplement and a person who makes in excess of R500,000 might receive R50,000. The critical features are this phase-out rate, the size of the payout and the overall cost of income assistance programmes. Therein lies the "impossible trinity" of basic income, as outlined by Milligan. All these features are desirable, but all three can't be done at once. A large basic payment ensures that such an initiative will make a difference in alleviating poverty. Having a relatively low phase-out rate (a high degree of universality in such cash transfers) is a presumptive feature, not a bug, of a basic income system, as it addresses the disincentives to work that arise when workers hit the "welfare wall". (That's when returning to work or working more hours causes some to be worse off because of decreased state help.) But if you accomplish both those goals, the costs will be staggering and would entail the elimination of other income assistance programmes and/or raising taxes on not just the rich but also middle-income earners - only to return those funds to them by way of a basic income transfer. Sacrificing the low-phase-out rate - in other words, implementing a basic income guarantee system - means that the initiative doesn't address the problem of the welfare wall and, in fact, "makes it bigger and worse", said Milligan. Alternatively, if a government wants to cut a cheque to everyone without meaningfully increasing the cost, compared with the current income assistance regime, it would be sending peanuts. "Basic income advocates need to show us their math," said Milligan. - Bloomberg

2016-05-29 17:50 LUKE KAWA www.timeslive.co.za

21 South Africans who made history on Everest The wind was howling and it was -30°C when Sibusiso Vilane, 32, stepped on to the top of Everest at 8.30am on May 26 2003, making history as the first black man to stand on top of the world. On the summit, Vilane fell to his knees and wept. “I felt as though I was stepping on to a very sacred place and could not contain myself,” he said “It is a wonderful place, with the light shining on the big mountains and glowing in the clouds. “I had fun up there, stretching out the flags with Robert [Anderson, the team leader]. I had a South African flag tied to a banner with symbols of Swaziland on it,” he told Keeton the next day back in camp. Everest is a difficult mountain to climb and the bodies of many who have tried to conquer it still lie on its frozen, wind-scoured slopes. The death toll rose last week, when South African-born mountaineer Marisa Strydom died while descending after an unsuccessful summit attempt. Marisa Strydom and her husband Robert Gropel on an earlier expedition. Image: FACEBOOK On May 25 1996, seven years before Vilane’s triumph, Cathy O’Dowd and Ian Woodall were the first South Africans to plant the country’s flag on the summit during a climbing season marked by death and tragedy. That expedition, which was sponsored by the Sunday Times, was marred by controversy. Andy de Klerk, Ed February and Andy Hackland, the three senior climbers, and team doctor Charlotte Noble quit after a dispute with Woodall over his leadership style and made their own way back to Kathmandu. There, they crossed paths with then-Sunday Times editor Ken Owen who was on his way to base camp to see if he could, as Chris Barron wrote in Owen’s obituary in 2015, “sort things out”. Owen and Woodall met at Pheriche, a village some hours on foot below base camp where a bitter encounter ensued. The Sunday Times withdrew its sponsorship and Woodall vowed to continue without the paper. The South African team was due to make a summit bid on May 10 and were at Camp 4, the last camp before the summit, when a storm battered the mountain, killing eight climbers, including highly experienced mountain guides Rob Hall and Scott Fischer who had been leading paying clients to the top. After the storm, the South African team retreated to base camp to await a good “weather window” which came two weeks later. Woodall, O’Dowd and their sherpas summited well before noon. Cathy O’Dowd and Deshun Deysel, the two women on the team. Only O’Dowd made it to the top. Image: Richard Shorey / Sunday Times Expedition photographer Bruce Herrod, who reached the summit alone and in late afternoon, died on the descent. De Klerk, an accomplished mountaineer who has done hard first ascents around the world, said getting to the summit was only half of it — you also had to get down safely. “The tragedy is that Herrod had fixed his sights on the summit,” De Klerk said. “There is no way he should have been up there so late on his own, or that anybody should be up there on their own.” Woodall and O’Dowd were lambasted for not forcing Herrod to turn back when they passed him on the way down. Deshun Deysel, one of the young women selected to take part in the expedition, offered another perspective on the controversy. “Unless people have been in the ‘death zone’, with less than 30% of oxygen to their brains and very little energy to look after themselves, they have no right to comment,” she said. Deysel did not climb Everest on the 1996 expedition but reached 8300m on a later attempt to climb the mountain. Now a motivational speaker who uses the lessons she learnt on Everest in her work, Deysel said those who criticised the decisions made on the mountain that day were likely doing so “from the comfort of enough oxygen, probably a couch somewhere and brilliant sunshine. I respect Bruce’s decision to keep going because he knew himself as a mountaineer”. As the Sunday Times reporter in 2003, Keeton waited in suspense for 14 hours to hear if Vilane was safe. The radio was silent — we could not reach anybody in the death zone above 8000m — until 10pm when Pema Tenzing’s sherpa’s radio came to life with the news that the team was back in Camp 4. On May 28, Vilane, a game ranger nicknamed the “Lion of Africa” by his team, walked back into camp and never stopped smiling. Nobody was happier than his wife and three children back home in Swaziland. In May 2005, he climbed the mountain from the more difficult north side for charity, before going on to climb the remaining highest peaks on all seven continents, a quest known as the Seven Summits. Of all his adventures, which include dangerous and physically punishing unsupported treks to the North and South poles, Everest has a profound place in his heart. “When I stood on the slopes, I think I fell in love with that mountain,” he said. “Everest has an image of greatness, towering above the clouds and other mountains. “I left the country with a humungous dream for my country and my continent. I wanted to show the world that nothing could stop black people from standing on the top of the world.” 1852: Mount Everest — known as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Chomolungma in Tibet — is mapped during the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India as the world’s highest mountain; 1921-1924: British climber George Mallory leads the first three documented expeditions to attempt to climb Everest; June 8 1924: Mallory and climbing partner Andrew Irvine depart Camp VI on the Northeast Ridge route on their summit bid. They are never seen alive again; May 29 1953: New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay make the first confirmed ascent of Everest, climbing via the South Col Route — now the standard route for summit attempts; March 27 1996: The Sunday Times Everest Expedition arrives at Base Camp; Everest Image: Supplied May 10-11 1996: A violent storm batters Everest, killing eight climbers in one night; May 25 1996: Cathy O’Dowd becomes the first South African to stand on the top of the world. Expedition photographer Bruce Herrod, climbing alone, summits much later in the afternoon, and dies on the descent; May 23 1997: Herrod’s body is discovered by the first of the season’s climbers, entangled in ropes at the Hillary Step, a rock obstacle near the summit. Climber Pete Athans retrieves Herrod’s camera and ice axe and cuts his body loose. The film in the camera contains just two pictures, both self-portraits of Herrod on the summit; May 1998: Cathy O’Dowd and Ian Woodall attempt to climb Everest via the Northeast Ridge route; May 24 1998: Woodall and O’Dowd turn back short of the summit after trying to help dying American climber Francys Arsentiev, who had collapsed and spent two days exposed on the ridge at 8600m; May 1 1999: Mallory’s body is discovered on the north face of the mountain by Conrad Anker of the Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition. The expedition had set out to determine whether Mallory and Irvine had summited in 1924, a matter that remains the subject of much speculation; May 29 1999: O’Dowd summits Everest via the Northeast Ridge, becoming the first woman to summit the mountain from both sides; May 26 2003: In the face of 80km/h winds and temperatures of -30ºC, Sibusiso Vilane, a game ranger-turned-adventurer from Swaziland, becomes the first black African to summit Everest. Four days later, South African climber Sean Wisedale also plants the South African flag on the summit; June 3 2005: Vilane, climbing with Alex Harris and Sir Ranulph Fiennes, reaches the summit of Everest via the tricky Northeast Ridge; April 18 2014: An ice avalanche kills 17 Sherpa guides on the lower slopes of the mountain. Two days later climbers Saray Khumalo and Vilane return to Base Camp after abandoning their summit bid due to fears of further avalanches; May 20 2016: South African-born mountaineer Marisa Strydom turns back 400m from the summit and is helped down to Camp 4 on the South Col. The following day she collapses and dies while her husband and other climbers attempt to get her off the mountain.

2016-05-29 17:29 CLAIRE KEETON www.timeslive.co.za

22 For 50 years, Prince George teacher has seen country evolve PRINCE GEORGE, Va. (AP) - It was 1967. The Vietnam War was raging, college campuses were hotbeds of unrest and one of the most divisive presidential campaigns in American history was taking shape. It was also the year that a 22-year-old named Louise Thornton took a job teaching history and government at Prince George High School. Nearly a half-century later, Thornton, 71, is still there plugging away in the classroom. “I would just miss the young people,” Thornton, sitting in class, said earlier this month. “It’s going to be absolutely the hardest thing, saying goodbye to this school.” She says this despite telling school administrators earlier this school year that she would be back next year to begin her sixth decade working in a classroom. Thornton has been teaching for 50 years, a noteworthy feat at a time when school districts are having difficulty retaining personnel. And she brings the same passion and energy she’s had since the Johnson administration. That passion for teaching government has not only imparted in thousands of students what she hopes is a greater appreciation and respect for how our government works, but also has made an immediate impact on all county students. Two of her former pupils - Kevin S. Foster and Reeve E. Ashcraft - sit on the county’s School Board and one is a colleague at Prince George High School. Mike Nelson started in the school’s social studies department in 1997 when Thornton was already the department’s chair, and people were wondering if she was about to retire. Nelson, now the high school’s principal, remembers Thornton caring for new teachers, which she still does, and helping veteran teachers “keep the fire lit.” “The burnout level for teachers now is pretty high,” he said. “You see a lot of people go into education - they’re great, but then one to two years, three years, they’re moving on to some different career. To have anyone who stays in education 30 years is amazing. But for someone to go 20 years beyond that - there’s no word for that.” As Thornton looks back on working in the classroom for 50 years, she sees students today as more aware of the world around them than when she started. In the beginning, newspapers and the evening news were the main source of information. Today, students turn to online sources, social media and cable news to stay informed. But increasingly, students are working more after school, getting home late and coming to school tired, often without doing homework, she said. “Overall, I don’t know that young people change all that much,” she said. “They change in terms of their likes and dislikes, of course, and social media has changed things, but, basically, aren’t young people the same?” Story Continues →

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23 CNN contributor Van Jones to speak at Middlebury graduation MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (AP) - Vermont’s Middlebury College graduates its Class of 2016 this weekend and CNN political contributor Van Jones will be the commencement speaker. Jones is a former adviser on green jobs in the administration of President Barack Obama. Jones will be one of six people to be awarded honorary degrees at Sunday’s graduation ceremonies. Another will be William Sessions, senior judge at the U. S. District Court in Burlington and a Middlebury graduate.

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2016-05-29 17:25 Steve Burns www.ajc.com

25 United beat Pirates to win Nedbank Cup Like the final three years ago, when striker Bernard Parker's extra-time goal sealed a 1-0 victory for Stuart Baxter's Kaizer Chiefs over United, this was another tight affair for the former Bafana Bafana head coach as Matsatsantsa overcame Orlando Pirates to clinch the Nedbank Cup and end a disappointing season with something to display in the cabinet. United's management must be giving themselves a huge pat on the back for bringing in Baxter halfway through the season rather than waiting for the new season to bring in the experienced man. The Englishman has hit the ground running and they are probably just itching for the 2016-17 season to start so that they can challenge for the league title. If yesterday's performance is anything to go by, then United may just be contenders for the title. They came from behind and it looked far too easy for them at times, more so in the first half thanks to some horrendous defending from their opponents. United didn't play fancy football. But they took their chances. They went a goal down on 13 minutes when Luvuyo Memela scored from close range after goalkeeper Ronwen Williams' save from a Tendai Ndoro shot fell to the winger to open the scoring. It was a lead that lasted only two minutes for the Buccaneers. The man who levelled matters - Jeremy Brockie - is a man who scored a stunning volley at this venue in the last 16 of the competition last season. The New Zealand-born Brockie was poorly marked when he headed home from close range, following a cross from his compatriot Michael Boxall on the right flank. United took the lead when striker Bradley Grobler volleyed home after Brighton Mhlongo's save from a Brockie shot fell kindly to the former Platinum Stars striker. Pirates supporters could not believe what they were seeing when United scored a third before half time, from the boot of Boxall. The right back was rewarded for not giving up in his run into the opposition half, as he headed home a loose ball in the box to give United a great lead going into the break. At half time, it looked as though United would cruise to victory, but the introduction of defender Happy Jele for midfielder Thabo Rakhale brought stability to the Pirates defence and an own goal by Clayton Daniels nine minutes on ensured that the match would not end as a one-sided affair. Also, an injury to Williams, which meant that second-choice goalie Boalefa Pule had to come on, made things a lot interesting. Pirates pushed forward in an attempt to get an equaliser, but they just could not find an opening and Pule also played a role when he made a good save to stop Thabo Matlaba's powerful shot in the 84th-minute. For Pirates coach Eric Tinkler, this defeat is harder to take after they lost out in the Caf Confederation Cup final in November. Sibusiso Khumalo of Supersport and Thabo Rakhale of Pirates during the Nedbank Cup Final between SuperSport United and Orlando Pirates at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane. Image: Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images Tinkler had hoped he would win his first trophy as a coach after beating big guns Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns to get to this final, but his men were just not able to deliver when it mattered the most. The fans who came out in their numbers certainly got their money's worth yesterday. The action for yesterday's Nedbank Cup final started before the final ... on the freeway. Traffic was stopped for several minutes on the N1 from Johannesburg to Polokwane as Orlando Pirates supporters protested two of their number's cars being impounded for some unfathomable reason. Eventually, the dispute was resolved and the Bucs fans' impromptu roadblock was lifted. Once they got to Peter Mokaba Stadium, these same supporters would have hoped their team's defence could have been anywhere near as effective stopping the "white boy" onslaught spearheaded by Jeremy Brockie and Bradley Grobler. When last did any PSL side field as many footballers of the pale skin variety as SuperSport United can? Dean Furman, Michael Morton and Michael Boxall added to the complement. "'Where do they all come from? How do they run so fast?'," must have been the thoughts going through the Bucs player's minds as they allowed Matsatsantsa to line-dance circles around them. A moment's silence was held for the legend, Ted Dumitru, who had once coached Pirates. El Professore would have been displeased at the frenetic pace of this game. Until the end a purist of possession football, he would have clucked his tongue and scowled at the scene before him through those telescopic lens-thick glasses. We'll all miss him nonetheless, or the more for it. SuperSport coach Stuart Baxter had to go into hospital on Thursday with an allergic reaction. The cortisone injection the Englishman/Scot had, though, did its trick as Baxter bounced across the touchline showing no signs of sluggishness. Unlike the defence of Orlando "roadblock" Pirates, who parked a Vespa. [email protected] 2016-05-29 17:24 TSHEPANG MAILWANE www.timeslive.co.za

26 WATCH: Thando, 6, reads about it in the Sunday papers In a country where new research shows that 60% of children cannot read by the end of Grade 4, Thando is exceptional. She learned to read when she was just four years old. "She reads any part of the paper," says mom Sarah Dhlamini. "Sometimes she asks what the stories mean. But the Bible is her most- read book. " Thando is so good at reading that she has been bumped up from Grade 1 to Grade 2. Adele Jacobs, the principal at Feed My Lambs Primary School in Eldorado Park, said that when Thando enrolled at the school's crèche, teachers had been "surprised" by her ability to read sight words - commonly used words that children are taught to memorise as a whole by sight. Jacobs said Thando had completed the school's reading programmes for Grades 1, 2 and 3 while she was in Grade R. "I sometimes encourage the older pupils by showcasing Thando's skills. I've taken her to the Grade 7 learners to show them what can be done if they practise. " Jacobs said that after three months in Grade 1, Thando had been moved up to the Grade 2 class, where teachers had reported she was "on par" with the other pupils. This week, when the Sunday Times met Thando, she read fluently fromThe Ring O' Bells Mystery, a Grade 7 reader by Enid Blyton. "I do reading and writing really well," she said. "I feel happy and excited because everyone is happy that I can read. " Sarah Dhlamini, who helped teach her daughter, said Thando showed an interest in reading when she was three years old. "We bought her those letter books and after a while she could recite them," she said. Educational psychologist Juliana Mendonça said it was not common for a four-year-old to be reading sight words "as they are still mastering their letter and number recognition". Mendonça said early reading "leads to better spelling and writing skills. Children who battle to read will struggle to learn new concepts as they are constantly trying to decode the words and are unable to pay attention to the content. " She said many studies had linked early reading to early academic success. This week, a report by Stellenbosch University's research on socioeconomic policy group said about 60% of children in South Africa cannot read at a basic level by the end of Grade 4. "These children never fully engage with the curriculum and fall further and further behind the curriculum even as they are promoted into higher grades," the report said. A literacy study by the Zenex Foundation found that most primary school teachers had the English vocabulary expected of a Grade 3 pupil.

2016-05-29 17:24 THEMBALETHU ZULU www.timeslive.co.za

27 Rain washes out attempt to set record Greek sirtaki dance CONSTANTA, Romania (AP) - Torrential rain has dashed hopes in Romania of setting a Guinness Book world record for Greece’s famous sirtaki dance. Romanians were attempting to break the world record for the dance made famous in the 1964 movie “Zorba the Greek” before a storm struck this Black Sea port on Saturday. Organizers declared the attempt a washout, then had a change of heart and called people back to the beach in the port, 250 kilometers (156 miles) east of Bucharest. The current world sirtaki record was set in Volos, Greece, in 2012 when 5,614 people danced. Organizers in Romania claim more than 6,000 people took part in Saturday’s record-breaking attempt. Guinness representative Seyda Sibasi Gemici declared the attempt invalid, however, saying it had become too dark to do an accurate count.

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28 Parishioners to leave closed church after 11- year protest SCITUATE, Mass. (AP) - For more than 11 years, a core group of about 100 die-hard parishioners of St. Frances X. Cabrini Church have kept their beloved parish open by maintaining an around-the-clock vigil in a peaceful protest of a decision by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to close it. On Sunday, the parishioners’ efforts will end and they will vacate the Scituate church many of them have attended for decades. Earlier this month, the U. S. Supreme Court refused to hear their final appeal, leaving them no choice but to end their fight. The group plans to hold a final service Sunday, a “celebration of faith and transition,” the parishioners said, before leaving the church. The case was heard in civil courts and went all the way to the Vatican, but they were unsuccessful in persuading church officials to keep St. Frances open. A Superior Court judge ruled that the archdiocese is the legal owner of the church property and has the right to evict the parishioners occupying the church building. That ruling was upheld by the state Appeals Court. St. Frances X. Cabrini was one of more than 75 parishes closed by the archdiocese to deal with declining Mass attendance, a shortage of priests and deteriorating church buildings. The closings came after a clergy sex abuse crisis rocked the Catholic Church, starting in Boston but extending throughout the world. Parishioners of some of the closed churches rebelled and held around-the- clock vigils in the churches. At one point, nine churches were occupied by parishioners. St. Frances X. Cabrini is the last church to remain occupied. The archdiocese hopes the protesters will go to another parish within the district, archdiocese spokesman Terrence Donilon said. __ Denise Lavoie in Boston contributed to this report.

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29 Beach Boys headlining Memorial Day concert WASHINGTON (AP) - The Beach Boys are headlining this year’s Memorial Day concert on the lawn of the U. S. Capitol. The concert begins at 8 p.m. Sunday and gates open to the public at 5 p.m. The concert is being co-hosted by actors Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise for the 11th consecutive year. In addition to the Beach Boys, performers include country singer Trace Adkins, pop singer and actress Katharine McPhee and soprano Renee Fleming. The National Symphony Orchestra participates in the concert each year. Trent Harmon, the winner of the final season of “American Idol,” will sing the national anthem.

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30 17-year-old gets degree in biology, physics and math CLEAR SPRING, Md. (AP) - While most 6-year-olds spend their summers playing outside, participating in sports or watching TV, 17-year-old Joseph Heavner of Clear Spring spent his childhood teaching himself mathematics and reading high-school textbooks. As a child, Heavner not only taught himself high school math and science, but by middle school, he had read the entire “Grey’s Anatomy,” the 19th century text on the anatomy of the human body. Heavner likes to joke that the book has no relation to the popular television show of the same name. “I was kind of an odd child,” he said. “I was kind of a secluded kid when I was little. I didn’t have great social skills. I don’t think many teachers knew what I was doing because I was so secluded.” Heavner’s passion for learning and his quest for knowledge continue to this day. Not only will he receive a diploma from Clear Spring High School on June 3, but on May 14, Heavner received an associate degree of science in biology, physics and mathematics from Hagerstown Community College. Heavner was part of HCC’s STEMM Technical Middle College, a program that allows students to earn an associate degree while completing their high-school graduation requirements. The STEMM program includes courses in science, technology, engineering, math and medical. Heavner was one of 15 students enrolled in the program. While at HCC, Heavner took an average of 20 credits per semester. On top of that, he was a volunteer and paid tutor, served as president of the STEM Club, a liaison to the Phi Theta Kappa Student Government Association, a member of the school’s History Club and the student government president. HCC President Guy Altieri praised Heavner during commencement. “Joe is an avid learner, seeking out resources and knowledge beyond the classroom, networking with universities, taking courses over the summer and teaching himself new subject matter,” he said. “Just as importantly, those who know him personally describe him as kind, considerate and always willing to lend a hand. There is no doubt that Joe will have a bright future and excel in all that he does. HCC is proud to have been a part of his journey.” The coursework was challenging and the days were long, but Heavner said he wouldn’t change a thing. “The part of being (at HCC) are the professors,” he said. “They have significantly more background in teaching.” Christopher Lewis, an associate professor of mathematics, said it was a privilege having Heavner in his class. “In a career of teaching that spans over 30 years at the community college and university levels, Joseph Heavner is without a doubt the most accomplished and gifted student I have ever taught,” Lewis said in an email. Story Continues →

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31 Bates College commencement hosts civil rights leader Lewis LEWISTON, Maine (AP) - Civil Rights leader John Lewis is delivering the commencement address at Bates College. Degrees are being awarded Sunday to 470 seniors representing more than 30 states and the District of Columbia and roughly 40 countries. The congressman from Georgia is one of four leaders receiving honorary degrees during the ceremony on Sunday. The others are Lisa Genova, neuroscientist and author of “Still Alice;” Daniel Gilbert, psychologist and author of “Stumbling on Happiness;” and University of Alabama leader Robert Witt. Bates President Clayton Spencer said it was appropriate for Lewis to address a college founded by abolitionists, saying his “life and work exemplify the animating values of this institution.”

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32 Habitat for Humanity opens ReStore, breaks ground on project MIDDLETOWN, Del. (AP) - New Castle County’s Habitat for Humanity affiliate recently doubled down on its efforts in Middletown. The nonprofit dedicated to providing affordable housing to low-income families opened a new ReStore location in the town on May 14 and then broke ground on five nearby homes. ReStore sites are retail outlets that sell gently-used furniture and appliances donated by residents and the local business community. Merchandise is typically sold for 50- to 90-percent off retail prices with all proceeds used to help fund Habitat’s construction efforts. The 15,000-square-foot Middletown ReStore in the Middletown Shopping Center off North Broad Street is the second retail location opened by Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County. The group opened its first ReStore near Newport Gap Pike and Delaware 2 (Kirkwood Highway) in Prices Corner in late 2013. The new Middletown store will employ two full-time and one part-time staffers, who will be supported by a team of volunteers. Habitat spokeswoman Ally Gawel said more than 150 customers visited the new store on its first day and spent more than $11,200. Following a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Middletown ReStore, Habitat staff and guests attended a second event marking the start of construction of the nonprofit’s latest residential construction project in Middletown. The Springlake project, which includes four new homes on Elizabeth Street and one on Jefferson Street, is slated for completion this fall. Once finished, the project will bring the total number of homes Habitat has built in in Middletown to 31 since 2000. Prospective homeowners who receive assistance from Habitat qualify for no-interest loans in exchange for their commitment to spend 225 hours helping to build their homes, along with participation in financial counseling and other workshops. ___ Information from: The News Journal of Wilmington, Del., http://www.delawareonline.com

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33 Anne Hathaway Cottage in Staunton turns into a tea room STAUNTON, Va. (AP) - The Anne Hathaway Cottage on West Beverley Street has been transformed into a high tea room and it’s something straight out of England. It’s to be expected, considering the new owner hails from Manchester, England. Tables are set up with fancy tea pots and the environment is warm and inviting. The cottage is named for William Shakespeare’s wife and is just down the road from the American Shakespeare Center. Owner Alfred “Alfie” Farrand has been all over the world, but has gone back to his roots by serving high tea to the ladies in the area. Previously, Farrand worked for the movie business and did lighting for numerous production. He settled down in Vancouver, Canada. Then he came to the states. Farrand owned a tea room in Columbiana, Ohio, but the town was small and he was looking for a bigger market. “I looked back in my own culture and came up with a high tea,” he said. On a whim he and his wife, Barbara, purchased the cottage and started renovating it last year. The cottage no longer serves as a bed and breakfast. Farrand had to add a commercial kitchen and the top floor of the building was converted to a living space for him and his wife to live in. What makes good tea? Farrand prefers ones with an Assam leaf or a Kenyan leaf. “You mix those right then you get a good cup of tea,” he said. The key to a good cup of tea you need to swirl hot water in the tea pot and empty it. It’s one tea bag for the pot, then another tea bag for each person drinking it. It’s brewed for three minutes, Farrand said. High tea is a cultural experience in England that started in the 1700s, Farrand said. “It was for high society ladies,” Farrand said. “They would invite other society ladies and sit around and talk to basically find out what was going on around them.” The tea room at the Anne Hathaway Cottage is for adults-only, Farrand said. He’s been seeing a good influx of guests in the three weeks the tea room has been open. Many are making it a part of their regular stop, he said. High tea happens between 3 and 6 p.m. with small edibles to hold them over until a late dinner, Farrand said. It’s a quiet time. No devices, no television, no loud music, just good old-fashion conversation. “This is an adult-friendly lady’s tea room,” he said. “It’s an experience. Now women have a place to go instead of following their husbands around.” Farrand makes everything from hand - and it’s all miniature. Tiny scones, little sandwiches and light lunches. The teas range from black, green and herbal. Story Continues →

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34 Tennessee River lakes featured in new music, fishing show SHEFFIELD, Ala. (AP) - Coby Greer hasn’t done much fishing since he was a kid, but the up and coming county music artist was more than happy to discuss his career Tuesday while floating in a fishing boat on the Tennessee River. Greer was the first guest on the first episode of “Fame N’ Fishin’,” a new show that will be airing on the Sportsman Channel later this year. Greer moved to the Shoals from Nashville, Tennessee, and has been recording with Billy Lawson at Lawson’s Big Star Recording. The show is being produced by Robin Rebman, who is also the owner of Rebman’s Bait and Tackle in Decatur. Rebman described the program as a reality show that will focus on country music artists and fishing. Each episode will be shot on a Tennessee River lake. Rebman and well-known Muscle Shoals singer/songwriter Earl “Peanutt” Montgomery will serve as hosts. Rebman, who is a songwriter and a friend of Montgomery and his wife, Charlene, said the show will be more about the artists than about fishing. “We’ll talk about their careers, where they grew up, where they came from, new albums, just what they’ve got going,” Rebman said after docking at the pier at Sheffield’s Riverfront Park. He’ll also talk to the artists about what Muscle Shoals has done for them. “We’re doing the pilot today,” Montgomery said on Tuesday while standing on the dock, guitar in hand. Montgomery played guitar on some early tracks recorded in Muscle Shoals and wrote numerous tracks for the late country music legend George Jones. The pilot episode was being shot by a crew from Possum Creek Media of Memphis, Tennessee. Tony Woods, of Mooresville’s BackWoods Landing, provided the boat. “I think it’s good advertising for our area,” Sheffield Councilman Steve Nix said. “We have something for everybody here - music, fishing, tourism.” Montgomery said he used to fish a lot with Jones, the late George Richey, who was Tammy Wynette’s fifth and final husband, his brother, Nashville songwriter Paul Richey, and songwriters Dallas Frazier and Roger Bowling. Rebman said five episodes each will be shot on Pickwick, Wilson and Wheeler lakes, and three episodes on Guntersville Lake, for a total of 18 shows. “We’ve got commitments from quite a few people,” Rebman said. “I want to get Hank (Williams) Jr. out here, I really do.” So far, they have commitments from Frazier, country artists Darryl Worley and Marty Rabon of Shenandoah, and legendary Shoals guitarist Travis Wammack. Story Continues →

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35 Body recovered in Oregon, believed to be homicide victim WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) - Police in Walla Walla, Washington, say they have recovered a body believed to be that a missing man who may be a homicide victim. Police said in a statement that they are waiting positive identification but they believe the body is that of 34-year- old Gabriel Ledezma Rodriguez, of the Milton-Freewater area. His body was recovered Saturday in Umatilla County, Oregon. His family has been notified. Police say they believe he is the victim of a slaying that took place in a basement apartment in Walla Walla sometime in late April. It wasn’t reported to police for several days. No arrests have been made.

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36 National Guard Bureau picks Vermont soldier’s marching song COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) - The National Guard Bureau has chosen a song written by a Vermont solider to be its official march and organizational music. The song was composed by David Myers of the Vermont National Guard’s 40th Army Band. The song was the winning entry in a competition run by the National Guard Bureau. Vermont Adjutant Gen. Steven Cray says the choice of the song is a testament to Myers’ musical talents. “Always Ready, Always There” will be used during official and formal events.

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37 Officials: Body of Canadian hiker found on Mount Washington PINKHAM NOTCH, N. H. (AP) - New Hampshire Fish and Game officials say they have found the body of a Canadian hiker who had been missing for weeks. Lt. Wayne Saunders says hikers found the body of 47- year-old Francois Carrier of Drummondville, Quebec, off the Tuckerman Ravine trail on Mount Washington Saturday. Carrier was reported missing on May 12, when he did not return home from a hiking trip to the Mount Washington area. Searchers combed the Pinkham Notch area utilizing dogs and helicopters for five days, but found no clues to Carrier’s location. Saunders said about 25 rescuers from multiple search and rescue operations transported Carrier’s body down the mountain from an elevation of 5,300 feet. The body was taken to the Medical Examiner’s office in Concord for an autopsy to determine cause of death.

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38 German nationalist slammed over black soccer player comment BERLIN (AP) - A top member of a rising German nationalist party drew sharp criticism Sunday for reportedly saying that many people wouldn’t want Jerome Boateng, a key player on Germany’s national soccer team whose father was born in Ghana, as their neighbor. Alexander Gauland, deputy leader of Alternative for Germany, was quoted as telling the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper: “People find him good as a footballer. But they don’t want to have a Boateng as their neighbor.” The newspaper’s front-page headline was “Gauland insults Boateng.” Germany’s national team has long reflected varied ethnic backgrounds. Berlin-born Bayern Munich defender Boateng has played 57 games for Germany and was a mainstay of the 2014 World Cup-winning team. Boateng is also on Germany’s squad for the 2016 European Championship, which kicks off June 10 in France. Justice Minister Heiko Maas called the comment “unacceptable.” He wrote on Twitter: “Anyone who talks like this unmasks himself, and not just as a bad neighbor.” Anti-immigration talk has helped Alternative for Germany, or AfD, to surge in polls over recent months as hundreds of thousands of migrants arrived in Germany. Other parties have struggled to find ways to counter its appeal to protest voters. In a statement, Gauland said he “never insulted Mr. Boateng.” He said that, in a confidential background conversation, he “described some people’s attitudes” but did not himself comment on Boateng. “Of course we can be proud of our national team,” he added. AfD leader Frauke Petry told the Bild newspaper that Gauland couldn’t remember whether he had made the comment. “Independently of that, I apologize to Mr. Boateng for the impression that has arisen,” she said. Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told Bild that Gauland’s reported comment “shows that Gauland is not just against foreigners but against the good things about Germany: modernity, openness and liberality.” He called AfD “anti-German.”

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39 Maine dental clinics to get $150K to improve low-income care BUCKSPORT, Maine (AP) - The Maine Health Access Foundation is giving nearly $150,000 to nonprofit dental clinics around the state in an effort to make affordable dental care more accessible to low-income residents. The grants will go to health centers in Bucksport, Brewer, Dexter and Belfast. Another will go to Community Dental, which operates in Portland and Biddeford. The clinics recently completed business plans detailing how they would improve their practices in the long term. Maine Health Access Foundation program officer Morgan Hynd says thousands of people in the state have unaddressed dental needs because they can’t afford care.

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40 The Latest: Thousands of Texas inmates being evacuated HOUSTON (AP) - The Latest on severe weather and flooding around the U. S. (all times local): 8:45 a.m. Texas prison officials are evacuating about 2,600 inmates from two prisons near the rain-swollen Brazos River because of expected flooding. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark says the inmates started to be moved Sunday morning from the Terrell and Stringfellow Units in Rosharon, about 30 miles south of Houston. They’re being transferred by buses to other prisons that have available space. At a third prison in the area, Ramsey Unit inmates in a low-level security camp are being moved to the main prison building. Clark says additional food and water has been delivered to prisons that are getting the displaced inmates and sandbags have been filled and delivered to the prisons where flooding is anticipated. All three prisons are in coastal Brazoria County, where the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico. ___ 7:30 a.m. The search for a missing boy who was swept away in a swollen creek in Kansas will resume Sunday. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1XYifED ) reports the Wichita Fire Department Battalion Chief Scott Brown says Saturday’s search for the boy, who disappeared Friday night while trying to cross a creek, took 14 hours. Sunday’s search will expand beyond the creek, which is not flooded anymore, to the Arkansas River. Rain is in the forecast for the Wichita area Sunday. ___ 12:20 a.m. Story Continues →

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41 SA celebs fight back against excessive Photoshopping Radio and TV personality Lerato Kganyago is the latest to speak out about over-the-top airbrushing, following the release this week of before and after pictures of her cover shoot for True Love magazine. Other victims who have publicly raised the alarm include actress Khanyi Mbau, presenter Boitumelo "Boity" Thulo and author Lebo Mashile, while on the international scene, model Cindy Crawford, musicians Fergie and Avril Lavigne and actor Brad Pitt have also fallen foul of Photoshopping gone wrong. In South Africa, True Love magazine has come under fire as being one of the main offenders. Mbau, who was on the magazine's cover in December 2015, said she was made to look like "Angelina Jolie's character in Maleficent". "I don't deny having Botox or massive surgery on my face but I looked like some alien on that cover, it was ugly," said Mbau. Thulo, who was featured in the magazine last month, said her skin had been made darker. "I wasn't offended because they had a feature about dark makeup, which I assumed was the reason for making me darker," said Thulo. But she added: "I am definitely considering the idea of getting my agent to sign a contract before even agreeing to do the cover so I can have final say on how I am portrayed by magazines in the future. " In 2009 True Love issued a public apology after Mashile's curves were flattened and she was given a thinner frame on its cover. And it's not the first time Kganyago's looks have changed dramatically on a magazine cover. In August 2015 she featured on the cover of Bona magazine with her right arm Photoshopped to make it bigger than her left arm. Image: (Top) LERATO KGANYAGO on the cover of the upcoming June 16 issue of True Love; (bottom left) KHANYI MBAU says she was made to look like Maleficent on the December 2015 cover; (bottom right) ‘BOITY’ THULO says her skin was darkened on last month’s cover The 33-year-old Live Amp presenter, who features on the cover of True Love's June issue, received massive support from women across South Africa this week after she was "body shamed" by the magazine when she complained about the image of herself on the cover. The incident began after the cover was revealed. Kganyago took to her Instagram page and wrote: "Nick Boulton is one of the most amazing photographers in the country. He captured me beautifully. It must be disheartening even for him to have his work continuously retouched (Photoshopped) to a point of no recognition. " Hours later, the magazine responded with a statement on its website from its editor, Dudu Mvimbi Leshabane, accompanied by unflattering images of Kganyago before and after being retouched, with the hashtag #JudgeForYourself. Said Mvimbi Leshabane: "As a brand that stands for women empowerment, True Love would never intentionally do anything to compromise women and their public profile. We have a responsibility not to tarnish our cover star's image, to produce authentic content for our readers and to uphold the brand's integrity. " Kganyago said this week: "I am not angry, but I am disappointed and feel really bullied. It's as if they were asking people to judge my body, which is not fair. Should I be ashamed of my body? Why would they ask people to #JudgeForYourself? " Reshaping bodies digitally can harm a star's image, said image consultant Tracy Gold. "It's always key for celebrities to get their agents or managers to negotiate their publishing standards with magazines, where they can demand that they have a final say over what is to be published. " Local magazine True Love has come under fire over their latest issue featuring TV and radio personality Lerato Kganyago. Image: True Love On Tuesday Kganyago filed a complaint against True Love with the Press Ombudsman. She hopes she will get an apology. "I don't want money, I just want them to acknowledge what they did was wrong and apologise. This was certainly the last time I do something with that magazine," she said. Several South African magazine editors approached for comment this week - including Destiny magazine's Khanyi Dhlomo, Bona's Linda Mali, Good Housekeeping's Sally Emery, Glamour magazine's Pnina Fenster and Mvimbi Leshabane of True Love - did not respond, while Marie Claire's Jackie May declined to comment. Former Marie Claire editor Aspasia Karras, who is publisher of magazine supplements at Times Media Group (which publishes the Sunday Times) said "nowadays it would be inaccurate to blame only magazines for the body-perfection pressure". "Everyone is Photoshopping. The standards of what people consider beauty have become absurd. That is why people have responded negatively to the True Love incident. "In the 1930s photographers spent eight hours in daylight trying to get the perfect shot. Now this is all done in post-production. Photoshop has become part of normal society, even, through social media. That is why there are filters. " [email protected]

2016-05-29 17:23 GABI MBELE www.timeslive.co.za

42 New Yorkers reminded patriotic flags are tax- free ALBANY, N. Y. (AP) - The state Division of Veterans’ Affairs is reminding New Yorkers over the Memorial Day weekend that the flags of the U. S., New York, military branches, military services and prisoners of war are exempt from sales taxes. Tax authorities say U. S. flags are fully exempt from state and local sales taxes year-round. That also applies to Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Prisoner of War/Missing in Action flags. Military service flags are those that have been approved by the Defense Department, including Blue Star and Gold Star banners put on display by family of military personnel who died in the armed forces or currently serving. Certain military decorations, including ribbons, medals, and lapel pins, are exempt from sales tax when sold to active military members or veterans.

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43 Political candidates to hit Memorial Day parade routes CONCORD, N. H. (AP) - The season of politicians marching in parades kicks off this weekend with the Memorial Day holiday. U. S. Senate rivals Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, a Republican, both have jam-packed schedules of holiday events. Ayotte plans to march in a Bedford parade Sunday as well as parades in Concord and Manchester on Monday. She’ll also attend a ceremony at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery. Hassan, meanwhile, is scheduled to march Monday in Loudon and Manchester. She’ll also attend the ceremony at the veterans cemetery. As the political season heats up, Granite State residents can expect to see both out to shake as many hands as possible.

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44 Darlington sheriff fires 2 deputies for campaigning for him DARLINGTON, S. C. (AP) - Darlington County Sheriff Wayne Byrd says he fired two deputies for conducting campaign business for him while in uniform and using a county vehicle. Byrd said the deputies went to a store during their lunch break and bought items for one of his events. One officer was in uniform and they were in a county vehicle. Byrd says he has told his deputies they can’t do any campaign business while on duty or using government-owned equipment. The sheriff fired six deputies for campaigning for his opponent in 2012 and says he has to be fair. Byrd’s opponent Tony Chavis says it is unfortunate for everyone involved. Byrd says he wants taxpayers to know he is sorry and he will do his best to keep something like this from happening again.

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45 Stop the war talk to save SA - Treasury Speaking on Friday at the Metals and Engineering Indaba, at which Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan had been scheduled to speak, Fuzile said South Africa could do better without the political noise, specifically suggestions that the job of the finance minister was under threat. "We must make sure our discourse must not undermine our ability to attract investment. That's all. At the same time we've got to reduce the amount of noise in our system, especially as it pertains to various policies, so that we improve confidence and begin to be or make our country an attractive investment destination. " Asked why Gordhan did not attend the event, Fuzile said they had agreed that if Gordhan was tired, Fuzile would speak at the event. This Friday, S&P Global Ratings will announce its decision on the country's credit rating. On Friday afternoon, the Presidency issued a statement saying President Jacob Zuma was not "at war" with Gordhan over control of the Treasury. The Presidency said it "strongly condemns the toxic narrative that is being promoted in the media that insinuates that President Jacob Zuma is engaged in a certain 'war' with the Minister of Finance" to take control of the Treasury. But, the statement said, it should be noted that the president - as the head of government and by virtue of the fact that he appoints ministers and they report to him - controls all government departments including the Treasury. "It is therefore absurd to say that the president would be engaged in a struggle to control a government department that he already controls, and also when he actually controls the whole of government," it said. Recent reports have spoken of a clash between Zuma and Gordhan, who has been asked by the Hawks police unit to explain his role in the creation of a tax surveillance unit at the South African Revenue Service, which he ran between 1999 and 2009. Gordhan said last week that "recent media reports about my arrest - imminent or not - have been extremely distressing for my family and me". The Presidency and the police denied the reports. S&P and Fitch Ratings were in the country this month to review efforts by South Africa to grow the economy. Moody's has kept South Africa's rating on hold at Baa2, with a negative outlook, which is two notches above sub-investment grade, or junk. South Africa's foreign currency rating by S&P is currently at BBB-, one notch above junk and with a negative outlook. Fitch holds the same rating, but with a stable outlook. Investec chief economist Annabel Bishop said Investec did not expect the foreign currency rating to be changed and she forecast that S&P would cut South Africa's long-term sovereign local currency debt by one notch, to BBB from BBB+, which would still be an investment-grade rating. S&P has highlighted slowing growth and high sovereign debt as risks to its rating. Jan Friederich, Fitch's head of Middle East and Africa sovereign ratings - speaking at the Nedgroup Treasurers Conference in Johannesburg this week - warned that South Africa should avoid "quick fixes" in the run-up to local government elections in August. This included introducing a populist minimum wage. Talks between business and labour about the minimum wage had deadlocked, Nedlac said this week. The underperforming economy also posed a risk to the rating, said Friederich. Commenting on efforts to build the economy, Fuzile said "a lot" of progress had been made in reducing energy constraints, which had held back the economy considerably over recent months. "We think that our resolution of that constraint could add anything between 0.8 and 1 percentage points to our growth. " Investment in renewable energy projects involving partnerships between the public and private sectors had exceeded R200-billion. This form of partnership was being extended to the coal and gas sector and was at an advanced stage. Fuzile said the government was aware of the importance of the manufacturing sector as it formed the basis of a modern economy and raised productivity levels. He said the Department of Trade and Industry had produced a package of measures to support the steel industry, among others. An aggregate of R16.2-billion had been allocated to incentives aimed at promoting various industries supporting SMMEs and co-operatives. [email protected]

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46 ‘Parliament TV must have age restriction’ This House has become an absolute circus of late. I believe that the parliamentary TV channel has now got more viewers than [SABC2 soap] 7de Laan. That is because we have become a comic opera; a sort of sordid reality programme that ought to have an age restriction. I want to make it clear: we condemn in the strongest terms both the disruptive tactics of the EFF and the hapless response by the presiding officers. We are appalled at the violence in this chamber by both the EFF members and the protection service. Violence begets violence and it is no surprise that, with what happens in this House as an example, students torch universities and “activists” torch schools. The protection service is no better, acting like modern-day stormtroopers. Images of woman MPs being kicked and manhandled horrified South Africa and the world. This has made this parliament the laughing stock of the civilised world, and a source of deep shame to our country. The antics in this chamber are, however, the consequence of mismanagement by the presiding officers and arrogance by the majority party. The ANC has rallied behind a president who was found by the highest court in South Africa to have violated his oath of office. He should immediately have resigned. That would have been the actions of an honourable man. However, President Jacob Zuma did not. In the absence of this, the ANC had the opportunity either to recall the president, or to vote for the motion introduced by the leader of the opposition in terms of section 89 of the constitution. It did neither. That fatally undermined the credibility of this parliament, and leads directly to the contempt that many of us feel about Mr Zuma. But that’s not all. Increasingly bereft of ideas and inspiration, the ANC resorts to using its majority to ram through legislation and appointments of cadres. Gone are the days when this chamber and its committees were the forums for the open exchange of ideas and the honest debate of alternative solutions. Now the currency of debate is the hurling of insults and the trading of innuendos, the most common of which is to call people “racist”. And frankly, it is not only the EFF that started this dialogue. It started with the clowns in Castle Corner, over which the chief whip of the majority party has apparently little or no control. And then there are the actions of the presiding officers, led by the speaker. It remains our view that being the national chairperson of the majority party is inherently incompatible with being speaker of this House. In that position, one simply cannot preside impartially. So increasingly, the speaker grovels to the president in particular, and the cabinet in general. What then happens is that the speaker rules as unparliamentary any robust criticism of the president, the cabinet or the governing party. The deputy speaker is no better. He recently gave a gobsmacking ruling that it was unparliamentary to quote from a court judgment, because that might reflect on a member. The result is that ordinary South Africans in their homes and in taverns can, and do, engage in far more robust debate and critique of politicians than we can in this House. That is perverse, and cannot be what the constitution intended. That is why we, in the opposition, have reluctantly had to resort to the courts. We do not want to involve the courts in our affairs — but given the intransigence of the ruling party and its presiding officers (and, frankly, their misguided legal and procedural advisers), we have no choice. And so we had the De Lille case: parliament 0, De Lille 1. Then there was the Mazibuko case: parliament 0, Mazibuko 1. Then there was the Ambrosini case: parliament 0, Ambrosini 1. Then there was the “white shirts” case: parliament 0, DA 1. Then there was the case about the comment on the Marikana massacre: parliament 0, EFF 1. Unless and until there is free speech in this House, unless and until MPs are able to tell the harsh and unvarnished truth that many others don’t want to hear, parliament will continue to be dysfunctional and disgraceful. And may I commend to honorary members and the presiding officers what the Constitutional Court said in the DA vs ANC (the so-called SMS case): “Political life in South Africa has seldom been polite, orderly and restrained. It has always been loud, rowdy and fractious. That is not a bad thing. Within the boundaries the constitution sets, it is good for democracy, good for social life and good for individuals to permit as much open and vigorous discussion of public affairs as possible.” That is what we need here. That, more than anything else, will restore the image of the National Assembly. - Selfe is chairman of the DA federal executive. This is a speech he delivered in parliament this week

2016-05-29 17:21 James Selfe www.timeslive.co.za

47 Return to Vietnam PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) - In his mind, Skip Nichols often returned to Vietnam. Sometimes memories sidled into his consciousness. Other times they reached out, grabbed him and plunged him back into the thick of the war. He tried banishing them to the basement of his psyche. When that didn’t work, he worked with a counselor to bring the memories out into the open as a way to diminish their power. But nothing, it seemed, could totally silence the voices of Vietnam. So, he decided to go back, the East Oregonian reported (http://bit.ly/1Vig5yZ). Nichols and his wife Paula took a battlefield tour called Return to Vietnam. The Walla Walla couple flew to Hanoi on March 6 and joined a group of Vietnam veterans who were intent on returning to the country that had affected them so much. The 12 veterans determined the itinerary for the two-week tour. Each chose a few locations where they had experienced something profound and often disturbing. Also along on the trip was the daughter of a soldier who had died in Vietnam. Almost five decades had rushed by since Nichols had last set foot on Vietnam soil. In the interim, he met Paula on a blind date in Texas, fell in love, married and raised two daughters. He carved out a successful career in journalism, retiring in 2013 as managing editor of the East Oregonian. Through the years, the impact of his Vietnam experience simmered behind his easygoing disposition. Nichols’ Vietnam journey started at age 18 when he and a friend joined the military on the buddy plan after a Marine recruiter dropped into high school study hall to chat. After graduation in 1967, Nichols attended boot camp, went to radio school and learned Vietnamese. Soon he was landing at an airfield in Da Nang. He received his orders, a flak jacket, helmet, weapons and ammunition. He took another flight and a long ride in a cargo truck to an artillery base called Camp Carroll, which was south of the Demilitarized Zone and home to the 3rd Marine Regiment. Arriving at Camp Carroll is still vivid in his memory. “We threw our sea bags off the truck to the ground,” he said. “They sank into the mud.” As a radio man, he and other Marines patrolled dangerous ground. He got used to frequent ambushes. “It was a pretty hot area,” Nichols said. “That was home for five months.” Other memories are tougher for Nichols. One day at the Quang Tri base in central Vietnam, Nichols remembers standing in line for the showers after coming back from patrol. He stepped into an outdoor shower stall, his flak jacket, helmet and weapon close by. The shower came to an abrupt halt as the base came under attack. “Rockets and mortars started coming in,” Nichols recalled. “The alarm sounded over speakers. I remember running to the perimeter and thinking, ‘I don’t want to die naked.’” As he and another Marine ran side-by-side, a rocket exploded “10 meters behind us.” Nichols, knocked out for a short while, awoke to see the other man dead only yards away. Later, after medics had taken the soldier away, Nichols noticed a jagged and bloody piece of shrapnel embedded nearby. He removed the chunk of metal and still has it, a poignant reminder of the brutality of war and the randomness of who died and who didn’t. Other memories haunt Nichols, too. He remembers a boy riding a water buffalo toward the perimeter of Camp Carroll. Though warned to turn around, the boy kept on coming. An officer ordered Nichols and other Marines that if the rider came any farther, they were to shoot him. He crossed the perimeter and, in seconds, the boy and the water buffalo lay dead. “Later, we learned he was retarded,” Nichols said. “He loved the chocolates the Americans gave out. That’s why he had come.” Story Continues →

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48 After ‘long’ coach’s speech, Serena gets by at French Open PARIS — Serena Williams was ahead, yes, but hardly at her best, when claps of thunder and a heavy downpour interrupted her third-round French Open match at a critical juncture. So during what turned out to be a delay of more than 2½ hours right before a second- set tiebreaker Saturday against 26th-seeded Kristina Mladenovic of France, Williams met with coach Patrick Mouratoglou. “I spoke 10 minutes, which is far too long. Actually, at the end, I said: ‘Sorry. I spoke too long. Much too long.’ Because a long speech is not a good speech; it has to be short and powerful,” Mouratoglou recounted later. “My point was just to make her think the way she thinks when she’s good, when she’s playing like Serena plays.” Did it work? “Just look at the score,” Mouratoglou said, “and, more than that, look at the way she did it.” Coming out of the locker room determined to dictate play more than she had been, Williams edged Mladenovic 6-4, 7-6 (10), a victory that set up a fourth-round matchup against a woman whose coaching consultant is the 34-year-old American’s former rival, Justine Henin. “Up until that point, I had not been playing my game. I was playing really defensive. It’s not me,” said the top-seeded Williams, who compiled a 5-2 advantage in winners in the tiebreaker. “So I just wanted to be Serena out there.” Her sister Venus, seeded No. 9, beat France’s Alize Cornet 7-6 (5), 1-6, 6- 0 to reach the fourth round for the first time since 2010. And another American, No. 15 Madison Keys, got that far at Roland Garros for the first time with a 7-6 (3), 6-3 victory over Monica Puig. Quarterfinal berths will be at stake in these matchups Monday: Venus vs. No. 8 Timea Bacsinszky, Keys vs. Kiki Bertens, No. 12 Carla Suarez Navarro vs. Yulia Putintseva. Next up for Serena Williams is No. 18 Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, who was 0-7 against Ana Ivanovic before beating the 2008 French Open champion 6-4, 6-4. Svitolina, 21 and the winner of the girls’ title in Paris in 2010, is 0-3 against Williams. But the far more fascinating storyline involves Henin, a seven-time major champion whose playing career ended in 2011 and who has been helping Svitolina with the mental aspects of tennis for the past few months. Williams and Henin played each other 14 times (Williams won eight, including the 2010 final). Their most infamous encounter came at the 2003 French Open: There was a flap over whether Henin tried to call time; Williams drew fans’ ire by arguing line calls; Henin’s three-set victory ended a 33-match winning streak for Williams, who was jeered off the court, then teared up while talking about it all. On Saturday, Williams deflected a question about what it might be like to see Henin in a foe’s camp all these years later. Trying to become the first woman to win consecutive titles at Roland Garros since Henin took three in a row from 2005-07, Williams knows she will have to do a better job of capitalizing on chances than she did against Mladenovic, 23, who called it a dream to finally get to play against someone she grew up watching on TV. Williams went only 1 for 12 on break points and needed five — yes, five — match points in the tiebreaker to close things out, erasing a set point for Mladenovic along the way. “Barely getting through that — I had opportunities to end it a lot sooner,” Williams said, “and I didn’t.” In men’s action, No. 1 Novak Djokovic finished his 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Aljaz Bedene just before nightfall, while No. 6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga quit after seven games against Ernests Gulbis because of an injured right leg. Other winners: No. 7 Tomas Berdych, No. 11 David Ferrer, No. 12 David Goffin, No. 13 Dominic Thiem and No. 14 Roberto Bautista Agut. Thiem, 22, got past Alexander Zverev 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 to close in on his first Grand Slam quarterfinal. While the draw set up a potential fourth-round match for Thiem against Rafael Nadal, the nine-time French Open champion’s withdrawal Friday because of an injured left wrist means that a far less daunting opponent awaits. Instead, Thiem faces 56th-ranked Marcel Granollers, who never has reached a major quarterfinal, either. “Against Rafa, I’m the underdog,” Thiem acknowledged. “Against Granollers, I’m probably the favorite.” 2016-05-29 16:58 Associated Press sports.inquirer.net

49 To ease homeless issue, St. Petersburg mulls tiny homes ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Could tiny houses help alleviate St. Petersburg’s intractable homeless problem? It might be a solution, if those living on the streets can be persuaded to take up offers to settle into permanent housing being built at places like Pinellas Hope or the 400- to 500-square-foot homes being planned by Celebrate Outreach. The homeless issue in St. Petersburg flared this month after complaints from residents of nearby downtown neighborhoods about men and women loitering for blocks around the St. Vincent de Paul shelter. “You can’t overstate the negative impact that St. Vincent de Paul is having for several blocks in all directions and we have a responsibility to not inflict that kind of damage in those neighborhoods,” Council member Karl Nurse said early this week. During a City Council committee meeting Thursday, Catholic Charities executive director Mark Dufva said Pinellas Hope, which provides housing, food, health care and other resources for the homeless, is building 76 of the tiny homes that are set to open in 30 days. It’s part of a push by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to end homelessness by placing the homeless in housing, without regard for personal problems such as alcoholism, drug abuse and mental health. Assistance with those issues can come later, is the philosophy. Reggie Craig, president of Celebrate Outreach, said the organization is working with the University of South Florida’s School of Architecture and Community to create tiny homes for homeless veterans and others. Housing first “is something that we had advocated for years and years,” Craig said. Adjacent to St. Vincent de Paul is Faith House, a “structured living facility for individuals working to recover from alcoholism, drug abuse, incarceration and homelessness,” which is part of the tiny house plans. “We are actually preparing to house their clients while they prepare to become tiny home owners,” executive director Rebecca Russell-Gootee said, adding that some of the tiny homes could be incorporated into Faith House’s campus at 302 15th St. Michael Raposa, CEO of St. Vincent de Paul, spoke enthusiastically Thursday about HUD’s “housing first” program. Raposa, who also is chairman of the Pinellas County Homeless Leadership Board, joined Susan Myers, its CEO, to promote the approach, but their effort was upstaged by the concerns of residents in the Methodist Town and Historic Uptown neighborhoods. James Keane, president of Historic Uptown, expressed his disgust about the homeless problem at Thursday’s meeting. “My concerns are many, including public defecation and public urination,” he said afterward. “The area within two blocks of the shelter has seen continual instances of people using alleys and driveways as toilets. Property values are significantly affected by the conditions in the immediate area of the shelter.” Sister Mary McNally, vice president of mission integration at nearby St. Anthony’s Hospital, spoke of the rising number of homeless people using its emergency room and the effects of the spice epidemic. Story Continues →

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50 Free agency beckoning, DeRozan sounds happy with Raptors TORONTO — For a guy about to hit free agency for the first time, DeMar DeRozan doesn’t sound as if he’s looking for a change of scenery. A day after the deepest playoff run in Toronto Raptors history ended in a Game 6 loss that sent LeBron James and Cleveland to the NBA Finals, DeRozan spoke glowingly about the growth he’s witnessed with the only NBA team he’s played for. DeRozan averaged a career-best 23.5 points in his seventh season with the Raptors. He’s expected to decline the player option on the final season of his four-year, $38 million contract and become a free agent. The two-time All-Star talked up Toronto as his preferred destination. “My mindset has always been Toronto,” DeRozan said as Raptors players gathered Saturday for exit interviews. “I’ve always preached it. I was passionate about it when we were losing. When we were terrible I’d say ‘I’m going to stick through this whole thing and I want to be that guy who brings the organization to where it is now.’ I definitely don’t want to switch up after we win.” After going 22-60 five years ago, the Raptors won a franchise-record 56 games this season and have captured three straight Atlantic Division titles. They boast a brand new practice facility and hosted their first All-Star game this season. That isn’t all Toronto offers – the Raptors can give DeRozan more money and more years than any other team. Still, DeRozan talked about loyalty, and said he likes the idea of spending his whole career with one organization. “I think that’s the most incredible thing you can do,” he said. “That’s awesome.” Fellow All-Star Kyle Lowry went through free agency two years ago, eventually choosing to re-sign with the Raptors. The decision period, Lowry remembers, was “a fun stress.” Recalling how much he appreciated DeRozan being an opinion-free sounding board, Lowry said he intends to return the favor to his good friend. This time, he doesn’t expect any stress. “It’s going to be easy, because all I have to do is listen,” Lowry said. “I’ll just hold the phone like ‘Yeah, uh huh.’ He might want to FaceTime though.” Center Bismack Biyombo also is expected to test free agency. Biyombo filled in capably for Jonas Valanciunas after Toronto’s starter sprained his right ankle in the second round against Miami. Biyombo set a Raptors record with 26 rebounds as Toronto won Game 3 of the conference finals, snapping Cleveland’s 10-game playoff streak. After performances like that, Biyombo will likely command a big raise on the $2.9 million he earned this year. “For me it’s about winning,” Biyombo said about what he’ll be looking for. “Starting or not starting, it doesn’t matter. I know I can start but it’s not the most important thing to me.” After their historic season, the Raptors are expected to pick up the $4 million option on coach Dwane Casey’s contract, and could offer him an extension. Lowry battled a sore elbow down the stretch and throughout the playoffs and said the injury would be closely examined in his season-ending physical. “It’s not a serious concern, but its a concern,” he said. Another concern for Toronto is figuring out a way to beat LeBron, who’s about to represent the Eastern Conference in the finals for a sixth straight year. “We’re not missing much,” DeRozan said in comparing the Raptors to the Cavaliers. “We’re not missing much at all. That team was disciplined. They executed. They did every single thing they needed to do to win the game. We had too many lapses. They took advantage of that. That’s where you gotta grow as a team. Adding a couple more pieces that would solidify that.” Toronto has two first round picks in next month’s draft, including the ninth overall selection. Asked whether he’d prefer veterans or young talent to help put his team over the top, Casey deflected the question to GM Masai Ujiri, who’ll address the media next week. “Any time you have draft picks, they’re great assets,” Casey said. “It’s like gold. They’re tradable or, if you keep them, there’s a lot of good players out there.” Whatever happens next with the Raptors, DeRozan believes they’ve done plenty to be proud of. “It’s just so much to look back on and so much to take in all at once now,” he said. “Throughout the summer, when you really look back on things or you get asked about certain situations that happened, you’ll start to realize, ‘Damn, we really did something.'”

2016-05-29 16:49 Associated Press sports.inquirer.net

51 Filoil: Red Lions maul Knights San Beda smelled blood and feasted on Letran, 84-70, in the Filoil Flying V Preseason Premier Cup Sunday at San Juan Arena. It was the first meeting between the two teams since the NCAA Season 91 Finals when the Knights took down the Red Lions in three games. This time, though, it was San Beda that came out on top as the Red Lions improved to 4-1 while the Knights slid to 2-4. Red Lions head coach Jamike Jarin said it was his team’s adjustments in the second half that helped them recover from their shaky start. “We made some adjustments in the second half, probably because of the live coverage everybody got excited, and these are kids and sometimes you go away from the things you should be doing when you’re this excited,” said Jarin. “We were able to settle down and hit our shots.” San Beda finished the game shooting 49 percent from the field after hitting just 40% in the first two quarters while Letran shot 36%. JV Mocon filled up the stat sheet for San Beda finishing with 19 points, including 10 straight in the third, that went with eight rebounds, five assists, two blocks, and a . Donald Tankoua added a 17-point, 10- double-double while William Navarro, who only played eight minutes, had 15 points. Rey Nambatac and Bong Quinto had 13 points apiece to lead Letran while Jom Sollano posted 11 points and 11 rebounds. /rga

2016-05-29 16:41 Bong Lozada sports.inquirer.net

52 Iran; Pilgrims will not attend haj in Mecca blaming Saudi 'Sabotage' DUBAI - Iran's Haj and Pilgrimage Organization said on Sunday the country's pilgrims would not attend the annual Muslim haj pilgrimage, blaming regional rival Saudi Arabia for "sabotage" and failing to guarantee the safety of pilgrims. Relations between the two countries plummeted after hundreds of Iranians died in a crush during last year's haj and after Riyadh broke diplomatic ties when its Tehran embassy was stormed in January over the Saudi execution of a Shi'ite cleric. The dispute has provided another arena for discord between the conservative Sunni Muslim monarchy of Saudi Arabia and the revolutionary Shi'ite republic of Iran, which back opposing sides in Syria and other conflicts across the region. "Due to ongoing sabotage by the Saudi government, it is hereby announced that ... Iran's pilgrims have been denied the privilege to attend the haj this year, and responsibility for this rests with the government of Saudi Arabia," the Haj and Pilgrimage Organization said in a statement carried by Iran state media. Saudi media earlier said an Iranian delegation had left the kingdom without an agreement over the haj, the second time the two countries have failed to reach a deal. Saudi Arabia has blamed Iran for the impasse. "The issue of ensuring the safety of the pilgrims was very important for us, considering the past actions of the Saudi government last year and the martyrdom of many pilgrims from Iran and other countries," Iranian Culture Minister Ali Jannati told Iran state television. Iran boycotted the haj for three years after 402 pilgrims, mostly Iranians, died in clashes with Saudi security forces at an anti-US. and anti-Israel rally in Mecca in 1987. Eight months after the last haj, Saudi Arabia has still not published a report into the disaster, at which it said more than 700 pilgrims were killed , the highest death toll at the annual pilgrimage since a crush in 1990.

2016-05-29 16:40 www.jpost.com

53 CL final: Ronaldo says he had vision of scoring the winning goal for Real Milan: Having handed Real Madrid their 11th European title by converting the decisive attempt during the penalty shootout, star forward Cristiano Ronaldo said he had a vision that he will score the winning penalty in the Champions League final. Real were locked 1-1 with fellow Spanish outfit Atletico Madrid at the end of extra- time of the Champions League final at the San Siro Stadium here on Saturday evening. Cristiano Ronaldo. Pic/ AFP Sergio Ramos handed Real Madrid the lead in the first half. But Atletico produced a typically gritty performance with Carrasco finding the equaliser with a header off Juanfran's cross. During the penalty shootout, Juanfran missed his attempt for Atletico, as Ronaldo blasted home the decisive spot kick, sparking wild celebrations among the Real Madrid players and fans. "I had a vision and saw I was going to score the winning goal, so I asked (Zinedine) Zidane to take the fifth penalty," Ronaldo was quoted as saying by Sky Sports. "It is a very special moment, and it is well deserved for the players and the fans, who've always been there for us," he added. Ronaldo has now won the Champions League three times while Real Madrid manager Zidane is only the seventh man to win Europe's premier club competition both as a player and a coach. "Zidane has done a phenomenal job and he deserves it because he's a gentleman and is humble, so I'm happy for him," Ronaldo said. The 31-year-old Portugal star felt that Real Madrid held the advantage due to their superior experience and were able to control their nerves better during the penalty shootout. "The penalties are always a lottery, you never know what's going to happen, but we showed that our team had more experience and we showed that we scored all penalties -- it was unbelievable, a fantastic night," Ronaldo said.

2016-05-29 16:39 By IANS www.mid-day.com

54 Pakistan govt gags PCB on cricket ties with India Karachi: The Pakistan government has restrained its Cricket Board from initiating any dialogue with the BCCI on the issue of a long-pending bilateral series, which has been scuttled repeatedly on account of volatile political ties between the two nations. Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Shaharyar Khan told PTI that until the government gave fresh directions, the PCB had given up on talking to the Indian board on resumption of bilateral cricket ties in the near future. "The government has made it clear to us that we are not supposed to engage in any dialogue with our Indian counterparts nor give any statements on Indo-Pak cricket ties until further orders," Khan said. The career diplomat said this was the reason why the PCB had avoided any discussions with the BCCI officials at the recent ICC meetings. Khan, however, said the election of Anurag Thakur as the new Chairman of the BCCI was a positive development for future Indo-Pak talks. "Thakur, to me, represents both the BCCI and their government so it will be easier talking to one person when the time comes," he said. Thakur holds an important position in the ruling BJP and is an elected member of the Parliament. Khan said Pakistan cricket had suffered lot of revenue loss after the BCCI backed out of playing a bilateral series even at any neutral venue in January. "We did all we could to convince them to resume bilateral ties but they didn't respond in the same manner so now even our government has said put a lid on further discussions," Khan said. India has not played a full bilateral series with Pakistan since the terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008 although Pakistan did tour India in the winter of 2012/13 for a short goodwill tour.

2016-05-29 16:32 By PTI www.mid-day.com

55 First Israeli ‘reuse’ of kidney saves brother after transplanted sister dies of stroke For the first time in Israel -- and only the fifth reported case in the world -- a “secondhand” kidney has been successfully transplanted after the recipient’s 55-year-old sister suffering a stroke nine years after she received it abroad and she went into lower- brain death. The kidney was removed from her body and flown to Israel, where it was transplanted into her brother at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva. Prof. Eitan Mor, head of the transplant department, explained: “The challenge of such a transplant is coping with many scarred blood vessels. Despite the early imaging carried out, it was possible to know if it could be connected only by doing open abdominal surgery. Because the sister’s kidney was in excellent condition, we decide to re-transplant it into her brother.” The brother suffered from the same kidney disease from which the sister suffered. The surgeons’ skills plus “thinking out of the box” provides new ways to overcome the shortage of transplant organs, Mor said. Rabin Medical Center director-general Dr. Eyran Halpern said that “this was an additional challenge that our transplant department took on. Happily, the operation succeeded, and the brother’s condition is good. I am proud of our medical team who are not deterred by difficulties and forged their way ahead. This was a bold step that only a team with experience, faith and devotion could carry out.” Previous breakthroughs at Beilinson include transplanting a kidney between a donor and a recipient with different blood types; encouraging live kidney donors; and cross-donations among family members who can donate and others who need organs.

2016-05-29 16:04 JUDY SIEGEL www.jpost.com

56 Israeli gymnast wins bronze medal at European championships Alex Shatilov picked up some much-needed confidence ahead of the Rio Olympics on Sunday, claiming a bronze medal in the floor exercise at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Bern, Switzerland. The 29-year-old Israeli registered a score of 15.300 points to finish in third place and collect his sixth career medal in the event. Nikita Nagornyy of Russia won the gold with a score of 15.566, with Marian Dragulescu of Romania taking a silver with 15.333. Shatilov's return to the podium at the continental championships is an especially encouraging sign for Israel's greatest ever gymnast after he only came fourth in last year's European final in Montpellier, France, missing out on a medal in the event for the first time since 2008. He scaled the podium in each of his previous five appearances at the championships, winning bronze medals in 2009, 2012 and 2014, a silver in 2011 and a gold in 2013. He missed the competition in 2010 due to injury. Shatilov has recorded groundbreaking achievements for local gymnastics throughout his career, but had struggled with form over the past couple of years. He finished the floor final in Beijing 2008 in eighth place before going on to claim two bronze medals at the World Championships (2009, 2011). However, after arriving at the previous Olympics in London as a medal candidate, ultimately finishing in sixth, Shatilov will enter Rio with far lower expectations, although Sunday's triumph will certainly give him plenty of encouragement. Shatilov will participate in his third straight Olympics this summer, only securing his place in Rio last month after finishing in 10th place in the All- Around competition at the Olympic Test Event held in the host city. "I want to go as far as possible in Rio," said Shatilov last month. "I live and work for this. I will try and strengthen my floor exercise until Rio and I hope to do my best. " Israeli Gymnastics Association chairman Ophir Pines-Paz hailed Shatilov's achievement. "Shatilov proved for the countless time that he is the greatest Israeli gymnast of all-time and one of Israel's greatest ever athletes," said Pines- Paz. "Alex lifts his performance when it matters most and will arrive at the Olympics in good form. " 2016-05-29 15:58 ALLON SINAI www.jpost.com

57 SAA strengthens Mauritius route The national air carrier said it would be adding an additional flight on a Wednesday‚ bringing the route to double dailies on four days of the week (Wednesday‚ Thursday‚ Saturday and Sunday) growing the route from ten to eleven flights per week. The additional flight will depart on a Wednesday as SA 192 from Johannesburg at 08h40 to arrive in Mauritius at 14h30. SA 193 returns from Mauritius at 15h20 to arrive in Johannesburg at 17h45. The extra flights are already on sale throughout SAA’s distribution channels for travel effective 20 July. “We have experienced significant growth in South Africans wanting to travel to Mauritius. For the period January 2015 to December 2015‚ the number of South Africans travelling to Mauritius grew by 9.5%‚ passing the threshold of 100‚000 passengers a year. “South Africa remains among the top three source destinations for the island of Mauritius. Increasing frequencies hold strategic commercial value for the business and forms part of the impetus of the airline’s Long-Term Turnaround Strategy‚” said Menon Ramasawmy‚ SAA Manager: Mauritius and Indian Ocean Islands. “SAA remains a strong strategic partner in developing West-East traffic‚ pulling passengers from South and North America as well as Africa to Mauritius. We connect Mauritians with the rest of the world. “Mauritius is an easy and comfortable four hour flight from Johannesburg so‚ once travellers have decided on a visit to South Africa‚ they can add a trip to Mauritius for a relaxing beach holiday‚” Ramasawmy added. Mauritius remains one of the fastest growing economies on the continent with consistent demand-side growth in both business and leisure travel. SAA has been flying to Mauritius for 50 years‚ non-stop since 1957 and the route was one of SAA’s first African destinations. Today Mauritius ranks as one of the top performers when it comes to growth and revenue earning. 2016-05-29 15:57 TMG Digital www.timeslive.co.za

58 Rahul Raj Singh takes blessings from poor on his birthday Rahul Raj Singh, boyfriend of the deceased actress Pratyusha Banerjee, celebrated his 32nd birthday on Sunday by helping the poor in Mumbai. Rahul Raj Singh. Pic/PTI The producer and actor reportedly didn't throw any party as he is yet to overcome Pratyusha's loss. "I just want my love to come and wish me. If she is not here, the day is very sad like any other day I am living in. I just want to prove our love was very pure," Rahul said in a statement. Pratyusha was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her apartment here on April 1. It has been alleged that Rahul has a key role in her suicide. "People have no right to put questions over my worship. I just want to shower blessings of poor on my baby love whereever she is," Rahul added. According to a source close to him, "Rahul has not overcome from the past happening". "It's (his birthday) a special day for him but he is not celebrating and even refused to welcome cakes and gifts. He is just missing Pratyusha day and night," the source said. Pratyusha shot to fame through her role as Anandi in the popular TV show 'Balika Vadhu'.

2016-05-29 15:53 By IANS www.mid-day.com

59 Police kill 3 drug suspects in Bohol Philippine police have killed three drug suspects in a shootout, officials said Sunday, the latest such deaths after the election of tough anti-crime firebrand Rodrigo Duterte as President. A spate of recent criminal killings by police has spiked fears of an extra-judicial crackdown in the country after incoming leader Duterte vowed to stamp out crime by all means necessary. Police were called to the home of a suspected drug dealer on the tiny island of Banacon in Bohol before dawn Saturday when gunfire broke out between the suspect and police, leaving the accused and three associates injured. The accused drug trafficker Rowen Secretaria and two unidentified men were pronounced dead after being taken to hospital, while the fourth was treated for gunshot wounds, local police officer Roel Lagora told AFP. “The armed men shot at the raiding team several times, prompting the latter to defend themselves and return fire,” Lagora told AFP by telephone, reading an official account of the incident. Police have killed 12 other drug suspects across the country in the past week, while unknown gunmen murdered two other men linked by police to illegal drugs. Duterte has warned security forces will kill tens of thousands of criminals and ignore human rights, part of a campaign pledge to eradicate the scourge of drugs that many voters rated as their top concern. The soon-to-be leader, who is also the sitting mayor of the southern city of Davao, has been accused of backing vigilante death squads that have murdered more than a thousand people in Davao, including more than 100 minors. Civil rights groups have criticized Duterte for his threats, describing his proposed methods as illegal and unconstitutional. Police have denied suggestions they are implementing Duterte’s campaign promises before he takes office on June 30, insisting earlier this month that the first eight suspects were killed in self-defense. Banacon lies about 20 kilometers (12 miles) off the coast of Cebu, the country’s second-largest city after the capital Manila. The newly elected Cebu mayor, Tomas Osmena, told AFP earlier this month he would pay police bounties of P50,000 ($1,060) for each criminal they killed, and 5,000 pesos for wounding them. Osmena could not be reached for comment by AFP on Sunday, but on his Facebook page he described the operation against Secretaria, whom he called “the biggest drug lord” in two Cebu districts. “This is just one of four operations being conducted this weekend. Will report the others tomorrow,” Osmena wrote. RELATED STORIES 4 drug suspects killed in General Santos City shootout 4 drug suspects killed, 4 others nabbed in Bulacan Suspected pusher, 2 others killed in Bohol drug raid

2016-05-29 15:47 Agence France newsinfo.inquirer.net

60 Fajardo feels no pain in knee, to return to Gilas practice Gilas Pilipinas can breathe that sigh of relief now. June Mar Fajardo said that after an injury scare which prompted him to rest his swollen right knee, he will be good to go when the national team returns to practice on Monday. “Okay na ako. Magpa- practice na ako bukas. Wala na akong nararamdaman sa tuhod ko na masakit,” Fajardo said on Sunday. Fajardo excused himself from Gilas Pilipinas practice last Thursday, when he didn’t even finish the session and immediately went to Makati Medical Center for checkup. The San Miguel Beer center has yet to participate in the practice although he has been present at the sidelines, listening to head coach Tab Baldwin to make sure he won’t lag behind. Baldwin said the team will play it safe when it comes to the two-time PBA MVP, limiting him on Monday’s session. “June Mar is going to work out tomorrow, do what Jeff (Chan) is doing right now,” the mentor said, pointing to the minimal drills that the injured Rain or Shine shooter did during the session. “These guys will have to work themselves to shape.” Fajardo is aching to get back on the court even more so with the arrival of naturalized center Andray Blatche. “Siyempre malaking bagay para sa amin si Andray. Mas ok na nandito sya para yung mga plays namin, makabisado nya. Kundisyon naman sya eh. Galing naman siya sa tournament sa China,” he said. And the Cebuano giant is hopeful to pick up a thing or two from Blatche’s repertoire of moves through the course of this buildup. “Excited ako na makasama sya ulit. Marami akong matututunan sa kanya kasi ang galing ng mga moves niya eh,” he said. /rga

2016-05-29 15:46 Randolph B sports.inquirer.net

61 WATCH: German MP gets pied in the face due to stance on Syrian refugees A prominent member of Germany's far-left Linke party was hit in the face with a chocolate cream pie on Saturday (May 28) in an attack claimed by a self- styled "anti-fascist" group protesting her stance on refugees. Sahra Wagenknecht, who has advocated putting a limit on the number of refugees Germany should accept, is the second German politician to be attacked with a desert this year over her position on asylum-seekers. Beatrix von Storch of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party suffered a similar fate last month. Wagenknecht was sitting in the front row during the opening speech at a party congress when a young man stopped in front of her and threw the creamy pie in her face, before shouting what sounded like slogans. The party's president interrupted his speech. As cameramen rushed towards her, one party official asked journalists not to film or take pictures of Wagenknecht as another sought to screen the Linke's parliamentary group leader with a jacket. The man who threw the pie was swiftly taken away by security and offered no resistance. A young woman later said they belonged to a group called the "Anti-fascist Initiative, pies against the enemies of mankind," which was outraged by Wagenknecht's refugee policy. Wagenknecht suffered a backlash in her own party when she spoke of a cap on how many refugees Germany should take in. The party has since distanced itself from that stance.

2016-05-29 15:38 www.jpost.com

62 NSRI assists stricken boat off KZN south coast He’s got hit after hit, is one of the most talked about musicians in the country and signed a massive deal with MTN. So, there’s really no doubt that Cassper Nyovest knows what he is talking about.

2016-05-29 15:30 Tmg Digital www.timeslive.co.za

63 Prominent corruption- fighting police commander joins Yesh Atid Former Assistant Police Chief Yoav Segalovitz, known for founding the “Israeli FBI” unit Lahav 433 and his role in corruption investigations of prominent politicians like former prime minister Ehud Olmert and soon-to- be defense minister Avigdor Liberman, announced he was joining Yesh Atid Sunday. The announcement’s timing seemed like especially fortuitous political kismet for Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid, as a joint press conference with him and the corruption-fighting ex-cop took place in Tel Aviv soon after police revealed they found evidence of criminal wrongdoing on the part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara Netanyahu, regarding the use of state funds in the management of the Prime Minister’s residence. Segalovitz said that he decided to enter politics because, after 28 years in the police, he wanted to continue serving the public. “Events of recent weeks have only strengthened my decision. It seems like we are part of a game, a circus, in which people cheer for the acrobats with no regard for laws and basic rules of fairness, simple truth and integrity,” he stated. Segalovitz said he felt Yesh Atid was a party that was “more transparent, cleaner, better…committed to the public, battling corruption in its various forms, out of an understanding that corruption is not just a series of criminal offenses, but a bad spirit that harms important values like equality and public trust.” Lapid said that Segalovitz joining the party was a significant boost for Yesh Atid’s efforts to combat corruption. “He’s not afraid of anyone,” Lapid declared. “He knows what kind of damage politics can cause in Israel, and he is here to fight. He is here because Yesh Atid is determined to fight corruption, and we are building the force that will allow us to do it.” The Yesh Atid leader said Segalovitz joins the party’s efforts to fight “old, broken” politics, which are “corrupt and corrupting, divisive and inciting, encouraging extremism instead of fighting it.” There are few commanders in the Israel Police in recent years that have had an impact or profile approaching that of Segalovitz . In 2008, he oversaw the formation and served as the first commander of the special police investigative unit “LAHAV 433” – nicknamed “the Israeli FBI” – which combines under one roof the national fraud unit, the international crimes unit, the financial crimes unit, the stolen vehicles unit, and the mistarvim police unit that works undercover in Arab areas. In the last decade of his 28-year-career he oversaw some of the most sensitive cases in recent years. These include the “Holyland” investigation against former Olmert, the rape investigation against former President Moshe Katsav, and prior investigations against Likud MK and former minister Tzachi Hanegbi and former finance minister Avraham Hirschson. In 2009, he recommended that then Attorney General Meni Mazuz indict Liberman on charges of fraud, bribery, money laundering and breach of trust. He also worked in the shadows in charge of one of the most secretive investigations in the history of Israel – the post-mortem probe of the death of “Prisoner X” - former Mossad employee and Australian oleh Ben Zygier – who committed suicide in his cell in Ayalon Prison in December 2010. In 2012, he oversaw the undercover bribery investigation of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, during which then-National Fraud Squad head Dep.- Ch. Ephraim Bracha was deployed undercover – along with his wife – to arrest the rabbi who until then had been close to Bracha. Last year, Bracha took his own life, after what many have alleged was a campaign of harassment at the hands of supporters of Pinto’s. He also was known for being one of the closest personal friends of former Israel Police Commissioner Yochanan Danino, and one of his closest confidants during his often controversial time at the helm of the organization. Even after retirement his name was circulated as a possible nominee to serve as national commissioner.

2016-05-29 15:28 LAHAV HARKOV www.jpost.com

64 Injured Lionel Messi 'is better' now, to testify in tax case Buenos Aires: The medical corps of the Argentine football team reported that Lionel Messi "is better" after he suffered an injury on Friday night during the friendly against Honduras. This means Nessi will be able to fly to Barcelona as planned this Sunday to testify in a tax-fraud case against him and his father. Lionel Messi "Messi is better with less pain than last night," said Daniel Martinez, a member of the medical corps of the team coached by Gerardo "Tata" Martino, in a statement to the official news agency Telam on Saturday, according to Efe. The super striker had to leave the game at minute 64 when kneed in the back by Oliver Morazan after being spilled by Johnny Leveron. Argentina won the game 1-0 with a first-half goal by Gonzalo Higuain. "Serious contusion to the soft parts of the lower left-hand rib cage and to the lumbar paravertebral block," the doctors' report said. Despite the contusion, Messi will travel on Saturday on a private plane to his native Rosario, where he will remain under observation until early Sunday morning, when he gets on another private flight to Barcelona, to comply with the summons issued by the Catalonia High Court of Justice. Doctors believe that in about nine days, with the proper care, Messi will be "on his way to recovery" and ready to play once more with the Argentine national team. Since the bones were not injured, "the evolution of the soft areas will be much faster. " In Barcelona, Messi will give a deposition in the tax-fraud case set to begin Tuesday with testimony by witnesses, followed on Wednesday by the statements of investigators and more witnesses, and on Thursday by the court appearance of the soccer star himself. In the written indictment, the prosecution asks for 18 months in prison for the soccer player's father for evading 4.1 million euros ($4.6 million) in taxes, but asks that the case against Messi be shelved on grounds that he had no knowledge of the fraud.

2016-05-29 15:15 By IANS www.mid-day.com

65 MEMORIAL Day – USA: Remembering Our Fallen: SAIPAN – 1944 Monday the 30 th of May is Memorial Day in the USA, the day when we remember our fallen soldiers. There is one Jewish soldier that you should know about, truly an amazing guy. His name is Ben Salomon, the only son of Benjamin and Bess Salomon from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ben was a dentist. During World War II, he enlisted in the Army, but they had lost his medical credentials. So Ben trained as an infantryman and became expert with a rifle and machine gun. Because of his skills and leadership ability, Salomon rapidly rose in the ranks; he made it all the way to sergeant. Then the Army finally recognized him as a dentist. Believe it or not tooth cavities was a major issue for the Army, so they made him an officer and he spent his work day filling teeth. However after work, he trained soldiers on how to shoot. The war took him to the island of Saipan, part of the Mariana Island chain. Saipan is an island in the Pacific, currently belonging to the United States, but it World War II it was part of the Japanese Empire. Saipan held strategic importance to the USA, who planned to use it for attacking Japan by air using the B-29 Super Fortress bomber. In 1944 there were 30,000 Japanese soldiers garrisoned on the island. In June, 71,000 U. S. Army infantry and Marine units landed on the island. Resistance was fierce; on the first day we took 2,000 casualties. It took three weeks of heavy fighting to secure the island. The battle cost us about 14,000 killed and wounded. Of the 30,000 Japanese defenders, less than 1,000 were taken prisoner. Civilian casualties were high; about 20,000 perished. When it became apparent to the Japanese defenders that the battle was hopeless, their commander resolved to fight to the last man He assembled the remaining 3,000 able-bodied troops who charged forward in a final Banzai attack. Amazingly, behind them came the wounded, with bandaged heads, crutches, and civilians, all barely armed, some with bamboo pointed spears. The Japanese surged over the American front lines, engaging both army and Marine units. He was the acting battalion surgeon at the battalion’s Aid station. His unit was overrun, and he helped with the evacuation of wounded soldiers. For what followed, Ben was awarded the Medal of Honor. This is how the citation reads: CAPTAIN BEN L. SALOMON UNITED STATES ARMY For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty: Captain Ben L. Salomon was serving at Saipan, in the Marianas Islands on July 7, 1944, as the Surgeon for the 2nd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. The Regiment’s 1st and 2d Battalions were attacked by an overwhelming force estimated between 3,000 and 5,000 Japanese soldiers. It was one of the largest attacks attempted in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Although both units fought furiously, the enemy soon penetrated the Battalions’ combined perimeter and inflicted overwhelming casualties. In the first minutes of the attack, approximately 30 wounded soldiers walked, crawled, or were carried into Captain Salomon’s aid station, and the small tent soon filled with wounded men. As the perimeter began to be overrun, it became increasingly difficult for Captain Salomon to work on the wounded. He then saw a Japanese soldier bayoneting one of the wounded soldiers lying near the tent. Firing from a squatting position, Captain Salomon quickly killed the enemy soldier. Then, as he turned his attention back to the wounded, two more Japanese soldiers appeared in the front entrance of the tent. As these enemy soldiers were killed, four more crawled under the tent walls. Rushing them, Captain Salomon kicked the knife out of the hand of one, shot another, and bayoneted a third. Captain Salomon butted the fourth enemy soldier in the stomach and a wounded comrade then shot and killed the enemy soldier. Realizing the gravity of the situation, Captain Salomon ordered the wounded to make their way as best they could back to the regimental aid station, while he attempted to hold off the enemy until they were clear. Captain Salomon then grabbed a rifle from one of the wounded and rushed out of the tent. After four men were killed while manning a machine gun, Captain Salomon took control of it. When his body was later found, 98 dead enemy soldiers were piled in front of his position. Captain Salomon’s extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army. There is really nothing more for me to say. May his memory be for a blessing.

2016-05-29 15:15 MICHAEL JARON www.jpost.com

66 Pagasa sees thunderstorm over Metro Manila, nearby provinces The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said on Sunday that a thunderstorm is affecting parts of Metro Manila and nearby provinces. In an advisory issued at 1:50 p.m., the state weather bureau said that Caloocan and Quezon cities in Metro Manila, Masinloc, Candelaria, and Palauig towns in Zambales, Rizal, Batangas, Laguna and portions of Bulacan, Tarlac and Quezon are experiencing thunderstorm. The thunderstorm may persist for one to two hours, it said. Residents from Cavite, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija and remaining parts of Metro Manila can expect thunderstorms in their areas within the next two hours. Pagasa advised the public to take precautionary measures against heavy rains, strong winds, lightning and possible flash floods. AJH/rga RELATED STORIES Low pressure area spares PH, heads for China Pagasa: Southwest monsoon weakens, but expect rainy weekend

2016-05-29 15:13 newsinfo.inquirer.net

67 Vasai's PWD clerk files complaint against juniors for mental harassment A 32 year-old PWD department Vasai division lady clerk has filed complaint against three junior clerk including a lady typist attached to her department for allegedly mentally and physically harassing her from last few months. The FIR was lodge into the Manikpur Police station on Saturday According to Police sources, the victim lady in her statement mentioned that, her three colleagues two junior clerk C. K Patil , Y. G Pawar, and a lady typist Vidya Joshi were harassing her. Both the clerk Pawar and Patil were keep doing mentally torture to her and Vidya helping them, Pawar and Patil were passing lewd gesture and keep winking looking her. The clerk Pawar keep visiting in the colony where victim used to stay and circulating fake messages among the society people by saying he and victim were having an affair from long back and try to tarnishing her images into the society. While Patil, keep clicking her pictures in the offices whenever he found her busy in her work , and showing her images to other office colleagues, when she come to know about both the acts and asked them to stop it, they did not stop and keep doing that. The victim lady told mid-day that she is staying alone at her flat in Nasai as her husband is bed ridden after the accident in 2006, she is hailing from Jalgaon and it is her first posting in Vasai's PWD department in 2015. In her statement she mentioned that, after joining duty once she visited her native place by taking few days leave i, but after she joined the duty typist Vidya began misbehaving with her by saying she has not taken permission from anyone before going to leave. Over this victim complaint to her senior clerk N. D Patil who shouted on Vidya, it is the reason Vidya helping Pawar and Patil, she added. On the basis of her complaint we have registered the FIR under section 509 and 504 and 34 no arrest yet has been made so far, said a PSI Ganesh shinde from Manikpur Police station.

2016-05-29 15:05 By Samiullah www.mid-day.com

68 Congolese man's murder: India to help family receive body New Delhi: The government on Sunday said it will help the family of the Congolese national Masonda Ketada Olivier, who was murdered here on May 20, to receive his mortal remains. "In the unfortunate death of Masonda Olivier, the government will assist his family to travel to India to receive his mortal remains," external affairs ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup tweeted. Olivier, 29, was beaten to death by three men on May 20 after a quarrel over the hiring of an auto-rickshaw in Vasant Kunj area here turned violent. Two of the accused have been arrested while the third is on the run. Olivier had come to India on a student visa and had recently got himself a job as a teacher. In a separate tweet, Swarup said the government would "also arrange for his mortal remains to be transported to DR (Democratic Republic of) Congo at our expense". 2016-05-29 15:00 By IANS www.mid-day.com

69 When Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid fans kissed... Real thrill: A Real Madrid fan poses at Piazza Duomo ahead of the UEFA Champions League final which will determine the football kings of Europe through a battle between Spanish rivals Real Madrid and Club Atletico de Madrid which took place at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milan, Italy on Saturday. Pics/Getty Images Rival kiss: Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid fans kiss each other Colour me red: An Atletico Madrid fan enjoys the atmosphere at Piazza Duomo in Milan

2016-05-29 14:57 By Agencies www.mid-day.com

70 France strikes: How might British travellers be affected? British travellers to France are being urged to think ahead after days of industrial action disrupted travel and left fuel in short supply across much of the country. Plenty of Britons are expected to head over for the coming bank holiday weekend and next week's school half-term break. How might they be affected? Strikes and blockades by workers disrupted six of France's eight oil refineries this week. However, all but one of the fuel depots being blockaded have now been freed. France's CGT union announced on Friday it would be holding an indefinite strike at the Total petrol refinery in Donges. The availability of fuel at petrol stations is now reported to be improving slightly, but there may still be shortages and queues, especially in Brittany, Normandy and northern France, of half an hour or an hour. Port workers in Marseille, Cherbourg, Le Havre and St Malo have also taken industrial action. And there been disruption on some high-speed TGV rail services, as well as regional and commuter trains. Fuel purchasing restrictions have been put in place by local authorities in some parts of France. Some petrol stations may have run out of some types of fuel. Fuel rationing may be imposed, and drivers may not be able to fill up jerrycans either. The Mon-essence.fr website has produced a map developed from its mobile app data to help motorists identify petrol stations where fuel is not available. This site said on Friday morning that about 52%, or about 5,300 out of 10,246 petrol stations in France, were reporting partial or total shortages of fuel. The Carbeo website also has information on fuel availability. French Transport Minister Alain Vidalies said on Thursday that 40% of petrol stations around Paris were struggling to get fuel. The French Petrol Industries Union said the government had authorised the use of strategic reserves, with analysts estimating that the country has four months of fuel reserves. The UK Foreign Office has issued travel advice for those heading over to France. French ambassador to the UK Sylvie Bermann said the country was doing "everything possible" to ease travel problems ahead of the Euro 2016 football tournament, due to begin in two weeks. "I think you can travel, obviously, but if you can have some fuel before that, maybe it's better," she added. The RAC is discouraging UK drivers from taking extra fuel supplies over to France. Aside from the safety risks, authorities only allow drivers to carry an additional 10 litres of fuel with them upon entering French territory. Also, most ferry operators do not permit the carrying of any additional fuel in cans, the motoring body says. Earlier this week, the AA reported taking calls from motorists who had run out of fuel in France. It is advising people to fill up before crossing the Channel. Shell says it has seen an increase in demand at its petrol station on the M20, near Folkestone, while BP says it has not seen any rise in demand for fuel, with usual deliveries scheduled for stations in Kent. The transport of petrol cans onboard Brittany Ferries' ships is forbidden. The transport of diesel in vehicles is only permitted in containers or jerrycans specifically constructed for the carriage of diesel and to a maximum of 5 litres per vehicle. Fuel cans must not be brought on board DFDS Seaways ferries. P&O Ferries said on Twitter that passengers were now able to bring five litres of spare fuel on board, provided it was in an "approved container". Eurotunnel allows up to 30 litres of fuel to be driven over, depending on the type of container. Some parts of France have restrictions on carrying fuel. The Prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais says that "in order to limit the fuel of users and for safety reasons", it is illegal to sell, purchase, distribute or transport fuel in "packaged form" such as jerrycans or cans. Brittany Ferries says some of Friday's scheduled trips have been disrupted, following some cancellations on Thursday. P&O Ferries is not reporting any delays with its Dover to Calais service. DFDS Seaways is also not reporting delays on its services to Dunkirk and Calais. Rebecca Elder from Aberdeen has been travelling through France after studying in Angers, reaching Poland yesterday. She says her fellow students all had trains cancelled or rescheduled. "Getting round Angers has taken double the time," she said. "There have been lots of flight delays from Nantes or Charles de Gaulle airports, and in the past few days I've had friends who have struggled to find fuel to drive home or they've hit blocked roads. "I would tell British travellers to leave extra time and have back up plans. " Ms Elder also described tensions as being "a lot higher in the Loire, Normandy and Bordeaux regions". Workers at oil refineries, nuclear power stations, ports and on the railways downed tools amid growing industrial action over controversial labour reforms. These include making the 35-hour working week an average time, firms being given greater freedom to reduce pay and easing the conditions for laying off workers - currently strongly regulated in France. Staff at 16 of France's 19 nuclear power plants have also voted for a one- day strike. French President Francois Hollande has said he will not back down over the dispute, but Prime Minister Manuel Valls has signalled that the reform package could be modified. What are strikes about?

2016-05-29 17:46 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

71 Japan parents left missing boy in woods 'as punishment' The parents of a seven-year- old boy missing in the mountains of northern Japan have admitted that they left him alone in the woods as a punishment. The child has not been seen for two days, since his parents abandoned him in northern Hokkaido, a region home to wild bears. The couple first told police he got lost as they foraged for vegetables. But they later confessed they had left him alone for five minutes to punish him but when they returned he had gone. Hundreds of emergency service workers are combing the area in search of the boy. The father told a TV Asahi reporter he did not dare admit the truth while requesting a search. The couple had walked some 500m (a third of a mile) from the child before returning, the TV channel reported.

2016-05-29 17:46 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

72 Escalation of Tory division over Europe Anyone who's followed politics for any length of time knows no party's more prone to suicidal bouts of indiscipline than the Labour Party. Unless, of course, it's the Conservative Party when it's in the mood. Just now, the Tories are in more of a mood than they've been since the chaotic days of the Major administration, and possibly since 1990, the year the party hacked down Margaret Thatcher in an orgy of political regicide prompted, naturally, by DNA-deep divisions over Europe. A surely impossible demand from any senior Conservative for David Cameron to accept his manifesto pledge to reduce net migration into the UK to the tens of thousands is valueless on the ground it's "corrosive of public trust" - in other words because no-one believes it - would be embarrassing enough if delivered in private. Published in an open letter by Michael Gove, and Boris Johnson (Gisela Stuart's a co-signatory, but Labour's internal debate is another story) it amounts to an escalation of a battle that now defies all established principles of government discipline and collective responsibility. And it does so in a way the prime minister will surely find very difficult to forgive. The Brexiteers' point is that EU open borders make immigration control impossible. Its effect, though, is to accelerate a descent into internecine warfare which now threatens to make the Conservatives ungovernable if the referendum ends in anything but a decisive victory for the remain campaign. So bitter has the conflict become, so taut the tension between the rival factions, that angry Eurosceptic Tories talk privately of challenging the prime minister's position even if Britain votes to stay inside the European Union. One of the most militant Conservative MPs, Andrew Bridgen, has gone public. He told me in an interview for BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics that he believes it "highly likely" at least 50 Tory MPs would sign demands for a vote of no confidence in the PM if the campaign goes on as it has. More than that, he suggests the Cameron administration could be reduced to what he and others call a "zombie government" by its divided MPs, unable to govern and forced to consider a snap election. At Westminster, that kind of apocalyptic talk is becoming more common. Some of the whispering is - and is probably intended to be - hair-raising. I've heard it suggested that three ministers have become so upset by the tone of campaigning on the Remain side led by the prime minister that they are contemplating resigning, not just from the government, but from the Tory whip, effectively quitting the party. One MP, on the now militant Eurosceptic wing, said letters demanding a vote of confidence in the PM had already been submitted to the chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee, Graham Brady, who's a sort of posh shop-steward for Conservative MPs. Mr Graham himself is bound by a sacred oath of secrecy where such matters are concerned, so we must wait to find out. The Sunday Times newspaper carries more mutinous muttering. Former Environment Secretary, Owen Patterson, told the paper: "The government now has four weeks to behave properly. If they don't, there are risks they will cause long term damage to the Conservative Party. " Another, unnamed MP, puts it more bluntly: "When you tell Tories they are immoral for supporting Brexiteers you are going to get a kick in the nuts. " We'll see, of course. Everything depends on which side wins the referendum, and perhaps on the margin of victory. Mr Cameron insists he would carry on as prime minister if Britain votes to leave the EU. The more common view, shared among his closest supporters, is that he would be toast. Even a vote to remain, could be a Pyrrhic victory, if the margin is tight. Until we know the outcome on Friday 24 June, this self-destructive struggle is likely to intensify before it calms again - assuming, of course, the party is not already broken beyond repair.

2016-05-29 17:46 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

73 China Wanda City theme park opens in a battle with Disney China's richest man has opened a massive entertainment complex to compete with US giant Disney. "Wanda City", in south- eastern city Nanchang, features rides, shopping centres and an aquarium, and cost more than $3bn (just over £2bn). Its owner, Wang Jianlin, said he wanted to move away from western imports and to establish a global brand based on Chinese culture. Disney is planning to open its own theme park in Shanghai next month. The new entertainment complex includes an $800m China-themed park filled with twirling "porcelain teacup rides" and bamboo forests, as well as a huge indoor shopping mall, and what is claimed to be the world's largest ocean park. Mr Wang's Wanda property group has also invested heavily in the film and cinema business. It has indicated it wants to fend off Disney in the Chinese market and become a global entertainment brand. In remarks at Saturday's opening ceremony, Mr Wang did not mention Disney by name, but said that after millennia of Chinese cultural domination, the country was lacking confidence in its own culture. "We want to be a model for Chinese private enterprise, and we want to establish a global brand for Chinese firms," he said. Only a week ago he told China Central Television (CCTV) that "this craze for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck is over, the period when we would blindly follow where Disney led has been gone for years. " After the site in Nanchang, Wanda plans to open around 15 in the country by 2020. Meanwhile Disney's theme park in Shanghai, costing $5.5bn, will be its sixth theme park and its fourth outside the United States after Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

2016-05-29 14:13 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

74 Indian police arrest five in Delhi over assaults on Africans Indian police say five people have been arrested over attacks on six Africans last Thursday, the latest in a number of assaults that have strained ties between African countries and India. Earlier this month, a Congolese man was beaten to death following a dispute over hiring an auto-rickshaw. India has promised tough action against attackers who target Africans. Thousands of Africans are studying at Indian universities. A student group is holding an anti-racism rally next week. Three separate cases have been registered following last Thursday's incidents, in which six African nationals suffered injuries. Delhi police official Ishwar Singh said the scuffles on Thursday night took place after local residents objected to the Africans drinking alcohol and playing loud music in the street. The Africans said they were racially abused and attacked by a mob. Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that she had spoken to police about the attacks and had asked them to meet the African students who were planning the demonstration at the Jantar Mantar site in Delhi. Last week, heads of African diplomatic missions in Delhi refused to attend Africa Day celebrations in protest at the murder of Congolese national Masunda Kitada Olivier. They said African nationals in Delhi were living in a "pervading climate of fear and insecurity". Two men have been arrested over Mr Olivier's death. In February, a Tanzanian student was assaulted and partially stripped by a mob in the southern city of Bangalore.

2016-05-29 17:46 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

75 Three announces mobile ad-blocking trial Mobile service provider Three has confirmed it will block advertising on its network for a day-long trial in June. In February, the company said it wanted to give its customers "control, choice and greater transparency" over the adverts they received. But the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) said Three's approach was too "broad" and would harm businesses. The opt-in trial will take place on a day between 13 and 20 June. Three said it was exploring ad-blocking on its network because: In February, it announced a partnership with ad-blocking start-up Shine, in which Li Ka-shing, the owner of Three's parent company CK Hutchison, is an investor. The mobile network said the technology would block 95% of pop-ups and adverts on websites, but the pre-roll video adverts, sponsored articles and in-feed promotions on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook would not be blocked. Steve Chester from the IAB said encouraging advertisers to produce a "lighter, less invasive ad experience" was preferable to ad-blocking. "We're all committed to solving the ad-blocking issue but disagree with Three's approach that network-level ad-blocking is the way to go," he said. "It's a broad-brush approach that the largest media owners can probably survive but not the smaller ones. "In the long-term consumers will also lose out, as they'll most likely have to pay for services that are currently free because they're supported by advertising. " Many people already choose to block adverts online by downloading browser plug-ins or mobile apps that can strip promotional content off websites. Ad-blocking at a network level could reduce mobile data use by customers, but could also let a mobile service provider decide who can advertise to its customers, or charge fees to "white list" advertisers. Three told the BBC it was in the early stages of testing the technology and did not know whether it would charge customers for an ad-blocking service, but said it would not "white list" advertisers, were it to launch one. The company said it would contact 500,000 of its customers to invite them to take part in the trial.

2016-05-29 17:46 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

76 German row over right-winger's 'racist' Boateng remark The German right-wing Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party has come under fire over comments by one of its leaders about footballer Jerome Boateng that are widely regarded as racist. AfD deputy chief Alexander Gauland told a newspaper that Germans would not like to have Boateng, whose father is Ghanaian, as a neighbour. Boateng, 27, is a defender for German champions Bayern Munich and the national team. The remark drew immediate condemnation. Mr Gauland later denied it reflected his own views. The leader of the AfD, Frauke Petry, apologised for the "impression that has arisen". The comment was carried by the Sunday newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Under the headline "Gauland insults Boateng", the article quotes the politician as saying: "People find him good as a footballer, but they don't want to have Boateng as a neighbour. " Germany manager Oliver Bierhoff said people who made such comments "are simply discrediting themselves". Justice Minister Heiko Maas called them "unacceptable and shabby". Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said the comment showed "that Gauland is not just against foreigners but against the good things about Germany". Mr Gauland said that he had "never insulted Mr Boateng", whom he did not know. He added that he had only "described some people's attitudes'' in a background conversation with the journalists. AfD leader Frauke Petry told the Bild newspaper that her deputy could not remember making the comment, saying: "Independently of that. I apologise to Mr Boateng for the impression that has arisen. " She later tweeted: "Jerome Boateng is a super footballer who is rightly a member of the German national team. I'm looking forward to the European Championship. " The AfD was started three years ago with a Eurosceptic message and has attracted many voters who are angered by an influx of migrants and by Chancellor Angela Merkel's pro-refugee approach.

2016-05-29 17:46 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

77 DNA 'tape recorder' to trace cell history Researchers have invented a DNA "tape recorder" that can trace the family history of every cell in an organism. The technique is being hailed as a breakthrough in understanding how the trillions of complex cells in a body are descended from a single egg. "It has the potential to provide profound insights into how normal, diseased or damaged tissues are constructed and maintained," one UK biologist told the BBC. The work appears in Science journal . The human body has around 40 trillion cells, each with a highly specialised function. Yet each can trace its history back to the same starting point - a fertilised egg. Developmental biology is the business of unravelling how the genetic code unfolds at each cycle of cell division, how the body plan develops, and how tissues become specialised. But much of what it has revealed has depended on inference rather than a complete cell-by-cell history. "I actually started working on this problem as a graduate student in 2000," confessed Jay Shendure, lead researcher on the new scientific paper. "Could we find a way to record these relationships between cells in some compact form we could later read out in adult organisms? " The project failed then because there was no mechanism to record events in a cell's history. That changed with recent developments in so called CRISPR gene editing, a technique that allows researchers to make much more precise alterations to the DNA in living organisms. The molecular tape recorder developed by Prof Shendure's team at the University of Washington in Seattle, US, is a length of DNA inserted into the genome that contains a series of edit points which can be changed throughout an organism's life. Each edit records a permanent mark on the tape that is inherited by all of a cell's descendants. By examining the number and pattern of all these marks in an adult cell, the team can work back to find its origins. Developmental biologist James Briscoe of the Crick Institute, in London, UK, calls it "a creative and exciting use" of the CRISPR technique. "It uniquely and indelibly marks cells with a 'barcode' that is inherited in the DNA. This means you can use the barcode to trace all the progeny of barcoded cells," he said. Jay Shendure collaborated with molecular biologist Alex Schier of Harvard University to prove the technique on a classic lab organism - the zebrafish. Not only did they show the technique works, they could trace the lineage of hundreds of thousands of cells in mature fish. They also showed it has the power to change perceptions about biological development. "We can look at individual organs - say the left eye or the right eye, or the gills or the heart," Prof Shendure explained in an interview with the BBC's Science in Action radio programme, "and the real surprise was that in every organ we looked at, the majority of the organ came from just a handful of progenitor cells. " For example, although they identified over a thousand cell lineages within one of their fish, it took only five of them to create most of the blood cells. The surprise is evident in the published paper, which includes a few suggested explanations. James Briscoe also finds the discovery remarkable. "It's striking that a barcode found in one organ was rarely found in another," he wrote in an e-mail, adding that in the early embryo, cells are often mobile and so a richer mix could be expected. An unexpectedly small group of "founder cells" would be one explanation. Or "there could be many founding cells, from different lineages (barcodes), at early embryonic stages, but many of these lineages die off as the tissue develops. " Further experiments with the technique could unwrap the details. But the fact that a simple, profound question was immediately thrown up by the new technique shows just how powerful it is. And the technique does not have to be limited to healthy development. "Cancers develop by a lineage, too," Alex Schier told the BBC. "Our technique can be used to follow these lineages during cancer formation - to tell us the relationships of cells within a tumour, and between the original tumour and secondary tumours formed by metastasis. " And Prof Shendure points out that many inherited diseases develop because of faulty genetic programming. "Many of these may well have their basis in the skewing of the cell lineage," he explained. The technique comes with the somewhat tortured acronym GESTALT - the German for "shape". It is easy to use, and could easily be improved, says Jay Shendure. James Briscoe is already thinking of ways to use it with his experimental animals - mice. For developmental biology, GESTALT could be the shape of things to come. 2016-05-29 17:46 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

78 Who deserves a blue plaque? England's first blue plaque scheme started with a tribute to a controversial poet in 1867 and now, almost 150 years later, it has celebrated by unveiling a plaque to a food writer. So who qualifies for a plaque? The country's first blue plaque no longer exists - the disc marking 24 Holles Street as the birthplace of Romantic poet Lord Byron was removed when the building was replaced with a department store. But the scheme started by the Society of Arts is still going strong, and has been replicated in hundreds of towns and cities around the country. Even within the capital there is a plethora of plaques by other organisations, but the original programme, now managed by English Heritage, has seen more than 900 installed, the latest of which was to food writer Elizabeth David. And they are very strict about who gets a plaque. Recipients must have been dead for at least 20 years and must have lived at the location they are being connected with for either a long time or during an important period, such as when writing their seminal work or creating their key invention. "The 20-year rule is quite important to us," said Alexandra Carson, national PR executive for English Heritage. "It gives us the benefit of hindsight and allows us to better judge their long- term legacy. "Also, the building has to be the same as it was when they lived there because a big part of it is bringing history to life. "It's a really nice way of detailing the history of London and linking people and places. " There are thousands of blue plaques around England noting significant people and the places they were born, lived, worked, visited or died. But, as there is no national body governing such commemoration, the criteria used to determine who and where gets a plaque vary widely from place to place. It is left to local councils, charities and history organisations to police the plaques issued in their areas. Outside of the original scheme, the majority of plaques can be loosely grouped into four categories: birthplace, residence, visited by and place of death. For example, a house on Prince's Street in Bishop Auckland is marked as a childhood home of Stan Laurel; Guy Fawkes' birthplace in York and the home of his parents are both labelled and the house in Southwark where Boris Karloff was born has a plaque - it is now a fish and chip shop. Cornwall-based ceramicists Frank and Sue Ashworth have been making the plaques since 1984. It is a painstaking process of precision and patience, Mrs Ashworth says. "You owe it to the person named on the plaque to get it right, and people will notice if anything looks wrong, the finished plaque has a beauty and symmetry about it. " The font was designed by Harry Hooper and each plaque, made from a secret mixture of clays, takes about three and a half weeks - assuming there are no mishaps. "Things do go wrong occasionally, for example a crack might appear," Mrs Ashworth said. "On one occasion I forgot to put the English Heritage logo on, another time we were given the wrong dates. They could be salvaged though without having to remake them. " Each letter is made by hand and the plaque goes through two three-day long firings in kilns reaching 1,200C (2,192F). The couple, who have since been joined in the business by son Justin, have made more than 300 plaques for both schemes and private individuals. "You have to be very patient but it is enjoyable. Some people might think it is repetitive but as soon as you see it that way you are done. " For some places, fleeting visits are as worthy of note as long-time residence. Malcolm X's visit to Marshall Street in Smethwick in the West Midlands nine days before his assassination in 1965 is commemorated, while in Norwich there is a plaque marking the day in 1971 when Muhammad Ali visited a supermarket as part of a promotional tour by Ovaltine. Malvern is home to a number of plaques marking famous visitors. There is the inn where Chronicles of Narnia creator CS Lewis "frequently met literary and hill-walking friends", the favoured hotel of exiled Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie between 1936 and 1941 and the rooms used by a seven-year-old Franklin D Roosevelt when he convalesced in the town in 1889. "Our plaques are for people and places that had an impact on the history of Malvern," said Brian Iles from the Malvern Civic Society. "But they are not just for people who everybody knows, we also want to introduce important people who everybody should know about. "We want to celebrate our history and make sure people don't forget it. " Florence Nightingale and Charles Darwin are also commemorated for having visited Malvern for hydrotherapy in the town's famously low-mineral water. When it comes to being remembered for visits, Dickens is one of the most prolific subjects with at least 44 plaques around the country, including at the Portsmouth house where he was born, the Barnard Castle rooms where he spent two nights in 1838 while researching Nicholas Nickleby and the Assembly Rooms in Scarborough where he gave readings in 1858. There are even plaques for his characters such as in Market Square in Dover where David Copperfield apparently "rested on the doorstep and ate a loaf" while searching for his aunt Betsey Trotwood. There are two chief types of people being commemorated - famous figures, such as actors, writers and politicians, and relative unknowns who invented, created or achieved something remarkable. "The majority fall into the second category," said Ms Carson. "Being famous is secondary, it is more about what they contributed to society and whether that is worthy of being commemorated. "And that's what really makes the plaques so interesting, it's people you haven't heard of but who have made some giant contribution to our lives. " One such example is on the former home of meteorologist Luke Howard in Tottenham who invented the names given to clouds. His inscription simply reads: "Namer of clouds". Since 2007 Walle Ogunyemi and his family have lived in Chislehurst at the former home of William Willett, renowned house-builder and the initiator of British Summer Time. A plaque to Willett was installed in the 1970s and Mr Ogunyemi said several people a week stop to look at it. "It's an honour to live there with the history associated with the property," he said. "You get used to people standing and staring at your home, we allow two or three people in a year from the local history society or relatives of William Willett. "But people standing outside have never really bothered us, they are always very polite and there is never any malice. " In Birmingham there are plaques to the inventor of plastic and the discoverer of oxygen, while Norwich has commemorations for Britain's first black circus owner and the woman who devised one of the most famous methods of teaching music. In very rare cases a property becomes a "double-plaquer", having hosted two notable people. A house on Paulton's Square in Chelsea was the home first of playwright Samuel Beckett in 1934 and then, from 1953 to 1974, physicist Patrick Blackett. Places from moments in history are also often commemorated with plaques. For example, Frome station has a plaque celebrating the fact that Leonard Woolf took the 10.29 train from there to London, on 11 January 1912, to propose to writer Adeline Virginia Stephen, later known as Virginia Woolf. In Saltburn there is a plaque commemorating the world speed record attempts made by members of Leeds and Middlesbrough Motor Clubs on the beach in the early 20th Century and in Wolverhampton the country's first set of traffic lights are celebrated. Although the plaques are awarded by organisations, they are more often than not suggested by the public. "We look at every application," Ms Carson said. "We are always looking for new and interesting people worthy of being remembered. " 2016-05-29 17:46 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

79 Mumbai Police organises two day job fair at Worli Thousands of youngsters gathered at the two-day job fair at Worli Police Grounds organised by Tech Mahindra and the Mumbai Police which commenced on Saturday. At 10:30 am hundreds of young people mostly children of the Mumbai Police force had gathered at the Worli Police Grounds. As the clock struck 11 and preparations were on stage for the inauguration of Mahindra Group’s Saral Rozgar and Mumbai Police’s Counselling and Placement Centre’s mega job fair for the families of the Mumbai Police, the crowd began to swell. Many fresh graduates and post-graduates both young men and women were braving the May heat as the chairs in the shed space put for them were all full. “I have been struggling to get a job for sometime. But I am hopeful today. In a few places the employers were not very enthusiastic about hiring a policeman’s child. When I asked them why, they did not reply. It is nice that this job fair is being conducted for us,” said Yamini Pathak, 25, whose father is a hawaldar at the DN Marg police station. Anup Kumar Singh, Joint Commissioner of Police (Administration) who was the chief guest said, "This is the first time since we started the fair in 2012 that we are having it on such a grand scale. Some two thousand young people many of whom are children of our police staff will benefit from this fair. The job seekers and the employers are meeting each other via this initiative which we have even opened to others (non-police). " Companies like Mahindra Holidays, Whirlpool, Videocon, Eureka Forbes, Just Dial, Chetna Publication, ICICI bank were recruiting among the 30 companies at the fair. Mayuk Dasgupta, COO Saral Rozgar, Tech Mahindra said, "We started Saral Rozgar three years ago to achieve societal impact and provide entry level blue collar jobs to graduates and below for which employment options are lacking. This initiative is to connect the digital employers to the physical job seekers. This 2-day program is from 10 am to 5 pm and we have banking, financial, sales, retail, BPO job offers available to the police families as well as others. " Shalini Sharma, co-ordinator of Mumbai Police Professional Counselling and Placement Centre said, "Often we are so caught in the line of duty that our children pay the price. This initiative is a way of the police community to give back to our families. They will get jobs on their merit but this is a potent platform. The job fair is free and all candidates will get a chance to give interviews for the jobs they want. " CST resident Karishma Jadhav, 23 was selected by IFFCO (Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative) Tokio, a general insurance company. "I have done my M. Com and this will be my first job. I wanted an insurance job and am very excited that I managed to get it. My father Dattaram is a Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) at Colaba police station. He told me about the job fair and I am happy I came and got a job," she said happily. For Rohit Panhalkar, Mira Road resident who is also 23 and has done his B. Com a job at Mahindra Holidays is a dream come true. "My dad Dilip is a Police Assistant (PA) with Malwani police station. He told me about the job fair. Many of his colleagues’ children has been placed earlier and this year he said the fair was much bigger and I had a better chance of getting a job. My dad will be very happy to hear that I got my first job. " As they stood in line many were calling up their friends and asking them to come to the fair. "Getting a job is very tough. Here so many companies have come and jobs are freely available. I am telling my friends to come here and give the interviews," ended Swapnesh Kulkarni, 22, a Kandivali resident whose father is a police inspector with the Andheri East police station.

2016-05-29 14:53 By Maleeva www.mid-day.com

80 Cooling technologies set to become red hot sector On a warming planet, demand for cooling is increasing. But if we obtain that cooling from electricity generated by fossil fuels, it makes warming worse. So, the world needs new clean, cool technologies. And British inventors are rushing to provide them. One invention from a garage in Bishop's Stortford is a supermarket chiller truck cooled by liquid nitrogen. Sainsbury's begins testing it this weekend. Other novelties from entrepreneur-inventors are the ice-cooled fridge, and the battery-cooled food delivery van. Experts say they are front runners in a cool tech market that may be worth £100bn a year in coming decades. "The size of energy challenge from cold and cooling internationally is colossal," says Prof Martin Freer from Birmingham University, who wrote a report on the Cold Economy . "It will, by the middle of the century, be the biggest single problem the world faces in terms of energy. And we have to do this in a low carbon way. " It is debatable whether cooling will be the "number one" energy challenge, but it is clear that it is a genuine problem - that makes the nitrogen-cooled truck a trendsetter. The engine uses waste liquid nitrogen at -200C (-328F) left over from the creation of liquid oxygen. It is held in a tank in the truck and its coldness is used to cool the chiller compartment - which is normally cooled by a polluting diesel engine. In another innovation on the truck, a radically new type of engine is driven by the power of liquid nitrogen as it expands 700 times to become a gas. This engine produces electricity for secondary cooling. The system was devised by the amateur inventor Peter Dearman who is feted by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He suggests it could use existing waste liquid nitrogen, but there are questions about what it would cost to run if additional supplies had to be made. The firm suggests this could be done using excess cheap energy produced by wind turbines or nuclear plants at night. The liquid nitrogen would, in effect, be an energy store - like a sort of battery. A much simpler chiller truck invention comes from two more backyard inventors based at Lampeter in Wales. Their system - Perpetual V2G - replaces the diesel engine used to cool the truck with a secondary battery that can be charged overnight by off-peak electricity or topped up by an extra alternator. Their kit is also on trial with Sainsbury's. Meanwhile, the inventors of an ice-cooled fridge are bidding to bring their creation into the kitchen. The interior of the Surechill fridge is surrounded, or topped - depending on the model, by a plastic sleeve filled with water. When cheap electricity is available, the water in the sleeve is frozen. The electricity can then be switched off during the day when power is expensive, while the ice keeps the food cool. The most advanced Surechill product is a vaccines fridge. The firm says it stays cold for two weeks without power. Manufacturing has begun in India and South Africa, resulting in the closure of the plant in mid-Wales where the product was first developed. A more prosaic use of the ability of water to store heat or cool can be found in a growing number of hotels and offices in the UK. They are rewarded with cheaper energy prices if they turn off the power driving their air-conditioning systems at times of peak demand. Marriott Hotels say guests don't notice the marginal change in temperature because the water stays cool in the system's pipes even when the fans are temporarily switched off. Some of the innovations have been supported by the government, which has allocated at least £50m for innovation in smart technologies. "We're investing in a variety of innovative ideas such as those coming out of the Cold Economy that can help us provide secure, affordable and clean energy now and for the next generation," the Department of Energy and Climate Change tells the BBC. But some say a broader approach is needed. Prof Freer says the cold economy needs to ensure the waste from one process is the fuel for another. He condemns, for instance, the waste of potential energy when liquid natural gas (LNG) imported into the UK is converted from liquid in ships to gas in pipelines. That cooling power, he complains, might be used to cool data centres or for refrigeration as part of the food chain. "There is no shortage of great ideas," adds Oliver Hayes from Friends of the Earth. "But if these ideas are to thrive and grow they need strategic government and industry support, otherwise old and inefficient technologies will freeze them out of the market. " Follow Roger on Twitter @rharrabin

2016-05-29 17:46 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

81 Giddy Amal Clooney enjoys date night with George in Rome They are Hollywood's power couple, and they recently ruled Cannes. And Amal Clooney and her silver- haired husband George, 55, decided it was time to slow things down a notch as they headed for date night at Dal Bolognese in Rome on Saturday night. The 38-year- old human rights lawyer looked absolutely delectable in a plunging black dress, which accentuated her modest cleavage and showed off her endless legs. Scroll down for video Cinched in at the waist with a printed belt, the gorgeous little number flared out before stopping just above her knees. The beauty of the dress didn't end there, as it featured a sheer cape on her right arm which worked well with her small clutch bag She further accentuated her lithe figure in a stunning pair of pointed black heels which boasted royal blue slingbacks. The night of dining and wining seemed to have gone off well, as the beauty emerged from the chic restaurant sporting a hug smile on her deep glossy pink lips. Her lush brunette tresses cemented her effortless style, as they cascaded immaculately down her front. Accompanying her was her husband of nearly two years George- who looked dapper in a grey trouser-suit combination. He sported a darker button down shirt underneath, before pulling in the look together with slick black boots. Hollywood heavyweight George recently went all out to to promote his new thriller Money Monster at the annual Cannes Film Festival. Amal however, suffered from a slight fashion malfunction during the premiere night as she couldn't seem to tame the long length of her stunnign yellow gown. The film is directed by Jodie Foster and stars Julia Roberts as well as British Skins actor Jack O'Connell. Money Monster centres around TV host Lee Gates (Clooney) and his producer Patty (Roberts) who are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor (O'Connell) takes over their studio.

2016-05-29 14:53 Jabeen Waheed www.dailymail.co.uk

82 Could we finally see the end of overcrowded trains? Britain's railway infrastructure owner Network Rail has unveiled ambitious plans for an advanced digital signalling system that will allow 40% more trains to run on existing lines without building more track. For those passengers facing daily overcrowding and delays, change can't come quick enough, writes Adrian Quine. "There are only two carriages on this train and people are standing," says retired doctor Andrew Thornton, as he travels from Preston to Manchester on a crowded off-peak train. "But on our line along the Cumbrian Coast there's often only one [carriage]," he adds. "All the investment seems to be in the south, we have had nothing up here," says his wife Marion. The number of us using the UK's rail network has risen 43% over the past decade, resulting in widespread congestion and overcrowded trains. Underinvestment in the past has compounded the problem. North-west England is one of the worst affected areas, with a shortage of trains. Although new rolling stock is now being built, without urgent investment in the Victorian-era infrastructure there will be little improvement in train speeds or frequency. Currently trains are controlled by fixed signals - similar to road traffic lights - and the principle of only one train at a time between any two signals has not changed since the railways were built in the 19th Century. Initially men with flags were positioned along the track to keep trains safely apart. Today a mix of 100-year-old mechanical semaphore signals and modern LED colour lights have replaced them but the principle remains the same. "The current network is not really fit for purpose," says Virgin Trains managing director Phil Whittingham. "We're hoping to carry over 50 million passengers by 2026 and to do that we need some flexibility with our paths and our trains to meet passenger demand. " The current system is very inefficient and doesn't make best use of the network's available space. Imagine sitting in your car at a set of red traffic lights; the lights turn green but only allow the first car to pass leaving everybody else stationary. With the current signalling system creating near-gridlock in some areas, radical change is urgently needed. The proposed new digital system, known as European Train Control System (ETCS), sweeps away signals completely. It allows trains to run much closer together; safety margins are determined by a train's speed and braking capacity rather than fixed signals. On low-speed lines trains will run much closer together, similar to road traffic in urban areas. On high-speed lines they will be further apart but even here gaps will be cut from three minutes to 90 seconds, potentially doubling capacity. Similar technology has recently been introduced on the London Underground with dramatic improvements. "We took the brave decision to invest in digital technology on the Underground allowing us to move trains much closer together," says David Waboso, the Tube's capital programme director, who has just been poached by Network Rail. "There is no reason why we can't do the same. " But Roger Ford, technical editor of Modern Railways Magazine, is sceptical as to whether London's success can be replicated nationally. "You can't compare the relative simplicity of the Tube with the complexity of the main line system," he says. "The Victoria Line is a basic end-to-end layout with identical stopping patterns and speed. "The national network has a wide range of differing train types, speed differentials and complicated junctions so it's far more difficult to control. " But for long-suffering passengers, improvements can't come quickly enough. "I travel to both Manchester and Leeds and there is a real issue with overcrowding and reliability," says Cathryn Whitefoot from Burnley. "Anything that speeds up the journey and makes it more reliable would be great. " Her friend Rachel Upton adds: "There have been four times when the local train to Preston has been late and I have missed the connection. " Ross Martin, chief executive of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry, says it takes him almost three hours to travel 150 miles by train from his home near Larbert to Inverness. "This is clearly unacceptable - even the Victorians could do it faster. " With passenger numbers set to double nationally over the next 25 years there is a growing realisation that some fundamental thinking is needed, and fast. "Just because something has not been done before does not mean it can't be done," says Network Rail's chief executive Mark Carne. "We currently leave passengers on platforms because trains are so full and if you can get on you are squashed up. "People are paying thousands of pounds a year for season tickets for what is a pretty unpleasant experience. " Network Rail is currently installing the digital system at a new rail operating centre at Romford in Essex, and plans to roll out the programme nationally from 2019. It could take up to 25 years to finish but Network Rail hopes to speed this up to 15 years. Last week, Mr Carne told the Transport Select Committee he was waiting for the fully outlined business case due later this year before putting a price on all this. However, he said it should be significantly cheaper than the annual £800m bill for maintaining and running the current system. The main problem is that railway signalling is piecemeal, having been added to rather than replaced over the decades. On older areas of the network spare parts are hard to find and it's costly to maintain and keep safe. "We are at a turning point and people in the industry are starting to realise that something has to change," says Patrick Bossert, transformational director of the Digital Railway project. "A digital system would give us a much improved and lower-cost railway to run and to maintain. " And it's not just passengers who are suffering. Rail freight, worth £1.6bn to the UK economy, is seriously affected by a lack of capacity. Freight train driver Robert Buchanan says he spends a lot of time waiting in sidings for a path. "It can take all day just to go a few hundred miles. " It's less than a fortnight since the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) delivered news of record poor punctuality and performance. Network Rail is used to negative headlines but will be hoping that the ushering in of the digital age will bring about a change in fortune.

2016-05-29 17:46 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

83 I had to leave my partner to lose weight Celena gained five stone (32kg) during the first three years of her relationship with her partner Pete. Here she describes how they broke the cycle of unhealthy eating by spending 10 weeks apart. A year ago I refused to look at myself in a full-length mirror. I was a size 26 and my large belly repulsed me. I lived in leggings and baggy tunic tops that I bought at plus-size shops to try to hide my shape. But if you had known me then you wouldn't have guessed. I always tried to put on a happy front even though I was unhappy with myself. Not even my partner Pete knew just how bad I felt. But then Pete was one of the reasons I weighed 22 stone (140kg). Pete and I met three years ago. I was already overweight but during our relationship I put on another five stone. He would do most of the cooking and made huge portions, it was how he showed me he cared. If I asked him to bring back a chocolate bar he would bring back a selection of five. We encouraged each other in our bad habits. We would also get two takeaways a week, like Chinese or pizza. We each have a child from previous relationships and on weekends we would often eat out and have treats like ice cream. When I had our son Cameron a year in to our relationship I didn't lose the baby weight. That's one reason why I wanted to do BBC One's Lose Weight For Love. As part of the show we separated for 10 weeks while we worked on our own issues around food and exercise. I thought that if we tried to tackle it together we would sabotage each other. I stayed at our home in Warrington with the kids, while Pete moved to his sister's house in the Wirral. It was tough as we hadn't spent a night apart since we had got together but I knew it was something we needed to do. I had just started training to be a midwife and I didn't want to feel like a hypocrite advising women about the dangers of obesity during pregnancy when I couldn't manage my own weight. Lose Weight For Love was broadcast on BBC One on Wednesday 25 May - watch it on the BBC iPlayer . I met Tanya Byron, a clinical psychologist, who encouraged me to face how I felt about myself. I'm not really an emotional person but during our chats I always seemed to end up crying. She said: "You can't wait to become happy. If you think 'I'll be happy when I lose x amount of weight' it will never happen. " We did some exercises to build up my confidence. On one occasion the show producer rang me up and told me I'd be seeing Tanya the next day. He said: "Wear what you want but Tanya says you may want to shave your legs. " I thought we were getting pedicures. However, when I arrived the next day I was told I would be posing as a model for an art class. I had a sheet wrapped around under my arms down to my calves to cover my body but I still felt absolute panic. I knew the artists would be studying my every lump and bump rather than focusing on my personality and it made me feel so vulnerable. I was shaking during the first sitting. Then I had a chance to look at the pictures the group had drawn. They saw me so differently from how I pictured myself. I thought they would have drawn me a lot bigger and it made me realise how wrong I was. I felt empowered and even enjoyed the second and third sitting. By the end I was showing most of my legs! It was a really important turning point for me, especially as it was something I had done on my own. We also went to a bridal shop. I had refused to get married as I was too embarrassed to try on a wedding dress but I managed to face that fear with Tanya's help. Once I put one on, I realised that I actually looked nice. As my confidence grew, so did my motivation to stick with the nutritional plan and exercise routine the experts had drawn up. I was able to focus on eating the right things as I didn't have to worry about what Pete thought about the meals. When I tried to lose weight before, he would suggest a takeaway to celebrate if I had been doing well, which undid the work. My friend Trisha joined the gym with me and we also did circuits in the garden. My family always had bad eating habits. Every Friday we would have a chippy tea and the vegetable drawer in the fridge was full of chocolate. It was our way of showing we cared about each other. I didn't realise I had been making things worse for Celena by buying her chocolate. When I realised how unhappy she was I felt angry with myself for not having thought about it. I grew up hating vegetables and wouldn't touch them as an adult. As part of my new regime I ate some raw vegetables every day for two weeks. I dreaded it but the more I was exposed to them the easier they were to stomach. Now I will eat anything. My biggest motivation for improving my healthy was my kids. My dad had been big for as long as I could remember and he is very poorly now. I don't want my kids to have to go through that with me. I want a long and healthy life for my family. I'm a trainee midwife and work regular night shifts - this was always tough as I'd be eating at funny times. I'd crave carbs in the early hours and there were always boxes of chocolates and biscuits left by new mums to say thank you. I began bringing in carrot sticks and cucumber to snack on instead. After 10 weeks Pete and I reunited. I was so emotional when I saw him. He had tackled his own issues while we were apart and had lost two-and-a-half stone (16kg) of fat and put on one stone (6kg) in muscle. He looked a lot fitter and had got over his fear of eating vegetables. Now there isn't anything he won't try. He didn't tell me all the details of what he went through though, as he wanted it to be a surprise when we watched the programme together. During the final weigh-in I found out I'd lost three stone (19kg). I still go to the gym. I have a family membership now and I often go with my teenage daughter Kailey. I go to my local slimming club to keep track of my weight. For meals Pete and I have a plate which has a third of vegetables, a third of protein and a third of carbohydrates. If I have a treat it will be something like a Curly Wurly rather than one of those large bars of chocolate. I now weigh 17st 8lbs (112kg). In this last month I haven't been able to exercise as much as I've had my midwife exams but because of my diet I've been able to maintain my weight. That's something I've never managed to do before. I went shopping on the high street yesterday. I'm a size 18 to 20 (US size 14 to 16) and I felt good in everything I tried on. Now I wear dresses or trousers with a fitted top. I can also look at myself in the mirror. When I see my stretch marks I think: "This is a body that has had two children. " That's something to be proud of. Celena spoke to Claire Bates. Follow Claire Bates on Twitter @batesybates Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

2016-05-29 17:46 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

84 Mental health support 'denied to children' More than a quarter of children referred to mental health services in England in 2015 - including some who had attempted suicide - received no help, a report says. A review by the Children's Commissioner also found that 13% with life-threatening conditions were not allowed specialist support. She said the system was "playing Russian roulette" with their health. NHS England said it was "clearly the case" that services need to expand. The commissioner obtained data from 48 of England's 60 child and adolescent mental health service trusts, and discovered 28% of child referrals were denied specialist treatment - mostly on the grounds that their illness was not serious enough. This group included children who had attempted serious self-harm and those with psychosis and anorexia nervosa. It also found that those who secured treatment faced lengthy delays, with an average waiting time of more than 100 days. Ellie Fogden, now 19, sought help when she was 16: I did not become ill immediately at 16. For a number of years, I felt quite down, so to speak. It was constant worrying, pressure from school, and my own body image. I got to a point where I had had enough. I am waking up every day and I am not wanting to be here. I self-referred to a local counselling service and I was on a waiting list for about three months and then started sessions. The counsellor was very worried and she referred me to CAMHs. It took about three to four weeks to get a session. I was in there for about three hours and I was just bombarded with questions. I wasn't taken seriously enough. Some of the questions were dismissed as - it is not that bad, people have it worse. There was no compassion. I didn't go back for another CAMHs appointment. It frightened the living daylights out of me. As I have grown older, it has just gone into a downward spiral where I am currently worse than I was when I was 16, with depression. Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she had heard from a "constant stream of children, parents and professionals" about their inability to get help when they really need it. They go to their GP who refers them to specialists, but the specialists then say their conditions are not serious enough, she said. "I don't yet know quite why they are being turned away, but certainly being turned away or put on a waiting list for up to six months is clearly playing Russian roulette with their health," she added. The average waiting time for those accepted for support ranged from 14 days in a trust in north-west England to 200 days at one in the West Midlands. More than a third of trusts, around 35%, said they would restrict access to services for children who missed appointments. Ms Longfield said trusts have told her there was "too much demand" for their services. "There is more awareness, more people coming forward for help," she said. But Sarah Brennan, from mental health charity Young Minds, said: "Services have been cut and young people had no where to go. "They are then more ill when they get help so services have become overwhelmed... Six months for a young person is huge and in that time most young people are becoming more ill. " Natasha Devon, formerly the government's mental health champion, said in order to identify problems in the early stages, it was necessary to look at the root causes. "Anxiety, for example, is the fastest growing illness in under-21s, and we need to look at what's happening to young people - the culture and the society they live in, the pressures that are on them. " James Morris, the Conservative MP who is chair of the all-party group on mental health, acknowledged that problems had been building up in the system over many years and a "fundamental transformation" was required. "We do need to move towards a more compassionate system for children and young people but the transformation is going to take time," he told the Today programme. "It's going to require additional investment, better commissioning on the ground. " An NHS England spokesman said: "While the data in this report des not substantiate the conclusions drawn, it is clearly the case that CAMHs services need to expand and the additional £1.4bn pledged will help us to do that. " In March, the Mental Health Network, which represents mental health trusts, said it had seen "no significant investment" in psychiatric services for children in England. It said it suspects some of the money allocated has been used to support other NHS services instead. A Department for Health spokesman said: "This investment is just beginning and is creating new joined up plans to improve care in the community and schools to make sure young people get support before they reach a crisis point. "

2016-05-29 17:46 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

85 Child death inquiries will be overhauled, say ministers The system of inquiries into child deaths in England where neglect or abuse is suspected will be overhauled, the government has announced. Serious case reviews will be scrapped and replaced with a new structure of national and local reviews. The move follows a government-commissioned review of local safeguarding children boards which urged "fundamental change". Serious case reviews are "too often inadequate", ministers believe. Cases such as those of Baby P, Victoria Climbie, Khyra Ishaq, Daniel Pelka and Ayeeshia Jane Smith all resulted in such inquiries but there have been suggestions that they have failed to change the system to protect other vulnerable children. The report into the role and functions of local safeguarding children boards argues that the system needs "significant reform" to meet new threats and risks to children and "become consistently effective overall". Author Alan Wood, a former president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services, says that while there are many examples of good practice there is "too much acceptance of less than good performance". "There needs to be a much higher degree of confidence that the strategic multi-agency arrangements we make to protect children are fit-for-purpose, consistently reliable and able to ensure children are being protected effectively," says the report. Mr Wood recommends: The new body should consider what factors characterise a good inquiry, draw up guidance and recruit a skilled cohort of accredited case reviewers, he argues. The report notes that more than 80% of child deaths are medical or health related, while 4% relate to child protection issues. The government response , says the report "has set us on the right road to enable local areas to build on the best of what already exists and to think innovatively about how wider improvements can be made". It accepts that current arrangements are "inflexible and too often ineffective" and promises "a stronger but more flexible statutory framework" for local child protection and safeguarding. The new system replacing serious case reviews will improve the consistency, the speed and quality of local and national reviews and ensure the lessons learned inform social work practice, says the government. A Department for Education spokesman welcomed Mr Wood's "insightful report". "That is why our new Children and Social Work Bill already sets out provisions to set up a new panel to manage a centralised process, which will help to resolve long-term issues of quality, timeliness and dissemination of national lessons, and why we will put in place measures to improve multi- agency working, as recommended. "

2016-05-29 14:23 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

86 Gilas to hold closed-door practices starting Monday Gilas Pilipinas coach Tab Baldwin will start restricting public access to Gilas Pilipinas practices at Meralco Gym starting on Monday. “Starting tomorrow (Monday), all practices at the Meralco Gym will be closed to the public, and for the media, we will have a pre- practice and post-practice interviews,” Baldwin said. The stern coach admitted that with all eyes on the national team at this time, it’s unavoidable that the visitors will snap pictures and shoot videos of the session and unknowingly post snippets of the team’s plays that could be picked up by other teams on social media. “A lot of videos are showing up on Twitter of pieces of our practices. It cannot happen, whether they come from the media or whether they come from the those sitting at the stands. That’s the age we live in and the only we way we can counter that is by removing that element from our practices,” he said. “It’s not an antagonistic situation. It’s a reality situation that people sitting there can have their phones out and start taking videos. We don’t want all those clips showing up because it might be something that we don’t want to be out in public forum.” Since returning to practice on May 18, Gilas Pilipinas has allowed fans to watch its practices, with the public getting a look at the drills and offensive sets Baldwin is trying to incorporate with the team. But with the buildup for the Fiba Olympic qualifying tournament now in its crucial stage and the arrival of naturalized center Andray Blatche, security will be tightened to make sure no information will be leaked that can be used by opposing teams to their advantage. “Now that we got our team together, it’s time now to start restricting the flow of information from our practices. It was always going to happen and that time has arrived now,” said Baldwin. “We appreciate everybody on how much they care, and we will have somewhere along the way a practice or two that we open up to the public and we’ll publicize that when we do. It may not be a system practice but more of a shooting practice.” “I hope everyone understands and takes into consideration. Our position of what we’re trying to do is build a team that’s gonna be successful in representing the country and we will do that intelligently.” /rga

2016-05-29 14:46 Randolph B sports.inquirer.net

87 Israeli flag stirs up controversy in Arab beach soccer tournament in Egypt Inter-Arab conflicts continue to involve Israel, particularly amid the growing trend of Arab countries seeking to keep Israel out of sports competitions. Last week, Israel indirectly stirred up controversy during the opening ceremony of a beach soccer tournament in Egypt after the Israeli flag was featured in a documentary film presenting the upcoming tournament. Eight Arab national teams have been participating in the tournament taking place in the city of Sharm El Sheikh since Friday. Several Arab delegations strongly denounced the appearance of Israel's flag in the short documentary, stating that "the flag is not relevant to the tournament or to the activities related to it. " In protest of the incident, the Omani delegation left the event's press conference, alleging that "there is no reason to mention the name of the Zionist state during in Arab competition. " The Omani representatives were followed by the delegations of Bahrain, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Iraq, that threatened to leave the tournament. In response to the protests by several Arab delegations, the Egyptian committee that organized the tournament said that the controversial video was sent from the International Beach Soccer Association (BSWW) and that it was screened without Egypt's viewing beforehand.

2016-05-29 14:40 MAAYAN GROISMAN www.jpost.com

88 CBS News poll: What do Americans think of the 1945 use of the atomic bomb? With President Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima Friday, Americans are divided on whether or not they approve of the U. S. dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 near the end of World War II. The U. S. dropped the bombs to try to avoid what would have been a bloody ground assault on the Japanese mainland, following the fierce battle for Japan's southernmost Okinawan islands, which took 12,520 American lives and an estimated 200,000 Japanese, about half civilians. Forty-three percent of Americans say they approve of the use of the atomic bomb on Japanese cities in 1945, while 44 percent disapprove. Approval has dropped markedly: in July 2005 Gallup recorded that a majority of Americans approved of the U. S.'s actions in using the atomic bomb against Japan. Americans are divided by gender, race, political affiliation, and age. Most white Americans, most men, and most Republicans approve of the U. S. dropping atomic bombs on Japan in World War II, while more non-white Americans, most women, and most Democrats disapprove. Americans under 45 are more likely to disapprove of the U. S.'s actions, while older Americans 55 and up tend to approve. CBS News poll: What do Americans think of the 1945 use of the atomic bomb?

2016-05-29 13:32 CBS News www.cbsnews.com

89 Missing Pakistani boy found in India two years later Islamabad: A Pakistani boy who went missing from his home in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan two years ago was found in India. Tufail Ismail, who was five years old at the time, got separated from his family in June 2014 in Charsadda district, his father Zafar Ali said. The family searched for Ismail everywhere and registered a missing complaint with police the next day, Dawn online on Sunday quoted the boy's father as saying. Nearly two months ago, Ismail's family came to know that he was in Rajasthan when his maternal uncle in Saudi Arabia saw a picture on social media shared by an Indian social worker, his father said. The social worker had shared a contact number with the photo and requested social media users to share the post so the child could be reunited with his family. Islamil's uncle called the given number and was told the missing boy was in the police custody in Rajasthan. Zafar said it had been 45 days since he learned of his child's whereabouts but had been unable to bring his son back to Pakistan. The family was looking to the governments of India and Pakistan to help their son return home to Pakistan. Ismail's parents appealed to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help in recovering their son and reuniting him with the family.

2016-05-29 14:35 By IANS www.mid-day.com

90 The story of Eve the Jurassic sea monster It's the biggest jigsaw puzzle you've ever seen but in this case, there are no instructions on the box. Hundreds of bones are laid out on the floor and Dr Hilary Ketchum, of the Oxford Museum of Natural History, has kindly offered to piece them all together. It takes more than an hour to slot the makeshift skeleton of Eve the plesiosaur into place. And you can clearly see the giant scale of the animal, with its large flippers and long neck. Plesiosaurs ruled the oceans for more than a hundred million years before dying out at the same time as the dinosaurs. Despite their dominance of the prehistoric oceans, there are still many unanswered questions about their biology, anatomy and evolution. Plesiosaurs are really unusual animals, says Dr Ketchum, who looks after geological specimens at the museum. "They're a type of reptile related to other reptiles like dinosaurs, crocodiles, ichthyosaurs and turtles for example, but actually we're not really sure where they fit in the grand scheme of things. " The animal was spotted by a group of amateur archaeologists from a shard of bone at a quarry. "One day, one of the members found a little bone over there from the flipper just lying on the clay," explains Dr Ketchum, gesturing at the 165-million- year-old skeleton beside her on the floor. "On further investigation, they found more and more bone and eventually they discovered the entire skeleton, which is very exciting. "We think it's possibly a new species but even if it's not, it's very unusual. They're very rare fossils - plesiosaurs, especially nearly complete ones like this. " The fossil was discovered at the Must Farm quarry near Peterborough. Mark Wildman and members of the Oxford Working Group - a team of amateur and professional archaeologists who search for fossils - nicknamed her Eve, as she was their first major find. The true gender of the fossil is unclear, as the only confirmed female plesiosaur is a fossil found with a baby inside. The quarry hit the Bheadlines earlier this year, when a Bronze Age settlement was unearthed. Eve was discovered in 2014 in a much older layer of the Earth - a swathe of rock from Jurassic times which was once beneath the ocean and is known for containing fossils of marine animals such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs. The Oxford Clay, as it is called, stretches across much of England, and is exposed in quarries around Oxford, Peterborough and Weymouth, where many of the fossil discoveries of Victorian times were made. The fossil was donated by quarry owners Fonterra to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, where staff have spent months cleaning and repairing it. In a laboratory at the side of the museum, conservator Juliet Hay is delicately paring away mud from the reptile's skull with a scalpel. The skull is still encased in clay that is being removed a flake at a time in order to preserve the delicate bones and teeth. It is a painstaking task, requiring nerves of steel, but essential to get the skull of the specimen ready for further analysis. A few weeks later, in the basement of the Life Sciences Building at Bristol University, I meet Dr Roger Benson, who is investigating the fossil. As the skull goes round in the CT scanner, he tells me about the find. "I think we're going to see some really beautiful bones," he says. The skull has already been scanned once at the Royal Veterinary College in London to examine the positioning of the bones and teeth inside the block of clay. This more powerful CT scanning machine at the University of Bristol could unlock the secrets of Eve the plesiosaur and determine whether she is a new species. "It's really clear in these high-resolution scans that we've got lots of really well-preserved bones that are going to give us lots of information," says Dr Benson. "From what we've seen already from the body, we know it has some features that are different to the other animals that we've seen before so it's very likely that this is an animal that is new to science. " He says further examination of the new details of the skull will help to confirm this. It will also help Juliet Hay to extract the bones with more precision. "This is a bit like doing a jigsaw puzzle when you do have the lid and its picture," he adds. Follow Helen on Twitter .

2016-05-29 13:21 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

91 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.

2016-05-29 16:46 By Dylan www.chron.com

92 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.

2016-05-29 16:46 By Craig www.chron.com

93 Internet fondly looks back at failed 'The Apprentice' pitch More than a decade ago, when Donald Trump was best known as a business magnate and reality TV star, he floated the idea of a race war on television. Now that he's a GOP presidential contender, media outlets have turned attention on some comments Trump made about the upcoming season of "The Apprentice," as proposed in 2005. Here's an excerpt of what he said on July 11 of that year: "... an idea that is fairly controversial – creating a team of successful African-Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world. " In addition, he also discussed the idea on the Howard Stern Show: "On The Apprentice there was a concept, okay, thrown out by some person, nine blacks against nine whites. And it would be nine blacks against nine whites, all highly educated, very smart, strong, beautiful. Do you like it? Do you like it, Robin? " Spoiler alert: The idea never happened. When news agencies caught wind of the comments, they wrote about it, and audiences quickly pounced on the idea as racist. BuzzFeed News contacted Tara Dowdell, one of the contestants on Season 3, who said the idea seemed to foreshadow the spectacle we're seeing today. "Best-case scenario, it was a huge blind spot. Worst-case scenario, it showed [Trump's] willingness to exploit race and be divisive — to do anything to promote himself," Towdell said.

2016-05-29 16:46 By John www.chron.com

94 Ted Cruz tells voters what really annoys his wife Presidential candidate Ted Cruz knows he has an annoying habit, and his wife can't agree more. The Houstonians took questions from voters and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper during a town-hall meeting in New York on Wednesday, revealing tidbits about their courtship, marriage and the effect of the campaign on their family life. (Fun fact: Ted Cruz brought home about 100 cans of Campbell's soup after their honeymoon because Heidi Cruz doesn't like to cook.) A voter asked Mrs. Cruz what does her husband do that annoys her the most. Ted Cruz weighed in. DELEGATE BATTLE: High-stakes delegate game heats up in Texas "She hates my iPhone," he said, adding he's "addicted" to the games and social media. Heidi Cruz agreed. Despite a rigorous campaign schedule full of speeches, fundraisers and interviews, the Texas senator can't seem to let go of the device. During the telecast, the Cruz children joined their parents on stage, and gave Cooper a scoop. Caroline Cruz revealed her 8th birthday is Thursday. The talkative girl stole the show and said she's going to enjoy chocolate cake and a "Build a Bear" party during the celebrations. She also said she hopes to get an American Girl doll. Catherine Cruz, 5, had little to say as she sat on her mom's lap. The topics during the town hall did turn serious, as Ted Cruz attacked nemesis Donald Trump, who caused an uproar after re-tweeting an unflattering photo of business exec Heidi Cruz next to a glamour shot of Trump's model wife, Melania. Heidi Cruz said she was unbothered by the insult, and is focused on helping her husband get to the White House. TARGETING TRUMP : Cruz accuses Trump of threatening delegates Cruz's GOP rivals, Donald Trump and John Kasich, along with their families, participated in CNN town halls earlier in the week. The Republican New York primary will be held on April 19.

2016-05-29 16:46 By Dana www.chron.com

95 “I’m downloading stuff from first thing in the morning”: at 76, Radio 1 DJ Annie Nightingale is still raving Be transported to an ash- shrouded Iceland with Sjón’s new novel Moonstone “I didn't start off being ambitious; I was just enthusiastic about the music.” From anyone else, this would seem like a platitude. From Annie Nightingale, it makes total sense. At 76, her enthusiasm for the music scene shows no sign of diminishing. We meet in a restaurant near New Broadcasting House so that she can whip off to the studio when needed. It’s only lunchtime, but with a generous application of glitter eyeshadow, Annie looks forever the night owl. Currently on a 1am-3am slot on Wednesday morning, Nightingale was the first female DJ on Radio 1, and is now the station’s longest serving broadcaster. She didn’t intend to become a DJ – Nightingale started in newspaper journalism, but BBC regional radio got in touch. “Somebody said, ‘Would you like to have a go at this?’ I went into a studio inside the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and there was a microphone, nobody there and you had to press a button and speak solidly. I felt so comfortable. It was just a complete eye- opener.” Women on the radio at the time were few and far between, but this refused to put Nightingale off. “Pirate radio was a great inspiration: it was illegal, somehow very romantic, and they played great music. The BBC didn't in those days. It was all very pale and watered down. Then I heard the BBC were going to start an alternative station, so then I thought, ‘Great!’ And they thought, ‘No, absolutely not.’” It took the the Beatles’ press officer, Derek Taylor, intervening to persuade the station consider her despite her gender. “When they took me on, I thought I'd last the year and that would be the end of it.” Did she spend that whole year gripped with anxiety? “That whole year, and the next five, ten! The technical stuff frightened me: if I made mistakes, it would be, ‘See, a woman can't do it!’ “After I realised they seemed to like me, I thought there would be loads more women coming through the door, but there wasn't anyone for 12 years. I was the only woman until Janice Long in 1982.” Today, Nightingale is pleased at how many women have risen to the top of the music scene, and is still passionate about diversity in the arts. “Unpaid internships encourage elitism. I feel very strongly about that.” When I ask her if she would describe herself as a political person, Nightingale says, “I think it would be very irresponsible not to be.” Over the course of our conversation, she jumps from subjects as diverse as Donald Trump (“terrifying”), Jeremey Corbyn (“idealistic”), the EU referendum (“I wish we weren’t having it!”), former Home Secretary Alan Johnson (“delightful”) and the Sykes-Picot Agreement (like “dividing Manchester, with City and United, in half – the wrong way!”) with equal fervour. She’s similarly eager to speak with warmth and fondness of her colleagues, from Nick Grimshaw (I cannot say enough good things about him: he's just a really, really special person) to Clara Amfo (She really knows her stuff – I’ve got great respect for her). She even surprises me with an anecdote about former Radio 1 DJ Phillip Schofield. “He wrote a letter, when he was a kid, to all the Radio 1 DJs. Apparently I was the only one that replied to him, but I felt a spark there.” But her most passionate moments – what Nightingale quaintly describes as “when I get a bee in my bonnet about something” – are reserved for music. “I love it as much as I did day one. I'm downloading stuff from first thing in the morning. There's so much out there – it's finding the good stuff. That's what I do.” Nightingale is renowned for remaining forward-looking into her eighth decade. “Nostalgia is a terrible waste of time”, she tells me. “This is now – grab it now! You can't look back, you can't go back.” Nevertheless, she refuses to forget music scene of her youth. Her job as music journalist in the Sixties introduced her to many of the decade's most well-known acts, including the Beatles, who quickly became her friends. “I still say we owe The Beatles an awful lot. I recognised what they were about straight away. In fact, Paul [McCartney] was saying, ‘We were the first lot that didn't have to do national service.’ It was a period of huge social change.” Nightingale at home with a Beatles LP in 1964. Via Getty “There's a lot of anniversaries around at the moment, so next year is going to be the 50th anniversary of Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 – that’s 1967, the summer of love. So there's a real movement afoot now to say, ‘Oh, it never happened.’ Well, it did! I saw it was happening. We really believed we could change the world.” Who excites her in the same way as the Beatles did in the Sixties? Nightingale cites Skepta, Lethal Bizzle, Meridian Dan and Ghostpoet amongst others. Britain’s grime artists in particular, she tells me, have that same ability to grab the social moment. “It’s witty and a bit different. There's a social message coming through. You’ve got to be a wordsmith. They're very very friendly, guys, too – no moody rockstar business, quite the opposite.” The #BritsSoWhite scandal , which saw several of Britain’s most successful black artists overlooked at this year's Brit awards, particularly frustrated her. “I'm a judge and I think it must, it must reflect more of our diverse music. And it is successful diverse music! That needs to happen. Grime has been going for a long time. But it never went away. I'm so glad it's getting recognition now.” What does she see as her role in an every-changing music scene, with evolving technology and an insistent focus on reaching younger and younger audiences? “It’s very much one of curator, because there’s so much out there and it's changing so quickly, week to week. In many ways, this job is so simple, and it hasn't changed. You find the music, you pass it on to your listeners, and say ‘Do you like this as well? Is it just me?’ That hasn’t changed at all. It’s actually just enthusiasm, and that communication with the audience. That idea that you play this tune and it goes out there at that exact moment and you don't know where it's going, who might pick it up, where they might take it: there's a romance about that. If I can help people get on with their music and encourage people, that’s what I do it for.” “There was a time I used to dream of Radio 1 being heard around the world, and now it is. And I'm here to enjoy it.” Annie Nightingale is appearing at HowTheLightGetsIn, the philosophy and music festival at Hay 26 May – 5 June. Book your tickets and accommodation for debates and parties here. On 12 October 1918, the Icelandic volcano Katla erupted, melting glaciers and causing floods that engulfed farmland and villages, destroying crops and killing livestock (but, remarkably, no people). The flood waters carried so much sediment that in the aftermath of the disaster, Iceland was left with five extra kilometres of southern coastline. Ten times more powerful than the 2010 eruption of its neighbour Eyjafjallajökull, the Katla blast generated an ash cloud that enshrouded the island in darkness. The Icelandic author Sjón (Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson), a miniaturist who deals in large themes, begins Moonstone: the Boy Who Never Was on the night of the eruption but with his focus on a much smaller explosion: the climax of a man being professionally masturbated by the 16-year-old Máni Steinn. Máni is an orphan who is being raised by his great-grandmother’s sister. He is obsessed with cinema, with motorbikes and with one of his schoolmates: a girl he calls Sóla G–. A gay loner in an illiberal society, he lives in the unheated attic of a house belonging to a respectable Reykjavík family. Máni is the latest in a series of outsiders who occupy the heart of Sjón’s fiction. Moonstone is Sjón’s eighth novel and the fourth to be translated into English. He has also published volumes of poetry and written lyrics for Björk. His books often contain forms of magic, although he always leaves a margin of ambiguity around supernatural events. They feature characters that emerge from the sea, or visit the underworld, or flee the Holocaust and bring a golem to Iceland. The Whispering Muse is narrated by a man fixated on the idea that fish consumption is responsible for the superiority of the Nordic race. In 1949, on a Norwegian fjord, he encounters a sailor who claims to have crewed on the Argo under Jason. In The Blue Fox , a hunter debates philosophy with his prey before – perhaps – transforming into an animal. From the Mouth of the Whale , which may be Sjón’s masterpiece, is set in the 17th century and narrated by Jónas Pálmason, a healer and scholar operating at the stress point between science and magic. Jónas participates in one of the more memorable exorcisms in fiction. It makes sense that Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita is a favourite novel of Sjón’s: his writing gives off a similar sense of flouting familiar rules. Bulgakov’s novel alternates between fantastical picaresque and an almost documentary realism and Sjón clearly enjoys blending styles, too: flick through his novels and you will find folklore, myth, realism, social comedy, local history, musical theory and surrealism. Turn a page and you are as likely to encounter a touchingly domestic description of a husband massaging his weary wife at the end of a day’s labour as you are a dialogue conducted on the seabed between a living man and a drowned corpse (whose speech is interrupted by a succession of ever-larger crabs scuttling from his mouth). Sjón’s skill in transitioning seamlessly between such episodes is one of the great pleasures of his work, but it also helps to make one of its most important points: that stories are a fundamental part of describing and interrogating existence, and genres – realism, surrealism, postmodernism – are merely tools that help get the job done. In this, and in the way that his books are all puzzles to be solved as well as stories to be experienced, Sjón’s work borders not only Bulgakov’s but also that of José Saramago and, particularly in the funny and eerie The Whispering Muse , Magnus Mills. Moonstone is in some ways Sjón’s most straightforward book, although it obeys the surrealist rule of awarding dreams equal status to waking life. There is no magic in it, unless we count the magic of cinema as Máni experiences it, and the netherworld quality of Reykjavík when, after being plunged into cinema-like darkness by Katla’s ash cloud, it is depopulated by disease: The cathedral bell doesn’t toll the quarter hour, or even the hours themselves. Though the hands stand at eight minutes past three it’s hard to guess whether this refers to day or night. A gloomy pall of cloud shrouds both sun and moon. A deathly quiet reigns in the afternoon as if it were the darkest hour before dawn. .. From the long, low shed by the harbour, the sounds of banging and planing can be heard. .. It is here that the coffins are being made. A week after Katla erupted, two ships from Copenhagen brought the Spanish flu that would quickly kill 500 Icelanders. The same day, a referendum was held on independence from Denmark and, on 1 December, the Act of Union gave the country its sovereignty. The two-month span of Sjón’s novel was, then, an unusually consequential one for Iceland – that outsider nation, that “unlovely splat of lava in the far north of the globe”, as another of his books has it. “An uncontrollable force has been unleashed in the country,” Máni thinks. Unusually, “Something historic is taking place in Reykjavík at the same time as it is happening in the outside world.” Ironically for a nation that avoided the slaughter of the First World War, which also ends within Moonstone ’s tight time frame, that “something historic” entails heavy casualties as well. For Máni, this dose of reality feels unreal. “The silver screen has torn,” he thinks, “and a draught is blowing between the worlds.” Many authors would look to wring the maximum tumult from these events. Sjón’s interest, however, is tightly focused on Máni, and Máni’s strengths are quiet ones. He falls ill, recovers, and bravely helps a doctor treat the sick and dying in the “abandoned set” that Reykjavík has become. On the day of the country’s independence, Máni contradictorily seeks closer ties with Denmark: he has sex with a Danish sailor. Discovered, he rises above attacks from the pillars of Icelandic society, including men who have bought his body. He faces exile, which will turn out to be the making of him. Sjón’s style is economical, lyrical and sometimes elliptical but, for all his trickster qualities, emotion never gets lost in the intricacies of his storytelling. When the meaning of the book’s subtitle is finally explained, the effect is powerful. Moonstone is about human decency, courage and respect for the individual. It is a small book with a large heart. Moonstone: the Boy Who Never Was by Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, is published by Sceptre (147pp, £14.99)

2016-05-29 17:47 Laurie Penny www.newstatesman.com

96 NewHeights Electric Sit to Stand Desk - In Photos: 6 Desks To Save You From Death By Sitting The power of NewHeights's desk is that it doesn't feel out of place in the average office. While some of the desks were more conspicuous, NewHeights felt as though it could be snuck into a cubicle without anyone noticing it could be easily electronically elevated until the employee was peaking over the wall. Plus, at the current price of $1149, NewHeights Electric Sit to Stand was one of the more reasonably priced. It's not necessarily revolutionary, but if you're looking for a desk that will both let you sit and stand while going about your daily life in the office, it's a great fit.

2016-05-29 16:41 David DiSalvo www.forbes.com

97 Here's What Your Doctor Makes - In Photos: What Does Your Doctor Make? In 2015, the MGMA survey found that median primary care physician compensation rose 4 percent to more than $250,000 while specialist compensation rose 3 percent to about $425,000. What does your doctor make? (All information from MGMA’s 2016 Physician Compensation and Production Survey.) Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS

2016-05-29 16:41 Bruce Japsen www.forbes.com

98 Hidden Islamic school exposed in heart of Brussels district that spawned ISIS attacks By Callum Paton- Authorities in Brussels have closed a clandestine Quranic school in Molenbeek, the district in the heart of the Belgian capital that spawned the Islamic State cell responsible for launching the deadly terror attacks in Brussels and Paris. Police were alerted to the existence of the school with shuttered windows and locked doors on all but one side by a tip off from a concerned neighbour. The 38 children, aged between three and eight years old, had been registered as being home schooled but were in fact being taught in the secret Quranic centre that comprised two classrooms on the ground floor, as well as two rooms in the attic for the smaller children. The rear workshop was transformed into a dining hall and playground. The Belgian news outlet sudinfo.be reported that Mayor Françoise Schepmans closed the school on the grounds that it had not followed proper planning regulations. However, the Molenbeek mayor heralded the closure as another step in the district’s fight against extremism. “This school is clearly a Quranic school. Children are placed there all day. It is a ritual question, the inscriptions are in Arabic and you feel that this is a partisan place,” he was quoted as saying. Molenbeek gained overnight infamy in the wake of the November’s Paris attacks that left 130 dead. Attacks in January in Brussels were also found to have originated from the same area of the Belgian capital, where a super- cell of mostly Belgian-born Islamic State members had been found to have staged the attacks. Salah Abdeslam, who was linked to both the Brussels and Paris attacks, was able to hide in Molenbeek throughout a four-month international manhunt. French and Belgian authorities said the jihadi hid among a network of family and friends in the district. Salah and Brahim Abdeslam, 26 and 31 respectively, had run a pub in Molenbeek before they converted to radical Islam.

2016-05-29 16:47 By Callum www.thetribunepapers.com

99 Obama Makes Historic Visit to Asia President Barack Obama hugs Shigeaki Mori, an atomic bomb survivor and a creator of the memorial for American WWII POWs killed in Hiroshima, during a ceremony at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western, Japan, May 27, 2016.

2016-05-29 08:50 ABC News abcnews.go.com

100 Verdun: France's sacred symbol of healing The British have the Somme. For the French it is the 10- month battle of Verdun. For both countries, these two epic confrontations came to symbolise the suffering and endurance of the common fighting man. What is often forgotten, though, is how closely the two battles are connected in the history of World War One. Because each country sacralised one of the battles - making it the focus of national commemorations - each also tends to overlook the other. And yet the stories of the Somme and Verdun - the centenary of which will be officially marked in France on Sunday - are tightly intertwined. Over the winter of 1915-1916, the allies agreed their best hope of beating back the Germans on the western front was to hold off from any offensive action over the spring - but to prepare for a co-ordinated attack in early summer. Unfortunately these plans were immediately dealt a blow, because the Germans decided to get in first. On 21 February they launched their mass attack on Verdun. The town lies on the river Meuse in north-east France. After 1871 - when the Prussians annexed Alsace and much of Lorraine - it was only a short distance from the German frontier. Certain that a new war would one day break out, the French transformed the town with a mass of perimeter defences. In the hills overlooking the Meuse, they built 21 vast semi-underground concrete forts, capable of housing 70,000 troops. In the fighting of 1914 that settled finally on the long western front, Verdun - with its strong defences - was avoided by the Germans. But that meant it stuck out like a spur into their positions. Should they take the town, it would shorten the German line and greatly strengthen their defence. On the morning of 21 February, the Germans launched their attack from the north with a mass artillery barrage - the dreaded Trommelfeuer. Over the next days their troops made steady progress, but the French put up a stout defence - and gradually the advance was stopped. And so began the months of ghastly attrition as the two sides battled it out for a few square miles, pounding each other with cannon, then scrambling forward with bayonets and grenades, gas and flame-throwers. The fighting was in the hills two to three miles to the north of Verdun, and at the furthest point of their advance the Germans took three of the massive forts: first Douaumont, then Vaux and Thiaumont. But the French clung on - and as the months passed, the legend of the heroic defence began to take form. A road - the famous Voie Sacree (sacred way) - was converted into a vital military conduit, ferrying thousands of men and tonnes of material in a constant two-way stream. Marshal Philippe Petain, then a general and in command at Verdun, organised a system that was dubbed the "noria" - or waterwheel - under which divisions from the whole of the French army were rotated through. It meant that vast numbers of French soldiers fought at different times at Verdun. Afterwards, this was a crucial factor in concentrating the national memory. All the while, parliamentarians and newspapers in Paris were turning Verdun into a sacred cause. Any surrender was unthinkable. Although it made greater military sense to withdraw to the west bank of the Meuse - and use the river as a line of defence - this was deemed unpatriotic. So the soldiers fought with the river to their backs. Meanwhile 150 miles to the west, preparations were proceeding for the Somme - though now with Verdun as a complication. Initially Petain wanted the Somme to be cancelled, because he said French troops were needed more urgently at Verdun. Later he saw the offensive as an essential diversion, to draw Germans away. In the event, the French were obliged to scale back massively their contribution to the Somme - from 44 divisions to 14 and from 1,700 artillery pieces to 540. It meant the objectives on the Somme were also made less ambitious. Of course, as we know, the Germans withstood the allied bombardment and advances at the Somme were pitiful. But in one sense, the push achieved its aim. Fearful that the German third line at the Somme was about to crack, Chief of Staff Erich von Falkenhayn ordered the transfer of German divisions from Verdun. What caused Verdun to be the longest battle of WW1? The fighting continued at Verdun until December. But from July - largely thanks to the British, Commonwealth and French attacks along the Somme - there was no longer any danger of it falling. Over the rest of the last century, Verdun became the altar of France's remembrance. A vast necropolis was built to house the bones of the dead. It is thought each side lost around 350,000 soldiers. Verdun also became the symbol of European reconciliation. Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Francois Mitterrand held hands there in 1984 and on Sunday, Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel will speak again of their shared European vision. For the UK, the Somme centenary on 1 July will be this year's main World War One moment. For British, Irish and Commonwealth families, it is the Thiepval memorial and the poppy fields that captured the collective memory. In both countries, the need for a single transcendent focus has obscured wider appreciation of the history of the war. But 100 years on, there is still much to learn.

2016-05-29 16:41 BBC News www.bbc.co.uk

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